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 -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 -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 -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 -The institution of nyai, or female religious leaders in pesantren, Islamic boarding school community of East Java, Indonesia, has been overlooked despite their significant roles. Their voices regarding women's issues are also unheard while they pose strategic position in shaping gender discourse in traditionalist Muslim community in Indonesia. This book is one of the few works specifically to study the discourse and functions of nyai in a gender context. The study will assess three aspects: first, nyai's leadership, second, nyai's attitudes on gender issues, such as polygamy, domestic violence and the state laws regarding marriage and violence in household; and third, the varieties of nyai discourse in promoting particular gender views to the broader Muslim community. Whether nyai can be agents of progressive gender education in the pesantren community or vice versa is the key question. The work provides indicator for measuring the development of gender awareness in pesantren community. This book is valuable for students and lecturers in gender studies, Asian studies, anthropologists, and those who have interest in women's issues in general. 104 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 -Ferbrache provides a much needed analysis of the growing area of virtual team leader emergence. By designing an objective model, Ferbrache has created the first means to objectively measure leadership in virtual teams. He also provides evidence of the possible benefit of the delegation by default theory thought to be related to poor performance. The results of this study prove to be useful for anyone seeking to improve virtual team productivity and goal completion. 60 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 -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 -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. 96 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In this book I have endeavoured to show how we can plan a comparative study of the the content analysis of few newspaper dailies. This has the power to increase the significance of research process using content analysis and comparison. I have made in this book an attempt to study and compare the 'disability communication' as available in four great dailies, published from Mumbai. Among the English dailies, The Times of India, The Indian Express, The Hindustan Times and The DNA (Daily News Analysis) are four major English daily newspapers published from Mumbai and in several metros in India. Circulation figures indicate that Times of India is the highest, with 2 million readerships. Indian Express has the largest number of editions in India. Hindustan Times has the single largest edition from New Delhi and DNA (Daily News Analysis) is the Mumbai's fastest growing newspaper. Hence all these four dailies were selected for the research study. This book will benefit the students and professionals in the field of Journalism, Media Management and those dealing with Persons with Disabilities for creating awareness on disability issues. 88 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This paper explores the issue of labor market segmentation in the transitional economies of Ukraine and Russia. It utilizes the switching regression analysis to test for the existence of two separate wage-setting mechanisms in these two labor markets, as predicted by the dual labor market hypothesis. The estimated results suggest that Ukrainian labor market is better explained in the terms of dual labor market model. At the same time, the results for Russia are more ambiguous, since the difference between the two segments is less pronounced. 80 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -After the geopolitical backdrop of the 1990s, the EU decided to equip itself with a new instrument - the CFSP. Up till then, the EU could only be a Civilian Power because it lacked military capability. However, this all changed with the introduction of the ESDP - the military arm of the CFSP. The aim of this book is to contribute to this debate by first discussing the concepts of civilian, normative and military power, then analysing the nature and structure of ESDP, and finally attempting to draw some conclusions on whether the ESDP has changed the fundamental civilian and normative capacity of the EU. 56 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Trao Reef Locally Managed Marine Reserve was established in 2001 to protect coral reef being under threat because of human activities. However, the economic value of coral reef represents an important sight to help local people and resource managers in using and managing the resource effectively in the marine reserve has not been seen. By using financial analysis to calculate producer surplus of resource users, this study evaluated the direct use value consisting of fishery and aquaculture values of coral reef in the marine reserve. The findings show that the direct use value of coral reef is US$207,819 in which aquaculture is an important contribution. This study also investigated the evaluation of effectiveness of the marine reserve management under the context of community based management approach by contrasting with Nha Trang Bay MPA management which follows top-down management approach. The results show that community in Trao Reef marine has higher awareness, higher compliance, and higher participation to the marine reserve management. These indicators imply that Trao Reef management is performing better than Nha Trang Bay MPA management. 