lap lambert academic publishing jul 2012 (Oltre 2.600 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Is an abundance of natural resources a ¿blessing¿ or a ¿curse¿ Should natural resources be held accountable for the poor development outcome of some states There have been different contesting frameworks and evidences pointing to either one of the questions above. This book examines these different concepts, and contributes to the resource curse debate by analysing how some resource rich countries attained development successfully with the aid of their natural resources while some did not. A case study approach is employed with main focus on Nigeria because of its strategic position as the largest exporter of crude oil in Africa. Nigeria is critically analysed using Kaufmann et al¿s governance indicators. The analysis would help shed light on the governance structures needed to boost development and economic growth in both resource rich and resource poor developing states. This book will be especially useful to professionals in oil and gas sectors, international development fields, students of international relations, development studies and other scholars.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 84 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Value Engineering (VE) is a practice whose goal is, always, to achieve value for money. VE found its first applications in U.S. manufacturing at the end of World War II. Its introduction to construction in the early 1960s was fueled by the U.S. military and expanded throughout the U.S. government. Subsequently, its use has spread globally. The book goes beyond merely describing the theory of VE in order to explain how the methodology can be productively used in practice . it is hoped that the practice advice contained in its chapter will assist engineers , who are involved with establishing VE activities within their organization , it also aimed at assisting all those who may become involved with VE to participate more productivity by giving them greater appreciation of the basics of VE , and how it relates to other construction activities. Selecting the project at the appropriate stage of development (the timing of the study) is very important to the success of the VE study. Value can be added by performing a VE study at any time during project development.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 88 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book consists of a sharp analysis of ethnic movements in Nepal. As politicization of ethnicity is the main idea of the study, the writer explores historical trends and changing patterns of ethnic movements in Nepal. Particularly, the writer has brought into light the Tharu movement as a case. Issues of ethnic politics are more chronic as well as crucial now; this book helps academicians, researchers and readers to widen their perspective.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 52 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The present study was conducted in District Faisalabad. Multistage sampling technique was used for data collection. At the first stage two institutions (Govt. Special Education Center Jaranwala and Govt. Special Education Center Tandianwala) were selected purposively. At the second stage a list of rural disabled children¿s mothers from the school record was prepared. At the third stage 120 mothers (60 from each institute) were selected randomly from the list. Data were collected with the help of a well-designed interview schedule. It was found that most of the respondents belonged to low income families. It is concluded that the cousin marriage is a cause of disability among children. Some children were going to school willingly. It was found that the mothers faced different problems from their disabled children pick and drop (65.8%), teaching (79.8%), lack of interest in education (47.5%), helpless hopeless (72.5%), lack of confidence (64%), loneliness (75%) irritable and short tempered (88.3%) and mobility (77.5%). It was found also that the family members had helpful behaviour, whereas majority of the other people had teasing behaviour with the disabled persons.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 96 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Strategic capacity planning involves an investment decision that must match resource capabilities to a long term demand forecast. This work finds out explanations of the techniques of capacity planning and management techniques to end the power interruption in general and input for strategic decision-making purposes in particular in ethiopia. Secondly, it incorporates the views of some manufacturing industries. The research identifies the causes of power interruption with regard to planning functions actions, compared the corporation¿s planning systems with the scientific approaches of demand planning (forecasting. The research explored the following areas: the corporation¿s capacity planning and management techniques during the past four years, actions are taken to improve the distribution systems and substations, the level of the corporation¿s integrity with external entities, the corporation¿s use scientific capacity planning and management systems, the alternative ways of managing power interruption EEPCo used.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 92 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A happy worker is a productive worker is an assumption on which this research is based. Motivational factors play an important role to increase employee¿s productivity by making them happy and satisfied. This study was conducted to identify and analyze the importance of motivational factors that lead toward job satisfaction and organizational commitment in telecom sector of Pakistan. The association among Motivators and Hygiene factors (independent variables) were investigated with job satisfaction (mediating variable) and its relationship with organizational commitment (dependent variable) was also hypothesized. Simple random sampling techniques was used to draw the sample from the population, 350 responses through questionnaires were collected from managerial and non managerial employees. SPSS 17.0 has been used for analysis and the outcome of study was being questionable to Herzberg¿s theory by concluding that both extrinsic and intrinsic factors have significant and positive relationship with job satisfaction but association of Hygiene factors with job satisfaction is more than motivators in telecom sector.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has experienced a dramatic rise in Portugal in the last three decades, which was essential for the convergence process of the country with the European Union. Many authors have already studied the determinants of FDI, but few have analyzed them at sectoral level. Indeed, the motivations that lead the choices of foreign investors vary according to the sector invested. Therefore, the present master's thesis is a pioneer study whose main objective is to identify the determinants of FDI in Portugal, in nine economic activities. In order to assess that, two models were constructed using the OLS estimator with time series data from 1980 to 2009 for the Portuguese economy. Using the results obtained, it is possible to elaborate a set of more cost-effective policies aimed to improve the attractiveness of the country for foreign multinational enterprises and, consequently, take advantage of the externalities created by bigger flows of FDI.