Scholars' press aug 2015 (150 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The goal of this publication is to demonstrate the financial condition and stability of several chosen oil companies in the BRIC group of countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China). The BRIC countries are experiencing economic setbacks and it might be the time to buy equities in their companies. In recent years these countries were noted because of their rapid economic growth. Between 2000 and 2008, they averaged annual GDP growth expansion of 8%, almost 6% below the average for the G7 countries. Now, slower economic growth is causing their stock markets to tumble, presenting an opportunity for investors to buy what others are fleeing. 76 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In risk management literature, a great number of methods can be found that are suitable for risk assessment. Most of them can only be used if there are historical data available as they rely on statistical analysis to assess risks. However, many times there is no daily database to use for assessing most risks. The question is 'Exactly how to assess the risks in latter case To answer this question the author has developed a method that has been used in more than 50 different applications up to now. The aim of this book is to demonstrate the way how can be assessed the risks step by step in order to support management decisions at strategic, project or at operational level. Four case studies illustrate how to assess and treat risks using the method worked out by the author. The book can be useful for all, who are interested in teaching or applying integrated risk assessment but especially for top managers, risk masters and practitioners, project managers, economists and internal auditors. 72 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The study evaluated the impact the Bologna (3-year European) degrees have had on graduate international students enrolled in a private university in the United States. The evaluation focused on the students' preparedness for graduate level work. The research involved the graduate faculty who had experience working with the international graduate students. The action research, with the graduate faculty, found that international students with the 3-year Bologna degree struggled with critical thinking skills. The recommendations of the group were to incorporate a critical thinking component into the current academic bridge course to improve the success rate of the international graduate students. 84 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Projecting a world without violence has been the main preoccupation in the human endeavors for peace and coexistence in various intellectual traditions and at various times. The central theme of this collection is nonconventional response to the problem of 'clash' and 'domination' by juxtaposing the hermeneutics of peace and intercultural understanding against the historical and intellectual imposition of violence at the civilizational plane. This collection can be of interest to those interested in Postcolonial Discourse, Hermeneutics, and Intercultural Dialogue. 156 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Congestive heart failure (CHF) remains the most serious illness with over 5 million people suffering each year. The reality remains unchanged that one in five people die within five years of being diagnosed with CHF. This research adds new insight regarding the benefit of daily intensive in-home monitoring using a scripted in-home monitoring protocol appliance. This was a quantitative, quasi-experimental study. A retrospective approach was used to compare daily to less often in-home monitoring for CHF. Frequent Emergency Department episodes, rehospitalizations, increased lengths of hospital stay, and increasing health care costs signal the need to better address this problem. While this study did not find statistical significance, what this study did show was that there may be clinical significance that scripted, daily, intensive monitoring, and audio-visual in-home monitoring results in the same health care outcomes for CHF patients. The need remains finding strategies that will improve CHF health outcomes. These findings indicate that less costly in-home monitoring strategies may be of value in improving health outcomes for CHF patients. 132 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of the Decision Theatre Method of Learning on Freshmen Students enrolled in an orientation to college course at Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, Texas. The population for this study included 372 students enrolled in eighteen sections of the orientation course. Chi-square statistics were used for this study. A review of the literature indicated that a number of different methods relating to the instruction of adult learners at the university level are being used with some level of success. However, it does not appear that anyone is precisely duplicating the Decision Theatre Method of Learning. 