lap lambert academic publishing jan 2013 (Oltre 2.100 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Tourism sector in Kazakhstan is not so developed. But as we know the Republic of Kazakhstan is in the list of new states and the future of its tourism can be viewed as perfect. Kazakhstan is one of the post-Soviet states. The Republic of Kazakhstan is well known for rather unique natural and geographic conditions. Kazakhstan owns many things for every kind of tourist. A history and diverse ethnic heritage have left scores of diverse sights of interest for the sightseer. The natural environment offers innumerable opportunities in eco and sports tourism, the latter including trekking, mountaineering - particularly mountains, fishing and hunting, the latter already popular with an established clientele who value the diversity of species available and the relatively low cost of such trips. The wealth of religious sites, mostly, but not all, connected with Islam, attract a steady and growing number of visitors. That's why the tourism sector in Kazakhstan is growing up year by year.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -With the advances in wireless technologies and development of mobile devices, Mobile Ad hoc Networks have emerged as the milestone and play an important role in establishing communication using no fixed infrastructure. Nodes are free to move randomly and communicate with each other through single hop if within transmission range or through multiple hop beyond transmission range. Due to unpredictable behavior of such networks, it is difficult to maintain the required Quality of Service (QoS). QoS in MANETs refers to the provision of guaranteed services on the network layer, defined in the performance metrics between application and service provider. The first important task in QoS network routing is to find a feasible route through the network between source and destination. This route should satisfy all the requirements to fulfill the QoS constraints for the desired service. The focus of the book throughout has been on the study and development of QoS constrained routing protocols to ensure better QoS provisioning.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Poverty is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon. The poor are not a homogeneous group. Various approaches to defining poverty can lead to identification of different groups of poor. Therefore, a holistic approach is needed to deal with the problem of poverty. However, countries with widespread poverty face financial and other resource constraints. This may require setting priorities in terms of dealing with various dimensions of poverty, which may not be easy given the fact that various dimensions of poverty are closely linked with each other. Therefore, it is a daunting challenge for each country to formulate an effective poverty reduction strategy according to its own needs and circumstances. In line to this fact poverty is multidimensional, the unidimensional approach is not always sufficient to account for all the facets of this phenomenon. A multidimensional analysis therefore becomes necessary if we truly want to identify the poor, as well as the strategies to combat this burden.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 64 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Information exchanges between competitors are commonplace and often beneficial for a successful functioning of the markets. The policy of the competition authorities within the EU has, however, at times equated instances of information exchanges with those of hard-core cartels. This paper explores whether the standard that has been used for concluding that an information exchange scheme is restrictive of competition by object is workable in terms of law and economics and appropriate given the special nature of the information exchanges distinguishing them from the hard-core infringements.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 64 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -'Official relations between the European Union (EU) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) newly began after the establishment of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) in 1999. Before that we can not talk about formal relations between the two organizations'. So in this Book, we will describe the historical development of EU-NATO relations from post-Cold War (1990) until the Berlin Plus agreement in 2002, and will analyze this agreement which is considered as the core of the relationship between the two organizations. In addition, we will examine the military missions which were carried out under Berlin Plus agreemnt (Operation Concordia, which took place in the former Yugoslavs Republic of Macedonia in March 2003) and (Operation Althea, which took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2004), in order to understand if the Berlin Plus agreement applied or not, and to know whether there was real cooperation between them or not.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 104 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This work details the history of oil and gas related conflict in Nigeria that started since oil was first discovered in Olobiri, in the Niger Delta region in 1956. It discusses how income from oil and gas resources marginalized the productive sector of the Nigerian economy leading to poverty and conflict. Furthermore, it highlights some of the conflict transformation initiatives of the Government of Nigeria and their inability to deliver on their set goals. Finally, this book made some recommendations for reflection that have implication for policy formulation and implementation.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 68 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -We are pleased to bring out our first edition ¿Human Resource Management¿ for the business and management studies. This is an authentic and comprehensive book on invaluable human resource management concepts and theories! This book covers all the main aspects of human resource management: the basic concepts of human resource management, human resource planning, job analysis, recruitment, selection, performance appraisal, training and development, compensation and employee benefit systems, discipline and grievance, labour relations etc. This book will be invaluable to business and economics students at both undergraduate and graduate levels. K.Sekhar and Wako Geda Obse adopt a user-friendly approach which takes the reader through basic concepts to advanced concepts.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 112 pp. Englisch.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -As part of social mission, there is the need to assist the poor in generating employment and income to reduce poverty and hunger. The aim of this book is to examine the processing practices of small scale palm oil and to improve the value for premium price. The proposed recommendations should contribute to further research and improvement on palm oil processing and marketing to break the vicious cycle of poverty through entrepreneurship for economic development. Research was undertaken through World Vision International in Twifo Hemang Lower Denkyira District of Ghana.