Business Premises Research Articles

Adaptation and Coastal Management in Disaster Areas (Study in the Coast of Depok Beach, Yogyakarta)

The coast of the southern coast of Yogyakarta is an area that has a tsunami hazard, tidal waves and abrasion. This study aims to find out how adaptation and land use in the coastal areas of Depok Beach, Special Region of Yogyakarta. The research method is carried out qualitatively, data obtained from image interpretation and field observation. The research was conducted through spatial analysis and presented descriptively. The results of the study show that the pattern of community adaptation is demonstrated through use and utilization by considering aspects of the disaster. The results of the study show that land use on the coast of Depok Beach is in the form of business premises, land for reforestation and land for sand dune preservation. Optimizing coastal management and utilization managed independently by the community is able to increase economic value, create jobs so that people’s welfare increases. The role of the government in regulating the direction of coastal land use and public awareness is able to keep coastal ecosystems sustainable. Mentoring by the government, capital assistance and various trainings for community businesses and cooperatives on Depok coast are able to increase the capacity of communities to manage and utilize coastal areas in a sustainable manner.

Rancang Bangun Chatbot Untuk Meningkatkan Performa Bisnis

Chatbot merupakan aplikasi/layanan yang berinteraksi dengan pengguna melalui percakapan teks. Chatbot bekerja untuk menggantikan peranan manusia dalam melayani pembicaraan melalui aplikasi pesan. Chatbot telah menjadi lebih populer di grup bisnis saat ini karena Bot memastikan semua pesan dari pelanggan bisa ditangani dengan cepat dan perusahaan dapat menghemat biaya operasional. Selain itu dengan adanya chatbot tempat usaha bisnis dapat menyediakan layanan yang aktif selama 24 jam. Pada penelitian ini akan dibuat rancang bangun Chatbot menggunakan Chatfuel untuk mengembangkan usaha bisnis. Pada Bot yang dibangun ini dapat membantu pemilik bisnis untuk melakukan pencatatan pesanan, pemrosesan pesanan, pencatatan pelanggan, informasi lokasi bisnis dan memudahkan transaksi pembayaran.

Understanding Business Disruption and Economic Losses Due to Electricity Failures and Flooding

Failure of critical national infrastructures can cause disruptions with widespread economic impacts. To analyze these economic impacts, we present an integrated modeling framework that combines: (1) geospatial information on infrastructure assets/networks and the natural hazards to which they are exposed; (2) geospatial modeling of the reliance of businesses upon infrastructure services, in order to quantify disruption to businesses locations and economic activities in the event of infrastructure failures; and (3) multiregional supply-use economic modeling to analyze wider economic impacts of disruptions to businesses. The methodology is exemplified through a case study for the United Kingdom. The study uses geospatial information on the location of electricity infrastructure assets and local industrial areas, and employs a multiregional supply-use model of the UK economy that traces the impacts of floods of different return intervals across 37 subnational regions of the UK. The results show up to a 300% increase in total economic losses when power outages are included in the risk assessment, compared to analysis that just includes the economic impacts of business interruption due to flooded business premises. This increase indicates that risk studies that do not include failure of critical infrastructures may be underestimating the total losses.

Developing maturity levels for flood resilience of businesses using built environment flood resilience capability areas

The inability of organisations to adequately assess climate risk, understand and execute necessary actions contribute significantly to the increase in economic loss from disasters. This is a threat to business resilience and sustainability of the society. Hence, resilience capabilities of organisations need to be improved, and there should be a way of assessing these capabilities. This paper focuses on the methodology adopted and the maturity model produced by utilising Capability Maturity Model (CMM) concept to develop a capability maturity assessment method for built environment flood resilience of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). Capability areas obtained from literature were refined and carefully mapped to maturity level characteristics obtained from studies on capability maturity, and a conceptual model was produced. The conceptual model was subsequently refined and validated via expert forum and case studies. The study produced a maturity model for assessing flood resilience capability maturity of businesses, and technically provides an outline of steps for improving flood resilience of business premises.

