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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Global sustainable development discourse comprises two sub-discourses; the Earth and Equity. It argues that sustainability on Earth will be attained when equity between human beings and the environment, and between developed and developing countries, take place. Economic development is seen as a means to accomplishing these two concepts of equity. Differently, grassroots farmers in northern Thailand define sustainability as 'having rice to eat and having land on which to stay'. However, as the farmers have experienced developmental problems introduced to the community by outsiders, namely government development policies, they view that in order to attain sustainability, the villagers themselves have to have control over development direction. This control consists of control over agricultural production and food supply, land and forest management, and knowledge used in development processes. To have control, power to negotiate with the state development direction is required, and this power will be gained through strengthened people's organisations and networks. …

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Global sustainable development discourse comprises two sub-discourses; the Earth and Equity. It argues that sustainability on Earth will be attained when equity between human beings and the environment, and between developed and developing countries, take place. Economic development is seen as a means to accomplishing these two concepts of equity. Differently, grassroots farmers in northern Thailand define sustainability as having rice to eat and having land on which to stay . However, as the farmers have experienced developmental problems introduced to the community by outsiders, namely government development policies, they view that in order to attain sustainability, the villagers themselves have to have control over development direction. This control consists of control over agricultural production and food supply, land and forest management, and knowledge used in development processes. To have control, power to negotiate with the state development direction is required, and this power will be gained through strengthened people s organisations and networks. …

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book investigates the overall process of adoption of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) in private organizations (e.g. logistics service providers and local public transport firms). Both students at undergraduate and master level and professionals from the technological sector and the logistics industry can benefit from this text. This book can be used as a strategic handbook to guide the selection and the evaluation of technological solutions for the transportation process. This text specifically addresses the following questions: What are the technologies that can be used to improve the transportation process What are the most suitable technologies for different types of transportation (e.g. full truckload, less than truckload, intermodal transportation) What are the tools that can be used to calculate the benefits and the return on investment of these solutions This book is an adaptation of a PhD thesis and is part of a wider research project conducted in conjunction with the Intelligent Transportation Systems Observatory of Politecnico di Milano, which surveyed a large number of firms operating in the transport sector.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This research explored colour effects on branding between industrial sectors, and semantic meanings of logo colours via the methodologies of physical and psychological methods. Provided methodology and practical guidelines for logo colour design, and the impacts of culture on logos colour preference. The study of comparisons indicated that the most frequently used logo colour for both UK and Japan companies was blue, followed by white, red and black, whereas the least frequently used colour was brown. Red and black were more frequently used for logos in Japan than in the UK, white was more frequently used in the UK than in Japan. The psychophysical experiments provided an evidence that logo colour was strongly associated with industrial sector and with semantic meaning. Furthermore, new guidelines for logo colour design were developed to consider the relationships between colour, semantic meaning and industrial sector.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - This book investigates the overall process of adoption of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) in private organizations (e.g. logistics service providers and local public transport firms). Both students at undergraduate and master level and professionals from the technological sector and the logistics industry can benefit from this text. This book can be used as a strategic handbook to guide the selection and the evaluation of technological solutions for the transportation process. This text specifically addresses the following questions: What are the technologies that can be used to improve the transportation process What are the most suitable technologies for different types of transportation (e.g. full truckload, less than truckload, intermodal transportation) What are the tools that can be used to calculate the benefits and the return on investment of these solutions This book is an adaptation of a PhD thesis and is part of a wider research project conducted in conjunction with the Intelligent Transportation Systems Observatory of Politecnico di Milano, which surveyed a large number of firms operating in the transport sector.