lap lambert academic publishing nov 2016 (Oltre 2.700 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This change initiative involved the inception of a trial involving peer observation of teaching (POT), executed solely by the writer who received facilitative aid from a corresponding team on the trial site. The rationale for selecting this project was the impetus for developing augmented quality assurance in teaching and learning at a higher education medical organization in the Middle East. The highest aim of this impetus was to ensure that education be offered to the ultimate standards, evaluated over a continuum, preferably by POT.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Business processes are a basis of any economic system irrespective of the fact which party of financial and productive activity is considered and investigated. The priority of such state development factors as human and financial resources is determined in the modern system of world economy and globalization of information, investment and innovative flows. These factors have close and searching interdependence because they create social and economic policy of a country.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Scale formation is one of the most significant problems in oil and gas industry. There are several methods used to prevent scale formation. Scale inhibitor squeeze treatment is one of them. In this work these treatments were modelled using Reveal by Petroleum Experts. When the inhibitor is injected into the formation at a pressure below fracture pressure, it is distributed radially around the wellbore. But when fracture forms in the reservoir during treatment, the flow distribution will be mixed (radial-linear) because inhibitor will be pumped down the fracture. In this work return concentration of inhibitor in temporarily fractured well are compared to that in unfractured well. Indeed, the lifetime of a treatment with temporary fracturing is extended compared to the radial case. Changing different parameters of fracturing, cases were analysed and compared in terms of squeeze treatment efficiency. Fracture length, timing of fracture propagation and fracture/matrix permeability ratio were considered in this book. Overall, this work presents that which parameters of temporarily fracturing should be changed to achieve the best results.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The financial crisis resulted in more companies filing for bankruptcy. What does this mean for the stock price of competitors Are there factors influencing the stock price reaction of competitors on bankruptcy announcements in Europe Is there even an effect present Do financial markets in different European countries react on bankruptcy announcements in another country Does the economic stability of the world or a specific country influence the stock price reaction of competitors in other countries after a bankruptcy announcement Does the currency of a country affect its reaction on a bankruptcy announcement This study argues that the level of leverage, the degree of competition, the state of the economy and the country of incorporation of the filing firm all have an effect on the stock price reaction of competitors after a bankruptcy announcement.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 56 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Mariupol city is one of the main industrial cities of Ukraine. High concentration of large industrial enterprises has resulted in serious problems with air, soil and water pollution. These problems represent a threat to the well-being of its citizens and a major obstacle to developing tourism and attracting foreign investment. The Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany managed to bring many stakeholders of the regions together to elaborate a master-plan ¿Clean Air for Mariupol¿. The main goals of the project were to identify the measures to improve the quality of environment and reduce pollutants emissions and to elaborate a list of measures to protect the population of Mariupol against the consequences of air, soil and water pollution. The expert group was able to elaborate five fields of action: to collect and assess information on air pollution with fine particles and organic pollutants; to establish a system of environmental monitoring on soil contamination with heavy metals; to establish Environmental Analytical Laboratory; to elaborate and present the community with environmental report; to share experience with other industrial cities.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This is a unique project on the globalization philosophy of world economics, trade, finance, money, and forex. Its overall problematic is theoretically, succinctly, predicated upon the logic, epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, and aesthetics of global regional collective cooperative competitive financial and monetary zones that intra- and inter-act, relative to a dynamic Supra-center, with a Supra-money (e-Money) that's universalizable to the planetary whole, achieving thereby international economic prosperity, sustainability, and peace with no worldly citizen left behind. For, a new true world economic development paradigm shall obtain if, and only if, trade, monetary, financial, and forex regional democracies are instituted and are dynamically functioning within equitable cooperative and competitive spheres.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Taking into account the necessity in carrying out research in the public sector performance measurement field within post-Soviet countries, this paper mainly focuses on the challenges of measuring public sector performance, and attempts to analyze to what extent these challenges affect the real performance of public sector organizations in these countries. Furthermore, the current performance measurement framework of the public sector in three post-Soviet countries ¿ Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Lithuania ¿ is analyzed in the paper, and the importance of setting an advanced performance measurement system for all post-Soviet countries is highlighted. In the end, on the basis of analysis of measuring public sector performance, recommendations are given on how it is possible to revamp the performance measurement framework and apply NPM principles in post-Soviet countries.