lap lambert academic publishing dez 2010 (916 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The pages that follow detail the author''s experience of coming to terms with a traumatic car accident whilst in high school. It forms the written accompaniment to a narrative film, which draws on this experience as the basis of its plot. The subject matter is intensely subjective and autobiographical. The author uses a cinematic framework from which to examine spectator identification with onscreen characters. She draws on a variety of psychological theories from trauma studies, self psychology to investigations into attachment theory and creativity.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 56 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The present study examines the styles of negotiation among Iranian managers. Among the objectives of the study are: 1. To study the relationships between Iranian managers'' multicultural personality characteristics (open-mindedness, cultural empathy, emotional stability, flexibility, and social initiative) with their negotiation skills. 2. To investigate whether Iranian managers'' preparation before negotiations is related to their negotiation skills. 3. To examine whether Iranian managers'' relationship building with foreign negotiators is a factor contributing to their negotiation skills. Interesting findings are presented in this book.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 76 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In constructions one of the most common used materials is concrete. In Estonia there is our own cement factory. It was decided that effective is to use different constituents and by-products in cement to reduce amount of Portland cement clinker. One important constituent is oil shale ash as Estonia produces electricity from oil shale. So far it has been used as pulverized combustion which emits significantly pollutants in the environment. Now we use the new technology. It is the fluidized bed boilers combustion and efficacy is higher and there is less environmental pollution. Hence arose the idea of our research work and the need to study how the fluidized bed ash behaves in content of cement. In the book there will be pointed out the fluidized bed combustion ash and its behavior and compared to pulverized combustion ash. Two different combustion temperatures ~ 800 ºC and > 1300 ºC give different properties of various cements. The tests are outlined in the book. The book also provides an overview what does Portland cement generally consist of, which minerals, which impact express, which temperatures give certain minerals.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -With the spread of globalization, shopping centers are becoming a part of the urban lifestyle in many countries, including Turkey. This book demonstrates that Turkish people using shopping centers as a private public space (community space) rather than simply a shopping space. To explore their implications for different centre characteristics and activities, user characteristics, such as gender, age, and occupation, were investigated via survey and interviews. A field survey was carried out in EGE Park Mavisehir shopping centre and Park Bornova (EGS Park Bornova ) shopping center in Izmir, the third largest city in Turkey. The results of statistical analysis of the data show that shopping centers corporate community space functions in, and attracts their users especially teenagers for its physical attractiveness, entertainment and leisure facilities and social interaction more than the shopping activities. This book is aimed at serving as a guide to reschedule the characteristics of shopping centers. It is especially advised to professionals in landscape planning, architecture, and marketing fields.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 84 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Wind Energy has been brought to the public''s attention as one of the sources of renewable power during the last decade. It has attracted more attention compared with other power sources due to its remarkable economic benefits, such as cheaper cost, greater job creation and regional economic development. Due to the fast growing nature of the wind energy industry, many companies are entering it fiercely to snatch a bigger slice of the pie. This analysis intends to identify the current technological trends of the wind turbine industry, to analyse the five forces of competition and to find factors to reduce the threat of these five forces.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 92 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The idea/expression dichotomy represents a foundational concept of copyright. Yet, the boundaries of such a principle tend to be blurred by its inconsistent application, with regard to both subject matter and case law analysis. On the one hand, for certain categories of works, it is objectively difficult to draw a clear-cut distinction between ideas and expressions, as these closely interpenetrate each other. On the other hand, as the result of a more general trend in intellectual property, copyright protection has been extended to categories of works for which the value of expression, as a category distinct from ideas, is low and it is therefore difficult to distinguish a clear application of the idea/expression dichotomy. Furthermore, the dichotomy does not seem to represent a useful tool for courts to rely upon in assessing controversial cases. The present work shall attempt to explore the nature and the boundaries of the idea/expression dichotomy, in particular its reliability, as well as determine whether such a principle can be still considered to be among the foundations of copyright rationale and scope of protection.