... 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 ... human nature and society. Tony Giddens describes it in the following terms: Social theoryin my view, spans social science. It is a body of theory shared in common by all disciplines concerned...
... 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 ... 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...
... discovering and dis-cussing new relationships to resolve existing conflicts about meaning and definitions), and concept analysis (defining relevant attributes/empiricalindicators and ... design will include recording baseline measures of the de-pendent variable, introducing the treatment/intervention, subsequentrecording of the dependent variable, and comparing findings from ... (labeling, identifying major components/dimensions, and establishing why development of the concept should be pursued),concept clarification (refining existing definitions, considering interrela-tionships...
... 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 8ã Liquidity (cash plus investments...
... actors,including consumers, have ‘perfect information’ about the nature and value of commodities traded. In reality, we know that consumers canface difficulties in obtaining and using information ... second-hand cars and home improvements. See Hadfield, Howse, and Trebilcock, ‘Information-Based Principles’, p. 153. x Prefacelargely in the regulatory field that the increase in criminalisation ... is perhaps in the area of economic interests thatadministrative 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 Environmentpanels and wind turbines. Total renewable power capacity in China, including hydropower, reached 226 GW in ... of (marginal)farmland into forest and grassland with farmers receiving living subsidies as compensation for lostincome from farming ([1], p. 56). Springer Texts in Business and EconomicsFor ... forcertain environmental technologies. In fact, Chinese companies are exporting solarproducts to Europe and the US, and are gaining increasing market shares at theexpense of US American and European...
... 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 ... 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, ... Kreeft, and Jana Staton, eds. “Dialogue Journals in the Multilingual Classroom: Building Language Fluency and Writing Skills through Written Interaction.” Writing Research: Multidisciplinary Inquiries...
... standard which is playing a significant role in higher education is originally began for universities and institutes in the training international standard. Evaluating and planning strategies have ... International Standards Organization - ISO 9000 standard which is playing significant role in higher education was originally began for organizations and institutions in the training educational standard ... School using ISO 9000 factors because of an insufficient international standard resources. For instance, lack of funding, good staffs and good instructors are significant factor to mainly affect...
... historical and compositional concerns. We have both a theory ofmusic 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 HelsinkiBrain Research ... LibraryLibrary of Congress Cataloging in Publication DataDeliège, Irène.Musical creativity: multidisciplinary researchintheoryand practice /Irène Deliège and Geraint A. Wiggins.—1st ed. p. cm.ISBN...