lap lambert academic publishing jan 2010 (492 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -An exploration into the effects of internal branding on employee understanding and commitment to the charity brand. The aim is to identify a link between internal brand identity and brand image and to recognise the influence that employees have in communicating brand image to customers. To carry out the research, both quantitative and qualitative methods are used. A questionnaire survey was distributed to employees of not-for-profit organisations in order to gain an insight into their level of understanding and commitment. Interviews were held to establish the extent of internal branding practices undertaken by the charitable organisations. The findings indicate that internal branding strategies are practiced and have an effect on employee loyalty and commitment despite marketing as a function sometimes taking a back seat.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 100 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -More than thirty years after the debut of the famous Black-Scholes formula, and after MIT professor Stewart C. Myers conceived this term, real options continue to show a big gap between theory and practice. Recent evidences suggest that this valuation technique may be losing traction: the rate of adoption in corporations has been slow due to its complexity and lack of understanding of the possible applications of an intuitive concept that heavily relies on complex financial theory analysis. The computational complexity and the academic focus on making models more accurate rather than simple makes real options analysis a black box. The main goal of this book is to investigate the major challenging factors hindering a wide diffusion of such valuation tool and to present alternative approaches to solve these obstacles. Putting together an extensive collection of dominant literatures, the book will try to define what are the recent evolutions and outcomes on this subject, pointing out some general findings and developing a set of advices finalized to bridge the gap between theory and practice.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 68 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book discusses the relationship between corruption and economic development.Corruption here is defined as the abuse of power by a public official for private benefit. This is an empirical research using well known econometric methods along with recent data related to corruption and economic development. The results agree with the ones from older similar researches while at the same time the author tries to incorporate some new variables that capture aspects of economic development never examined before.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This study looks at the participatory budgeting (PB) implemented in the Brazilian city of São Paulo between 2001 and 2004 to analyze whether it increased marginalized groups'' chances of influencing public policies in the city. São Paulo is one of the largest and most unequal urban centers in the world. Therefore, the city is an important test case for studying the potential of the PB model because it constitutes an amplified version of the challenges associated with democratic consolidation in Latin America and the Caribbean. The author uses Leonardo Avritzer''s concept of 'participatory publics' to analyze the PB vis-à-vis traditional mechanisms of democratic representation. Results from fieldwork conducted during the summer of 2004 confirm the usefulness of Avritzer''s framework. The PB opened up the political opportunity structure in the city, facilitated the incorporation of alternative practices first introduced by social movements, and combined both deliberative and decision-making features. Moreover, according to several interviewees, the PB 'tensioned' or helped to expand existing democratic structures by including more radical forms of participation.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book is based on a study to determine and identify audience''s perceptions and awareness on gender role stereotypes in advertisements. The degree and frequency levels of gender role stereotypes in Malaysian television''s advertisements were tabulated. Gender role stereotypes have not been fully and extensively explored in Malaysia. This is dissipative as advertising is a very powerful genre in persuading and manipulating the audience.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 120 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The book is devoted to analysis of the regional (Saint-Petersburg) innovation infrastructure. The review of Saint-Petersburg legislation on development of innovational processes as well as existing innovational institutions in Saint-Petersburg is represented. The book contains both theoretical and applied issues on the subject. The theoretical part outlines concepts related to the innovation process. The Russian concept of innovation differs from the European one leading to dissimilar approaches in innovation system development. The applied part of the book describes the components of the St.Petersburg innovation infrastructure and projects related to the subject and managed by the Baltic Institute of Finland. The data has been gathered from the interviews, publications and internet. This work is intended for everyone who is interested in development of innovations in Russia, particularly in Saint-Petersburg city.