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 68 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The aim of this work is to bring to the fore and spotlight the looming danger posed by unlawful acts to the marine environment and its attendant consequences within the context of the Civil Liability Conventions. 'Unlawful Acts' here connotes sea robbery, piracy and terrorism. Generally, the liability of the shipowner in all the Civil Liability Conventions is strict. However, the shipowner could be exonerated from liability if the pollution damage was caused by sabotage by a third party. Piracy simpliciter, is an insurable peril covered by the Institute Cargo Clause A.Pirates can initiate an act that culminates in massive pollution of the marine environment; thereby prejudicing the IOPC Fund. Furthermore, owing to the blurred difference between piracy and terrorism, in some rare cases, it is possible for terrorist acts to pass as piracy, thereby securing compensation under the 1992 Fund Convention.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 68 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Over the last years, demographic ageing has been mentioned quite often. The impact of population ageing, especially in the European Union, will pose a critical issue in the decades to come. Alongside, there has been a quite rapid increase of the new technologies. Technology aims to create new products that cover the needs of people. According to that, information and communication technology could assist people of the 3rd age in improving the quality of their lives, in having better health and in living autonomously for a longer period of time. Despite that fact, elderly appear to have low participation in the Information Society and some of them lead to a total exclusion of it (digital divide). What is attempted in this book is a qualitative exploration of the benefits and the obstacles that people of the 3rd age are encountered with while trying to use mobile phones, automated teller machines (¿¿¿s), credit cards, ticket vending machines, computers and the internet, as well as the existence of variation in usage according to gender and its causes. This book is addressed to all social scientists and those involved with the elderly.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 88 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Organizations are often perceived as socially constructed verbal systems established by multiple, simultaneous and sequential ante-narratives that not only connect and harmonize, but contest and clash as well. This study shows new and unique insights on sense making processes towards strategic alliance induced organizational change, conducted in the centre of the strategic alliance between Dutch professional football organizations Almere City FC and AFC Ajax. A relatively new kind of thematic ante-narrative approach will be used, consisting of several steps of analysis, ultimately towards the emergence of what I shall call ¿idealized ante-narratives¿, or idealized (organizational) stories. A micro-level narrative perspective analysis helps scholars, business managers and consultants to understand the organizational dynamics (sense making, politics, power and other understandings) that have an influence on the trajectory or performance of the alliance, linking this enlightening work to the more ¿mainstream¿ strategic alliance literature.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 84 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Despite the overwhelming attention given to movement theories, we find that there are still some debates in the scholarly work regarding the main factors that led to elite changes after long periods of struggling against authoritarian regimes. Certainly, elite changes are not created by a single variable, but rather by a set of variables that create an interaction effect, so, being able to articulate one of these factors ¿mass mobilization- should suggest a more evidence-based and different approach of analysis to understand what caused the people to take to the streets for resistance An effective way to assess research outcomes is to broaden the field of comparison across different countries in the two regions. Accordingly, this research provides a cross-country comparative study to identify the correlation between massive popular protests that have been taking place around the Arab world since 2010 and elite changes compared to Eurasian post socialist countries in transitions since 2000. The publication is mostly useful for who are researching in comparative politics issues.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Social media technologies have transformed the way the world communicates. With over 3 billion people worldwide with access to the internet, and 2 billion on social media, businesses are under pressure from the digital revolution to change the way they market and communicate their brands. What was originally created as an entertainment tool has revolutionized the communications and marketing field. This paper examines the impact and role social media has on businesses.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 84 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The first part of the book examines the impacts of the socially structured class position and corresponding interests of researchers on the research main orientation. The focus in this first part is the impact of class affiliation of researchers, ¿founding fathers of sociology¿, on the orientation of their research concerning social development, understood as the transformation of prevailing form of social relations of exploitation and domination, on the one hand, or towards the mitigation or the conservation of the social inequality, on the other. The main hypothesis of the study is that in all contemporary class divided societies social researchers, as other highly educated professionals, occupy contradictory places and roles in the class division of labor of wage workers performing intellectual work function including reproduction of opposing value orientations and ideologies de/legitimizing social inequality. In the second part, the paper tests the above hypothesis on the example of the case study of the influence of the researchers¿ value orientations on their findings concerning pro-capitalist or pro-socialist value orientation of population in Serbia after 1989.