Post-Conflict Peace-Building and the Way Forward: The Impact of Insurgency of Boko Haram on the People of Yobe State, Nigeria

The paper explores the effect and post conflict peace-building in the Northeastern part of Nigeria with particular reference to Yobe state after the devastating effect of the Boko Haram insurgence. The insurgence engulfed and damaged almost all aspect of the community’s life thus includes; destruction of homes schools, hospitals, business premises, police stations, military formations, government offices and other emergency services in various parts of the state. Boko Haram devastations had affected the entire population of Yobe state in every aspects of living ranging from social, economic to political aspects. The study adopted qualitative and critical content analysis through analysis of data on violence inflicted by Boko Haram in Northeastern Nigeria. This study focused on articles available in English and adopted secondary data analysis approach. The reviewed sources include data collected from published textbooks, online search engines, scholarly journals and newspapers in areas of conflict. The data collected through these multiple sources and varied interpretations were analyzed in line with the research objectives. The study revealed that the emergence of Boko Haram can be attributed to political and socio-economic situation of north-eastern Nigeria. It also found the victims of Boko haram to include but not limited to children, women, the aged, traditional leaders, religious leaders and their followers, government officials and the security forces. Some recommendations on how to achieve a sustainable peace and peace-building processes have been suggested.

Nationalisation of the «Privatbank»: a look through the convention on human rights and fundamental freedoms

The introduction of the temporary administration gives the Deposit Guarantee Fund not only the full and exclusive right to manage a banking institution, but also the right to dispose of them. Due to this, the Fund sold, and the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine acquired one hundred percent of the shares of «Privatbank». The conclusion of this agreement was preceded by recognition of the bank as insolvent, consideration of the issue of threats to national security at a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, and a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine about accepting the National Bank’s proposal to buy out a banking institution. Given this, it is worth noting that the nationalization of «Privatbank» began with the introduction of a temporary administration, and it ended with the state registration of ownership rights to the company's shares. Nationalization is a violation of the right to peaceful possession of property and the right to respect for private and family life because the right to engage in commercial activity is in the private sphere, business premises are, according to the practice of the European Court of Human Rights, in the category «home» And the shares of the company belong to the category of«property», taking into account Article 1 of the Protocol to the Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. These rights are not absolute, thus there is the question of determining the legitimacy and proportionality of governmental intervention in their implementation. Affiliation of «Privatbank» to systemically important may indirectly indicate the presence of public interest in interfering with the rights of bank owners for prevention a financial crisis. Also, the consideration of this issue at a meeting of the Council of National Security and Defense of Ukraine is intended to aggravate the significance of the problem. The public cannot provide these events with a proper assessment due to the secrecy of all relevant information: the National Bank of Ukraine and the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine refused to provide any information.

Secured and Reliable Urban Area Applications Based on IoT

There is requisite and is iteratively expressed for a smart city kind development from different organisations in various countries around the world. Many countries are already looking forward to eliminate intricacies in different fields comprising those of industrial, technical and medicine by keeping a regular eye on as well as bringing a better kind communication. Perpetuating on cost and being reparatory on time makes to an exceptional level of progress. We can observe that automated type system is de facto taken over by the manual type system. Automation of home or any organisation utilising IoT is a system, which considers laptops or smart type phones primarily to superintendence the functions required in homes or even business premises. Appliances of house hold type, which in general comprises of television; lighting system and even doors and gates, and these, can be handled with a switch of a button. This is comprehended as centralised type and much security can be expected. Embedded kind technology chosen and worked herein helps in making to the best overall composition. Weather type conditions are imperative for monitoring primarily to keep goingness of a healthy growth of crop throughout the year. Due to a prelation of technology, environmental kind parameters have become plain sailing when compared to prior days. Superb kind sensors are worked out primarily to guesstimate measure and arrive with the physical and environment kind of parameters. In the successive pages, there is a discussion on how an IoT type platform is developed, various devices, which makes to overall composition. Various software and hardware systems are enlisted, which it is considered for the successful IoT type operation.

Analysis Juridical Public Participation Formation of Regional Regulation No. 3 of 2017 on The Implementation of The Business Entertainment In Wonosobo Regency

