The majority of research on the retirement decision has focused on the health and wealth aspects of retirement. Such research concludes that people in better health and those enjoying a higher socioeconomic status tend to work longer than their less healthy and less wealthy counterparts. While financial and health concerns are a major part of the retirement decision, there are other issues that...

This article aims to discuss the strategies for answering the rehabilitation needs of persons with leprosy-related disabilities in integrated settings through primary health care (PHC) services and community-based rehabilitation (CBR). While the provision of rehabilitation services through the PHC system remains problematic in most developing countries, the article concludes that CBR programmes...

According to Copenhagen criteria from 1993, EU defined the take-over of the complete body of common EU legislation (so called acquis communautaire) as one of the requirements for EU membership – together with democracy, protection of human rights, market economy and external security. While the accession countries have mostly achieved other prerequisites of becoming an EU member, the implementa...

The purpose of this study is to compare the author’s experience in founding and managing a company in Merida, Mexico to existing literature on cross-cultural management. The results should prove useful for non-Mexican managers working in Mexico and can provide a basis for devising empiricalbased research to test the ethnographic results reported. The author concludes that most of the discrimina...

Query letters may offer an effective way to increase author engagement in the scholarly communication process, yet they are not a common practice library and information science (LIS). A survey interviews were conducted with LIS journal editors explore experiences, attitudes, opinions concerning query letters. Results indicate can be of great benefit both authors editors, if approached properly...

The article is devoted to US politics in Eurasia the context of claims a key role world and desire independently manage pieces on “Great Chessboard”. examines policy Middle East relationship between military campaign Iraq situation Afghanistan. author concludes that at present United States concentrated attention territories around Russian Federation, forming belt unfriendliness.

This article aims to conceptualize the role of violent ulama in 2018 family suicide bombing terror incident Surabaya which involved children, mothers, and fathers (nuclear family). The author uses a qualitative approach with direct data sources form interviews terrorist network library data. concludes that clerics are organic intellectuals who intellectual actors behind bombing.

This chapter explores the use of a feminist website that raises awareness about issues related to Lebanese women. By uniting women’s voices via blogging, story narration, and comic strips, the Nasawiya feminists strive to challenge the hegemonic discourses that currently constitute the reality of women from Middle Eastern countries such as Lebanon. The author inspects the discourses in that spa...

Qualitative research is no longer the "poor relation" to quantitative research that it has been in the past. However, it is important to monitor the manner in which it is becoming incorporated into the mainstream. In this article, the author examines current dangers and challenges by critically reviewing current developments affecting our own research practice. It is argued that technical essen...