68 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In-line with the rapid development of hi- technology, unauthorized uses of credit cards have also been mushrooming. Criminals no longer use 'low-tech' type of crimes such as shoulder sneaking or dumpster diving to ultimately make an unauthorized use of our plastic cards. This condition has put us, the cardholders, in a 'danger' position. If an unauthorized use of credit card occurs, who will be liable for the losses The Bank, the cardholder or the merchant How do the laws rule this situation This book discusses the liability regimes for losses resulting from unauthorized uses of credit cards specifically in case of carding in the three different jurisdictions: the US, the EU, and Australia. The goals are to have a comparative and comprehensive analysis on how those three different legal frameworks regulate liability for the losses, what are the flaws of each law and how to improve the frameworks, strengthening the consumer protection provisions and putting the regulation in more balance manners. It will be very useful for banking practitioners, lawyers or legal advisors, students as well as teachers, and all readers who use credit cards as a payment method. 108 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Concerns about advertising to children has inspired substantial research and stimulated a debate among scholars, business leaders, consumer advocates, and policy makers since the early 1970's. The purpose of this book is to examine the effects of advertising on children's buying behavior, and social reactions. It investigates particularly video game advertising and its connection with adolescent boys, examining how it affects their attitudes. Having explored the above, the book attempts to scrutinize whether there is a connection between masculinity and the effects of violent video games on adolescent boys. 116 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book examines the influence of positive affect, negative affect, perceptions of merger and acquisitions success and perceptions of communication regarding merger and acquisitions on organizational commitment after merger and acquisitions. Results indicated that positive affect, perceptions of merger and acquisitions success and perceptions of communications regarding merger and acquisitions were positively related to organizational commitment after merger and acquisitions. However, the study did not find any significant relationship between negative affect and commitment. Although many previous researches indicated that employees from the acquired firm would be less committed to the organization after merger and acquisitions compared to employees from the acquiring firm, the results of the study did not find any significant difference in the level of organizational commitment between the acquired bank's employees and the acquiring bank's employees. The implications of the study are beneficial to not only companies planning for merger and acquisitions, but also to those planning for major corporate restructurings and so forth. 104 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Microfinance is a better intervention as a development strategy for Ethiopia, which is addicted to aid and identified with a brand of deep-rooted poverty.It is one way to shift from aid dependency to self-reliance.Having recognized the positive contributions of microfinance, legislations were endorsed to license and supervise service providers in 1996. The Amhara Credit and Saving Institution (ACSI) is the pioneer to work as a licensed microfinance in the country. The two empirical questions of outreach and sustainability are the themes of this book taking ACSI as a case. Its outreach, operational and financial self-sufficiencies were analysed. Taking the level of income and expenditure,asset ownership, and housing conditions the clients of ACSI are the poorest of the poor. The performance of ACSI shows the attainment of the twin targets of sustainability and serving the poor. This work is expected to contribute and considered as part of the on going effort to fill the gap between theory and practice in microfinance. The book is essential to practitioners,researchers, academics,donors, students,and other stakeholders interested and involved in microfinance. 88 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Participatory approaches have been dominating the development arena for the past years. It became very popular because of the failures of many development efforts to have concrete impacts on the communities where the conventional technology transfer' approaches were used. Although participatory approaches' have been utilized for many years in various parts of the world, they remain relatively new in the agricultural research and extension in Guatemala, hence, its impacts have not been documented and evaluated. This exploratory study focuses on the project entitled Multi-stakeholder participatory development of sustainable land use alternatives for degraded pasture lands in Central America (CATIE/Norway-PD)', specifically in its project site located in Petén, Guatemala. The project has based its activities on the participatory approaches' with the goal of developing and strengthening stakeholders' skills and participation in the process. The aim of this exploratory study was to document the project and stakeholders' experiences about the activities that have been developed and to understand some of the relationships that have been created. 72 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The purpose of this research is to convey the intricate connections between food and identity in the lives of Bangladeshi-Canadian women between 19-25 who call Canada their home, using participant observations and semi-structured interviewing. Food is a marker of ethnic identity in a globalized, migrant community; cultural and social issues governing the consumption of food products serve as a marker of regional, national and gender identity. In the Bengali diaspora, food is a symbol of tradition and a link to ethnic identity as younger generations of South Asian-Canadian women maintain, conserve or oppose traditional values, while engaging in identity construction. The research asks if rituals surrounding food practices still retain a traditional meaning and fulfil the same expectations or if the experiences of acculturation and immersion into mainstream Canadian society transformed the conceptions of food, gender and ethnicity construction amongst contemporary Bengali South-Asian Canadians. In the end, food and gender provide a lens through which identity construction in the diaspora is revealed. 