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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The environmental problems, stemming from the economic development, also due to mismanagement, incompleteness, and structural defects in the market system. The study identifies the economic, socio-economic, and political parameters that affect certain environmental indices. In the first part of the work, we present a literature review connecting the environmental policy with income, corruption, and shadow economy. Then, using the fixed and the random effects panel data techniques; we examine which parameters affect environmental policy performance, energy generated from renewable resources, and greenhouse gas emissions. The panel encompasses annual data from 24 out of 27 European Union countries, for the period 2000-2007. We find that corruption and shadow economy have negative effect on the environmental indices, while they reinforce each other. However, income has positive effect on indices except from emissions. The findings an contribute to clarify institutional issues of he environmental policy and should be useful for politicians an anyone else who consider environmental policy performance issues. 52 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The environmental problems, stemming from the economic development, also due to mismanagement, incompleteness, and structural defects in the market system. The study identifies the economic, socio-economic, and political parameters that affect certain environmental indices. In the first part of the work, we present a literature review connecting the environmental policy with income, corruption, and shadow economy. Then, using the fixed and the random effects panel data techniques; we examine which parameters affect environmental policy performance, energy generated from renewable resources, and greenhouse gas emissions. The panel encompasses annual data from 24 out of 27 European Union countries, for the period 2000-2007. We find that corruption and shadow economy have negative effect on the environmental indices, while they reinforce each other. However, income has positive effect on indices except from emissions. The findings an contribute to clarify institutional issues of he environmental policy and should be useful for politicians an anyone else who consider environmental policy performance issues. 52 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The environmental problems, stemming from the economic development, also due to mismanagement, incompleteness, and structural defects in the market system. The study identifies the economic, socio-economic, and political parameters that affect certain environmental indices. In the first part of the work, we present a literature review connecting the environmental policy with income, corruption, and shadow economy. Then, using the fixed and the random effects panel data techniques; we examine which parameters affect environmental policy performance, energy generated from renewable resources, and greenhouse gas emissions. The panel encompasses annual data from 24 out of 27 European Union countries, for the period 2000-2007. We find that corruption and shadow economy have negative effect on the environmental indices, while they reinforce each other. However, income has positive effect on indices except from emissions. The findings an contribute to clarify institutional issues of he environmental policy and should be useful for politicians an anyone else who consider environmental policy performance issues.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Nowadays, we are living in a time of great and rapid change driven by globalization and we are working in the information age. Such constant changes can affect employee attitudes in organizations positively or negatively mainly based on the style of management practices. The employees' attitudes demonstrate how the employees' behavior is affecting the work in an organization. Almost all employees of ERCA are developing bad/indifferent attitude because of dominating autocratic style of managers of the Authority. If the Authority can not change such management style, it is the belief of most employees that it would not achieve its objectives. Workers are fired without tangible evidence and some of them are even not aware of what, when, and where they committed a mistake if any. The fired workers have no right to accuse the Authority in front of the court. This is because ERCA managers are fully authorized to fire the employee(s) they suspect for unethical act according to ERCA Employees Regulation 2000 E.C Art. 37. 'Employee'means permanent worker in the Authority, but excludes the executive director, deputy head directors, and prosecuting attorneys according to the Regulation.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In the last 50 years the popularity of NCAA Division I football and men's basketball has become similar to that of professional sports. This league, comprised of unpaid, amateur athletes enrolled as students at member universities, holds amateurism to be its core governing principle, but has changed the definition of the term over time. I begin with the history of the league's definition of amateurism, its relation to athletes, and the legal definition of the NCAA as a governing body. The amateur ideal in the eye of the American public is also analyzed through jurisprudence. Budgeting and profit for the NCAA and the university athletic departments are used to aid in the understanding of rising revenue from television and sponsor contracts. Further, identification of misappropriation of funds, along with corrupt internal investigation practices in conjunction with incongruences between the definition of student-athletes and actual practices, strongly suggests the need for reform. Finally, the Sherman Anti-trust Act and the National Labor Relations Act are used to identify an alternative format for this pre-professional league in accordance with their primary status of employees. 