... 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, subsequentrecording 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 relatedto nursing home culture and the care ofolder 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 8ã 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 theTransmission of Monetary Policy in the United States,” in NationalDifferences in Interest Rate Transmission (Basel: Bank for InternationalSettlements), ... 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 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...
... 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 the1960s, questioning the traditional style of school teaching as being too rigid and putting ... 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...