Abstract: This study analyses the role general self-efficacy plays within the relationship between culture and communication behavior in an unstudied Arab culture; Syria. Participants were 402 undergraduate students at Damascus University. General self-efficacy mediated the relationship between culture and touch, eye contact, gestures, paralinguistics, facial expressions, interpersonal distance and tolerance for disagreement. Thus, indicating that perceptions of ‘the self’ reduces the impact of culture on individual behavior. Results from this study could help for the better understanding of Arab communication behavior and for the increase of the generalizability of theories developed in Western societies.

• Publication Date: 13-Mar-2016
• DOI: 10.15224/978-1-63248-089-7-37
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Abstract: Adequate power supply is an unavoidable requirement to any nation's development. Industrialization and modernization cannot be achieved without proper access to electricity. Sudan and South Sudan electrical power sector is facing a lot of struggles and challenges, with Sudan's electrical power sector is subject to poor infrastructure, frequent power cut off and faces other sort of challenges. On the other hand, South Sudan has a very hard situation as only 1% of South Sudan population has access to electricity. The purpose of this paper is to investigate and focus on the different electrical power struggles faced by Sudan and South Sudan nations , and the main reasons of them, as well as, it has presented the different proposed developmental plans set for improving electrical power supply in the future . Moreover, it has provided a comparison between the two countries and country-world comparison in terms of the electrical power sector. This paper followed the analytical/qualitative me

• Publication Date: 13-Mar-2016
• DOI: 10.15224/978-1-63248-089-7-38
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