Lap lambert academic publishing aug 2010 (Más de 1800 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Jewish American literature holds an essential place in the literary history of the United States. It is supposed to be the first ethnic literature that achieved great influence in the U.S. and reached its mature expression in the post-war 'Jewish American novels' of Henry Roth, Saul Bellow, J.D. Salinger, Norman Mailer, Bernard Malamud, Chaim Potok, and Philip Roth. This book concentrates on the work of the triad of authors - Bellow, Potok and Malamud. It explores the cultural pulls between secular society and Jewish tradition which were acutely felt by the immigrants who passed through Ellis Island and by their children and grandchildren. Their work is also analyzed in the context of Earl H. Rovit's theory of 'applicable past' which stresses the advantage of the cultural distinctiveness of immigrant authors whose background might serve as a goldmine for fictional themes. The analysis should reveal the ways in which these authors are concerned with Jewishness and the intentions the authors have for its interpretation. This book is meant for anyone who is interested in the ethnic cultural diversity and its influence on the creative writing such as fiction. 52 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The microstrip antenna (MSA) is one of the most widely used microwave antennas possessing several advantages. However, it presents a low impedance bandwidth, low gain, and tolerance problems. Probably the most direct way of improving the impedance bandwidth of a microstrip antenna is to attach a separate lossless matching network. The aim of the this study is to develop a new wide band matching systems for improving the electrical characteristics such as, low efficiency, low antenna gain and narrow band. In the research stage of this thesis, different microstrip antenna geometries, matching networks and theoretical models for analysis and design of microstrip antennas were investigated. Three different types of the matching circuits which are realized as the negative capacitance, the negative inductance and the Pi- matching circuit with RC mutator, have been proposed.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Today, it is being said that our education system is not relevant to our needs and that its standards are falling. Parents complain of the deteriorating discipline of students. In the final analysis, a limitation suggests that there is need to overhaul educational programmes to suit our needs. All these point to the idea that we must look back at what was happening in our country during colonial time and compare this with what is happening today. We can then focus ahead in the future. By doing this, we think of corrective and remedial measures. If the policies were desirable, efforts can be made to maintain and even improve them. This has for many years been done by soldiers in wars, farmers with their crops and soils, and mechanics with their repaired vehicles. In essence, all these are indicators of measurement and evaluation. Measurement and Evaluation are important processes for improvement and avoiding further errors. Even God evaluated his creation each day and saw that it was good, proceeding the next day (Genesis 1: 1-31 and Koran 57:4). In this book, you will be introduced to Measurement and Evaluation, especially their meaning, significance and styles.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -In this study, Dubai is the case the author selects to explore the phenomenon of largescale public entrepreneurship. In the world today, public individuals, institutes, and enterprises are acting as though they are running firms; taking high risks, innovating, creating their owns opportunities, and unsurprisingly¿ competing. The facts that they are policy¿makers, which have authorities to impose or even distort their own economies emerges a concern, what is the appropriate entrepreneurship level in the public sector ¿Megalomania'' is a word that ¿means madness marked by delusions of wealth or power''. Is there megalomania in Dubai In this investigation, the author observes that failing to recognize its resources and capacities on driving a too ambitious economic growth is chaos. The consequences are that it risks collapse its own economy, and most likely, under such a scenario, cause spillover effects to its stakeholders at large.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 96 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The microstrip antenna (MSA) is one of the most widely used microwave antennas possessing several advantages. However, it presents a low impedance bandwidth, low gain, and tolerance problems. Probably the most direct way of improving the impedance bandwidth of a microstrip antenna is to attach a separate lossless matching network. The aim of the this study is to develop a new wide band matching systems for improving the electrical characteristics such as, low efficiency, low antenna gain and narrow band. In the research stage of this thesis, different microstrip antenna geometries, matching networks and theoretical models for analysis and design of microstrip antennas were investigated. Three different types of the matching circuits which are realized as the negative capacitance, the negative inductance and the Pi- matching circuit with RC mutator, have been proposed.