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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The New Perspectives in Turkish Foreign Policy  Regarding With The West After The Cold War]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[At beginning of the 21st century, Turkey’s approach to the West has also  entered new period. Recent year’s Turkish society has changed  enormously. Turkish foreign policy horizons have expanded, and Turkey  has developed a more active and sovereignty centered approach to  nearby regions and with allies. As a part West, European Union has  changed, too. European Union has moved decidedly ambivalent stance to  a more integrationist approach in its relations with Turkey. NATO which is  a key institutional link for Turkey to the West has heightened Turkey’s  value to the Alliance. The EU is developing foreign and defense policies at  the same time independently from NATO. In such case, the role of Turkey  remains uncertain. Turkey’s geopolitical importance is very clear for the  West. Especially the US and Turkey have developed a common agenda for  relations in the period of post-Cold world.  Taking care of this background, this study explores the changing  parameters in Turkish-Western relations and also looks at the new  perspectives in strategic cooperation of Turkish-European-the U.S.  triangle. I will also analyze the future relations of Turkey with EU.  Keywords: Foreign Policy, the West, European Union, the Future of Turkey  in the West]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2013-05-10]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1568]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 2303-4564     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Nexus between Electricity Generation/Supply and Manufacturing Sector Performance in Nigeria (1975-2011).]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[This paper investigates the relationship between electricity generation/supply and manufacturing sector performance in Nigeria using time series data from 1975-2011. The variables utilized to test this relationship are index of manufacturing production, electricity generation, government capital expenditure, inflation rate, exchange rate and capacity utilization. By employing series of tests such as correlation techniques, the result obtained infer that, there exist a positive nexus between index of manufacturing production and electricity generation, government capital expenditure, inflation rate, exchange rate but negative relationship between capacity utilization. The Granger causality test shows unidirectional causal relationship that runs from capacity utilization to index of manufacturing production. Similarly, there is unidirectional causal nexus that occurs from electricity generation to index of manufacturing production. For government capital expenditure and index of manufacturing production it was observed that, unidirectional relationship runs from index of manufacturing production to government capital expenditure without feedback effect. The Johansen co-integration test shows three co-integration equations at five percent level for the trace statistics but no co-integration at five and one percent level for the Max-Eigen test. The implication of this study is that, electricity supply is a key determinant of output growth in the manufacturing sector; therefore the power sector should be given more attention for the growth of the nation economy.    Keywords: electricity generation, manufacturing performance, Nigeria.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2014-04-24]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[2494]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 2303-4564     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Nexus between Tax Structure and Economic Growth in Nigeria: A Prognosis]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[One of the most commonly discussed issues in Economics is how tax rates relate to economic growth. An effective tax system ought to satisfy the twin purposes of raising maximum revenue as well as encourage production. In light of this, the paper examined the nexus between the Nigerian Tax System and economic growth using correlation method and Granger Causality to establish the relationship. The paper revealed that the tax system has no significant impact on growth because of the numerous challenges confronting the system. Further analysis of the components of the tax system shows that Custom Duties have more impact on economic growth than Company Income Tax, Value Added Tax and Petroleum Profit Tax. The paper also revealed a negative and insignificant relationship between Petroleum Profit Tax and Company Income Tax on the one hand, and between Petroleum Profit Tax and Value Added Tax on the other hand. Consequently, the paper recommended that the Nigerian tax system should be reformed so that it can have a significant impact on economic growth. Government should also embark on policies and programmes that will enhance the level of income of the citizens with a view to accelerating consumption, investment, employment, and tax revenue.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2014-03-15]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[2399]]></dcterms:extent>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The number of cases in relation to language contact ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[The number of cases in the world languages can vary significantly, ranging from no morphological case marking (e.g. English) to more than ten cases (e.g. Ket, language isolate, Siberia). The distribution of the case marking pattern may appear to be random, but it is in fact systematic (Iggesen 2010). This paper examines the number of cases in the productive case paradigm in relation to langauge contact in the past.   There are some areas in the world that saw much intense contact among neighboring languages and dialects of a single language, i.e. intense contacts in the past force the case to be simplified and the total number of cases will be reduced. This is mainly due to the fact that speakers shifted their attention from expressing details of their information to classifying details of information (cf. Durst-Andersen 2011).   