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The Relationship between Parenting Styles and Adult Attachment Styles from Jordan University Students
Mahasneh, Ahmad M.; Al-Zoubi, Zohair H.; Batayenh, Omar T. - In: International Journal of Asian Social Science 3 (2013) 6, pp. 1431-1441
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between parenting styles and adult attachment styles. A … questionnaires on attachment styles and parenting styles were administered to the selected sample population during the academic year … parenting styles and secure, anxious-ambivalent and avoidant attachment styles, and negative correlation between negligent and …
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Beauty Today
Saha, Arpita - 2008
Cosmetics are not the only providers of Beauty. Beauty can be boosted and enhanced through various treatments which give a new dimension to beauty. The Spas, have become the new age beauty service providers. The fastest-growing segment of the beauty industry is day spas. Spa services include...
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Here Come the Naval Gazers - Definitions and Defenses for Auto/Ethnography
Hemmingson, Michael - 2008
I present several definitions of auto/ethnography by the leading academics that have championed and co-created the method; I also discuss critical positions against it. I offer both my own response and the defenses of others, and then reveal modest proposals for new definitions, theories, and...
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Khul' : Between Past and Present
Zantout, Mida R. - 2008
This article investigates past and present understandings and applications of khul (a type of divorce by mutual agreement whereby a Muslim wife can rid herself of a husband who is not at fault, by a ransoming procedure) synthesizing existing scholarship on the subject as well as Hanafi juristic...
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Christian Missionaries in British India
Jain, Tarun - 2008
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The Evolution of Real Newsboy Contracts in the US
Kraiselburd, Santiago - 2007
Perhaps the two most wildly recognized building blocks of inventory theory are the EOQ and the quot;newsboyquot; or quot;newsvendorquot; models. Moreover, almost the entire supply chain contract literature was built around the latter. The idea behind this paper is the following: before we can...
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The Marginal Price of Risk With a Cvar Constraint
Eisenberg, Larry - 2007
Applying the approach used by Eisenberg (2007) to derive the marginal price of risk for an expected value maximizing manager who has a Var constraint, I derive the marginal price of risk given a Cvar (Acerbi and Tasche, 2001), also known as an expected shortfall constraint. Despite the criticism...
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Meeting of the Minds, Episode II : A Dark and Angry God Arises
Heald, Paul J. - 2007
In 1988, Professor Heald found a lost manuscript of Steve Allen's groundbreaking television show, quot;A Meeting of the Minds.quot; In that episode, published in 6 J. of Law amp; Rel. 279, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Kelman, Blaise Pascal, and Richard Posner discussed the nature of law. While...
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Selective Affinities : On the American Reception of Hans Kelsen's Legal Theory
Telman, D. A. Jeremy - 2007
Hans Kelsen (1881-1973), who lived and taught in the United States for over three decades, was one of those emigre intellectuals whose quot;style of thinking,quot; as H. Stuart Hughes put it, quot;withered or barely held [its] own in the new American setting.quot; Kelsen's relative obscurity in...
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English Auctions with Loss Averse Bidders
Dodonova, Anna - 2006
A lot of experimental evidence document that people are loss averse and that the compensation that they require to give up a possession of a good is higher than the amounts they agree to pay to get this possession. This paper analyzes how optimal English auction design changes when we take...
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