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Today, it is being said that our education system is not relevant to our needs and that its standards are falling. Parents complain of the deteriorating discipline of students. In the final analysis, a limitation suggests that there is need to overhaul educational programmes to suit our needs. All these point to the idea that we must look back at what was happening in our country during colonial time and compare this with what is happening today. We can then focus ahead in the future. By doing this, we think of corrective and remedial measures. If the policies were desirable, efforts can be made to maintain and even improve them. This has for many years been done by soldiers in wars, farmers with their crops and soils, and mechanics with their repaired vehicles. In essence, all these are indicators of measurement and evaluation. Measurement and Evaluation are important processes for improvement and avoiding further errors. Even God evaluated his creation each day and saw that it was good, proceeding the next day (Genesis 1: 1-31 and Koran 57:4). In this book, you will be introduced to Measurement and Evaluation, especially their meaning, significance and styles. 184 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -When asylum seekers and refugees are displaced, how do they use communication technologies to maintain links with friends and family during flight and forced migration When they are detained, what role does technology play in the ways asylum seekers communicate with the outside' How do asylum seekers and refugees appropriate and use new communication technologies whilst establishing themselves in a new country This monograph presents the findings of a qualitative pilot research study that sought to answer these questions. It provides an insight into how asylum seekers use communication technologies during conflict, flight, detention and resettlement, to maintain links with their families and friends back home, with diaspora from their country of origin and with communities in the country where they are seeking asylum. It is also one of the first studies to examine how communication with the outside world occurs in immigration detention centres and to document asylum seeker perspectives on the communication restrictions encountered there. 60 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The form of production relations found in any society is fundamentally determined by who is the proprietor of the means of production.upon this lay the the decisive factors upon which definite political, juridical, ideological and institutional realities within any given society are established. Paradoxically, exploitation is inevitable and can easily be discerned in the rules, processes and institutional framework that administer the production and distribution process, which were instituted by the proprietors to safeguard their interests.The emergence and dynamics of IMF validate this theory. In pursuance of her interests, the United States led the economic negotiations that necessitated the emergence of IMF, its rules, structure, power relations and programmes or tranche. These were manipulated both in character and implementation to foster America's economic interest and consolidate her dominance. this book therefore focuses is on the political economy of IMF with a view to explicate it's nuances and implications/consequences. 104 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware 116 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In the Vatican's attempt to come to grips with the sexual abuse crisis, Pope Benedict XVI has approved a set of revisions to church law. He has allowed the laity to serve as judges and lawyers on church tribunals in sex abuse cases. This book aimed at exploring indepth the administration of justice according to the African customary procedures.it indicates that Custom is the best interpreter of laws and the laity should be conversant with their local customary law to participate actively in the church tribunals. The book will be a great help to inculturate Christian, Civil and Customary law. There is lack of harmony between the penal law and disciplinary precepts and the customary penal law. The offenders usually seem to imply that traditional practice of the penal law is more binding than the church penal laws and precepts. There is lack of assimilation of noble customary values which could enable Christians to be more at home with the church disciplinary precepts.For Africans an offence once forgiven is never recalled.The book is an asset to both private and state colleges, universities, institutes and individuals dealing with law anywhere in the world. 108 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -More and more companies in the building sector are starting to realize the importance of using customer satisfaction as a tool to enhance their competitive advantage. Customer satisfaction brings several positive aspects to a company, which can contribute to a successful business. Primary data have been collected by conducting a randomly selected telephone survey. The analysis is based on statistical data generated from the survey. Central tendency values and multiple regression analysis makes it possible to explain which variables that affect customer satisfaction among Trivselhus customers. The outcome of the research signifies, that customer satisfaction among Trivselhus customers has not changed during the years that this research covers. There are several variables affecting customer satisfaction. These variables are included in different categories; Complaints, Expectations, Service Quality, Energy, Product Quality, and Image. There is not enough evidence to prove that energy efficiency and environmental friendliness affect customer satisfaction geographically. 