The study investigated the loan repayment, its determinants and socio-economic characteristics of microfinance loan beneficiaries in the Southeast states of Nigeria. It was carried out in three states of the five southeast states. Using a multistage sampling technique, a total of 144 loan beneficiaries in the three segments of MFIs, namely; formal (commercial and development banks); semi-formal...

In criminal organizations, diffusing information widely throughout the organization might lead to greater internal efficiency (in particular, since these organizations are self-sustaining, through facilitating cooperation). However, this may come at a cost of leaving the organization more vulnerable to external threats such as law enforcement. We consider the implications of this trade-off and ...

Telocentrosomes organize telomere gathering Y oshida et al. identify a new job for microtubule-organizing centers (MTOCs)—helping telomeres huddle during meiosis. The most famous MTOC is the centrosome, a permanent structure that serves as a hub for the cell’s microtubules and anchors the spindle during mitosis. But cells also deploy ephemeral MTOCs to perform other tasks. In fi ssion yeast, fo...

Realization of enterprise goals along with other important components providing successful activity requires the formation a favorable moral and psychological climate in collective, which is considerably promoted by qualitative primary personnel selection. And although an management takes on vacant positions candidates whose professional personal qualities best meet requirements possibility to ...

Purpose: Historically the policy approach in the United Kingdom towards female enterprise and Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) business has mirrored the inconsistencies in the approach to small business enterprises generally (DTI, 2002). The policy approach between the 1960s and the end of the 1990s centred on various politically motivated dimensions of small business that generally marginalized...

Analysis of multiplexers with a small number of input traffic streams is appropriate considering the emergence of Voice over IP (VoIP) that is now ubiquitous in Enterprise networks. It is suggested in the literature that VoIP switches designed to cater for small/medium-sized enterprises (SME) may have as few as 8 input traffic streams [VEGA2000]. These new small switches illustrate a shift in t...

This paper investigates the role of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems in the context of small and medium size enterprises (SMEs). The paper reports on research findings from a case study that has been conducted in 14 SMEs, operating in steel manufacturing and woodworking. By dividing the enterprises into three different groups; medium-sized, small, and micro enterprises, this study pro...

Modern economic conditions in Ukraine are characterized by an excessive level of tax burden on business and the instability legislation, which hinders development entrepreneurial activities entities. Therefore, one main factors growth is creation effective flexible mechanism for optimizing at enterprise level. The purpose article to systematize existing methods management value-added Level, as ...