V.S. Naipaul’s <i>Half a life</i>, <i>Magic seeds</i> and globalisation

A new generation of the IMAGIC image processing system.

One of the aims of modern microscopy is to quantify two-, three-, or even four-dimensional phenomena in biology, medicine, and material sciences. The requirements imposed on software by such data processing are exemplified by the design considerations of the IMAGIC-5 software system. This system includes facilities for multivariate statistical analysis of large data sets, for correlation averag...

on the relationship between actual vs. perceived difficulties of a text and iranian efl learners reading anxiety

abstract this study examines the relationship between reading anxiety and difficulty of texts as well as the relationship between reading anxiety and students perceived difficulty of the texts. since difficulty is a relative concept, i limited its definition by sticking to the readability formula. we also took students perceived difficulty levels into account. therefore, in the present study, ...

AIDS and globalisation.

Globalisation and corruption

When a country interacts with foreign countries, it exposes itself to foreign culture and behaviour. This exposure could in‡uence the domestic culture through imitation or adaptation in the same way as individuals tend to be in‡uenced in their behaviour by the groups that they frequent. This could carry over to business culture in general and the corruption culture speci…cally. Therefore, the m...

Globalisation and the macroeconomy

Although the topic of globalisation has received considerable attention in many circles, it remains a phenomenon that we are still striving to understand. Not only can globalisation not be captured in a single measure or index, but its economic impacts are also difficult to isolate given the complexities in disentangling globalisation from other important structural changes that have occurred i...