The Spanish Sociedad de Estadistica e Investigacion-Operativa, SEIO, devotes two volumes of its journal TOP (co-guest-edited by Antonio Alonso-Ayuso, Laureano F. Escudero and Nelson Maculan) to present works representative authors ALIO member countries. (Asociacion Latino-Iberoamericana Investigacion-Operativa), https://www.alio-online.org/, is a regional association within IFORS. This volume t...

Despite being the underpinning of economic development, entrepreneurs encounter numerous obstacles and limitations while trying to innovate, especially when it comes eco-innovations. Eco-innovations have been acknowledged in European Union (EU) as a significant factor sustainable environmentally friendly development. Even though there has an increase eco-innovation research, is still unclear wh...

The objective of this study was to determine some of the factors that affect student success in a genetics course. Genetics for the Kansas State University College of Agriculture is taught in the Department of Animal Sciences and Industry and covers Mendelian inheritance, molecular genetics, and quantitative/population genetics. Data collected from 1,516 students over 7 yr included year and sem...

OBJECTIVE To describe factors predicting James Cook University (JCU) medical graduates having a rural practice location at postgraduate year (PGY) 5. PARTICIPANTS JCU MBBS graduates who had completed their PGY 5 in Australia (n = 260). DESIGN Multiple logistic regression analysis involving graduates' application data (age, gender, location of hometown, School Leaving Score, interview score,...

leaving one’s parental home disrupts place attachment, described as the affective bond or link between one individual and a specific place and/or the people living in that place. in other words, because students move away from their parents, their friend and their hometown, their bonds with these people and their hometown are disrupted. although moving disrupts place attachment to their hometow...