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Global sustainable development discourse comprises two sub-discourses; the Earth and Equity. It argues that sustainability on Earth will be attained when equity between human beings and the environment, and between developed and developing countries, take place. Economic development is seen as a means to accomplishing these two concepts of equity. Differently, grassroots farmers in northern Thailand define sustainability as 'having rice to eat and having land on which to stay'. However, as the farmers have experienced developmental problems introduced to the community by outsiders, namely government development policies, they view that in order to attain sustainability, the villagers themselves have to have control over development direction. This control consists of control over agricultural production and food supply, land and forest management, and knowledge used in development processes. To have control, power to negotiate with the state development direction is required, and this power will be gained through strengthened people's organisations and networks. 96 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Since last two decades the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) is progressing very well and has created international recognition in stock trading business. This progress is the result of reformations applied by the Security Commission of Pakistan, with the help of the Government of Pakistan. But still in comparison with developed stock exchanges of the world, KSE is far behind in terms of infrastructure and use of technology for trading. KSE needs a lot of improvement to reach at the level of developed stock markets of the world. This is a comparative study in which the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) is compared with two world s leading stock markets, the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and the OMX Nordic Exchange Stockholm (OMXS) to identify needed changes in KSE to convert it into one of the leading stock exchanges in the region as well as in the world. 72 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Internet Protocol Television (IPTV)is a service on the Internet where digital TV signal data is delivered to the participants using the Internet Protocol. IPTV promises to provide many TV channels with lower price for operators and consumers.IPTV distribute program more efficiently than nowadays prevalent coaxial cable distribution. But plenty of TV channels requires large bandwidth for high clear TV programs in IPTV service which is a contradictory issue to the limitation of user access line bandwidth and aggregation network bandwidth.Multicast as a mature one-to-many packet data delivery technology, the use of multicast for IPTV service is considered necessary to resolve such contradiction. But which multicast or what level multicast will be best suited for this emerging technology is still a burning question. In this book we have identify the appropriate multicast solution for IPTV.To accomplish our goal we have analysed different AL multicast and IP multicast protocols. We have tried to find out different problems related to these protocols to deployment. 92 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Is it possible to cure depression without the use of anti-depressants and counseling This dissertation pilot study sought to determine the efficacy of the qigong exercise as a treatment for depression, since it is known to raise serotonin levels for an extended period of time after practice and builds over time. Three qualified qigong masters provided a 'qi energy treatment' to the subjects who did a daily 40-minute exercise of Spring Forest Qigong for a brief, two-month period. No counseling was provided. Some of the subjects were on medication, and some were not. The significance of the study indicates that qigong was more effective than medication in reducing DSM IV criteria symptoms and may be considered as a curative for depression. The results (.0000 Beck s Depression Index) far exceeded the expectations of the researcher and the participants. The results strongly indicate that qigong should become a standard part of treatment planning for those who suffer from depression. 108 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -With the evolution of the broadband market and the decline of the traditional voice services, telecom service providers need to offer a larger combination of services to maintain competitiveness and gain market share. Video and audio content are now available like never before. With the seamless delivery of voice, video and data services, Triple Play Services (3P) are essential for operators and service providers to retain their customer base. Video streaming applications require uninterrupted data transfer, but the smallest packet losses can result in great quality degradation. Moreover, delay and jitter can have crucial impact on the video delivery. This work tackles the Video Streaming impairments in different scenarios, such as noisy environments, concurrent background traffic and different distances from the customer and service provider. Variables related to the ADSL infrastructure, e.g. noise protection and QoS mechanisms, are observed and their adjustments are made in order to give improvements to the video quality. This work presents a desirable configuration for a real video transmission over ADSL systems in order to mitigate the existing problems. 116 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In database record linkage or natural language processing tasks one usually encounters problems when working with data or texts containing noise, typos and other kinds of errors. In this thesis the use of modified Levenshtein edit distances to deal with these problems is investigated. For the task of linking distinct records representing the same entity in a database we used and extended the WEKA API for Machine Learning, obtaining good precision and recall results. For the task of searching and annotating occurrences of specified words in texts written in natural language we implemented an approximate Gazetteer for GATE, the General Architecture for Text Engineering. 