96 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Customer loyalty is a topic of grave interest for both academia and practice and a base of loyal customers is found to be very beneficial and advantageous for the firms. It is always costly to attract new customers, so the managers always try to find ways to retain their current customers and concentrate on different factors which enhances the customer loyalty among the customers of the organizations. This research attempts to find the factors of customer loyalty and their relationships with banking industry in one of the developing countries i.e. Pakistan. Then analyzing the relationship among different factors a model for the customer loyalty is proposed at the end of the book.This book is really beneficial for the bank managers to formulate effective strategies to increase loyalty among their customers. 116 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Ecotourism has emerged to be an important element of the tourism industry mostly due to the alarming negative impacts of conventional tourism. Ecotourism weighs heavily in its potential to reduce the negative impacts of mass tourism which was seen to be destroying the resource on which it thrives and therefore unsustainable in the long run. However, academicians and practitioners contend that without community participation in ecotourism projects, ecotourism will not mean a lot to the people who suffer most the burden of conservation. Community participation has of recently attracted the attention of development experts and practitioners arguing that participation yields better results than in projects where it is absent prompting governments and development organizations to embrace participatory approaches in their projects. This books of which the case study was BINP answers the questions ; do people participating in ecotourism enjoy higher incomes compared to non-participants And how does the level of participation relate to the level of incomes earned Do people participating at higher levels enjoy higher incomes And if so, could participation really be an end in itself 92 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Leap year wedding superstition is a wide-spread phenomenon in Ukraine. It states that a marriage in a leap year is likely to end up with a divorce. Number of weddings contracts by 20% each leap year causing to a series of negative socio-economical consequences. In this study the leap year wedding superstition inconsistency is addressed statistically. In doing so, ULMS (2003) data set is used. Based on a series of comprehensive statistical tests it is shown that the fraction of divorces and average duration of marriages in leap years are not statistically different from the same indicators associated with non-leap years. This study can be of interest for wide audience: from superstitious readers wishful of truth to statistical practitioners interested in new statistical methodology and approaches. 88 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book analyzes the United States' foreign security policy and its changes since the end of WW II until the present day. The first part describes foreign security concepts of the USA during the Cold War and in the 'chaotic' 90s. The second chapter represents the core of the book; it analyzes the metamorphosis of the US foreign policy after the attacks of 9/11 with emphasis on the Bush doctrine embodied in the National Security Strategy of the United States of America (2002) and its subsequent impacts on the international community. Finally, the last chapter is devoted to President Obama's foreign security strategies, looking at whether it represents a real shift from his predecessor or just a change of rhetoric. 92 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -From 2002 to 2006 European Customs seized over 100 million fake goods with a value of over 1 billion Euro. This has increased by over 900% since 2001. Why has the sales of counterfeit goods increased dramatically The Republic of Ireland is seen to be a small country on the periphery of Europe but it is not immune to the consumption of counterfeit products. In 2007 there was an estimated 5 million worth of counterfeit goods seized in the Republic of Ireland. Counterfeit goods are not solely confined to the clothing and accessories market. Pharmaceutical, computer sofware, music and film sectors have also been targed by the counterfeiters and some of these have proved to be extremely profitable for the traders of counterfeit goods. This book aims to uncover the motives, perceptions and attitudes that individuals may have towards the purchasing and consuming of counterfeit products. What are the main factors that influence an indivdiual to seek out places where counterfeit products are sold Are consumers and potential consumers aware of the dark side' of counterfeiting 104 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Poverty is one of the most fundamental issues, and urgently needs to be addressed. Moving people out of poverty forms a basis of much international development policy. Getting rid of poverty is a tremendous challenge for the global community. Although everyone agrees on the goal of poverty lessening, policies often remain contentious or futile. Given that livelihoods of millions are at stake, there is an imperative demand to reconsider the causes and remedies of poverty in developing countries context. 256 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Business incubation is that place where start up entrepreneurs can thrive when they are surrounded by fellow entrepreneurs to get more effective training, guidance, required motivation and confidence building measures to form enterprises from entrepreneurs and practicing professional business development service providers. The research study follows the concept of comprehensive incubation system framework to understand the South Korean successful incubation process and simultaneously designing a successful approach for Nepal, which can be an effective model of Business Incubation Center development. Incubator program in the service package designed for Nepal, explains the inputs that come from community to incubator startups to meet the challenges during their graduation period and let off in the community as growing companies such as superstars, small medium enterprises, talented entrepreneurs for spin-off companies, and support for R&D of large companies having innovative ideas. Lastly, the key is not to have a fancy framework but to design a valuable service program for clients for business start ups supported by incubation services in Nepal. 