A World Culture of Schooling? Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt Introductory chapter to Anderson-Levitt, Kathryn, Ed. 2003 Local Meanings, Global Schooling: Anthropology and World Culture Theory. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 1 Is there one global culture of schooling, or many? Are school systems around the world diverging from their original European sources, or are they converging toward a single model?i This book opens a dialogue between two very different perspectives on schooling around
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BEAUTY IN THE AGE OF MARKETING Bingqing Yin and Susie Pryor Contact person: Susie Pryor Bingqing Yin Assistant Professor Master’s student School of Business School of Business Washburn University Washburn University 1700 S. W. College 1700 S. W. College Topeka, KS 66621 Topeka, KS 66621 Phone: 785-670-1601 Phone: 785-670-1601 Email: susie.pryor@washburn.edu Email: bingqing.yin@washburn.edu Beauty in the Age of Marketing Beauty, it is
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www.sciedu.ca/ijfr International Journal of Financial Research Vol. 2, No. 2; July 2011 Published by Sciedu Press 61 Determinants of Commercial Banks’ Lending Behavior in Nigeria Felicia Omowunmi Olokoyo Department of Finance, School of Business, College of Development Studies, Covenant University Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria Tel: +234-802-394-8641 Email: felicitymy79@gmail.com Received: January 20, 2011 Accepted: March 30, 2011 doi:10.5430/ijfr.v2n2p61 Abstract This study investigated the determinants
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Fashion Industry Analysis From the Perspective of Business Model Dynamics Author: Lisa Gockeln University of Twente P.O. Box 217, 7500AE Enschede The Netherlands ABSTRACT The fashion industry is a dynamic and volatile place, continuously exposed to macro-environmental factors that trigger fashion business models to change. The fast fashion model is currently at the forefront of the apparel market casting questions on whether its underlying philosophy is about to change as well. Therefore
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The Role of Aggregate Demand and Supply Shocks in a Low-Income Country: Evidence from Bangladesh Omar H.M.N. Bashar The Journal of Developing Areas, Volume 44, Number 2, Spring 2011, pp. 243-264 (Article) Published by Tennessee State University College of Business DOI: 10.1353/jda.0.0095 For additional information about this article http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jda/summary/v044/44.2.bashar.html Access Provided by Bangladesh University of Professionals at 05/29/11 5:42AM GMT THE ROLE
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School of Psychology Module Title: Career Interventions: Beyond the One to One 1. Aims of Career Interventions: Beyond the One to One This module will enable you to: 1. To enable students to develop a level of competence in workshop facilitation necessary for professional practice and a critical understanding of relevant theoretical approaches. 2. To understand how to plan for and design a career learning programme within an educational institution , training or
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control-theory. Psychological Reports, 51, 177-178. Abele, A. E. (2003). The dynamics of masculine-agentic and feminine-communal traits: Findings from a prospective study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 768-776. Abele, A., Gendolla, G. H. E., & Petzold, P. (1998). Positive mood and in-group—out-group differentiation in a minimal group setting. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24, 1343-1357. Aberson, C. L., Healy, M., & Romero, V. (2000). Ingroup bias and self-esteem: A meta-analysis
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MP A R Munich Personal RePEc Archive Impact of Interest Rates on Islamic and Conventional Banks: The Case of Turkey Erge¸ Etem Hakan and Arslan Bengul Gulumser c ¨ ¨¨ January 2011 Online at http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/29848/ MPRA Paper No. 29848, posted 4. April 2011 06:17 UTC Impact of Interest Rates on Islamic and Conventional Banks: The Case of Turkey Etem Hakan Ergeça* and Bengül Gülümser Arslanb Abstract Identifying the impact of the interest rates upon Islamic banks is key
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Games and Economic Behavior 42 (2003) 116–136 www.elsevier.com/locate/geb Learning by not doing: an experimental investigation of observational learning Antonio Merlo a,c and Andrew Schotter b,∗ a Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 3718 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA b Department of Economics, New York University, 269 Mercer Street, New York, NY 10003, USA c CEPR, UK Received 6 September 2000 Abstract We present experimental evidence suggesting that observational learning
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CORRECTED 13 OCTOBER 2006; SEE LAST PAGE REPORTS Washing Away Your Sins: Threatened Morality and Physical Cleansing Chen-Bo Zhong1* and Katie Liljenquist2 Physical cleansing has been a focal element in religious ceremonies for thousands of years. The prevalence of this practice suggests a psychological association between bodily purity and moral purity. In three studies, we explored what we call the ‘‘Macbeth effect’’—that is, a threat to one’s moral purity induces the need to cleanse oneself
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