... play a role in social 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 ... the mining complex such as Duncan Innes’ Anglo (Innes, 1984) and the American William Minter’s King Solomon’s Mines Revisited (Minter, 1986), largely consists of privately sponsored and necessarily...
... 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...
... 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 ... 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 companies. According to ... development in China and India and due to the rapid growth of the population in India, it will be difficult not only tolimit the increase, but indeed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in these...
... 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, ... written and spoken language, the relationship between writing in a first language and writing in a second language, how writing fits into Krashen’s language acquisition/learning model, and writing...
... career (a retiring professor) and the beginning ofanother (the person being interviewed for his position); and the end ofteaching for the professor and the beginning of his new life in retirement.This ... do not remain distinctbut break down the boundaries and limitations of each, creating a trulyrandom and chaotic process.The lines moving back and forth (no longer within the inner and outerborders) ... underneath certain texts that takescientific systems as their theme and explore their roles in the reader’sunderstanding and interpretation of reality in general and of the princi-ples and paradigmatic...
... Wireless Communications and Networking“Cores of cooperative games in information theory, ” M.Madiman makes an interesting contribution to multiuserinformation theory by giving rate or capacity ... topic in the communications and sig nal processingsociety, and recent years have seen increased interest onmultiantenna and multiuser settings. The paper “Guaranteedperformance region in fading ... in this widespread and flourishing field, and promote continuing efforts towardsgaining a unified understanding of communication net-works.Huaiyu DaiMichael Gastp arNihar JindalLiang-Liang Xie...
... data interchange and integration, managing distributed systems, and planning and using CASE technology. It is apparent that these issues havea strategic orientation, and relate to planning and ... for international outsourcing contracts; yet there is a great demand and shortage within the country for those trained in developing businessTable 6.9 Key issues in information systems management ... activity in 27 UnitedKingdom-based companies.Calls have been made recently for better understanding of strategic planning in general, including SISP, and especially for studies of actualplanning...
... trainees in the four training courses were women as they play a vital role in livestock managementin smallholder farming systems. In all three target provinces, minority communities including ... and Hoa Binh. In addition, sites were established at the Gia Lam Dairy and Cattle Breeding Centre on the outskirts of Hanoi andin Thu Son district in Bac Ninh province. Four project training ... Vietnamese institutions. Prof. Khoa and his staff from VNU organized the 4 training courses where over 200 staff and farmers received training in the use and role of MPTs in local farming systems....