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Many research studies have been conducted in Arab countries to examine the difficulties that Arab students encounter in learning English writing. Unfortunately, not much of that scholarship deals with the challenges that these second language learners face when they pursue degre…

This project was inspired by a declaration made by built environment professionals at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (GABS, 2002), of the need for a common framework to improve decision making for sustainable development. Priori theorising indicated the suitability …

The recent shift in industry from project to programme management has no doubt brought efficiency and improvements, but the construction industry is scarcely aware or reluctant to embrace the new culture. The lack of clarity in programme management has called for a need to conte…

Several software process assessment methods are available today such as CMMI and ISO-15504. The success of these assessment methods and improvement frameworks has been supported by many studies on the validity, reliability and effectiveness of these methods. Unfortunately, many …

This dissertation sets out to rethink, contextualise and historicise a commonplace notion in the Scottish Enlightenment which poses nations and societies as either improving or primitive. The Scottish Enlightenment philosophers were the eighteenth-century pioneers in an intellec…