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Celebrations Cycle Tour Sunaysilah Fort New Era of CSR
Autumn, 2015 Autumn, Al Ghanjah Celebrations Cycle Tour Sunaysilah Fort New Era of CSR Printed on recycled paper We continue to engage with the community, and to see and respect human gifts in all their forms. Foreword by the For those less fortunate, we reserve 1.5% of NIAT, Chief Executive Officer distributed under our innovative and expanding Oman LNG Development Foudation (ODF). For the fortunately employed, we offer training, work openings, amenities to boost or ease production. For the less fortunate, logistical support in the form of equipment or mobility aids. Moderated growth, supported by education, training, maximised potential of human and material resources. The core values that drive our company and country’s success are inextricably entwined. I hope you enjoy reading this interesting edition of your magazine! Harib Al Kitani In this 45th year of Oman’s Modern Renaissance, we Chief Executive Officer have indeed much to celebrate, both nationally and here at Oman LNG. We have the good fortune to have HM Sultan Qaboos bin Said, a leader who launched one of the most successful Renaissance of the CONTENTS modern age, back home in good health. Our company has emerged stronger than ever from challenging times in the oil and gas market, at least Company News 2 in the pricing market. Welcome Back Your Majesty 6 Even more important to us at Oman LNG than the pricing market is the value of human life, and Oman Cycle Tour 10 we continue to uphold our safety record and to Sunaysilah Fort: A Historical Landmark 14 communicate the importance of safety through our staff, contractors, customers and to audiences Oman LNG Development Foundation: far beyond the company gates. -
Mihaela Tirca
UNIVERSITAT DE VALÈNCIA DEPARTAMENT DE FILOLOGIA ANGLESA I ALEMANYA Programa de Doctorat en Llengües, Literatures i Cultures i les seues Aplicacions LITERARY ACTIVISM IN ANGLOWAITI WRITING: GENDER IN NADA FARIS’S LITERATURE Presentada por MIHAELA TIRCA Dirigida por Dra. Carme Manuel Cuenca Dr. Vicent Cucarella Ramon València, Octubre 2020 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to begin by expressing my most heartfelt gratitude and special appreciation to Professor Carme Manuel for accepting me to carry out this work under her directions. This thesis would have not been possible without her invaluable guidance toward the analysis of Nada Faris’s literary works and continuous monitoring. I cannot thank her enough for her permanent help into this study. In addition, her motivating words constituted the motor of this thesis. I am profoundly grateful to her for providing me with the means to accomplish this work. I consider myself to be enormously privileged to have been her student throughout all these years. I am deeply indebted to Professor María José Coperías whose constant assistance and instrumental support helped me to carry out this project. I feel extremely honored to have had the opportunity to be under her supervision. I humbly extend my appreciation and thanks to Professor Vicent Cucarella Ramon for kindly agreeing to supervise this thesis. I am also thankful to Nada Faris’s significant suggestions and clarifying notes about her work and for inspiring me every day for a couple of months by sharing the light of a candle. My most profound gratitude goes to my mother and my grandmother who always encouraged me to continue this thesis even when circumstances in my life were the least favorable. -
History, Culture and Tourism: a Comprehensive Study on Bhutan
International Journal of Management and Applied Science, ISSN: 2394-7926 Volume-3, Issue-3, Mar.-2017 http://iraj.in HISTORY, CULTURE AND TOURISM: A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY ON BHUTAN ACHINTYA MAHAPATRA Senior Lecturer, Royal University of Bhutan (GCBS), At/Po: Gedu, Chhukha, Bhutan E-mail: [email protected] I. INTRODUCTION heritage as Bhutan. Its vertical landscape rises abruptly from the steamy lowland plains of Assam in More than a thousand years ago, the great Indian northeastern India to some of the world’s highest teacher Padmasambhava came to the remote part of peaks along Bhutan’s northern border with the the eastern Himalayas now known as Bhutan. Tibetan region of China. Its diverse ecosystems— Although Padmasambhava (or “Guru Rinpoche,” as representing most of the climatic zones found on the he is known in Bhutan) was not the first Buddhist planet—provide refuge to thousands of species of teacher to come to this part of the Himalayan region, birds, plants, insects, and mammals. Pristine habitats his presence proved to be a defining and lasting support a dazzling variety of orchids and rare plants, influence on the life and culture of Bhutan. Guru including the legendary blue poppy. There are rare Rinpoche was an important historical figure, highly birds and mammals such as yak, takin, snow respected for his compassion and wisdom in India leopards, blue sheep, red pandas, and black-necked and Tibet before he ever traveled to Bhutan. He first cranes in the highlands, as well as elephants, tigers, arrived in central Bhutan before moving west to the rhinos, and golden monkeys in the southern lowland Paro Valley sometime in the eighth century. -
Understanding the Client's Experience of Counseling in Bhutan
