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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book is a case study involving four, first- generation, working-class, college students. The study chronicles the experiences of these students during their first semester in college. The research question for the study was: How do first generation, working class college students make the necessary academic, social and cultural adjustments to college The study focused on these students'' preparation for college, the support they perceived receiving for attending college, their feelings of belonging to the college campus, and how their social class affected their college experience. The study found that the students'' social class had a negative effect on their ability to succeed in college. This book was written for higher education administrators, academic advisors, and faculty members and is useful for professionals who wish to learn more about the college experience of first generation, working class college students. It is also useful for college administrators working to increase the retention rates of these same students. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book is a case study involving four, first- generation, working-class, college students. The study chronicles the experiences of these students during their first semester in college. The research question for the study was: How do first generation, working class college students make the necessary academic, social and cultural adjustments to college The study focused on these students'' preparation for college, the support they perceived receiving for attending college, their feelings of belonging to the college campus, and how their social class affected their college experience. The study found that the students'' social class had a negative effect on their ability to succeed in college. This book was written for higher education administrators, academic advisors, and faculty members and is useful for professionals who wish to learn more about the college experience of first generation, working class college students. It is also useful for college administrators working to increase the retention rates of these same students. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book is a case study involving four, first- generation, working-class, college students. The study chronicles the experiences of these students during their first semester in college. The research question for the study was: How do first generation, working class college students make the necessary academic, social and cultural adjustments to college The study focused on these students'' preparation for college, the support they perceived receiving for attending college, their feelings of belonging to the college campus, and how their social class affected their college experience. The study found that the students'' social class had a negative effect on their ability to succeed in college. This book was written for higher education administrators, academic advisors, and faculty members and is useful for professionals who wish to learn more about the college experience of first generation, working class college students. It is also useful for college administrators working to increase the retention rates of these same students. 316 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Many cities offer to provide high-quality infrastructure for the Olympic Games stadiums, housing, transportation, and media facilities. The International Olympic Committee has no firm criteria for selecting between qualified cities that bid to host the Olympics. During the contest to host the 2008 Games, Beijing distinguished their bid from other candidatures by presenting arguments that went far beyond organizational capacity. This did not only win them the right to host the Olympic Games, but also served to increase the legitimacy of the IOC and reinforce the strongly modernist ideologies of the Chinese government and the Olympic Movement. This paper analyses how Beijing set their bid apart, and discusses the conditions under which Chinese journalists produced material about the Olympic bid for official English-language media. 120 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Every mental health practitioner - counselor, social worker, marriage and family therapist - must endure at least one graduate level research methods course. Some students dread the experience and even wonder why they should be subjected to such torture! Mental health practitioner educators might have a variety of reasons why such coursework is important, but a review of the existing research literature makes it clear that very few masters level pracitioners engage in much research actitity. What stands in their way What would meaningful research efforts by masters level practitioners look like How can those of us who educate them make training in research more meaningful and relevant These issues were investigated in an in-depth study and the answers to these questions are addressed in this work, Barriers to Practitoner Research. 