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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The Niger Delta region of Nigeria has been engulfed in oil-related conflicts for over two decades, and has raised concerns pertaining to Nigerian national security, economic stability, and global energy security. With the increasing focus by national and international media on the growing conflict in the region, the ¿paradox of plenty¿ has been revamped once again. The conflict, which seem to be a conflict without end dates back to the 1966 revolt of Major Isaac Adaka Boro over the deprivation and neglect of the Ijaw areas of Niger Delta. In order to fully understand the fundamental basis of the never ending Niger Delta conflicts, it is apposite to know that Niger Delta comprises of states and tribes with variations hinging on motivation to conflict. Therefore, it is essential to analyze individual state conflicts. Building upon such an understanding, it is then possible to appreciate the manner in which these conflicts evolve and manifest at the national and international levels. By this, the complexities inherent to a problem of this magnitude can be simplified in a straight forward way and the underlying crucial factors which drive the conflict unveiled.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -There is an ongoing debate among people as to whether the trial being made by the Ethiopian Government to provide housing for the poor through the program called the Integrated Housing Development Program is reaching the target, the urban poor, or not. This research tries to find out the factors that are responsible for the determination of affordability of these housing units. And, it is found out that there are some socio-economic factors that mainly determine affordability. As per the findings, ¿internal¿ factors like the household saving, type of occupation of the household head, availability of external source of finance, and finishing and related costs are found to be having the upper hand in determining affordability of these housing units. Though the research shows that these internal factors are stronger in determining affordability, the focus of the government is still tilted towards the ¿external¿ ones to make the housing units affordable to the urban poor. And, it is strongly recommended that both measures need to be effectively combined to make the housing units affordable to the target groups.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 92 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Although resources like money and materials are paramount for achieving organizational goals and objectives, the value of employee commitment to the strategic direction of the organization cannot be underestimated. Various scholars have shown that many employees see their jobs as the source of a paycheque and little else. Others derive great pleasure from their jobs and association with co-workers. Even volunteers who donate their time to charitable organizations, such as Red Cross, walk away with rewards in the form of social recognition and pride of having given unselfishly of their time. Hence, the subject of organizational rewards includes, but goes far beyond, monetary compensation and is vital for creating a committed workforce to the strategic aim of any organisation.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 52 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Developing and maintaining the human workforce is essential for the organizations because they are the real asset for them. Acquiring and retaining best workforce is the source of competitive advantage as it provides a distinctive competence.This rule is applicable on all the sectors, manufacturing and services. To achieve this organizations should keep motivating its employees. Motivated employees put their full efforts to lift up their organizations.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The work discusses some developments in the modern Western and Russian sexual revolution which is seen as a multidimensional and clearly inevitable consequence of global industrial revolution. While the most of authors who wrote on the subject of this revolution mention about five characteristics of it, V. Anurin points at nine. Empirical study conducted by author in the course of his research of related issues led him to conclude that a) intensity of double standard in evaluations of sexual behavior of men and women is becoming lower for younger generations and for women than for men, b) we can observe the growth of openness of sexuality, of commercialization of sexual sphere and c) age of sexual début takes place obvi-usly earlier than in case of elder generations.Judging by the data of surveys, dynamic and structure of sexual behavior of Russian youths and girls are the same as in the USA and Western Europe in the late 1960-th.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -When I chose the topic for my LLM thesis I surmised terrorist attacks, the world's greatest challenge in the contemporary security scene, is a notion of hardly clear-cut nature. I shall confess that a hero for one can often be an aggressor for another and distributing these labels can be an extremely tough exercise. Yet, this is not the aim of the book to assess the level of politicization of judgements; rather it will focus on legal and procedural aspects justifying elevation of terrorism onto international level of justice. Whatever validations are behind, an offence shall not go unpunished allowing those responsible to walk away fearlessly. My belief is that the International Criminal Court is an appropriate forum for adjudication of the crime and a relevant article shall be incorporated into the Rome Statute. This path is challenging and probably, due to its sensitive nature will not be followed instantly and widely. Nevertheless, I am hopeful about positive progress in near future and call upon enthusiasm of my readers.