88 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -There has been a growing body of literature examining the role that the tourism industry plays on the lives of women employees. These studies have tended to focus on women in Western countries and developing countries. Both positive and negative aspects of tourism employment have been addressed. However, there has been relatively little attention paid to the employment of Muslim women in the tourism industry in the Middle East, North Africa or the Arabian Peninsula. Therefore, this book will help to bridge this gap in the literature in understanding the experiences and meanings of tourism employment for Muslim women, including the positive and negative aspects of this form of employment. Theoretical analysis of the study provides new ways to understand the potential role of tourism employment for women in Muslim societies, which includes exploitation versus empowerment, resistance and social change. Hence, the book provides a stepping-stone towards understanding the changing role of Muslim women, and should be especially useful for academic professionals and tourism policy makers, or anyone else who may be interested in the area of Muslim women and tourism employment studies. 112 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book will provide an understanding of Customer Relationship Management (CRM), how it can improve the satisfaction among customers through online mechanism. Availability of internet have helped the companies to think like customers, firms can deliver customized information directed to the customers and applications at a relatively low cost, they can provide facilities to the customers to carry out broad set of activities e.g. paying bills online, ask for questions and even complain at any time. CRM is a useful tool in terms of identifying the right customer groups and for helping to decide which customers to jettison and CRM is needed to retain these loyal groups of customer before they shift to competitors. 68 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -It is widely believed that a part of the Serbian intellectual elite should be held responsible for the outbursts of nationalism in the 1980's, justification of the Greater Serbian ideas in the 1990's, and for hindering the europeisation of Serbia by reviving old hatreds and constructing the new ones. This paper concentrates on the role and impact of some of the most exposed intellectuals from the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and examines their political role in the post-Milosevic period. 72 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -We appreciate the guidance and help from our supervior Barbara Cornelius, the professor of USBE, Umea University (Sweden). She encourged us to challange ourself all the time. So at this point, we could say that our thesis is an attempt to apply grandstanding concept on underwriting business in China. During the whole thesis, we collect the newest market data from 2006 to 2010. So the results can reflect the newest condition and environment in China IPO market. 88 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The results presented in this paper strongly support the integrative theory of mergers and acquisitions (Finkelstein and Larsson (1999), which suggests that the organizational integration is one of the most important determinants of M&A success. Overall, the EF is negatively correlated with CARs when the entire data set is analyzed. The results suggest that integration processes become more complicated because the employees from the target firm are more resistant to the new culture due to a low level of cultural domination of the acquiring firm. In addition, the results demonstrate that this effect is strongest in 1) within-industry mergers, 2) cross-region mergers, and 3) mergers involving employees with high-valued skill sets. I find significant effects for the EF only in some specific industry groups that require employees with high skill levels and expertise. Additionally, the findings also show that a group of M&A transactions in which target firms' average deal value per acquired employee is high, indicating that the employees have high skill sets and expertise, experiences a particularly strong effect from the EF. 84 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Portfolio rebalancing is an established concept in portfolio management and investing generally. Assets within a portfolio have different return and risk prospects, and this inevitably leads them to drift away from their initial allocation weights overtime. Portfolio rebalancing is arguably the only method by which such assets can be reset to their initial weights, thus ensuring the portfolio reflects the risk appetite of the investor. The analysis of an equally weighted portfolio of 19 Finnish stocks from the Helsinki OMX25 index over the study period of May, 2000 to April, 2010 proved, amongst other things, that rebalancing provides rewards in terms of improved returns compared to not rebalancing at all. 64 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This study assesses the impact of the international debt burden on Cameroon's development. It is revealed in the study that Cameroon embarked on external borrowing in order to meet domestic expenditure and