... play a role insocial inquiry, which theoretical
traditions and paradigms are influential in determining, or at least
influencing, research choices and agendas. Methodological and
theoretical ... methodological and theoretical developments
and innovations in a discipline or collection of disciplines important
and, perhaps, even useful? We would argue that an interest in
methodology and theorizing ... Bantustans as
separate economies and polities, in the thinking of the Development
Bank of South Africa.
2
In practice, how to replace existing
operational models of thinking in applied and policy...
...
involving service members and on military marriage in particular, con-
sistent with current concerns about rising divorce rates since the begin-
ning of military operations in Afghanistan and ... loved ones in combat, chal-
lenges communicating) interfere with spouses’ efforts to maintain their
relationships, damaging marriages that would have remained satisfying
and fulfilling in the absence ... is steady and unchanging (Karney,
Bradbury, and Johnson, 1999). In the context of marital research, these
connotations can affect interpretations of results in unintended and
misleading ways...
... design will include recording baseline measures
of the de-
pendent variable, introducing
the
treatment/intervention, subsequent
recording
of the
dependent variable,
and
comparing
findings from ... clarification
(refining
existing definitions, considering interrela-
tionships between
different
elements
of the
concept, discovering
and
dis-
cussing
new
relationships
to
resolve existing conflicts ... published research related
to
nursing home culture
and the
care
of
older adults with dementia includes articles
in
nursing
and in-
terdisciplinary journals
as
well
as a
book, Nursing
Home
...
... Insiders Guide to Finance and Accounting in Higher Education4
ã There have been major improvements in governance, which should make
internal monitoring more effective
ã Financial planning and ... source of information about institutional performance
in terms of the three usual indicators - sustainability, wealth and cash. Any
of these may give cause for concern andin uence thinking in the ... owed to an institution to
what is owed by an institution to others (including
overdrafts).
An Insiders Guide to Finance and Accounting in Higher Education2 8
ã Liquidity (cash plus investments...
... ln(R3M/LOMB) is sig-
nificant in explaining the occurrence of reduction in official rates and
ln(R3M/DISC) is significant in explaining increases. The sign of changes in
official rates tends to be persistent, ... J., and Vincent Reinhart, 1994, “The Financial Linkages in the
Transmission of Monetary Policy in the United States,” in National
Differences in Interest Rate Transmission (Basel: Bank for International
Settlements), ... opera-
tions in the implementation of policy since 1985, but even a largely antici-
pated change in official interest rates on standing facilities can still be effec-
tive in confirming and clarifying...
... actors,
including consumers, have ‘perfect information’ about the nature and
value of commodities traded. In reality, we know that consumers can
face difficulties in obtaining and using information ... second-hand cars and home improvements. See Hadfield, Howse, and
Trebilcock, ‘Information-Based Principles’, p. 153.
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largely in the regulatory field that the increase in criminalisation ... is perhaps in the area of economic interests that
administrative sanctions could have an increasingly important role, and
the role of such sanctions in fair trading law is considered in this context.
Consumer...
... still gaining increasing worldwide importance.
22 2 Differing Views on the Environment
panels and wind turbines. Total renewable power capacity in China, including hydro
power, reached 226 GW in ... of (marginal)
farmland into forest and grassland with farmers receiving living subsidies as compensation for lost
income from farming ([1], p. 56).
Springer Texts in Business and Economics
For ... for
certain environmental technologies. In fact, Chinese companies are exporting solar
products to Europe and the US, and are gaining increasing market shares at the
expense of US American and European...
...
facilitating the process of writing. These include invention strategies (i.e., pre-writing
strategies such as brainstorming, clustering, free-writing, mapping), syntactic analysis
and sentence combining, ... writing.
Swaffer, Janet “Language Learning Is More than Learning Language: Rethinking
Reading and Writing Tasks in Textbooks for Beginning Language Study.”
Foreign Language Acquisition: Research ... and 4)
insecurity about their teaching skills and ability to provide adequate and accurate
feedback to their students’ writing. Winer lists five strategies that she found helpful in
changing...
... used ineducation at large
and in individual development. This was part of the general movement, in the
1960s, questioning the traditional style of school teaching as being too rigid
and putting ... historical and compositional concerns. We have both a theory of
music and a theory of musical creation.
Effectively dividing music into tonality and atonality, and music theory
into Schenker and sets, ... Piazza Rossini 2,
40126 Bologna, Italy.
Mari Tervaniemi, Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology,
P.O. Box 9, FIN-00014, University of Helsinki, Finland, and Helsinki
Brain Research...