Nova science publishers inc jun 2011 (179 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Arthur's greatest success was in cutting the surplus, although it was a modest reduction, maintaining the protectionist tariff system, achieving civil service reform, and rebuilding the navy. Like every president he did disappoint and he carefully crafted his politics to achieve his e…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - There is an apparent need for building capacities for sustainable development in order to bring Africa in line with global development. This book deals with a wide variety of issues that could be categorised under the context of nationalism, national integration, development plans, sense o…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In the recent and digitised business environment, every individual indulges in the marketing process in a variety of forms and places. They obtain what they need and want through creating, offering and exchanging products of value with others. This book includes in its wide spectrum all fi…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book reviews the most relevant academic literature on political leadership in order to analyse a variety of diverse issues in this subject. Political leadership has already achieved remarkable contributions from researchers. Moreover, this area of research is expanding clearly and tha…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A permanent issue in compulsory education is how to promote students' active working in the classroom. Even if group work is used as one type of working method in compulsory education as a means for committed learning and for social development, there seems to be a trend towards less…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In this book the complex impact of colour action on the organism is discussed. It is shown that the perception of colour depends on the action of irritants on other sensor systems and, vice versa, the action of colour may exert exciting or inhibiting influence on the perception of sounds o…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The past two decades alone have witnessed four major shocks to the global financial system: the collapse of the European exchange rate mechanism in 1992-1993, the peso crisis in 1994-1995 and the Asian turmoil in 1997-1998. The last, and most current, is the sub-prime bubble, which started…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - There is far less empirical and statistical studies performed with regard to the service sector than the manufacturing sector. The productivity of the service sector has not been identified clearly in relation to the sectoral growth because the productivity of service sectors has not been…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Sixteen of the European Union's twenty-seven member states share an economic and monetary union (EMU) with the euro as a single currency. Based on a gross domestic product (GDP) and global trade and investment shares comparable to the United States, these countries (collectively refer…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Artificial neural networks (ANN) are widely used in diverse fields of science and industry. Though there have been numerous techniques used for their implementations, the choice of a specific implementation is subjected to different factors including cost, accuracy, processing speed and ov…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A multi-regime fluid flow model for internal flows has been applied to several pipe and duct problems. The investigated flow regimes and inter-regime transformations include fully laminar and fully turbulent, laminarisation, and turbulentisation. The model auto-selects both the flow regime…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book examines research in the field of biotechnology, as well as very important problems for ecology in the big cities. The book also places special emphasis on certain problems such as the influence of humous components in the soil on the reaction kinetics of remediation, heavy metal…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This series explains the personal and public life of each President of the United States. Their qualities of character and leadership are aptly interpreted and offer strong role models for all citizens. Presidential successes are recorded for posterity, as are the pitfalls that should be g…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book examines conceptions of learning, that is, systematic sets of beliefs concerning learning that people develop. Such beliefs encompass issues such as what learning means, where, when and how it occurs, what happens in our minds while we are learning, and so on. Conceptions of lear…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Judge Sonia Sotomayor was nominated by President Obama to the U.S. Supreme Court on May 26, 2009. This book explores and examines selected opinions written by Judge Sotomayor relating to the civil rights of individuals with disabilities and includes a discussion of cases relating to the Am…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book explores the history of the Senate's role in choosing members of the cabinet in a new presidential administration. While some drafters of the Constitution believed the Senate's role would be minimal, others said the Senate would play a large role. The role the Senate ha…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Over the past several years, gasoline prices have risen well above their historic average. In many parts of the United States, gasoline prices were above $3 per gallon for much of 2007. Although consumers in the past did not respond very much to small fluctuations in the price of gasoline,…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The study is focused on empowering the people in order to cultivate, nurture, and consolidate democratisation and good governance processes in Africa and to better improve on the quality livelihood of the population. This book was inspired following participation at the Conference of Commu…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Condensed matter physics is the field of physics that deals with the macroscopic and microscopic physical properties of matter. In particular, it is concerned with the 'condensed' phases that appear whenever the number of constituents in a system is extremely large and the interactions between th…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book is a collection of various health related issues with the crisis management perspective in Chinese contexts. Crisis management has been well discussed in many disciplines, but in health care settings little literature has been found to address how crisis management is being conceptualis…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - It is widely acknowledged that there is an increasing problem in maintenance of the American civil infrastructure. Highways, bridges, sewers, railroads, harbours, and public buildings built in the 1950s and 1960s are wearing out, while inflation-adjusted federal spending on infrastructure has fal…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book investigates the praise poetry genre of the Dagombas of northern Ghana. The art of drumming, performed by court figures known as drummers, is at the heart of Dagomba culture, and is central to this book. These questions, in addition to how we can channel panegyrics to positive uses, are…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Proteomics is the large-scale study of proteins, particularly their structures and functions. Proteins are vital parts of living organisms, as they are the main components of the physiological metabolic pathways of cells. The proteome is the entire complement of proteins, including the modificati…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is an independent and international financial mechanism that promotes co-operation and fosters actions to protect the global environment. Established in 1991, it united 180 member governments and partners with international institutions, non-governmental orga…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book presents an overview of the main parameters of school bullying. Emphasis is put on the definition of bullying, the extent of bullying, the stability of the bully and victim roles, ways of coping with bullying, the forms bullying can take, the characteristics of bullies, the characterist…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Many students have come to the study of war and peace from a background heavily influenced by media exposure and political commitment. Some tend to see rebellion against autocratic rule mainly in terms of political ideals and the struggle for justice. The academic study of civil war, on th…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book reviews and discusses President Obama's Open Government Initiative and the Open Government Directive, as well as the three central tenets of the Administration's OGD -- transparency, public participation, and collaboration -- and analyses each one individually to determine whe…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Climate model projections available for North Africa indicate a clear increase in temperature over the next 20 years that is expected to continue throughout the 21st century. Model simulations also suggest a drying trend in the region, particularly along the Mediterranean coast, driven by large d…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book examines driver, vehicle, roadway and environmental characteristics associated with increased crash involvement by older drivers. Project activities were designed to prioritise the situations causing problems for older drivers based on the magnitude of the crash problem, older driver&ap…