96 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This work visualizes a comparative theory in conceptualizing the issue of global interest in some selected world literatures of Ireland, Nigeria, Sweden and India. It evokes the theory of narratology with specific anchor on the science of the narrative which underscores and envisages the research work. It probes succinctly into a disarm sensitivity common problems of man, these problems were highlighted in a brief and concise manner in order to reshape the need for global interest. This research enables more understanding about English language and its socio-cultural implications with China, Korea and Japan. The work, however, apply theory with traditional models by combining all of science, literature and global perspectives in a society that is riddled with inevitable change. 76 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -As comparative literature reshapes itself in today's globalizing age, Ying Liang provides the first comprehensive overview of an exciting new research area --- the comparison between American author William Faulkner and his contemporary, Chinese author Shen Congwen. Both Faulkner and Shen were able to stay in their hometowns and yet handle questions of universal significance. Their works also share an epic quality. Among their epic works, a large proportion is dedicated to the portrayal of the confrontation between the traditional and modern world. Liang reviews and addresses how the confrontation is portrayed in relation to morality, nature, sex, women characters, and the author s mixed feelings about his characters. Highly recommended for students and researchers in comparative literature, modern American and Chinese literatures, and modern American and Chinese studies. 104 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Epistemic modality is one of the three kinds of modality, which expresses a judgment about the truth of a proposition (whether it is possible, probable or necessarily true). The term epistemic was borrowed from Greek and means knowledge, understanding . This study may be helpful both for students who study English and French as foreign languages (to apply the grammatically correct ways of expressing epistemic modality modality of judgment) and researches that use scientific vocabulary for writing scientific papers (they will be probably interested in the subchapter describing impersonal constructions used in scientific prose mostly). The comparative study is performed on the basis of more than 500 examples that range from fiction, articles to scientific proceedings, aiming to present epistemic modality in nearly all styles. The work clearly shows that only the integral analysis of minimum two languages permits to make a unique and precise investigation of modality, this polisemantic, multidimensional, multifunctional - the most controversial phenomenon of English and French grammar. 104 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The international conditions of higher education have never been so much emphasised as in the last decade. This new scenario is shaped especially by the growing influence of external aspects in the higher education arena, such as the need for comparable skills in a world with increased flow of labour. The establishment of common regional frameworks is one of the consequences of the impact of the external conditions in higher education. In this context, this book aims at exploring the process of shaping an inter-regional common area among the European Union, the Latin America, and Caribbean. The ALCUE common area of higher education will be composed by 60 national systems, and should be established by 2015. The book analyses the origins of this agreement, and which elements may be decisive in the future developments of this unique higher education space. 116 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The present study aims at identifying and analyzing the most common problems which face Arab students when they translate from their native language into English. Most Arab students who specialize in English find translation from Arabic into English much more difficult than translation from English into Arabic because they are more familiar with the various linguistic and cultural aspects of their mother tongue than those of a foreign language. 76 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Ever since the beginning of human existence, patriarchal order has had a supreme effect on almost everything in the world. What I discuss in this work is that patriarchy is also a part of colonization. This project will explore selected texts which show colonization as a masculine scenario in which the male colonizers victimize even European white women as well as native women, though each suffers in different ways. To support, a number of post-colonial narrations, four short stories and two novels, will be explicated. The short stories which will be discussed in chronological order are Somerset Maugham Stories; 'Rain' (1921), 'The Fall of Edward Barnard' (1921), 'Before the Party' (1926), 'The Force of Circumstance' (1926), and the novels which will be discussed in chronological order are E.M. Forster s A Passage to India (1924), George Orwell s Burmese Days (1934). 