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 92 pp. Englisch.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The study under reader¿s view is an effort to reveal the inside dynamics for determination of Dividend Payout with reference to Non Financial Firms listed in the KSE100 Index. In light of prior literature, key explanatory variables were identified as Earnings, Firm Size, Growth, Profitability, Corporate Tax & Financial Leverage. Through observation, 53 such companies were identified from the listed non financial firms in the Karachi Stock Exchange that have been paying out dividend consistently for the past 6 years (2005-2010), hence encompassing one complete business cycle. These 53 companies represent 11 sectors. Multivariate Regression Analysis was identified as the most appropriate tool for econometric analysis of the data. Data was tested to fulfill the conditions of OLS. Regression Results revealed that Corporate Tax and Firm¿s Size had significant relationship with Dividend Payout. Rest of the four explanatory variables were found to be insignificant in context of Pakistani market. This paper is a must read for Capital Market Students & Investors.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A sizable amount of research has been devoted to examine the short-term impacts of free trade on developing countries. Most of these studies, however, used partial equilibrium analysis and empirical results even become more complicated when openness is a measure of trade liberalization. To consider the interdependencies of various markets, static Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model is widely used in most of the previous studies. But, the application of dynamic CGE is very scarce in African countries and the long ¿term consequences of trade policy reforms receive less attention. This study addresses two pertinent research gaps in the literature- focuses on the dynamic CGE to consider the dynamic effects of capital accumulation on poverty and income distribution in the medium run and captures the multiplier effects on the different sectors and income groups. In particular, this line of research is relevant for developing world given that less restrictive tariff and non-tariff barriers since early 1990¿s and more than 25% of the population is below the poverty line in 2005. The study offers quantitative evidence of the trade-growth-poverty linkage in Ethiopia.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 116 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The present thesis is a study of the role of family dynasty in the politics of Bangladesh. This thesis delves into something ulterior and recognizing the peripheral status of Bangladesh in world capitalism and explained the problem of family dynasty in the establishment of proper democracy in Bangladesh. Democracy means fraternity, equality, equity and transparency. Actually family dynasty is not working as a democratic process. This analysis will reach a wide audience. It will be illuminating not only to academics and students but also to policy makers and all those interested in the study of family dynasty as a process of democracy.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 88 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -It must be through reducing historical gap occured to the gender difference and rethinking our basic attitudes towards females that we can overcome possible risks and challenges so as to provide quality education for all.This needs critical effort in developing countries like Ethiopia where Gender issue is in general and female academic participation in particular is becoming considerable.In addition to these negative attitudes towards female education in developing countries,off-campus residence during females college study agravate their problems not to concentrate on their academic work equally to their male class mates.This book emphesizess on the problems female students encounter when they residing off-campus and recommends posible solutionsBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 116 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In the present work the author explores a highly contested issue in Central Asia that not only hinders regional cooperation but may potentially serve as a cause of open conflict, namely the water crisis or rather mismanagement of water resources. The author seeks to put into question the applicability of the concept of Integrative Water Resources Management aimed at improving use of water resources in Central Asia, arguing that there is a lack of appropriate institutions to implement the ideas of this concept in the region. Dr. Daria IsachenkoBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 92 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Since the early 1990's, the wave of decentralization has provided the opportunity of self-administration,in the least putting in place participatory structure. The immediate impact offered ,as a result is formal forum to set issues and concerns of local community, and then to conduct thorough discussion so as to address local problem in a concerted effort. In view of this , decentralization benefited to mobilize and organize local community for local development. And yet, decentralization above and beyond mobilization has basic mission to hold public officials accountable for their decision and action. This feature of decentralization draws its complete picture in realizing its objectives. And so, it follows that accountability and political will are the key element and determinants of decentralization.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 116 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -'Consumer is always king'. This statement indicates the importance and magnitude of consumers, so consumers behavior and their decision making should be studied in more depth and profundity. Nowadays, decision making and purchase intention are more complicated and more significant for consumers than in the past. Customers are encompassed by reports, advertisements, articles and direct mailings that provide large number of information. Moreover, different kinds of products, supplies, super markets and shopping malls make complexity and difficulty for consumers in the case of decision making. There are some reasons that motivate us to focus on young Malaysian customers. First of all, at the period of evolution from youth to early maturity, this customer segments have their unique consumer behaviors and attitudes. Secondly, young customers have the power to influence their family and shape family¿s consumer behavior. Finally, the segments of juvenile customers are known as very special segment for some products.