In political communication field, framing is a concept referring to journalistic point of view that emphasises one aspect of political issue over another. Framing has powerful shaping influences on the audience’s interpretation of issues, events and individuals. In politics, framing can serve as a strategic move for candidates or parties, which i

This paper proposes a conceptual collaborative system based on the deployment of the (a) Quadruple Helix Model (QHM), where a country's economic structure lies on four actors namely: academia, industry, government, and citizen, and the economic growth are generated by the clustering and concentration of talented and productive actors; (b) “Wh

This study examines the relationship between trade and the OIC countries 19 social developments as measured by the Human Development Index (HDI) using the generalized method of moments (GMM) procedure in a panel data distributed lag model for the years 1980 to 2005, with a five-year increments as well as annual data from 2000 to 2009. It addresses

Over 40 years of study, researchers have not been able to identify a clear cut relationship between a company’s environmental performance (FP) and its financial performance (EP). For that reason, this paper provides the theoretical framework on the relationship between the two. This framework considers a dual perspective from traditional economic

Most of the Muslim countries are parties to CEDAW and as parties they are bound by the convention and they have to make their laws to be in accord with it. Nevertheless, laws, in particular, family laws in Muslim countries are founded on Islamic law. This paper finds that Muslim countries are in a very difficult situation due to the incompatibility

Purpose – As organizations try to provide quality assurance from ISO certification, the importance of people management through better HR management assumes greater significance. This paper aims to examine this issue. It seeks to compare selected ISO certified SMEs with non-ISO certified SMEs on several HR practices. Design/methodology/approach â

The paper examines the role that organizational justice plays in determining employees’ work engagement and the way quality of leader-subordinate relationship (LMX) mediates this association. Data was obtained from an airline company from the middle-east. Sample consisted of 218 employees from several job levels who responded to a questionnaire m

Blunt abdominal trauma can cause multiple internal injuries. However, these injuries are often difficult to accurately evaluate, particularly in the presence of more obvious external injuries. Computed tomography (CT) imaging is currently used to assess clinically stable patients with blunt abdominal trauma. CT can provide a rapid and accurate appr

OBJECTIVES: Bronchoscopy is an essential investigative tool in many respiratory complaints. The procedure can be unpleasant for both bronchoscopists and patients. To the best of our knowledge, there are only a few studies that correlate the bronchoscopist's satisfaction with that of the patient's during bronchoscopy. The aim of our study is

This study analysed the use of connectives in the World Wide Arabic corpus of selected Gulf countries. The corpus was built by using Web BootCat where the Arabic sites had been extracted based on Arabic seed-words parallel to the English ones (Sharoff, 2006). A quantitative method has been employed to analyse the Arabic connectives extracted from t