University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers Graduate School 2017 UNDERSTANDING THE CLIENT’S EXPERIENCE OF COUNSELING IN BHUTAN Michaela Maureen Sacra Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Sacra, Michaela Maureen, "UNDERSTANDING THE CLIENT’S EXPERIENCE OF COUNSELING IN BHUTAN" (2017). Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers. 11000. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/11000 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. UNDERSTANDING THE CLIENT’S EXPERIENCE OF COUNSELING IN BHUTAN By MICHAELA MAUREEN SACRA Master of Arts in School Counseling, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, 2013 Bachelor of Science in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 2008 Dissertation presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctorate in Philosophy in Counselor Education and Supervision The University of Montana Missoula, MT May 2017 Approved by: Scott Whittenburg, Dean of The Graduate School Graduate School Kirsten W. Murray, Chair Counselor Education and Supervision Lindsey M. Nichols Counselor Education and Supervision Veronica I. Johnson Counselor Education and Supervision Judith C. Durham Counselor Education and Supervision Trent Atkins Curriculum and Instruction BHUTANESE CLIENT EXPERIENCES OF COUNSELING © COPYRIGHT by Michaela Maureen Sacra 2017 All Rights Reserved ii BHUTANESE CLIENT EXPERIENCES OF COUNSELING Sacra, Michaela, Ph.D., Spring 2017 Counselor Education and Supervision Abstract Chairperson: Kirsten W. -
Sergey Abashin Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) [email protected]
Sergey Abashin Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) [email protected] Cultural Processes and Transcultural Influences In Contemporary Central Asia Issues addressed and the aims of the text What is this text about? What are the goals of its author? Some preliminary explanations may help shape the expectations of the reader and prevent possible disappointment. My main purpose is to give a three-dimensional overview of the state of cultural affairs in Central Asian societies after the states in the region achieved independence and to describe the main current tendencies defining local cultural processes and transcultural influences in the long term. I am interested in such themes as: culture and the changing political landscape; the institutional environment for culture; culture and education; culture and language; culture and ethnic minorities; culture and religion; the cultural marketplace; culture and business; culture and globalisation. My questions: how is the Soviet experience of "cultural construction” used and transformed in the modern nation-states of Central Asia? what restrictions on cultural production are imposed by the political situation and economic possibilities of these countries? how do the processes of isolationism and globalisation interact? what changes are being wrought by the islamisation of these societies? what is the future potential of secular, European-style, culture? who are the main players in the region’s cultural space? These questions might seem too general, but without considering and judging them, any attempt to understand the essence of events in narrower fields of cultural life is, surely, doomed to failure. In an “analytical note”, a number of general recommendations for the work of international organisations in the cultural sphere of Central Asia are presented. -
Patience and Comparative Development*
Patience and Comparative Development* Thomas Dohmen Benjamin Enke Armin Falk David Huffman Uwe Sunde May 29, 2018 Abstract This paper studies the role of heterogeneity in patience for comparative devel- opment. The empirical analysis is based on a simple OLG model in which patience drives the accumulation of physical capital, human capital, productivity improve- ments, and hence income. Based on a globally representative dataset on patience in 76 countries, we study the implications of the model through a combination of reduced-form estimations and simulations. In the data, patience is strongly corre- lated with income levels, income growth, and the accumulation of physical capital, human capital, and productivity. These relationships hold across countries, sub- national regions, and individuals. In the reduced-form analyses, the quantitative magnitude of the relationship between patience and income strongly increases in the level of aggregation. A simple parameterized version of the model generates comparable aggregation effects as a result of production complementarities and equilibrium effects, and illustrates that variation in preference endowments can account for a considerable part of the observed variation in per capita income. JEL classification: D03, D90, O10, O30, O40. Keywords: Patience; comparative development; factor accumulation. *Armin Falk acknowledges financial support from the European Research Council through ERC # 209214. Dohmen, Falk: University of Bonn, Department of Economics; [email protected], [email protected]. Enke: Harvard University, Department of Economics; [email protected]. Huffman: University of Pittsburgh, Department of Economics; huff[email protected]. Sunde: University of Munich, Department of Economics; [email protected]. 1 Introduction A long stream of research in development accounting has documented that both pro- duction factors and productivity play an important role in explaining cross-country income differences (Hall and Jones, 1999; Caselli, 2005; Hsieh and Klenow, 2010). -