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 92 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book investigated the reading behaviors of faculty members in colleges in Nagpur City in India. Out of 179 teachers 150 teacher means near 84% have responded and returned the questionnaire duly filled in, 123 Male teachers and 44 Female teaches have responded. In this study the all the teachers are of Arts & Commerce faculty and of Senior College in Nagpur city. Indiäs education attention is focused on a number of problems that have as common factors, the need for more knowledge about reading and the ways and means by which children and adults can be helped to improve their reading skills. At the elementary, secondary, and college levels, where opportunities for schooling are being increased daily, probably the biggest single factor in success in proficiency in reading. This book would help to enhance the collection in the library.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The world is facing a paradox of situations.On the one hand,there is rapid increase of technological prowess in the developed north and on the other hand there are disparities in human development like malnutrition and poverty in the under-developed south. The need to rationalize the benefits of Information and Communication technologies for addressing basic issues of human deprivation,viz poverty is the core agenda of this book.The book has been designed in a manner that a person with a non-sociological background can easily understand the problems of resource disconnect which is glaring between the two blocs of our planet. This book would help in understanding of basic issues of technology and its large scale potential as well as the possible impact it would have on any multi-cultural society. The power of the micro-chip can be channelised for the betterment of the masses so that viable economic models can be built on simple ICT platforms. This book will be useful for undergraduate students who want to pursue their higher studies in the areas of ICT for Development. I hope this book would be beneficial for both individuals and institutions working for social change.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 120 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -As a break from the past where organizations employed most of its personnel on a permanent basis, there have been a sharp rise in the use of short-term employment contracts within the Kenyan banking industry in the recent past. The main objective of this study was to investigate the factors that had contributed to the increased use of short-term employment contracts in the banking industry in Kenya. The specific focus of this study was to investigate the cost implication of short-term contracts, and determine the influence of workload fluctuations, business uncertainty and employee screening practices on the increased use of short-term contracts. The study was a census of all the registered 45 banking institution in Kenya. It was found that the main motives for hiring employees on short-term basis were related with matching staff to peak workload demands, saving on wage costs, having personnel for unusual working hours, covering staff absences (both long term and short term), and screening employees before giving them permanent jobs. The study concluded that the main factor contributing to increased use of short-term employments contracts is because these contracts are effectiveBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Improving nutrition is essential to reduce extreme poverty. Since the images of drought & starvation have become inexorably linked with Ethiopia. Malnutrition can best be described in Ethiopia as a long term year round phenomenon due to chronic inadequacies in food instance combined with high level of illness. Children with severe malnutrition are at risk of several life threatening problems like hypoglycaemia, hypothermia, serious infection, & severe electrolyte disturbances. The purpose of book is to provide professionals with an overview of the field, with a focus on major public health problems related to nutrition in Ethiopian including protein energy malnutrition, vitamin A deficiency, vitamin D deficiency, & Iron deficiency anemia.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 96 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This research is based on existing renewable and informal energy assessment focusing on Shyamnagar Upazila of Satkhira District, south-western part of Bangladesh. The status of the energy catastrophe of south-western part of Bangladesh is in a position that they are using different kind of energy sources like fire wood, cow dung for cooking purposes. And solar energy and electricity are used for daily lightings and different potential activities. This study thinks, potentiality and future of the renewable and informal energy sources are bright in Bangladesh.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 68 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Compact antenna structure, natural orthogonality and better line of sight performance are the main reasons why we should consider polarized multi-antenna systems. This book provides a new model for narrow-band correlated Rician dual-polarized MIMO channels. A number of factors including the incorporation of K-factor matrix, asymmetric power imbalance parameters, and space-polarization correlation characteristics make the model in this book useful for most narrow-band applications.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 120 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Our recent technological advancements are placing large burden on the energy sector. The fast developing trends have higher energy requirements too. The global energy provider, fossil fuels being non-renewable & eco-destructive cannot be relied on a long term basis. This realization cast light on the pathway of renewable and sustainable sources. Hydrogen is an eco-friendly fuel with an energy yield nearly 2.75 times that of hydrocarbon fuels. The current production techniques of hydrogen are energy intensive and expensive. This book provides an insight into biological hydrogen production through fermentation of dairy wastewater. It provides environmental benefits in the form of sustainable biofuel generation along with wastewater treatment. A novel approach of using a substrate mixture of dairy wastewater and coir pith in biohydrogen reactor is included in this study. This aspect has reportedly enhanced the biohydrogen production. The analysis shall introduce some new hopes in the field of hydrogen energy research.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 68 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Wireless communication systems which employ multiple access techniques require very sensitive management of the sources. This is the key requirement because of random and frequent movement of mobile users and rapid variations in the channel. In Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) based wireless communication systems, the most important issue on transmitter side is the power management. Intelligently controlled power heavily improves the systems performance and capacity. The requirement of power control becomes more important in tactical network which is a type of self organizing and self operating systems. The aim of this research work is to optimize the transmitted powers of mobile users in a multiuser CDMA based tactical networks. The proposed power optimization method for tactical networks is of valuable importance because it can be extended to other types of networks which are self organizing and infrastructureless. This work deals with the power optimization of multiple users of CDMA system where only peer-to-peer communication can take place due to the absence of any central unit or base station.