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This book investigates self-organizing institutions that resolve institutional collective action dilemmas in federalism, urban governance, and regional management of natural resources.

On court days in colonial New England, folks gathered from miles around to listen as local magistrates convened to hear cases. In the abundant records extant from these hearings, we experience the passions and concerns of ordinary people, often in their own words, more than three centuries after the emotion-charged events that brought them to court. Rapaport is a lawyer and historian who, by drawing on these court records, has created an award...

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 68. Chapters: Colin Turnbull, Margaret Murray, Gregory Bateson, William Charles Osman Hill, Herbert Hope Risley, Jack Goody, Ivan van Sertima, Leonard Hussey, Edward Burnett Tylor, Arthur Keith, Paul Richards, Verrier Elwin, William Scoresby Routledge, FitzRoy Somerset, 4th Baron Raglan, Mary Leakey, Roger Pearson, Tudor Parfitt, Mary Douglas, Alfred Cort Haddon, Walter Baldwin Spencer, Ashley Montagu, Richard William...

Das Ziel dieser Arbeit war ein Modell zu entwickeln, dass wertschöpfungssteigernde Maßnahmen für die Abteilung Prüfgruppe im Unternehmen Diamond Aircraft Industries GmbH beinhaltet. Als Basis und Ausgangspunkt der Modellentwicklung dienten theoretische Grundlagen der strategischen Unternehmensplanung und der internen (Unternehmens-) analyse. Daraus ging auch schließlich die Wichtigkeit einer gemeinsamen, langfristigen Unternehmenszielsetzung h...

Quelle: Wikipedia. Seiten: 93. Kapitel: Eurythmie, Temperamentenlehre, Goetheanum, Die Christengemeinschaft, Soziale Dreigliederung, Biologisch-dynamische Landwirtschaft, Anthroposophische Medizin, Goetheanismus, Sinneslehre Rudolf Steiners, Weleda, Die Sprache der Tonart, Wurzelrasse, Akasha-Chronik, Waldorfpädagogik, Aus der Akasha-Chronik, Misteltherapie, Tropfbildmethode, Bildschaffende Methode, Deutsche Sektion der Theosophischen Gesellsc...

Social changes in western society since the 1970s have resulted in large numbers of people with responsibilities both at work and at home. Coping with work-family conflict is thus a major issue for employed men and women. Employees develop their own strategies for dealing with conflict, but little research has been conducted in this area. The purpose of the research contained in this book was to investigate gender differences in the use and ef...

Some of the main challenges of the Web are problems related to the user and his interaction with an information-retrieval system. People with different educational, social, cultural and economic backgrounds use the Internet to gather information or to search for knowledge. Information-seeking systems like Web Search Engines should help the users with this task. The information-seeking process is covered in computer science by various fields of...

Ethiopia is the origin of Coffea arabica, which is the most important agricultural commodity of the country, both economically and socially. Besides, the country is an important potential gene source for coffee breeding programs since it is endowed with wide genetic diversity. Nonetheless, there is a continuing erosion of Coffea arabica genetic resources despite of the various conservation efforts carried out by governmental and non-government...

Vitamin E is one of the most important fat-soluble vitamins involved in various metabolic pathways. Antioxidants, such as Vitamin E, help to prevent against heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, cancer, and Alzheimers disease. Hazelnuts have a high concentration of vitamin E. Improving the intake of vitamin E by consumption of hazelnut oil, may have beneficial health outcomes. The effect of replacing soybean oil with hazelnut oil on se...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Orson Welles's Citizen Kane have been renowned for capturing the contradictory features of the American dream through their authentic and fascinating stories of two legendary fictitious American citizens. However, few studies have commented on how similar reporting techniques bridge the genre-specific differences of two of the most iconic pieces of 20th century American literature and cinematography. ...

From College to Career examines the lives of poor mothers who completed community college degrees and entered the workforce during a major shift in American social welfare policy. With the passage of federal welfare reform a lot more attention was focused on helping low-income mothers enter and make progress in the labor market. Policies that encouraged education and training as a means to securing stable employment received less emphasis in t...

Im Gegensatz zu einsprachigen sind die zweisprachigen Lernerwörterbücher eine relativ neue lexikographische Erscheinung, deren Theorieschreibung noch in ihren Anfängen steckt. Obwohl Wörterbücher neben Grammatiken zu den wichtigsten Arbeitsmitteln von Fremdsprachenlernern und -lehrern gehören, verfügen viele Benutzer nur über wenige lexikographische Kenntnisse. Zunächst erfolgt eine Einführung in die Grundlagen der zweisprachigen Lexikographie...

What are the main determinants of exchange rate regime survival and collapse? In particular, what are the structures and institutions of domestic and international politics that best sustain the harder exchange fix arrangements (currency boards, dollarizations and monetary unions)? This work examines the role of political structures in determining the survival prospects of these harder regimes. It looks at domestic and international levels joi...

This book details an exploratory investigation into the area of academic advising and used the motivation and self-regulation literature as a theoretical backdrop. More specifically, the research presented in this book incorporated self-theory and Hirsch's (2001) multiple intervention model in its interpretation. The interview narratives suggested that students experiencing academic difficulty tend to voice more problems, to be less ready for ...

As the demand for multimedia applications has increased, embedded processor designs have evolved to provide high performance on media processing algorithms, such as image processing, video compression and decompression, voice processing, wireless communication, and so on. Cache memory and TLB memory systems are a key mechanism for improving overall system performance and low power consumption. A cache exploits the locality inherent in the refe...

Since their introduction to the public in the early 1960s, Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) have become a significant force in the global equity marketplace. In fact, it has been noted that REITs have become the third largest asset class available to investors, behind stocks and bonds. In recent years, one burgeoning sub-sector of the US equity REIT market has been the lodging or hotel sub-sector. Although hotel REITs existed from as earl...

Accountability, Social Responsibility and Sustainability addresses the broad and complicated interactions between organisational life, civil society, markets, inequality and environmental degradation through the lenses of accounting, accountability, responsibility and sustainability. Placing the way in which organisations are controlled and the metrics by which they are run at the heart of the analysis, this text also explores how this system ...