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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Elimination of Cr(VI) from aqueous solution by a new agro-waste material]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[The efficiency of Wheat Straw (WS) and modified Wheat Straw (MWS) in removing Cr(VI)  ions from aqueous solution was studied. Batch experiments were designed to obtain Cr(VI)  ion sorption data. The influences of contact time, pH, adsorbent dose and initial chromium  concentration on adsorption process performance was researched and an appropriate  adsorption isotherm of Cr(VI) adsorption on (WS) and (MWS) was determined. The results of  this study showed that adsorption of chromium by (RWS) and (MWS) reached to equilibrium  after 120 min and after that a little change of chromium removal efficiency was observed.  Higher Cr(VI) adsorption was observed at lower pH and maximum Cr(VI) concentration and  lower adsorbent doses. The equilibrium sorption capacity of Cr(VI) ion after 120 min was  28.6 and 81.9 mg/g for (WS) and (MWS) respectively. The investigated adsorbents showed  different adsorption capacities for Cr(VI) ions. Langmuir and Freundlich isotherms have been  used to characterize observed biosorption phenomena of Cr(VI) ions on (MWS). The carboxyl  groups on the surface of (MWS) were primarily responsible for the sorption of Cr(VI) ions.  Keywords: Sorption; Cr(VI); Agricultural by-product; Citric acid]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1224]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/2708">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Eliot&#039;s Rose Garden: A Sufi Interpretation]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Eliot&#039;s theosophical poetry supports the idea that God&#039;s willingness to relate  to the world gives his creatures the possibility of personal knowledge of him, although  this can be acquired only through difficult and serenuous spiritual exercises.  The variety of poetic works, which Eliot produced such as Four Quartets  and Hollow man, are a blend of philosophical and mystical ideas which attempt to  explore the inner meaning of faith and represent a creative and influential stream that  both draws upon and contributes to Sufism.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2011-05]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[68]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/1976">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Elt as a Tool to Bridge Cross-Cultural Gaps]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Key words: inter-cultural gap, cultural awareness, cross-cultural barriers, ELT and culture, sociolinguistics  ABSTRACT  This paper is a part of an ongoing research, namely “AN ANALYSIS OF THE EFL LEARNERS IN A MULTICULTURAL ELT ENVIRONMENT: THE CASE OF A PRIVATE SCHOOL IN MACEDONIA”. In this part of the study I tried to answer the question, “Can we use ELT to bridge cross-cultural gaps?”  My premises are;  -Language and culture are reciprocally inextricable. Language is the biggest conveyor of culture. Learning a language is learning that culture. This can be evidenced that members of similar cultures learn each other’s language more easily than members of remote cultures.  -English has long been a lingua franca in many parts of the world. The status English language gained today makes it unavoidable in school curricula worldwide.  -Our virtually shrinking world faces problems among its various ethnic groups. Misconceptions, prejudices, or stereotypes are prevalent in today’s multicultural world.  -One aspect of school education is to help solve the problems of society.  Following this thought sequence I asked the research question: Can ELT be used to facilitate its learners to overcome cultural barriers? Can we use ELT to bridge cross-cultural gaps?  To explore the question, in the beginning of the academic year 2012-2013, I first added an extra line into the aims section of my annual plan as; “to develop better cross cultural understanding among students.” To achieve this, I planned to use various cross-cultural materials in my classes. Our course-book “Solutions” has been a great help as it has a lot of direct culture related topics. As the implementation of the plan, we studied culture, its aspects and elements like music, food, clothes, reactions and gestures in various instances. As a final stage I conducted a questionnaire to test the change in their perception of the “other.” The analysis of the questionnaire gave encouraging results. Students developed more acceptance towards other cultures.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[IBU Publishing]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2013-05-03]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1918]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/3297">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[ELT Prep Students Perceptions of Their Problems with Reading:  Perception of Failure or Failure of Perception? ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[This study focused on ELT students’ perceptions of self-failure in  reading. The participants were 150 prep class students in the Department of English  Language and Literature, KTU, in the academic years from 2005 to 2008. At the  beginning of each academic year, the students were asked to make a list of the  problems or issues they thought made their reading difficult. Their responses were  analyzed using a qualitative approach. The students were also observed in terms of  their responses towards various texts with reading difficulties. The study intended to  make a picture of the problematic areas in EFL reading from the perspectives of  learners: how much of the problematic areas in EFL reading was perceived by  students, whether they lacked perception of self- failure in reading, whether they had  control over their reading problems and whether their perceptions of self-failure  matched their real problems in practice or not.  ]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2009-06]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[335]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/1059">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[EMOTION AND COLOUR: PHYSIOLOGY, LEXICALISATION  AND CONCEPTUALISATION]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[In English and in many other European languages, Croatian included, it is quite common to use colour terms as an indicator of different emotions. When we talk about the colour and humans, we actually refer to the colour of their skin, more precisely their face.     The major goal of this study is to investigate the correlation between the primary colour terms in collocational units and their corresponding emotions in English and Croatian. Since most of the current research on emotion concepts has focused on English, we would like to provide further evidence from Croatian expressions of emotions. A cross-linguistic corpus-based analysis of the two language corpora (the British National Corpus and the Croatian National Corpus) in the first part of the paper should offer a better insight into the salience of basic emotion categories in reference to basic colour categories. The second part of the paper investigates the motivation behind some of the linguistic expressions within the framework of cognitive linguistics. Despite the obvious cross-linguistic differences as to the system of preference by which each language links colours and emotions, some systematic patterns, due to their motivational force, are likely to appear in both languages under study.    Keywords: emotion, colour, collocational units, conceptual metaphor, metonymy]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2014]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[3403]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/402">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Emotion and colour: Physiology, lexicalisation and conceptualisation]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[In English and in many other European languages, Croatian included, it is quite common to use colour terms as an indicator of different emotions. When we talk about colour and humans, we areactually referring to the colour of their skin, more precisely their face.     