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 100 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The mass media, through their structure and orientation, influence political contests between actors. By providing access to different groups , individuals and institutions, the media contribute to domestic empowerment or disempowerment in democratisation. Through issues raised and organisations used as sources of news, human rights influenced the coverage of democratisation in Nigeria as evinced by the discourses on the June 12, 1993 Presidential Election and the Ogoni crisis in 1995. This study makes a powerful case for the theorisation of democratisation in Nigeria between 1990 and 1999 as a communication process. The author argues stridently that theorisation of democratisation as a communication process contributes to our knowledge of the relationship between human rights, media and politics in the context of Nigeria.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book aimed to analyze the cases of Wendy¿s International and Pizza Hut¿s expanding operations in the Argentine market toward the goals of having a deeper understanding of why most American restaurant chains and fast-food restaurants failed in the past, and to capture the lessons of managing global businesses. Both Wendy¿s and Pizza Hut used standardized products and services in a market that required local and specific customization. Thus, the commercialization of non-customized products and services generated a cultural shock that had a negative impact on the new-product adoption. Argentina -the country with the highest beef consumption in the world- is surprising with the fact that only McDonalds and Burger King were the only successful foreign restaurant chains. And even pizza is known as the second favorite dish, none of foreign pizza franchise was successful yet.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 104 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book informs the global village the constraints Small Business Enterprises (SBEs) face and strive to overcome in the competitive business sector by employing communication strategies in order to succeed in Eldoret town. It also reveals the communication strategies SBEs use competitively within Eldoret and across Kenya as their activities reflect the country¿s economic situation. The author investigates implications of verbal and non-verbal modes of communication such as display, shouting through media, among others, on business activities. She observes that effective use of communication strategies depends on level of education, gender, location of business, among others. The book recommends that the entrepreneurs should be exposed to modern communication facilities such as ICTs through seminars, conferences, workshops and exhibitions. She also recommends sensitization of the public to ensure mutual respect between the public and entrepreneurs and thus develop a more humane language that enhances the interaction of buyers and sellers. This book is recommended for entrepreneurs, policy makers, students, teachers and researchers in the field of Communication Studies.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Pakistan, being a developing country, has to meet many challenges including high rate of productivity in all sectors. However, many organizations face problem in meeting this objective due to high turnover rate caused by lower level of job satisfaction. This research was conducted in an effort to find out reasons for lower level of job satisfaction and its relationship with turnover intention in context of Pakistani culture. The study also aimed at finding out the most suitable ethical climate for dealing with role conflict, role ambiguity and emotional exhaustion. Various analyses of data collected from 201 respondents of telecom sector of Pakistan were done to find out relationships between different variables. Findings of the research suggest that emotional exhaustion and job satisfaction have significant relationship with turnover intention. Also, egoistic ethical climate has significant relationship with role conflict and role ambiguity. The findings can prove to be useful to the managers in telecommunication sector who are looking for increasing productivity by developing a conducive ethical climate and thereby enhance job satisfaction.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 108 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Eyewitness identification is a useful tool for law enforcement in the absence of concrete physical evidence in solving crimes and attempting to identify the perpetrator. The problem with convicting solely on the basis of eyewitness evidence is that many times the eyewitness's memory are inaccurate or effected by suggestive identification procedures. Eyewitness misidentification is a problematic issue in the United States criminal justice and the leading cause of many wrongful convictions. There is an enormous amount of literature and research in the discipline of psychology on eyewitness procedures but it appears that there is a significant amount of resistance to this literature and research in the criminal justice profession. This book presents a case study in which seven cases of wrongful convictions in Missouri are examined, where eyewitness misidentification was the contributing or leading factor. The findings presented in this study should cause state lawmakers to form a task force to reexamine eyewitness identification procedures statewide and recommend policies that will foster non-suggestive identification procedures and accurate identifications.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 84 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Limited research has been conducted to explore the layout structure of service organizations. This study explores the present layout of a bank¿ the largest service sector industry in the context of Bangladesh. Using observation techniques and a survey questionnaire, the findings of the study determines that the existing layout features of the bank is suitable for efficient operations and complies with existing theory in practice. The study has limitations in terms of generalizability and representativeness and has been recommended for future research using more sample organizations.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 64 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Customer retention in the banking industry is becoming extremely prevalent as it is being employed to keep existing customers from switching to other banks and to sell them more services.However, empirical studies regarding the determinants of customer switching behavior in commercial banks in Ethiopia in general and in Mekelle Town in particular is understudied. The objective of the book is,therefor, to investigate the determinants of customer switching behavior and examine the effects of price, reputation, service quality,advertisement, involuntary switching, distance and switching cost on customer decision to stay or switch their banks.To examine the relationship between dependent and independent variables and to determine the relative importance of variables, the binary logistic regression model is employed.