MAINTAINING THE CONNECTION: STRATEGIC APPROACHES TO KEEPING THE LINK BETWEEN INITIATING CONGREGATIONS AND THEIR SOCIAL SERVICE OFF-SPRING

Maintaining the Connection: Strategic Approaches to Keeping the Link between Initiating Congregations and Their Social Service Off-Spring

Whilst much research has established that religious congregations have a long history of initiating social services that address many and varied community welfare and health issues, little attention has been paid to the process involved in this congregationally-based response as well as little paid to the unique issues that arise such as the role o

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INTERMEDIATING ROLES OF INSTITUTIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE TRADE OPENNESS-INCLUSIVE GROWTH NEXUS: NEW EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM NIGERIA

Introduction: Inclusive growth Grooming (IG) is a revolutionary method for generating and sustaining macroeconomic stability through economic development, social equity, and prosperity.There has been little theoretical and empirical study in Nigeria on analyzing the effects of trade openness on inclusive growth and exploring its determinants.Method

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Discriminate Properties of Three Specific and Generic Health-Related Quality of Life Questionnaires in Heart Failure

Herman Oak Split reins Objectives: To assess health-related quality of life (HRQL) in patients with suspected heart failure (HF) and to explore discriminate properties of the tools, two generic questionnaires, Short Form 36 (SF-36) and EuroQol 5D (EQ-5D) and one specific, the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure questionnaire (MLHF-Q) HRQL were empl

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Effects of dietary organic selenium supplementation on selenium content, antioxidative status of muscles and meat quality of pigs

The effects of feeding a high level of organic selenium on the level of selenium, antioxidative status of m.longissimus lumborum et thoracis (MLLT) and m.semimembranosus (MSM) and meat quality of pigs (defined on malignant hyperthermia status, DNA based test) were investigated.Treatments consisted in supplementation of organic selenium (0.3 mg Se/k

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Power and Time Slot Allocation Method for Secured Satellite Transmission Based on Weighted Fractional Data Carrying Artificial Noise

In this paper, a power and time slot allocation method is proposed for the weighted fractional data carrying artificial noise (DCAN) to secure satellite transmission.We first introduce Mobile Audio a data carrying artificial noise based on weighted fractional Fourier transform (WFRFT) to achieve physical layer security in satellite transmission whi

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