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The post-16 examination and curriculum field in England has changed radically. The previously hegemonic A-Level has been joined by the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, Cambridge Pre-U, AQA Baccalaureate, and the Government's own Diplomas. This has been attacked as a 'cluttered' field and an unnecessary duplication of resources with critics identifying the need to revamp A-Level or introduce another unitary award. However, an alte...

This dissertation shows the practical usefulness for asset allocation and risk management purposes of the variance risk premium, an index of market implied risk aversion. With reference to the asset allocation application, the short term forecasting ability of the variance risk premium is tested in a real time experiment by simulating long/ short quarterly rebalanced portfolios invested in the S&P500, based on the prediction of econometric mod...

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Indian Railways is a major player to reckon within the transport sector in India. Though its beginning was very humble, it plays an important role in shaping the Indian economy in contemporary terms. The most important contribution of this study is the estimation of a well-specified translog cost function in which the error terms in the cost and cost share equations are internally consistent. Analysis of cost structure of Indian Railways give ...

Alternative to the least square coefficient of determination, R-squared OLS, the coefficient of determination based on median absolute deviation, R-squared MAD, is an attractive consideration in the construction of goodness-of-fit test based on regression and correlation, due to its robustness. This book focused on the observations made from the resulting plots and descriptive measures obtained from contaminated standard logistic distribution....

The relationship between the Canadian Government and the Department of National Defence between 1945 to 2010 is examined from the perspective of the struggles between a principal, an agent and a monitor using the reports of the Auditor General as a basic source of information. Evidence is presented of an efficient exchange between the principal (Government) and the agent (Department of National Defence) which is complicated by the monitor (Aud...

While Phillip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" Trilogy is aimed at young readers, the three texts construct a dynamic and complicated world that forces readers to confront and question ofter overlooked questions of ethics. Breaking with the canonical norms and patterns of Children's and Young Adult Literature, Pullman's three novels open new perspectives on the very possibility of thinking ethically in the contemporary political moment. This boo...

Amidst the whole host of claims on the process of acquiring a second language has emerged the present study. In it, the processes involved in the acquisition of the pro-drop parameter properties by Moroccan EFL learners are accounted for. The theoretical tools mobilized for this undertaking are the ones that draw from Optimality Theory. The study is motivated by the almost universal agreement on the difficulty inherent in acquiring the English...

The language of education in multilingual societies has always attracted a lot of concern from educators and language planning specialists because of the complexity of language use in such contexts. The case of West Africa is particularly complicated because of the historical, sociolinguistic, psychological, political and economic issues associated with language choice within the subregion. This book addresses the language-in-education questio...

Kathi Weeks is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Constituting Feminist Subjects and a co-editor of The Jameson Reader.

In the United States, Native peoples must be able to demonstrably look and act like the Natives of U.S. national narrations in order to secure their legal rights and standing as Natives. How they choose to navigate these demands and the implications of their choices for Native social formations are the focus of this powerful critique. Joanne Barker contends that the concepts and assumptions of cultural authenticity within Native communities po...

The story of Irish linen is a story of the Irish people. Many thousands of men and women made Irish linen a global product and an international brand. It is also a story of innovation and opportunity. Irish linen has served its makers as sail cloth of incredible strength and durability for world exploration, it has functioned as watertight containers for farmers and firemen, it has soothed the brows of royalty and absorbed the sweat of the wor...

The heyday of Hollywood studio art departments was in the 1930s and 40s when strong art directors like Cedric Gibbons and Hans Dreier brought together more artists and artisans under one roof working on the same projects than any other enterprise in the history of modern American art.

La década de los noventa del siglo pasado, nos sitúa en un contexto cultural, económico, político y social, distinto a décadas anteriores inmediatas. De vital importancia académica son, el fin de las ideologías, la crisis del socialismo real europeo, el libre mercado y la globalización. Estos cambios van a repercutir en la dinámica de la sociedad y en el debate universitario, a la vez que se manifestará una nueva cultura política universitaria...

Wastes are present in the industries in the form of layers at macro level and at micro level. The Elimination of all wastes cannot be achieved overnight. It requires years of continuous improvement efforts for elimination of the wastes present in the system. The identification of vital wastes which have more impact on the performance of the organization and the selection of the detailed mapping tools for the identification of waste at micro le...

A new proton recoil telescope (PRT) is presented: it is composed by an active multilayer of segmented plastic scintillators as neutron to proton converter, by two silicon strip detectors and by a final thick CsI(Tl) scintillator. Plastic scintillators and silicon detectors are used to track the recoil proton and to measure the scattering angle, while the silicon strips and the final CsI scintillator can measure the proton energy: from these da...

Hawaiian Native Title, addresses the question: how is the ceded lands trust and the rights of the Native Hawaiian peoples in the trust perceived? Lindsey argues that the way this question is answered affects the fate of Native Hawaiian peoples. If the current paradigm of the State of Hawai'i as trustee and Native Hawaiians as wards is accepted, the status quo of mismanagement and distrust is maintained. If ceded lands continue to be perceived ...

Inertial sensors-based systems are relatively recent. Knowledge and development of methods and algorithms for the use of such systems for clinical purposes is therefore limited, if compared with camera-based systems. However, their advantages in terms of cost effectiveness, portability, small size, are valid reasons to follow this direction. The protocols described in the book can be particularly helpful for rehabilitation centers in which the...

Increased personal control and comfort needs of employees triggered the concern among organizations to provide them with an environment and office design, which fulfills their needs and help to boost their productivity. The main objective of this study is to find out the relationship between office design and productivity. The physical environment in an office satisfying employees, boosts their thoughts and ultimately their productivity. The f...