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -China and Myanmar share a common history and strong economic ties. China is currently the largest investor and trading partner of Myanmar, while Myanmar forms only a small portion of China''s input. In the past, China''s ambition for fast economic growth had taken precedence over all other issues, but in recent years it also started to pay attention to its international reputation as was demonstrated during the last Olympic Games. Given Myanmar''s unenviable record of human rights, what will be the future of Sino-Myanmar relations in the next five to ten years Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The opening and deregulation of the domestic financial market and the global financial integration has increased the risk of a financial crisis, much like the recent global financial crisis that resuscitated the debate on the role of the state in the financial sector. This book discusses the role of state intervention for prevention, containment, and resolution of financial crisis. The nature of crisis witnessed in emerging markets and developing economies tends to be more complicated than the one faced by advanced economies as it comes as a double-crisis, in both finance and currency. Thus, it requires development of a comprehensive strategy covering not only for the stabilization of the domestic financial market but foreign exchange market, close coordination among responses of different government bodies, an extraordinary effort for financial restructuring, and an introduction of new regulatory framework. The analysis of this book, based on the Korean experience, should help shed some light to policy makers, regulators, and academics who endeavor to seek an appropriate role of government during times of crisis.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 68 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The nutritional status of a community is the sum of the nutritional status of the individuals who form that community.Food consumption is influenced by many factors such as socio-economic status, culture, religion, education, ignorance, food beliefs and habits. Food habits and food beliefs are among the oldest and most entrenched aspects of any culture. While referring to the various customs of the Garos, one will find that the customs and practices of the Garos are fast changing with the change of times. In the study it was revealed that the Garos were shorter and weighed less compared to their Indian counterparts. It was also observed that farming was the major occupation of the people. The staple food of the Garos was rice.The Garos consumed three meals a day consisting of rice and a dish. The traditional practices and customs of the Garos are deep rooted like any other tribal society.Mass awareness and intervention by various governmental agencies is needed to combat ignorance and faulty food habits.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 84 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In this paper a regularized spectral estimation formula and a regularized iterative algorithm for band-limited extrapolation are presented. The ill-posedness of the problem is taken into account. First a Fredholm equation is regularized. Then it is transformed to a differential equation in the case where the time interval is {bf R}. A fast algorithm to solve the differential equation by the finite differences is given and a regularized spectral estimation formula is obtained. Then a regularized iterative extrapolation algorithm is introduced and compared with the Papoulis and Gerchberg algorithm. A time-frequency regularized extrapolation algorithm is presented in the two-dimensional case. The Gibbs phenomenon is analyzed. Then the time-frequency regularized extrapolation algorithm is applied to image restoration and compared with other algorithms.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This study examines the current state of Albanian Organised Crime from an International Relations perspective, focusing mainly on its transnational aspect; it also argues that an inherited lack of a well established state, and a poor and mistrusted institutional apparatus have served as fertile grounds for the cultivation and export of Organised Crime. As a result of a solid structure and highly secretive organisation, Albanian Organised Crime will continue to constitute an international concern, and a threat to state sovereignty and security, in the Balkan region, in Europe, and indeed beyond - unless it is tackled at all levels of its hierarchy.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The benefits of decentralized service delivery can depend on the point of capture by the elite groups and on the level and nature of population inequality. However, if there is elite capture and the interests of the local political elites are not aligned with those of the poor, decentralization may work against the well-being of the poor. Similarly, in circumstances with pronounced inequality in local relations of power and authority, decentralization, and in particular the decentralization of poverty programs in such context will worsen inequality. In this paper, we attempt to present a survey of empirical evidence accessible on the link between fiscal decentralization and poverty reduction between Uganda and Rwanda. Through this, the research focuses on the measures of revenues and expenditures in different sectors under decentralization between the two countries. IOn the other hand, there has been a consequence of having over stretched financial capacity of revenues and expenditures. The expenditures surpassed the revenues leading to the huge gap between revenues and expenditures in Rwanda with high poverty head counts in provinces.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 88 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This work examines the concept of self-defence in the context of International Law. The author takes a look at the various categories of the concept, and makes a critical analysis of the justification of self-defence in the context of modern day warfare. It further highlights the strains placed upon the trilogy of immediacy, necessity and proportionality,which circumscribes the use of force in diverse military situations.