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 76 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The novelty of this algorithm is to apply multiple sources of remote sensing data combined with data of unmanned weather stations, topography, ground cover,DEM, and astronomy and calendar rules. The results indicated that the model has high accuracy, reliability, and generalization ability. Factors such as cloudiness, ground vegetation, and water vapor show little interference, so the model seems suitable for large area retrieving under natural conditions. The required high-performance computation was achieved by a CPU + GPU isomery and synergy parallel computation system that improved computing speed by more than 1000-fold, with easily extendable computing capability. We found that the current algorithm is superior to seven major split-window algorithms and their best combined algorithms based on prediction errors, root-meansquare errors, and the percentage of data points withBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 84 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The recent years have seen an increase in the growth of face recognition for computer aided identification. Majority of the processes and products developed including the traditional Viola Jones algorithm coupled with re ranking is successfully being applied on all frontal faces. Face detection remains a challenge because of variations in facade, illumination and expression. Problems arise particularly when searching for an image in the database containing side view face images. This study focuses on side-view profiles keeping in mind the current needs of forensics, census departments, police forces, and an array of government organization as well as the students studying data security. The literature survey explains various techniques currently in use to detect a front view face images. The statement of research problem identifies the challenges of detecting side view images. The proposed solution takes into consideration 15 automatically generated facial landmarks; mainly ears as an additional feature. Preprocessing is applied to the registered images to remove the background. A baseline algorithm is used and then a nearest neighbor searching scheme is applied.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The response of species to climate change is among the main questions in ecology and evolution. Faced with changing conditions, populations may respond by adapting, going extinct or migrating. Fine-scale environmental variation offers a unique mosaic to explore these alternatives. In this work, I consider multiple ecological surveys, field experiments and molecular methods that have been used to study these range of possible responses. For instance, I first discuss whether fine-scale environmental heterogeneity may impact gene flow. I also refer to a combined approach that looks at the selection, heritability and genomic architecture of relevant traits, as well as genomic divergence across the environmental mosaic. In this way, it is possible to make informed predictions such as what genomic regions may relate to growth and fitness traits, and which regions in the genome harbor genetic variation associated with the fine-scale environmental variation. Overall, fast-evolving microhabitat-driven genomic divergence and, at the same time, genetically-based trait variation at a larger scale may play a role for the ability of species to persist in diverse and variable conditions.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Participatory bird survey was taken as the tool to assess the management impacts of Nishorgo Support Project (NSP) of Bangladesh Forest Department in five protected areas situated in the northeast and southeast of Bangladesh. This was systematically done for four years (2005-2008). Eight species of primarily forest birds were taken as indicators and their population densities in each of the five sites were estimated. When the annual density estimates were compared across the years it was found that two of the indicator birds (Red Junglefowl and Puff-throated Babbler) that live in the understory of the forest have increased, but one indicator bird (Oriental Pied Hornbill) that lives in the upper canopy has decreased, indicating that the forest understory has regenerated but the upper canopy has degraded over the four years. The densities of other indicator birds remained more or less unchanged over the four years. A total of 225 species of bird was recorded in five NSP sites, of which 190 (84%) were resident and the rest 35 (16%) mostly migrant. Out of 225 species, 37 (17%) were Very Common, 65 (29%) Common, 41 (18%) Uncommon and 82 (36%) Rare.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 76 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -GIS and remote sensing are geospatial technologies that have been used for many years in environmental studies, including gathering and analysing of information on the physical parameters of wildlife habitats. This book focuses on research in approaches for incorporating explicit handling of uncertainty, especially by fuzzy sets in order to develop suitability habitat of Asian elephant in GIS environment. The utilization distribution enables identification of significant elephant habitat parameters and prioritization of its criterion. This book is intended for the wildlife management and GIS community especially in MCE approaches where the fuzzy logic model is a generation and not a replacement for the better-known conceptual set theory of Boolean logic. The fusion of fuzzy logic within the GIS environment provides comprehensive facilities in Weighted Linear Combination procedure and improves the reliability of MCE output particularly on suitability evaluation.