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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The collapse of some insurance companies coupled with little emphasis on some of the risk factors in estimating motor insurance claims would give room for unfairness in making claim.The study has revealed the difference in the contribution level to making claims This allowed for an in-depth analysis of claim variables to assist in understanding the motor insurance claims.The SIC Insurance Company Limited should give relatively high premium to new cars as compared to older ones due to their higher demand of claims.Structuring the risk factors could help actuaries concerned with motor claims to appreciate the problems and advise the underwriters accordingly.Information Bill must be passed into law in view of removing the bottlenecks associated with data acquisition which was a serious challenge of this study.It is also recommended that further study be done in other insurance companies with the view of appreciating the discrepancies that exist in valuing risk, thus help Policy makers and particularly National Insurance Commission (NIC) to fairly price motor premiums.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 120 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The Chinese pizza restaurant market is experiencing a rapid growth and to entrepreneurs it represents exciting business opportunities. In order to explore the opportunities of competing on this market, this thesis applied two existing theories: Porter¿s Five Forces (PFF, Porter, 1980) and the Blue Ocean Strategy (BOS, Kim and Mauborgne, 2005) to understand the Chinese pizza restaurant market and create an innovative entry strategy for a pizza restaurant---ABFPR. The purpose of the thesis was to see if a combination of PFF and the BOS was useful for providing an analytical framework to create an entry strategy for ABFPR. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were utilized in this study. The findings indicated that PFF can help with providing an analytical framework of the Chinese pizza restaurant market, and the BOS can help creating differentiated value offerings in order to address the competition related challenges revealed during Porter¿s analysis. The results are relevant to entrepreneurs who are interested in opening restaurants in the Chinese pizza restaurant market and the model can benefit the entrepreneurs to exploit and develop the Chinese pizza restaurant market.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 108 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Barrier options are the most actively traded type of exotic equity derivative today. Especially reverse barrier options, like the up-and-out call considered here, are extremely difficult to hedge however. A number of interesting and sophisticated approaches of static hedging have therefore been proposed in the literature. To implement any of these static hedges under the consideration of observed market frictions many adjustments need to be addressed. This paper discusses the necessary adjustments for a large number of static hedges. As an example, DAX index options that are traded on the EUREX will be considered. In addition, hedge performance is analyzed with regard to a discounted hedge error. It turns out that only a few of the proposed static hedges perform satisfactory for an up-and-out call option with a barrier at 120%. It further seems unrealistic to hedge many different volatility levels or jump components in practice, as is proposed by some recent studies.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 68 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book describes proactive local strategies adopted by a local authority in Ghana to transform its oil palm chain to turn around the fortunes of the local economy and injected dynamism to stimulate local economic development. The study reveals that meso-institutions such as sector-based and territorial ones were catalysts for the growth and development of SMEs. However, the use of sector-based institutions such as business associations to reach the SMEs led to the exclusion of a greater number of SMEs. It confirms that improved business environment; access to credit,BDS and membership of business associations correlate with higher productivity and strong enterprise performance. Micro-level enterprise strategies and meso-level interventions were not sufficient to transform SMEs. It stresses influences from the broader regulatory environment for the transformation of SMEs and even proper functioning of meso-institutions. It has been confirmed that the development of less endowed localities depends on their development potential and accessibility to markets. The study finds that these drivers govern the economic growth and development process and generate externalitiesBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 76 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -¿Types of machines are easily matched with each type of society ¿ not that machines are determining, but because they express those social forms capable of generating them and using them' (Gilles Deleuze, Postscript on the Societies of Control). Technologies we use are in close correspondence to the way we think. They reflect some central topics of our times and provide with metaphors that are applied in other spheres of life. It refers especially to communication technologies - those that underlie the way we use language. Regardless of whether described in this thesis changes are viewed positively or negatively they do become a crucial factors influencing the whole social world as well as small, ordinary things we do every day. It seems that some of them are happening in an unnoticed way and are perceived as natural consequences of the technology development. I have tried to show that there are some concrete parties involved and some complex mechanisms that drives these changes.