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The book traces the history of sugarcane- wheat cropping system in South Asia and identifies the constraints limiting the yield of crops in the system. It also contains impact of Sugarcane - wheat cropping system in trans-upper and middle gangentic plains of Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) region. It provide wheat yield trends of last 15 years in 14 district of IGP region alongwith appropriate agro-technology for enhancing productivity of sugarcane-wheat system in the region.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Although Small and Medium Sized businesses (SMEs) play a significant role in the economic development and trade facilitation in developing economies like Uganda, the most frequently cited constraint to their development concerns the lack of access to appropriate and usable financing. Informal financing arrangements are increasingly becoming common in Uganda. However, even with this multitude of informal sector, financing possibilities remain insufficient to meet the demands of the SMEs. Among the options cited to be in existence in the formal sector is Lease Financing. Many companies ranging from Big to small sized businesses have been beneficiaries of lease financing. Leasing in most developing economies like Uganda is still hugely underdeveloped when compared to economies in the developed world and emerging markets like South Africa. The research analysis focuses on examining whether the potential for the development of leasing in developing countries exists and analyzes the factors for the underdevelopment of the leasing industry in Uganda. The study should be especially useful to professionals in the finance industry, entrepreneurs and business proprietors, scholarS.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 56 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In an environment of fluctuating yields due to weather uncertainties and varying market responses of farmers as a whole the importance of having correct estimates of production is of utmost importance from a public policy point of view. For making right decisions about the most sensitive area of food security and for long term planning it is desirable to estimate the key variables in advance for a reasonable planning horizon. Also the study of supply response at disaggregated level is imperative as responses may be different for different zones. Therefore, the concern of this thesis is to examine the impact different factors on the supply of agricultural commodities in different agro-ecological zones in Punjab in order to make necessary adjustments in the policy reforms. The knowledge of supply greatly helps in farm decisions in allocation of resources in right direction. It can help planners and policy makers to allocate and achieve production targets and in long term planning. It thus provides a framework for adjusting production to the optimum resource employment to promote economic development.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 96 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The book focused on the impact of the Interaction Design in the context of Cyberjournalism. The thesis emphasizes the study of Human-Computer Interaction as a communication process that is conducted through an interface. The concept of interactivity was formulated by means of a multidimensional definition. The new digital scenery and the introduction of interactivity in journalism were object of particular attention in this study about Interaction Design. We have studied this field of design from a three-dimension perspective, interconnected with the elements that contextualized it and the user''s experience; furthermore, we''ve also analyzed the impact of Interaction Design in online information production. A conceptual model for analyzing the impact of Interaction Design was developed, in the context of Cyberjournalism. The model was operationalized into a matrix and into an interactivity scale. Through an observation instrument constructed with variables from the matrix, we applied the developed model to a sample of digital journals. The results show the viability of the model to analyze the interaction processes in the new media.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book investigates the way in which themes from the Robinson Crusoe novel have been elaborated variedly in cinematic Hollywood Robinson Crusoe adaptations released in the first decade of the 21st century. The films The Beach; Cast Away; Jurassic Park III; Madagascar; Swept Away and The Breed are analysed in order to provide a definition of the term ¿contemporary cinematic Robinsonade¿ and to interpret what cinematic Robinsonades reflect about contemporary political, environmental and cultural issues in the West.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 76 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Tanzania highly spends resources to revise lost powerful cooperative unions, the government and stakeholders have experienced difficulties in organizing themselves to manage their resources.this book has in short studied the reasons to why the current structure contribute the failure of effective performance. This study of managerial factors affecting investment performance will enable stakeholders and academician to direct their efforts on the analyzed factors.