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -During the past six years the sun-sea-sand tourism in Bulgaria has experienced an average annual growth of 15.3%, thus generating some 75% of the national tourism receipts. Both an outcome and a propelling factor, the available accommodation in the major seaside resorts has boosted by 20-25% on a year-to-year basis, thus surpassing the demand level increase by some 10-12%. In the meantime, symptoms for loss of overall destination competitiveness as regards current tendencies in the global tourism industry have been identified, thus revealing critical deficiencies in the existing planning and management models of the major Bulgarian coastal destinations. The study reflects the multidimensional analysis approach endorsed by authors such as Moutinho (2000), Toledo et el. (2000) and Crouch and Ritchie (2003), so providing a profound look into the multiple factors determining the destination''s degree of competitiveness. As a consequence, the applied methodology allowed for an exhaustive analysis of the dynamics of the destination''s current development, amplifying in this way the span of the study beyond tourism-specific aspects.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 96 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This Project will provide us with a picture of Special educational needs in the context of Children with muscular dystrophy in Mauritius. The main aims and objectives of the study are to analyze whether children suffering from Muscular dystrophy benefit from special education in Mauritius and what sort of Government intervention exists to address the problem. The study also provides innovative information to the public and creates awareness on the situation of the educational system concerning children with Muscular dystrophy. The methodology was mainly covered by qualitative research methods. For instance, unstructured interviews were carried out to gather first-hand information on special educational issues of Children with Muscular dystrophy. The main result of this project is that access to special or even mainstream education is a major challenge for Muscular dystrophy sufferers.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 88 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -People working in the informal sector, such as street vendors, are perceived as passive players rather than active individual entrepreneurs. In smaller developing countries like Nepal the informal sector forms a major aspect of the overall economy, providing employment to a large percentage of the urban population and providing cheaper goods and services to people of all income levels. This research looks into the economic, social and political situation of street vendors in the cities of Kathmandu and Lalitpur and examine ways to organize them.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 116 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Supply chain coordination and shipping conditions have a substantial impact on food quality of produce supply chains, especially when supply chains cross international borders. After harvesting, shipping conditions are the primary determinants of food quality for highly perishable commodities such as tomatoes. Based on food marketing research, food quality for highly perishable commodities is becoming one of the most important issues in today''s food markets. With the help of a discrete-event simulation software (SIMUL8®), a simulated supply chain distribution model, including tomato harvesting, packing, shipping and distributing, was developed to analyze overall supply chain performance, and Simetar was used to estimate associated costs and benefits for each participant in this supply chain. Finally, benefit-cost ratios were simulated to assess the adoption of temperature controlling technology on tomato supply chain marketing implications. The results show that tomato keeping quality can be improved from 2.7 days to 5.4 days on average when temperature range within marine containers is controlled better.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 84 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Australia has been very successful in bringing large numbers of people from a broad range of countries, races and religious beliefs to its shores and in making them feel ¿at home¿. Recent events have brought into question whether the philosophy of multiculturalism is as firmly embedded in the national identity as many had thought. This work attempts to assess what this means for the successful incorporation of multiculturalism into Australiäs national identity and what consequences this might have for Australia as it faces the new century in a globalised world.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 92 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The current study investigates the possibility of making the ¿Advertising Services Business¿ become one of the pillars of the Mauritian Outsourcing industry. It mainly concentrates on the talent of advertising agencies in Mauritius and focuses on gauging the extent to which the ¿industry best practices¿ in the advertising sector are being applied. Our country''s economy has been courageously facing the 2008 world economic crunch and astounded the world with a considerable economic growth. This growth has been fueled with the strong vision and innovation of the leaders of Mauritius. This vision has to be maintained through constant trial of creating new opportunities out of the strength of our know-how. Given that trends of outsourcing/ off-shoring in the world are growing so rapidly with highly sophisticated strategies and that the only available resource in Mauritius is its valuable human knowledge it has become imperative for the economic players to diversify their approach, likewise Advertising Services Sector should be able to shoulder with the innovators around the world so as to become competitive and help maximize the economic potential of our knowledge base society.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 108 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Natural resources are not only basis of livelihood of Nepalese people but also part of identity, symbol of recognition and prestige, safety net for insecurity and means for accessing to state services. Hence, natural resource conflicts are deeply embedded Nepal¿s socio-economic and demographic characteristics, state¿s resource governance systems and political structures. Formal conflict management mechanisms, institutional arrangements, legal frameworks and operational procedures in Nepal are methodologically inadequate, financially expensive, administratively difficult, elite-biased and inaccessible to the poor and marginalized sections of society and therefore demand fundamental change. Addressing the dynamics and complications of resource conflict in Nepal and contribution to social change and economic transformation need interactive conflict management system that include a people-centred, learning-based and action-oriented methodology, flexible institutional arrangement, supportive legal arrangements and adaptive approach.