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The recent breakthroughs in communication technologies have reintroduced the user to Internet. Media consumers became empowered with the capabality to produce, and will gradually shift from the traditional role of an audience to generate content, compete with mainstream media and construct new social and cultural realities. This is a new era where communication is reshaping the world, redefining responsabilities and bringing in new (dis)orders. The channels of social media, through which audiences are mostly active, seems to be vulnurable platforms where Noise is integrated with the message by default, resulting in a participatory form of control and a state of deindividuation as the user gradually merges in the group. Thin lines set boundaries between the diffusion of information and the fuel of confusion, the enhancement of innovativeness and the distribution of persuasion; sustaining social control and menacing social order.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 56 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Dry season irrigation farming has become a major livelihood strategy in the Kassena-Nankana district of the Upper East Region of Ghana. This is especially so due to the increasingly erratic and unreliable rainfall pattern in the Savannah ecological zone. However, small scale irrigation schemes which are the main resource supporting this venture are beset with numerous challenges that threaten their very existence.This book is the outcome of a study conducted to unearth the problems of small scale irrigation schemes. The book discusses the management, maintenance and operational practices of the schemes and points out their strengths and areas that need further improvement. Notice is made of areas of support which are beyond the ability of the individual schemes as with de-silting the reservoirs and capacity building. The findings and recommendations of the study should serve as pointer for government and civil society to one of the areas to direct their resources if the interest is to reduce poverty levels and out-migration from the three northern regions of Ghana. The Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA)should find this book useful in their work.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 88 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Business outsourcing is one of the top business trends today. Organisations concentrate more on core business activities and outsource the non-core activities to the third party service providers. Organisations around the world are being forced to change the nature of their business to use their resources effectively to sustain the competitive advantage. Since customer expectations demand high quality products at lower cost and shorter delivery time, manufacturing firms desperately seek cooperation from their suppliers to improve their business performance. It is proven that such collaborative business operations results in optimum success with significant cost saving. Supplier development or the process of working jointly with the suppliers has enabled many firms to improve and expand their capabilities. The research reported in this book examines the identification of the criteria for supplier development. Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM) based model has been proposed to identify criterions for supplier development to aid the decision makers with more realistic solutions to the problems that encounter during the supplier development process.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 56 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Kuwait is an Islamic democracy where the citizens enjoy a number of freedoms partially. Kuwaiti society is known to be conservative with a large number of liberal Muslim citizens who freely participate in political and social life. The Kuwaiti Constitution protects all kinds of freedoms and human rights but with specifications. Yet, Kuwaiti citizens lack the awareness of the notion of the term ¿freedom of expression¿. Surprisingly, the Kuwaiti legal system does not have a definition of freedom of expression clearly specified. Thus, the vagueness of the freedom of expression in Kuwait leads to confusion for the legal authority while dealing with freedom of expression cases. The book examines freedom of expression in Kuwait by analyzing a case of two controversial female Kuwaiti authors have been hassled between the courts¿ decisions, judges¿ hesitations and the sharp accusations by the Kuwaiti society. Ms. Laila Alothman and Dr. Alyaa Alshuaib suffered for 7 years because of a group of Islamic Islamist who claimed that some of the authors¿ publications were controversial.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 68 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Nowadays in Chinese stock market, More and more quantitative investment-based fund and index fund companies are also springing up. Up to July,2010, there are 9 quantitative funds(active quantitative investment) and 12 index funds (passive quantitative investment) in Chinese A-Share Stock Exchange Market and Financial Engineering is becoming more popular in China. That is what stimulates me to describe the application of quantitative investment in Chinese stock market. In my book, I try to compare literal review of statistical ways for stock selection and also portfolio-construction computerized methodology and introduce my own stock selection and portfolio construction model (basing on Excel VBA, Matlab, SPSS).Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 116 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The book is primarily focused upon developing a theoretical framework to analyze cross-border M&A deals done in the Oil and Gas industry. The research deals in the identification of M&A patterns, trends and strategies- financial as well as Operations, sources of finance through critical analysis of past one year''s deals done in O&G industry. Our focus is also to identify the market in a particular geography and related legal and financial challenges.