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 116 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Social responsibility and good neighbourliness or enriching communities is the key to business expansion strategy. Many business organization have realized the hard way about this secret . The social welfare of the community within your operation area is as important as the product you are dealing with. Social responsibility encompasses various fields from e.g supporting academic excellence initiatives (including orphans and vulnerable children at every level of education ) and also offering scholarship and leadership development training , providing health care, environmental sustainability, encouraging innovation , creativity and research , providing an improving infrastructure , sponsoring sports . Providing entrepreneurship knowledge and financial literacy training. This can also involve indulging in improving agricultural techniques to enhance productivity . The book is a must read for both the managers in business as well as those in charge of public sector for cohesiveness to be created.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The 10th anniversary of the single European currency, celebrated in 2009, provided a good occasion to examine the developments of the euro over the decade it existed, and to assess its advances with regard to becoming a global currency. The paper comprises five parts, which include both theoretical and empirical analysis. Section I introduces the notion of a global currency, its main benefits and the economic pre-requisites for gaining this status. Section II provides an overview of the existing literature on the question of the eurös role in the global economy and its potential international dominance. Section III introduces an empirical assessment of the eurös world-wide use, and establishes certain predictions of potential future changes. Section IV presents a case-study of the use of the euro in both public and private spheres in two EU neighbouring countries (Ukraine and Russia) ¿ a review having no comprehensive equivalent at the moment. Section V concludes.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 88 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Different attempts are made in the past, and the efforts are still going on HIV/AIDS prevention and impact mitigation programs. Development agencies nowadays have made use of a range of strategies to create self sustaining economic base for the economically vulnerable groups of PLWHA. These development agencies are increasing their emphasis on assisting the economically vulnerable group to secure livelihood through income generating activities. The finding depicts that PLWHA not participating in IGA faced financial constraints to cover their household expenses in comparison with those participating in IGA. Given the small amount of financial resources as well as inadequate technical supports, IGA have reduced the economic burden of PLWHA of those implementing it. However, challenges were also identified in which reduced the efficiency of the program. Major challenges were identified by the researchers are financial support for IGA is inadequate, inadequate IGA skill trainings, stigma and discrimination and less technical support were identified as major challenges.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 88 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Historically, the economic contribution of rural areas to regions was clear: it was the provider of farm produce and other raw materials such as coal. Rural employment was evidently based on the exploitation of natural capital. Today, natural capital still strongly characterises the profile of rural employment in the European Union but its effect now goes far beyond the traditional rural sector of agriculture. There are in fact four drivers of rural employment and rural economic prosperity, and these can be structured by two complementary analytical directions, namely ¿production¿ based on (a) renewable and (b) non-renewable resources, and ¿consumption¿ by (a) non-residents and (b) residents of a territory, hence ¿Rural Europe 2+2+¿. Thus, whether jobs are created through farming, mining, rural tourism or by attracting incomers who set up new businesses, natural capital is a common theme. However, the financial, human, physical and social capitals of rural areas must be improved in parallel with this via an integrated, territorial development approach. In this way, rural areas can become part of a smart, sustainable and inclusive economy in line with the priorities of Europe 2020.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 108 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -There is discrepancy of the diffusion of Financial Participation schemes in EU member and candidate countries. The incidence of FP is conditional on country specific characteristics, firm specific characteristics and/or trade unions attitude. A supportive government and legal framework and a friendly trade union attitude may lead to increasing level of FP incidence. Companies that use other HRM measures (e.g. training) as well as large companies may be more prone to using FP schemes. Looking at the benefits and drawbacks of the variety of qualitative datasets which contain information on FP, we choose the EWCS dataset for our analyzes because of the high response rates, the high geographic coverage of EU member and candidate countries, the large number of observations, and because the respondents of the questionnaire are employees not the management. Our econometric results suggest that FP schemes used in the EU are discriminatory rather than providing equal opportunity for all employees - discriminatory with respect to gender and selective with respect to employee category, education level, size and sector of activity of the company.