The relevance of the study is due to process structural reorganization entire global system international relations. It noted that, along with military power, economic, scientific, technical, and information spheres state’s activities are coming fore, stimulating their work in arena. emphasized that this circumstance determines complex interdependence main actors relations at present stage. arg...

This article examines the functioning of civil society in a rule-of-law state deliberative democracy. Covering theoretical aspect, analyses essence society, rule law, and In particular, role NGOs, media, other public structures shaping opinion contributing to solving critical problems is considered. The authors analyse interaction with legal system, NGOs promoting implementation laws monitoring...

Capital Deepening and Wage Differentials: Germany vs. US Capital deepening may affect the evolution of the wage differential between skilled and unskilled workers differently in countries with different labor market institutions. If labor market institutions raise the relative wage of unskilled workers in Germany, firms have incentives to invest relatively more into capital equipment complement...

malting is a complex biotechnological process that includes steeping; germination and drying of cereal grains under controlled conditions of temperature and humidity. in this research malting process parameters were predict by modular neural network with different activation function included, logsig-logsig, tanh-tanh, logsigtanh, logsig-identity and tanh-identity. steeping time (x1) and germin...

This paper describes our system for generating Chinese aspect expressions. In the system, the semantics of different aspects is characterized by specific temporal and conceptual features. The semantic applicability conditions of each individual aspect are theoretically represented by an aspect selection function (ASF). The generation is realized by evaluating implemented inquiries which formall...

Disasters, whether natural or manmade, and other types of emergencies create the need for immediate and secure communications between and among the affected populace, governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other types of emergency responders. It is through these communications that the affected populace is able to show resilient behavior, both psychologically and econo...

It is recognized that international water sector development work has issues with a lack of sustained positive outcomes. A large driver of this outcome is how NGOs work with communities to implement and then manage water services. Many NGOs tend to focus their efforts on improving their reach and organisational growth by continually engaging in new projects. This behaviour is largely driven by ...

Using original Ugandan data collected by the authors, we examine the determinants of funding to local NGOs. We …nd that success in attracting grants from international donors depends mostly on network e¤ects. In contrast, NGOs that raise in-kind resources locally tend to be young NGOs managed by someone who is simultaneously employed elsewhere. We …nd some evidence of crowding-out: NGOs that re...

Familialism in contemporary Turkey has primarily been analysed as a crucial aspect of the social policy Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi – AKP) government. The incorporation familialism into other areas also received some attention. Less attention given, however, to ‘civil’ channels through which this state-level is supported propagated. A network family-oriented conser...