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 76 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The study focused at how domestic workers in a low density suburb in Harare, Zimbabwe copied with work-related challenges.It established a plethora of challenges that these domestic workers faced at their workplaces, and how they consequently responded to them both individually and collectively. The study therefore envisaged that domestic workers are not passive but they are active agents who always strategise to mitigate their deplorable work conditions.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 68 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A new kind of journalism emerge in the Zimbabwean newsroom as journalists try to cope with the political and economic pressures bedeviling the country.Jonathan examines the constructions of professionalism at the Financial Gazette through interrogating the journalistic practices privileged during the process of news production in the context of overwhelming state power.Jonathan draws on qualitative research methods, particularly observation and multi-layered individual in-depth interviews to interrogate the complex choices reporters made to ether cooperate or resist government pressure in their daily practices.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Media has tried to cover water and environment sector for a long time. Within environment and water sector is urban water sector; this is generating a series of events that are converted into news. The underlying problem in relation to his coverage on urban water issues as news is there is little knowledge about media''s process of selecting water issues as news. And, what influences this coverage has on urban water management. This thesis attempts to find answers to this information gap. The study found that the process of news making requires new, unusual and controversial events that are selected through a series of gates; influenced by individual journalist''s traits and flair, combined with external and internal influences of market, politics, public and idealism. In urban water, events related to crisis, controversy, tariff, pollution and private sector participation are considered news worthy. However, consistency of coverage is lacking and the media loses interest in the issues. Mainstream media is poorly equipped to address urban water issues and requires to be trained. However, news media does influence urban water management.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 96 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This research has been completed as an MA Thesis within the context of my study in Leiden University between 2006 and 2008. It consists of an extensive literature review on pollution control, lobbying, EU Climate Change Policy, UK Climate Change Policy and the position of Energy Generation Industry. Relying on the information gathered from primary and secondary sources the research finishes with an analysis on the influence of UK Energy Generation industry on EU Climate Change Policy. The reader should bear in mind the fact that climate change is a very dinamic issue. Therefore, unavoidably, there has been some changes in EU Climate Change Policy during the time period between the completion of this thesis and its publication.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 84 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This study sought to investigate the challenges faced by the informal cross border traders (ICBTs) plying the Harare -Johannesburg route from 2006 to 2010. The study shows that informal cross border traders encounter a lot of challenges during the conduct of their business. Some of these challenges, in terms of severity include border formalities, lack of government support and high transport costs. Informal traders are not organized and do not join associations. This study recommends that informal cross border traders'' associations embark on recruitment campaigns to educate the informal cross border traders about the benefits they get by belonging to an association. It also encourages associations to come up with savings clubs to mobilize funds from members for loaning to those members in need at an interest. Finally it also recommends that the government come up with a set of relaxed regulations that would create a non¿formal board to oversee the informal trade activities. It would then make it mandatory for informal traders to register with the board, making it easier to monitor, regulate and intervene.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Examining the trends and patterns of urbanization and migration in India during 1961-2001, this book attempts to analyse the inter-relationship between them over the period of economic development in India. The book outlined a conceptual framework of migration process of India and identifies its determinants. It is visualized that the findings of the study would be useful in particular to the students of economics, urban studies, demography and sociology. It is expected that the study would also be useful to the planners, policy makers and academicians in general.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 100 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Since media, particularly television, are an important source of sex education, it is relevant to know what types of sexual messages are being depicted on television. This research examines what types and frequencies of sexual behaviors are found in Mexican telenovelas produced by Televisa, Mexico''s largest television network, and how they have changed over time. This research and analysis should be useful to professionals in Communication, Sociology and Psychology, or anyone who may be interested in the portrayal of sexual behaviors in the media, in popular culture and television or in telenovelas and soap opera content.