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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Le Championnat des Pays-Bas de football ou Eredivisie est une compétition annuelle impliquant les 18 meilleurs clubs du pays. Les Pays-Bas connaissent un championnat national depuis 1897. Ce championnat de 1897 à 1954 est un championnat amateur. Il ne devient officiel qüen 1898. Ce championnat repose alors sur une structure régionale. Dans un premier temps seul la ligue occidentale des Pays-Bas est reconnue comme championnat pouvant décerner le titre de champion. En 1893, la compétition adopte une structure basée sur deux groupes régionaux : à celui de l¿ouest qui était jusqüalors le seul reconnu, s¿ajoute un groupe de l¿est. Plusieurs titres de champions sont attribués jusqüen 1898. A partir de cette date le championnat devient officiel. La compétition reprend la forme de divisions régionales mais le titre de champion est donné à la suite d¿une finale qui voit s¿affronter le champion de l¿ouest contre le champion de l¿est. Il y a jusqüà six groupes régionaux dont les champions s¿affrontent dans une poule finale pour l¿attribution du titre.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 120 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The performance evaluation of Islamic commercial banks compared to conventional banks after the financial crisis is very crucial in order to assess their survival. Although the conventional banks still dominate the market share but sharia banks are expected to grow in the next 5-10 years by 10 percent. This study evaluates the interbank performance of Islamic commercial banks from 1999-2004 or after the financial crisis vis-a-vis interest based conventional banks in Indonesia. The performance of shariah banks have reached considerable standard in implementing their role as financial intermediaries in Indonesia. The Islamic interbank study found that Bank Muamalat Indonesia performed better in terms of profitability and liquidity. Meanwhile there is no significant difference in performance between Islamic commercial banks and conventional banks in Indonesia.The analysis should help shed some light on real performance of national banking industry in Indonesia after the financial crisis and should be especially useful to banking practitioners, policy makers as well as academicians.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 120 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The prospect of Uganda becoming an oil producing country has caused a lot of excitement among many Ugandans. Even the Government has boasted of the possibility of import savings of about a billion dollars (almost two trillion shillings) a year if the country¿s oil needs are met from domestic oil supply, freeing much needed foreign exchange, and even the possibility of Uganda becoming a net oil exporter. The importance of the development of a country¿s oil sector is the revenue that will be created for the government. However, to achieve this, an appropriate fiscal regime must be designed. Every government should aim at designing a fiscal regime that will attract investment, while at the same time ensuring a flow of revenue for the government. This paper is set to examine the appropriateness of Ugandäs fiscal regime for the oil industry for attracting further investment into the oil industry. Given the global nature of the industry and the fact that Uganda is still a new entrant in this oil industry, it has to compete to attract multinational oil companies with already established oil producing nations.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 84 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -My research work is based on phenomenon of privatization adopted by commercial banks in Pakistan to increase their efficiency. The key idea of this study is to vitally examine the impacts of privatization on profitability of commercial banks. The study is based on the performance of relevant variables before and after privatization. Methodology employed here is OLS regression model for which data has been gathered from financial statements of selected banks. Findings show that privatization brought important changes in financial institutions and also has positive impacts on profitability of commercial banks. Privatization has drastically changed the working of today's organizations and is being used both by developed & developing countries for achievement of better performance.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 104 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -How does a liar move their body Do they fidget more because they are nervous, or do they remain utterly still out of fear or a desire to appear cool, calm and collected This question has intrigued researchers for over 40 years and yet there is little consensus among academics as to the effect of lying on how we move or body and the reasons why our movement may change. Through an overview of nonverbal behavior research over the past several decades, this study attempts to address some of the issues that have affected the quality of empirical work on this topic through a new an ecologically valid experimental paradigm. In the experiment, politically motivated participants are allowed to choose whether to commit a mock theft against their political opponent group. They are then interrogated by former law enforcement officials and their behavior during the interview is videotaped and coded for an analysis of the types and intensity of changes in body movement. In addition, the analysis in this study introduces a new framework in ironic process theory for understanding the relation of body movement and nonverbal behavior to our words, and in particular our deceptive words.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 56 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The aim of this study is to examine the relationship of all corporate governance indicators with firm performance (proxied by price to book value ratio) and tax fees. Using a sample of 133 large U.S firms over the period 2005 to 2009, we explore the correlation of price to book value with board of director¿s structure (composition and size). Our results show that smaller and younger boards with less independent directors lead to a higher firm performance. We further find that the presence of women on board is important rather than their number. The outcome of the study shows also that financial expertise of audit committee members has a significant and positive influence on the amount of tax fees. Overall, the results suggest that board characteristics are important and they influence firm performance.