the study investigated the loan repayment, its determinants and socio-economic characteristics of microfinance loan beneficiaries in the southeast states of nigeria. it was carried out in three states of the five southeast states. using a multistage sampling technique, a total of 144 loan beneficiaries in the three segments of mfis, namely; formal (commercial and development banks); semi-formal...

Researchers and community managers try to measure the success of online communities using a variety of success determinants, such as member activity, turnover and interaction. Although many success determinants have been proposed in the literature, it remains largely unclear which are applicable to which kind of online communities. In this work, we focus on the use case of question answering (Q...

This paper explores a wide range of cross-country determinants of life satisfaction exploiting a database of 90,000 observations in 70 countries. We distinguish four groups of aggregate variables as potential determinants of satisfaction: political, economic, institutional, and human development and culture. We use ordered probit to investigate the importance of these variables on individual li...

The success of consumer-to-business (C2B) group-buying websites (GBWs) relies heavily on consumers’ relationships with the GBWs, a topic not yet adequately investigated in the existing literature. In addition, there is a transition from the technical and/or transactional views in e-commerce studies to a relational view. However, such studies have focused on business-to-consumer contexts. By int...

background :nursing education can maintain its dynamic quality when it moves toward innovation and modern methods of teaching and learning. therefore, teachers are required to employ up to date methods in their teaching plans. this study evaluated the effects of e-learning, lectures, and role playing on nursing students’ learning, retention, and satisfaction.   methods : sixty nursing students ...

  Background :Nursing education can maintain its dynamic quality when it moves toward innovation and modern methods of teaching and learning. Therefore, teachers are required to employ up to date methods in their teaching plans. This study evaluated the effects of e-learning, lectures, and role playing on nursing students’ learning, retention, and satisfaction.   Methods : Sixty nursing student...

This study examines four possible models of the causal relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment in models of employee turnover: (1) satisfaction precedes commitment, (2) commitment precedes satisfaction, (3) satisfaction and commitment have a reciprocal relationship, and (4) satisfaction and commitment have no significant relationship. Structural equation models with ...