La démocratie : ses évidences et son avenir est une étude conceptuelle de la démocratie. Elle s'intéresse non pas aux régimes particuliers, mais à ce qu'il y a de commun entre toutes leurs singularités. La première partie établit une définition de la démocratie. Nous mettons tout d'abord de l'avant une définition descriptive en exposant le fonctionnement de la démocratie. Ensuite, ce système politique est étudié par les valeurs qu'il véhicule : la liberté, l'égalité et la justice. La seconde partie est une étude critique de la démocratie. Dans une première section, est diagnostiqué un problème intrinsèque à ce système politique : l'individualisme. Dans une seconde section est présenté le concept de Barber de la Strong Democracy qui propose une démocratie participative où le citoyen occupe une meilleure place dans le processus de réflexion et de décision. Cette nouvelle conception se veut une solution aux problèmes liés à l'individualisme.

Many barber salons and other small businesses in the United States fail to succeed beyond the first 5 years. The factors responsible for the low survival rate of salons may include the limited training and education levels mandated by state certification requirements. The purpose of this multiple case study was to identify business strategies successful barber salon owners use to overcome the business management and staffing challenges associated with a small pool of skilled barbers and the high turnover in a low wage profession. The theory of transformational leadership served as the conceptual framework. The data collection included interviews of 3 successful barber salon owners who met the study participation eligibility criteria of licensed, registered, operating a salon business in the Indiana region for more than 5 years, and over the minimum age of 25 years. The 4 themes emerging from the interview data analysis were (a) barber salon operating structures, (b) salon leadership and managerial strategies, (c) licensed barber skill enhancement, and (d) salon operating strategies effectiveness and sustainability. The data analysis also involved the triangulation of the primary research against secondary data from the Small Business Administration and barber industry reports. The expertise and knowledge shared by the interviewees could serve the quest of barber salon businesses in the Indiana region to overcome the profitability and financial sustainability challenges of this industry. The study findings may potentially contribute to positive social change by improving the economic standing and welfare of barber salon owners and professionals in the community.

This article, written by Glenn Drexhage, Communications Officer – UBC Library/Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, appeared in the BCLA Browser: Linking the Library Landscape online newsletter (vol.1, no.3 2009). BCLA Browser website: http://bclabrowser.ca.

The Diploma thesis is focused on creation of business plan proposal for establishment of small company. The first part of thesis examines theoretical basics of business plan development. The second part of thesis analyzes current situation of business sector. In the third, practical part of thesis, business plan for small company establishment is proposed.

BACKGROUND—Over 25,000 UBC students over the age of 18 have a Facebook account. The Digital Tattoo Project’s goal is to help these and other students become aware of their rights and responsibilities as creators and consumers of digital information in their personal, academic and professional lives. PRESENTATION—This Digital Tattoo presentation was one of several presentations delivered at the Canadian e-Learning Conference Program 2009 held on June 17-19, 2009 at the University of British Columbia. For more information, please visit the Canadian e-Learning Conference Program 2009 website at: http://celc.sites.olt.ubc.ca/.

This presentation by the Director of the ARL Office of Scholarly Communication was given at the UBC Library on March 5, 2009, as part of the BC Research Libraries Group Lecture Series. The topic was a field study that she initiated involving the investigation of a range of new models of scholarly publishing and communication valued by scholars. There was a particular focus on works that push the boundaries of traditional formats and are considered innovative by the faculty who use them. The findings were published in November 2008 and titled: Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication - Results of an Investigation Conducted by Ithaka for the Association of Research Libraries and can be found at http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/current-models-report.pdf.

The second international m-Libraries conference schedule & guidebook features the conference program; pre-conference workshops; and, local/UBC tours, events and attractions. A listing of the various conference committees and sponsors including the names of the organizing committee chair members, the graphic artist, the conference staff, and the consultant are shown on pages 27 and 28.

Attached is the list of 15 session abstracts and proposals from the second international m-Libraries Conference, held and sponsored on 23 & 24 June 2009, by the University of British Columbia in conjunction with Athabasca University, The Open University and Thompson Rivers University.

Magistro darbe tiriama pušies ir eglės kirtaviečių paklotės nariuotakojų kompleksų sukcesijos skirtingo ūkininkavimo sąlygomis Darbo objektas - Dubravos eksperimentinėje mokomojoje miškų urėdijoje (EMMU), Vaišvydavos g-joje 2006 m įrengtų 8 tyrimo barelių nariuotakojų kompleksai. Darbo metodas – statistinis nariuotakojų kompleksų tyrimas naudojant Barberio žemės gaudykles. Darbo rezultatai – Atliekant tyrimus nustatyta, kad Iš viso rasta 15 skirtingų nariuotakojų būrių ir klasių atstovų: du iš jų tinklasparniai (Neuroptera) ir blusos (Siphonaptera), rasti tik eglės kirtavietėje, be to blusos pirmą kartą rastos tik 2009 metais. Rasta ir 3(R) - retos rūšyss didysis puošniažygis (Carabus coriaceus) ir žalvarinis puošniažygis (Carabus nitens). Visų sistematinių grupių išskyrus Coleoptera, Aranei, Hemiptera, Orthoptera ir Blattoptera atstovų buvo aptikta daugiau eglyno barelyje, tai rodo, kad pušyno barelis turėjo geresnes sąlygas minėtiems nariuotakojams. Akivaizdūs paklotės nariuotakojų dominantai yra vabalai (Coleoptera), jų rasta virš 27 tūkstančių (2009 m.), jie užima ir daugiausia skirtingų gyvenamų nišų ir trofinių grupių.Visais 2009 metų tyrimų mėnesiais, išskyrus rugsėjį, didžiausias nariuotakojų skaitlingumas buvo eglės kirtavietėje. 2006-2009 metais didžiausias skaitlingumas buvo eglės kirtavietėje, o 2009 metais aptiktų nariuotakojų gausa pasiekė maksimumą. Didžiausias paklotės nariuotakojų skaitlingumas buvo miško bareliuose, mažiausias skaitlingumas buvo tuose... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Master thesis examined pine and spruce clear - cut litter arthropod complex succession of different forestry conditions Object of the work - Dubrava experimental teaching forestry enterprise (ETFE) Vaišvydava forestry in 2006 installed eight study plots arthropods complexes. Method of the work- statistical analysis of arthropod complexes using Barber ground traps. The results of the work - The study found that there were found 15 different classes of arthropods, and teams of representatives, two from the Neuroptera (Neuroptera) and flea (Siphonaptera), finding only in spruce clear - cut also flea first was discovered only in 2009. And there were found 3 (R) - rare species, the great ground beetle (C. coriaceus) and bronzed ground beetle (Carabus nitens). All systematic groups except the other than Coleoptera, Arana, Hemiptera, Orthoptera and Blattoptera were discovered more in spruce plot, which shows that the pine forest plot had better access to those arthropods. Obvious litter arthropod dominants are beetles (Coleoptera), they were found over 27 thousand (2009), and they occupy the most different niches and trophic groups. All months of 2009 trials, with the exception of September, had the highest levels of arthropods were in spruce clear - cut. In the period of 2006-2009 had the highest levels in spruce clear - cut, and in 2009 arthropod abundance reached a maximum. The highest number of litter arthropods was in forest plots, the lowest number was in those plots that had... [to full text]

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