96 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The modern consumer seeks to maximise the value they receive from all their marketing exchanges. A retail centre can provide value by increasing the benefits it provides and/or by minimising the costs consumers face when visiting it. Current academic interest is typically focused on just the one side of this equation - the hedonic benefits of shopping. In contrast, the other side of the value equation - convenience - has been largely ignored, presumably because the few studies that have included it found it to be of relatively less importance. Given that we live in an era of convenience, such findings should be treated with a degree of scepticism. This study empirically develops and tests an alternative definition of convenience to that used by previous studies. Armed with this new definition, the study examines the influence of convenience over consumers choice between shopping malls and shopping strips. Convenience is shown to have a significant influence in determing where we choose to shop. 224 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The purpose of this thesis is to test the extended industry shock hypothesis, which accounts for a macro-economic capital liquidity element, in determining the drivers of merger waves. Various theories have been extended by the literature and these are broadly classified under the neo-classical theory of merger waves and the behavioural theory of merger waves. Behavioural theories have explained merger waves by taking into account the psychology of stock markets and the occurrence of merger waves during a stock market boom. The industry shock hypothesis (a neo-classical theory) however, argues that merger waves are due to the clustering of industry shocks that affect an industry s operating environment. Along with this shock, the mis-valuation caused by a stock market boom increases asset values, thereby lowering transaction costs and hence increasing capital liquidity in the economy. This capital liquidity factor causes merger waves to cluster even if industry shocks do not. 116 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book investigates the local, place-based factors that influence tourism development, and asks why some tourism areas develop more than others. It provides important insights into the dynamics that occur at the local level, and contributes to the existing literature on destination development by investigating the influence of local tourist influentials; the presence of a social and professional milieu and a propensity for co- operation. This detailed analysis and comparison of tourism development in Killarney (a highly developed tourist town in the southwest of Ireland) and Clifden (a less developed tourist area in the west of Ireland) explores the way in which two tourism areas and communities have engaged with tourism, how their different histories have resulted in different factors of development, and how this has influenced their development as destinations. This research enhances the academic literature on tourism development in Ireland, an area that is extremely underdeveloped and contributes to our understanding of how destinations develop. 300 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Norwegian government declared 2008 to be Mangfoldsåret or The Year of Cultural Diversity, in hopes of creating a more inclusive and multicultural arts scene. This study investigates the year through the lens of institutional theatres in Oslo, with focus on Ibsen performance. Both of these fields possessed the potential to make meaningful political statement in Mangfoldsåret, and demonstrate that the government and Norwegian arts scene were truly committed to raising the level of cultural diversity in the arts: theatre is the most heavily subsidized arts sector, with the institutional theatres enjoying the majority of these subsidies, and Ibsen is one of Norway's largest national cultural icons. How would these national institutions--both the institutional theatres and the cultural institution of Ibsen--respond to the government's demands The structures behind the Norwegian theatre system are also analyzed to gain better understanding of the reasons as to why culturally-diverse influences and actors face such difficulty in penetrating the system, and to assess whether such problems can truly be solved with a cultural diversity year. 100 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book examines and discusses the strategic manoeuvring of the Gülen Movement, which is an influential religio-social movement in Turkey, in its power struggle with its rival groups and ideologies including the secular elite; through an analysis of internal and external dynamics behind its increasing prominence. The book claims that the Gülen Movement, through its educational activities, creates a reciprocal deal where both parties profit. While the Gülen Movement enlarges its scope, spreads its message and proceeds to 'cultivate' its counter-elite, it provides its followers with the ability to climb in the social strata and wholly participate in the society; not only by providing them with the material resources they need, but also rendering them as individuals who are conforming to the contemporary set of values and lifestyles. 84 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -States can build peaceful regional communities as long as they are willing to overcome their basic fear of security and exit the vicious circle of mistrust. Since writing this, there was one more war in Georgia and one violent uprising in Moldova as this region has yet to find a reliable and benevolent sponsor among its member states. More hope comes from the theory on security communities and how they are born which, behind a checklist for identifying such a community offer also some recipes. Fruitful tools emerge also from case studies of other famous security communities around the world, among which the most relevant and inspiring is the Northern European one. The paper undertakes a realistic analysis of a potential scenario for the Black Sea Region, a politically troublesome but economically exciting area for the West and not only. 68 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In an attempt to tease out family influences on teenage sexual behaviour, recent literature explores the correlation of timing of sexual activity and childbearing among sibling pairs. Exploring a sister s influence in the context of high early childbearing, such as one observed in South Africa, could contribute in understanding escalating teenage pregnancies and childbearing. The 1998 South African Demographic Health Survey will be used to analyse the sexual behaviour patterns of young women between 15 and 24 years of age, focusing specifically on their age at sexual debut, and age and the covariates associated with teenage pregnancy. These results show that having an older sister who has given birth to a child during adolescence could influence the age at which a younger sister has a child and her age at sexual debut. From the results sisters could be a strategic population to target for pregnancy prevention, which would help reduce early childbearing and also the spread of HIV and AIDS in Africa. 