BACKGROUND Low income is related to food insecurity, and research has suggested that a scarcity of resources associated with low income can shift attention to the present, thereby discounting the future. OBJECTIVE We tested whether attending to the present and discounting the future may moderate the influence of income on food insecurity. DESIGN Delay discounting and measures of future time...

This paper studies the relationship of parental resources to the marital transitions of children. It extends past research by explicitly distinguishing various dimensions of parental resources and by taking parental preferences directly into account. We test models in which parental resources have additive effects on the timing of marriage and models in which parental resources interact with pa...

Nation's banking network has an important role in aiming country's development goals due to the fact that nowadays banking and money has a sensitive and critical role in economic growth. Gathering and absorbing various kinds of deposits and allocating them to support financial needs are main purpose of the banking. In other words, banks are intermediates between depositors and facilities applic...

BACKGROUND Canadian political discourse supports the importance of health promotion and advocates the allocation of health resources to health promotion. Furthermore, the current literature frequently identifies financial and human resources as important elements of organizational capacity for health promotion. In the Alberta Heart Health Project (AHHP), we sought to learn if the allocation of ...

E-supply chains (e-SCs), which are Internet-enabled supply chains, are progressively being implemented in companies to improve their operational and financial performance. Several studies exist where the association between the development of an e-supply chain and the performance of a firm, has been investigated. However, there is a paucity of literature that describes how information technolog...

Technology transfer (or sharing) is a common way to share external sources. There have been many studies on the relationship of self-R&D and technology transfer regarding its theoretical background and its efficiency. This present research has been developed by examining how a concrete measure of a company or a firm’s real performance (increased sales ratio; growth rate) is related to the varia...

We analyze the relationship between financial development and inter-industry resource allocation in the shortand long-run. We suggest that in the long-run, economies with high rates of financial development will devote relatively more resources to industries with a 'natural' reliance on outside finance due to a comparative advantage in these industries. By contrast, in the short-run we argue th...

as the most perfect divine religion, the holy islam contains comprehensively complete programs leading human-being to prosperity and salvation. one of the recommendations highly emphasized in the religion of islam is charitable endowment. though being not compulsory, endowment is highly advised in the religion and has a well-deserved role in elevating our souls and providing spirituality for th...