140 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Scheduling of real time tasks on clouds is one of the research problem, Where the matching of machines and completion time of the tasks are considered. Cloud computing is an internet-based computing, where resources, softwares and information are shared on demand basis i.e. The user can access documents anytime, anywhere. Real-time computer systems are required to produce correct results not only in their values but also in the times at which the results are produced known as timeliness. Here a quantitative expression of time is used to describe the behavior of the system. Real-time task needs to meet their deadlines regardless of system load or makespan. This text discusses about scheduling of real time task on the cloud environment considering Basic Earliest deadline first (BEDF), FFE (first fit EDF), BFE (best fit EDF), WFE (Worst fit EDF) algorithms. Different performance parameters such as a guarantee ratio (GR), utilization of VMs (UV), throughput (TP) are used to measure the effectiveness of the algorithms 76 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -A study guide and exercises solutions of hospitals efficiency analysis and techniques of evaluations are available with the author. The study guide gives enough examples to understand the main concepts and the foundation of the main topics of the book. In addition; enough exercises and solutions are available in the study guide to show different quantitative techniques of efficiency and productivity analysis to different types of hospitals. 68 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The present book attempts to portray the significance of geographical and other elements to the development of ecotourism. it also gives an insight of tourists behaviour to the nature. Development of ecotourism is not mere the visiting destinations of natural beauty but endeavour to preservation and conservation of the nature that lasts the virgin nature to the generation to come. Present work points to the need of sustainable development of ecotourism. 64 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -With rapid economic developments and rising living standards, the demand for electricity all over the world is greatly increased. Due to high fuel costs, the steam boilers with higher steam temperature and pressure are needed to decrease the cost of power generation throughout the world extensively. In recent years, human awareness of the gradual strengthening of environmental protection increases, therefore to reduce the CO2 emissions the power generation efficiency needs to be improved. The development of high temperature materials with improved creep rupture strength and oxidation resistance is critically needed. Materials for these demanding conditions are austenitic stainless steels such as 310, 310NbN and Sanicro 25. Fundamental models have been developed for the precipitation of coarse particles during long time ageing of austenitic stainless steels and the influence of the particles on the mechanical properties. The models have been verified by ageing experiments. The austenitic stainless steel 310 was aged for up to 5000 h at 800 ºC. The precipitation models could satisfactorily describe the influence of ageing time on the radii and the volume fractions of particles. 72 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Increased global competitions have urged small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to develop new products faster. Virtual research and development (R&D) teams in SMEs can offer a solution to speed up time-to-market of new product development (NPD). However, factors that affect the effectiveness of virtual teams for NPD are still not adequately verified. This book presents the correlations between virtual R&D team constructs and virtual team effectiveness by developing a 'Virtual Research and Development Team' (ViR&DT) model. The items, which may influence the effectiveness of virtual teams, are taken from the literature. Through an online survey and by application of structural equation modeling (SEM) technique, the proposed model has been tested. The results suggest that the process construct is strongly correlated to the effectiveness of virtual teams. Therefore, NPD managers in virtual R&D teams should concentrate on the process of new product development rather than simply equipping the teams with the latest technology or employing highly qualified experts. Further empirical research is recommended to fully explore and appreciate the breadth of application of the ViR&DT model. 52 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Network congestion is one of the main concerns for the fast-developed computer science and communication industries. With the increasing amount of data transferred, existing network are congested leading to loss of data during the transmission process. This book proposes a new method to network congestion management using multi-valued logic as an approach. It also introduces the reduction logic operator and its application in managing network congestion. 64 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Many security primitives are based on hard mathematical problems. Using hard AI problems for security is emerging as an exciting new paradigm, but has been underexplored. In this project, we present a new security primitive based on hard AI problems, namely, a novel family of graphical password systems built on top of Captcha technology, which we call Captcha as graphical passwords (CaRP). CaRP is both a Captcha and a graphical password scheme. CaRP addresses a number of security problems altogether, such as online guessing attacks, relay attacks, and, if combined with dual-view technologies, shoulder-surfing attacks. Notably, a CaRP password can be found only probabilistically by automatic online guessing attacks even if the password is in the search set. CaRP also offers a novel approach to address the well-known image hotspot problem in popular graphical password systems, such as PassPoints that often leads to weak password choices. CaRP is not a panacea, but it offers reasonable security and usability and appears to fit well with some practical applications for improving online security. 