To set the order and comfort in the Wonosobo regency and Goverment Wonosobo regency make Region Regulation No. 3 of 2017 on the Implementation of Enterprise Entertainment in Wonosobo. This is associated with the rise of karaoke business premises in Wonosobo. But after the regulation passes reap a lot of conflict in the community. This makes the writer interested in making. Juridical Analysis of Public Participation in Formation of Regional Regulation Number. 3 of 2017 on the Implementation of Enterprise Entertainment in Wonosobo,Method of approach used in this study is a sociological juridical methods, using the principles and legal principles in reviewing, view, and analyze problems.According to Act No. 12 of 2011 Establishment Regulation Legislation. Article 96 "The public has the right to give feedback in oral and / or written in question can be done through public hearings, working visits, socialization and / or, seminars, workshops and / or discussion.In the establishment of the Regional Regulation No. 3 Of 2017 on the Implementation of Enterprise Entertainment in Wonosobo regency public participation, not maximum.Constraints in the face is the lack of public interest in participating, goverment is valued less the aspirations of the people should be overcome by it, provide an understanding of the importance of public participation in Formation of Regional Regulation 3 Of 2017 about the entertainment business in Wonosobo, maximizing the dissemination of the regulations and the third accommodate all the aspirations of the peopleKeywords: Public Participation; Local Regulation; Entertainment.

Determinants of livelihood diversification among farm households in Akamkpa Local Government Area, Cross River State, Nigeria

The study examined the determinants of livelihood diversification of farm households in Akamkpa Local Government Area, Cross River State, Nigeria. The specific objectives were to describe the socio-economic characteristics of respondents in the study area, identifying the factors influencing farm household livelihood diversification as well as to identify the constraints to farm household livelihood diversification. A multistage sampling technique was used in sampling the respondents. A set of validated questionnaire were used to gather data for the study while a total of 60 respondents were selected. Data were analyzed with both descriptive and inferential statistics. The study revealed that the majority (60%) were female, aged 20-30years, married (46%) and literate. The majority of them had household size ranging from 4-7 persons, engaged in farming (61.7%) and diversified to non-farm income. The result also revealed that (70%) of the respondents did not have access to credit. The factors influencing livelihood diversification among the farm households were volume of credit received, household size, farm size and marital status.. More so, the major constraints to livelihood diversification among them were unstable electricity (78.3%), poor access to market (65%), insufficient market price of commodity (58.3%), inadequate access to loan (51.7%), inadequate skilled labour (51.7%), high cost of business premises (51.7%) and appreciation in tax rate (51.7%).. The study recommends improved access to credit and strengthening of the credit institutional arrangement to improve the livelihoods of rural households. Keywords: Determinants, Farm, Households, Livelihood, Diversification

Facilitating the Transition of Adolescents and Emerging Adults From Care Into Employment in Kampala, Uganda: A Case Study of Uganda Youth Development Link

Uganda has an increasing number of vulnerable youth in care who require support to transition into adult life. This article explores the agency enablers and the factors which hinder adolescents and emerging adults transitioning from care to adulthood, with an emphasis on the transition into work taking a case study of the Uganda Youth Development Link. Cross-sectional and case study designs were employed using structured questionnaires, focus group discussions, and in-depth interviews. Results show that care programs helped care leavers gain skills that facilitated self-reliance through employment in the formal sector and self-employment, a savings culture and expansion of social networks. Enablers included the mentors, exchange learning visits, placements with businesses, and positive social support networks. Unaffordable business premises, stigma and discrimination, limited access to credit, and insecurity inhibited successful post care transition. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of agency and structure in the transition out of care in Uganda.

Spatio-temporal land use/land cover changes induced flat housing expansion pattern: implications for microenterprises’ growth opportunity in Shashemene City, Ethiopia

The extraordinary rate of urban growth in developing countries causes expansion of cities towards their outskirts resulting in work space insufficiency and unsuitableness to microenterprises. However, this situation has received insignificant emphases/coverage within latest interdisciplinary literatures surveyed. So, the main objective of the current study was to investigate the effect of urban flat housing expansion on the user-friendliness of premises to selected micro businesses in Shashemene City, West Arsi Zone, Oromia Regional State of Ethiopia. Simple random sampling was employed to select a total of 240 businesses. The obtained data were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively/description and revealed that businesses are suffering from paucity, unsuitableness, high- priced premises and frequent location shift for the work places, lack of expediency and infrastructure. Furthermore, the findings of this study revealed that permanency of selected business in familiarized location depends on their financial strength and experiences on the same business. Thus, it could be suggested that authorities need to practice measures like; business clusters development, creating coalitions among chambers of commerce for construction of common use multiplex business premises, and also involve share companies or private developers; revisit urban land leasehold proclamation performance and construction works progress in the City.

