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 …
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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…
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…
A descriptive, cross-sectional research study was conducted to measure patient satisfaction with physician services and its correlates in Kuwait. The relationship between sociodemographic factors such as age, gender, marital status, and patients' overall satisfaction were examin…
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…
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…
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 …
This dissertation is a comparison of the book of Ezekiel with the well-known city lament genre of ancient Mesopotamia. Nine shared features are analyzed and explained. These features derive from the work of Dobbs-Allsopp 1 and his comparison of biblical Lamentations with city la…
For the design of power-sharing practices in deeply divided places, there are two main macro-political strategies: consociationalism, developed and defended by Arend Lijphart, and centripetalism, associated with the work of Donald L. Horowitz. In this thesis, I consider the acad…
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…
This body of work aims to evaluate the use of oral fluid and blood collection for monitoring measles vaccination coverage in low-income countries. It sought to answer two questions: Can biomarker surveillance be used to monitor measles immunity in a resource-poor setting? Is sur…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
Enterprise Information Portals (EIPs) have become crucial components in contemporary organisations, including universities. Campus portals (CPs) have found their way into the academic environment and universities are increasingly implementing these technologies. While there are …
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…