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Quality or quantity? the role of human capital on sustainable growth
(IGI Global, 2024-10-03)
This study examines the link between human capital and sustainable economic growth, highlighting the contradiction of rising university education without improved graduate employability in Turkiye from 2014 to 2023. It notes high unemployment among university graduates, indicating a disconnect between the skills provided by educational institutions and job market demands. The rapid growth in universities and graduates has not matched the increase in high-skilled job opportunities, leading to skill mismatches and underemployment, especially during economic downturns. The paper calls for a reassessment of educational strategies towards a quality-focused education that prioritizes practical skills and market needs, emphasizing university-industry collaborations to boost graduate employability and ensure higher education's role in fostering economic resilience and growth.
Innovation diffusion and technology acceptance theory
(CRC Press, 2024-01-01)
Innovation can be defined as the transformation of ideas, goals, visions, and dreams of invention into valuable goods and services for people to exchange for an amount of money. Something everyone on earth must experience is changing, and many people are too afraid to experience this. As a result, they never move ahead in life because they have allowed themselves to be captives of fear, allowing themselves to be unable to alter their circumstances. After the difficult experience of the past twenty-four months due to COVID-19, the eyes of everyone have been opened to how important change, adaptability, and flexibility are. Looking back, we can see that change is particularly important for everyone. That is exactly where innovation comes in (Stenberg 2016). To paraphrase Steve Jobs, innovation differentiates a leader from a follower.
Human risk assessment of heavy metals present in four motor park soils in Lagos State, Nigeria
(CRC Press, 2024-01-01)
The belief that heavies metal pollution is only gotten high intense industries is a common perception of people living in rural areas (Brown et al. 2003). In reality, nowadays, roadways and automobiles are considered to be one of the largest sources of heavy metals. Lead (Pb), copper (Cu), and zinc (Zn) are the most common heavy metals produced from automobiles. Small or little amounts of other metals like nickel and cadmium are found to originate from carparks, bus stops, the roadside, and automobile exhaust (Brown et al. 2003).
Inequality of income distribution and hopes for democratic consolidation in Nigeria
(CRC Press, 2024-01-01)
Given the experiences of many countries seemingly stuck between authoritarian and democratic systems, momentary success proved transient and failed to achieve consolidation (Tonta 2016). While factors such as legitimacy crisis, the rise of militant sub-nationalist agitations, ethnoreligious and identity conflicts, corruption, institutional failure, electoral crime and violence, insecurity, injustice, and political apathy pose challenges to the formation of political culture and have been heavily researched, the role of income inequality in the processes of democratic consolidation remains under-researched. This begs the question: Does income inequality expressed in weak economic growth, rising inflation, and high unemployment, especially among young people, have far-reaching implications for the survival of Nigeria’s democratic system? Using this West African country as a case study, the author argues that income inequality threatens democratic consolidation and tends to a regression into an authoritarian regime. The choice of Nigeria is informed by doubts which have repeatedly crystallized into debates on the likelihood of consolidation since its democratic transition in 1999.
Analysis of particulate matter in street dust of middle and eastern parts of Northern Cyprus
(CRC Press, 2024-01-01)
Air pollution is the negative shift and change in the composition of the environment comprising of gaseous components and particulate matter (PM). Particulate matter can either be coarse particles, fine particles, and ultrafine particles; the composition of particulate matter depends on the sources from which it came from (Li et al. 2018). Combustion sources such as traffic emission or residential heating produce carbonaceous particles, they are carbon based as they pull along organic chemicals such as reactive metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Desert dust and mineral dust from agriculture produce inorganic particles. Nitrogen dioxide (NO2), nitric oxide (NO), ozone (O3), sulfur dioxide (SO2), volatile organic compounds, and carbon monoxide (CO) are toxic gaseous pollutants that adds to the formation of particle from the complex atmospheric photochemical reactions, they are called secondary particles (Bourdrel et al. 2017).