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 64 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Children are today worldwide being released and let back into their communities, after years of abuse and violations against their rights. According to The Convention on the Rights of the Child, a child is protected from involvement in direct hostilities. Psychological help and reintegration plans should be provided if a child has been exposed to an armed conflict. Nevertheless reports indicate that countries and leaders across the world do not follow the conventions and protocols they have ratified. Children across the world are today suffering from neglect and limited resources when it comes to rehabilitation plans for former child soldiers. With the help of former child soldier Michael of the SPLA in Southern Sudan, I have been given an up to date and accurate picture of how the life of a former child soldier can develop without the help of international organisations or reintegration programs.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 64 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Social exclusion has affected the lives of Romanies for centuries. Today, this continues in France as well as in many other countries across Europe. A large obstacle for Romani inclusion in France has been the lack of education regarding Romani history, which has enabled stereotypes and misperceptions of the Romani communities to become prominent. Additionally, many Romanies have not received general education as is expected by the French norm, resulting in a disparity within education, which in turn has contributed to the social exclusion experienced by Romanies. To understand how Romanies are being excluded from the hegemonic French norms, the matters of education, employment, housing, mobility, deportations and gender are explored through means of first hand interviews and fieldwork conducted in Ille-et-Vilaine, supplemented by media reports and previous research publications regarding exclusion and Romanies.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This essay discussed the definition of money laundering, why money laundering is seen as problem, how the money is laundered, reasons for tackling money laundering, effects of money laundering, measures taken by international community, evolution of money laundering control, UN convention of 1988, FATF and effects of FATF on privacy and Britain¿s response to money laundering. The problem of money laundering arises few decades back. It is very complicated and lethal crime. It is changing its ways on daily basis. This is one of the main reasons that till now the experts couldn¿t give compact definition to this crime. Absence of compact definition is forcing the law enforcers to remain vigilant. For this purpose the duty of reporting the crime of money laundering is imposed on bank, financial intuitions and many other people from different independent professions. In case of failure the penalties for banks and financial institutions are very harsh. The nature of this crime has forced the countries to make very strict laws to combat money laundering crime. But these strict laws have some negative effects. The most important effect is on the privacy of people.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The researcher has made an attempt to study about Job satisfaction of the officers in Banking Sector. Banking is an important sector because it¿s functioning is important for the nation at any time .The main objective of this study is to know the overall satisfaction of bank officers in Chennai, India. The study also aims to identify the influence of Job Satisfaction on turnover intention and absenteeism of bank officers in their respective banks. Its findings will be very useful for the top management of banks to ensure satisfaction in their workplace and hence can reduce absenteeism and Turnover intention. This book contributes richly towards the literary review of Job Satisfaction and the factors influencing Job Satisfaction and its influence on the work outcomes such as Turnover Intention and Absenteeism. The book will be ideal for researchers in organizational behaviour, since it will contain concepts, theories, practice and empirical research on job satisfaction. It will also be useful for the academicians and corporate managers. Further, postgraduate students of business studies and Human Resource Management in particular could use it as a reference book.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -There are six chapters in this book. Chapter one is the introductory chapter describes the background as well as the aims and objectives of this research. Chapter two reviews the literature and discussed those through the evolution of the climate change adaptation agenda, concerns of adaptation, possible adaptive responses, adoption of new technologies and adaptation to climate change with barriers to adaptation in agriculture. Furthermore, a conceptual framework is also developed there for this research. Chapter three gives a brief contextual understanding through socio-economic conditions, and the key environmental stresses to climate change faced by both Bangladesh and the Rajshahi district where the research is based on. Chapter four describes the research methodology employed in this research. In chapter five the findings of this study are discussed in accordance with the research questions set in chapter one. Chapter six summarises the research findings and draws a general conclusion. It also draws relevant lessons and some recommendations. The chapter ends by acknowledging its limitation and some further areas of research.