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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Strategic stability in South Asia is pre-requisite for regional peace and security. The strategic stability in South Asia would require the working of nuclear deterrence between India and Pakistan, safety, security and survivability of nuclear weapons in all conditions of both states and the absence of arms race between them. Both states also need to refrain from developing or introducing any weapon system that has the potential to decisively alter the nuclear balance in one¿s favour. For this purpose both India and Pakistan need to contribute by taking responsibility and avoid taking any step that can be dangerous for prevailing strategic stability in South Asia. But, Indian interest in developing the Ballistic Missile Defence capability is a new emerging threat to the strategic stability in South Asia which has the potential to destabilise the regional peace and security.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 84 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Since HIV/AIDS pandemic was first reported in Africa about twenty years ago, it has turned up to be the number one killer. In Kenya, over 7% of the population is positive. Thus every person is either affected/ infected. This problem has been made worse by the ineffective of organizations given responsibilities to manage the scourge being faced with problems of mismanagement, thus not attaining the goal of taming the scourge. The disease has also affected the economic growth and development of many countries in Africa. The book analysis various factors that affects performance of those organizations e.g. managerial competence, organizational structure, regulatory framework, government policy, mission and visions among others. It targets organizations formed to deal with improving people¿s welfare and are no profit oriented (NGO and CBO), but also helpful to organizations that are profit oriented. Management should analyse the recommendations of this book to understand what might be hindering them from achieving the organizational goal The book is a must read for both the management and stakeholders with responsibilities bestowed on them for better service delivery.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In the past decades, branding has become a fundamental tool to compete for customers in the whole world. Branding has been stretched from products and services to corporate branding to create value for companies and consumers. Countries have also heeded the great success and power of brands. Because nations compete in economic, cultural, social, and political areas, many countries have become aware of a need to be recognised and to stand out against other countries. Therefore this work takes a systematic approach to analyse the process of development of national branding strategy of Latvia. Analysis is based on the National Branding Development Model by Erm and Arengu and 7-step model proposed by Olins. The work starts with current situation analysis and application of the model, followed by defined problems and proposed actions. The work can be of great value for academic purposes, as well as for state officials who work directly or indirectly with areas related to the country image and national branding.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The promotion and protection of human rights is not a mission that can be achieved by a single entity. It takes a collaborative effort and synergy of powers. The role played by NGOs, working in the field of human rights, in complimenting this effort can neither be undermined nor ignored. In fact, they have been and continue to be at the forefront of each battle fought to uphold the protection of human rights both at the international and the national level. However, recently their role is being threatened and undermined by regulatory mechanisms put in place by governments. An increasing number of governments are adopting legislations, under the disguise of fostering and regulating the not-for-profit sector, aimed at stifling the work of NGOs functioning in the field of human rights, democratization and good governance. This book is a very humble attempt to give insight to incapacitating regulatory mechanisms and their effect on the function of NGOs based on international human rights standards and supported by a comparative case study of laws regulating NGOs in Ethiopia and Ghana.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 76 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The goal of this project was to measure the impact on the usage of mobile banking technology by the microfinance industry. This project used SMEP, a local MFI in Kenya as a case study. Kenya was chosen because of its successful mobile payment service offered by Safaricom called M-PESA, as well as the convenience to the researcher in collecting data. This report provides detailed information on the advantages and challenges facing microfinance institutions in the implementation of mobile banking technology and ultimately strives to highlight the great potential of such technologies to increase access of financial services to the un-banked population.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Knowledge discovery in data is called data mining. Many data mining techniques require classification and clustering. Large data sets are available nowadays in the world and fast approaches of classification or clustering becomes a tedious work with large data sets. For example, computer vision, text mining, semantic web mining, natural language processing etc., require non-parametric pattern recognition methods. This book describes fast approaches to discover knowledge from large data sets.This book deals with condensing of large data and also preserving essential information in the data. This book describes many efficient fast classifiers and clustering methods which are based on density information in the large data sets. It describes to resolve vagueness and uncertainty that is present in large data sets using combination principles of rough sets and fuzzy sets. Approaches in this book are adaptive and they can be applied in many machine learning methods in many domains.