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 224 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Administrative Civil Assessments under the Environmental Management Act, 2000 potentially represent a significant tool for implementing the Polluter Pays principle in Trinidad and Tobago by making polluters liable to pay compensation for environmental degradation. An issue however arises as to whether the measure of compensation under the Act is the loss in Total Economic Value of the affected environmental asset or is instead the cost of remediation or replacing the asset. This book approaches this issue by a comparative analysis between the relevant provisions of the Act and the provisions of legislation in other jurisdictions including the United States and the United Kingdom. The legislative provisions were analysed in the context of contemporary literature on environmental economics methodologies and taking into account the experience of various courts in applying similar legislation. The paper concludes that diminution of Total Economic Value is the correct measure of compensation under the EM Act, 2000 but identifies several weaknesses and gaps in the legislative regime that should be addressed by amendment and the development of appropriate policies.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 116 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The main objective of this study is to compare Muslim countries with the rest of world in terms of the effectiveness and efficiency of the factors of competitiveness. Its another objective is to determine the factors of competitiveness of the nations. The study has also assessed the impacts of improvement in political and corporate governances of the institutions, technological advancement and higher education on the business competitiveness.It was concluded that investment and technology readiness affects the competitiveness in Muslim countries in different ways. It was recommended that Muslim countries should improve their governance of the corporate and political institutions and the higher education to achieve the efficiency and higher targets of competitiveness. The study also discusses the cause and consequences of the deterioration and depressing condition of higher education in Muslim countries.The hypothesis of external conspiracy was not accepted in the study and it was concluded that weak human resources are mainly responsible for deterioration in the higher education.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -As an integral part of the globalization process, international joint venture (IJV) has become a very popular and important mode for accessing foreign markets. One of the most interesting and important issue in the analysis of JVs is how profits are shared between the partners. Many existing papers use the bargaining approach. Unlike the normal methodology in the existing literature, this book displays a non-bargaining three-stage model to examine this question in three different markets. The result shows that with an optimal tax approach, no matter in a single market, or in an integrated market, or in a segmented market, the domestic partner always seizes more than 50% of profit share even without any bargain power. This book should provide an alternative view for policy makers in developing countries to attract and control foreign investments, and for scholars and advanced students who research on the field of foreign direct investment and international joint venture.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 68 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -A medieval mosque in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya, and a modern set of twin towers dominating the New York skyline. One a modestly designed icon of centuries of Islamic rule in the Indian sub-continent; the other, an imposing landmark representing global capital and American empire. Two different edifices signifying two different architectures of society and culture. The demolition of the Babari Masjid on December 6, 1992 by Hindu extremists and the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 by Muslim ''terrorists'' may have different contexts and geographies, not to mention almost a decade of temporal distance between them. Indeed the two incidents take place in their own geo-political spaces. Yet, at a fundamental level, the relation between the incidents is not arbitrary. The most important consequence that this study draws from the two incidents is the question of defining terror and terrorists. While the purpose is not to dwell on the specific details and interpretations of the two incidents, this book draws from the way these two incidents have influenced the representation of Muslims in contemporary Indian cinema.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 104 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The aim of this book ¿ submitted as part of my Master''s degree in Political Theory - is to examine the motivation behind the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, commencing with examinations of the positions taken in several prominent political theories concerning this issue. The theorists examined are Chalmers Johnson, Benjamin Barber, Mark Jurgensmeyer and Gilles Kepel. I shall also present a tripartite framework for Islamic fundamentalism, to model ideational developments within this sphere and to simplify the task of understanding the motivations of Islamist groups. I shall contend that Islamic fundamentalism actually consists of three distinct variants; bodies whose actions demonstrate distinct nationalised, regionalised and ¿globalised'' ambitions. The paradigm of ¿globalised fundamentalism'', to which I contend that Al Qaeda belong, developed along with ¿regionalised fundamentalism'' from the archetypal existence of ¿nationalised fundamentalism''. I bring this understanding to bear on the deficits of the theories examined.