72 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In the last 50 years the popularity of NCAA Division I football and men's basketball has become similar to that of professional sports. This league, comprised of unpaid, amateur athletes enrolled as students at member universities, holds amateurism to be its core governing principle, but has changed the definition of the term over time. I begin with the history of the league's definition of amateurism, its relation to athletes, and the legal definition of the NCAA as a governing body. The amateur ideal in the eye of the American public is also analyzed through jurisprudence. Budgeting and profit for the NCAA and the university athletic departments are used to aid in the understanding of rising revenue from television and sponsor contracts. Further, identification of misappropriation of funds, along with corrupt internal investigation practices in conjunction with incongruences between the definition of student-athletes and actual practices, strongly suggests the need for reform. Finally, the Sherman Anti-trust Act and the National Labor Relations Act are used to identify an alternative format for this pre-professional league in accordance with their primary status of employees. 72 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Matina Ghasemi and Mazyar Ghadirinejad Product developing under sanction: The case of a Iranian gas and oil tank manufacturer Introduction: There is no doubt that successful and on time product development or product project management is critical to any industrial performance. But given the recent developing set of sanctions against Iran, the importance of on-time and on-budget product development for the sake of the company's survival has increased particularly in terms of the ability to bring the product to the client before a new set of sanction takes its toll. In normal conditions, Eppinger et al (2004) argues that competitive advantage could be provided by rapid and innovative product development. For any organization, on-time product development represents not only the opportunity to grow and survive but also the opportunity to significantly influence the direction of both the industry and market before others set the rules of the game.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In the last 50 years the popularity of NCAA Division I football and men's basketball has become similar to that of professional sports. This league, comprised of unpaid, amateur athletes enrolled as students at member universities, holds amateurism to be its core governing principle, but has changed the definition of the term over time. I begin with the history of the league's definition of amateurism, its relation to athletes, and the legal definition of the NCAA as a governing body. The amateur ideal in the eye of the American public is also analyzed through jurisprudence. Budgeting and profit for the NCAA and the university athletic departments are used to aid in the understanding of rising revenue from television and sponsor contracts. Further, identification of misappropriation of funds, along with corrupt internal investigation practices in conjunction with incongruences between the definition of student-athletes and actual practices, strongly suggests the need for reform. Finally, the Sherman Anti-trust Act and the National Labor Relations Act are used to identify an alternative format for this pre-professional league in accordance with their primary status of employees.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The academic study of Peace, Leadership and Conflict Resolution is relatively new. Very few academics have written in this area. This volume is meant to provide academics, peace practitioners and other interested parties with more literature in this area. The volume is also designed to enrich readers with knowledge and skills on how to prevent a culture of violence and create a culture of peace in their day to day life. This volume covers the meaning of Peace, Leadership and Conflict Resolution, the relationship between conflict and development, processes involved in resolving conflicts, conflict analysis, gender issues in peace and conflict, international law, the concept of governance, psychological issues in peace and conflict and peace ethics. With globalisation and information technology at hand, dissemination of information on peace leadership, conflict resolution and development becomes a possibility. The online publications are becoming popular to most scholars and lecturers alike. Justification of this publication is therefore found.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In this work, a combination of different delay reduction schemes from different papers has been introduced, the first paper [47] argues about performing fine sensing for non-real time traffic, while real time traffic continues transmission in the channel. The second paper [46] argues about performing fine sensing after multiple alarms that have been triggered. Both schemes have combined with applying data rate reservation as well in order to reduce as much as possible this crucial factor of delay for IEEE 802.22 wireless regional area network and to improve the channel utilization. Data rate reservation for real time users has been applied in order to reduce the queuing delay for real time services [47]. The average packet delay for the proposed scheme combination has been analyzed, with both numerical and simulation results. The results show that the scheme combination considerably reduces the average packet delay for both real time and non-real time services and hence satisfies the performance of IEEE 802.22 wireless regional networks.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Employee retention is one of the biggest challenges faced by corporate leaders in any Industry. Even though companies make efforts to control this issue, still it fails to a great extent. The ability to retain talented and committed employees will contribute significantly to the success and achievements of the Organization. Therefore, the need for designing effective retention strategies arises. This study focuses on retention of employees at NEDA Natural Clinic, one of the fastest growing private Clinics in the Country. The study addresses the general issues related to retention practices and how valuable employees are retained by the Company focusing on different determinants including; career development opportunities, supervisor support, work environment, rewards and work-life balance.