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 116 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The liberalisation policies implemented in the external sector during the 1990¿s brought the Indian economy closer to the world economy. As a part of this liberalisation process, India shifted from the fixed exchange rate system to the floating exchange rate system. However, this made the Indian economy with the exports sector in particular, become more vulnerable to the changes in world economy and the foreign exchange market. Given this background, it is interesting to examine the effect of Indian exports to the changes in exchange rate. The book provides assessment of the effect of real and nominal exchange rate on the exports performance of India during 1993-94 to 2008-09.The effect of both real and nominal exchange rate on both the aggregate level exports and disaggregate level exports is given. The book puts forward a number of implications and suggestions that are relevant for the policy makers and the firms engaged in exports business.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 68 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book investigates the tourism preferences of customers in ten European cities. The consequent research questions cover the actual destination choice of various consumer segments, the dependence of destination distance on socio-demographic characteristics, GDP and cultural differences, the motivations to visit a holiday destination and the role of environmental protection and climate change on tourists¿ plans. To refine these topics and choose the most interesting related factors, several academics and researchers worldwide participated in an online survey. Eventually, the author conducted more than 1000 face-to-face interviews in the metropolitan areas of the ten cities and implemented three different regression methods for the analysis. The results show that demographics can predict tourists' choices and the destination distance significantly depends on GDP per capita and cultural characteristics.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The B2B marketplace is going through a major transformation. Both existing and new players are experimenting with new marketing solutions as they lack a seamless flow of information among customers, suppliers and their employees. One of the most important concern for marketing managers of today is the way business organisations purchase products. Customer satisfaction is the key to every organization¿s success. One ultimately wants customers to be happy with products and services it provides. Therefore customer insight is vital to any business. Organizations constantly try to grab the opportunity of getting more and more quality customers as well as retain them in a long run with the help of their relationships. Business organisations have been forced to adapt their marketing and purchase process due to the recent developments in global environments. The B2B marketplace offers a blend of opportunities to the organizations due to its speed, variety, control, communication access and strong distribution. Therefore, the book investigates the B2B markets in Mineral sector in Indian Sub-continent.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This is a study of how the news media covers the issue of intimate partner violence. The study focuses on three counties in Mississippi and how the newspapers serving those counties reported on the issue of intimate partner violence. The three counties, Grenada, Coahoma and Lafayette were selected for this study because their law enforcement agencies complied with a 2005 revision to state law requiring law enforcement agencies to separate intimate partner assaults from other types of violent assaults in their reports to the FBI. All articles from 2006 with violent themes were gathered from three newspapers: The Oxford Eagle (Lafayette County), the Grenada Daily Star (Grenada County) and the Clarksdale Press Register (Coahoma County). The articles were analyzed using four criteria: whether intimate partner violence was reported commensurate with its frequency as an arrest, whether intimate partner violence was treated as an issue in the articles, whether the articles shifted blame from the perpetrator to the victim and whether intimate partner violence was portrayed as being more murder-centric than it actually and how that compares to reporting on other types of violent crimes.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -India, home to one-sixth of the world¿s population, is quickly becoming one the world¿s economic engines. Its bureaucratic and outdated regulatory policies have been reformed resulting in a four-fold increase in the number of scheduled airlines and a five-fold increase in the number of aircrafts operated. This book critically evaluates the Budget Airline phenomenon and the wider social changes its cheap flights have brought about. It considers their competitive strategies, based on cost-leadership and product differentiation with an eye on the future prospects of these carriers.A survey conducted in India investigated the acceptance of these carriers and assessed the sensitivity of passengers to a change in fare and analyzed the factors/attributes that would encourage them to distinguish between LCCs.A perceptive analysis of the problems, pertaining to infrastructural bottlenecks leading to delays/cancellation and the low fare dispersion between carriers, sheds light on the need for Budget airlines to create value. Customer satisfaction outshines the most effective way for LCCs to gain market share, steal a march on its competitors and, with time, be able to sustain its existenceBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 116 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Advertising aimed at children is omnipresent. According to research, about 80% of all advertising aimed at children falls within four product categories: candies, cereals, toys, and fast-food restaurants. Therefore health organisations, among other children's advocates, demand strict regulations or even the prohibition of advertising aimed at children to protect a vulnerable target group from an industry which risks their well-being in its greed for profit. The advertisers on the other side strongly defend their right to commercial free speech. This book first provides an overview of scientific research on the psychological effects of advertising on children. After that, a systematic analysis of relevant legislation and case law of various jurisdictions illustrates the legal conflict between the regulation of commercial advertising aimed at children and the protection of commercial speech under the freedom of expression. Finally, different practical solutions are presented, ranging from a total ban to legal restriction and self-regulation. The main focus is put on the approaches of the European Union and New Zealand.