This type of contact-induced changes can be found in other areas of grammatical items, such as the creation of definite articles (e.g. Toyota and Kovacevic forthcoming). Thus, contacts have a very significant impact on grammatical structure of modern languages. ]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-04]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[839]]></dcterms:extent>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Oldest Extant Literary Work in Japan as a Sourcebook of Japanese Mythology]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Key words: Kojiki, Shinto, myth, international motifs, oral tradition  ABSTRACT  The Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters, AD 712, three volumes) is the oldest preserved work of Japanese literature. It was compiled by Oo no Yasumaro at the Emperor’s bequest, with an aim to point out the legitimacy of the imperial family and to prove the emperor’s divine origin. It is based on the imperial genealogies, as well as on the ancient myths, tales, legends and poems, transmitted orally throughout the provinces of the then Japan. The Kojiki is closely related to the ancient Japanese polytheistic religion − Shinto. It is on Shintoist thought that the work gives a complex image of the Japanese pantheon, assembled of innumerable deities, the kami. Apart from treating the original cultural heritage of the Japanese people, what also provokes special interest of this valuable work is an abundance of similarities to the familiar myths of the neighboring cultures, but also to the traditions of the peoples living in distant regions, without any contact with ancient Japan. Among many others, there are motifs related to the Land of the Dead, as the third part of the trichotomic cosmic structure: the motif of tasting food in the other world which causes the return to be impossible − widely known as the motif of Persephone, the Orphic motif of violating the forbiddance of looking which leads to permanent separation from the beloved person, or the magic escape motif with characteristic metamorphoses. In other words, the Kojiki contains the large number of universal international themes and motifs, which can be found in the cultures of the peoples worldwide. It is possible to reach them by means of comparative analysis. This kind of research provides a new perspective on the study of literature, mythology, and tradition.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[IBU Publishing]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2013-05-03]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1721]]></dcterms:extent>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Online Co-Mentoring Practices in the Turkish Efl Context: Benefits and Challenges]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Key words: mentoring, pre-service teachers, constructive feedback, challenges, online practices  ABSTRACT  Mentoring is considered to play a significant role in the formation of the pre-service teachers” emerging identities during the practicum period. A lot of studies into teacher education indicate its beneficial impact in many significant ways such as introducing them into the discourse community of the profession, providing them with constructive feedback on their lesson plans and practice teaching performances, providing moral support for the novice teachers during the practicum, acting as a facilitator and a guide in their transition from the student role to the teacher role. However, there have been some problems in the proper fulfillment of all the abovementioned roles. The affective concerns and some procedural concerns of the student-teachers have generally been reported as challenges in the mentoring process.  Therefore, alternative practices are needed enrich the existing mentoring experiences at the tertiary level. The present study, which has a mixed method research design, aims to investigate the benefits and challenges of online co-mentoring practices in a 14-week school experience course offered in the senior year of an undergraduate level in the fall semester of the 2012-2013 academic year in a Turkish EFL context . The participants are 28 EFL pre-service teachers of English and 8 co-mentors assigned to these students in addition to the school-based mentors. The data was collected via an expectation paper at the beginning of the study, a questionnaire administered at the end of the term and a semi-structured interview. The quantitative data was analyzed through the SPSS 18 and the quantitatve one through the content analysis. The results indicated a relatively high level of satisfaction among the student-teachers in terms of detailed feedback provision, the development of alternative viewpoints into the teaching and the learning process, valuable insights into the materials development, and some challenges concerning the online nature of the study.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[IBU Publishing]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2013-05-03]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1800]]></dcterms:extent>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Opinions of English Language Teachers towards Language Assessment and Evaluation in Turkey]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Key words: Assessment, Evaluation, English Language Teachers’ Opinions  ABSTRACT  Assessment is an indispensable part of education and carries importance as well as teaching. Teachers’ believes and opinions have great impact on assessment and test types. The authors’ aim is to investigate English language teachers’ opinions towards language assessment and evaluation. In this regard, a questionnaire has been adapted from the study of Brown (2002) and conducted to 45 language teachers at state universities in Turkey. The participants are from four different departments: English Language Teaching/Linguistics/Literature/Translation and Interpretation. Results