... 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...
... owed to an institution to what is owed by an institution to others (including overdrafts).An Insider’s Guide to Finance and Accounting in Higher Education2 8• Liquidity (cash plus investments ... 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 ... www.unison.org.ukwww.unitetheunion.orgAn Insider’s Guide to Finance and Accounting in Higher Education4 • There have been major improvements in governance, which should make internal monitoring more effective • Financial planning...
... 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 2009. ... 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...
... 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...
... Schools and Families. 3.16 Teachers and practitioners in primary education need basic and ongoing training to promote young children’s socialand emotional wellbeing, provided by relevant training ... of improving the emotional andsocial wellbeing of vulnerable primary schoolchildren? This includes those from certain black and minority groups and looked after children (including those ... constitutes the Institute’s formal guidance on promoting the social and emotional wellbeing of children in primary education. Primary education refers to all educational settings serving children...