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 84 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Many developing countries are trying to develop financial deepening using various tools. One of the common tools to develop financial deepening is universal banking. Many developing countries apply universal banking into their financial system, with expectation this endeavour will give positive outcome to the country¿s financial and monetary condition. On the other hand, implementing universal banking is not an easy task. It requires enormous amount of time to implement universal banking with consideration of numerous aspects, and several issues and barriers might rises upon the implementation.With qualitative research and in-depth interview method, the author shows on how universal banking supports the process of the development on developing country such as Indonesiäs financial deepening.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 96 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -There is currently limited research data regarding the prevalence of symptoms experienced by menopausal women in East Asian region, including Malaysia. In most of the studies, symptoms experienced by the menopausal women were analyzed using a scale, which originated in the West, without taking into consideration the socioeconomic, socio-demographic factors and cultural background of Asian region.Until there are adequate data on the magnitude and extent of menopausal problems in this region, it is not possible to recommend appropriate interventions or treatments.Malaysian studies on menopausal women were limited and mostly done in Peninsular Malaysia and urban settings. There is no documented or published data on prevalence of menopausal symptoms or awareness of HRT in the East Malaysia. The population in East Malaysia is more diversified and less urbanized compared to Peninsular Malaysia. This study was aimed to explore menopausal-related symptoms and women attitude towards menopause and HRT in Sarawak, Malaysia.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 88 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This paper aims to find out the reasons for usage of fear appeals in advertising in Latvia. In addition, via semiotic analysis, the author tries to find out the semiotic tools present in all the commercials. What is more, by a simple survey the general response of the society is also measured. The author finds that the most common reasons for using fear appeals is the ability of such advertising to promote discussion in the society. What is more, the author finds that the semiotic tools used are mainly those, which create dramatic effect to the commercial. In addition, the research shows that the society finds such advertising acceptable, but has no positive emotions towards the companies that use such advertising.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The dawn of independence in Nigeria together with the growing focus by government on the promotion of rapid social development of the society gave rise to the proliferation of public enterprises. The inability of these public enterprises to achieve the objectives for which they were established no doubt informed the government decision for them to be privatized. With the decline in oil revenue since the 1980¿s, it was no longer feasible for government to continue to underwrite the losses in these public enterprises due to the absence of profitability, massive looting and gross inefficiency hence the justification for the privatization programmed. The work asserts that there is need for the privatization of most public enterprises in Nigeria but recommended among others that such privatization exercise has to be carried out within a high level of transparency on the part of government.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 132 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Working capital is the life-blood for any organization. Even profit making firms cannot survive without proper management of working capital. The present study attempts to examine empirically the relationship between profitability and working capital management for NSE listed firms of Indian Steel and Pharmaceutical Industries. A number of ratios belonging to liquidity, turnover and asset structure are used as proxies for working capital management and return on total assets as a proxy for the profitability in the study. The study endorses the significance of working capital management. It demonstrates the crucial influence of working capital management on the profitability of the two Indian industries. Correlation analysis revealed that the profitability of Indian Pharmaceutical Industry is significantly associated with operational efficiency, receivables¿ management and payables¿ management.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 56 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Today, consumers and other stakeholders are more aware and show increased interest towards products contributing to environmental sustainability. However, it is not self evident that consumers are willing to pay more from products contributing to sustainability. Thus, sustainability initiatives launched by companies may not always provide value for consumers or even encourage consumers for more sustainable behavior.The purpose of this manuscript is to identify those sustainability initiatives that are valued by consumers. As sustainability initiatives are dependent on the type of the product, the scope of this manuscript is limited to mobile phones and to the sustainability initiatives available for mobile phone manufacturers. However, it must be noted that the results may be applied also to other consumer electronics, which have similarities with mobile phones and mobile phone manufacturing.