"Phillipson (1996) considers NNESTs to be potentially the ideal ESL teachers because they have gone through the process of acquiring English as an additional language." Even though the above quotation indicates that nonnative English second language teachers are in better stand than native...

This study argues that since the transition to democracy Turkey's foreign policy has gradually shifted from a traditional realpolitic understanding , to human rights understanding, as well as accepting international and regional patrolling of its domestic human rights situation. Turkey has...

Risk assessment is one of the major challenges that must be addressed by each insurance company. To assess risk we need to know the value of losses as well as the probability of losses, since the risk cost is the basic component in evaluating the insurance indemnity. Statistical methods should...

Telecommunication industries in indonesia have currently entered a phase which people's awareness of knowledge on the information technology-based products and services increases. some of the phenomena that occur in the industries are : (i) the technology develops rapidly, (ii) the...

This study tests the relationship between the product involvement (Pd. Inv) and purchase intention (PI) and the mediating role of Brand Attitude (BA) in the relationship between Product Involvement (Pd. Inv) and Purchase Intention (PI) by using a sample of 450 people. With reference to previous...

This paper aims to shed light on the role of financial development on the growth dynamics of transition countries. Particularly, the impacts of several financial development indicators (in terms of size and efficiency) on the income level in 25 transition economies and two subgroups with varying...

Social networks are becoming more and more important in employment seeking process. The importance of social networks in this respect has been researched also in academic research worldwide and discussed on scientific conferences. The aim of the paper is to analyse the experience of the use of...

Databases are widely used in data processes and each day their sizes are getting larger. In order to access to the data stored in growing databases and to use them, new techniques are developed to discover the knowledge automatically. Data mining techniques may be used to find the useful...

School cooperation with parents is an important aspect in the field of education, which is of particular interest to students and for the school when we consider the development of personality, education, social life and progress of pupils. Trustworthiness, mutual respect and communication...

For two decades, the questions of what really motivates foreign investors to invest in a certain country remains unanswered and a controversial issue. Moreover, previous studies have overwhelmingly treated FDI as unidimensional rather than multidimensional. In reality, FDI is rather...