This dissertation examines the actual social outcomes of one of the largest and most prominent social policies of the Indian government in the field of poverty reduction and education – the so-called Mid Day Meal Scheme ...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most widespread mental disorders among children and adolescents. Studies have shown respective results for Germany as well as for Saudi-Arabia. Many of the young ...

The subject of the present dissertation is the relevance of the children's room as a place of children's development, experience and education. Besides presenting a historical survey of the children's room in German ...

This doctoral thesis is concerned with research into small and medium enterprises (SMEs). It consists of four essays on the specific roles of smaller firms in the fields of innovation and the business cycle. The first three ...

The interaction between business game players and business games is a simulation of an interaction with the complex system of an enterprise. Typically the player has the feeling of being ...

Die Fähigkeit, komplexe Probleme zu lösen, hat als Forschungsgegenstand in den vergangenen Jahren merklich das Interesse der Erziehungswissenschaften auf sich gezogen. Auch in ihrer Ausformung zur Kompetenz gilt sie als ...

This dissertation aimed to reconstruct the meaning of sportive actions and social interactions in the small lifeworld of the gym in the context of body dissatisfaction among men. A qualitative research design was chosen ...

Central to the euro-american assumptions of "natural" kinship is the idea of biogenetic kinship. Conception, symbolized through sexual intercourse of the potential parents, thereby constitutes ...

Smallholder agriculture is the mainstay of rural households in developing countries. In recent years, smallholder agriculture has been affected by the surge in large-scale farms that have acquired land in rural regions of ...

The action-oriented approach to teaching is a method that links both knowledge and action. Following the concepts of learning by doing or rather a learning by communicating, students apply and practice their language skills ...

The dissertation deals with the legitimisation of mosque construction projects in urban society. A particular focus is on the multi-dimensional relations between mosque communities and their social environment. Methodologically, ...

Teachers' beliefs have a significant role in classroom activities of teachers and students' achievement. For example, constructivist beliefs have a positive effect on students' achievement in mathematics (Dubberke et al., ...

Research by linguists, psychologists and cognitive scientists has shown that the grammatical and lexical structures of languages affect human cognition. This hypothesis of linguistic relativity has been taken up by economists ...

Poverty remains one of the most pressing global challenges, affecting people’s livelihood in far more than the mere income dimension: The poor suffer from limited access to education, health care and nutrition, face ...

In my dissertation entitled “Local Knowledge, Disease and Healing in a Papua Community”, I describe and analyse the concepts, knowledge and practices concerning the health and disease of the Tehit people in the South Sorong ...

For several years now, an area of anthropological research under the umbrella of ‘Material Culture Studies‘ has increasingly addressed the understanding of things. Questions under investigation include how relationships ...

This historical, theory-governed and empiric analysis theorizes gainful employment and political participation as the two central crystallization areas of the public at large, looked at ...

The sport federations stand in competition with other federations, with commercial and new leisure enterprises. The sport federations compete with the other federations for members potenial members, spectators ...

The three essays of this dissertation contribute to the measurement of European economic integration and investigate the welfare effects of the European countries. The first study presents a newly developed index – the EU ...

In order to reduce poverty it is clearly of interest to identify, not only those households that are poor, but also those that are at risk of becoming poor, i.e. vulnerable to poverty. In this research, the accuracy of ...

Political instability and political violence have been a major hindrance for development in developing and transition countries. Development and progress for countries is hard to achieve under the presence of armed conflict, ...

Violent conflict is common among the poorest countries and clearly one of the most important barriers to growth, destroying physical, human, and social capital, often in the long run. At the same time, it is a development ...

In political science Poland is a popular choice for transformation research, either in comparative investigations or individual case studies. It is far less usual for the country to be employed as a subject of migration ...

With the rise of smartphone use during shopping, retail management has begun to exploit their newfound strategic opportunity to connect with customers via mobile applications. Accordingly, a current subject of academic and ...

This paper contributes to the historical research into modernization and expansion of public education in Taiwan between 1885 and 1987 from the establishment of the province of Taiwan ...

This thesis deals about money demand functions for a broad monetary aggregates in dollarized countries. The countries under consideration are Paraguay, Peru and Argentina. Empirical models ...

This dissertation aims at solving the question why some seniors start participating in sporting activities while others remain inactive. A focus on the target group of senior citizens is of growing importance due to ...

Concurrent to the widespread use of traditional income or consumption based measures for determining human development, there has been growing interest in the economics of happiness since the late 70s. Likewise, there is ...

This study focuses on the uses and functions of music in the life of individuals in the province of Groningen at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The study is an ethnomusicological study representing the ...