UNISCI Discussion Papers No 24
ISSN 1696-2206 Nº 24 Octubre /October 2010 CHINA RISING IN THE GLOBAL CONTEXT UNISCI (Gracia Abad, coord.) UN IDAD DE Section I: General Articles INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE Robert Sutter China, the United States and a “Power Shift” in Asia SEGURIDAD Y Wolfgang Deckers Europe, US, China: The Past, the Present, the Future; COOPERACIÓN Who Will Benefit from the Triangular Relationship INTERNACIONAL Gracia Abad The Beijing Consensus in the Shadow of the Global Financial Crisis RESEARCH UNIT ON Section II: Specific Articles INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND Stephen Blank Russia’s Failure in Asia COOPERATION David García El despliegue estratégico de EEUU, La República Popular China y la seguridad en Asia 2001-2010 Wang Yiwei Clash of Identities: Why China and the EU are Inharmonious in Global Governance Renato Balderrama China, América Latina y el Caribe: el doble filo de una and Selene Martínez relación positiva Jörn Dosch The Fallacy of Multilateralism Rhetoric in China-Southeast Asia Relations – A Neo-realist Perspective on Regional Order-Building Nicolás de Pedro El ascenso de China en Asia Central: ¿un nuevo hegemón regional en gestación? Alberto Priego Las relaciones sino-pakistaníes: ¿Hacia un nuevo paradigma? n Arvind Kumar Future of India – China Relations: Challenges and prospects Irina Pop China’s Energy Strategy in Central Asia:Interactions with Russia, India and Japan TERRORISMO / TERRORISM Ahmed Niyaz Terrorism and Extremism: A threat to Maldives Tourism Disponible on -line: Industry Available on-line: www.ucm.es/ info/unisci UNISCI Discussion Papers UNISCI Discussion Papers (ISSN 1696-2206) es una revista científica de acceso abierto, con sistema de evaluación por pares, sobre Relaciones Internacionales y Seguridad; ambas entendidas en sentido amplio y desde un enfoque multidimensional, abierto a diferentes perspectivas teóricas. -
Semantic Innovation and Change in Kuwaiti Arabic: a Study of the Polysemy of Verbs
` Semantic Innovation and Change in Kuwaiti Arabic: A Study of the Polysemy of Verbs Yousuf B. AlBader Thesis submitted to the University of Sheffield in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics April 2015 ABSTRACT This thesis is a socio-historical study of semantic innovation and change of a contemporary dialect spoken in north-eastern Arabia known as Kuwaiti Arabic. I analyse the structure of polysemy of verbs and their uses by native speakers in Kuwait City. I particularly report on qualitative and ethnographic analyses of four motion verbs: dašš ‘enter’, xalla ‘leave’, miša ‘walk’, and i a ‘run’, with the aim of establishing whether and to what extent linguistic and social factors condition and constrain the emergence and development of new senses. The overarching research question is: How do we account for the patterns of polysemy of verbs in Kuwaiti Arabic? Local social gatherings generate more evidence of semantic innovation and change with respect to the key verbs than other kinds of contexts. The results of the semantic analysis indicate that meaning is both contextually and collocationally bound and that a verb’s meaning is activated in different contexts. In order to uncover the more local social meanings of this change, I also report that the use of innovative or well-attested senses relates to the community of practice of the speakers. The qualitative and ethnographic analyses demonstrate a number of differences between friendship communities of practice and familial communities of practice. The groups of people in these communities of practice can be distinguished in terms of their habits of speech, which are conditioned by the situation of use. -
Industrial Relations Changes in the Maldives: Critical Events and Actors Ali Najeeb Villa College, Maldives, [email protected]
University of Wollongong Research Online Faculty of Business - Papers Faculty of Business 2016 Industrial relations changes in the Maldives: Critical events and actors Ali Najeeb Villa College, Maldives, [email protected] Mary Barrett University of Wollongong, [email protected] Publication Details Najeeb, A., Barrett, M. (2016). Industrial relations changes in the Maldives: Critical events and actors. Industrial Relations Journal, 47 (2), 181-200. Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library: [email protected] Industrial relations changes in the Maldives: Critical events and actors Abstract This paper analyses recent changes in the industrial relations (IR) system in the Maldives. Critical incidents were compiled from interview and document data and analysed using a quasi-grounded theory approach. The analysis shows that, precipitated by the political events of September 2003, profound democratic and IR changes took place, including the emergence of new IR actors and institutions. However, the outcomes of these profound changes were short-lived, reverting to old undemocratic practices and arrangements. The paper highlights the reasons why democratic change occurred as it did in the Maldives and why it reversed. Keywords actors, events, critical, industrial, maldives, relations, changes Disciplines Business Publication Details Najeeb, A., Barrett, M. (2016). Industrial relations changes in the Maldives: Critical events and actors. Industrial Relations Journal, 47 (2), 181-200. This journal article is available at Research Online: http://ro.uow.edu.au/buspapers/822 Industrial relations changes in the Maldives: Critical events and actors Ali Najeeb, Villa College, Maldives Mary Barrett, School of Management, Operations and Marketing, University of Wollongong Abstract This paper analyses recent changes in the industrial relations (IR) system in the Maldives. -
