This paper indicates how the competency approach to leadership could be conceived of as a repeating refrain that continues to offer an illusory promise to rationalise and simplify the processes of selecting, measuring and developing leaders yet only reflects a fragment of the complexity that is leadership. To make this argument we draw on two discrete sets of data: a review of leadership compet...

This paper presents a region-representation scheme and comparative analysis methods based on a tesseral addressing system. The proposed scheme is described in the context of performance analysis of Page Segmentation methods, a Document Image Analysis area that is particularly sensitive to both a successful region-description scheme and efficient methods for comparative analysis. The proposed te...

I agree with much of what Michael Shalev (2007) says in his paper, both about the limits of multiple regression and about how to improve quantitative analysis in macro-comparative research. With respect to the latter, Shalev suggests three avenues for advance: (1) improve regression through technical refinement; (2) combine regression with case studies (triangulation); (3) turn to alternative m...

In this study, we improved a science curriculum that was developed in 2004 using Concept Mapping Software for Reconstructing Learning processes, and introduced into a new lesson in 2006. The result of comparative analysis between two lessons showed that students in the lesson in 2006 had more deep understanding than the students in the lesson in 2004. Furthermore, teachers’ evaluation revealed ...

Chapters four to twelve have presented the situation with regard to the most important dividing lines between higher education sectors and higher education institutions in each of the national systems involved in the project, the Netherlands, Austria, Denmark, Germany, Finland, Flanders, France, Sweden and the United Kingdom. In this comparative analysis thematic comparisons are made. The leadi...

In this paper we study a cost allocation problem that is inherent to most energy networks: the allocation of losses. In particular, we study how to allocate gas losses between haulers in gas transmission networks. We discuss four allocation rules, two of them have already been in place in real networks and two others that are defined for the first time in this paper. We then present a comparati...

Comparative analysis of two ideologically distinct approaches in the theory of fuzzy di"erential equations is given. Domains of applications, advantages and shortcomings of those approaches are described. New de2nitions of solutions to fuzzy di"erential equations are proposed. c © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.