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 84 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The UGC (User Generated Content) revolution of Web 2.0 brought the application of this new paradigm into the enterprise and professional environment. This phenomenon is called Enterprise 2.0 and in these last years has drawn the attention of many experts in the fields of organization and knowledge management. In this context, Wiki systems and other social networking applications represent an important shift on the way in which people work: at the opposite of other previous IT technologies in this field, the Enterprise 2.0 is not about simple devices of office automation, but requires (and brings to) a dramatic organizational culture shift. In particular Wiki offers new possibilities and opportunities in order to exploit in a more effective way the entire potential of the collaborative work coming from the active participation of all the individuals that are present in a workplace. This dissertation wants to contribute to the current debate on the cultural shift that the introduction of this tool in a workplace is able to produce: we will see that, for a Wiki ¿ or any Enterprise 2.0 tool ¿ being effective it has to activate a virtuous circle able to create new knowledge.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 120 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Adolescence is a time of self-discovery and physical, social and cognitive development. It is within this milieu that adolescent sexual behaviour occurs. To make informed sexual choices one agent that is needed outside the family is the teacher in schools. Trends in adolescent sexual behaviour are changing, and teachers must be aware of these trends to provide necessary sexuality education to this cohort. The aim of this study, therefore, was to examine teachers¿ view points on adolescent sexuality education. The study was conducted among 90 randomly selected teachers in three selected secondary schools in Anyigba, Kogi State, Nigeria. Data for the study were collected with the use of structured self-administered questionnaire. Frequency counts and simple percentage were used to analyze the data generated for the survey. The study found that teachers¿ knowledge about sexuality education was high. They were also positively disposed towards the teaching of sexuality to students in schools, though, their attitude were poor. Data also revealed some benefits and hindrances to effective sexuality education in schools.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 68 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In the dissertation, a local currency and trade networks in Asian Pacific Region have been constructed based on the real data. The topology and dynamics are studied, based upon which the impacts of US financial crisis on the structural and behavior pattern of the regional trade web; the synchronization of the currency network are then investigated. Furthermore the regional service trade barriers are measured and their impacts are estimated. Finally the behavior of foreign banking in China are examined using the most recent data.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 104 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Since the early twenty first century, the severest conflict and violence took place in Mt. Elgon District around 2005¿2007. This book revolves around social dynamics. Various reasons led to the occurrence of conflict and violence in Mt. Elgon. Among the most critical ones included: land related issues; political instigation; poor leadership; and unemployment. Notable impacts of the conflict and violence were: school wastages exacerbated by high rates of school dropouts; repeaters; and, poor academic performance especially in Kopsiro Division; psycho-social traumas; debilitated human resource; and, defunct infrastructure. Neighbouring districts were not spared the scourging impacts such as: Emergence of IDPs; insecurity; and economic crunch. Need for overhaul resuscitation in particularly, the education system including ECDE and non-formal education sectors and establish institutions of higher learning in the district; improve infrastructure; initiate peace building strategies; and, provide awareness in conflict management mechanisms.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 100 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Industrial Relations: In-depth Analysis of Important Terms and Concepts provides a detailed exploration of some of the vital aspects of industrial relations in Malaysia. Chapters in the book cover the key issues and present an overview of the concepts of contract for service, concept of service, the right to strike as well as justice in employment relationships. This book will provide valuable information, both for organizations or employers and also employees on the rights and responsibilities of both parties in order to gain mutual benefit from their employment relationship.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 64 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -State constitutional amendment procedures in most federations are flexible, involve direct popular participation and have variety of avenues. Viewed from these perspectives, state constitutional amendments in Ethiopia are rigid and solely controlled by legislatures at various levels both for initiation and ratification. The federal constitution also mandates the amendment of state constitutions to be undertaken by the state council. This may erode the state¿s popular sovereignty and autonomy from designing (determining) their institutions. Even if states have gone half way in setting aside this prescription, they still made the approval of amendment of certain sections of the constitution to the federal legislature. This has its own ramification in making the amendment rigid, complex and in eroding their sovereignty. The main theme of this book is, therefore, to examine and give insight on the organs, institutions and procedures involved for initiation and ratification of state constitutional amendment. It also highlights the major shortcomings of the methods adopted like rigidity of the amendment process, its exclusionary tendency of different stakeholders.