Studying the equity holdings of 31 U.S. state pension funds, we find evidence that the political leaning of their members and political pressures by state politicians impact funds’ investment decisions. State pension funds from states with Democratic leaning members tend to tilt their portfolios more strongly towards companies that perform well on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issu...

In February 2019, OUTSaskatoon, a 2SLGBTQ+ resource centre in Saskatoon, SK, received 1.1 M federal funds to support five-year project set intervene the instances and societal perpetuation of gender-based violence toward community. The involved partnerships between OUTSaskatoon University Saskatchewan, including comprehensive research evaluation stream accompany delivery front-line services edu...

in addition to providing people with health care, medical science universities play a critical role in training skilled human forces required for different parts of the society. this calls for a constant review of medical staff and an attempt to eliminate the shortages. the aim of this study was to identify the barriers of electronic education development in the educational system of ahvaz jund...

this study investigated utilization of electronic learning facilities among agricultural students in michael okpara university of agriculture, umudike. one hundred and twenty (120) students undergoing training in different agricultural courses in the university were randomly selected. data were collected with a structured questionnaire and analyzed with descriptive statistics such as frequency ...

The paper describes an educational application, oriented to university students, to help them to learn the SQL language in the ambit of a course on database systems and applications. This tool is integrated with a XML-based framework for courseware authoring, whose main characteristic is flexibility, since contents are presented to the students in different ways, depending on their previous kno...

This paper presents e-Class Personalized (e-CP), a new extension of the widely available open source Learning Content Management System eClass. e-CP monitors interaction of the users of e-Class with its content and services and adapts the services to better suite the users’ interests and tasks. eCP has been tested for over a year at the University of Patras e-Class server with over 20,000 users...