Nova science publishers inc jun 2011 (163 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 ends. The years of Arthur's administration were ones of great changes. Industrial growth and consolidation led to massive economic changes. Companies were no longer local entities, but now competed in the international marketplace. Single companies took over entire industries. John Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and John P. Morgan ushered in the era of the trust. In North Carolina, James Duke began mass producing cigarettes, the first significant step on the way to a national economy based on consumption.…

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 of direction, the role and purpose of the state. The sum total of the various sections is that it examines various ways in which contemporary political and social forces interact in establishing common grounds for the emergence of modern states in Africa.…

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 five contemporary issues on marketing management: halal images in food stores; the effect of gender on employees' perception of job satisfaction and organisational commitment; and determinants of user acceptance of the e-Government services. Perceived absorptive capacity of individual users in performance of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) usage and marketing strategy creativity effectiveness are also presented in this book.…

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 that raises interest inside and outside the academic world. Nevertheless, there is still a lot of work to be done so that the literature on political leadership reaches its critical mass.…

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 time spent on collaboration tasks in favour of individual assignments in the classroom. This book presents compiled knowledge, based on previous research concerning co-operation in groups among students, or more specific, how to create and maintain well functioning group work in an educational context.…

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 in the summer of 2007 in the United States, intensified in 2008 and 2009, and has since changed the face of global finance and economics. This book examines the aspects of the financial crisis which have had the most prominent impacts on African countries.…

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 improved for decades in major OECD countries. The growth of service sectors are important particularly from the viewpoint of small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which consist a large part of the service sector even more than that of manufacturing sector. This book examines the importance of service sectors in regard to the growth of the entire economy.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book explores recent legislative activity which highlights the phenomenon of 'libel tourism,' whereby litigants bring libel suits in foreign jurisdictions in order to take advantage of plaintiff-friendly libel laws.

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 referred to as the Eurozone) are a major player in the world economy and can affect U.S. economic and political interests in significant ways. This book provides background information and analysis on the future of the Eurozone and discusses its origins, rationale, economic significance, key provisions and design challenges.…

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 overall performance. Featured with synaptic plasticity, the process of training is concerned with adjusting the individual weights between each of the individual ANN neurons until we can achieve close to the desired output. This book introduces the common trajectory-driven and evolutionary-based ANN training algorithms. …

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 regimes and the inter-regime transformations. This book studies both steady and unsteady flows, as well as flows in pipes and ducts of both axially unchanging cross section and axially enlarging cross section.…

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 analysis of soil based on fuzzy logic system, and bio-resistant building composites on the basis of glass wastes. Additional topics discussed include the simulation of a biological degradation, biological corrosion of pipe-line materials, the role of polymorphism of endothelial no-synthas in development of atopic dermatitis and formation of the 'atopic marsh' among children, and the transformation of nitrogen and phosphorus compounds during biological treatment at the Minsk treatment plant.…

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 guarded against in the future. This series also explains the domestic reasons and world backdrop for the expansion of the Executive Office of the President. The President of the United States is perhaps the most coveted position in the world and this series reveals the lives of all those successfully elected, how each performed as president, and how each is to be measured in history. The collective life stories of the presidents reveal the greatness that America represents in the world.…

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 learning are not mere subjective representations, but they play a causal role in the learning/teaching processes. In fact, it has been shown that the quality of the learning outcomes and the approaches to the learning tasks, as well as the general level of school achievement, are related to the students' conceptions of learning. …

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 has played in the nomination process has depended, in part, upon the relationship between the President and the Senate. Nonetheless, while there have been many controversies over nominations, the vast majority of nominees eventually make it through the process and are confirmed. The Senate has also developed or adapted practices to deal with the confirmation process, none of which are explicitly contain in the Senate rules, but all of which have been adhered to and recognised by the chamber at one time or another. This book consists of public domain documents which have been located, gathered, combined, reformatted, and enhanced with a subject index, selectively edited and bound to provide easy access.…

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, the recent large increases have led many people to make adjustments, for example, in the way they drive and in the kinds of vehicles they buy. This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) study, prepared at the request of the Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, relates rising gasoline prices to changes in how fast people drive, the volume of highway traffic, and rail transit ridership. It also examines the effects on market shares, fuel economy, and pricing of cars and light trucks purchased over the past several years. With the world-wide price of oil continuing to rise, this book provides an indication of the kinds of adjustments consumers would make if gasoline prices continue to rise, and of the implications of rising gasoline prices for policies that would discourage gasoline consumption and thus limit the growth in carbon dioxide emissions. This book consists of public documents which have been located, gathered, combined, reformatted, and enhanced with a subject index, selectively edited and bound to provide easy access.…