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 104 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Uganda is among the top 10 countries with the highest fertility rates and the third highest rate of natural population increase in the world. Despite Uganda's rapid economic growth over the years, experts warn that the current population growth is not healthy for an economy. Despite various campaigns geared towards family planning and consequently a reduction in population growth rates in Uganda, these campaigns have been countered by conflicting messages encouraging Ugandans not to embrace any form of family planning. This book provides insight into the factors that influence people's family planning decisions. It also highlights reasons why family planning campaigns meet resistance and ways in which these campaigns can be more effective. Lastly, this book sheds some light into how media can be utilised optimally to enhance the success of family planning campaigns. This book should be especially useful for media practitioners as well as international organisations hoping to make an impact in health related fields in third world countries.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 96 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The 2008 Beijing Olympics were ardently sought, lavishly staged and hugely successful. China successfully used the Olympics as a tool of public diplomacy with a positive impact on its politics, economics and environment. But how did Beijing beat the odds to stage the most spectacular Olympic event in history; and with what impact Chinäs Public Diplomacy is reinforced and undercut by authoritarianism¿ Yet, global status demands more transparency and greater accountability. As PD becomes increasingly indispensable in the management of external affairs, Chinäs Olympic experience offers wider lessons. This book examines a topical issue of growing currency and wide relevancy to PD; puts the Olympics in a national and international context; highlights the paradox of Chinäs Public Diplomacy; underscores Chinäs successful national brand image as an emerging global power; offers valuable insights into deeper understanding of the rising China and its importance as a workshop of the world. The book is, therefore, a pleasant, interesting and invaluable reading for students and practitioners of diplomacy as well as those interested in modern China and contemporary international relations.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 120 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Globalization has been a phenomenon which touches every aspects of human life. (i.e. cultural, political and economical¿). As a result, it is viewed as a process that brings both positive and negative impacts on such aspects. This book, therefore, tries to identify the impact of globalization on African Cultures assessed from intercultural perspectives. The result of this work is vital in giving information for any concerned professionals whose interest is on globalization, culture, intercultural philosophy.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 68 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Truthfulness means more than merely telling the truth. It is a way of life. Truth defines who we are. We make the truth known to others not only by what we say but also by what we do. If we are to impart truth to others, we must be truthful in all ways. Our reputations for truthfulness and honesty will have powerful impact on how people respond to what we teach. They too would like to know, ¿what is responsible for this person¿s moral strength ¿Filled with the joy of the Holy Spirit Jesus said in prayer, ¿Father, I publicly praise you, Lord of Heaven and Earth. I thank you because you have shown to the uneducated what you have hidden from the wise and the educated. Oh yes father, this was how you wanted it to happen¿ What information does this verse in Luke 10 verse 21 want to let us know about our lives today Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 116 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Knowledge of volatility is of crucial importance in many areas. The Stock Market of Mauritius did not remain untouched. This paper explores the relationship between trading volume, volatility and leverage in the Stock Market of Mauritius. In contrast to other studies which examine the SEMDEX or the SEM by sector, we examine the relationship for 35 listed stocks on the SEM. Daily return, volume and the SEMDEX is used for the period 2005 to 2009. We also emphasize on the impact of trading volume. The analysis shows that there exist substantial ARCH effect and volatility shocks are quite persistent in the market. The impact of both recent and old news can be found. The study also finds evidence of leverage and asymmetric effect on the Stock Market. Consistent with the results of Lamoureux and Lastrapes (1990), our results shows that the persistence of volatility decreases after volume is included in the model.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 64 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book is well suited to rural development experts, Development workers, university students who seek to familiarize and get involved in helping rural communities to get out of poverty.The experience presented in this book from Tanzania villages portrays the actual concern for rural underdevelopment for majority of developing countries particularly the Sub-Saharan Africa.Strategies geared towards supporting Food security programs need not to undermine marketing issues confronting agricultural products which is the only means of income earning for majority of rural smallholders.