scholars' press jul 2014 (383 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Today in Albania issues related to remittances are very popular and discussed often in the media. The global financial crisis led to the reduction of remittances from Albanian emigrants because of the loss of their jobs overseas. This causes many negative effects. The national currency (Albanian Lek) started to depreciate and this creates inflationary pressures. Moreover, because most consumer products are imported, inflation increases. According to the World Bank, a substantial part of the Albanian population is living just above the poverty line. Reduction in remittances and rising inflation will cause drastic impoverishment of the major social groups and not only economic but also social shocks could be expected. In this book I do an analysis in depth of Albanian economy, emigration and remittances and their social and economic impact over the life of thousands of Albanian families.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 156 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book examines the physical and mental similarities between playing sports and playing a string instrument, showing that two areas that seem like polar opposites are actually similar in a number of ways. The following elements are examined: balance and posture, movement, and the mental aspects. The book shows that musicians and athletes both must have proper posture and good balance in order to perform at their best and avoid injury. String players and athletes share many different movements in common and in both string playing and athletics creating needed power requires whole body movement to become involved. Learning to deal effectively with the shared mental challenges of string playing and sports can make both musicians and athletes better performers. By studying athletes in the way they stand, move, and think, string players can improve their technique and open themselves to a new field of learning.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 152 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book deals with a biomaterial, hydroxyapatite (HAP), its physical and chemical properties and technological applications as implant coating, antimicrobial agent, catalysis, chromatographic separation of proteins and DNA, drug delivery carrier and non-viral vector as gene therapy. It also covers different aspects of HAP study like bio-mimetic study, hemolysis study. It also covers the synthesis and characterization of pure HAP nano ¿ particles and silver-doped nano HAP. The nano-particles of HAP are synthesized using surfactant mediated approach and characterized by powder XRD, TEM, FTIR, TGA, and dielectric study.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 88 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In recent year, the 3GPP LTE/LTE-A wireless access technology is a hot research topic. More recently, the femtocell network have received significant attention that many specifications and standards are discussed vehemently. Femtocells are short-range coverage, low cost and low power cellular base stations, designed for the use in a home or small business environment. The purposes of femtocell are to enhance communication quality when the user is located in the weak signal area, share wireless system loadings, and promote spectrum utilization. Although the femtocell network owns several advantages, many challenges in macro/femtocell networks should be solved. In this book, we focus on the resource management and mobility management issues in LTE-based macro/femtocell networks. We survey these two issues, discuss many topics and then provide some feasible solutions in LTE-based macro/femtocell hybrid networks.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 56 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 108 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book examines and identifies underlying assumptions, practices, and behaviors of everyday life in a servant-led organization to better understand leadership development processes that creates servant-leaders. It develops a fuller, more meaningful awareness of patterns of shared assumptions in a servant-led organization. Practices, assumptions, values, and interpretations interacted within the boundaries of the organization to create a servant-leader culture. The deep underlying collectivity-wide assumption found was universal care, which drove the four other overarching themes found during this study: (a) a commitment to growth of people, (b) trust, (c) enacted, shared values, and (d) discourse. The focus on growth of people was found in Synovus Leadership Development programs and in individual opportunities provided for team members¿ learning and growth. A high level of relational trust was found to exist among team members. This trust provides the emotional background for shared values that focuses on people to develop and flourish. These practices are bound by ongoing discourse between senior leadership and team members developing shared meaning.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 148 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Knowledge management is recognized as a competitive advantage and several organizations are incorporating it as a core strategy to enhance their organizational competitive advantage. Many of the organizations that have implemented knowledge management as a corporate strategy have not achieved their objectives and are having a growing sense of disenchantment about its practicality. Research revealed that organizational culture is a major barrier to creating and leveraging knowledge assets. This research examined the relationship between organizational culture and knowledge management. The Competing Values Framework devised by Robert Quinn and John Rohrbaugh (1983), was used to analyze the differences in organizational culture profiles and how they might be related to the various dimensions of knowledge management. The implications of this study can be of significant value to organizations as they prepare to implement knowledge management initiatives. The findings could help organizations assess the likelihood that implementation of knowledge management initiatives will be successful or will increase the organization¿s competitive advantage in relationship to the current culture.