BACKGROUND 'Transactional sex' was regarded by the mid-1990s as an important determinant of HIV transmission, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Little attention has been paid to what the terms used to denote transactional sex suggest about how it is understood. This study provides a nuanced set of descriptions of the meaning of transactional sex in three settings. Furthermore, we discuss how ...

This paper, builds on the view that too much attention in the management, management control and management accounting literatures has been given to ex post performance measurement as distinct from ex ante performance management. The paper builds on the conceptual models of Performance Management Systems (PMS) developed by Otley (1999) and Ferreira and Otley (2005). Three key developments are d...

Money laundering evolves using multiple layers of trade, multi trading methods and uses multiple components in order to evade detection and prevention techniques. Consequently, detecting money laundering requires an analytical framework that can handle large amounts of unstructured, semistructured and transactional data that stream at transactional speeds to detect business-complexities, and di...

In evaluating the performance of electronic marketplaces, research has focussed on the impact of factors such as IT, marketplace process design and competition. However, such research has neglected the impact of ownership upon electronic marketplace performance. This paper explores the issue of electronic marketplace ownership and contributes to the literature by revealing four distinct aspects...

In this paper we introduce TAS (Transactional Auto Scaler), a system that relies on a novel hybrid analytical/machine-learning-based forecasting methodology in order to accurately predict the performance achievable by transactional applications executing on top of transactional in-memory data stores, in face of changes of the scale of the system. Applications of TAS range from on-line selfoptim...

In China, the development of e-market has unique characteristics in the transactional processes and market mechanisms, which relate largely to the current industry structure, financial infrastructure and organization structure. This paper seeks to develop a conceptual model of B2B e-market value creation strategy, and can also be used to highlight the complexity of such activities for Chinese B...

OBJECTIVE This study sought to determine the prevalence of transactional sex among university students in Uganda and to assess the possible relationship between transactional sex and sexual coercion, physical violence, mental health, and alcohol use. METHODS In 2010, 1954 undergraduate students at a Ugandan university responded to a self-administered questionnaire that assessed mental health,...

In Service-Oriented Computing (SOC), a business transaction comprises of several web services provided by multiple enterprises. The transactional behaviour of individual web services must be considered for service selection so that the composition of web services results in a reliable execution. It is difficult for a business analyst to envisage the desired business policies of a process in ter...

the purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between transformational transactional leadership styles and organizational citizenship behavior in physical education organization of iran and which dimensions of these styles enhanced organizational citizenship behaviors of employees. the population of this study consisted of 273 employees of physical education organization; 220 empl...