generally. j j Social Welfare, like Social Medicine, will fix its own standards, have its own objectives and develop its own techniques *n achieving the objectives. It cannot follow the Western standards, objectives and techniques. Asia in general and India in particular have an outlook different from the outlook of European cultures. It is different but not inferior by any means. The general i...

From 2003/04 to 2007/08, mining sector revenue increased substantially, with Australian dollar receipts rising by an average of around 20 per cent a year. By 2007/08, mining revenue was at its highest level as a share of GDP in at least four decades. Most of the rise in receipts was the result of the sharp increase in global commodity prices between mid 2004 and mid 2008. This article documents...

In August 2000, the First International Workshop "Developing Creativity and Large Mental Outlook in the Computer Age CLMO'2000" was held in Bergen, Norway. The workshop was a part of the 7 Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI2000) "Approaching a New Millennium: Lessons from the Past, Prospects for the Future" (The University of Bergen, Norway, August 14...

In this paper we review, and draw some lessons from, the UMTS-auctions that have taken place in Europe during 2000 and 2001. We address several design issues and, in particular, focus attention on asymmetries between the bidders and on possibilities for collusion. An outlook is provided to several other auctions in which the stakes may not be so high, but the design issues perhaps somewhat more...

In new situation, the work of college moral education should take the scientific outlook on development as the guidance, insist the orientation of human education, emphasize the work center, innovate the working concept of moral education, enhance the working efficiency, strengthen the group construction of college students’ ideological and political education, and try to cultivate eligible bui...

To our knowledge, there is to date no significant number of sociological studies dealing with the Esperanto movement, and there are even fewer sociolinguistic explorations of the whole Esperanto phenomenon. Concentrating on the Croatian Esperanto movement, we conducted an extensive study of Croatian Esperantistsʼ attitudes towards the structure of Esperanto, and their perception of the Esperant...