As education plays such a vital role in economic competitiveness, it is no surprise that the focus for many governments is to invest in educational initiatives. Innovation in pedagogy, refined curriculum and much research into the science of teaching and learning…

Objective – The purpose of this paper is to articulate a theory for the use of action research as a tool of evidence based practice for information literacy instruction in school libraries. The emerging theory is intended to capture the…

Prehistoric rock paintings from Northern Mexico are becoming better known. Twenty sites for a single municipio in the state of Nuevo Leon have recently been described. Not all the paintings that are being found are a spectacular as the ones…

Prehistoric rock paintings from Northern Mexico are becoming better known. Twenty sites for a single municipio in the state of Nuevo Leon have recently been described. Not all the paintings that are being found are a spectacular as the ones…

This thesis studies al-Ghazali's theory of knowledge, particularly his concept of knowledge of God in his three later works: "The book of Knowledge" of the Ih&dotbelow;ya', al-Munqidh, and Iljam al-`Awamm. From his conception of knowledge of God the first book…

Prehistoric rock paintings from Northern Mexico are becoming better known. Twenty sites for a single municipio in the state of Nuevo Leon have recently been described. Not all the paintings that are being found are a spectacular as the ones…

Con la profundización de la globalización, a partir de la década de 1970 se producen cambios económicos, políticos, sociales y culturales, que conducen a una nueva concepción del desarrollo. En este contexto, la estrategia de desarrollo local constituye una opción…

The contemporary study in the philosophy of language concentrates extensively on a cluster of questions defining the problem of linguistic knowledge (Evans 1981, Davies 1989, Dummett 1991). What explains a speaker's language mastery? Is it knowledge that underwrites our linguistic…

Focusing on the A-text (1604) version of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus , this study further assesses biographical information on the poet and intellectual currents of the Counter Reformation, so as to investigate the play's relation to emergent trends of individualism in…

This thesis considers the design of receivers for multi-user communication systems based on asynchronous direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (DS-CDMA). Its primary aim is to improve current receiver designs which exhibit shortcomings in systems using long sequence spreading (where the spreading sequence…