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 68 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The importance of the study springs our through the interests it presents in two main fields: A.Making use of the study results in the field of community service by highlighting the important role played by the housewives in the development of etiquette 'social etiquette' in children and to contribute in solving some problems and difficulties at the household and the social level, and strive for the advancement of society by raising awareness of the art of upscale dealing among the community members and improve the behavior of family members by taking into account ethics in different situations and to embrace the proper behavior which is characterized by maturity in the conduct, and thinking in any step of their actions based on their acquired knowledge based on correct information provided to them through awareness of family programs. B.Making use of the study results in the field of specialization, through recommendations that may be the start for new research in this area and may also be realistic solutions to address the life problems, and try to contribute to the development of knowledge in the field of ethics through guidance programs.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 84 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Meta-aesthetics is the aesthetic field relating to the images of products where the conversion value, separate from the product¿s function, takes part directly in its value. Meta-aesthetics is among the subjects that today¿s art and design world must address more sensitively. This study was based on a 2009 dissertation measuring university students¿ awareness and understanding of meta-aesthetics. In 2014, the study was repeated using a different sample and was published as an essay in 2015. Using these data, this research compared the meta-aesthetic awareness of the group of students receiving art education and trained to be art educators in 2009, and another group of students trained as artists and designers receiving art and design education in 2014. The study found that neither the teenagers training as artists and designers nor the art educator students had full knowledge of the meta-aesthetic subjects of their awareness or of aesthetics. Aesthetic function of education, and especially art education, does not meet expectations to improve and crystallize students¿ aesthetic awareness.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The Guide of Ismail Municipal Organization of the National Union of Ukrainian Artists (IMO NUUA) provides the information about the artists and craftsmen, who are the members of the above mentioned professional creative association, existing since 2008. Data is presented as of 2016. Ismail Municipal Organization unites the artists of the South of Odessa region, often referred to as Budjak or Southern Bessarabia. The Guide is based on the materials provided by the members of Ismail Municipal Organization of the National Union of Ukrainian Artists, who are highly qualified specialists, professionals in the field of painting, drawing, arts and crafts, restoration and conservation of paintings, including the church one, some of them having state-level awards. It contains the illustrations of the artists¿ works, representing the diversity of art vision, regional identity, originality and multiculturalism. The illustrations were selected by the Head of Ismail Municipal Organization of the National Union of Ukrainian Artists.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 68 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -When Sigmund Freud proclaimed the god-like magnificence of the prosthetic man in 1930, he was perhaps unaware of the confines beyond which such a proclamation would, quite literally, extend. In a brief socio-historical examination of technological, psychological and artistic developments, visual technologies and images alike - particularly those dialogic artefacts of the arts - are revealed to have been systematically privileged with the ability to reflect, translate and aid the psyche. These are what Lev Manovich terms as 'cognitive prosthetics' - the externalised internal mental processes of the human psyche, and thus, in Cartesian terms, extensions of the body. However, as ideological developments of embodiment unveil the inherent problematic of Cartesian polarisation, ocularcentrism and the privileging of cognition upon which the cognitive prosthetic is fundamentally based, are threatened. Here, ideas of embodiment beyond the biological are embraced. As technology becomes increasingly invasive, reality and space are re-imagined, and concurrently, cognition and autonomy are redefined.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This publication will examine methods many others typically do not investigate. In addition to the standard discussions of the traditional Design-Bid-Build (DBB), Design-Build (DB), Construction Management at Risk (CMAR), and Construction Management Agency (CMA) the book will review Public Private Partnerships (P3), Competitive Sealed Proposals-Best Value(BV), Integrated Project Delivery (IPD), Multi-Prime (MP), Performance Based Proposals, Job Order Contracting (JOC), Shared Energy Savings Performance (ESCO), Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ), Lease-Lease Back (LLB- California) and variations such as Collaborative Design Build and others.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 100 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The title of this book is ¿an investigation into the importance of social media marketing has upon consumers in the weight loss supplement industry¿ For this research project the main objectives where: 1. To identify the social media platforms and marketing strategies used by companies in the weight loss supplement industry. 2. To identify organisations objectives through the use of social media 3. To examine and analyse positive public perception from social media marketing in the weight loss supplement industry through social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. 