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A semiclassical model for a laser field inside an optical cavity

K. M. Priyashanka, K. A. I. L. Wijewardena Gamalath

World Scientific News > 2015 > 7 > 101-115

Treating the laser medium quantum mechanically and the laser electric field classically, a mathematical model was developed to study a laser field inside a single mode optical cavity by numerical and analytical techniques. The simulations for threshold population, population inversion and average population with electric field frequency for 500 kHz resonance frequency of the atom are presented. The...

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Environmental, geological and economic effects of climate change on the Indian hydrology: A review

Sayan Bhattacharya

World Scientific News > 2015 > 7 > 30-49

Over the last few years, global temperature has increased rapidly and continuously at around 0.2 °C per decade. Climate change is expected to have considerable impacts on natural resource systems, which, in turn, can lead to instability and conflict, displacement of people and changes in occupancy and migration patterns. Rise in atmospheric temperature due to climate change will lead to loss of glaciers...

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Organization of budget accounting on the example of a public finance sector entity

Emilia Klimaszewska

World Scientific News > 2015 > 7 > 143-178

It is a legal obligation of legal persons and entities without legal personality to keep the accounts because of their functions: recording, controlling, settlement and providing information. Efficient accounting depends on good organization of work. The aim of this paper is to describe in a synthetic but comprehensive manner the basis of organization, the scope and procedures of budgetary accounting...

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Factors Affecting of Porous Properties of Carbon Gel Microsphere

M. A. Elsayed

World Scientific News > 2015 > 7 > 116-130

Carbon microsphere with high porosity and surface area were synthesized via the sol-gel polycondensation of resorcinol with formaldehyde in a slightly basic medium and followed by drying and pyrolysis. The effects of different parameters during synthesis were investigated. The porous properties of carbon microsphere were evaluated by nitrogen adsorption method and scanning electron microscopy (SEM)...

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Using Evolutionary Algorithm to Solve Amazing Problem by Two Ways: Coordinates and Locations

Lubna Zaghlul Bashir

World Scientific News > 2015 > 7 > 66-87

In the computer science field of artificial intelligence, a genetic algorithm (GA) is a search heuristic that mimics the process of natural selection. This heuristic (also sometimes called a meta heuristic) is routinely used to generate useful solutions to optimization and search problems. Genetic algorithms belong to the larger class of evolutionary algorithms (EA), which generate solutions to optimization...

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Change management in life insurance services – a case study of life insurance corporation of India

Mrs. Shriti Singh Yadav

World Scientific News > 2015 > 7 > 160-178

The employees of LIC agree to a large extent that initially they were not in favor of privatization of Life Insurance Sector. The employees had insecurity feeling about the new changing environment of privatization. The employees in LIC believe that the Pressure of survival due to privatization in insurance sector leads to improve the efficiency of employee as well as the organization. A descriptive...

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‘Disciplining’ Truth and Science: Michel Foucault and the Power of Social Science

Jason L. Powell

World Scientific News > 2015 > 7 > 15-29

This article explores the works of French philosopher, Michel Foucault and examines its implications for understanding power and social relations. Despite this, there has been very little Foucauldian analysis of social science and its relationship to power (Powell 2012). Hence, the article discusses the relationship between Foucault’s conceptual tools of ‘power’, the emergence of ‘the modern subject’,...

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Social readaptation of offenders with intellectual and mental disability in the institutional context

Andrzej Borowski

World Scientific News > 2015 > 7 > 50-65

Social readaptation is a process of returning people to a life in a society, who for a period of time were isolated from a natural social life. A concept of the totality is becoming the basic determinant of an alienation level from the natural environment. The criminal court can sentence offenders to: involuntary commitment, therapeutic detention or place them in the National Centre for the Prevention...