88 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Private club management is stressful because of the emotional energy it consumes. The effects of long- term stress can lead to burnout and turnover which averages over 100 percent annually as an industry and over 200 percent in some hospitality companies. This study examines burnout in private club management utilizing a three-part survey instrument completed by more than 150 private club managers located across the United States. Further, it presents an extensive list of recommendations to assist leaders in reducing the negative effects of the three aspects of burnout syndrome. 120 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The quest for power has been known throughout the ages. Power is an ever present commodity that leaders are often vying to attain. But how does a leader account for follower needs Why would a leader consider followers in the first place As we discover through this study and examples of leaders in history, the answer to these questions is not what we may think. We find that the most effective leaders possess a unique answer to this question, which may seem ironic, but produces results like no other. 80 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book answers the question of whether the European Union were acting rationally when they brought the issue of corruption to the front of the agenda in the Bulgaria and Romania EU accession talks. In answering this question we have separated the book into three sections. The first is a critical analysis of the costs and benefits of corruption in an economy. In the second section we examine the economic tools at the EU's disposal in combating corruption. The third and final section studies the presence and trend of corruption in the EU economy. The book thus offers several policy recommendations on the subject of corruption in an EU context. 60 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is dedicated to the Judeo-Spanish language and Sephardic culture, and it involves various cognitive scientific and anthropological linguistic studies conducted for the revitalization of the Judeo- Spanish language. The main aim and scope of this book is to introduce the readers to the Sephardic culture of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey through interdisciplinary studies on the Judeo-Spanish language. 116 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Present reserch links the practical problems of start-up enterprise and novel theoretical concept of Dynamic Capabilities. The core question for start-up enterprise is how to survive the competition and grow to independent profitable organization. The concept of Dynamic Capabilities is the modern way of explaining the sources of company s sustainable competitive advantage and it explains how to beat the average results of the branch. Current thesis contains case study of ambitious start-up company DSP Water that is planning a rapid international growth. DSP Water is competing in a conservative branch - production and sales of water and sewage piping components. But the aim of company's management is gaining success due to making things differently compared to mature competitors companies. The research gives practical model of finding the key dynamic capabilities for start-up companies and real-life case study based on that model. 72 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This thesis paper is about a (post-war) and post Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina, which ended the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It explains why the country as such is still not fully functioning as a country enjoying the freedom it should have. It depicts examples of the political situation that is still unstable with high levels of international intervention and ways in which Dayton Agreement has formed a country that is still having ethnic tensions especially in a political and geographic sense and a decentralized form of government. A struggle exists between those that hope for a Bosnia that is working towards a united Bosnia and Herzegovina and Euro-Atlantic integration and those that hope for a Bosnia and Herzegovina that is disintegrated with regions belonging to its neighboring countries. 64 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Lean production is a multidimensional approach, using a variety of management practices, like standardization and cellular manufacturing to reduce variation. In the industrial world, these methods were found to increase efficiency. In the health care system, it is unclear whether these methods help improve patient care and cost reduction. In medicine, there are physicians who claim that these methods restrict their discretion and thus negatively impact the quality of their medical care. The goal of this study was to investigate the possibility of using lean production for heart disease treatment. Heart disease is the leading cause of mortality in the western world. It is estimated that between 3.5% - 11% of the patients with chest pain are mistakenly discharged from the Emergency Department (ED). In this study we applied standardization and cellular manufacturing for chest pain patients-standardization in the ED and cellular manufacturing in the general ward. We checked the effect of these principles on the quality of the care provided to the patients and on the hospital expenses. 