The Transnational Indian Community in Manama, Bahrain
City of Strangers: The Transnational Indian Community in Manama, Bahrain Item Type text; Electronic Dissertation Authors Gardner, Andrew M. Publisher The University of Arizona. Rights Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. Download date 02/10/2021 14:12:59 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195849 CITY OF STRANGERS: THE TRANSNATIONAL INDIAN COMMUNITY IN MANAMA, BAHRAIN By Andrew Michael Gardner ____________________________ Copyright © Andrew Michael Gardner 2005 A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSPHY In the Graduate College THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA 2 0 0 5 2 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA GRADUATE COLLEGE As members of the Dissertation Committee, we certify that we have read the dissertation prepared by Andrew M. Gardner entitled City of Strangers: The Transnational Indian Community in Manama, Bahrain and recommended that it be accepted as fulfilling the dissertation requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy __________________________________________________ Date: ______________ Linda Green __________________________________________________ Date: ______________ Tim Finan __________________________________________________ Date: ______________ Mark Nichter __________________________________________________ Date: ______________ Michael Bonine Final approval and acceptance of this dissertation is contingent upon the candidate’s submission of the final copies of the dissertation to the Graduate College. I hereby certify that I have read this dissertation prepared under my direction and recommend that it be accepted as fulfilling the dissertation requirement. -
Resisting Foreign State Propaganda in the New Information Environment: the Case of the EU, Russia, and the Eastern Partnership Countries ISBN 978-9934-8536-9-2
RESISTING FOREIGN STATE PROPAGANDA IN THE NEW INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT: THE CASE OF THE EU, RUSSIA, AND THE EASTERN PARTNERSHIP COUNTRIES ISBN 978-9934-8536-9-2 UDK 32.019.5 Re708 This publication is a part of the project “Resisting state propaganda in the new information environment: The case of EU member states and EU Eastern Partnership states vis-à-vis the Russian Federation publication/re- search” organised by the Foundation for European Pro- gressive Studies (FEPS) with the support of Brīvības un Solidaritātes Fonds (BSF). RESISTING FOREIGN STATE PROPAGANDA IN THE NEW INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT: THE CASE OF THE EU, RUSSIA, AND THE EASTERN PARTNERSHIP COUNTRIES Table of contents Foreword Dr. Ernst Stetter 11 Foreword Ervins Labanovskis 17 PART I: INCREASING RESISTANCE TO PROPAGANDA WITHIN THE EU Countering propaganda in Europe: Responses and options Ben Nimmo 23 The role of national strategic narrative in raising resilience to hostile foreign propaganda in European societies Māris Cepurītis 39 Increasing the resistance of democratic states to hostile foreign propaganda— what is the right recipe? Elīna Lange-Ionatamišvili 52 The Audiovisual Media Services Directive and propaganda Andris Mellakauls 71 7 Key findings of the EED’s Feasibility PART III: THE VIEW FROM Study on independent Russian- THE EASTERN PARTNERSHIP COUNTRIES language media initiatives in the Eastern Partnership and beyond Farther from Russky Mir, Jerzy Pomianowski 89 Closer to the West Tamar Kintsurashvili 173 PART II: THE VIEW FROM THE BALTIC STATES Russian propaganda -
Management Plan for the World Heritage Site Gelati Monastery
MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR THE WORLD HERITAGE SITE GELATI MONASTERY 2017 Table of Contents LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS........................................................................................................................5 1. INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................6 1.1. Aim of the Management Plan.................................................................................................6 1.2. Relation with other studies.....................................................................................................6 1.3. Scope and approach ...............................................................................................................7 General.............................................................................................................................................7 Management principles ...................................................................................................................8 Approach..........................................................................................................................................9 1.4. Objectives of the management plan ................................................................................... 10 Preparation of a spatial plan for the project area......................................................................... 10 Protection and conservation management .................................................................................