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 88 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Pulses are low cost source of protein for majority of Indian consumers and also serve as a better substitute during the periods of high prices of vegetables. They are grown as rainfed crops with little or no modern yield enhancing inputs and play an important role in the food security of a relatively large proportion of population in the developing countries like India. In spite of its comparable potentiality, the crop still hardly receives equal status like cereals in the cropping system, which is mainly due to low productivity. Thus development of new pulse varieties with better package and practices of cultivation is inevitable. This book highlights recent technological advances to get better performance of green gram in terms of growth and yield, which would help entire fraternity of agriculture including scientists, research workers and farmers to meet the growing interest in sustainable agriculture.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Have you ever wondered how hackers break into Web systems these days Are you a software developer/tester and do you need to develop secure applications/test for security issues Then this book is for you. Web offers great advantages such as low cost and instant reachability from anywhere in the world. However Web applications tend to be implemented in an insecure way. This book presents the most dangerous Web vulnerabilities along with step by step methodology to find them in modern Web systems. Any software developer should have no difficulties understanding it and using it right away.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 108 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -As mobile devices are becoming the popular portals for internet users, it has exposed some basic design limitations of the dominant Transmission Control Protocol. A crucial feature of TCP is the congestion control algorithm. The basic assumption is that, packet loss being nominal is a sign of network congestion. But in mobile wireless networks non congestion related packet losses due to varying signal power are dominant. This book provides an overview of the challenges and suggested optimization techniques for TCP in wireless network environments.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 76 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Conservation tillage has evolved in past three decades toward less soil inversion and maintenance of crop residue on the soil surface. Knowledge of area under conservation tillage would be important for various ecological models. Remote sensing techniques show promise in providing such spatial data over a large area in a time and cost-effective manner. A study was conducted with the objectives to characterize the spectral behaviour of wheat crop under different tillage practices and, to discriminate different tillage adopted areas through multi-spectral remote sensing satellite data. Spectral behaviour of wheat crop were evaluated to characterize temporal crop growth behaviour as affected by tillage options and to find suitable band, time and index/indices for capturing the differential crop response to tillage options. Rice- wheat area was estimated using temporal NDVI profile of pre-processed satellite data of IRS P6, LISS ¿III and decision tree classification. Satellite image of November, when mostly land remains fallow, was used for mapping for RCT and CT areas using logistic regression and spectral angle mapper techniques.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 92 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs)are collections of mobile nodes, dynamically forming a temporary network without centralized administration. These nodes can be arbitrarily located and are free to move randomly at any given time, thus allowing network topology and interconnections between nodes to change rapidly and unpredictably. Transmission control protocol provides reliability, end-to-end congestion control mechanism, byte stream transport mechanism, flow control, and congestion control. There has been significant research activity over the past year into performance of such networks with the view to develop more efficient and robust TCP variants. so over aim is to find best TCP variants in Mobile Adhoc Networks.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 132 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Online Optimal Pulsewidth Modulation (OPWM) for a Multilevel Inverter explains a control scheme in controlling a 5-level Cascaded H-bridge Multilevel Inverter (CHMI) output voltage based on the OPWM switching strategies. For better CHMI output voltage magnitude control resolution, a curve fitting technique (CFT) for online computation of the OPWM switching angles is presented. Focus is given on the CFT and the multilevel control design aspect of the control scheme for the CHMI. This control scheme is generally suitable for AC power supply applications that do not involve variations in the multilevel inverter operating frequency. In addition, its suitability is also identified for applications that require high quality output voltage but at the same time do not allow increase in the multilevel inverter power devices switching frequency. This may be due to the technological limits of the power devices employed for high voltage applications or certain environmental condition. To show the feasibility of the control scheme, results of a simulation study and experimental work on a 5-level CHMI operation are presented.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 100 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Customized SOA (CSOA) application is just like customized software for any organization with absolute nothing or minimum involvement of human effort. CSOA application provides only services to any small organization. A provider can offer this type of application to relevant organization. Considering CSOA constraints, a method is needed for its development to overcome limitations associated with other methodology for developing CSOA application. This Thesis aims to describe technique for analysis, design and construction of CSOA applications known as BOSM (Business Oriented Services Model). BOSM for CSOA is a development framework which uses the discipline and practices of SOMA and RUP for the proper management of utilizing the basic characteristics of SOA such as reusing existing services, changing existing service with less effort, adding new services at any time, developing new services with future plan, etc.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 116 pp. Englisch.