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 136 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This research seeks to review the level of knowledge achieved in interpreting the relationship between the ethnic diversity at the workplace in the public sector and the organizational performance; as well as seeks to contribute in understanding the implications of this relationship. The study commenced with investigating the academic research in the relevant area addressing the following research questions: (a) How are diversity management and organizational performance conceptualized (b) What are the existing findings of research concerning diversity at the workplace in the public organizations and organizational performance (c) What factors intervene the relationship between the diversity and organizational performance Based on the findings from the review of the academic research, this study seeks to contribute in understanding the ethnic diversity ¿ performance relationship and its implications at the local level in the Macedonian context as a multicultural society, where for many years, inter-ethnic relations have been one of the most sensitive political issues.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 300 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Today, in the age of electronics, the Internet, and robots, we are faced with a different side of human development: environmental degradation, pollution, destruction, and harm. Environmental issues and natural disasters known as environmental crime have rocketed to the top of the scale of security problems and survival issues of modern society. Despite the fast worldwide development of green criminology and environmental crime studies in the last decades, their development in the region of South-Eastern Europe has only just started. Therefore, this book provides an early look at environmental crime in comparative criminology and criminal-justice surveys, while giving the reader an insight into the chronological development of green criminology. Environmental crime in Slovenia is analysed from different aspects using triangulation of qualitative and quantitative research methods. The views on the paramount role of the green criminology and relevant solution proposals based on the identified characteristics of environmental crime should be particularly useful to students, criminologists, other scholars, and other professionals dealing with environmental crime issues daily.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 196 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The generation intermittency resultant from a large photovoltaic (PV) system connected to the power network introduces many challenges and impacts in terms of power quality, stability, and reliability of the power network. There is a need to reduce or minimise the PV generation intermittency in order to integrate more PV generators and thus allows larger penetration of PV-based renewable resources to the utility network. In this book, storage technology has been used to provide solutions for the problems related to integrating the intermittent PV generation to the utility grid. The heuristic optimisation approaches of the control system in hybrid photovoltaic with battery energy storage (PV/BES) system are introduced which minimises the output power fluctuation of the PV system connected to the utility grid. While smoothing out the output of PV/BES system, the net power is dispatched to the power network on an hourly basis like a conventional generator.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 172 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The Book deals with the Total Quality Management (TQM) Practices in India. The Concept of Total Quality Management (TQM) is the integration of all function and processes within the organisation in order to achieve continuous improvement of the quality of goods & services produced in the organisation. The focus of the study is to analyse the implementation of the Total Quality Management in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The Small and Medium Enterprises are playing a catalytic role in the development process of economies of many countries. The increase in the number of SMEs and Continuous rise of proportion in the production quantity,in the manufacturing, in the exports, in the manpower employment, in the technical innovations and in the promotion of entrepreneurial skills. Maintenance of Quality Standards in accordance with the ISO standards in SME sector and Team-building activities in the employees in the SMEs have shown positive impact on the Performance of the Small and Medium Enterprises. Hence, the book will help the policy makers, entrepreneurs and other stake holders to understand the SME sector better and act accordingly.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 324 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book is a detailed feminist reading of the poetry of a selected group of Kurdish women poets which has been written in Sorani Kurdish. The poets come from two different locations, but are originally from Iraqi Kurdistan. A group of them live in the diaspora and the rest are home-based. Thus, it is the study of the Sorani-written poetry produced by Kurdish women poets locally and externally. The study chooses the time extending from 1990 to 2009 as its scope. There are clear reasons for the selection of this time as it stands for the most hectic period when Kurdish women¿s poetry flourishes at a fast pace in southern Kurdistan. The study argues that the liberation of southern Kurdistan in 1991 from the overthrown Iraqi Bäth regime plays a vital role in the productive reemergence of Kurdish women¿s poetry after decades of silence and suppression being inflicted by the male-dominated Kurdish literature.