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 76 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book spells out the challenges that mothers as primary care givers face in caring for their HIV positive children. Challenges of ill health, and that of their children. Above all they face the challenge of adjusting to an HIV diagnosis that has not only affected their children but themselves also. The overwhelming impact of stigma prevents them from confronting their problems openly and directly in their own communities. Poor socio- economic factors and lack of support from families and the social service system leave them feeling dis empowered and incapable.These mothers had to contend with giving up their to institutional care as a strategy to survive the financial burden,stigma and rejection that is put on HIV positive members of the society. The way forward is to turn to the old concept of de-institutionalization whereby families are empowered and supported towards community based care of children.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 100 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Shorttitle The study investigated teenage childbearing patterns with a view to examine consequences of teenage childbearing in Southwest Nigeria.Employing 0.3 as the prevalence rate of early childbearing from Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey 2003 and 10% sample size adjustment factor for non-response rate, 355 women aged 15-49 years were selected and interviewed through a systematic random sampling technique. Structured questionnaire that investigated socio-economic variables of early childbearing was used for the study. With a mean age at first birth of 17 years, the study revealed a high prevalence rate of early childbearing among women in the study areas. The study further discovered that the incidence of early childbirth cut across parental socio-economic characteristics. Lastly, this study observed serious consequences ranging from high school drop-out, low or diminished employment opportunities for women, higher infant and maternal morbidity and mortality to the issue of poverty regeneration among women who experienced early childbirth in Southwestern Nigeria.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 100 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -A progressive research in domain decomposition in the last several decades has been motivated by inceasing availability of multicore, parallel computers. In this contribution we focus on an iterative substructuring class of the domain decomposition methods. Some of the most popular methods are formulated under so-called minimalist assumptions. This allows for their effective comparison, which reveales that some of the methods are equivalent or even the same. Finally, the theory is used to develop an adaptive method that significantly improves convergence of two most advanced methods, BDDC and FETI-DP.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 76 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In-vessel corium retention via external reactor pressure vessel cooling is considered to be an effective severe accident management strategy for corium localisation and stabilisation. The main idea consists in flooding the reactor cavity and transferring the decay heat through the reactor wall to the encirclement water and than to the atmosphere of the containment of nuclear power plant. The aim of this strategy is to localise and to stabilise the corium inside reactor pressure vessel. Not using this procedure could destroy the integrity of vessel and might cause the interaction of the corium with the concrete at the bed of the reactor cavity. Several experimental facilities and computer codes were applied to simulate this strategy for concrete reactor designs. There were applied necessary technical modifications concerning the implementation of this concept at the Loviisa VVER-440/V213 in Finland. In 2009, this concept was implemented into Bohunice VVER-440/V213 in Slovak republic. This strategy is also an important part of the advanced reactor designs AP600 and AP1000. This concept is taken into account at high-power reactor APR1400 that is going to be finished in Korea in 2013.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This work presents a 2-layer uniform facet elastic object for real-time simulation based on physics modeling. It describes the elastic object procedural modeling algorithm with particle system from the simplest 1D object, to more complex 2D and 3D objects. The 2-layered elastic object consists of inner and outer mass spring surfaces and compressible internal pressure. The density of the inner layer can be different from the outer layer; the motion of the inner layer can be opposite to the motion of the outer layer. These special features, which cannot be achieved by a single layered object, result in improved imitation of a soft body, such as tissue''s liquidity non-uniform deformation. The construction of the 2-layered elastic object is closer to the real tissue''s physical structure. The inertial behavior of the elastic object is well illustrated in environments with gravity and collisions with the environment. The collision detection is defined by the collision penalty method and the motion of the object is guided by the Ordinary Differential Equation computation. Users can interact with the modeled objects, deform them, and observe the response to their action in real-time.