Relevant economic factors affecting franchise operations in the services and trade sectors

The paper analyzes the basic elements of the economic efficiencies of franchises in the field of trade and services in Serbia. Basic economic performance indicators of are analyzed, which include payback period, an accounting rate of return, net present value, profitability level and break-even analysis. External factors affecting the overall business, especially the choice of locations, were analyzed through the impact of the standard of living of the population. Calculations and analyzes were made on the basis of the balance sheet data of individual franchises and statistics on the trends of living standards for individual cities and regions in the Republic of Serbia. Population and standard of living have proven to be a significant factor in business decision making. Business premises can be reasonably opened in areas with an average population of about 3.33% of the total population. In regions and cities with a lower percentage of population, it is justified to open franchises if they are situated in high-frequency locations such as highways and/or tourist destinations. It is important to note that for management, in addition to all the indicators analyzed, it is very important to maintain standards that include recognizable appearance, standard quality offer, well-trained staff and everything else that the brand carries with it.

„Akcja barakowa” na Warmii i Mazurach w latach 1945–1947

Jesienią 1945 r. zainicjowana została „akcja barakowa”, której celem było zdemontowanie na ziemiach przyłączonych i przetransportowanie na tereny ziem dawnych, poniemieckich, drewnianych baraków, w czasie wojny stanowiących zabudowę tworzonych przez okupantów obozów. O miejscu ich rozlokowania miały decydować lokalne urzędy ziemskie. Przeznaczone miały być dla osób, które swoje domostwa, wraz z dobytkiem, straciły w czasie wojny. W praktyce przenoszono nie tylko obiekty typowo obozowe, lecz także zabudowania gospodarcze, np. baraki stajenne lub magazynowe, które często trafiały do prywatnych przedsiębiorców i rolników, wykorzystujących je na przydomowe składziki. Jesienią 1946 r. w Ministerstwie Odbudowy uznano za bezzasadne kontynuowanie tej akcji, konkludując, że obiekty tego typu były „niepraktyczne, nieestetyczne i kosztowne”. Te baraki, których nie rozebrano, w kolejnych latach wykorzystywano przede wszystkim jako magazyny lub prowizoryczne pomieszczenia handlowe.

Adaptive Reuse of Heritage Buildings as Hotels in Melaka and George Town - UNESCO World Heritage Cities

The most visible and neglected heritages nowadays are heritage buildings which are widely available throughout the country. As the number of heritage building have been decreasing day by day, peoples’ consciousness has begun to arise. Many heritage buildings have been conserved for various purposes. In general, with their attractive features, most conserved heritage buildings will be adaptive reused as museums, offices, restaurants, residences, business premises and other public use thus becoming one the focal of tourists’ attractions. However, the approach in adapting and conserving heritage buildings in Malaysia are not practiced with the right concepts and methods. This research is conducted to assess the adaptive reuse works that have been implemented on the heritage buildings as hotels specifically in Melaka and George Town UNESCO World Heritage Cities. The hotels which are adapted from heritage buildings have been specifically identified and questionnaires surveys have been performed to the respective owners or managers in order to obtain their responses thus arriving to a more accurate research result. Several findings have been obtained which will help in promoting adaptive reuse works in the future.

Bariery w dostępie do informacji gospodarczej dla konsumenta-seniora

Barriers in access to commercial information for elder consumersSeniors constitute a more and more numerous consumer group. A wide and varied market offer can improve seniors’ lives; however, on the other hand, the lack of proper information about the goods and services interesting for them poses a threat. Generally, seniors are not always self-aware consumers who are familiar with their rights and who can make use of them. Therefore, it is of vital importance to tackle issues connected with senior consumers’ limitations regarding the area of the usage of commercial information and dishonest practices applied by entrepreneurs in contract relationships with this group. The substantive article aims to outline the basic problems which are concerned with seniors’ access to economic information, starting with natural limitations resulting from age, such as limited motor capability, orientation in the provisions which are supposed to protect the weaker party of the transaction, familiarity with the complaint procedure, and ending with various issues connected with contracts concluded in atypical circumstances — outside the business premises and remotely. Moreover, the subjects which will be tackled are information ‘overload’ and co-existing informational ‘noise’, as well as digital divide, as components which additionally deteriorate the elderly consumer’s situation in relations with a professional. Simultaneously the propositions of solutions will be presented that are to level the occurrence of these negative phenomena.

