The software industry has existed since the mid-1950s, but until about 1970 very little attention was paid to it, largely because the industry was too small to merit detailed analysis other than as an unquantified sector of the overall computer business. As late as 1970, the annual turnover of all U.S. software firms was less than $1/2 billion – about 3.7 percent per cent of the total computer ...

Background Globally, mental disorders are the leading cause of disability among children and adolescents. To date, there has been no estimate of developmental assistance supporting mental health projects that target children and adolescents (DAMH-CA). This study aimed to identify, describe and analyse DAMH-CA with respect to annual trends (2007-2014), sector, project type, recipient regions, an...

During 2010-2012 we carried out project Foodspill, concentrating on mapping the volume and composition of food waste in the Finnish foodchain. 380 households weighed their avoidable food waste each day when they disposed of food during a two-week research period. The average annual food waste was 23 kg per person, and for households 120–160 kg per annum. For the food service sector the amount, ...

The present study aims to investigate income distribution in Zanjan Province, for which the statistics of cost-income of the households in rural areas of Abhar County were used. They were available in the Statistical Center of Iran. In order to measure income distribution, the indicators of Lorenz curve, the Gini coefficient, the proportion of high-income groups to low-income groups, as well as...

Nowadays, with the development of the economy, the demand for energy is increasing rapidly while the energy supply is growing shorter and shorter. Researches indicate that energy consumption in the residential sector counts for the main parts of the total energy consumption. This paper evaluates the effect of building orientation on exposure to the solar radiation in a NESW orientated case o...

The government of Algeria has adopted a new retrenchment system to facilitate labor shedding in a public sector characterized by redundant workers and in an environment of already high unemployment. This article assesses the financial viability of the retrenchment system and the inherent welfare costs and benefits associated with layoffs. A financial flows model tracks the Unemployment Insuranc...

A dark sector — a new non-Abelian gauge group Higgsed or confined near the GeV scale — can be spectacularly probed in low-energy e+e− collisions. A low-mass dark sector can explain the annual modulation signal reported by DAMA/LIBRA and the PAMELA, ATIC, and INTEGRAL observations by generating small mass splittings and new interactions for weak-scale dark matter. Some of these observations may ...

Evaluation in the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden varies substantially with regard to how well developed it is, as well as in the extent to which it is used. However, in all these countries evaluation has been developed within the public sector, whereas evaluation as a separate field of research and study hardly exists. This is to some extent changing with the establishm...

BACKGROUND Unemployment among health professionals in Serbia has risen in the recent past and continues to increase. This highlights the need to understand how to change policies to meet real and projected needs. This study identified variables that were significantly related to physician and nurse employment rates in the public healthcare sector in Serbia from 1961 to 2008 and used these to de...

This study examines the relationship between ownership structure and the financial performance of listed firms in the financial sector of the Nigerian economy. To achieve the objective of this study, a total of 31 selected listed firms in the Nigerian stock exchange market were used. Also, the corporate annual reports for the period 2006-2010 were analyzed. This paper basically modeled the corp...