88 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The corrosion behaviour of several stainless steels and some pure metals has been investigated in water solutions with dissolved ozone. Dissolved ozone increases the redox-potential of solutions to about +1200 mV vs. SCE and the corrosion potential of stainless steel to the transpassive region. The corrosion rate of stainless steels increases as the amount of alloying elements increases. The corrosion of stainless steels is mainly general but also peeling of oxide layers and pitting was also observed. As the pH of the solution is decreased, the corrosion rate of higher alloyed steels increases at higher pH than lower alloyed steels. Dissolved ozone increases the thickness of the oxide layers greatly up to 260 nm and greatly changes the composition of the layer. Chromium concentration is negligible in the oxide layers. Molybdenum concentrates in the outer layer, even more so with lower alloyed steels. Iron and alloying elements have oxidised to their highest valencies. The main components in the oxide layers are iron oxides and on the surfaces also MoO6 occurs. 100 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -A continuing objective in the field of power electronics is to generate improved structures of switching converters to fulfill application requirements. This book provides methods for design, modelling and control of new DC-DC switching topologies. The fundamental idea behind the methodology proposed to generate new converter structures was to break the symmetry. This allows the generation of asymmetrical interleaved converters, which provides low current and voltage ripples working on high boosting ratio at DCM conditions. This book also introduces a novel conceptual modelling approach called Modified Averaging Using Graphical Methods. This new method is an accurate and simple solution for control-oriented modelling of DC-DC converters operating on DCM. Such topics are addressed by formal analyses, using simulation results and experimental validations. This book is intended for researchers and students with basic power electronics and control knowledge, but who are novices in interleaved topologies analysis. Scientist interested in industrial power electronics and modeling and control of non-linear systems may also find this book useful. 160 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Oedema is the presence of excess fluid in the body tissues (Guyton & Hall, 1997). During long air flights, blood pools in the body tissues due to decreased muscle movement. This causes bilateral ankle oedema and results in an increased risk of deep vein thrombosis as well as discomfort to the passengers after their flight (Hope et al., 2001). Hamamelis virginica is clinically indicated as homoeopathic remedy which acts upon the venous system (Nash, 2002). Apis mellifica, Apocynum cannabinum, Natrum muriaticum and Natrum sulphuricum are all homoeopathic remedies used in the treatment of oedema. This study aims to ascertain the efficiency of the Homoeopathic complex formula, Hamamelis virginica 30CH, Apis mellifica 6CH, Apocynum cannabinum 6CH, Natrum muriaticum 6CH and Natrum sulphuricum 6CH in the treatment of swelling (bilateral oedema) in the lower extremities during and after long flights. 120 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -One of the most important tasks in engineering is to reduce the noise caused by vibrating bodies for designing competing products capable of meeting costumer demands and legitimate regulations. The designer should investigate the optimum design parameters without reducing the operation performance. Design sensitivity analysis is the first and the most important step in the optimization process, because it yields the information about the increment or the decrement tendency of the design objective function with respect to the design parameter. Therefore, acoustic sensitivity analysis plays an important role in determining which parameter of the vibrating body should be modified for effective improvement. This book is derived from the authors' intensive research studies in this field. It is intended to provide by this book an effective guidance for the engineers who want or need to work on this one of the most interesting topics in numerical acoustics. Reader can find explicit theoretical fundamentals of acoustic design sensitivity analysis and its boundary element implementation together with basic open-source codes written in the C language. 116 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The emergence of unsolicited commercial electronic mail (UCE) also known as spam in 1978 has become a big global problem. What is being experienced now is that the numbers of unsolicited commercial electronic mails are increasing each year. With increasing number of spam e-mails, organizations and nations are making efforts to evolve strategies to manage the scourge. In this book Mkandawire Stein looks at designing a framework for eveluating the performance of anti-spam software tools with the major aim of mapping the anti-spam software functionalities to the e-mail acceptable use policy (eaup) in order to reduce spam on Exchange Server 2003. The book begins with an overview of what e-mail is and its attributes, covering the history of Spam and the impact of spam on organizations. New in this edition Importance of training e-mail users Definitions of e-mail and e-mail spam Origins of spam This book's approach to spam management Mapping strategies Mkandawire Stein O.C. is the Head Computer and Communications Network in the Univeristy Computer Centre Department of the Copperbelt University, Zambia. 