the chechen republic (commonly referred to as chechnya) is a part of vast territory of russian federation that has been a source of contention since collapse of the soviet :union:. identity elements and tattered cultural bonds have strained ties between two nations of chechnya and russia. various aspects of crisis in chechnya have been addressed by many theoretical approaches of international r...

concepts such as ‘hearts and minds’. Instead, Buzan explains that ‘the nature of security defies pursuit of an agreed definition’.69 Likewise, for Ken Booth, the challenge of defining security in this contested form is that it ‘is a condition, like health or status, which defies easy definition and analysis’,70 so, the provision of security might be described most simply as the ‘absence of thre...

Classroom participation has been found to be directly related to education success (Jaasma, 1977). Given this, it is important to reduce communication apprehension in the classroom in order to increase participation. Early intervention is necessary because communication apprehension seems to have its strongest impact during the first two years of college (McCroskey, Booth-Butterfield & Payne, 1...

S. Akerblom, G. Audia, G. Bakacsi, H. Bendova, D. Bodega, M. Bodur, S. Booth, D. Bourantas, N. Boyacigiller, K. Brenk, F. Broadbeck, M.G. Donelly-Cox, M. Frese, M. Gratchev, C. Gutierrez, I. Holmberg, S. Jarmuz, J. Correia Jesuino, G. Jones, R. Jorbenadse, H. Kabasakal, M. Keating, G. Kipiani, M. Kipping, L. Kohtalinen, A. Kurc, C. Leeds, M. Lindell, F. Luthans, J. Maczynski, G. Martin, M. Mart...

Ken Cheng was born in Hong Kong. His family emigrated to Toronto, Canada while he was still young, and he attended high school in Toronto, and then the University of Toronto. He has a M.Ed. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA in 1984. He did postdoctoral work at the University of Sussex and at the University of Western Ontario before beco...

How do differences in prior conceptual knowledge affect the nature and rate of learning? To answer this question, we built a computational model of learning, called SimStudent, and conducted a controlled simulation study to investigate how learning a complex skill changes when the system is given “weak” domain-general vs. “strong” domain-specific prior knowledge. We measured SimStudent’s learni...

Ken attended St Aloysius’ College, an independent Jesuit school in Glasgow, and he was proud of both his faith and his West of Scotland origins. From the day he entered Glasgow Medical School, it was evident that Ken had a fierce intellect and that he was an academic clinician to watch in the future. He achieved numerous distinctions in medical school, and in his final examinations, he was awar...