Guidebooks play an important role in increasing the visibility of a nation, as they introduce country to potential visitors and create images prior travelling. However, also tend reinforce stereotypes “romantic fictions” (Mahn 2008). This article examines representation Wales French German guidebooks consequently elucidates cultural political recognition these continental texts. The...

4 Goals Identification of the effects of stress at sea Mapping how to identify ways to reduce fatigue Identify how to improve the quality of life of people working at sea Protection of the mental health of seafarers Agreeing on ways of fostering the seafarers’ family life Preparing the crew on how to cope with a piracy attack Identification of the psychosocial aspects To obtain and review of av...

Despite the substantial differences between developing and developed countries, access is the major rural health issue. Studies in many countries have shown that the three factors most strongly associated with entering rural practice are: (1) a rural upbringing; (2) positive clinical and educational experiences in rural settings as part of undergraduate medical education; (3) targeted training ...

This paper presents a survey of actual conditions of use of standard indicators in a Japanese software development organization. This survey is conducted in order to investigate possible criteria for selecting and customizing standard indicators according to the context of each project. Based on results of the survey, a process tailoring support system that is mainly focusing to quantitative ma...

This guidebook shows how well-established principles and methods for evaluating and controlling process performance can be applied in software settings to help achieve an organization’s business and technical goals. Although the concepts that are illustrated are often applicable to individual projects, the primary focus is on the enduring issues that enable organizations to improve not just tod...