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 68 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Charitable giving and donors' behaviour has received extensive attention in past research while the case of non-donors has been highly neglected. As charities need more and more funds to sustain their actions toward the cause they are supporting, they need to find as much resources as they can. However, the charitable market is saturated and faces fierce competition (Eveland and Crutchield, 2007). Besides, with the recent recession, the amount of the donors' contributions tends to decrease. It is suggested that there is an opportunity to broaden the market by extending the study of charitable behaviour to non-donors. Based on Westaby's statement (2005a) that reasons are better predictor of behaviour than attitudes, this paper presents the results of a study that examined the reasons for and against giving money to charities within the context of two European countries, the UK and France. It investigated whether the two populations' behaviours differ or common marketing tactics could eventually be developped. Eleven qualitative interviews were caried out in each country with donors and non-donors.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 84 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The growth of private policing has been the subject of numerous commentaries that perpetuate the rhetoric of Shearing & Stenning (1980) in announcing a 'quiet revolution'. The figures that formed the basis of these original commentaries were largely based in the US and appeared to generalise readily into the Australian experience. Australian authors have used official statistics to support the notion that change of a similar scale is occurring in Australia. This work examines these figures more closely and questions previous assumptions which equated a licensed security officer to a public police officer on a one-to-one basis. It also shows how the vacuum created by restrictions on public policing create unprecedented opportunities for private sector growth which arguably erode accountability while creating opportunities for enhanced cooperative partnerships. The emergence of private policing and the relationships between public and private police are examined against theoretical frameworks and complemented by the insight of the practitioners and industry leaders which enables the development of a rich, Victoria specific, picture that will inform the shape of future research.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 96 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Every year companies invest huge amount of resources in implementing Customer Relationship Management systems in their organizations. However, only 25% of these companies consider the implementation as a success. In other words, most of these implementations fail completely or do not meet expectations. There are lots of reasons mentioned for these failures such as organizational change issues, lack of IT and business strategy alignment, and company politics. This book studies the major reasons affect CRM systems success in developing countries such as Malaysia and differences between implementation in developing and developed countries.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 100 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book is about the right to life that is given to all human beings and whether or not this right can be or should be taken away. In addition an assessment of the constitutionality of the death penalty will be of interest since in Uganda there are divergent views between the retentionist and the abolitionist. Capital punishment is a very cruel and degrading form of treatment and offers no opportunity for reform.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Recently, Logistics Sector is one of the growing sectors both in the world and in Türkiye. After containerization and globalization processes, export and import cargo volume in shipping industry show a significant growth. This volume increase causes bottlenecks in the ports. Izmir Port is one of the ports that has port congestion problem due to its intensive cargo volume. Therefore in this book first logistics infrastructure of Izmir investigated. After that results of a questionnaire tested and proved that a ¿Dry Port¿ can eliminate the negative effect of port congestion and may increase foreign trade volume of Izmir.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The book at hand aims to investigate the correlation between the creation of social and economic value. The main theoretical perspectives considered are Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Social Value, Stakeholder Theory and Social Entrepreneurship. The research is based on a sample of ten companies in the oil industry over the period 2000-2009. It shows that in this sector there is definitely a positive correlation between the creation of economic and social value. This conclusion can be extended to sectors characterized by similar conditions and due to the evolution of the economic and social context, more and more sectors will have to face the same issue. Room for further research is left to demonstrate that other sectors characterized by social and environmental impacts face the same situation. The analysis should help shed some light on the importance of creating social value, and should be especially useful to business executives and policy makers interested in the correlation between the creation of social and economic value. All of Alexandru Ciherean¿s proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to Fundación Alda.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 100 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The main theme of this book is on ¿An assessment of performance and satisfaction of consumers of Shree Warana Sahakari Bank Ltd.¿ This book is basically an author¿s thesis during her MBA (Agribusiness Management). Thus, it gives an idea and comprehensive picture of performance and satisfaction of consumer about cooperative banks particularly Warana Sahakari Bank Ltd. This book covers the study of different loan products launched by Warana Cooperative Bank compared with Nationalized bank (SBI), Share Capital & Total Reserves and funds Structure of Warana Cooperative Bank, existing Asset recovery management of the Warana Cooperative bank and also the customers satisfaction level with banks facilities & services.