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In this contemporary world of our time the progression of migration from developing countries to better developed regions is getting more common trend with a very difficult and traumatic experiences. This involves leaving behind familiar support and moving great distances to unknown foreign destinations. Refugees seek better conditions considering the earth as a common place and associate themselves with other societies. Under such state of affairs there are legal challenges the study discovered. The required legal documents to cross the boarders, absence of legal-council in the country of asylum, the refugee governance and the nature of trans-nationality of refugee status determination are the main legal challenges that make refugee status determination unpredictable. On top of that the study unearthed politicization of refugee protection and the perceptions towards refugees. These have been identified as socio-legal global challenges of the contemporary refugee regime.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The environmental problems, stemming from the economic development, also due to mismanagement, incompleteness, and structural defects in the market system. The study identifies the economic, socio-economic, and political parameters that affect certain environmental indices. In the first part of the work, we present a literature review connecting the environmental policy with income, corruption, and shadow economy. Then, using the fixed and the random effects panel data techniques; we examine which parameters affect environmental policy performance, energy generated from renewable resources, and greenhouse gas emissions. The panel encompasses annual data from 24 out of 27 European Union countries, for the period 2000-2007. We find that corruption and shadow economy have negative effect on the environmental indices, while they reinforce each other. However, income has positive effect on indices except from emissions. The findings an contribute to clarify institutional issues of he environmental policy and should be useful for politicians an anyone else who consider environmental policy performance issues.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Nowadays, we are living in a time of great and rapid change driven by globalization and we are working in the information age. Such constant changes can affect employee attitudes in organizations positively or negatively mainly based on the style of management practices. The employees attitudes demonstrate how the employees behavior is affecting the work in an organization. Almost all employees of ERCA are developing bad/indifferent attitude because of dominating autocratic style of managers of the Authority. If the Authority can not change such management style, it is the belief of most employees that it would not achieve its objectives. Workers are fired without tangible evidence and some of them are even not aware of what, when, and where they committed a mistake if any. The fired workers have no right to accuse the Authority in front of the court. This is because ERCA managers are fully authorized to fire the employee(s) they suspect for unethical act according to ERCA Employees Regulation 2000 E.C Art. 37. Employee means permanent worker in the Authority, but excludes the executive director, deputy head directors, and prosecuting attorneys according to the Regulation.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The pressure on land is increasing day by day to get food, fodder, fuel wood, timber etc. due to increase in human and livestock population of India. Therefore, the existing natural resources are deteriorating and creating the land degradation. To minimize the land degradation and fulfill the demand of fuel wood, timber, green and dry forages for human and livestock in the country, silvipastoral system has been identified as an ideal alternative. Research works reported in the literature on various aspects such as establishment, forage production from under storey, leaf fodder and fuel wood through pruning of trees, total production from the system, livestock production, soil amelioration, changes in microclimate, grass and tree interaction and economics of the system has been collected and discussed in this review. Studies revealed that total biomass and livestock production per unit area and per unit time can be enhanced manifold through silvipastoral system as compared to grazing lands available in the present situation. 100 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Too often, discussions about Mathematics express feelings of anguish and despair; and, indeed Mathematics results in general in South Africa can be described as dismal. The Department of Education (DoE) reported that in the 2010 National Senior Certificate examinations, 52.6% of learners obtained less than 30% in Mathematics and 69.1% of learners obtained less than 40% (DoE, 2010). This implies that a very small percentage of grade 12 learners would be eligible to further their studies in the fields of Mathematics and science at tertiary level.The findings of the research include the following: teachers play an important role in shaping learners attitudes toward Mathematics; learners are anxious when asked to solve mathematical problems; parents are very encouraging of their children learning Mathematics; the importance of Mathematics for future careers exerted a significant effect on mathematical achievement; and finally the various strategies that learners employ that positively impact on their achievement in mathematics include mastery experience, motivation, private tuition and peer group teaching-learning. 104 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The pressure on land is increasing day by day to get food, fodder, fuel wood, timber etc. due to increase in human and livestock population of India. Therefore, the existing natural resources are deteriorating and creating the land degradation. To minimize the land degradation and fulfill the demand of fuel wood, timber, green and dry forages for human and livestock in the country, silvipastoral system has been identified as an ideal alternative. Research works reported in the literature on various aspects such as establishment, forage production from under storey, leaf fodder and fuel wood through pruning of trees, total production from the system, livestock production, soil amelioration, changes in microclimate, grass and tree interaction and economics of the system has been collected and discussed in this review. Studies revealed that total biomass and livestock production per unit area and per unit time can be enhanced manifold through silvipastoral system as compared to grazing lands available in the present situation. 