92 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Health care legislation provides patient autonomy and involvement in decisions,and mandates physicians ask patients about preferences for end of life care. Discussions about such care often postponed until the patient is too sick to participate.Advance directives are potentially useful tools to express a patient's wishes in the event of future incapacitation. Instructional advance directives may fall short of preserving patient self- determination because they fail to communicate information in a way that improves surrogates' ability to honor patients' specific treatment decisions.There is a need for population based data on patients' preferences for treatment in order to inform health policy. Given that clinical decisions are made at the individual level, there is a need for further development of decision making tools for use in clinical practice.The aim of this study to identify patients who like to participate in their medical decisions,to distinguish their unique socio-demographic characteristics. This understanding will give health care professionals the tools to facilitate and individualize discussions about end-of-life issues. 72 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Many studies, surveys recognizes the overall performance of Open Source Software (OSS) compare to proprietary products in term of innovation, total cost ownership, stability, community involvement . many factors that makes Open Source Software a viable project and movement. The purpose of this thesis is to analyse the customer perception of Open Source Software from SME and SMI side in order to understand their low level of market share. 68 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -For ages, people have recognized the importance of healing herbs. This is because human beings have coevolved with plants over the past few million years. Most of the degenerative diseases viz., AIDS, cancer, diabetes, ageing, etc., that afflict humanity have their origin in toxic free radical reactions. Most free radical damage to cells involves active oxygen species (AOS). In fact,human is not genetically adapted to survive past middle age hence antioxidant supplementation of our diet is needed to ensure a healthier elderly population. This concept has captured the attention of scientists to prove the medicinal properties of herbs using the scientific tools. Herbs, rich source of antioxidants, are considered effective in counteracting AOS related disorders. This book documents a scientific record of the antioxidant activities of Withania and Rauwolfia, reputed for curing several diseases. AOS scavenging capacity was evinced in various parts of these herbs. This book will prove a useful reference for the professionals in pharmaceutics and aayurveda, or anyone else who may be using plant parts as a natural source of antioxidants or dietary products. 64 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book studies the feasibility, usability and effectiveness of the Scientific Data Management Service Workflow System (SDMSWS) architecture, which eases the access to scientific data and solutions, and manipulation and analysis of the same, with an interactive Graphical User Interface based workflow construction and execution environment that supports the Web Services framework. The work illustrates how the defined architecture extends by facilitating integration of diverse domain specific components. The framework assessment was performed based on problem solving environment metrics, and SDMSWS was compared against commercial standards and research solutions driven by similar goals. 112 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Motor proteins are enzymes that are responsible for molecular transport. Those proteins convert the chemical energy derived from the hydrolysis of ATP directly into mechanical work and are necessary for the eukaryotic cell to achieve complex organizational and structural tasks. Motor proteins allow efficient transport of molecular structures and organelles such as vesicles, mitochondria, and chromosomes which is necessary since diffusion is too slow to efficiently move material from one part of the cell to another on physiological time scales [1]. This ability to control cellular transport processes and cell structure allowed for the development of complex cellular organelles such as cilia or flagella in single-cell organisms and made possible the development of multi-cellular organisms with highly specialized cells. Those molecular motors have served as an important model system for understanding biological motility. Microtubule-based motors of the kinesin superfamily are involved in intracellular transport, mitosis and meiosis, control of microtubule dynamics and signal transduction pathways [2]. 68 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The transmission and guiding of slow highly charged ions through various insulating nanocapillaries of varying aspect ratios and track densities has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Ions lose negligible energy during the course of guiding and do not appreciably change charge state. In this book transmission and guiding of fast electrons (500 and 1000 eV) through an insulating polyethylene terephthalate nanocapillary (PET) foil has been presented and compared with results for slow ions. Electron guiding is found to decrease faster with both energy and foil tilt angle than for ions. The spectra of transmitted electrons through the foil exhibit significant energy losses which increase with energy and tilt angle. The energy losses suggest that electrons undergo multiple elastic and inelastic scattering within the capillaries before being transmitted or lost inside the foil, a phenomenon not observed for slow ion guiding. Despite the considerable energy losses, it has been found that the inelastically as well as the elastically scattered electrons are guided through the capillaries. The present results indicate that electron and ion guiding are different processes. 80 pp. Englisch. …