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 108 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In response to wide criticism of brand personality measures for embracing other aspects rather than brand personality construct alone, Geuens et al. (2009) have recently introduced a new measure that consists of personality items only. The present research seeks to empirically examine and compare Geuens et al.¿s scale with the established alternative measure by Aaker (1997). The data was collected with the use of a split sample approach and by means of questionnaire survey, within the UK premium skincare market. The comparisons were carried out in brand- and respondent-level analyses. The results show that both measures revealed similar patterns in terms of personality profiles of the studied brands, however Geuens et al.¿s measure discriminated more between brands and between consumer segments. It is concluded that the findings provide solid justification in favour of the new measure¿s superiority over the commonly used alternative by Aaker in the given research context. This study should be useful to marketing scholars and practitioners alike, or anyone else who may be considering utilizing brand personality measures for marketing efforts.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 100 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The Book entrepreneurial engineer is generally the analysis of theories in entrepreneurship with relation to engineering practice around the world, the challenges of the future, business plans were also articulated as a guide to young entrepreneurs most importantly engineers of the 21st century. This book will guide the students of engineering to develop more business skills and be self employed.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book is about how municipalities manoeuvre through in budgeting for their core business under serious economic challenges or instability. Its general objective is to establish the impact of economic challenges experienced in the period 1999-2009 on municipal budgeting in the Bulawayo City Council in Zimbabwe. Policy recommendations are also provided with the aim of improving strategies used by BCC in such conditions.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -As being the front line state against the war on terrorism, Pakistan is facing heavy stress on national exchequer to maintain its internal and external security. This book unveils many thought provoking areas to justify defense spending but not at the expense of social sector such as education and health. Political stability and powerful parliament would preclude the possibility of military takeover. Research and development wing in army is working more efficiently as compared to public or private sector. So spillovers from Research and development within the country can be beneficial to promote industry.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 56 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Weather forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the state of the atmosphere for a future time and a given location. Human beings have attempted to predict the weather informally for millennia and formally since at least the nineteenth century. Weather forecasts are made by collecting quantitative data about the current state of the atmosphere and using scientific understanding of atmospheric processes to project how the atmosphere will evolve.This project paper concerns an analysis on a set of a data on rainfall of Dhaka division during the period 1981-2009 from the meteorological department of Bangladesh. The Box-Jenkins Modeling approaches were used to forecast rainfall.It is hoped that the forecasts of meteorological events would be great help to the user researcher and policy maker.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -All over the years, newspaper has only been seen as a means of disseminating information to large and heterogeneous audience. This no doubt has been explored extensively in all parts of the world. Observation however shows that its educational role has not been fully utilized so much that many people in Africa do not believe that newspaper is a teaching and learning resource. This book therefore presents newspaper as a valuable complementary educational resource that can be used in all levels of education particularly in primary and secondary schools. Hence it is the belief of the author that if newspaper is promoted in our educational institutions as a teaching and learning resource, the standard of our education might be improved in a great deal. Therefore, the book is a useful material for teachers, parents, students and journalists alike.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The book entitled ¿Life Style of Working Children¿. The main objective was to know the social & economic condition of the children working inside the campus of Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Sylhet,Bangladesh. To achieve this goal, we try to follow the associated specific objectives; to see working children habits on fulfilling daily basic needs & how they lead their daily life on this regards. Specifically we tried to see their ¿System & Pattern of life¿ like: age, sex, religion, education, family affair, family relation, causes & consequences of child labour, migration trends, income, expenditure, savings, working environments & worker-owner relationship, depression-oppressions in working area, government & non government facilities for them & their future plan about their life.This is an exploratory research. Normally a University is a light of knowledge but unfortunately ignorance is creating & caring by educational institution in our society which focused here.Here we try our level best to analyze working children life style in an educational institution.This book gives us basic idea about their survival pattern of life & their existing needs & demands in world.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 96 pp. Englisch.