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 108 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -AUTOMATED BEER FERMENTATION CONTROLLER. The fermentation of beer is a biological and chemical process that involves many variables. Alcohol fermentation is the process by which yeast consumes sugars, producing alcohol and carbon dioxide. This process can be optimized if the environmental conditions surrounding the fermenting beer are carefully controlled. In this project, many of the variables involved with this process will be monitored, and the temperature of the fermentation environment will be controlled with both heating and cooling capabilities. The system designed for this project will be remotely manageable and report data to the system user through a web-based interface.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 64 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Healthcare industry is ever increasing the use of new information and communication technology. The use of wireless information communication technology offers a successful adoption in healthcare for developing countries with relatively poor communication infrastructure.In Uganda some healthcare centres have deliberately deployed wireless information communication technologies like PDAs, Mobile phones, and teleradiology to improve healthcare. About 50 percent of new capital investments in organisations are on IT, yet they have to be accepted and used by employees to improve productivity. This is a concern to IT managers.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 104 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In the first chapter some basic notions and results from commutative algebra are being introduced. In the second chapter we present new results related to sequentially Cohen Macaulay, pretty clean and Stanley ideals. Let I be a monomial ideal of the poly- nomial ring S. We show that S=I is sequentially Cohen-Macaulay if and only if S=I is pretty clean. In particular, if S=I is sequentially Cohen- Macaulay then I is a Stanley ideal. Chapter 3 includes some results related to Stanley Conjecture. We define nice partition of the multicomplex associated to a Stanley ideal. In the main result we show that if the multicomplex associated to monomial ideal I has a nice partition then the multicomplex associated to polarized ideal Ip has a nice partition. Fourth and last chapter deals with the regularity of ideals of Borel type. We have proved that the regularity of monomial ideals whose associated prime ideals are totally ordered by inclusion is linearly bounded.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Computerization has brought us so much comfort in our lives that we remain indebted to it''s results. Processes are done in a most accurate and time saving way. Computerization of Payroll System has reduced errors in salary payments, bill generation and most appropriate data saving. The manipulation of data can be rectified in many cases by switching from manual to computerized systems. This project may help you having an idea of how a payroll system works and a most convenient and less time consumer way to turn it to a computerized one.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 96 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Three case studies explore children''s play spaces in Bonn, Germany. The city has a wealth of natural resources and a culture of dedication to the environment that made it ideal for a comparison of the presence of nature in play spaces. Over two weeks in October, three play spaces including the Auerberg neighborhood playground with minimal nature, the Hofgarten urban playground with some nature, and the Naturpark Rheinland trailhead with complete nature immersion were carefully documented. The case studies rely on graphics and photographs as well as quantitative data modeled after post occupancy evaluations by Clare Cooper Marcus and Carolyn Francis. A comparison of the three case studies suggests that topography may have a greater influence on natural play than the presence of tree canopy.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -When cobalt is evaporated under ultra high vacuum conditions conditions onto a heated silicon substrate, the cobalt reacts with the silicon and cobalt silicides are formed directly - a process which is referred to as reactive deposition. If the substrate temperature is maintained above 550°C a CoSi2 film is produced, while at substrate temperatures below 500°C the film is in the form of CoSi. At intermediate temperatures a mixed mono/di-silicide film is produced. A combination of real-time RBS and real-time XRD has been used to study the effect of the temperature of reactive deposition used to produce CoSi on the subsequent formation temperature of CoSi2. Real-time XRD proved to be a very convenient method for determining the temperature of onset of CoSi2 formation, while real-time RBS is able to provide detailed information about the rate of disilicide formation. The results of the investigation show that the temperature at which the reactive deposition was carried out had a significant effect on the formation temperature of CoSi2: the lower the reactive deposition temperature used to form the CoSi film, the higher the subsequent formation temperature of CoSi2.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 100 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) comprise a large number of sensor nodes, which are spread out within a region to be monitored and communicate using wireless links. In some WSN applications, recognizing boundary nodes is important for topology discovery, geographic routing, tracking and guiding. In this book, we study the problem of identifying the boundary nodes of a WSN. We develop a heuristic algorithm to find the boundary nodes which are connected in a boundary cycle of a location-free, low density (average degree 3¿4), randomly deployed WSN. Simulations in ns-2 show that the distributed implementation outperforms the centralized one with higher quality of boundaries. This book should be especially useful to academics and professionals in Computer Science field, or anyone else who may be interested in the WSN area.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 84 pp. Englisch.