68 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Produced water is the water associated with petroleum production process, The water posses constituents with harm environmental impacts . Produced water proper treatment reduces the operation cost of crude production.The book describes the types of contaminates in the water and the suitable treatment method that can be apply in crude refineries. 64 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Evidence shows that information and communication technologies (ICT), especially mobile telecommunications services, can lead to sustained economic growth and human development. Mobile technologies are increasingly used as a transformational tool to foster economic growth, accelerate knowledge transfer, develop local capacities, raise productivity, and alleviate poverty in a variety of sectors. In that respect, in the last decade, ICT development has become a key strategic area for policy engagement in emerging economies. To support policy-makers and marketing practitioners in designing optimal telecommunications sector development strategies, an increasing research focus is now being placed on the success factors and impediments to implementing ICT solutions in the developing world. As a contribution to this field of research, this study aims at (i) identifying the economic and socio-cultural determinants affecting the capacity of developing countries to adopt new technologies and innovations, and at (ii) defining relevant policy principles likely to foster the diffusion of ICT solutions in emerging economies that are characterized by strong income inequality. 188 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The enthusiasm for closed intramedullary nailing, the problems of distal locking, and the need to avoid ionizing irradiation aroused the imagination of surgeons and engineers world-wide. Some mechanical devices were tested but never reached the market others are in full use. Free hand technique remains the most popular method for distal interlocking screw insertion however recent studies have shown that placement of distal interlocking screws accounted for the greatest percentage of total fluoroscopy time. The results of this study have proven that monofilament solid core optical fibers could be used for radiation free, accurate, and cost efficient determination of the sites of the distal holes of the interlocking intramedullary nails & insertion of the interlocking screws 168 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Effective numerical modelling of emission and dispersion of cars exhausted pollutants in micro and mesoscales requires use of an integrated system. The work presents the integrated computer system for modelling emission and dispersion of car exhaust pollutants in mesoscale. Whole data used in system, concerning information about topography and meteorological condition are gained from GIS. The sub model of traffic flow is based on safe distance model. In order to appropriate parametrization of maximum acceleration and deceleration of vehicles a multi-body model of vehicle dynamics has been proposed. Calculation of pollutants concentration is based on Gaussian Finite Line Source Model (GFLSM). In presented computational system all results of simulation can be visualized and export in acceptable formats to geographical information system. This causes that proposed system has almost unlimited chances in analyses of car exhaust pollutants over space and time. The author of the work deeply hopes that its results will be interesting for engineers who deal with modernization of the existing and design of new transport systems. 164 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book guides the reader through a territory of applied photochemistry of iron compounds, and unveils its domains and importance. It provides basic information and numerous examples of the involvement of iron compounds in photocatalytic degradation of harmful substances such as pesticides, dyes, and microorganisms in all parts of the environment, i.e. soil, aquatic media and air exploiting advanced oxidation processes. It gives information on the involvement of iron compounds in polymer photochemistry, mainly in photopolymerization, photostabilization and photodegradation of polymers. A due space is reserved for photomagnetic phenomena, such as light-induced spin crossover phenomena, photoaggregation, changes in magnetic behaviour due to optically induced electron transfer, as well as magnetic field impact on excited states. It describes situation in sea-waters related photochemistry. Important part of the book is devoted to photochemical synthesis of iron compounds and their catalytic role in photochemical synthesis of organic compounds. The book represents a suitable document both for those starting and involved in the field, as well as university students. 120 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code is perhaps the most controversial novel of the 21st century. Aiming to 'unravel' the 'greatest conspiracy of the past 2000 years', Brown claims that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene (Jesus's sweetheart and his nominee for Church leadership) and a male-dominated Church tried in vain to eliminate the Holy Grail (Mary Magdalene and her children by Jesus) but a secret society headed by alchemists like Leonardo da Vinci, Sir Isaac Newton, etc. has had protected the Grail and the Sacred Feminine (i.e., Lady Magdalene) secretly from the bloodthirsty male-dominated Church, which through the Bible had slandered her as a prostitute. Brown demands that Christianity must reintegrate the Sacred Feminine into itself for the cultural and psychological well-being of 200 million people. Though hundreds of books have been written to examine the historical (in)validity of this novel, interestingly enough critics have tended to forget that this fiction should also be studied as a piece of literature. This book attempts to fill the void in literary criticism over Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code by undertaking an alchemical reading of this fiction. 