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Social Sciences, Volume 8, Issue 10

October 2019 - 30 articles

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Articles (30)

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,428 Views
12 Pages

22 October 2019

Although the use of the father’s quota of parental leave has become a majority practice among Norwegian fathers, there is some variation between different groups of fathers. This article explores how male managers in the engineering industry an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,706 Views
18 Pages

Analysing Support towards Inclusive and Integrated Rural Advisory Systems

  • Julien Lamontagne-Godwin,
  • Peter Dorward,
  • Naeem Aslam and
  • Sarah Cardey

22 October 2019

Public Rural Advisory Services (RAS) have adapted to different socio-economic scenarios in politically diverse countries with the help of the third sector supporting dedicated RAS programmes. The Plantwise (PW) programme, led by the Centre for Agricu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,559 Views
24 Pages

21 October 2019

Parental leave schemes undoubtedly facilitate the combination of work and family life during leave-taking. In addition to this instantaneous effect of parental leave uptake, a growing yet limited body of research addresses the question of subsequent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
9,085 Views
15 Pages

21 October 2019

This study aims to determine the multi-sided factors of crowdfunding campaigns on the fundraising success of crowdfunding projects conducted in ASEAN-5 (five big countries in The Association of Southeast Asian Nations) countries between 2014 and Janu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,306 Views
19 Pages

16 October 2019

The volume, variety and velocity of data available to companies about their employees is already significant and likely to increase. Employers hold data about employees that could be used to explore the relationship between workplace practice in thei...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,973 Views
14 Pages

Attitude as a Mediator between Sustainable Behaviour and Sustainable Knowledge: An Approximation through a Case Study in the Dominican Republic

  • Cándida María Domínguez-Valerio,
  • Salvador Moral-Cuadra,
  • Miguel Jesús Medina-Viruel and
  • Francisco Orgaz-Agüera

14 October 2019

The current ongoing globalisation shows an increasing amount of issues regarding sustainability, which is to be addressed from the very first stages. In this sense, different variables have been measured in the form of a survey in order to learn abou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,505 Views
17 Pages

Place-Based Policies for Sustainability and Rural Development: The Case of a Portuguese Village “Spun” in Traditional Linen

  • Alessandro Vasta,
  • Elisabete Figueiredo,
  • Sandra Valente,
  • Hilkka Vihinen and
  • Marta Nieto-Romero

14 October 2019

In recent decades, European rural development policies have transitioned toward a more place-based approach. This claim rests on the assumption that the diversity of resources within rural areas can be a potential source for place-shaping practices a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,644 Views
15 Pages

The Impact of Circular Migration on FGM/C: Transnational Communities in Spain and The Gambia

  • Adriana Kaplan,
  • Júlia Perarnau Moles,
  • Segga Sanyang,
  • Marie-Alix Le Charles,
  • Carolina Álvarez and
  • Neus Aliaga

14 October 2019

Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is a traditional harmful practice that migrates with people and has become a global phenomenon. Understanding how the diaspora resignifies and can change the tradition will allow us to measure the impact of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,032 Views
20 Pages

13 October 2019

All of Africa’s emerging economies are faced with developmental challenges, which can be partly ameliorated using effective University–Industry technology transfer. While technology transfer remains at the infant stage, sparsely documente...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
11,580 Views
12 Pages

13 October 2019

This paper explored the relationship between having a muscular body and identity formation in young men. Theoretically, it was built on evolutionary psychology; empirically, it drew on the author’s research into young men’s use of anaboli...

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