This study focuses on the client-contractor
bargaining problem in the context of multi- mode
resource constrained project scheduling. The
bargaining objective is to maximize the bargaining
obje...
Blast furnace is the dominant route for iron-making
worldwide. Coal injection into blast furnaces to
substitute for some of the metallurgical coke becomes
widely practiced because of the increasing...
This dissertation analyzes the relationship between environmental regulation, energy market developments, and economic performance. It shows that the economic impacts of the recently adopted enviro...
Being-literate-in-the-world Philosophers
have long debated the relationship between the world and the
language we use when we try to describe or understand it.
T...
The book considers works of imyaslavians Sergei Bulgakov, Aleksei Losev and Pavel Florensky, symbolists Vyacheslav Ivanov and Ernst Cassirer, and Jacques Derrida by focusing on their radically n...
With the rise in new ways of educating, for example
over the internet, there has been a loss of the
importance of person to person contact in the
educational experience. It is often debated what is...
Today, the most technologically advanced economies in
the world are knowledge-based. Governments are
increasingly initiating efforts to utilize knowledge
and information as direct and productive fo...
Gender equality and women's rights in Muslim societies continue to be a topic of heated debates. In Morocco, past decades have witnessed some considerable changes to women's legal position, the mos...
The reasons why African women become engaged in sex work have received little attention in academic research. While it is largely acknowledged that there exists a connection between entering the se...
Dr. FitzRoy examined women's use of violence in
Victoria, Australia, focusing on the experiences of
7 women who disclosed that they had perpetrated
serious indictable crimes. The crimes include...
EXPLORING MODES OF PARTICIPATION National political parties control and support a federation of local parties in all American states. The duties of American political parties cannot be completed ...
Coal mining has been and continues to be a large industry in southwestern Virginia, along the Appalachian Mountains, and more specifically in Wise County. Much controversy concerning the envir...
In economic experiments decisions often differ from
game-theoretic predictions. Why are people generous
in one-shot ultimatum games with strangers? Is there
a benefit to generosity toward strangers...
The analysis in this book elicits and "teases out"
contemporary logics of gender and sexuality from
modern psychiatric texts on transsexualism. There is
an explicit focus on found asymmetries of...
The government and the central bank are
interconnected by a consolidated public sector
budget constraint: the operational deficit of the
budget is financed by new borrowings and by
seigniorage....
The use of community consultation to address socio-environmental degradation is entwined with contested democratic principles polarising views of its role. Three democratic paradigms are at issue. ...
The idea that reason can justify induction was
famously criticized by David Hume. Hume concluded
that there is no rational justification for
inductive inferences and hence, no rational
justific...
Investigating the major problems and to see rospects of micro-enterprises development is a timely concern in Ethiopia. Because many urban poor women and jobless youth are highly engaging in this...
Since the burst of the internet bubble there is a great deal of interest in the way investment bank prices and allocates initial public offerings (IPOs). The additional scrutiny and spotlight i...
The Advancement through Interactive Radio (AIR)
project focuses on a new approach for increasing the
status and empowerment of women in developing
communities, with wider application to the field o...