lap lambert academic publishing mrz 2011 (Oltre 1.400 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book is about Real Estate development for commercial gain. It introduces the main subjects in Real Estate Development: Town and Regional Planning, Development environment and markets, Development economics, Packaging of developments, Professional team, Marketing, Funding, Construction management, Asset management and Appraisal of developments. The book gives an account of key indicators for successful developments and how to complete developments successfully. Great emphasis is made in developing for profit and ensuring that the development process creates value that can be realised in positive returns from selling the development. An internationl perspective is given in the book to ensure that the principles are adaptable to most developed and developing countries. 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The main purpose of this book is to show companies, managers and marketers that social media creates a lot of new opportunities for them. Communities and networks are getting more important in this new Web 2.0 based world. The last decennia's it cost a lot of effort for managers and companies to reach their target customers. The internet, and especially social media, gave these managers and companies' new useable channels to reach their consumers again. Managers are now able to reach their target customers through micro marketing. This research showed that it is not only possible to reach the customers again, but also to predict the behavior of these consumers based on what kind of community they belong to. Within this research music preference based communities were used. 104 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -With the creation of the EMU, member countries have abandoned their monetary policy sovereignty for the benefits of the Euro. Previously, output fluctuations between countries could automatically be absorbed by an adjustment of the relative exchange rate between the national economies. It is frequently argued that the loss of this channel must be compensated by an appropriate fiscal policy tool to avoid large and protracted regional swings in economic growth and unemployment. A fiscal federation could serve as a centralized insurance mechanism against idiosyncratic, transitory shocks among the member states. The paper establishes a framework for an interregional insurance mechanism and applies the methodology to a sample of EMU countries. The empirical results reveal the potential magnitude of insurance provided by a redistributive mechanism and allow conclusions as to whether a fiscal federation should be established in the EMU. 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In Ethiopia as in most developing countries the population has increased steadily which led the growth rate of adolescents in the society never before due to high fertility rate. These Adolescents are lack of adequate information and services about reproductive health issues. Most of the time parents are not comfortable talking sexual matter to their children .Increased exposure to the health risks of teenage pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, and abortion. population and family life education is limited. Each chapter assesses the existing knowledge, attitudes and practice of adolescents women towards sexual behavior and reproductive health in Addis Ababa. Moreover, when sex started How many sexual partners had How adolescents are influenced by peer and socio-cultural factors Where to get source of information and services Is there any relationship between population growth and reproductive health Where preferred to get family life education This book also provide factual data and information for students ,policy makers, researchers, educators, self-help groups and other voluntary organizations or you may be someone using the resource to tackle this problem from different angles. 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This work focuses on the financial valuation of particular renewable energy investments: namely wind and solar photovoltaic large scale projects. As a consequence of a global sky high growth of investments in these two technologies it is natural to wonder what fuelled this trend. Besides the obvious question about whether it is worth investing or not, it is interesting to understand if and how value is created and which parameters can significantly influence it. In order to answer these questions I have built a financial model based on the Adjusted Present Value method. This method may result complicated if compared to the traditional Discounted Cash Flow. However, it has the advantage of enabling not only the determination of the the net present value of investments, but also the separation of the value generated by investing decisions from that generated by financing ones. Key findings demonstrate that growth is backed by a good average profitability for both wind and solar projects, even though results can change a lot, mostly depending on financing considerations 96 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book discusses the legality in international law of the reservation made by Malawi to article 26 of 1951 United Nations Convetion Relating to the Status of Refugees (CSR51)and the measures employed restricting thefreedom of movement and choice of residence of refugees in Malawi. First the discussion analyzes whether the formulation of the reservation complies with the general international rules and the provisions in CSR51 regulating legality of reservations. Secondly the the book discusses the effect of the reservation on the enjoyment by refugees of the rights to freedom of movement and choice of residence provided in art.26 of CSR51. To this end the discussion considers whether the application of the reservation through the measures restricting freedom of movement and choice of residence of refugees is lawful and compatible with Malawi's obligations as a party to the Convention. The book also discusses the possible legal consequences of the reservation and measures. 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - 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. 68 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The aim of this research is to find out what's attitude Swedish consumers have to Chinese food. The questionnaires based on the Food Choice Questionnaire (FCQ) are handed out to 100 Swedish respondents in order to investigate their motivation on Chinese food choice. Eleven factors involved in the questionnaire are labeled health, mood, convenience, sensory appeal, natural content, price, weight control, familiarity, image of China, culture and safety. The information from two semi-structured interviews with Chinese food suppliers showed Swedish consumers' attitude to Chinese food in another angles. The ABC model and Balance Theory are seen as the theoretical basis for empirical research analysis. The eating habits of Swedish and Chinese are compared to show their difference which influence Swedish consumers on food choice more or less. 