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -For any organization, the effective workforce planning is essential to stay competitive and continue to subsist. Workforce planning is an organized process for identifying the number of employees, their mix and the types of skill sets required to accomplish an organization''s strategic goals and objectives. This book focuses on demand analysis (i.e. forecasting the future workforce demand) in workforce planning. Workforce demand forecasting techniques can be classified into two broad categories viz. qualitative and quantitative. Generally, quantitative techniques are used to forecast workforce size and mix, whereas, qualitative techniques forecast competency requirements. This research explores demand analysis in many folds. First, state-of-the-art of workforce analysis techniques are presented and synthesized into a scenario specific forecasting technique(s) selection tree. Afterwards, the Clonal C-fuzzy Decision Tree (C2FDT), a decision support model, is proposed to forecast future workforce demand. C2FDT inherits its properties from fuzzy c-mean clustering and clonal algorithm.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 84 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Case study method has been used to develop investigation mostly of descriptive treatment. Poor exploitation of this method is observed as a means to gain knowledge of general problems or to establish a more refined theory. From this point of view, the present document is arguing for the use of the mentioned method in an instrumental fashion. Examples are presented related of investigation in the area of digital library, information policies and bibliographic organization.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 76 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Zakat as one of five pillars of Islam has always become a main issue when we are talking about the empowerment of Muslims'' economic lives. Besides its principal objective which is to elevate the spirit of human beings above the love of material acquisition, zakat has strategic roles in solving poverty problems. Therefore, as the majority of East Lombok people are Muslims and are living below the prosperous level, the East Lombok government enacted zakat regional regulation. The regulation was at first applied to civil servants, including teachers by deducting 2.5% of their monthly salaries of their earnings. However, it has raised strong resistances from thousands of teachers whose salaries were deducted. They argued that the salary deduction on behalf of zakat payment contradicts the Islamic law which they have understood. Therefore, this study endeavors to elaborate the teachers'' resistances to the East Lombok zakat regional regulation. It tries to seek teachers'' arguments why they did not want to pay zakat, instead, did some strikes and resistances. What is wrong with the government policy This book therefore tries to answer these questions.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 100 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The prominent absence of women from history that is taught at schools often goes unnoticed. Within the male-dominated societies of our times, the information we are given contains wars, death and destruction, caused by man-made hierarchical institutions. Moreover, the religious ideals that have accompanied these societies support this violence and ultimately the subordination of women with the same force. This book offers an insight into the traditions and symbols of the egalitarian Goddess religion, which the evidence shows that predates poly- and monotheism; the gradual suppression and demonization of the Goddess and, concordantly, the women she represents, are dealt with. Furthermore, the Romantic Period in English literature is singled out as a time of revival for the Goddess, which is emphasised through the analysis of the poem 'Lamia' by John Keats.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 56 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -'Some Basic Issues on Rural and Micro Finance Regulation in Ghana' (originally part of my master thesis) is a careful description of how micro finance can be used to fight poverty and create financial sustainability through the use of effective and efficient rural and micro finance regulatory regimes. This it does by carefully examining the available literature on rural and micro finance regulation in Ghana so as to determine what role regulation has or can play on the sustainability and improvement of rural and micro finance institutions for the alleviation of poverty in Ghana.The realization is that regulation has a cardinal role to play on the sustainability of rural and micro finance institutions, hence rural poverty reduction and development. This work is aimed at providing useful information for those who may be interested in the micro finance industry in the Ghana and Micro Finance Industry in general. These include among others; investors, micro finance practioners as well as students generally interested in micro finance regulation particularly in Ghana.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Having started in the end of 2007, the recent financial crisis forced many banks into bankruptcy and triggered multiple bail-outs as well as the set up of guarantee funds and liquidity injections. One was under the impression of watching ''Domino Day'' with the two differences being that banks were the falling stars of the show and that the plan according to which the banks were supposed to go down was not known even to the people being part of the game. I shed some light on this plan and examine the amount of contagion risk being present in the American and European banking systems. For this purpose, a sample of 15 US and 15 European banks is examined and several extreme value theory techniques are applied. The empirical evidence indicates that the American banking system is more prone to spillover risk than the European banking system. Despite particular cross-Atlantic differences, systemic risk has increased substantially on both continents over time. The evidence provided is calling for regulators'' and bank managers'' attention and action.