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 372 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Classical design principles such as balance, symmetry, and proportion inform the art and architecture not only of Ancient Greece and Rome, but also of much of the Western world that followed. These principles reflect values of order and reason that have come to define and shape Western notions of civilization itself. But where and how did such principles originate This book attempts to address these questions by examining interrelationships between temple design and urban planning in Greek colonies of South Italy and Sicily during the Archaic and Classical periods¿ that is, within a historical context in which Greeks were literally starting from scratch creating a new world for themselves, which is the foundation for our own. Focusing on mathematical correlations, it explores the extent to which the pragmatic needs of human habitation gave birth to aesthetic ideals which Greeks articulated in their houses for the divine. It should prove useful not only for historians of architecture, art, or urban planning interested in the roots of Classical design principles, but also for anyone interested in the history of ideas and in the complex interrelationship between society and art.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 700 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Extremism and terrorism are classified as the most serious threat of present. Research and development of counter-terrorism strategies have become a part of international and national organizations and private company policy. Czech Republic is region that would not be threatened by international terrorism, but extremism and terrorism is considered as significant security threat by Czech authorities because of its domestic scene. Issue of terrorism is increasingly studied using game theory. Authors argue that it is not possible to examine various conflict participants, without consideration of their reaction and interaction and game theory is tool that allows to analyzing the individual decisions. This work deals with Czech extremist and terrorist scene and possible terrorist attack on regional company. Based on available information obtained by analyzing domestic extremism and terrorism, and a description of the chosen company, model of security scenarios and rules was designed, which can be used as a support tool for decision-making. The scenarios were then tested with a suitable part of game theory. 52 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -At the turn of the 21st century, several high profile financial scandals of big corporations (e.g., Enron, World Com, and others) elevated the public awareness of auditors' responsibilities for detecting and preventing fraud. These high profile scandals became the benchmark of auditors in detecting and preventing fraud. A quantitative online research survey was conducted to internal auditors that are members of social media. The significance of the research is to contribute to the theory that the lack of professional skepticism is the contributing factor to malpractice litigation against the auditors. The purpose of the research is to determine the reactions of the internal auditors when confronted by fraud symptoms in relation to the level of professional skepticism characteristics. In addition, the elevation of PS during performance evaluation, process in hiring, and decisions on promotion would help prevent future audit litigation. 104 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book looks at female marriage migrants' involvements in their children s education in Taiwan. This phenomenon must be seen within the context of international hypergamy, which has become an increasingly notable trend in many countries, especially those of East Asia. Female marriage migrants, coming to Taiwan chiefly from Southeast Asian countries and from Mainland China, often are depicted by the mainstream discourses as being incapable mothers, based strictly on their cultural-linguistic difference and arguably low socioeconomic status. This book cautions against this assimilationist and structural-determinist viewpoint, for it often ignores the agency of the female marriage migrant by looking upon her degree of involvement in her children s education as being strictly the result of her linguistic capital or her family s socioeconomic status. The author seeks to reframe such studies by taking into account the female marriage migrant s active role in shaping her own unique adaptation strategy. 140 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book concentrates on how forests are critical for the survival of the grass root communities who do not have any skill / expertise to eke out living from other means. It also embarks on a plethora of social analyse in a GIS platform to show what consequences and how such situation could be improved for sustainable development and localized poverty alleviation. Satellite Remote Sensing has been used as a tool to the maximum extent possible to generate these inputs that can be used towards sustainable development in a particular geographic entity. The book is meant for natural resource managers, researchers, development workers, environmentalist, activists, forest professionals, planners, policy makers, donors, lobbyists and students associated with the area of community participation and natural resource management. 