With different ethnicity and cultural identity from those of the 'central', social stratifications induced by State policies at borderlands are phenomenal. Border trade liberalization produced n...więcej »
Primary Socialization Theory (PST) (Oetting &
Donnermeyer, 1998) posits that the peer, family, and
school environments interact to influence adolescent
drug and alcohol use. The present work is an
...więcej »
The supply of human capital in production activities
is a function of the quality and volume of education
services provided at the basic and tertiary levels in
the education system. Accordingly, th...więcej »
This book introduces a new theoretical framework for the analysis of access pricing (the prices that networks charge each other for call completions) and the modeling of network interconnection com...więcej »
"One night I was putting him to bed and he said, "I
hope you're getting a lot less nookie that I am
getting". It was priceless! And a few months ago, he
was peeing on the rug right there in front o...więcej »
Gaps of knowledge exist of effective, culturally competent, community-based services for children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbance. There is great disparity between the evidence-b...więcej »
This book presents evidences on how the financial
interventions
have effects on the balance sheets of banks in the
Turkey and
therefore, on the economy, during 'normal' times and
during crises. ...więcej »
Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis (FTS) is the reaction between carbon monoxide and hydrogen to produce gasoline range hydrocarbons. Continuing rise in oil prices and tougher environmental regulations has...więcej »
Urban poverty,more than ever, has become a pervasive reality and mind boggling task for developing countries. Its persistence and rise,among others,is attributed to the understanding gap that it is...więcej »
The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive approach to the study of the Cyprus conflict where both theory and policy are combined. In this book, I first test the theoretical framework i...więcej »
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...więcej »
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...więcej »
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...więcej »
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...więcej »
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...więcej »
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...więcej »
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...więcej »
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...więcej »
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...więcej »
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...więcej »