104 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -An empirical study was undertaken to identify the influence of strategic choices on the organisational performance of start up IT companies in New Zealand. The findings indicate that the organisations that exhibited moderate levels of strategic particularity and holistic strategic balance realising moderately simple strategies achieved profitability and incremental business growth. These organisations were able to sustain or increase their employee base. However, the organisations that exhibited a lack of strategic particularity and holistic strategic balance realising excessively complex strategies faced negative cash-flow issues and reduced employee levels. These organisations were generally downsized, went into receivership or were sold. The findings of this study were also reported in Technovation, 2008, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 161-169. 120 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Research is focusing on the process through which companies internationalize, which is often based on their size, operations, internal capabilities and key competencies. Present global economic conditions, enforced by the strong competitiveness factor, stimulate every company to act in a different way. More and more well established companies encounter and extreme need to reinforce and redefine its strategic direction in order to stay on the edge. To address these issues, companies are inevitably forced to act in a more agile entrepreneurial way. Therefore, entrepreneurial orientation postures were selected among other theoretical alternatives to identify the relationships and effects which entrepreneurship can expose on the process of internationalization. 96 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Article 1 of the UN Charter gives the UN the task of maintaining international peace and security.In Article 2(4) of the Charter there is a prohibition on the use of force by states. An exception to the prohibition on use of force is Article 51 which provides for self defence against other States if an armed attack occurs against a Member State of the UN.Recent years have seen the emergence of groups that are non-state actors and that inflict violence and harm on states for political, religious and other reasons, for example terrorist groups. It becomes necesary to determine what the limits of the right to self-defence are and whether use of force agaimst non-state actors (whose actions cannot be attributed to the state on whose territory they are found), does not go against the prohibition on use of force or infringe the territorial sovereignty of such states. 60 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Kagera region were relatively better off in terms of living standards compared to other areas in Tanzania. This was attributed to good income from the sale of coffee, and food stability from banana.Early 2006 the outbreak of banana bacterial wilt disease in Kagera region threatens banana production hence affects household food security and income.Independent t-test was done to verify the differences in the variables.Results on banana yield reveals that, there were significant differences in mean yields of banana between affected and unaffected households.Furthermore all affected household in sampled villages had an average income below the poverty line meaning they had low income. Majority of the affected households planted different crops in the uprooted areas; most planted crops are maize and cassava, and others engaged into labour selling to different agricultural enterprises. Findings will provide valuable guidance on the current status of the disease, food security and income in the area, and will assist researchers, policy makers and agriculture extension staff on combating the disease 92 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In a hypercompetitive market the brand, the intangible values associated to it and innovation are the only sustainable competitive advantages. All of them can be fostered by investing in culture. This book shows how companies can intervene in the cultural sector e.g. sponsorship, patronage and focuses on the phenomenon of company foundations and company museums used as: a promotional and a communication tool; a training course for employees on the company history; a creative source for product innovation. In order to compare company museums with the more traditional permanent structure of company foundations, the analysis has been conducted on four French and Italian structures: the Cartier Contemporary Art Foundation, the Nicola Trussardi Foundation, the Peugeot Adventure Museum and the Alfa Romeo Museum. The results should be especially useful to the professionals of the strategy, marketing and communication sectors or to anyone else interested in discovering the multiple hidden connections between business and culture. 72 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Ever since the integration of black skinned people into certain sports with white skinned people there has been an increasing percentage of the former within these sports and amongst the elite. Research into this phenomenon can be seen as early as the 19th century and has developed significantly since. Since then the possibilities of physical, physiological, environmental, cultural and genetic factors having an effect have been explored. The author examines certain claims based on these between 1960 and 2006 for a scientific assessment of the link between race and elite athletic ability. 52 pp. Englisch.…