148 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Today in Albania issues related to remittances are very popular and discussed often in the media. The global financial crisis led to the reduction of remittances from Albanian emigrants because of the loss of their jobs overseas. This causes many negative effects. The national currency (Albanian Lek) started to depreciate and this creates inflationary pressures. Moreover, because most consumer products are imported, inflation increases. According to the World Bank, a substantial part of the Albanian population is living just above the poverty line. Reduction in remittances and rising inflation will cause drastic impoverishment of the major social groups and not only economic but also social shocks could be expected. In this book I do an analysis in depth of Albanian economy, emigration and remittances and their social and economic impact over the life of thousands of Albanian families. 156 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Perfluorocarbon liquids (PFCLs) are used almost exclusively as an intra-operative tool. In most cases, they are in contact with the retina for less than 30 minutes. As for any intervention, potential complications with PFCL exist, mostly from its un-intended intraocular retention. These complications occur mainly due to the transparent nature of these compounds. Colored PFCLs could help to minimize these important complications. A total of 51 enucleated pig eyes and 20 live hybrid pig eyes were used in the study. Two types of colored PFCLs were studied. One type was a mixture of a PFCL with a colored semifluorinated alkane, and the other a new formulation that directly colored the PFCL molecule [either perfluorodecalin (PFD) or perfluoro-n-octane]. Of all colored PFCLs used, blue PFD was the one that presented better characteristics and appeared to clearly facilitate the view during the exchanges and in the subretinal space, and generally provided a better visualization during surgery. It may be useful in teaching residents and fellows, and even experienced surgeons could benefit when operating on patients with cloudy corneas or lens opacification. 148 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book examines the physical and mental similarities between playing sports and playing a string instrument, showing that two areas that seem like polar opposites are actually similar in a number of ways. The following elements are examined: balance and posture, movement, and the mental aspects. The book shows that musicians and athletes both must have proper posture and good balance in order to perform at their best and avoid injury. String players and athletes share many different movements in common and in both string playing and athletics creating needed power requires whole body movement to become involved. Learning to deal effectively with the shared mental challenges of string playing and sports can make both musicians and athletes better performers. By studying athletes in the way they stand, move, and think, string players can improve their technique and open themselves to a new field of learning. 152 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The decision of which University degree course to pursue confronts every Kenyan secondary school student. Often they look to their teachers, parents, other family members, peers, media and any other source of information of which career would be most suitable for them. This task is made more challenging because there is a dearth of readily available structured career guidance and counseling information. The available materials on career guidance and counseling seem to have been made on assumptions of what students may need to know to make informed course decisions. This book documents not only what students themselves said led them to take the course they did, but more importantly what students felt they lacked when they made the decision of which degree course to study at university. This book is an attempt to provide guidance on what students need to consider in the process of degree course decision making. 128 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Message Security is the revamp of a simple message into one that is understandable and then retrains forming that message back to its original form. Every new technique provided to safe guard the message communication using cryptography acts as a new wing added to the success of Cryptography. This book is also doing so by providing a new procedure of encryption by adding one more wing to the strength of cryptography. As cryptography is a vital part of message security in every field of communication where there is necessity of securing the message from intruders. 68 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Eddy current testing is an inspection method that can be used for various purposes including the detection of cracks and corrosion, material and coating thickness measurement, material identification and heat treatment condition. The process relies upon a material characteristic known as electromagnetic induction. However, for any non-destructive testing method, all of the systems must be calibrated using appropriate reference standards as an essential part of the examination procedure. This step involve in producing the calibration blocks which must be of the same material, heat treatment condition, shape and size of the item to be tested. This project will fabricate the copper calibration block used for defect detection. Copper is chose because of its greater conductivity compared to other metals, thus enhances the electrical energy. The fabrication process of this calibration block should increase understanding of the compulsory step in Eddy current testing. This should be especially useful to technicians in non-destructive field or anyone else who may be considering utilizing online communities for marketing efforts. 