100 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Too often, discussions about Mathematics express feelings of anguish and despair; and, indeed Mathematics results in general in South Africa can be described as dismal. The Department of Education (DoE) reported that in the 2010 National Senior Certificate examinations, 52.6% of learners obtained less than 30% in Mathematics and 69.1% of learners obtained less than 40% (DoE, 2010). This implies that a very small percentage of grade 12 learners would be eligible to further their studies in the fields of Mathematics and science at tertiary level.The findings of the research include the following: teachers play an important role in shaping learners attitudes toward Mathematics; learners are anxious when asked to solve mathematical problems; parents are very encouraging of their children learning Mathematics; the importance of Mathematics for future careers exerted a significant effect on mathematical achievement; and finally the various strategies that learners employ that positively impact on their achievement in mathematics include mastery experience, motivation, private tuition and peer group teaching-learning. 104 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The study explored stepchildren's perception towards life in the stepparent household.It - examined the way in which stepchildren view their Stepparents' role in fulfilling their best interest; - explored stepchildren's experience regarding their stepparents' involvement in the nurturing and development of children - explored stepchildren's experience of discrimination by stepparents within the household. - based upon those findings, policy as well as social work practice implication are identified. …

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Too often, discussions about Mathematics express feelings of anguish and despair; and, indeed Mathematics results in general in South Africa can be described as dismal. The Department of Education (DoE) reported that in the 2010 National Senior Certificate examinations, 52.6% of learners obtained less than 30% in Mathematics and 69.1% of learners obtained less than 40% (DoE, 2010). This implies that a very small percentage of grade 12 learners would be eligible to further their studies in the fields of Mathematics and science at tertiary level.The findings of the research include the following: teachers play an important role in shaping learners attitudes toward Mathematics; learners are anxious when asked to solve mathematical problems; parents are very encouraging of their children learning Mathematics; the importance of Mathematics for future careers exerted a significant effect on mathematical achievement; and finally the various strategies that learners employ that positively impact on their achievement in mathematics include mastery experience, motivation, private tuition and peer group teaching-learning.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The pressure on land is increasing day by day to get food, fodder, fuel wood, timber etc. due to increase in human and livestock population of India. Therefore, the existing natural resources are deteriorating and creating the land degradation. To minimize the land degradation and fulfill the demand of fuel wood, timber, green and dry forages for human and livestock in the country, silvipastoral system has been identified as an ideal alternative. Research works reported in the literature on various aspects such as establishment, forage production from under storey, leaf fodder and fuel wood through pruning of trees, total production from the system, livestock production, soil amelioration, changes in microclimate, grass and tree interaction and economics of the system has been collected and discussed in this review. Studies revealed that total biomass and livestock production per unit area and per unit time can be enhanced manifold through silvipastoral system as compared to grazing lands available in the present situation.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Mangifera indica Linn, is commonly known as Mango and is extensively consumed for its sweet taste and fragrance. The leaves and stem barks of M indica plant have been claimed to possess antidiabetic properties by traditional healers. Hypoglycemic activity of both ethanol and water extracts of leaves and stem barks of M indica were screened in normal as well as STZ induced type 1 and Type 2 diabetic model rats in different prandial states. All the extracts showed significant hypoglycemic effect in type 2 model rats when fed simultaneously with glucose load. The ethanol extract of stem barks showed significant anti-hyperglycemic effect when the extract was fed 30 minutes prior to the glucose load. It may indicates either interference in intestinal glucose absorption or, stimulation of glycogenesis. The extracts showed delays in glucose absorption in gut perfusion study. Stem bark extracts reduced glucose absorption gradually during the perfusion period in type 2 models which probably act by impairing intestinal glucose uptake. It suggests that M indica has got beneficial effect for treating Type 2 diabetes.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In this contemporary world of our time the progression of migration from developing countries to better developed regions is getting more common trend with a very difficult and traumatic experiences. This involves leaving behind familiar support and moving great distances to unknown foreign destinations. Refugees seek better conditions considering the earth as a common place and associate themselves with other societies. Under such state of affairs there are legal challenges the study discovered. The required legal documents to cross the boarders, absence of legal-council in the country of asylum, the refugee governance and the nature of trans-nationality of refugee status determination are the main legal challenges that make refugee status determination unpredictable. On top of that the study unearthed politicization of refugee protection and the perceptions towards refugees. These have been identified as socio-legal global challenges of the contemporary refugee regime.