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Reconstructing Social Policy and Ageing

Jason L. Powell, Jamie Halsall

World Scientific News > 2015 > 7 > 88-100

This article draws from the work of Michel Foucault to reconstruct an understanding of social policy and ageing in contemporary Britain. In many ways, policy provides three trajectories for older people; first, as independent self-managing consumers with private means and resources; second, as people in need of some support to enable them to continue to self-manage and third, as dependent and unable...

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The Impact of Components of IT in SCM on the Company’s Performance (Case study: Pars Khodro Company)

Gholamreza Jandaghi, Seyed Mohammadbagher Jafari, Pouria Salimi

World Scientific News > 2015 > 7 > 1-14

In the business environment, Information Technology can play an important role in success of Companies performance. It provides information flow which makes the Supply Chains of companies more robust and resilient and Follow it to improve their performance in global competitive markets. This study attempts to identify the components of information technology in supply chain management and components...

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Exploring society responsibilities in promoting Islamic ethics standards

Faranak Ghodsi, Jamalahdin Mostafa, Zahra Dehghan Nejad

World Scientific News > 2015 > 7 > 131-142

This research was aimed at exploring society responsibilities in promoting Islamic ethics standards and has been pathologically formulated to institutionalize what the existential nature and identity-orientedness is with regards to men and women' responsibilities and also those of the Islamic government separately. Attempts have been made to explain why the bases of moral virtues in the Koran which...

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Direct Language Learning Strategies in the theory by Rebecca Oxford in English vocabulary acquisition at the age group of 11-12 year olds

Kamila Chilkiewicz

World Scientific News > 2015 > 7 > 160-184

An unwritten rule in many countries says that it is very important or even necessary to know at least one foreign language. Undoubtedly, there are many factors which influence our language acquisition and have been extensively researched in order to ensure that they address the needs of different students. The elements which affect our language abilities are motivation, techniques, methods but also...

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Developing students’ speaking skills through role-play

Anna Kuśnierek

World Scientific News > 2015 > 7 > 73-111

One of the main purposes of learning foreign languages, particularly English, which has become lingua franca in many parts of the world, is the ability to communicate effectively with other users of the target language. Teaching to communicate in real, everyday situations is very often neglected and students have little chance to practise ordinary language in class. Therefore, teachers ought to provide...

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Use of games and game-like activities in teaching English to different age groups

Anna Peters

World Scientific News > 2015 > 7 > 112-135

English has become one of the most popular and common languages in the world. Its massive increase has been noticeable in the recent years. More and more people, regardless of their age, learn English. They obviously have different competences, skills and needs therefore, the topic of the thesis which the author concentrates on, is Use of games and game-like activities in teaching English to different...

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Teaching English to adolescents

Karolina Lesiak

World Scientific News > 2015 > 7 > 223-237

This thesis deals with a challenging matter which is teaching English language to adolescents. Teaching as a process of transmitting knowledge is very important but habitually, it may be very problematical on the particular age level. Teenage learners differ from other learners as they are thought to be the most disobedient in behaviour and most discouraged to learn. Adolescence is a difficult time...

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The Representation of African American Women in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Toni Morrison’s Beloved

Magdalena Struglińska

World Scientific News > 2015 > 7 > 185-222

African American women are merely half of the Black race, and they are half of the African American history, as well. The main objective of this paper is to show how the institution of slavery influenced lives of African American women and how they are conceived by the American society. This paper is in part an attempt to address the problems of race and gender faced by African American women during...

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Effective ways of dealing with discipline problems when teaching adolescent learners

Anna Marciniak

World Scientific News > 2015 > 7 > 53-72

“As in other social settings, every classroom will have a few students who will choose not to involve themselves in classroom activities and, instead, be disruptive forces”. Managing disruptive behavior calls for a special set of techniques and ways to change it, at least during the time that the student is in school (Arends1991:170-172). The aim of this paper is to discover whether teachers employ...