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 64 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Soft tissue tumors have been considered to pose some of the greatest diagnostic challenges in surgical pathology. According to the latest WHO classification, more than 100 benign subtypes, over 50 variants of sarcoma and a number of 'border-line' entities have been described for them. Fine needle aspiration cytology has many advantages that make it a first-choice diagnostic approach in many tumors. However, its use in diagnosing soft tissue tumors has been debated and at times discouraged. The study should help shed some light on the role of fine needle aspiration cytology in diagnosing soft tissue tumors and to explain the utility and limitations of fine needle aspiration cytology in the diagnosis of soft tissue tumors, the cytological features of the most commonly encountered soft tissue tumors, the role of fine needle aspiration cytology in differentiating benign soft tissue tumors from soft tissue sarcomas and its role in grading and in grading and subtyping of soft tissue sarcomas.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 88 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Fine coal dewatering continues to be a priority research area with a significant emphasis being placed on enhancing the dewatering performances from the existing technologies as well as developing new dewatering technologies. The present research relates to the performance improvement of an existing dewatering technology known as screen bowl centrifuge. The ability to produce low product moisture content and the relatively low dewatering cost has resulted in the wide-spread use of screen bowl centrifuge in the coal preparation plants. The main goal of the present investigation presented in the book was to investigate on how to improve upon the clean coal recovery performance of a screen bowl centrifuge while maintaining low product moisture content. In addition investigation was also done to understand the ultra-fine size classification performance of a screen bowl centrifuge.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 120 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Home automation using power line communication is a unique idea of optimizing resource usage. Micro-controller generated signal is Frequency Shift keyed(modulated) and is sent on the power line through coupling circuitry and then demodulated and fed to the receiving end micro-controller and corresponding action is performed through relays and switches. Powerline communication is a progressing technology that utilizes electric power lines for efficient, instantaneous transmission of data. The objective of our project was to design and implement a power line communication network capable of controlling and monitoring multiple devices from a single node.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Interacting particle systems are stochastic processes proposed by statistical mechanics for the movement of particles at the microscopic scale, with the aim to explain certain physical phenomena. The book discuses the continuum solid-on-solid model, also known as the fourth-order Ginzurg-Landau model, a model developed to understand the relaxation to equilibrium of a crystal surface through diffusion. With rigorous arguments the hydrodynamic scaling limit of continuum solid-on-solid model is shown to be a fourth-order, nonlinear partial differential equation. The fluctuation-dissipation equation of the model is established due to the mathematical result that the model exact functions form a subspace of codimension one in the space of closed functions. Connections between the spaces of closed and exact functions for the second-order Ginzburg-Landau model and algebraic topology are described.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 88 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Mangiferin is a natural polyphenolic antioxidant and xanthone widely distributed in higher plants. Mangiferin has been reported to be present in various parts of the plant mangifera indica linn, mainly in leaves, fruits, stem, bark, heartwood and roots. The plant and its parts have number of medicinal properties against various diseases. The main active principle of the mangifera indica linn plant is mangiferin. Other than the antioxidant, anti radical, anti lipid peroxidative and cardiotonic activities, mangiferin possesses number of other pharmacological properties such as immunomodulatory, anti-tumor, antiviral, anti-diabetic, diuretic, cholerectic and anti-inflammatory actions. Due to the antioxidant, cardio-tonic and other properties, mangiferin isolated from Mangifera indica leaves, was chosen as a prophylactic agent against isoproterenol induced experimental myocardial infarction in rats were studied. Based on the literature and the scientific interest in the possible use of natural plant products as a prophylactic / therapeutic measure, an attempt has been made in the present investigation to evaluate the role of mangiferin on experimental myocardial infarction in rats.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 88 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. With the advent of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) pandemic, the problem of TB has got worse. The incidence of TB in patients with HIV infection / AIDS is nearly 500 times higher than in the general population. In HIV infected patients tuberculosis may frequently present in sites other than the lungs, lymphadenitis being the most common but it may be in the bone, liver, or in almost any organ of the body. Disseminated tuberculosis (DTB) is also more common in patients with HIV infection. Diagnosis of TB is also difficult in patients with HIV infection as rate of sputum AFB positivity is less and chest X-Ray changes are also atypical. The prevalence of extrapulmonary TB is also higher in patients with HIV infection were obtaining clinical samples is difficult. The present work is done to evaluate role of Mycobacteremia, which is a simple and convenient test done by blood culture using MBBact method, in diagnosis of tuberculosis with or without HIV infection.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 96 pp. Englisch.