4. To examine and analyse negative public perception from social media marketing in the weight loss supplement industry through social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram The key findings of the research project was the power that lies behind social media and how in modern day society it is treated as a form of word of mouth for feedback on products. It was also seen that consumers use social media mostly for negative feedback. However there was a sense of community desired amongst users of specific fitness products. The concluding factors and recommendations tBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 64 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The book is concerned with one of the main recent challenges of management which is the effective management and leadership of diverse teams. Diversity could be a result of multiple factors including: age, gender, culture, educational background, national origin, thinking style, religion, race and many other factors. This book is looking at distinct leadership models that could be applied for a better effective leadership of diverse teams. Added to that, some approaches are explained in this book that could allow managers to better manage diverse work force.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 56 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The primordial perspective of this book is to basically grapple with the nuances of three books on ethnographic studies and try to bridge the linkages of the perspectives on sexuality, reproduction and power and seeing this whole discourse through a Foucauldian perspective. It takes a very exploratory, unbiased perspective of a participant observer of appraising the Foucauldian themes of bio-politics(governmentality, theology, and sexuality).The critical analysis of the ethnographic studies is deemed to have been through this somewhat finite Foucauldian perspective and it circumscribes around the abstract spatial connotations of sexuality, keeping in mind its applicability in Foucauldian discourse on bio-politics and also elucidating the fact that health care may be a gendered process in different communities in Rajasthan, Egypt and even Carnia. An ethnography is to be done in complete participant observation according to Malinowski and Radcliffe Brown. The prime-mover of this paper is to study the discourse of bio-politics, its shortcomings and the exploratory approach of evaluating this perspective to find a rational appraisal of evaluating the applicability in the aspects of geBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 56 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This study examines the political and legal dynamics of local government in Botswana. It discusses decentralization within this context. Forms of government necessitate institutional mechanisms such as the Land Boards of Botswana and Land Tribunals. Land Boards are not only intended as field agencies of local government but also the embodiment of the state-centrist control over the periphery. Legislation creating them is designed to facilitate the implementation of strategically engineered policy, informed by persuasive social, cultural and historical antecedents. Assuming Land Boards are not effective, causes, not symptoms must be investigated in order to answer questions of relevance, efficiency and efficacy. It is in this context that the Land Tribunals are also discussed together with structural processes, challenges, relevance and overall effects. This study provides relevant insights for students of public administration, academics and civil servants.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 88 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Thyme is a well known plant used as culinary and medicinal ingredient due to its powerful essential oil. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of bulk Thyme essential oil and its nanoemulsion on the quality of contaminated milk. Quality of milk was assessed based on different fermentation indicators: total protein content, milk acidity and total viable count, as well as on its oxidative stability and antioxidant activity. Results exhibited that adding free or nano-encapsulated essential oil was very efficient in inhibiting bacterial growth. The sensory evaluation revealed that essential oil nanoencapsulation had ameliorated panelist appreciation to treated milk. The analysis should help shed some light on new food conservation methods, and should be especially useful to food researchers, professionals in Food Industry, especially Diary Industries.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 52 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -We present the recent advance in chemical graph theory. The whole contexts can be divided into five parts: first, we determine the eccentric version indices of bacterial hypertrees; then, the degree based indices of star of David and hexagonal cage networks are discussed; the third, we obtain the degree based indices of a type of benzenoid systems: jagged-rectangle; the fourth, the degree based indices of poly honeycomb networks are calculated; at last, we yield the distance based indices of some edge deleted graphs.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 64 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book about a common disease among women in third world. This work explain the role of insulin level as a risk factor for breast cancer and it is role for indicator breast cancer development. In addition,after therapy many factors that increase the probability of breast cancer recurrence like hypoxia, body mass index,weight change and life style as well as the prognostic and predictive factors such as hormone receptors. All these factors have potential effect on insulin levels and lead to increase the concentration of insulin in blood circulation that cause hyperinsuleneamia ,which considered a major method for indicator insulin resistance. This book focused mainly to evaluate the serum insulin levels in breast cancer women pre and post chemotherapy to a chive the different between the concentration of insulin at diagnosis and after therapy.Patients were observed prospectively for two years dependent on the insulin levels associated with some factors include body mass index,menopause status,estrogen receptor,progesterone receptor and HER2.Also the newly diagnosis breast cancer patients were compared to health women as control.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 52 pp. Englisch.