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Publicado por LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 383831199XISBN 13: 9783838311999
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The world is at a stage where new realities require people to understand the interconnectedness of world systems as well as different values and points of view. The current world-wide financial crisis is an example of how we live in an ever more inter-connected world. Within this context, this book explores U.S. higher education faculty perceptions of China and international engagement through an ethnocentric lens. International engagement by U.S. institutions of higher education contributes significantly to increased national awareness of cross-national similarities and differences, and to opportunities for peaceful coexistence among world nations. As the pace of globalization continues to increase, the ability of each nation to adapt will depend, in part, upon how well its system of higher education addresses the challenges and opportunities of globalization. The analysis from this book should be helpful to global education practitioners and administrators in their drive for change in international and global education. It should also be useful for the Chinese education policy-makers to understand where U.S. faculty stands with respect to Sino-U.S. exchanges and partnerships. 108 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 3838311493ISBN 13: 9783838311494
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - 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. 76 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 3838312961ISBN 13: 9783838312965
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -School Counselors provide supportive services to help students meet their educational needs. Students who experience behavioral emotional disabilities exhibit behaviors often times interfering in the learning process and resulting in disciplinary consequences. School counselors are among professionals who could provide short-term intervention counseling to meet the academic, social and behavioral needs of these students. Terminological references frequently change and receive attention, but foci regarding professional preparedness, prevalence of service delivery, referral and follow up receive less attention. This research was designed as an initial and specific inquiry of school counselors' perceptions, roles and experiences with students with behavioral emotional disabilities. Areas of inquiry included their educational background, level of knowledge, as well as interest in professional development to acquire knowledge and skills. Meeting the needs of all students is paramount in education, particulary students who experience behavioral and emotional challenges while learning. 216 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 3838312449ISBN 13: 9783838312446
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - 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. 68 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 3838311906ISBN 13: 9783838311906
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - 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. 80 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 3838309170ISBN 13: 9783838309170
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - 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. 172 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 3838311167ISBN 13: 9783838311166
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Executive Information Portal (EXIP) is a prototype Enterprise Information Portal (EIP) developed at the University of Toronto. It aims at assisting knowledge workers with their daily work of finding, classifying, retrieving and annotating documents relevant to their task at hand. In this thesis, we extend the semantic modeling technique of the EXIP to the research domain and propose a new modeling method to capture implicit knowledge possessed by researchers. Using this extended modeling method, this thesis aims at improving the document retrieval and categorization component of the EXIP by adopting techniques from Natural Language Processing and Text Analysis. Specifically,we exploit a terminology-driven knowledge acquisition approach. A case study is conducted for an imaginary group of researchers in Computer Science. For the case study, we develop a semantic model using the proposed modeling method. Moreover, we implement a prototype in Java and evaluate it using various use scenarios. 152 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 3838313232ISBN 13: 9783838313238
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - 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. 84 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 3838310217ISBN 13: 9783838310213
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - 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. 84 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 3838309758ISBN 13: 9783838309750
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - 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. 128 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 3838310365ISBN 13: 9783838310367
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - 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. 60 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 3838312155ISBN 13: 9783838312156
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - 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. 104 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 3838311841ISBN 13: 9783838311845
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - 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. 112 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 383831168XISBN 13: 9783838311685
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - 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. 136 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 3838311469ISBN 13: 9783838311463
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The little theater artists made their social debates on the theme of sexual plurality on stage during the nineties of Taiwan. In the nineties, in the space of little theater, their works reflected the living difficulties of sexual plurality group and criticized the unitary sexual code's oppression. My investigation began by asking what kinds of sexual plurality have been represented in the little theater, by what theatrical skills, and the possible reasons of theater artists' putting on these performances. Through these works, artists helped to cultivate a group of audience who supported sexual plurality representations. 68 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 3838311515ISBN 13: 9783838311517
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - 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. 60 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 383831249XISBN 13: 9783838312491
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - 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. 132 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 3838312600ISBN 13: 9783838312606
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - 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. 160 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 3838312090ISBN 13: 9783838312095
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This monograph describes the importance of nuclear imaging techniques in the management of patients suffering from abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). Nuclear imaging techniques have an important role in determining of the presence of coronary artery disease (CAD) and these investigations are very valuable in the assessment of the extent of this condition in the patients suffering of AAA. The results of the cardiac nuclear examination may allow to stratify the risk of adverse cardiac events in patients undergoing surgery for this condition. The incidence of AAA is increasing, particularly in the western countries, and these patients also have a high incidence of cardiac disease. Preoperative evalutation with nuclear imaging techniques to establish the presence and the extent of CAD before elective AAA interventions help avoiding an adverse outcome related to cardiac complications. This study describes original research which has been conducted at the Isotope Scanning Unit of the Royal Infirmary in Stoke-on-Trent (UK). The current literature on the subject is reviewed, and the basis of these imaging techniques are also described. 124 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 3838311957ISBN 13: 9783838311951
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - 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. 144 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 383831154XISBN 13: 9783838311548
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - 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. 144 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 3838312988ISBN 13: 9783838312989
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - 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. 132 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 3838311159ISBN 13: 9783838311159
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - 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. 152 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 3838311183ISBN 13: 9783838311180
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - 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. 124 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 383831283XISBN 13: 9783838312835
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - 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. 128 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 3838310209ISBN 13: 9783838310206
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - 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. 124 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 3838313135ISBN 13: 9783838313139
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - 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. 148 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 3838311523ISBN 13: 9783838311524
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The German Heimat, so profoundly evocative of serenity and a sense of intimate belonging, could be said to come into its own only when it threatens to become other, that is, only when it is poised against the alienation, fragmentation, and deterritorialization brought by the rapid social changes of the last century. Referring at once to family, childhood, native place, as well as homeland, the word Heimat may not hold the same significance for any two Germans, or from one German home to another. A fiction whose reality can be measured in the emotionally and ideologically charged battles of recent German history, this ubiquitous but rarely perceived notion of Heimat will be closely examined from three different but interrelated perspectives on contemporary German film and literature. 'Contested Homes' offers textual analyses of Edgar Reitz's film series 'Heimat,' Barbara Honigmann's 'Roman von einem Kinde,' and Aras Ören's 'Bitte nix Polizei.' It examines the issues of identity and alterity, belonging and alienation in contemporary German society while exposing the concept of Heimat as a construction openly contested and negotiable. 164 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 3838311280ISBN 13: 9783838311289
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Studies into arson commonly have two underlying assumptions: 1) that arsonists are in some way different from non-arsonists; and, 2) that repeat arson offenders are quantifiably different from one- time arson offenders. In general these suppositions have remained implicit in the research, with few empirical investigations examining their veracity or otherwise against a sound theoretical model. The current project sought to establish how applicable these assumptions are in the Australian context. In the process a profile of Australian arsonists has been clarified and the concept that arsonists can be differentiated from each other and from other types of offender on the basis of certain personal characteristics and offence features was supported. This information has relevance to arson treatment, rehabilitation and crime prevention applications. 164 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 3838309138ISBN 13: 9783838309132
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -A design study of adaptive reuse of three buildings located in the downtown business district of Bowling Green, Kentucky. The buildings in this design study have been abandoned at various intervals of time and left to vandalism and decay. The three buildings include a former church, a nineteen forties car dealership and a filling station. By readapting these buildings the city of Bowling Green could bring new life to an economically depressed zone and revitalize a rich architectural area. 192 pp. Englisch.