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This case study primarily aims at understanding the implications of expansion of markets for the women workers of Andhra Pradesh, India concentrating, as it does, on the garment manufacturing industry of the state. This, of course, involves the sweeping changes in the macroeconomic regime in India, and in many other developing countries, relate mainly to the Industrial sector in terms of expansion of markets and technological modernization. Generally, the standard literature on the implications of these changes in the industrial sector is not gender specific, and it coexists with a women-focused literature the burden of which is often to present women as victims of the changes in the policy regime. However, the existing diversity in the nature of different industries on the one hand and firms within an industry on the other, the implications of the changes are likely to differ at the micro level where disaggregation by gender assumes importance. 68 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The effect of external debt on economic growth has been among the contentious issues. Based on panel data for 44 Sub-Saharan African countries for a period of over 30 years, this book reveals that external debt stock and debt services are found to have a statistically significant negative impact on economic growth especially at higher debt levels of debt/GDP ratio. The growth maximizing level of debt stock ranges from 25% to 45% of GDP. Furthermore, external debt affected growth by adversely affecting human capital formation. Debt service payments are also found to have the 'crowding out' effects on private investment. The implication of these findings is that countries in Africa should align their public policies towards maintaining a sustainable level of indebtedness, improve the quality of their man power, enhance good governance and control corruption. In addition to the provision of new loans, developed countries and multilateral institutions should foster development cooperation and fairer trade for Africa. Postgraduate students and other researchers will benefit by reading this book as it adds value to the theoretical and empirical literature on external debt. 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Wetlands are areas consisting of both aquatic and terrestrial conditions whereby the environmental characteristics are usually determined largely by hydrologic processes in relation to climate and geographic location of the area. About 10% of the land surface of Tanzania is covered by wetlands which provide a wide range of ecosystem functions thus exhibit significant economic, social, cultural and biological values. Masurura Swamp supports a variety of flora and fauna through which the communities living around derive various products and services. It provides habitat for a variety of wild fauna such as hippopotamus and crocodiles, a variety of waterfowls as well as a variety of fish species of economic importance. This book aims to encourage various communities to learn about and ensure sustainability of wetlands found within their areas. It will also help extension officers, project managers and other leaders to take an active role in protecting Masurura Swamp and other wetlands to ensure survival and sustainability of existing biodiversity for current and future generations. 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -India is committed to Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) and is a signatory of Convention for Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), yet at the start of the 11th Five- Year Plan, women's health and well-being have received far less attention and care both from civil society including their families and from the public sphere. The book found that the prevalence of morbidity, especially obstetric and gynecological morbidity was quite high among women of reproductive age group in rural West Bengal and also in rural Birbhum. Also, the prevalence of non-reproductive morbidity among women of the said age group, though not very high, cannot be ignored. The tendency to seek treatment for any morbidity was not satisfactory. Therefore this book tried to identify the socio-economic and demographic factors, which determine women's health status and their treatment seeking behaviour. 64 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - 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. 76 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The reputation of women's football is changing. In England the sport is now officially the most popular amongst the female population and we have seen significant improvements to the women's game after decades of stagnation and inadequate conditions for growth. This investigation in to the potential marketing opportunities for women's football in England aims to give the reader an insight in to the factors preventing the sport becoming a viable business enterprise as well as revealing possible avenues to exploit and suggestions on how to gain much needed market share in a male dominated industry. The study uses established marketing concepts, and discussions on sociological issues, in order to rationalise how consumers of football behave. Research is then presented which tests the informed assumptions made by the author, with the overall objective of attempting to distinguish the differences in consumer behaviour of male and female football fans towards the Women's game. Recommended for enthusiasts of Football and anyone with an interest in Sports Marketing 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book traces the perception of management, staff and students of the Historically Disadvantaged South African Universities (HDSAUs) on these institutions. This perception has been triggered by the impact of the apartheid regime in South Africa over a long time, until the country got independence in 1994. During this regime, the HDSAUs served students of black, Asian and Coloured races, while the Historically Advantaged South African Universities (HASAUs)served students of White race. It is revealed that the HSAUs were well funded with excellent facilities, unlike the HDSAUs. This perception has resulted in most students and employees prefering to study and offer their services, respectively, to HASAUs. The book also gives suggestions from other scholars, researchers and writers as to how this perception can be positively enhanced to enable these institutions to gain competitive advantage over the HASAUs. It is the researcher's conviction and that of the few earlier researchers and scholars, that if good brand management is applied to these institutions, they stand a good chance of gaining competitive advantage. 84 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This thesis starts from the description of two main concepts: 'poverty' and 'vulnerability to poverty'. It first presents the main definitions available in the existing literature and draws a basic premise: vulnerability has to be accounted for as likelihood and severity of future poverty (in other words, as the ex-ante perspective of the risk for an individual to become poor). It then lists the main indices used to measure vulnerability to poverty and poverty itself, setting the ground for an empirical application to the Italian panel data of households' income from 1994 to 2001. The final aim of this work is to provide evidence of the necessity to give risk and uncertainty a central role in the political and economic measures to face current destitution. 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -High Interest Rate Spreads, negatively affect the level of economic growth of a Country and the effeciency of the financial institutions. This is evidenced in the inverse relationship of the spreads and the level of GDP and the ratio of M2/GDP as proxies for economic growth and level of financial intermediation in this study respectively. Further, the direct relationship of the bank rate, treasury bill rates and the ratio of non performing loans to private sector credit in this study indicates the likelines of crowding out of private sector investment which also negatively affect the level of economic development of a Country. This is not 'good news' for a developing country like Uganda. Measures should therefore, be taken to reduce the Interest Rate Spreads in Uganda. 