Evidence shows that omega-3 fatty acids (n-3 FAs) may help in preventing heart disease. The purposes of this current study were to investigate the consumption and the food sources of n-3 FA in two groups of elderly men living in different geographic location (coastal and interna…
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This study presents a new approach to comparative legal study between the biblical and the ANE slave laws. It adopts a multidimensional examination that compares not only analogous laws with similar subject matter of slavery, but also their rhetorical techniques, methods of law …
This multiple case study investigated pedagogical differences and similarities among practices used to teach word problems in private schools of Turkey and the United States, the factors impacting teachers' instructional decisions, and their approaches to teaching word problems …
Building upon the important work of Roberto Alejandro (1993), this study pursues a hermeneutic and dialogic conception of the public sphere, a phenomenology of the public sphere, and rejects liberal conceptions of civil society grounded in a principally conservative narrative in…
Financial crime poses a serious threat to the integrity and security of legitimate businesses and institutions, and to the safety and prosperity of private citizens and communities. Experts argue that the profile of financial offenders is extremely diversified and includes indiv…
The purpose of this study was to: (a) compare between the attitudes of undergraduate physical education students in Saudi Arabia (n = 98) and the United States (n = 96) toward teaching students with a physical disability, autism, an intellectual disability, and emotional/behavio…
This study was to evaluate the development level of Clinical Engineering Departments (CEDs) in hospitals in developing countries. The method of data collection was a survey done by structured questionnaire sent by Email and Listserv. In total, 61 responses (9% response rate) wer…
This is a comparative study designed to induce conclusions generated from an analysis of the labor-capital relationship now forming in Ukraine and Kazakhstan. Both nations face severe economic crisis and are composed of very weak social actors. The situation favors a turn toward…
The relationship between natural resources and development in the so called developing world is important. Three questions are especially relevant. First, what is the nature of the relationships between natural resources and development—in particular how does the presence of nat…
To develop a well-trained global work force, public health workers must take advantage of new opportunities to provide public health training and education. Distance education delivered via the Internet holds particular promise, especially for public health workers in developing…
Do Byzantine iconoclasts and modern artists have anything in common? Looking back at the Byzantine iconoclastic debates of the eighth and ninth century, I define iconoclasm not as a negative reaction to the visual image in general, but as a rejection of pictorial human represent…
This thesis examines whether and under what conditions the recent decentralization of irrigation management in Turkey can deepen democracy through a comparative study of irrigation management decentralization in two provinces in Turkey: Urfa and Aydin. In Turkey, the state agenc…
This dissertation explores how the conditions of interconnectedness, flexibility and mobility engendered by globalization affect people's identifications. It takes multinational corporations as a case of transnational networks and focuses on transnational professionals who work …
Postcolonial societies are perceived in the development literature as underdeveloped because of their colonial experience and relatively low level of development. Yet on closer examination, postcolonial societies are internally diverse. While some are undergoing rapid economic d…
