Within Australian historiography, the procurement of indigenous Australian ancestral remains by European scientists has generally been explained as resulting from the desire to produce evidence refining the core assumptions of Darwinian theory. I have argued elsewhere (1998, 1999) that the procurement of anatomical specimens through desecration of indigenous burial places in fact began shortly ...

Anthropogenic activities, including the intentional releases of fish for enhancing populations (stocking), are recognized as adversely impacting the adaptive potential of wild populations. Here, the genetic characteristics of European barbel Barbus barbus were investigated using 18 populations in England, where it is indigenous to eastern-flowing rivers and where stocking has been used to enhan...

Family and cultural inclusion are essential for the healthy development of young Australian Indigenous peoples with low cognitive ability. To date, this issue has received limited research attention. A secondary analysis of data collected in Wave 4 of Footprints in Time, Australia's Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children, was conducted to help address this research gap. The study results ind...

China's economic and social development has entered into a stage of steady growth, structural adjustment and innovation-driven leading. In the "new normal economy ", the business model of China's online travel booking is facing the new overturning and challenges, which is unable to ensure the sustainable development of the companies without innovation. Based on creating customer theory and comb...

f rom the viewpoint of economic theories, total factor productivity (tfp) is the most important component that leads to economic growth and development. the main purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of knowledge-based economy on total factor productivity in the member countries of the middle east and north africa (mena) region. for this purpose, the panel data regression analysis ha...

The continuous shift towards a knowledge-based economy has brought to the fore the issue of how organizations formulate their business strategies accommodating the complexity and dynamism of our environment. Managers are coming to realize that the firm’s success depends on the competitive quality of its knowledge-based assets, and the successful application of these assets to its innovation and...

this paper studies the usefulness of the p-model in the analysis of the behaviour of prices in iranian economy. the p-model is based on the quantity of theory of money. this model believes that the price level tends to move towards the equilibrium price level. the model uses price gap to forecast inflation, if the equilibrium price is greater than the current price, there is a tendency for the ...

n Abstract A broad reflection on some of the major surprises to anthropological theory occasioned by the history, and in a number of instances the tenacity, of indigenous cultures in the twentieth century. We are not leaving the century with the same ideas that got us there. Contrary to the inherited notions of progressive development, whether of the political left or right, the surviving victi...

What are the main approaches to theory development based on strategic management research in China? What are some of the recent efforts in developing theory in this area? What is our recommended approach? To address these questions, this article outlines the three approaches to theory development in China research, articulates the Chinese context within the global economy, and highlights two st...