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - 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. 68 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Chapter 1 sets out the background to enterprise- wide risk management (EWRM). Chapter 2 examines literature on EWRM and Chapter 3 assesses key theoretical approaches to EWRM. Chapter 4 sets out the research design while Chapter 5 presents and discusses the results of an empirical investigation which explores the views of 16 Chief Executive Officers drawn from 16 Zimbabwean short- term insurance companies. Research evidence shows that whilst risk awareness seems good in most Zimbabwean short-term insurance companies, a significantly lower number take adequate measures to reduce risks to their lowest practical levels. It might be suggested that the Zimbabwean short-term insurance industry has limited capabilities to consistently identify, measure and manage risk exposures across the company and thereby limit exposures. Execution of EWRM is sporadic and losses have not been limited in accordance with predetermined risk tolerance guidelines. Therefore, the Zimbabwean short-term insurance industry might be viewed as having weak EWRM. Therefore this research provides a wide range of recommendations to address the identified weaknesses. 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware 88 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Which is the most efficient way to hedge bunker fuel risk in the liner shipping industry since the abolition of the BAF conferences This work aims to provide a complete description of the possibilities available to shipowners to hedge fuel price risk, both available on markets and OTC. Furthermore an analysis of the efficiency of such strategies is carried on, to propose an ideal best way to perform the hedging strategy. 84 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - 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. 96 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - 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. 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This study sought to explain how indigenous fruits such as Uapaca Kirkiana can be used to improve rural livelihoods.The descriptive survey method was used as the research design. The study showed that there is lack of devolution of power in decision making to local communities and therefore the unsustainable methods of harvesting Uapaca Kirkiana. This has led to reduced rural livelihoods. The study recommends that communities should be granted genuine proprietorship of resources that is the right to use resources ,determine mode of usage, benefit fully from use,determine the distribution of such benefits and determine rules of access. Finally it is recommended that further research be undertaken in order to establish the possibility of domesticating indigenous fruit trees in local communities with the aim of enhancing rural livelihoods. 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Though all groups suffer from armed conflict situations, there is sufficient evidence that such conflcits are gendered and women's already marginalised positions worsens when such conflcits do occur.Using Critical Discourse Analysis, this book suggests that women in Northern Ghana suffered tremeandously in the 1994 'Guinea fowl' conflcit that occurred in Northern Region of Ghana and this is not different from experiences of women else where. I particularly focused on feminist analysis of the impact of armed conflcits. The invisibility of women in the peace building process was also evident after the cessation of hostilities. The book therefore strongly argues for women's inclusion since their voices need to be heard. This will ensure that women's concerns and experiences are included in the peace building process.Women by the dint of their perculiar experiences will also bring a positive face to conflict resolution by emphasising on basic and family needs. Conflict resolution must therefore be done by depending on the human rights agender for both men and women. 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In the following work we analyze the nature and dynamics of bond pricing in the European banking industry. In particular, we empirically investigate the relationship between the bond spread and the corresponding credit rating in light of different market conditions. Three important results emerge from our analysis. First, risk measures' divergence tends to be higher in relatively opaque markets where corruption, legal and accounting inefficiencies are present. Furthermore, the difference between the two indicators is proved to be affected by the quality of credit information available to market participants. Last but not least, such a divergence is likely to be higher in periods of market downturn and lower in periods of economic prosperity. These results have interesting implications for the interpretation of the explanatory power of risk sensitivity models in a market discipline context. 56 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In a monopoly, the equilibrium outcome is the same no matter if firms compete on price or on quantity. However, lots of firms have visible rivals with whom strategic interaction is a fact of life. This is known as imperfect competition. With imperfect competition, competing on price will lead to a different outcome than competing on quantity. Each firm needs to analyze what strategy, price or quantity, brings the highest profit for the firm and the highest surplus for the consumer. In order to compare and contrast price and quantity competition, two classical models of duopoly, the Cournot and the Bertrand model, are introduced. These two models can be analyzed according to different setups. Homogeneous and heterogeneous goods are considered. Also, it is important to distinguish between simultaneous and sequential move of the firms in their strategic interaction. The sequential choosing of actions makes the game dynamic and is known as the Stackelberg game. Furthermore, it is necessary to distinguish between exogenous and endogenous moving time decision of the firms. This analysis should be especially useful to students and researchers in Microeconomics. 68 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book explores how the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) influences the palm oil global value chain and what its impacts are on suppliers in Indonesia. RSPO is a partnership established in 2004 that aims to promote the growth and use of sustainable palm oil. RSPO members are the different international stakeholders including market actors in the chain, varying from oil palm growers to retailers, and non market actors such as NGOs. This book also attempts to explore how the organization climate of RSPO is, what quality standards are set by RSPO and into what extent the quality standards are implemented, and how the oil palm growers deal with the standards. 96 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - 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. 56 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - 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. 56 pp. Englisch.