This paper examines the perspectives of SMEs on Brexit and skill shortages using cross-sectional data 2,969 from a UK Government’s Small Business survey for 2016. The logistic regression with clustered standard errors is applied to analyse association between considering as major business obstacle probability identifying in their businesses. results show that firms shortage managerial skills/ex...

Abstract Our study examines the development of unemployment data from three strong Asian economies, China, Korea, and Japan. The focus is on impact economic crisis caused by COVID-19, as well an overview possible solutions to combat similar future crises labour market, in hope mitigating dislocations. Following region's economy pandemic, we use stochastic modelling ten years prior estimate coun...

this study was conducted in delta state nigeria to establish a nexus between rural-urban migration and child labour. random sampling was applied to select rural settlements and this study covers 450 sample farming households. the results show that rural-urban migration influence child labour (p

this study examined the effects of agricultural child labour on children’s perception of farming occupation in delta state, nigeria. a total of 336 respondents comprising of 112 farming household heads and 224 children in the selected households were used for the study.farming activities of the children were highest during weekends. highest level of participation was recorded in herbicide and p...

This study examined the effects of a yoga program during pregnancy, on maternal comfort, labor pain, and birth outcomes. A randomized trial was conducted using 74-primigravid Thai women who were equally divided into two groups (experimental and control). The yoga program involved six, 1-h sessions at prescribed weeks of gestation. A variety of instruments were used to assess maternal comfort, l...

Decision augmentation theory (DAT) holds that humans integrate information obtained by anomalous cognition into the usual decision process. The result is that, to a statistical degree, such decisions are biased toward volitional outcomes. We introduce our model and show that the domain over which it is applicable is within a few standard deviations from chance. We contrast the theory's experime...

Drug shortages pose a clear detriment to antimicrobial stewardship (AS) efforts. Our objective was to evaluate the effect of a piperacillin-tazobactam shortage on meropenem use, related costs, and associated changes in AS activity. A quasi-experimental quality improvement review compared adult patients receiving meropenem ≥72h three months pre-shortage and three months during the shortage. 320 ...

G lobally the mining industry is faced with a shortage of qualified talent to meet its production needs. Every year there are more people leaving than entering this sector to pursue job and career opportunities. Some of the key reasons for this trend include the general image of the industry, the declining numbers of graduates from mining related programs , and the draining of talent and knowle...