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 120 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book highlights the nature of forest dependency of the 'Santal' Tribe of West Bengal and its impications to livelihood and rural poverty. Based on a primary survey, this study also examined the determinants of common property resource extractions alongwith the Gender and management dimensions of resource use and conservation.This book would be a useful document for the discipline of Economics, Resources, Environment and sociology. It is expected that the findings of the study would be usful to the academicians, planners and policy makers.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 88 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Over the years ,Hiv has been decimating million of people in Africa. However, there is often an erroneous approach about the existence of the risky sexual behavior in vogue in Africa. Despite the fact that Hiv is usually associated with poverty, culture plays a prominent role. Here, in our case study, we focus on the country of Senegal located in West Africa. The relevance here is to show how the quest of social legitimacy tailors the social behavior of the Senegalese females.In fact,in Senegal, marriage has a positive function and women and girls are tempted to do everything to get married. Our analysis is both qualitative with emphasis on the culture and quantitative to give our study a strong scientific basis. The aim is to show the incidental effect of some variables such as the level of education, the professional occupation and the age factor into the behavior of the women and girls in Senegal.The goal is to show that the psychosocial identity of the Senegalese female is a core feature of their risky sexual behavior. In addition, there is a duplicity adopted by the men living in Senegal , who are in fact the main source of the dissemination of the HIV.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 64 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book is a research work on telecom sector of Pakistan. it is a comparative study of two cellular companies Warid and Telenor Pakistan. After using a product user has a perception about the product and can express his opinion on others. These expressions are unpaid and unplanned and are known as informal sources. On the other hand formal paid and planned. These are advertisement, sales promotion etc.The main objective of this research is to find out the behavior of consumers when they come across formal and informal sources of communication, which source effects their buying behavior most positively or negatively.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 76 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The consumer decision-making, regarding purchase and utilization of different products and services, is influenced by many internal as well as external factors. Among the external factors the most important attribute of the product is its brand. Consumer buying behavior is affected by many socio-cultural factors like social class, demographics, personality and beliefs etc. However, besides these, the product itself also makes their decision for them because of the message it transmits, the significant logo of brand, the brand image, and awareness and the price. In order to investigate it, an exploratory study in which emphasis was on the non-product related attributes of a product (Branding) that affects the consumer buying decision while buying a certain product, like how the brand name and logo, brand awareness, brand association of a product have an impact on what the people buy for fulfilling their requirements or needs and whether these factors also influence the buying situations among consumers like first buy and re-buy or not.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 88 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Anti-miscegenation sentiment arose out of racist, social values and was then implemented into the courts to sanction, criminalize, and marginalize those engaging in and supportive of interracial relationships, protecting an anti-miscegenation social hegemony. Essentially, law became a tool to justify and protect racist, anti-miscegenation values during a time when those social values were no longer accepted by all Americans as inherently correct. A pseudo-jurisprudence shared by racist legal professionals and anti-miscegenation social values allowed anti-miscegenation law to persist. It is thought that in Loving the Warren Court rode a wave of social and legal progressivism to ending the predominance of pseudo-jurisprudence. This work unearths how interracial relationships were so controversial that even the Warren Court felt uneasy about ruling in Loving.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Information security issue is the most important one in using Internet and it becomes more crucial while implementing the Internet in banking sectors. This book investigates the current debate regarding the threats and vulnerabilities of the information security of online banking and to study some possible remedial actions to defend the threats and has revealed a lot of risks and threats to the security of online banking information which are increasing day by day. These information security threats have emerged as the main barriers to the adoption of online banking among the customers. It is assumed that, the general perception of the threats of information system will be more practical in future if the success of the information security management within the organizations can be improved. This research presents some real successful fraudulent activities happened in the past and proposes different security measures to protect that. These measures will help customers to develop awareness by education and training and the online service providing banks to develop a safeguard against the frauds by the policy reengineering and using advanced unique technology.