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 96 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This work explores the relationship between the ¿global'' and the ¿regional'' in the making of the security dynamics of the Middle East. It examines how local actors in the Middle East were affected by the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and its consequences and how a new security structure was constructed in the region. In many aspects, Iraq War was unique in the modern history of the Middle East; it was the first time after decolonization that an external power invades and occupies an Arab/Islamic/Middle Eastern state. This work particularly analyzes how the invasion of Iraq affected two main variables: patterns of amity and enmity and balance of power in the Middle East. It also portrays how Iran''s increasing influence in the region culminated in a new cold war that engaged all Middle East''s regional powers. To this effect, politics of Lebanon War in 2006 and Gaza War in 2009 are investigated.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -It is not my intent to take a stance on this subject but to show how diverse and complex this practice is when looked at from the lens of the local people concerned and in terms of their underlying and different rationales in relation to multi-stranded international debates surrounding the issue of female genital modification. I came across many different and conflicting viewpoints on the subject. In this paper, I argue that looking at the issue of female genital modification from only two angles of vision, as being either right or wrong, is overly simplistic. It can lead to the false dichotomy of 'us' versus 'them,' First-World versus Third-World split that can further divide people, rather than bringing them together to seek a common ground. I intend in this investigative paper to provide a balanced overview of all the complex issues and standpoints involved in looking at the subject of female genital modification and to allow readers to come to their own positions.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 64 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Using a single method of marketing strategy is very difficult in the present market condition because, the competition is stiff; the development of new fashions is very fast; emergence of new technology and the varying preference of customers make the marketing activity very tricky. Especially in the apparel store perishability and seasonality of fashionable clothes have increased due to the different innovation in the design of cloths, the stripes, the color and style. Clearance sales strategy is currently practiced in Ethiopia especially in the boutiques, but these areas are not well studied by scholars of the country.Because of its dynamic nature of price change and customer preference, managers face a problem of how to sell the product to reduce the inventory of unsold items and outdated fashions.This book provides insight about the reason of applying clearance sales; the customer behavior towards clearance price; the relationship between clearance sales and sales volume and the genuineness of the price cut. The study should help professionals in this field and also the different marketers and others who want to further study this area.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 100 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In a private university in northern California which stands out for its academic excellence and social values, employees work on a daily basis in the cafeteria services and Facilities department (custody and maintenance). Workers, who are mostly migrants from Latin America, are seen daily on campus cleaning dorm halls and preparing food for students, faculty, and staff. Despite the fact that their job is of utmost importance for the running of the university, their voices seem to go unheard in the community. As part of her research, Radovic Fanta conducted fieldwork in 2004 with the purpose of revealing the work experiences of service employees of the university. What are the stories of each worker How do they perceive the students and employers Are there characteristics of working in a university which contrast with other jobs Through rich ethnographic information based on series of interviews, participant observation, conversations during the breaks and lunchtimes, the author brings forth a diversity of viewpoints and experiences of the cafeteria and facilities employees.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 52 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -One of the most important factors in agriculture is water availability. Water is provided to the crops naturally through precipitation and subsurface moisture, but when these supplies prove to be inadequate for crop use, growers must resort to irrigation. It is important to provide the proper amount of water via irrigation.Too much or too little water at the wrong stage of crop development can damage the crop and reduce yield. If a grower optimizes the use of irrigation scheduling, the amount of money that can be saved in water purchase and or well operation is significant.Crop planning is an important task on the part of the cultivator in non-irrigated land especially in dry land situations. In rainfed areas crop planning is solely dependent on the distribution pattern and amount of rainfall. The knowledge of average annual rainfall is not useful in deciding cropping pattern. With growing emphasis on profitable crop production in rainfed areas, prediction of rainfall amount expected at various levels of probability for different periods assumes an important role. This helps the farmer in judicious utilization of soil moisture by way of crop planning.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 84 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of chief executive officer (CEO) leadership behaviors among Guatemalan organizations in relation to the level of agreement, commitment, and satisfaction of the top management team (TMT) members and organizational performance. The CEO leadership behaviors examined were autocratic, charismatic, face saver, power sharing, and visionary. It was hypothesized that that there would be a positive relationship between the CEO leadership behaviors and the level of agreement among the TMTs, commitment, and satisfaction. In addition, it was hypothesized that the level of agreement, commitment, and satisfaction would have an effect on overall organizational performance (growth revenue and sales volume). Due to the lack of research regarding executives and their TMTs (Finkelstein & Hambrick, 1996), this study furthers the research among the upper echelon and Guatemalan organizations. A quantitative research design was used to test the hypotheses. The level of analysis was the CEO and TMTs or their respective organizations.