An inclusive approach to regulating the second economy

PurposeThis study aims to examine the experiences and lessons from formalisation initiatives in four sub-Saharan African countries. Drawing upon the three main theories that explain the existence of business informality – the exclusion model, rational exit model and dual economy model – the study offers an alternative path to business formalisation.Design/methodology/approachThe researchers adopted a descriptive-qualitative method, and through the triangulation of data, identified emerging themes and patterns.FindingsThe findings suggest that the informal sector has a small layer that responds to the simplification of regulations and a larger one that requires a different formalisation framework. This shift in paradigm, indirect or group formalisation, where business associations facilitate traceability (registration), self-regulation, access to resources and services for members was observed in all four of the economies studied: Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda and Tanzania.Research limitations/implicationsAs with every qualitative study, subjectivity and interpretation inevitably affect the replicability and generalisability of the findings. However, the rich meanings emerging from the qualitative analysis of the text are critically insightful.Practical implicationsDeveloping countries should explore indirect formalisation. Provision of workspace and construction of business premises for informal operators should be given high priority. The model for building structures for micro enterprises should change in favour of ownership by the operators through their own associations or other private sector investors.Originality/valueA pioneering study on cross-country analysis based on sub-Saharan African nations to unearth a new paradigm, a shift towards indirect or group formalisation.

Risk communication and risk perception: lessons from the 2011 floods in Brisbane, Australia.

Risk communication and risk perception are critical factors in disaster management. Governments at all levels play a part in communicating risk, whereas the perception of risk entails active roles by community participants, including potential and actual victims of disasters. This paper discusses these matters in relation to the floods in Brisbane, Australia, in 2011. The findings are based on interviews with representatives of households whose dwellings or business premises were fully or partially inundated by the waters. The research shows how important it is to recognise the problems of institutional fragmentation in terms of communication and the active engagement of recipients in understanding and interpreting flood risk information (especially for slow-onset riverine flooding, such as that suffered by Brisbane). Locally targeted information on risk is of vital importance in avoiding the misinterpretation of warning information in relation to environmental cues and in promoting adequate responses. The paper concludes with some recommendations.

Suitability of PV and Battery Storage in EV Charging at Business Premises

The impact of the electric vehicle (EV) charging on node voltages and feeder currents of an electric grid can be reduced by upgrading its feeder capacity or deploying onsite photovoltaic (PV) and battery energy storage (BES), or their appropriate combination. It, in turn, enhances the quality of service (QoS) of the charging. This paper proposes an approach, which can enable a distribution network operator/business owner in finding the appropriate combination of the solutions above for providing the best QoS at a minimum cost while reducing the grid impact. The developed approach takes into account the previously scarcely incorporated characterization aspects (whether it is a constant power, constant current, or constant impedance load) of the EV charging. It has been applied to an IEEE 37-bus system in conjunction with the parking lots of the University of Queensland for a case study. The numerical results show that the proposed approach can effectively find the appropriate combination of the solutions above and the corresponding optimal sizes of PV and BES for a given EV penetration level or a given QoS.

Are inspections conducted by selected administrative bodies compliant with the Constitution of the Slovak Republic and the European Convention on Human Rights?

This paper analyses the case law of the Slovak Constitutional Court and the Slovak Supreme Court dealing with inspections conducted by selected Slovak administrative bodies – especially by the administrative bodies in the area of foodstuffs administration – where inspected companies complain that their rights guaranteed by the Slovak Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights, namely the protection of their business premises, have been violated. The paper thus also deals with and analyses the related case law of the European Court of Human Rights and its (non)-application by the Slovak judicial bodies in their decision-making practice.

A Day-Ahead Forecasting Model for Probabilistic EV Charging Loads at Business Premises

Focusing on every individual electric vehicle (EV) while optimally charging a significant number of EV units at the workplace is normally computationally burdensome. Such charging optimization requires not only a long runtime but also a large CPU memory due to numerous decision variables involved. This paper develops a new combined state of charge (SOC) based methodology to calculate day-ahead combined probabilistic charging loads for a large number of EV units. Here, several models are proposed to estimate different combined statistical parameters based on historical data. The proposed methodology determines the transition of the combined SOC distribution of EV units from one timeslot to the next using these estimated parameters. Various strategies of SOC-based charging (e.g., unfair and fair modes) are investigated to control EV loads. Numerical results show that the proposed SOC-based charging can reduce the number of decision variables significantly, and require less computational time and memory accordingly.