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The aim of this study was to determine the factors that limit the growth/and or success of small businesses in Tanzania and to try and suggest solutions to these factors. Nine interviews were conducted which included six small business owners and three officials representing three organizations. The results obtained identified a number of limiting factors to small firm growth. The author saw it as a merit to group the results into two groups; limiting factors that are internal to the firm and those that are external to the firm.The author concludes by making following main recommendations; firstly a reform of the SME policy by the government, a search of an adequate business education by the small business community and trying to develop services and the maintenance of good relationships with small business owners by other stakeholders like the financial institutions.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 56 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -According to the Ghana Statistical Service, the Ghanaian beverage industry has seen a remarkable growth which has resulted in an increase in alcohol advertising as the various alcoholic beverage companies compete among themselves to gain favourable consumer attitudes towards their products. In addition, although our advertising industry is almost a century old, no major analytical work in media sociology has been conducted to assess the influence of alcohol advertising on behaviour, particularly consumption patterns. Thus, the purpose of this work is to determine whether alcohol adverts influence the consumption behaviour of Ghanaians. Moreover, the discussion should help shed some light on the alcohol advertising industry in Ghana and should be especially useful to professionals in Media, Communications and Marketing fields, or anyone else interested in understanding advertising appeals used to persuade consumers.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 92 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -As in many other countries, the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector in Nigeria is considered vital to job creation and broad based economic development. Consequently there is now renewed interest in understanding the factors that influence the growth of SME¿s, thus improving the sector. This book presents finding on various internal and external factors obtained from a study carried out with 523 SME owner/managers operating in various cities in Nigeria in order to understand challenges and future prospects of the sector. The study reveals that small and medium enterprises face a combination of factors which work in hindering their growth and development. It is anticipated that the study can provide SME policy makers and advisory services with guidelines to improve the growth of the SME sector in Nigeria. In addition, it is hoped that the study will assist SME owner/managers recognise those factors which may influence their firm growth and take appropriate measures to address them.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 116 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Usually CFS is prepared at the end of period using income statement and beginning ¿ ending balance sheets. However, we think that also it can be produced independent of balance sheets and income statement using parallel accounts for this purpose, which will be more useful. Since the transactions occurred during period are recorded depending on the accrual basis; we can not prepare a CFS depending on the Adjusted trial balance as we depend for preparation of Balance Sheet & Income Statement. Therefore, we should take the income statement for the period and beginning & ending balance sheets to prepare a CFS for the period. Our view is that it will be useful for managers to receive the CFS directly from the accounting system as we do for other financial statements instead of depending income statement & balance sheet together with some estimation usually needed when we prepare CFS at the end of accounting period. If CFS is to be prepared directly from the accounting system, then it is compulsory to follow a different method for recording the transactions during period. Therefore the starting point of our approach is to develop such a method.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 84 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Protection against inflation is an essential part of the today's financial markets, particularly in high-inflation economies. Hence, nowadays inflation indexed instruments are being increasingly popular in the world financial markets. In this study, we focus on pricing of the inflation-indexed bonds which are the unique inflation-indexed instruments traded in the Turkish bond market. Firstly, we review the Jarrow-Y¿ld¿r¿m model which deals with pricing of the inflation-indexed instruments within the HJM framework. Then, we propose a pricing model that is an extension of the Jarrow-Y¿ld¿r¿m model. The model allows instantaneous forward rates, inflation index and bond prices to be driven by both a standard Brownian motion and a finite number of Poisson processes. A closed-form pricing formula for an European call option on the inflation index is also derived.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 96 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Non-farm sector occupies a unique position in rural areas in the socio-economic context of Bangladesh. Developing the non-farm sector in rural areas may strengthen the economy, which is characterized by high rate of unemployment. The purpose of the research was increasing the obtainable growth of rural non-farm activities and find out the barriers what are responsible for horrible economy of RNA. To create employment opportunity according to the growthness. In such circumstances, this study has intended to unfold the development of non-farm sector in rural Bangladesh. For this purpose, the existing condition of non-farm sector, how far it would be possible to create employment opportunity in Baghutia Union under Avainogor Parishad, Jessore District as well as the problem of this sector has been investigated. For this study the qualitative and quantitative information has collected by PRA and structured questionnaire method. Here a model has discovered.This model shows the actual involvement of rural non-farm activities and the growth pattern in a particular area.