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 104 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The performance of many firms are exposed to the changes in weather. The industry sectors exposed to ¿weather risk'' are basic materials, consumer durables and agricultural industries. Amongst these the basic materials has mainly triggered the demand for the weather derivatives market and the rapid growth in the weather risk assessment industry. With this as the backdrop, this book formulates a pricing model for the weather derivatives, whose payoffs depend on surface air temperature. Daily temperature data for the last thirty years is closely analyzed for four cities in U.K. to model a temperature process which captures the daily temperature fluctuations including the seasonal patterns and the year-on- year up-ward trend behaviour of the temperature.This work further evaluates an arbitrage-free option pricing using a Gaussian Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model. Keeping in mind that temperature, the underlying variable of the weather derivative, is non-tradable we consider a risk premium estimator to find the price of a weather derivatives contract. Further, the book provides results based on these models as well as based on Monte Carlo Simulations.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 76 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Mergers and acquisitions are among the most attractive business practices especially in production industry, where the temptations of cost reduction, access to the new market or acquire the new technology are irresistible. But not all practices are the best practice either financially or non-financially. In this book we are seeking the answer to the title of the book by investigating into the impacts of a merger in automobile industry with focus on luxury segment of it. We will do this by discussing numerous examples and study the last Lamborghini merger in detail, and then warning the companies on the path they have been chosen to reach to their goals. The aim of this book is to simply explain the effects of mergers for all costumers of either luxury goods or automobiles, and open new point of view which hopefully will help them in their future decision making processes. This book can also benefit everyone who is interested in automobile industry or luxury industry, and students and scholars pursuing research in fields of management, marketing and international business.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 104 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This study looks into the long debated issue of regional imbalances in Pakistan through the convergence framework as is implied by the Solow (1956) growth model. The period under study is from 1973 to 2000. The equation for the unconditional convergence is estimated through pooled least squares (PLS) technique. The estimation result shows that there is no unconditional convergence among the Pakistani provinces. The development gap among the Pakistani provinces shows no sign of decline. The non existence of unconditional convergence implies that the determinants of the long run level of income are quite different in different provinces of Pakistan. The conditional convergence is then estimated through generalized least squares (GLS) method, after controlling for the different determinants of the long run income levels of the provinces. The result shows that the provinces of Pakistan converge to their own respective steady states with a convergence speed of 11% per annum.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 76 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Bread Wheat is considered the important winter crop in Egypt and World. Great efforts of wheat breeders and geneticists must be continue to increase the productivity of unit area to face the gap between the production and consumption in Egypt. Increasing wheat production under abiotic stress condition i.e. drought stress has become important during recent years, since wheat production in these areas with optimum growth conditions does not meet the needs of ever increasing population of Egypt. Genetic information regarding important economic characters of wheat under drought stress is required to develop breeding strategies for drought prone areas. So that, this study concentrates on estimating these genetic information under both normal and drought conditions to use these information at breeding program for drought tolerant.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In the presence of an investment opportunity, a borrower decides whether to invest. I find that - depending on the borrower''s personal wealth and the presence of limited liability - the investment is not always undertaken, which leads to investment distortion. Furthermore, when the borrower has intertemporal consumption preference rather than aggregate consumption preference, the potential investment distortion problem is weakly exacerbated. The change of the borrower''s risk preference from constant absolute risk aversion to decreasing absolute risk aversion lowers the occurrence of the potential investment distortion as his personal wealth increases. Furthermore, when the borrower is privately informed about his personal wealth, the Revelation Principle applies and the naive contract which is derived from public information case is optimal.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 92 pp. Englisch.