lap lambert academic publishing aug 2009 (152 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Knowledge of any research field is mainly gained through reading published research documents. This research analysed published documents in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) to determine the scope, structure and meaning of the terminology used in this research field. The research resulted in a hierarchy of terminology and a dictionary of definitions. Future research will determine the value of these structures for new researchers, experienced researchers, and practitioners. During the investigation of prior research no technique was identified to undertake such a study. A hierarchical terminology technique (HTT), which is a form of content analysis process, was developed to structure a hierarchy of concepts to expose the relationships between terms. This technique includes terminology identification, analysis and presentation to show the scope of a research field and to present terminology and definitions to improve consistency. This technique can be used in other fields of study. 456 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Breton and Bataille, two people live in the same age find it difficult to tolerate each other, clash, with their works, in the world of literature. Breton attacks Bataille¿s base materialism in his ¿Second Manifesto of Surrealism¿ and Bataille in turn argues that the surrealists suffered from an ¿Icarian complex¿ in his Visions of Excess. My chief aim of this book is to, by analyzing Breton¿s surrealist romance Nadja and Bataille¿s erotic novel Story of the Eye, map out how they treat desire and female body differently in the modern city.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Affiliate marketing as a performance-oriented form of online advertising has been known on the Internet for several years. Most of the papers describing this concept focused on merchants that implemented affiliate marketing into their marketing mix and very little attention was paid to content providers (aka publishers or affiliates) that use affiliate marketing at their websites. This work depicts how content providers perceive advantages and disadvantages of affiliate marketing, what are their motives to prefer this type of online advertising to another and how they choose their affiliate programmes. The paper concludes in a model of a typical affiliate marketing usage. Recommendations for companies, that are planning to start a new affiliate program, are also added.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -What are the factors that contribute to nursing home placement for individuals seeking formal long- term care services This study sets out to identify predictors of nursing home placement for individuals receiving home care services through a locally funded levy program. Applying the Andersen''s Behavioral Model of Health Services Use which focuses on the predisposing, enabling, and need factors that contribute to health care utilization, the author prospectively follows a cohort of newly enrolled participants for 2.5 years. Increased age, poor self-reported health, limitations in bathing and meal preparation, and higher medical expenses at baseline significantly increased the chances for nursing home placement. Recommendations for future research and policy implications are discussed.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The last decade has seen a growing focus on masculinities in South Africa, following global trends while responding to local concerns. While there is much current work looking at especially young males it is confined to the margins in terms of both research and practise. Many researchers have highlighted the way in which certain masculinities are facilitative of unsafe sexual practices as well as violence in intimate relationships. There is also a body of work that raises broader questions about risk within multiple contexts, including substance abuse, criminal/gang activity, and general 'boundary-breaking' and how these link with traditional performances of successful manhood. A number of authors in this arena are committed to opening up space for alternative constructions of male identities, shifting dominant masculinities, and exposing/developing new discourses within which alternative ways of being a boy or man may be located.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 84 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The book deals with an important and complex issue in geotechnical and earthquake engineering, which concerns the influence of both plasticity and pore water pressure on the influence of the seismic response to real earthquake records. Analyses are carried using the software FLAC3D. The book includes three parts: The first chapter presents a literature review of research on earth dams. It presents observation during earthquake loading, the different methods of seismic analysis of earth dams, such as the simplified methods, the empirical methods, the equivalent-linear analyses and the non linear methods. The second chapter presents a numerical analysis of the seismic behaviour of earth dams. Analysis is conducted for the solid phase. It corresponds to the response of the dam before water filling. The third chapter presents a numerical analysis of the influence of the water-skeleton interaction on the response of earth dams to seismic loading. Analysis is conducted first under undrained condition, which corresponds to a simplified analysis of the response of the dam.