A looming question for policy makers is how growing diversity of the US elderly population and greater use of home and community-based services will affect demand for long-term care workers. We used national surveys to analyze current use and staffing of long-term care, project demand for long-term care services and workers through 2030, and assess how projections varied if we changed assumptio...

This study aims to holistically appraise the economic growth in Jordan over 2006–2016 period, and highlight corrective measures transition Jordanian economy a greener pathway. The Sustainability Window (SuWi) analysis tool was utilized under four scenarios: In scenario 1, gross domestic product (GDP) greenhouse gas (GHG) per capita were environmental indicators; employment, healthy life, educat...

A two-step focusing set-up combining a Fresnel zone plate with an ellipsoidal capillary is presented. It is shown that, in addition to the anticipated gain in flux, the employment of the prefocusing micro-optic makes optimal use of the elliptical shape of the capillary by almost eliminating aberrations. A small cross section of the prefocused beam allows a tiny fraction of the capillary surface...

This paper delineates the simultaneous impact of non-anticipated information on first and second moments of the intraday price process by including appropriate variables accounting for the news flow into both the mean and the variance function. This allows us to differentiate between the consistent price reaction to surprising news and traders’ uncertainty about the precise price impact of this...

A two-country, game-theoretic framework focuses on the nexus between human capital formation and international migration in an enlarged framework where distinctive brain drain and/or gain effects can arise from the option to study either at home, or abroad. Heterogeneous individuals choose between alternative university systems based, among other considerations, on their innate abilities, the q...

Introduction The Joint Programme (JP) was designed as a pilot project to address the issues of the oil seeds sector indicated in the Master Plan. The JP worked to showcase development of an efficient oil seed value chain that would promote entrepreneurship, provide capital and services to farmers, raise demand for agricultural products and connect farmers with markets, addressing the production...

Previous studies have explored the potential of pomace valorization, with an emphasis on transformation polysaccharide biopolymers pomace-cellulose and hemicellulose to produce high-value bioproducts such as microcrystalline cellulose. Notably, opportunities for exploration biopolymer pomace-lignin its employment in biomedical applications tissue engineering not been comprehensively explored. T...

As advances in technology occur, mobile cloud computing is able to overcome the issue of resource poverty that occurs in mobile devices. Manufacturers now look at cloud computing as an asset because they can run their products better. The number of businesses and individuals that are investing in cloud computing services is anticipated to grow rapidly. Rapid growth of this nature will have a la...

The detection of specific DNA sequences plays a critical role in the areas of medical diagnostics, environmental monitoring, drug discovery and food safety. This has therefore become a strong driving force behind the ever-increasing demand for simple, cost-effective, highly sensitive and selective DNA biosensors. In this study, we report for the first time, a novel approach for the utilization ...