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 96 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The aim of this book is in the first place to show how to deal with a credit risk, and which tools the Czech banking sector uses to minimize it (based on the adequate literature and own experience). In the second place, the aim is to find out the reliable logit model estimating the probability of default during the short period based on available data (in the time of economic crisis in the Czech environment). In the first part of the book I am describing the development of Non-performing loans before and during the current financial crisis together with the results of the CNB''s stress tests. Next chapter describes the credit risk with the emphasis on the credit monitoring, including the most frequently used monitoring tools. Final part turns us to the most important EWM model. The strictly confidential banking data (credit account turnovers, credit contract), together with data from the financial statements and CRU registry are the inputs to the Model. The Model should work as an early warning signal detection thanks to the estimate of probability of default (more specifically the watch loan classification or worse) during the next three months.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Processing theories (Clahsen, 1984; Pienemann, 1997) have argued that the production of subordinate clauses is the last stage in the development of the second language learner. However, these theories did not refer to the relation between proficiency level and the production of complex syntax. Thus, more knowledge is required about the development of frequency and accuracy of complex syntax in EFL learners, and the relation between this development and proficiency level. Moreover, both second language and first language research (i.e. Salaberry& Lopez-Ortega, 1998) have revealed the impact of the discourse genre and task on the production of subordinate clauses, without adequate investigation of expository discourse. Hence, this book provides an exploratory study on the development of complex syntax across three proficiency levels of EFL learners through oral expository presentations. A number of syntactic indicators of oral development are revealed with different degrees of sensitivity towards the development of fluency, accuracy, and complexity. This monograph should appeal to English instructors, linguists, and professionals in oral assessment and linguists.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In this book we aim to evaluate to what extent the strategic marketing planning process is applicable to an educational institution, and secondary to present how this can be achieve by developing a sample strategic marketing plan for a specific MBA. Following an explanatory introduction, a literature review is developed, concerning marketing as a general discipline, the application of marketing techniques to educational institutions, and the strategic marketing plan as a document. With regard to the first aim, the creation of an applicable strategic marketing plan indicates that the development the strategic marketing planning process is feasible and necessary for educational institutions in order to succeed and to enhance their image in the marketplace. With regard to the second aim, using the strategic framework provided in the literature review, an appropriate model is developed and applied to a generic MBA, showing the benefits a marketing plan can achieve, even in the educational field.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 96 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Present manuscript reports about the factors affecting milk production & composition & also points out the management factors affecting udder health in traditionally managed camels.Season of the year, parity & stage of lactation affected significantly(pBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A two-dimensional shallow resistivity survey of the groundwater potential of Ahmadu Bello University, Kongo Campus, Zaria Kaduna State, Nigeria using electrical imaging technique was carried out. Six image lines were measured at different strategic locations of the study area based on the fractured map of the area and Borehole log data information obtained from the area. Results from the interpretation of the data collected suggest 2-4 layers in the area studied.The resistivity value for the first layer (Topsoil) varies from 10 to 400 ohmm with thickness ranging from 1-14m. The second layer (Weathered Basement) has resistivity values between 120 and 500 ohm-m and thickness ranging from 5-11m. The third layer (Fractured basement) has resistivity values ranging from 500-1000 ohm-m and thickness between 3 and 6m. The fourth layer is the Fresh Basement (Bedrock) has resistivity values greater than 1000 ohm-m and infinite thickness.The southwest (SW) of the study area does represent a promising Aquifer with reasonable thickness of Weathered Basement and Fractured Zone. Also, the area seems to be a zone of high hydraulic conductivity because of its low resistivity values.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Complete hybrid sterility has been the major hindrance for combining desirable traits of the two cultivated rice species Oryza glaberrima and Oryza sativa. AfricaRice scientists used biotechnological interventions to overcome this sterility leading to the development of NERICAs. The NERICAs are variable giving a large gene pool from which desirable characteristics can also be combined into a desirable plant type. Will crossing two NERICAs also result to complete hybrid sterility A study was set up to investigate the crossability of some selected upland NERICAs. Though there wasn¿t complete hybrid sterility in the selected NERICAs, crossability was variable depending on the type of cytoplasm and cytoplasm nucleus interactions.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 52 pp. Englisch.