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 104 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Pungency in hot peppers (Capsicum annuum L. var. annuum) is mostly due to capsaicin (CAP) and dihydrocapsaicin (DC), contributing more than 90% of the total pungency. Loss of harvestable pungency occurs prior to once-over winter harvest due to shattering of early set fruits. Ammonium thiosulfate (ATS) treatments were applied at different concentrations and maturity stages of pepper. The increase in capsaicinoid content afforded by application of 6%, 9% and 12% ATS over the control approximately ranged 8 to 15 percent.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Our present understanding of Nature at its most elementary level is contained in the standard model (SM) of particle physics. In spite of being confirmed emphatically in a multitude of experiments, it is believed by many that a grander structure is required at much higher energies in order to overcome some of the short-comings of the SM. These motivations are explained. Some aspects and experimental probes of two of the most promising of these theoretical proposals - supersymmetry and extra (space) dimensions - are considered in detail.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 84 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The purposes of the current study were to study the potential solutions of the common learning difficulties, insufficient teaching techniques and others significant instructional or conceptual problems and learning of quantum physics (QP), at Colleges. Both quantitative and qualitative methodologies were utilized in this study. The participants included five physics faculty members with different levels of teaching experience who were teaching one of the quantum physics courses and 43 senior or junior undergraduate students enrolled in their courses. The findings of this study revealed that students struggle in QP classes mainly because of (1) complex mathematical tools in QP, (2) abstract concepts and non-parallel construction of QP, (3) QP has a bad reputation that negatively affects students prior to taking it, (4) the pace in curriculum of quantum physics courses is too fast for the students. In order to increase students¿ conceptualization of QP concepts: (1) more time on solving more abstract conceptual questions, (2) more recitation hours for solving more numerical problems, (3)revision of curriculum is necessary.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 172 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Students have always been classified but it is a relatively new phenomenon to track students according to their score on a standardized test. This focus on SAT scores was born after World War II and reached a frenzy during President Bush's No Child Left Behind mandate. With time as a premium in schools any subject not being tested is pushed to the sidelines; therefore, where do the arts fit in this new school structure As the arts are devalued in our schools, they are being devalued in our communities. This book looks at the history of standardized testing and specifically at how an arts program at one theatre in Massachusetts is affected by the new focus on standardized testing.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 68 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Piper of the Soul is a choreographic and scholarly exploration of the doctrines of karma and reincarnation, based on Hindu philosophy and religious literature. This written thesis serves as a scholarly record of the creative project that was produced at Mills College in 2000. Piper of the Soul references Hindu god Krishna as a representation of the supreme power, calling all souls to the creator. The doctrines of karma and rebirth are investigated in the context of modern society.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 76 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The simple and fair Flat Tax emerges as a critical topic within the forum for discussion as tax reform takes the center stage of policy debate. This book constructs a dynamic overlapping-generations lifecycle computable general equilibrium (LC-CGE) model and investigates the effects of a U.S. Flat Tax reform. In essence, reform-induced interactions between the U.S. and the world economy are examined both along the transition path and in the steady state. The results show that by replacing the existing U.S. tax system with a Flat Tax, the reform generates greater welfare gains for the U.S. when it is modeled as a large open economy rather than as a closed economy. The long term increases in wage rate, labor supply, aggregate investment, capital stock, and GDP are all greater in a large open economy setting. This book is a structural guide to academic readers that are interested in the further refinement of tax reform modeling, and serves as a reference to anyone that would like to advance their understanding of the dynamics and potential consequences of a Flax Tax reform.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 128 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Is the consumer free or manipulated by marketing strategies Are marketing practices socially ethical Why are current marketing practices so effective in luring consumers Have marketing images become the new opiate of the people If so, what are the social effects of this ubiquitous phenomenon in our culture Using a multidisciplinary approach, Ann Renee Belair draws from her knowledge of marketing and advertising, Kantian philosophy, popular culture, and sociology to offer new insight to these questions. Belair exposes how marketing ploys go too far by pushing the boundaries of culture and invading the consumer¿s mind. As marketers appropriate and deploy symbols and images of popular culture, they have become overly powerful at seducing consumers. The negative social consequences of today¿s marketing practices are evidenced by such phenomena as the increasing rate of personal bankruptcies, massive credit card debt, new social ills such as shopping addictions and also social trends encouraging the conspicuous consumption of designer logos and name brands. This book discusses these serious social problems as they pertain to the construction of self-identity.