The main goal of this study is to investigate the correlation between the primary colour terms in collocational units and their corresponding emotions in English and Croatian. Since most of the current research on emotion concepts has focused on English, we would like to provide further evidence from Croatian expressions of emotions. A cross-linguistic corpus-based analysis of the two language corpora (the British National Corpus and the Croatian National Corpus) in the first part of the paper should offer a better insight into the salience of basic emotion categories in reference to basic colour categories. The second part of the paper investigates the motivation behind some of the linguistic expressions within the framework of cognitive linguistics. Despite the obvious cross-linguistic differences as to the system of preference by which each language links colours and emotions, some systematic patterns, due to their motivational force, are likely to appear in both languages under study.    Key words: emotion, colour, collocational units, conceptual metaphor, metonymy]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2015-04-16]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[2807]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/1835">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Emotions, Visual Rhetoric, and Pragmatic Inferencing in Campaigning Discourse]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Key words:advertising discourse, implicature, multimodality, relevance, visual rhetoric  ABSTRACT  This paper aims to explore the dialogic relations between form and function in multimodal discourse by looking into the print advertisements for the Olympics 2008 released by Mainland China. Data for analysis are chosen on the grounds that, first, the wordings in Mandarin Chinese are simple, slogan-type, e.g. Aoyun re, re bian jingcheng! (‘The Olympic Fever Heats the Whole Beijing’); but creatively interweaving the Games’ logo with attractive pictures and colour symbolism concerning Beijing City through which the messages could be plenty. Secondly, they encourage the (active/imaginative/creative) audience to integrate the semiotic elements (linguistic slogans and visual images) to trigger cognitive contextual effects, namely pun, irony, metaphor and humour, and will perform various pragmatic/communicative functions thereafter. Thirdly, they are ideologically significant for conveying the frames of the Olympic humanistic spirits – harmony and peace, promoting and enhancing traditional/wide-ranging Chinese culture, inviting and persuading the audience to recognise the prominent values in a fresh and friendly style.  The audience’s mental processing/inferential processes of perception, comprehension and interpretation in multimodal communication are approached within Relevance framework (Sperber &amp; Wilson, 1986/1995; Forceville, 2005; Noveck &amp; Sperber, 2004). She searches for optimal relevance in the interpretation process, during which a wide array of implicatures involving feelings, attitudes, emotions and impressions would be inferred and derived from non-/verbal communication together with the contexts, depending on different degrees of involvement and shared cognitive environment. The sociocultural aspect of visual communication and language use is further explored to see the inseparable relationship between sign systems/language and social meaning. Lending itself as a symbolic arena for embracing competing ideologies, multimodal discourse displays the gist of, and adds interest to, social semiotic interpretability, reflecting the social cohesion/interaction and cognitive dynamics of communicator and audience, thus maintaining the dialectical relationship between sociocultural structures and social practice/discourse (Fairclough, 1995).]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[IBU Publishing]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2013-05-03]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1962]]></dcterms:extent>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Empirical Linkages between Trading Volume and Stock Markets Shocks: When Sentiments Drive Investors’ Behavior]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Abstract: In this paper, we examine the impact of investor psychological state on their trading volume for the US stock market using a VECM model for the period from July 1987 to May 2014. We propose alternative specifications for investors’ sentiment considering their optimistic and pessimistic states. We find that during pessimistic periods, investors’ are extensively alerted. In optimistic and normal periods, they are less attentive.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2015]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[2930]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/3000">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Employee Empowerment and Its Effect on Organizational Performance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Employee empowerment is frequently used by business academicians and managers on  business activities. It refers to employees being more proactive and self-sufficient in assisting an  organization to achieve its goals. The term became prominent as part of the total quality  management, although its roots are in issues raised earlier under the heading ―employee  involvement‖ or employee participation. The purpose is not only to ensure that effective decisions  are made by the right employees but to provide a mechanism by which responsibility for those  decisions is vested in individuals and teams. The right to share authority and to codetermine  important decisions is accompanied by responsibility to exercise this power for the legitimate  benefit of multiple stakeholders. Responsible decision-making requires that employees have  access to managerial level knowledge and information about the enterprise, as well as to  opportunities to learn new skills that will enable them to interpret and use the information. Such  information may, however, involve technical, economic, or interpersonal and organizational  aspects of the firm that many employees will be unprepared by their previous education, training,  and work experience to understand and make use of. A democratic workplace will need to provide  for the ongoing education and training of employees not only in relation to their immediate work  tasks but also for their broader role in participating in the management of complex enterprises.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2010-06]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[200]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/1571">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Employment Discrimination of Romani People in Bosnia  and Herzegovina]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[The Romani are an ethnic group living mostly in Europe originating from  the northwestern Indian Subcontinent. Romani are widely known in the  English-speaking world by the exonym &quot;Gypsies&quot;. There are no certain data  about total population of the Romani people all around the world but it is  assumed it estimates from 2 million to more than 12 million. In Bosnia and  Herzegovina approximately there are 80,000 of Romani people which were  faced with much discrimination during their life mostly on field of  education, employment and health care. This research should provide  insight how much Romani people are discriminated when applying to a job.  Research has been undertaken with the survey which was shared among  the Romani people groups, relevant NGOs, and representatives of local  communities who are dealing with the problems of minorities. Results can  be used to show how largest minority in Bosnia and Herzegovina is facing  discrimination in any aspect each day, especially in professional life.    Keywords: Romani People, Employment Discrimination, Bosnia and Herzegovina.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2013-05-10]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1454]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 2303-4564     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
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