Picking up the pace in public services

The Tenth District Economy: Picking Up the Pace

The Tenth District economy improved overall during 1993 thanks to a booming construction sector and healthy growth in services. The district’s gain was uneven, however, because other major sectors of the region’s economy remained mixed. The agricultural and mining sectors were flat, while manufacturing continued to struggle. Economic performance diverged considerably across the seven district s...

the impact of e-readiness on ec success in public sector in iran the impact of e-readiness on ec success in public sector in iran

acknowledge the importance of e-commerce to their countries and to survival of their businesses and in creating and encouraging an atmosphere for the wide adoption and success of e-commerce in the long term. the investment for implementing e-commerce in the public sector is one of the areas which is focused in government‘s action plan for cross-disciplinary it development and e-readiness in go...

the place of iranian public diplomacy in central asia

چکیده: نسبت به کارکرد و ماهیت دیپلماسی عمومی در جهان امروز نظریه های متعددی بیان گردیده و جایگاه آن در کنار نظریه های دیگر در محافل آکادمیک و دانشگاهی بررسی و تحلیل گردیده است. نظر به اهمیت دیپلماسی عمومی و جایگاه آن در سیاست خارجی ایران این نوشتار با تمرکز بر دیپلماسی عمومی در منطقه آسیای مرکزی تهیه و تنظیم شده است. این ضرورت از آنجا ناشی می شود که اولاً مفهوم دیپلماسی عمومی در سیاست خارجی ای...

Who's picking up the bill?

Picking up patterns in language

Laura Batterink is a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University. She earned her BA in neuroscience from Middlebury College in 2007 and her PhD in cognitive neuroscience from the University of Oregon in 2012. Her research focuses on the contribution of implicit and explicit mechanisms to language acquisition and related forms of learning. This research has implications for understanding why ...