So wonderful are the days in which we are living and so rapidly is the canvas being crowded with the record of achievement in the woman's movement that it is time for readers of the Woman's Journal and for all suffragists to know somewhat intimately and as never before what goes on in the four little rooms in Boston where the organ of the suffrage movement is prepared for its readers each week.…
Over the past couple of decades, the role of the engineer in the food industry has gained considerable prominence. The food processing industry is extremely complex, diverse and evolved. With a consumer market becoming evermore sophisticated and demanding, there is a continual need for process innovation. Even allowing for the demands of the consumer for product consistency and quality, the con…
CARE is a rich organization in information resources, our program activities produce every day a wealth of information on every aspect of our work. We are by essence an organization that creates vast amounts of data, information and knowledge. We are an organization rich in methodologies, practices, implementation strategies, work methods and experiences. But at the same time we are a poo…
Conventional wisdom suggests that the European debt crisis, which has thus far led to severe adjustment programs crafted by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund in both Greece and Ireland, was caused by fiscal profligacy on the part of peripheral, or noncore, countries in combination with a welfare state model, and that the role of the common currency—the euro—was at b…
Reader, thou hast here the beginning and end of a discourse concerning government; what fate has otherwise disposed of the papers that should have filled up the middle, and were more than all the rest, it is not worth while to tell thee. These, which remain, I hope are sufficient to establish the throne of our great restorer, our present King William; to make good his title, in the consent of t…
Information Assurance (IA) is the confidence that information assets will protect the information they handle and will function as they need to, when they need to, under the control of legitimate users.
In this essay, we investigate the dominant position of economics within the network of the social sciences in the United States. We begin by documenting the relative insularity of economics, using bibliometric data. Next we analyze the tight management of the field from the top down, which gives economics its characteristic hierarchical structure. Economists also distinguish themselves from…
Communication is a two way interactive process and its importance can be found in our professional as well as in our daily personal lives. We have intentionally taken a holistic approach in this module. It focuses on the person you are, of which your role as a teacher is a facet. Without taking the whole persona into consideration, it may not be possible to achieve the objective of improvin…
Sophisticated securitisation methods to transform cashflows have expanded the scope for risk management practices in financial companies to a level where risk embedded in typical financial sector products such as corporate bonds, commercial loans and insurance can be repackaged into financial market securities. Many financial institutions and institutional investors have now become familia…
This report sets out the results of a small-scale research project commissioned by Acas examining the implications of social networking and mobile information and communications technologies (ICT) for employment relations. Social networking involves use of an online platform or website that enables people to communicate, usually for a social purpose, through a variety of services, most of which…
Communication and Human Rights is a collection drawn from the conference of the International Association of Media and Communication Research (iamcr) held in Mexico City at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in July 2009