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The academic study of Peace, Leadership and Conflict Resolution is relatively new. Very few academics have written in this area. This volume is meant to provide academics, peace practitioners and other interested parties with more literature in this area. The volume is also designed to enrich readers with knowledge and skills on how to prevent a culture of violence and create a culture of peace in their day to day life. This volume covers the meaning of Peace, Leadership and Conflict Resolution, the relationship between conflict and development, processes involved in resolving conflicts, conflict analysis, gender issues in peace and conflict, international law, the concept of governance, psychological issues in peace and conflict and peace ethics. With globalisation and information technology at hand, dissemination of information on peace leadership, conflict resolution and development becomes a possibility. The online publications are becoming popular to most scholars and lecturers alike. Justification of this publication is therefore found.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Matina Ghasemi and Mazyar Ghadirinejad Product developing under sanction: The case of a Iranian gas and oil tank manufacturer Introduction: There is no doubt that successful and on time product development or product project management is critical to any industrial performance. But given the recent developing set of sanctions against Iran, the importance of on-time and on-budget product development for the sake of the company's survival has increased particularly in terms of the ability to bring the product to the client before a new set of sanction takes its toll. In normal conditions, Eppinger et al (2004) argues that competitive advantage could be provided by rapid and innovative product development. For any organization, on-time product development represents not only the opportunity to grow and survive but also the opportunity to significantly influence the direction of both the industry and market before others set the rules of the game.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In this work, a combination of different delay reduction schemes from different papers has been introduced, the first paper [47] argues about performing fine sensing for non-real time traffic, while real time traffic continues transmission in the channel. The second paper [46] argues about performing fine sensing after multiple alarms that have been triggered. Both schemes have combined with applying data rate reservation as well in order to reduce as much as possible this crucial factor of delay for IEEE 802.22 wireless regional area network and to improve the channel utilization. Data rate reservation for real time users has been applied in order to reduce the queuing delay for real time services [47]. The average packet delay for the proposed scheme combination has been analyzed, with both numerical and simulation results. The results show that the scheme combination considerably reduces the average packet delay for both real time and non-real time services and hence satisfies the performance of IEEE 802.22 wireless regional networks.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Employee retention is one of the biggest challenges faced by corporate leaders in any Industry. Even though companies make efforts to control this issue, still it fails to a great extent. The ability to retain talented and committed employees will contribute significantly to the success and achievements of the Organization. Therefore, the need for designing effective retention strategies arises. This study focuses on retention of employees at NEDA Natural Clinic, one of the fastest growing private Clinics in the Country. The study addresses the general issues related to retention practices and how valuable employees are retained by the Company focusing on different determinants including; career development opportunities, supervisor support, work environment, rewards and work-life balance.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In the last 50 years the popularity of NCAA Division I football and men's basketball has become similar to that of professional sports. This league, comprised of unpaid, amateur athletes enrolled as students at member universities, holds amateurism to be its core governing principle, but has changed the definition of the term over time. I begin with the history of the league's definition of amateurism, its relation to athletes, and the legal definition of the NCAA as a governing body. The amateur ideal in the eye of the American public is also analyzed through jurisprudence. Budgeting and profit for the NCAA and the university athletic departments are used to aid in the understanding of rising revenue from television and sponsor contracts. Further, identification of misappropriation of funds, along with corrupt internal investigation practices in conjunction with incongruences between the definition of student-athletes and actual practices, strongly suggests the need for reform. Finally, the Sherman Anti-trust Act and the National Labor Relations Act are used to identify an alternative format for this pre-professional league in accordance with their primary status of employees.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating medical condition, which has life-changing consequences on numerous aspects of human functioning and participation. Persons with SCI are confronted with functional difficulties, including motor sensory impairments, bladder and bowel emptying, respiratory or blood pressure problems, which frequently result in limitations in activities and participation like, in mobility, in self-care, in communication and in domestic life. SCI has been studied in detail in the developed world. But, more than 80 % of the world's population lives in the developing countries and we know little about SCI form this part of the world. The information about Quality of Life of individuals with Paraplegia in developing countries has not been reported extensively. This study attempts to address the issue by highlighting a state (Punjab) from India and intends to fill the gap of knowledge. The project is an effort to evaluate the Quality Of Life of individuals with Paraplegia in Punjab via application of scales for ambulatory status, functional independence and community reintegration. …