This State of the Art report is part of the comparative research project QUING that is financed by the European Commission. QUING will answer two important questions: What are actually gender equality policies in the practice of national and European policy making? And also: What is the quality of these current policies, especially in terms of their transformative potential, their attention for...

In 1997, Hill and colleagues published a seminal study investigating the interpersonal quality of self-oriented, other-oriented, socially prescribed perfectionism using circumplex as framework. Findings indicated three forms showed different relationships with both traits problems, but also suggested that these were gender-specific. Revisiting et al.'s findings, present reexamined how related t...

The assumption that objectivity is an illusion is often asserted as if it were objectively true. Nevertheless, it is true that male and female commentators sometimes allow gender based biases to hinder their attempts to understand biblical texts in their original contexts. Both gender based and western culture derived assumptions have adversely colored interpreters' understanding of the gender ...

Feminist historiography indicates that spirituality has historically been one of the instruments whereby women could “speak”. This “voice” implied recognition and authority, to a certain degree, in patriarchal-oriented reality. In this regard, feminist became vehicle for authorise their own religious spiritual contributions insights. countermovement – countering perceptions ingrained conviction...

A brief survey of user-oriented MT evaluation methodologies suggests that they all suffer drawbacks in terms of time and/or generality and/or user interpretability. The time and cost of evaluation, coupled with system prices, make it increasingly less likely that full-scale pre-purchase evaluation by a single potential user will be economic. It is clearly desirable that MT systems should be “ge...

Drawing upon cognitive writing process theory and research, this study investigates the influence of language writing, foreign (FL) proficiency gender on revision processes 77 undergraduate students studying at an English-medium college in Oman. Their first (L1) was Arabic their FL English. The participants produced two argumentative authentic texts, one L1 FL. English assessed using Oxford Pla...

The rate at which the field of internal medicine is advancing certainly necessitates a text that is both complete and up to date. While there are many such texts on the market, The Textbook of Internal Medicine seems to be a refreshing new addition to the ones available. Its depth of coverage and novel style will most certainly allow it to find a niche in an environment heavily populated by int...

The rate at which the field of internal medicine is advancing certainly necessitates a text that is both complete and up to date. While there are many such texts on the market, The Textbook of Internal Medicine seems to be a refreshing new addition to the ones available. Its depth of coverage and novel style will most certainly allow it to find a niche in an environment heavily populated by int...