56 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In this study we demonstrated the possibility of using PVDF as a material of the active element for twisting-ball displays. The process of functionalization and covering the PVDF particles' surface, and poling and coloring the particles was proposed and tested in the case of a functional model of the display element. It was found that the ATRP reaction can be used for chemical functio nali-zation and grafting of spherical PVDF particles with polystyrene. The copper catalyst, consisting of mixture of CuCl and CuCl2 in complex with TREN was used for the initiation of the process. The rate of the grafting process as well as the properties of the polystyrene layer could be governed through variation of the ratio of copper salts used, but also by variation of the reaction time. These results were in agreement with the general mechanism of ATRP reactions, and provided a good possibility for optimization of the surface functionalization technology. 52 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Mobile devices have drawn a new path in learning through the transformation from traditional classroom education to learning outside the classroom at any time and any place. The great features of mobile phones, which are wide spread among people and are taken with them wherever they go, have been contributed by many researchers of exploit the advantages to producing a variety of mobile learning systems for different types of knowledge. This including second languages, especially the English language. The main aim of this book is to explain how mobile devices can be used to learn English as a second language, to improve the efficiency of the English skills of the learners. Because, English is the most common language spoken in the world, for this, knowing the English language for non-native speakers has become so crucial. Mobile-based learning or mobile learning can support different kinds of learning including language. By using mobile devices to learn English as a second language, learning gains great applause because it makes the language learning process more effective, interesting and enjoyable and presents solutions to some problems faced by learners during learning. 76 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book discusses about psychological test development procedure. It discusses in different eight chapters with details. It discusses about type of test, type of item, item analysis, validity, reliability & usability of test, test manual,sources of tests with example. This book is useful for under graduate and post graduate level students of psychology and education subject, teachers and neo-researchers. 68 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -A tradition in Black fiction--echoing throughout the canon--is the common casting of ordinary women into roles as secondary characters who explain their daily experiences through spontaneous, daily singing. This singing is rendered as a musical culture for women to define and express their politics and personal feelings. Attention is paid to these minor characters on the basis that this phenomenon of female singing in fact and fiction changes the way we read and understand Black women. 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Successful learning has been associated with the feedback methods which are being used to teach the trainee. Many other factors are also responsible but in this study the effects of different feedback methods were compared to know that which one is best for teaching skills to the beginners. In present study the three different feedback are given to three different groups to know the effects. This study was conducted to benefit the field of badminton and its coaches. 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -With more and more people becoming internet users in today s world, there has been great increase in online shopping websites all over the world. The number of people shopping online is also considerably increasing.With this boom in popularity, very little academic literature exists in this field.This book therefore provides a new metric of success for those interested in doing research on e-commerce transactions or online shopping. This book shows in detail analysis on whether trust matters in online shopping. Overall, this research draws attention to consumer s perception of trust in Internet shopping and provides the specifications about the dimensions of trust in the online context. It may motivate managers to take into account consumer s concern and provide more chances for managers to use these findings for their managerial practice in an e-commerce market environment. It will be especially useful to professionals in Marketing, E-commerce fields or anyone else pursuing research in this field. 64 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The base of management takes different forms depending of its cultural origin. Management or technique that is appropriate in one culture may not be suitable for another. Organizations and institutions located in certain places predominantly represent specific aspects of the cultural environment of that particular location. From this point of view the western culture, which justifies western model of management is therefore susceptible to becoming ineffective. It has become clear that ruling systems in countries, such as UK, Germany, and Sweden are not the same and common generalizations have no profound proof. In the same way Middle-Eastern or Asian types of management generalization similarly aren t justifiable. For international managers, the main aspects, which have to be revised are values deeply instilled in those societies in concern. Culture expresses meanings that people use to personify various aspects of life, their attitudes and role in life. 56 pp. Englisch.