112 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Spasticity is frequently observed after upper motor neuron lesions with unknown exact incidence. Yet, it nearly affects more than 12 millions individual worldwide. This study was performed on 31 normal control subjects with ages range from 21-66 years and 59 spastic patients due to traumatic spinal cord injury with an age range from 18-73 years. The H/M ratio was used as an index to assess spasticity in addition to the assessment of spasticity treatment response. The results showed that there was a highly significant difference between the positive controls and other treatment groups concerning the mean value of H max / M max ratio, but this ratio varied between the different treatment groups. 120 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This research proposes a new strategy to generate the combinatorial test suite using Cuckoo Search concepts. Cuckoo Search is used for the design and implementation a strategy to construct optimized combinatorial sets. The strategy consists of different algorithms for construction in which they are combined to serve the Cuckoo Search. The new technique proved its efficiency and performance through different experiment sets, and obtained the most optimal size and duration time for five input-factors with degree of combination and each value equals three, gives (39 test cases) with time duration (0.12 second). Also, the effectiveness of the strategy is assessed by applying the generated test suites on a real-world case study for the purpose of functional testing. Results show that the generated test suites can detect faults effectively. Moreover, the strategy opens a new direction for the application of Cuckoo Search in the context of software engineering. 108 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Sustainability of the improvements made in low performing schools is often the subject of the discussion during a time of change. Stakeholders involved in creating change may not know which characteristics determine sustainability or possess the knowledge to connect theory and practice. Leadership practices should focus on needs of constituents and stakeholders and should be continuously improved upon to add value to the people and the organization. 100 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book examines the 'An Evaluation of the Working of Self-Help Groups under Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana in Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh' As the scheme had been launched fifteen years ago, and there is dearth of evaluation studies available and it is fact by the researcher to undertake a study of this type. The focuses on critical issues such as the awareness of the beneficiaries, to analyze on self-help groups and need to undertake different activities and their impact on the sample beneficiaries. The primary data i.e. opinion of the beneficiaries was collected by employing a schedule for the beneficiaries. An attempt was made in this study to draw conclusion from the analysis by which both primary and secondary data which will help the District Rural Development Authority officers and beneficiaries in improving the working of SHGs and policy measures to be taken by the bankers and Government officials in future. 92 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The designed multirate systems can outperform original single-rate systems by hundreds of times in key areas. Several multirate approaches with using the MATLAB/Simulink environment have been used in this book to investigate the next areas of application: three-rate processing of noisy voice pattern, two-rate processing of pilot's voice, three-rate processing of fingerprint, two-rate processing of alphabet letters, two-rate model of distillation column, two-rate model of electromechanical actuator for diesel engine, two-rate model of VTAV, six-rate model of AUV, multi-rate expert system for demand and supply chain management, two-rate model of two-tank system, two-rate mixer-tank control system, three-rate model of fighter aircraft. From the simulation results it can be seen that the improved parameters of multirate systems provide a high data processing throughput in a cost and energy-efficient way, making them an ideal means for numerous engineering applications. This turns the content of this book into a valuable resource for researchers, academics, graduate and postgraduate students and for those specialists in research establishments who are related with multirate approaches. 188 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The aim of this work is to discuss the cultural problems of the African immigrants in the post-war Britain in the autobiographical immigrant novels written by Buchi Emecheta: In the Ditch (1972) and Second Class Citizen (1974) taking into consideration the philosophy of 'Orientalism,' which was introduced by Edward Said. Discussing the conflict between the African and the Western nations in terms of cultural values, Emecheta reflects the problems of the African in the post-war Britain in terms of cultural integration. In accordance with the hypothesis that the African experienced difficulties in the postcolonial Britain, especially in London while trying to adapt to the cultural and social norms in English society, this study portrays the identity problems, racial and cultural shock of the African in London and highlights these immigrants' struggles with the Londoners consistent with Said's hypothesis 'Orientalism.' Therefore, this research deeply analyzes and problematizes the African origin of Emecheta and Said's Palestinian background together with their experiences in the West to prove the invisible exercise of power struggles between the Westerners and the non-Westerners. 