The aims of this paper are to determine the reliability and validity of Entrepreneurial Attitude Orientation (EAO) scale as an instrument to measure the entrepreneurial attitudes among business students of higher education institutes of Malaysia. Initially, the EAO scale consisted of 75 items concerning 4 conceptual subscales: achievement in business (23 items), perceived personal control of bu...

Ecological indicators, historical land use, and invasive species detection in the lower Iowa River floodplain." MA has been approved by the Examining Committee for the thesis requirement for the Master of Arts degree in Geography at the May 2014 graduation.

We address the question how citation-based bibliometric indicators can best be normalized to ensure fair comparisons between publications from different scientific fields and different years. In a systematic large-scale empirical analysis, we compare a traditional normalization approach based on a field classification system with three source normalization approaches. We pay special attention t...

The poverty mapping methodology for estimating welfare rankings from small areas has proven to be useful in guiding allocation of government funds, regional planning, and general policy formulation. Nevertheless, poverty mapping also suffers from a series of by now well recognized shortcomings. We apply an approach based on first order dominance (FOD) to small area estimation. Five advantages t...

Since children are the key stakeholders supporting and being affected by sustainable development, the framework for the Sustainable Child Development Index (SCDI) was proposed. It addresses social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainable development by considering seven relevant themes of child development, i.e., health, education, safety, economic status, relationship, environment...

Consensual deprivation indicators represent one influential approach to measuring poverty,. The approach is based on the assumption that there is a broad consensus on what goods/services families should be able to afford, and that we can use enforced non-possession of those items to measure deprivation. Using data from two GB surveys from 1999, this paper argues that (a) the degree of consensus...