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 84 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The thesis is about immigrant pupils in Sogn School in Oslo, where my aim was to discover different form of belonging. The school¿s role when it comes to integration varied for the different actors, both in terms of establishing social relations, and in terms of acquiring knowledge. The different immigrant pupils generated groups and social relations based on different criteria as language, age, school ambition, gender, interests and nationality. I ended up following two groups of troublemakers in the class. The first group, The Serbs, was made up of two boys: Javor (20) from Serbia and Dimitiar (20) from Serbia. The second group was made up of Sifaw (18) from Morocco, Andre (18) from Portugal, Bernard (16) from Poland and Diana (17) from Lithuania. I looked what into what troublemaking meant for group belonging and identity negotiation.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Bangladesh is one of the most disaster prone countries in the world. Unique geographic location coupled with climate change impacts has made Bangladesh one of the worst victims to natural disasters. Every year different natural disasters hit in Bangladesh. Cyclone Aila is one of such type of natural disasters that hit the south-western coast of Bangladesh on 25 May 2009. It has destroyed huge amounts of agriculture and livestock in southern part of Bangladesh making people vulnerable. People have become homelessness and do not know where will be their destination. Damage of agriculture, livestock, house, morbidity and mortality of animal etc. has already touched the saturation point. The affected people do not have any idea to the changing situations. They are now searching new strategies to be copped them with the changed environment. Low meal taking, early marriage, late start of education and dropout, migration and so on are taken in consideration as adaptation strategies.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 68 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The continent of Africa through the OAU (now AU) and UNECA have introduced various development initiatives to overcome the problem of underdevelopment in African countries. Primarily, they sought to promote self-reliant and self-sustaining development strategies, and also to promote cooperation and integration in the continent. The LPA and NEPAD are two outstanding development initiatives introduced by these institutions. The study, which relied on the political economy approach, attempted a comparative evaluation of the LPA and NEPAD in terms of content, implementation arrangements, and funding. It tried to identify the lessons that NEPAD can learn from its predecessor, the LPA. It notes that while the rationale for the introduction of the LPA was the realities in the 1970s and the early 1980s, the NEPAD on the other hand, is necessitated by the Challenges of the 1990s and beyond. The study recommended that greater attention be paid to funding of Africäs development initiatives, political commitment of African leaders, review of time table to reflect realities in African countries and the democratization of the development process to include participation of all stake holders.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 116 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book examines the effect of divorce on academic performance of students in some selected secondary schools in idi-Ayunre local government in Ibadan Oyo state. This is with a view of enlightening people about negative consequences of divorce on children's academic performance The study adopts a self developed questionnaire as an instrument of data collection. Non-experimental research design was used to obtain answers to the research question. The sample size which consists of 200 students with fifty each from four selected schools in the study area was derived through stratified random sampling technique. Data collected was analyzed using frequency and percentages. The study revealed high correlation between marital status and students¿ performance in school. it was, therefore, suggested that the society should embrace cultural and religious value that protect the institution of marriage and couple should try as much as possible to tolerate and respect each other so that divorce rates could be reduce to the barest minimalBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 96 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This piece of work was part of my MS in order to complete my degree. This study was conducted in order to have get know how whether the bank employee's working in Lahore are really satisfied with their compensation package or not. The basic comparison was between the employees holding white collar jobs in public and private sector banks. I hope this study will help you in future researches.!!!!!!Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 92 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Increased personal control and comfort needs of employees triggered the concern among organizations to provide them with an environment and office design, which fulfills their needs and help to boost their productivity. The main objective of this study is to find out the relationship between office design and productivity. The physical environment in an office satisfying employees; boosts their thoughts and ultimately their productivity. The findings of this study show that office design (furniture, noise, lighting, temperature and spatial arrangement) is very vital in terms of increasing employees¿ productivity. Comfortable and ergonomic office design motivates the employees and increases their performance substaintionally.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 80 pp. Englisch.