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Perceiving Different Images at Different Scales of Research: The Case of Early Netherlandish Painting

Studying the relationships between detailed knowledge and broader interpretation can help us understand how different researchers often reach such divergent conclusions about their material.

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Identity in Hyperreal World: How Identity Shapes in Cyberspace?

The increasing growth of use of the Internet fosters new kinds of identity. The main focus here is to clarify characteristics of these new cyberspace identities.

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Commitment to Change among Managers in a Selected Service Organization in Malaysia

This study examines the role of trust in management as a mediator of the relationship between job related variables, managerial practice variables and commitment to change

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Effecting Change in Teaching and Learning in the Language Classroom: Meeting the Needs of Graduates in the Globalised World

An examination of how the adaptation of contemporary learning/teaching practices and the support of ICT into a redesigned language curriculum are helping to improve overall outcomes for students.

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Cross-Cultural Encounters Between China and the World: The Challenges of Cultural Inclusiveness

In view of the massive cross-cultural encounters between China and the world, this paper traces literary meetings over the last one half century to discover the challenges of cultural inclusiveness.

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Reading Kanunname: Law and Governance in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire

I use the frontier metaphor to argue that it is in the process of encounter that the state's authority is realized in the early modern Ottoman Empire.

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Landscapes of Memory: Media Representations of Slavery and Abolition

Through a focus on the theme of landscape, this paper considers whether contemporary cultural representations of slavery and abolition have produced a commodified or contestable history.

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Theology as Interdisciplinary Partner: Creating Critical Conversations

Theology brings a distinctive contribution to interdisciplinary teaching and research, but its role is sometimes overlooked or misunderstood by potential partners. This paper aims to challenge and correct such misunderstanding.

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Developing ‘Thinking as a Doctor’: What is the Influence of Other Healthcare Professionals upon the Early Learning of Medical Students?

This phenomenographic study reports what medical students learn from other healthcare professionals and how this kind of interprofessional learning affect their development of 'thinking as a doctor'.

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Islam and Tolerance: An Overview of Some Discourses on Tolerance and Intolerance of Islam

This paper highlights the trends of thought on the issue of Islam and Tolerance

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