Introduction: Lithuania (along with the other Baltics) is the success story of EU structural fund absorption. Bulgaria (along with Romania) is the worst performer. Lithuania has contracted projects for 87% (€6.4 billion) of available funds as of November 2012 and paid out 54% (€4 billion) to beneficiaries. Bulgaria absorbed only €2 billion of an available €9.5 billion between 2007 and 2011. Key factors affecting absorption capacity of structural funds: 1. Use of pre-accession funds 2. Political
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III. Trust and Social Cohesion Social cohesion is the “glue” that holds the society together and it is seen to be the effect of trust and reciprocity. It is linked to the concepts‚ some say the product - of social and human capital (Heyneman S. ‚ 2002/03). Human capital is embodied in the skills‚ knowledge and attitudes acquired by an individual. Social capital is the strength which comes from the relations among people. (Coleman‚ 1988). Those relations within and across the groups are identified
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always contribute to cohesion as the anaphoric does. The second type of cohesive devices suggested by Halliday and Hasan is substitution. A substitution is used to replace one item with another. An example can be found in Halliday and Hasan (1976: 89): You think John already knows? –I think everybody does. In this example‚ “does” is used to replace “knows”. Halliday and Hasan claim that substitution is
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sings at his work.” – Thomas Carlyle In this essay‚ job performance has been defined and the main categories of job performance have been laid out to show the exact difference between task‚ contextual and counterproductive performance. Also‚ the association between job performance and satisfaction has been reviewed thoroughly to prove what matters most in order for an organization’s employees to perform at soaring levels. Job performance is formally defined as the value of the set of employee behaviors
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Unfortunately‚ students’ performance in secondary school has not been very encouraging as consistently highlighted by the moderators and chief Examiners reports and WAEC and NECO business studies results for past decade. This problem of poor performance is apparently assuming a dimension that could affect the entire economy situation in the country. However‚ effort has been made in this paper to assess the influence of teachers and learners relationship on academic performance‚ also solutions has also
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htm IJPDLM 41‚2 The relationships between supply chain and firm performance The development and testing of a unified proxy Mark Johnson and Simon Templar Cranfield School of Management‚ Cranfield‚ UK Abstract Purpose – Supply chains directly influence the differentiation and cost of a firm’s products and services and its exposure to risk. The purpose of this paper is to use secondary financial data to explore the relationship between supply chain and firm performance by developing a unified proxy
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the study as well as implications and recommendations for future research to add to the research already completed on the relationship between fitness and academic performance. There are a surplus of circumstances that influence academic performance‚ some which are indefinable. More research is needed on the relationship between aerobic fitness and academic achievement performance among other factors due to the increasing number of children suffering from being overweight or obese (Hall‚ 2007). The
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The Cohesion Case: The Broadway Café CIS 500: Information Systems for Decision-Making Strayer University June 6‚ 2011 Table of Contents Abstract ........................................................................................................................... 3 Part 1: Competitive Advantage................................................................................ 4 Part 2: The Broadway Café and E-Business............................................................
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RELATIONSHIP IN THE FAMILY; ITS EFFECT TO THE ACADEMMIC PERFORMANCE OF PALAWAN STATE UNIVERSITY-LABORATORY HIGH SCHOOL CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM: RATIONALE AND BACKGROUND Background of the Study Family‚ they are the ones that will always be there for you no matter how screwed up you become‚ they will always have your back. It has been increasingly recognised in the fields of education and psychology that family has a significant impact to the student’s development and learning.
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Cohesion Phenomenon of intermolecular forces holding particles of a substance together. Cohesion differs from adhesion in being the force of attraction between adjacent particles within the same body; adhesion is the interaction between the surfaces of different bodies. The force of cohesion in gases can be observed in the liquefaction (condensation) of a gas‚ which is the result of a number of molecules being pressed together to produce forces of attraction high enough to give a liquid structure
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