have been analyzed under four main components of assessment: Improvement, school accountability, student accountability and irrelevance. In addition, experience of the participants, if they took any assessment course during bachelor degree and/or master/PhD degree cycle education or not have been analyzed. The results of the study are as follows: It has been found that the teachers graduated from English Language Teaching department show great tendency towards assessment improvement component; the teachers graduated from Linguistics department show great tendency towards both student accountability and irrelevance; the teachers graduated from Translation and Interpretation show great tendency towards school accountability. In terms of experience, the English Language Teachers who have experience 0-2 year/s and 5-15 years show positive correlation with assessment and evaluation. Taking a course based on assessment and evaluation during 1st and/or 2nd cycle/s education affects the results.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[IBU Publishing]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2013-05-03]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1990]]></dcterms:extent>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The oyatoi gaikokujin (御雇い外国人) and the Modernization of the Educational System in Meiji Japan]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Key words: Japan, Education, Modernization, Oyatoi gaikokujin, Foreign experts  ABSTRACT  A striking aspect of the history of Japan in the Nineteenth century is the government’s employment of thousands of foreigners to aid its modernization. While Japan’s leadership drew heavily on the resources of other nations, at the same time they marshaled indigenous resources, selected from among the successful Nineteenth-century Western models of modern development, adhered firmly to a policy of Japanese control and management, assumed total responsibility for the cost of modernizing, and carried their decision to replace foreigners with trained Japanese as soon as possible. The use of foreign instructors and the sending of Japanese students abroad were two important modernization factors in Meiji Japan’s experience.  The number of foreigners employed in Japan during the Meiji period is difficult to ascertain. Umetani Noboru estimates it as no less than 800. But Ogata Hiroyasu finds about 800 persons who served as teachers alone. Saigusa Hiroto gives the names of 1377 foreigners who contributed to the technical and industrial development of the country. It would be conservative to estimate the total number of oyatoi as somewhere in the range from 1500 to 2000.  Most of the oyatoi were drawn from the four countries that played the most important part in Japan’s foreign relations at that time: Great Britain, France, the United States and Germany. There was a sprinkling of Swiss, Italians, Austrians, Russians, Portuguese and some Chinese. Expect for the university of Tokyo, where there were teachers of several different nationalities, clusters of fellow tended to develop in particular lines of work.  The modernization of the educational/school system was based on the American model and the most important oyatoi in this field were David Murray (1830-1905), Marion McCarrell Scott (1843-1922) and George Adams Leland (1850-1924). Thanks to their help and advices, starting from 1886, the Japanese government began to issue a series of laws with which was established an elementary school system, middle school system, normal school system and an imperial university system.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[IBU Publishing]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2013-05-03]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1801]]></dcterms:extent>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Pedagogical Importance of Homework on Saudi student Academic Performance and its relevance to language learning: a field research]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[The purpose of this study is to analyze the pedagogical role of homework and its impact on Saudi student academic performance achievement. In order to demonstrate the pedagogical importance and its relevance to learning I intend to show, using a multi layer survey, the pedagogical value of homework in the eyes of Saudi students studying at the ELC/ELI; to establish the relation between homework and academic performance; to give evidence that homework is a valid measure of language learning; and to set up the relation between homework performance and feedback.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[969]]></dcterms:extent>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Perception of Parents from the Area of the Northern Sandžak about the Child&#039;s Addiction to the Internet]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[The crisis of social values has resulted in the crisis of education which is directly related to the use of Internet as a modern addiction. The crisis of education is recognized in terms of an identity crisis at personal and national level. The responsibility for the failure of the education among children equally depends on many factors within the educational process of a child. Those factors vary starting from parents to the educational institution. The main cause of the educational crisis can be identified through a deficit of self-esteem. In most of the cases, failures occur due to the wrong time arrangement and neglecting of the basic needs of individuals, in another word the Internet. The internet users are constantly searching for new information – in the means of communication. The internet addiction provides a short-term satisfaction, and the consequences are very unpleasant.    Keywords: educational crisis, addiction, leisure time.     ]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2014-04]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[2599]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 2303-4564     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
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