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 Community Democracies (COD) backed by many years of teaching. It penetrates into some fundamental challenges plaguing the continent. One is to root out the persistent and entrenched authoritarian rule and abject poverty of the 'bottom billion' of humanity. How can African countries improve on the state-of-the-art of democracy and good governance to build a New Brave and Better Continent An x-ray of state, civil society-private sector interface is undertaken: highlighting such interface as essential inputs in the developmental process of Africa. It argues at length on the issue of quality and visionary leadership as Africa's greatest deficit.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book reviews research in the field of detergent types, their components and uses. Discussed herein are biosurfactants and their uses in the petroleum industry and in hydrocarbon pollution remediation; detergent-based DNA extraction techniques in molecular biology; enzyme usage as an active ingredient in detergents and the influence of different detergents on the preservation of the cytoskeleton and detergent-resistant membranes on whole-mounted cells. In this compilation, also explored, is the study on the synthesis, separation, analysis and performance of sulfo fatty methyl ester sulfonates as new anionic surfactants.…

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 conceptualised and implemented with a Chinese cultural sensitivity. This book serves to address the above inadequacy and discuss how health care professionals can respond to these crises in a timely and effective manner.…

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 fallen. The current situation, with respect to highway bridge maintenance, is in fact so severe that many states cannot afford to attend in need of replacement, so they are focusing only on the most severe cases. Recently, rapid assessment, repair, and replacement of damaged highway bridge after extreme events have been given close attention to by government agencies, engineering and construction communities, and the general public. This book presents the complicated undertaking of highway bridge replacement in an easy-to-read format.…

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 the issues this book addresses directly. The contents presented in this book will help foster a cross-fertilisation of ideas between the oral artists, their patrons, and academics; and also engender economic activity for the artists.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book reviews research activities around fabrication of these kinds of two dimensional nanostructured coatings with examples of enhanced mechanical properties, corrosion resistance, and physical characteristics. As one of the useful and simple methods for fabrication of nanocomposite coatings, electrochemical deposition (electroplating) techniques are a strong focus in this book. The relation among nanotechnology and these kinds of nanostructures that come from 'size effect' and 'distribution effect' is discussed through different chapters of this book. Nanocomposite coatings have numerous advantages.…

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 the other hand, in recent years has focused more on the opportunity factors, even claiming that the greed of rebel leaders can play an important role in driving an insurrection. Discovering this, some students have become disillusioned, but many have taken up the challenge to show that wars in general and civil wars in particular are also fought for more than material gain. This book offers a balanced assessment of grievance and opportunity theories, and will serve as food for thought as the readers attempt to hammer out their own projects and move the field forward.…

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 the constituents are strong. The most familiar examples of condensed phases are solids and liquids, which arise from the electromagnetic forces between atoms. This book discusses topics such as the development, properties, application and machinability of superalloy Inconel; zirconia and allumina bioceramic biocompatibility; aeronautical superalloys joined by projection CDW process; electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) analysis of the microstructure of Ni2MnGa shape memory alloys; thermoelectric power in the characterisation of Inconel 718 and others.…

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 whether agencies are meeting these requirements and whether these requirements may improve the effectiveness of the federal government.…

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 decreases expected in summertime precipitation. Because coastal areas historically receive by far the largest amount of rainfall in North Africa, future decreases will likely have a significant and noticeable impact. This book identifies and summarises the latest research related to the effects of climate change on selected countries in North Africa.…

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's degree of over-representation, the likelihood of serious injury, or other criteria of interest. The resulting list of the most problematic situations frame further discussions of how age-related functional decline can mediate increased crash risk for older drivers, and hopefully, point to potential countermeasures for lowering this risk.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is widely seen as a critical strategy for limiting atmospheric emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), the principal 'greenhouse gas' linked to global climate change from power plants and other large industrial sources. This book focuses on the first component of a CCS system, the CO2 capture process. Unlike the other two components of CCS, transportation and geologic storage, the CO2 capture component of CCS is heavily technology-dependent. For CCS to succeed at reducing CO2 emissions from a significant fraction of large sources in the United States, CO2 capture technologies would need to be deployed widely.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Since 2003, the United States has reported obligating $642 billion for U.S. military operations in Iraq and provided about $24 billion for training, equipment and other services for Iraqi security forces. This book explores Congress' oversight efforts to encourage the Iraqi government to contribute more toward the cost of securing and stabilising Iraq by reporting on the amount and availability of Iraq's budget surplus or deficit; the amount of Iraq's financial deposit balances, and the extent to which Iraq has spent its financial resources on security costs.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Many website operators produce income by selling advertising space on their sites. Advertisers will pay a premium for ads that are more likely to reach their target demographic. In other media, such as broadcasting, advertisers engage in targeting by purchasing advertising time during programs that those who buy their products are most likely to watch. The Internet presented new challenges and opportunities for advertisers, because, rather than aiming their ads at groups of people who visit a particular site, their ads are aimed at the individual user. This maximises the odds that the user who sees the ad will be interested in the product or service it touts. This book explores today's current issues in Internet advertising and sales.…