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 84 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Enterprises have been putting different levels of emphasis towards Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities. This action has been highly debated on as being outside the framework of the business logic. Nevertheless, a number of companies have continued investing in CSR. Has the customer been taking note of this Has the customer responded to the benefit of companies that are socially responsible Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 56 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Soil erosion has been one of the major problems undermining agricultural production in Ethiopia. Consequently, efforts are being made by the government to tackle the adverse effect of soil erosion via Food-for-Work and Cash-for-Work programs. However, the existing literature shows that the achievements of such programs are far from the expectations. Does such an experience mean that there is no hope for soil conservation practices in Ethiopia Absolutely it is doubtful, the problem could have been rather, the campaigns that have been undertaken in Ethiopia for soil conservation practices have failed to consider local peoples¿ willingness to pay for such projects from the very initiation of conservation measures. This motivates that, adequate understanding of the socio economic circumstances is required to determine the household¿s soil conservation demand behavior and the factors that determine their willingness to pay for it. Hence, this book explores the value that the rural households have attached to soil conservation measure using the non marketed valuation technique called Contingent valuation method.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 116 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This research study conducted in order to investigate the socio-economic factors behind low academic performance of post graduate students at University of Peshawar (UOP). The study employed the use of proportional allocation stratified random sampling method. The validity of questionnaire was proven and data was collected from 80 respondents selected from all the six faculties at University of Peshawar. To analyze the data, Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) and Microsoft Excel 2010 was used aim to accuracy and calculations of data. This formed the basis of the detailed analysis, conclusions and suggestions.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In regards to tourism in Nepal, both women and men play significant roles in welcoming tourists. To put it simple, women play significant roles in tourism industry all over the world. Preference of people to shift on tourism related activities shows change in occupational trends from one to another. On the other hand, it also can result in the change of livelihood strategy. People think that tourism related activities are more generation. Female guide has a good way of income generation by using their skills and knowledge. The role of female is not only limited within the household but changing the roles because of their diverse position. From the guide to the porter, female are serving in various tourism sector. In comparison to men, because of their good behavior and relationship with the tourists, guest and hotel owners they are establishing good relationship and leading their roles and proving themselves best among all. So with the opportunities challenges are highlighted. Therefore, female are also simply rising day by day in this profession of guide which is shifting the paradigm of Society¿s view towards this ground.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 92 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The study concerns the interface of resource based conflicts and their impact on pastoral livelihood with reference to the Basongora pastoral community who have been at the centre of land conflicts as they claim ancestral rights to ownership of Queen Elizabeth National Park (QENP)and other neighboring pasturelands. This conflict has not only affected human race but also the environmental race. The study specifically established resources and how they have precipitated conflicts; the effects of the conflict; challenges involved in resolving this conflict and livelihood strategies and resolution mechanisms adopted. The findings revealed that,resource based conflicts have negatively impacted on pastoral livelihood and conservation as well. QINP conservation policies have not considered effective coexistence between the park and the pastoral community. The Government of Uganda could use this work to create a ground of building trust as an approach to reconcile conflicting parties. Policy makers and practitioners will be aided by this book to generate appropriate policies and guidelines towards addressing resource based conflicts in developing countries and the world at large.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 100 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book explains the main characteristics of and prerequisites for coordination between monetary and public debt management policies in Croatia and evaluates current practice, particularly during recession years. Attention is drawn to the importance of coordination for achieving macroeconomic stability and to the main problems and challenges obstructing successful coordination. It is assessed that the Croatian National Bank (CNB) has consistently contributed to improving coordination, despite the narrowing of its room for manoeuvre. Notwithstanding some contribution to coordination made by the Government and Ministry of Finance, they must take measures and employ instruments to make more significant adjustments and, together with the CNB, define an optimum fiscal and monetary policy mix for the future that will ensure stable economic growth. This paper gives an overview of major CNB measures aimed at facilitating the public debt management and improving coordination with the Ministry of Finance. It also points to a certain contribution of the Ministry of Finance to the coordination improvement, indicating major barriers to effective coordination.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Bangladesh is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world. Bangladesh is a part of humid tropic, with the Himalayas in the north and the funnel shaped coast touching the Bay of Bengal in the south. This peculiar geography of Bangladesh brings not only the life giving monsoons but also catastrophic ravages of cyclones, tornadoes and floods. Over the last two decades these disasters have become regular phenomena contributed miserable suffering to millions of inhabitants who are vulnerable to the climatic shocks. In other words, climate risk for Bangladesh is relatively higher than most other countries of the world.