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The first systematic cross-national study of mathematical abilities was conducted in 1964 (Hu#n, 1967). The results of this study showed that American adolescents were among the most poorly educated students in mathematics in the industrialized world. In the ensuing 30 years, this basic finding has been replicated many times and has been shown to be true for nearly all mathematical domains, fro...

This paper applies the methodology of Ravallion and Chen in calculating growth incidence curves for Ireland over the 2003-2011 period, using measures of equivalised disposable income from the Survey of Income and Living Conditions (SILC). These curves provide an indication of growth at different percentiles of the distribution and may be used to address the issue of whether growth was pro-poor ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address two questions: what is the difference between relationship processes and purely product-oriented processes? And to answer this question we should bear in mind what we mean by relationship, and why a customer is willing to establish and maintain a relationship at all. Design/methodology/approach – An empirical analysis subjected the motives of cu...

This paper proposes a system developer‟s perspective of the Citizen Relationship Management (CiRM) system implementation framework in the Malaysian local governments. The framework was developed based upon two in-depth cross-case studies which were conducted in two leading local governments in Malaysia. In addition to confirming the familiar determinants found in the literature, the paper also ...

where f #(z)= | f ′(z)|/(1 + | f (z)|2) is the spherical derivative of f . In Pommerenke [12] and more recent studies of Heittokangas [8], Benbourenane [3], and Chen and Shon [5], investigations have been made for linear differential equations in the unit disk D regarding the interplay between the behavior of the equation’s coefficients and that of its solutions. In this paper we consider in D ...

Online sexuality has become a much discussed topic in the 90’s however most people continue to have a narrow and uninformed view of what this area truly consists of. This paper provides an overview of the ubiquitous and explosive effect of the Internet on sexuality and summarizes the following key dimensions including: internet relationships and how they influence face to face relationships, al...

Educational metadata can significantly assist the effective retrieval of educational resources. Currently, there are a number of tools for educational metadata authoring, facilitating the manipulation of educational metadata files. This paper outlines the requirements, and proposes an architecture for the development of a compete LRM management system which go beyond metadata authoring, support...