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The article considers the problems of developing the quality of education, which can have a significant impact on the integration processes within the scope of the project \"New Silk Road\" and analyzes the psychological and pedagogical aspects affecting the development of cognitive independence. The work deals with the problems, the formation of the worldview of the youth of Central Asia, the discrepancy of the modern education system with the needs of modern youth. The authors analyze the specifics of education in the countries of Central Asia, which affects the development of quality education. Recommendations on the development of cognitive independence, which is one of the main components of training highly qualified personnel of the XXI century that can be competitive at the labor market, are given.

This work aims to highlight the factors with significant impact on efficiency of research laboratories of public university. To achieve this goal, Linear Regression is used. In order to scientifically determine the dependant variable of Linear Regression, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is employed. The originality of this work lies in its intermethodology, since efficiency scores, which are determined by DEA, are considered as the dependent variable of the Linear Regression. This work has research implications, since it encourages researchers to integrate the two aforementioned methods as Data Envelopment Analysis uses linear programming which could also be used by Linear Regression. Equally, this works orient laboratories towards factors which have significant impact on their efficiency to improve it. The results of this work show that doctoral theses supervision as well as laboratories ages have significant impact on their efficiency. This study concerns 21 laboratories of a public university in eastern Morocco.

Purpose Micro corporate social responsibility (CSR) is an emerging concept in management that relates to the examination of employees’ reaction to CSR initiatives. In this stream of literature, this study aims to investigate the underlying mechanism and boundary conditions of CSR and employees’ organizational identification relationship. Design/methodology/approach The data of middle managers (n = 187) were collected from a large hospitality and real estate organization actively involved in CSR activities in Pakistan. The authors conducted two surveys using the self-administered questionnaire with a temporal break. Structural equation modeling was run using AMOS to analyze the data. Findings The authors found that organizational pride meditates while desire to have a significant impact through work (DSIW), gender and organizational tenure moderates the relationship between CSR and organizational identification. Practical implications The study implies that the management can take the opportunity to make use of the positive response of the employees by investing in social and environmental causes. Originality/value The study contributes to CSR, organizational behavior literature, and person-organization fit theory by explaining the complete path of CSR and identification. It unfolds the underlying mechanism and contingencies of CSR-Identification link that are overlooked in the literature .

Our paper, “The Insignificance of Thresholds in Environmental Impact Assessment: An Illustrative Case Study in Canada” received a critique that challenged us on a number of grounds. Namely, that we defame EIA practitioners, that we advocate EIAs to become a scientific enterprise, that we do not recognize the complexity inherent in EIA, and that EIA undergo an independent assessment by regulators. We respond to all of these points, and argue that conflict of interest is an institutional issue (not one of corrupt practitioners), and that we critique the science that forms the basis of evidence in EIA. Further, we show that the complexity and uncertainty in the critique cannot explain the findings from our paper that all cases of impact threshold exceedance were determined to be not significant in EIA. Finally, we compare the significance determinations in proponent reports to final regulator decisions and determine that they are overwhelmingly identical (93–95%). Regulators are financially independent of proponents, but their decisions on significant are heavily dependent on the information and analysis provided by the proponent reports. As regulators rely on these reports, environmental impact assessments must be based on rigorous and transparent analysis.

Habitat loss is a major driver of biodiversity decline, often occurring in a slow‐paced, piecemeal way. The cumulative impacts of such loss can be substantial for threatened species but are challenging to quantify and thus factor into planning decisions—particularly for mobile species with large ranges and irregular settlement patterns. We combined remote sensing and population viability analysis to estimate the cumulative impact of various winter habitat loss scenarios on the critically endangered, migratory swift parrot Lathamus discolor in south‐eastern Australia. Swift parrots suffer from predation during nesting and logging of their Tasmanian breeding habitat, but the Hunter‐Central Coast (HCC) of New South Wales is an important wintering area for the species and also amogst the most rapidly developing. If threats from predation and logging in Tasmania are addressed but habitat loss occurs throughout the species' wintering range at the rate observed in the HCC, the swift parrot population is expected to decline by 16% over 50 years. If observed rates of habitat loss in the HCC continue, halve, or double, the additional impact from that region alone on the swift parrot population could lead to a decline of 32% over 100 years. Our study emphasizes the need to avoid cumulative impacts across the full range of mobile species to help prevent their extinction. Cumulative impacts are a major threat for many species, particularly for migratory and nomadic species. Using the Critically Endangered swift parrot as a case study, we show how combining population viability analysis, remote sensing, and habitat suitability models can be used together to predict cumulative impacts of small‐scale but widespread habitat loss. Quantifying cumulative impacts more accurately can help provide more robust evidence to ensure threatened species' habitat loss is minimized in planning processes.

The article deals with the development of agroindustrial complex in the Russian Federation and trends in its functioning in modern conditions. It is emphasized that the agro-industrial complex is the most important part of the entire national economy of the country. It includes more than 60 branches, so it is a multi-branch system. But unfortunately this sector also has its own problems. The most global is ecology. Conclusions are formulated about the main most optimal systemic approaches, which will make it possible to develop proposals for solving environmental problems. There should be a priority of environmental legislation over the rest. Legal scholars note the need for codification of environmental legislation. The creation of unified environmental quality standards at the international level, as well as the creation of a body for monitoring the compliance of these standards at various levels, will play a crucial role in solving environmental problems.