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 132 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Ultimate Frisbee isn¿t yet an American sport but still manages to say as much about America as any sport does, even baseball. Ultimate speaks to the most radical and countercultural decade in American history; the 60s. Like the 60s, Ultimate rebels against the system, refuses to reform, and totally ignores social convention. Ultimate began in the midst of the counterculture revolution and it remains the same today. Men and woman play together, players officiate for themselves, and uniforms are generally optional. At every opportunity given Ultimate contradicts the American notion of what a sport should be. However as the 60s have come and gone, one day Ultimate as we know it will to. America is a modernist, capitalist, and most of all conformist country and Ultimate is none of those things. Ultimate has grown considerably in its short lifespan, but soon enough it will be faced with the overwhelming forces of Americanization. As Ultimate continues to gain popularity it will inevitably forgo it¿s identity in the process. Ultimate is at a crossroads; to keep what makes it special or to act the same as everything else, to remain faithful to itself or to sell out to America.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 144 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -There are the changes in higher education that are occurring in higher education, will fundamentally alter the nature of the university. The changes in higher education, basically, are an impact of the limited financial support from government and the need for accountability from the university to the public. The implementation of performance appraisal for academic staff is an example of the type accountability the faculty has to its stakeholders. In the research findings there is evidence that academic staff performance appraisal implementation requires the faculty, as an educational organization, to be managed and led in the same way a business organization is operated. It needs broad, deep and complex change in the faculty''s management, leadership, rules and system, financial support, commitment from stakeholders, roles, academic staff roles, communication system and culture. These changes will require the colleges and universities to restructure their management processes and modify their traditional notions about academic leadership.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 148 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The productivity of Enterprise Resource Planning systems has been discussed in several other studies in the past decade. The results were largely consistent with the theoretical predictions that ERP implementation enhances firm productivity. The only exceptions were the results of studies that were conducted using financial archival data as a measure of productivity. This study predicts that the exceptional findings of the previous studies in the ERP productivity relationship are due to the failure to consider several important factors: CEO equity holdings and horizon, timing of the implementation, type of modules implemented, and the scope of the implementation. The results were consistent with the study prediction.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 124 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The growth of new innovative technologies in service delivery and increasing labor costs make service providers to think about new service delivery options which allow consumers to serve themselves as an alternative way. These new services potentially offer consumers round-the-clock access to services, including during emergencies. These kinds of new services are known as Technology-Based Self-service delivery(TBSS). TBSS delivery is classified into two category of services which are on-site (at firm''s site) and off-site service (at customer''s home/place); also the customer''s interaction with the technology can be either direct or indirect. This book will focus on the on-site TBSS with direct interaction between the customer and technology. The book attempts to investigate and analyze the factors that influence intention to adopt technology-based self service from the consumers'' point of view.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 136 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -My research question is: Why do countries with similar rates of saving differ in economic growth My thesis addresses this question by formulating an endogenous growth model using the Cobb-Douglas production function.My model disaggregates the rate of saving into the retention ratio and the household saving ratio and connects these ratios with three new parameters representing respectively the efficiency of financial institutions, the decision-making of managers, and barriers to technology diffusion.The Cobb-Douglas production function assumes diminishing marginal productivity under constant returns to scale. My model, however, measures the growth rate of per capita output under the balanced growth state/constant returns to capital situation. This situation is guaranteed when the relative share of profit is within the critical relative share of profit.In short, the three financial parameters play an important role in economic growth. When we divide saving into corporate saving and household saving, the rate of saving as a whole is not independent of the growth rate.