scholarly journals Quality Achievement: Current Practices and The Way Ahead

1995 ◽  
pp. 206-210
Author(s):  
J. Barrie Thompson
Keyword(s):  
The Way ◽  
Current Practices

scholarly journals Current Practices and Improvement of Saudi Corporate Governance Framework

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Khalid Saad Al-habshan
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Governance Framework ◽  
Preceding Article ◽  
Financial Scandals ◽  
The Way ◽  
Current Practices

The preceding article described the notions of disclosure and transparency and their purpose and importance in practice. An understanding of the requirements and elements of the practice of disclosure leads to a discussion of its benefits and advantages, as well as the consequences of a lack of transparency during financial scandals. The Saudi approach to disclosure and transparency is also examined based on the evidence given in board annual reports. This paper highlights the way the Saudi legal system evaluates corporate governance and its legal basis.

Gifted Education and the Spectre of Elitism

1986 ◽  
Vol 168 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aimee Howley
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Gifted Education ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
Ruling Class ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Gifted Education Programs ◽  
Intellectual Climate ◽  
The Way ◽  
Current Practices

This paper explains current practices in gifted education as they relate to the schools' role in legitimating existing patterns of social stratification. It discusses the way in which the anti-intellectual climate of public schools fosters the provision of noncognitive instruction to the most cognitively apt students. In particular, the paper presents arguments to support the thesis that schools provide noncognitive instruction to gifted students in order to thwart their development as intellectuals. This phenomenon is especially germane considering the historical antagonism between intellectuals and the ruling class. Finally, the paper evaluates the extent to which gifted education programs are elitist. It suggests that noncognitive programs for the gifted are necessarily elitist whereas challenging cognitive programs for such students may in fact threaten the elitism of the ruling class.

scholarly journals Reconceiving pasts in a digital age

HISTOREIN ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Stefan Tanaka
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
First Principles ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Japanese History ◽  
Modern History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Way ◽  
Current Practices

<p>This essay explores the way that digital media helps us think differently about how we practice history. Digital media can raise two issues about how our current practices can offer new ways to explore the current state of historiography. First, the more one is immersed in digital tools, they make us question first principles, the various practices and assumptions of modern history itself. Second, it offers ways of communicating the past that do not hide the process of “doing” history. In this article I will draw on my project, 1884 Japan, to raise questions about data or the fact. By using recorded happenings, I plan to explore the distancing of fact from the context in which it was embedded. Recorded happenings exist prior to the filtering of importance. It enables us to first recover the heterogeneity of pasts and recover the stories and experiences of a variety of people who have usually been written out of Japanese history. Second, by presenting this material I will suggest a layered, multitemporal history that combines the narrative of national becoming with the experiences of others.</p><p> </p>

Behavior Determination

Reset ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 31-60
Author(s):  
Robert Aunger
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Change ◽  
The Third ◽  
Behavior Setting ◽  
Proximate Causes ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Way ◽  
Current Practices

The third chapter takes a step back to present details about the factors involved in determining behavior (i.e., the influences on what makes current practices happen the way they do), which individuals need to know before they can effectively change them. The discussion is organized commonsensically to ensure that all possible types of causes are covered. Crucial again is the notion of a behavior setting as the suite of proximate causes of behavior, with others being more distal. Having covered the problem of behavior change from two different perspectives, in terms of the process that target individuals must go through in Chapter 2 (Surprise, Revaluation, and Performance) and, in this chapter, what kinds of factors can cause people to go through this process, this part of the book comes to a close.

An Approach to Engineer Communities of Web Services

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zakaria Maamar ◽  
Sattanathan Subramanian ◽  
Philippe Thiran ◽  
Djamal Benslimane ◽  
Jamal Bentahar
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Contract Net Protocol ◽  
Engineering Approach ◽  
Contract Net ◽  
The Web ◽  
The Way ◽  
Current Practices

This article presents an approach that provides the necessary assistance to those who are in charge of engineering communities of Web services. Current practices indicate that Web services providing the same functionality are gathered into one community, independently of their origins and the way they carry out this functionality. The provided assistance manifests itself with the concepts to use, the architecture to select, the operations to script, and the deployment to track. Two protocols frame the interactions in an environment of communities of Web services namely the Web Services Community Development Protocol and the Contract-Net Protocol. The former manages a community in terms of Web services attraction/registration/withdrawal to/with/from this community. The latter satisfies users’ needs in terms of Web services selection/contracting/triggering. Finally, the article presents a prototype illustrating the engineering approach with focus on Web services attraction.

Mapping Mourning Among Muslims of Kashmir: Analysis of Religious Principles and Current Practices

2020 ◽  
pp. 003022282091154
Author(s):  
Mohmad S. Jahangir ◽  
Wasia Hamid
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
The Way ◽  
Current Practices

From the instance a person passes away, the funeral, mourning, and memorial ceremonies follow sets of religious principles and procedures in every society. However, at the same time, these ceremonies and practices are influenced by the cultural patterns that people endorse. Mourning practices among Muslims of Kashmir also derive from such a religious-cultural amalgamation. This study aims to highlight mourning practices from two standpoints: (a) the prerequisites of the Islamic tradition and (b) the way mourning is actually practiced in Kashmir. To compare the general mourning practices with the actual Kashmiri Muslim mourning practices, different secondary sources were used and in-depth interviews were conducted with 11 participants (6 women, 4 men, and 1 Islamic scholar). The study revealed that mourning practices followed by Muslims of Kashmir are influenced by traditions outside the religion of Islam.

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