ensure a stable and viable local economy for meaningful development. Against this background series of international loans were contracted in order to uplift the living standards of Cameroonians. The underdevelopment theory is used as the theoretical framework to guide the study and test the propositions. The findings showed that Cameroon's international debt is a curse rather than a cure as the country devotes a greater part of its resources and revenue to the management of these loans and consequently cannot raise financial capital capable of fostering development. The study recommends the collective will of African countries to build self-sustaining local economies, reject massive expropriation of local resources and capital flight and the consequent rejection of external loans which often come with stringent conditionality meant to perpetuate underdevelopment. 92 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This dissertation researches the applicability of the existing literature, theories and models on generic strategies for small entrepreneurial firms in today's economy. All well known literature, theories and models on generic strategies are reviewed. As result two main theories are highlighted as the cornerstones and foundation of today's understanding on generic strategies. These papers were written around 1980, which makes them outdated. Therefore several modern papers are used to make amendments to these older theories and take them into the digital era. The combination of the prior mentioned papers and amendments form the theoretic framework for a new model, which is tested through a research among 219 SMB firms in the Netherlands. The research affirms the applicability of parts of the new model and proposes a reduced model. This reduced model represents the strategic choices of entrepreneurials start-up firms in today's economy. Finally the underlying conditions of the strategic choices are addressed. The research identifies several significant conditions. 84 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -A study on functioning of contract broiler Ffrms in and around Puducherry (India) was carried out. The relevant data were collected through personally interviewing 49 Contract Broiler Farmers representing five Broiler Integrators operating in and around Puducherry. The results showed that most of the farmers have taken up Contract Broiler Farming as a secondary occupation to supplement their income from agriculture. The profile of the respondents confirmed the contention that the Integrators prefer small farmers who have less economic power to influence the government or create legal problems in case of a contractual dispute. The contract agreement of the Integrators is one sided favouring the Integrators. The farmers had no control over the quality of the inputs like chicks, feed, medicine and technical advice given by the Integrator which affect the final body weight gain by the broilers and ultimately the payment received by them. The contract is silent on the standards for the quality of inputs supplied by the Integrator such as weight of the day old chick, quality of the feed and medicines. 104 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Performance appraisal is a formal management system that provides for the evaluation of the quality of an individual's performance in an organization. A few decades ago, the appraisals of an individual's performance in an employment setting were known as merit ranking, employee evaluation, service record of rating, character role, employee evaluation, performance audit etc. which were used to evaluate the performance of an employee based on the assigned tasks set by the organization. 64 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Over the past decade, many scholars have predicted perpetual struggles among East Asian states-China, Japan and Korea. Due to the bitter historical legacy among the East Asian states, the rise of the nationalism seems to be inevitable. However, collective identity as one nation cannot be understood through the nature of international politics alone. Very little academic literature exists on the ever-present triangular tension in the context of the cultural imagination-the binary construction of the 'self' and 'the others.' This book, therefore, examines how Korea's collective memory and desire work together to create the 'oneness' as an autonomous nation. It is surprising how Korea's fervent desire for a sense of autonomous community and nation paradoxically consolidates her common and shared cultural heritage with China. Moreover, Korea's interactions with Japan during the colonial years have been an integral part of the creation and definition of Korea's self-knowledge. This book should be especially useful to professionals in cultural studies or East Asian studies, and anyone else who remains skeptical about peace and solidarity in East Asia. 56 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -There is a consistent view, supported by the environmental Kuznets curve and popularized by the World Development Report, that middle-income countries place less value on the quality of environmental goods than rich countries. This book, therefore, investigates whether people in Ukraine, lower-middle-income country, do pay attention to air quality or not, comparing to people in high-income countries. Estimation of marginal willingness to pay for the air quality improvement using hedonic price analysis is conducted for housing market in Kyiv (Ukraine). The analysis should be especially useful for policy makers, who could compare costs associated with the reduction in air pollution and benefits from improving the air quality while implementing environmental policies, real estate specialists, and economists. 64 pp. Englisch.…