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 124 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This study examined the effect of message sidedness in public relations messages and its interaction effect with source credibility, in particular, with source trustworthiness and source goodwill, on the message recipients¿ attitude toward the message, the public relations issue, and toward the company. The findings provide a theoretical and practical background for public relations activities. In particular, this study highlights why it is important for a corporation to be perceived as a responsible corporate citizen by its target publics in its community, and how and when a company may use various types of message sidedness to make a public relations message more effective, depending on their perceived goodwill and trustworthiness among target publics. Finally, this study acknowledged the use of modern public relations tools by utilizing a weblog in the experiment.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 152 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book examines the socio-economic impacts of two micro-credit projects operated in the war-torn area of Kachin State, Northern Myanmar. The over 30 years civil war had devastating effects in all areas. The rural poor households do not have access to credit for investment in production and consumption. The need of credit is arising among them. Setting up the village-managed micro-credit schemes, it in a tipping point has played a significant role in to re-establish and promote society and economy. The study discovers its socio- economic dimension of benefits that has positive impacts on development of rural livelihood system, reduces of poverty and contributes to community development. The study has gone through analysis on its institutional aspect and management of credit and savings. Exploring the challenges facing micro- credit projects, the book concludes with suggestion for further improvement of MCU, enhancing the positive impacts on rural lives and implication in other locality toward sustainable rural financial institution. It hopes as of practical tool to social workers in helping in micro-credit and saving schemes more effective.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 144 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The first comprehensive comparative analysis of Chinese Medical and Reichian theories of life-force has uncovered nearly 60 significant parallels between the theories. Two areas of theoretical difference are also outlined. The comprehensive cross-over between the theories may indicate that the Chinese concept of Qi and Reich's concepts of Orgone are actually describing the same subtle force. Additionally a 72-person double blind placebo controlled experimental study was undertaken which confirmed an effect upon the acupuncture process when an adapted orgone energy accumulator was used during acupuncture treatments. This study was accepted as part of a Master's Thesis for the University of Wales.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 132 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -In the present work electrochemical methods, namely ¿cyclic voltammetry¿ and ¿in-situ catalyst potential measurements¿, were applied for ex-situ and in-situ studies of catalysts respectively. Lactose oxidation was used as a model reaction. The combination of these two electrochemical methods gives a possibility for continuous characterization of metal containing heterogeneous catalysts during all steps of their life cycle ¿ from synthesis to complete deactivation. The purpose of the ex-situ approach was to develop a common electrochemical method to characterize all VIII group metal catalysts. General steps, which can be used for every platinum group metal without making any specification or requirements on their nature, were elaborated. Second electrochemical method related to catalyst potential measurements, can provide in-situ information about surface processes in heterogeneous catalytic reactions. Catalyst potential curves can be used to indicate different surface processes. The estimation can be done on the basis on typical patterns. The catalyst potential phenomenon was quantified applying the advanced kinetic expression based on proposed reaction mechanism.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 128 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Photoaging, a remodeling of the dermis that arises as a result of repeated exposure of skin to UV-light has been identified as the predominant contributing factor to the prematurely aged appearance of sun-exposed skin. To gain a comprehensive understanding of the biochemical events leading to the phenotypic features of sun-damaged skin initiated by UV-light, we have undertaken a Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE) of sun-damaged and sun-protected skin from a single patient undergoing elective facial plasty. Furthermore, to determine the inter-individual differences in gene expression profiles, we have used RNA preparations from skin obtained from 11 Caucasian patients with moderate sun damage and analyzed the changes in mRNA levels encoded by more than 22,000 different genes represented on microarrays. Elucidating the details of biosynthetic and signaling cascades involved in photoaging and the complex inter-relationships between these different mechanisms will not only assist in establishing the biological basis for sun damage and solar elastosis, it will also provide critical new insights into the treatment of the prematurely, aged appearance of skin.