INTRODUCTION Policy makers have long been concerned with K– 2 teachers’ compensation. Not only might increased teacher compensation purchase more skilled teachers, it might also influence how long teachers stay at their schools and in the teaching profession. Similarly, changes in the structure of teacher salary schedules may change the appeal of teaching even if average salaries remain the sa...

Conventionally, the concept of development has been equated with economic growth. As a result, mainstream literature—both academic and in the media—has viewed development as a fundamentally economic, perhaps even technocratic process. This book argues that development must be understood in much broader terms, as a historical change process (Kothari 2005: 5; see also Wylde 2012). It is the natur...

The stability of a quantum superposition of two different stationary mass distributions is examined, where the perturbing effect of each distribution on the space-time structure is taken into account, in accordance with the principles of general relativity. It is argued that the definition of the time-translation operator for the superposed space-times involves an inherent ill-definedness, lead...

During recent decades, the Finnish economy has been characterised by membership in the European Union (1995), adaptation to globalization and growth of high tech industries. Finnish Economy has been noted as an example of high growth associated with Nordic Welfare policies. Especially efficient schooling sector have gained international attention during the recent years as fifteen years old Fin...

Global context must inevitably involve not only correlation of forces and interests of major world powers, but as well coordination of interests and actions of major international organizations. Regional inter-state organizations recognized (under credentials of the UN Charter Chapter VIII) as regional collective security providers are of special importance for the effectiveness and “harmony” w...

Dedicated and qualified medical direction is required to ensure safe and quality patient care. Medical direction is a fundamental element of the emergency medical services (EMS) system. It is essential that the lead agency for EMS within the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the territories of Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mari...

Many formal modelling notations for business processes have been proposed during the last decade. They can be broadly classified into high-level visual notations, with an intuitive meaning, mainly addressed to the business management community and low-level foundational notations, with a detailed and formal semantics, mainly addressed to the computer science community. Role activity diagrams ar...