Based on the survey data of 364 peasant households in Yibin, Sichuan, this paper analyzes the farmer’s willingness to small forest tenure mortgage loans. The result indicates a high willingness up to 74.2%, i.e. the farmers are willing to invest forest tenure mortgage loans into forestry and agricultural production. The influential factors on farmer’s willingness to small forest tenure mortgage...

School of Computing and Informatics, University of Nairobi ______________________________________________________________________________________ Abastract: The implementation of Information Systems (IS) in the higher education learning institutions in Kenya has been increasing and seen varied results. Research has reported higher chances of IS failures in developing countries. The organization...

The 2008 proxy log covering all student access to the Wikipedia from the University of Otago is analysed. The log covers 17,635 student users for all 366 days in the year, amounting to over 577,973 user sessions. The analysis shows the Wikipedia is used every hour of the day, but seasonally. Use is low between semesters, rising steadily throughout the semester until it peaks at around exam time...

Background: Empathy is a difficult characteristic to define, teach and assess; the ‘nebulous’ properties of empathic behaviour often means that educators fail to incorporate the explicit teaching and assessment of empathy within the curriculum. One solution suggested is that teaching empathy in an interprofessional education setting is an effective educational approach in developing empathic be...

The Bologna Process model of higher education has been introduced into some Australian universities since 2008. This model promoted university study through a liberal arts philosophy that advanced a worldview approach at the undergraduate level. The model generalized the student experience and eliminated undergraduate specialization. An interesting situation for music undergraduate study thus a...

The study featured the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on need for security in students with alexithymia. authors compared indicators alexithymia, subjective well-being, emotional intelligence, and communication barriers 1) alexithymia pre-COVID period during 2) control group pandemic. research involved such mathematical statistics methods as Fisher’s angular transform (φ) Student’s t-test. data pr...