Australia's national environmental legislation, the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) has been criticized for failing to mitigate the national extinction crisis. Under the EPBC Act, projects anticipated to have a significant impact on protected matters must be referred to the Australian Government for assessment. Actions deemed unlikely to have a significant impact are granted permission to proceed, while actions expected to have a significant impact must undergo further assessment. We spatially analyzed potential habitat loss deemed either significant or non‐significant in Queensland and New South Wales for threatened species, migratory species, and threatened ecological communities between 2000 and 2015. Impact scores were developed to quantify and compare the value of woody vegetation cleared under each referral determination. We found no statistically significant difference between median impact scores for vegetation removed under significant and non‐significant determinations. Over half (63%) of all scored losses occurred under actions deemed non‐significant, with certain species disproportionately impacted. The tiger quoll (Dasyurus maculatus maculatus) and grey‐headed flying‐fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) lost 82% and 72% of their total referred potential habitat under non‐significant actions, respectively. Our results indicate that the application of the EPBC Act is failing to adequately conserve the protected matters of this investigation. Our spatial analysis explores the consequences of referral determinations on protected matters under Australia's environmental legislation, the EPBC Act. We compare the impacts of “controlled action” and “not controlled action” determinations on land clearing related actions in Queensland and New South Wales. Contrary to expectations, no significant difference is found between the impacts of “controlled action” and “not controlled action” determinations on threatened habitats.

Purpose: This work aims to assess the impact of entrepreneurial typologies on enterprise performance in concordance to hidden cost approach.Design/methodology/approach: To achieve this objective, the Multivariate General Linear Model is employed. It allows highlighting the most impacting variables and modalities about relationship between entrepreneurial typologies and enterprise performance in line with hidden cost approach.Findings: The findings show that the variables with significant impact on enterprise performance in terms of hidden costs are enterprise size (small business-large enterprise) and activity sector (manufacturing firm- service firm), while the performance variables most impacted are reconciliations between social-economic, structures behaviors and material-immaterial. As for the modalities with significant impact on enterprise performance in terms of hidden costs, they are small business, non-hybrid enterprise and combination of small and manufacturing firm.Originality/value: The originality of this work lies in the fact that it is scarcely treated in social sciences, insofar as it deals with a topic establishing relationship between entrepreneurship and hidden costs via the Multivariate General Linear Model. This work is also original, since it does not establish the typologies of entrepreneurship in terms of entrepreneurs as is the case with the majority of works on entrepreneurship, but presents them in terms of enterprise typologies.

PurposeThis work aims to propose an alternative method of human capital calculation for research laboratories of public university, taking into account some drawbacks of the methods currently applied in this field.Design/methodology/approachThis method is implemented via a linear program extracted from Data Envelopment Analysis based on slack movement. This is the formulation of Copper et al. (2000), which is used as the starting point for developing the proposed method through important transformations.FindingsThe proposed method is supported by an illustration related to a Moroccan public university. This illustration showed that 57 per cent of the laboratories and all the research activities that they perform are in deficit with respect to target scores.Research limitations/implicationsThe proposed method has technical limitations related to scores equal to 1 and to variables when those are numerous. To solve them, it is possible to use peer benchmarking system for the first limitation, and methods of regrouping the variables when those are numerous for the second limitation. Equally, the proposed method does not associate slack with important factors like governance and the impact analysis of research on innovation, competitiveness, and societal aspects. Likewise, it does not use the slack to measure individual efficiency at the same laboratory. Future research can fill these gaps.Practical implicationsThis work allows making appropriate budgetary and research policy within university, through budgeting process and management control by using raw and adjusted target values as well as actual ones. Also, the highlighting of the excessive slacks leads the university to take actions to reduce them, according to the most loss-making research activities.Originality/valueThe proposed method is original, since it fills a deficit in terms of human capital target values calculation and of the slack movement concept in relation to the efficient frontier. Additionally, it transforms the Data Envelopment Analysis program into a program that eliminates the slacks linked to the inputs, the radial movement related to the outputs and treats only the outputs and slacks related to these outputs.

Background: Caregivers play a key role in the success of trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy (TF-CBT). Yet, the effect of their alliance on treatment outcomes besides the other parties in treatment has hardly been studied. Objective: This study examined the working alliance (WA) of therapists, patients and caregivers in TF-CBT and its contribution on treatment outcome over time. Methods: N = 76 children and adolescents (mean age = 12.66 years, range 7-17, M/F ratio: .43) participated in the TF-CBT arm of a randomized controlled trial. The WA was assessed with the Working Alliance Inventory Short Version (WAI-S) at two measurement points, while symptom level of posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) was assessed with the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale for Children and Adolescents (CAPS-CA). Paired sample t-tests, intraclass correlations (ICC), and mixed-effects regression models for longitudinal data were performed. Results: The alliance rating was high across all informants, with caregivers achieving the highest rating. The average level of cross-informant agreement on the alliance was low between therapists and caregivers (ICC = .26) and moderate between therapists and patients (ICC =.65). A significant contribution of an alliance improvement to the reduction of PTSS over time was found in each of the two tested models: therapists with patients model (b = .682) and therapists with caregivers model (b = .807). However, these effects were not detected with all four perspectives in one comprehensive model. Conclusion: In summary, the potential of caregivers' views should receive more attention in the therapeutic process of trauma-focused therapy.