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 92 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Industrial establishments like saw mills were found along the lagoon which was polluting the environment. This makes the environment an eye sore and a sorry place to live. Rules and regulations should be put in place to protect the lagoon from pollution. Also, sediment traps and gritting should be provided in drains leading into the lagoon. This will stop refuse from getting into the lagoon. Small scale industries along the lagoon should be relocated to reduce the extent of pollution of the lagoon. It is believed that when these measures and others are adhered to the extent of pollution will be minimised, if not completely eradicated.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book introduces new dimensions in pension fund management. It provides a detailed discussion of the critical success factors in pension fund management namely: governance, regulations, investment strategy, pension fund risk management and ethics. The book bases its conclusions on well researched articles and reknown books. At the end of every chapter is a well conceptualized summary and a list of sources for the interested reader. Both academicians and practitioners will find the book a useful resource.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 120 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Nowadays, one of the biggest challenges for managers in the hotel industry is to provide and sustain customer satisfaction. However, maintaining sustainable customer satisfaction cause a lot of money per year to provide and fulfill the factors and hotel characteristics as the medium to increase the number of consumers, the service provider can save their money and make a right decision in their investment. Hotel managers have a problem of properly knowing the major attributes of quality service antecedents that have brining sustainable satisfaction for their customers. The problem might be lack of knowledge in identifying which service quality attribute need due consideration to overcame high level of their customer satisfaction. How can the hotelier recognize any attributes which have their most effect in enhancing the satisfaction levels of their customers Hence, it is important for the hotelier to seriously recognize the importance of service improvement for their business. The hotel management should consider any element or factor to fulfill their customer satisfaction. The main point to be discussed here is how this quality services can ensure customers satisfaction.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 76 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is being used as an improving method in MMS and as a guideline in highlighting the weak points in the erformance and finding the suitable procedures to overcome them to achieve the customers' satisfaction. Medical devices can be categorized as critical and non critical; the critical device is the one whose failure causes big loss in the service's efficiency and the non critical is the one whose failure causes moderate loss in the service's efficiency. Through this research, the performance of Medical Devices Maintenance Systems (MDMS) in Prince Hamzeh Hospital (PHH) was investigated and stustudied to find appropriate solutions aiming to make the medical device more available, more reliable and more reproducible. A sample size of 903 operators' questionnaires has been used to perform this study in PHH. Full descriptive analysis was performed and analyzed, as well as the QFD requirements were employed to build the new required system. A comparison was made between PHH and the Specialty Hospital (SH) to benchmark its performance and measure how much PHH is away from achieving its targets.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 104 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The aim of this book is to shed light over the relationship between aid organizations and quality assurance. More specifically, we aim to identify the challenges with quality assurance work in the context of Swedish party affiliated organizations. We have studied the process of quality assurance work in aid organizations, namely the Swedish party affiliated organizations, PAOs. During this process we have examined three of the organizations more closely, all of which have been in different stages of implementation. We have conducted a number of interviews with key individuals related to this process. From our empirics we identified a wide range of challenges which we narrowed down into six areas in our analysis. However, the most central aspect in our conclusion is the definition of quality. It is crucial for the entire quality assurance process that a common definition of quality is established among all involved participants. The definition of quality is the underlying variable that when identified defines all other parts of the quality assurance process and is also the key factor when solving the equation of each challenge.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 96 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The aim of this project is first to understand the meaning, nature, justifiability and enforceability of Second Generation Human Rights i.e. Economic, Social & Cultural (ESC) rights in post-cold war era of cut backs, social and economic retrenchment, de-industrialization and global restructuring. In this era, Human rights and in particular, the state responsibility to implement ESC Rights has thus become critically important both as counter dialogical tools and effective claims on society. The proscriptive, descriptive and prescriptive aspect of economic and social rights stipulated in different international instruments and the institutional and supervisory framework set up under those instruments are discussed here in details. The project also analyzes various aspects of ESC rights such as the international instruments dealing with ESC rights; the problems and pitfalls associated with the implementation of ESC rights; the promotional aspect of ESC rights or how the ESC rights can be promoted and finally relations between ESC rights and Millennium Development Goals.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 76 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Although most organizations want to improve quality and reduce costs, the implementation of continuous improvement tools and methods did not achieve the required results. Many organizations fail to properly structure and/or support continuous improvement initiatives. The identification of the critical success factors of six-sigma is a very essential step to reduce both the time and cost of six-sigma implementation, as well as to ensure its sustainability. So what the author will be committed to throughout his book is identifying the critical success factors of six-sigma implementation to help the organizations to apply this process improvement concept in the most effective and efficient way, with the lowest possible cost, and to sustain it.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 96 pp. Englisch.