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Modifications of natural rubber (Hevea brasiliensis): production, application and comparison

Tomasz Borowski

World Scientific News > 2015 > 7 > 20-52

This paper presents a method for obtaining the gel conductive systems being made of natural rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) (NR) and styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR). For this purpose, a natural rubber (Hevea brasiliensis), coming from a rubber tree plantation in Ranni, Kerala State, Southwest India, was used. Rubber latex was obtained by making incision in the trunk of Pará rubber tree and then collected,...

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Language management in international business. Implementation of strategies to bridge linguistic and cultural barriers

Kamila Barbara Grzeszczyk

World Scientific News > 2015 > 7 > 136-159

Good communication is indispensible when doing business in the 21st Century. It is connected to the fact that most corporations operate worldwide. Multinational companies can encounter many problems when maintaining its global coordination. They often face linguistic and cultural differences. Undermining language management significance has a direct impact on businesses. All multinational companies...

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Crime in the United State: Cause and Consequences

Magdalena Struglińska

World Scientific News > 2015 > 7 > 1-19

The aim of this paper is to show consequences and reasons of crime and violent acts in the United States, which have risen rapidly in the twentieth century. Not only has the crime rate increased sharply, but the character of criminal acts committed has also changed. Therefore, crimes have transformed into more vicious, hurtful and purposeless. The main questions that are to be asked in this paper...

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ADOLESCENTS (2)
ACCOUNTS; FINANCE; BUDGET; LAWS ON ACCOUNTING (1)
ADOLESCENCE (1)
ADULTS (1)
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY (1)
AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN (1)
BUSINESS IN THE 21ST CENTURY (1)
CAPACITIVE ELECTROLYTES (1)
CARBON MICROSPHERE; SOL-GEL POLYCONDENSATION; BASE CATALYSTS; NITROGEN ADSORPTION (1)
CHANGE (1)
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT (1)
CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT (1)
COMMON LANGUAGES IN THE WORLD (1)
COMMUNICATION (1)
CRIME AND VIOLENT ACTS (1)
CRIME IN THE UNITED STATE (1)
DISCIPLINE (1)
EDUCATION (1)
EFFECTIVE WAYS OF PREVENTING CRIME (1)
ELECTROLYTES OF POLYMERS (1)
ELT CLASSROOM (1)
EMPLOYEES ETC. (1)
ENGLISH LANGUAGE (1)
FOREIGN LANGUAGE (1)
FOUCAULT; SOCIAL POLICY; AGEING; GOVERNANCE (1)
GENETIC ALGORITHM; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; FITNESS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTION (1)
INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY (1)
INSURANCE (1)
LANGUAGE BARRIERS (1)
LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGIES (1)
LEARNING FOREIGN LANGUAGES (1)
MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES (1)
NATURAL RUBBER (1)
PLAY ACTIVITIES IN THE CLASSROOM (1)
POPULAR LANGUAGES IN THE WORLD (1)
POWER; SOCIAL SCIENCE; MICHEL FOUCAULT; METHODOLOGIES (1)
PRIVATIZATION (1)
PROMOTION; ISLAMIC MORALITY (1)
RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIETY (1)
RUBBER BATTERIES (1)
SEMI CLASSICAL THEORY; CAVITY ELECTRIC FIELD; POPULATION INVERSION; PUMP PARAMETER; RESONANCE FREQUENCY; THRESHOLD POPULATION (1)
SERVICES (1)
SOCIAL READAPTATION; TOTAL INSTITUTIONS; PRISON; ASYLUM; CRIMINALITY (1)
STUDENTS (1)
STYRENE-BUTADIENE RUBBER (1)
SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; FUZZY SET THEORY; DEMATEL METHOD (1)
TEACHERS (1)
TEACHING ENGLISH (1)
TEACHING IDEAS (1)
TEENAGE LEARNERS (1)
THEORETICAL BACKGROUND (1)
THEORY BY REBECCA OXFORD (1)
UNITED STATES (1)
WATER; CLIMATE CHANGE; RIVER BASIN; GLACIER; GROUNDWATER (1)
YOUNG LEARNERS (1)
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