168 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In this book it is shown that in over 80% of enterprises there is a lack of explicit governance of their coherence, with the consequent failures of change, the emergence of sub-optimisations, the divergence of enterprises and so on. Assuming that the overall performance of an enterprise is positively influenced by proper coherence among the key aspects of the enterprise, including business processes, organizational culture, product portfolio, human resources, IT support, et cetera, the lack of explicit coherence governance is deplorable. In this book, control instruments are proposed to make an enterprise's coherence explicit, to govern the coherence, as well as to measure enterprise coherence governance. The developed control instruments provide an integrated approach to solve actual business issues. Too often, solutions of important business issues are approached from a single perspective. In mergers, for example, whose success rates are deplorably low, the 'due diligence research' approximates the merging parties often only from the financial perspective. Also in these type of studies, the control instruments provided in this book may be of significant value. 312 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Academic Formula Instructional Framework is based on a study conducted among English as a second language (ESL) writers enrolled in an academic writing course at a selected institution of higher learning in Malaysia. The study was conducted to address the problem of poor academic writing performance among undergraduates due to poor academic vocabulary repertoire. An academic formula instructional framework was developed to operationalise academic formula instruction in an academic writing course employing a process-oriented writing approach. This book offers an overview of writing theories, formulaic language as well as past experimental and intervention studies related to formula instruction. In addition to providing scholarly research analysis, the book presented a pedagogical framework for academic formula instruction which may be useful for practitioners and researchers alike. The framework can be practically adapted and used for both action research and classroom instruction. 312 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -High school dropout rate is a major concern. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reported that in 2007 the national dropout rate was 3.5%, with males at 3.7% and females at 3.3%. NCES further reported that the dropout rate for Whites in 2007 was 2.2%, Blacks was 4.5%, and Hispanics was 6.0%. McKeon (2006) noted that the tendency for students to drop out of school is associated with their school experiences, such as dislike of school; low academic achievement; retention at grade level; and a sense that teachers and administrators do not care about them. As stated by McKeon (2006), the dropout rate may lead to many problems for the students and society as a whole. These problems include but are not limited to increased rate of crime for those students who drop out of school, and forming the basis for many families living below the poverty level in their communities. McKeon (2006) further stated that some strong predictors that a student may drop out of school include socioeconomic status, family structure, and the age and educational level of the student's mother. This study examined the effect principal's length of service in a school contributes to dropout rates. 144 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The dramatic social and economic changes in China, in addition to age-related factors, have increasingly eroded the social networks among Chinese older adults. The major purpose of this study was to explore the potential of online communities in helping the older population expand social networks, obtain social support, enhance feelings of social connectedness, and engage in more social activities. Another aim of this project was to test a research model that explains how online community networks benefit the subjective well-being of older participants by applying the theoretical model proposed by Berkmen and Glass (2000) regarding social networks and health. The results of the study enabled us to have clearer understanding of how online communities hold promise for broadening social networks and improving the subjective well-being of this population. 140 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Tourism has become an important global economic and leisure activity due to its growing acceptance and benefits. Therefore, countries engage in numerous marketing and promotional activities to attract more tourists and improve their satisfaction. If a destination can identify and satisfy the needs and wants of tourists, these tourists will probably make repeat visits and spread positive word of mouth publicity. This book discusses the close relationships among the psychological variables of the tourists, such as motivation, perception, and satisfaction its implications on destination management. The tourists who visited a particular destination may develop positive or negative perception and it will direct towards the ultimate satisfaction of the tourists. The satisfied tourists are willing to behave positively, i.e. revisit and recommend the destination and spread the positive word of mouth publicity. 136 pp. Englisch.…