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 160 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book presents on development and changes in agroforestry practice in Dade Hmong community in Guizhou Province of China.The study identifies this through extensive data arising from fieldwork, and presents both from productive and discursive practices reflects farmer's actions and local meaning changes after China adopting the market economy. It not only examines what Hmong farmers behavior changes in agroforestry pracitice,but also examines why local people changes their acitons while they responeses to market economy and rural development polices.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 164 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The relationship between orality and literacy has been an ongoing debate that attracted the attention of many scholars of literature. The debate is steered by the different standpoints from which critics of literature view the concept literature. In the book, the author highlights the fine line that exists between oral literature and written literature. Through the work of the renowned Xhosa imbongi, S.E.K. Mqhayi, the author unpacks the dynamics of this connection by looking at literature from a socio-cultural, socio-historical perspective.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 200 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Have you written before but was rejected by the publications Don''t worry, there are many tips and insights that we will share with you to make sure that your work shines as what you aspire it to be. There are many reasons why an academic work is deemed to be unfit for publication so, you might want to avoid the mistakes that others before you have made. If you have completed an original paper that has quality, it would be easy to identify the relevant publishers that are looking for works in the area that you have done provided that you know where to send your work. All this and more is what we will share with you.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 164 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Experience shows that no human person or society can survive or advance without the use of certain valuable resources. This is why various societies and thinkers have promoted differing forms of ownership regimes as essential for the advancement of human society. The author presents a rich and thought-provoking account of one of modernity's staunchest defenders of the right to ownership of private property, and this includes a probing analysis of Locke's religious-cum-secular arguments. Using a range of modern and postmodern political philosophers as well as legal theorists, the author argues in favour of what he calls 'personal ownership' as a possible alternative to exclusive private ownership. He claims that this overcomes some of the snags inherent in Locke's theory of private property while remaining more true to the key principles of sufficiency and non-spoliation. Like Locke, the author affirms the human right of all to property, but goes farther to propose this new and refreshing theory of personal ownership that is based on the norm of responsibility, inclusiveness, and environmental sustainability.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 192 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -LGBT Youth Human Rights ¿This comprehensive study demonstrates the necessity of acting on many fronts to address the discrimination and violence that LGBT youth face. Its information, critiques and insights can be used to develop effective strategies, meaningful policy and supportive programs.¿-Ann M. Francis, Ph.D., Member Executive Committee, American Friends Service Committee, Great Lakes Region. ¿Educators and consumers serious about safe schools issues need this book. Addressing equally the post-Columbine landscape and deeper influences in the very fabric of American society. Larney focuses on bullying¿experienced by actual and perceived LGBT youth¿that has the potential for ruining lives and fomenting violence in school-age populations.¿-Florence McArdle, Ph.D., School Psychologist. ¿As a mother of three school-aged boys, the degrading labels I hear of that are used by the school bullies are almost always homophobic. Protecting LGBT students, actual or perceived, is of greater urgency than our educators would have us believe. This book should inspire others to make this political struggle more visible and supported in our schools.¿-Katy Shotton, Piedmont, CaliforniaBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 200 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -AIDS orphans who would not otherwise have an opportunity to interact for their better quality of life, because of stigma and discrimination from the society that caused by HIV/AIDS.This book will demonstrate the technique and strategies to develop the orphans network and how to successful the network by using PAR.The PAR and network will empower, create the opportunity for orphans to access those needed resources and brought together funding and technical cooperation in escalating the quality of life of those orphans due to AIDS.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 164 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This study examines the relationship between compassion, leadership, and living systems theory with regards to postmodern leaders by determining how compassion and the philosophy of living systems relate to leadership among writers in postmodern Western culture. It reviews these areas of study as pertinent to the postmodern culture of the West and uses that literature to support research in developing compassionate leadership. The study attempts to answer the question: What are the themes related to compassion and living systems that relate to leadership The researcher used a grounded theory model of qualitative research to develop the concept of compassionate leadership. Related themes are discussed and interview data is analyzed and reported.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 172 pp. Englisch.