64 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Stories give shape to virtually every human experience, and narrativization occurs every time one remembers a significant moment or event in her life. Narratologists strive to understand how these stories come to have meaning. One method by which writers attempt to reflect reality is through their choice of storytellers. Narratologists study and attempt to explain the the various tasks and possibilities for these narrators. Narratology is also concerned with the use of time markers in a story. Just as the pool of narrator types influencess the reader's perception, so do timekeeping techniques. In an effort to understand how stories provide shape to the nebulous events in real life, narratologists rely on the building blocks of formalism and structuralism. Three distinct British masterpieces, Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman, deserve a closer look using narratological principles. Whether fictional tales truly imitate life or resist such imitation, narratology provides some critical tools to enhance the literary experience of readers. 96 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book approaches the challenge of time essentials and their influence in online education by reflecting on and analysing temporal issues. The ultimate objective is to increase awareness of the significance of this omnipresent, but also ethereal, factor which is easily neglected in the research field. It is obvious that time is everywhere, involved in and involving every life process and this universality is one of the reasons, as well as one of the difficulties, for trying to really capture its essence. This volatility enhances the need to better discern its nature and its motion, specifically within the online learning framework. 72 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This study is to examine selected issues, which are fundamentally related to management in general and to leadership in particular. The main objective of the study is to explore the domain of motivational and coaching skills within telecom business sector by using empirical analysis. It will explore, first, how leaders make effective use of motivational and coaching skills to improve employees performance in both Batelco and Zain; the two major leading companies in telecommunication, mobile services and internet market in Bahrain. Second, it will investigate the impact of leaders motivation and coaching techniques on employees. 100 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Pharmaceutical innovations in the developed world have led to the production of medicines which could significantly reduce the incidences and prevalence of diseases such as AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, and alleviate the sufferings of the infected. However, people suffering these diseases can hardly access these drugs owing primarily to their exorbitant prices. This book, which recognises global efforts at promoting access to essential medicines via the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights [TRIPs] of 1995 and the 2003 amendment to its article 31, argues that the access to drugs mechanisms of western countries which possess the capacity to produce drugs are onerous to utilise in manufacturing generic drugs. In view of the foregoing, a scheme, modeled on and targeted at harnessing the benefits of the Regional Trade Agreement [RTA] system, which will enable economically disadvantaged countries to easily purchase much needed essential drugs, is designed and analysed in this book. 108 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In a world that we know today Contract Law plays major role between countries and it is of a vast importance that the contracting parties would have same understanding of their rights and arising obligations from a contract made between them. This work starts with the brief historical background of the main legal systems: Common Law and Civil Law. Furthermore the introduction to the concept of Consideration and Intention is being introduced. With the help of a case law the negative and positive usage of the laws in applying these concepts will be shown. It will reveal the arising problems for the parties contracting internationally. Exclusion of the concept of consideration from Contract Law within the Common Law system would dissolve the incompatibility of the mandatory rules in the national legal systems and deter businesses from entering into legal relationships on the basis of the deficient understanding of the legal rules applicable to their commercial relationship. Finally, there will be a critical evaluation of Intention and Consideration importance in Contract Law. 80 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -There are many more types of children s museums working that are categorized in any list of museum types in museology theories. Also in the literature about children s museums hardly any distinctions is made among children s museums with clearly very different subject themes and goals. This has generated a situation that the name 'children s museum' is used for museums and organizations that, based on their purpose and subject themes, should really be classified under other types of museums. Second part of this book looks at mission and vision statements of different children s museum. 80 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This study investigates how the nuclear tension between Iran and the US is likely to result. Game theoretical analyses are applied in order to develop the argument of this study. Interaction between the US and Iran is analyzed by using two different forms of games, complete and incomplete information; and two different methods, backwards induction and Bayes s theorem. It is concluded that Iran s nuclear pursuit is mostly security based and the nuclear tension between Iran and the US creates a vicious circle. While Iran is going for nuclear weapons primarily to protect itself against the enemy states, the US challenge to Iran s nuclear pursuit poses a security threat to Iran and makes Iranians much more eager to develop their own nuclear weapon capability. If Iranians are not bluffing and if they are determined to get the nuclear weapons, primarily because of security considerations, sooner or later Iran will have them. On the other hand, if the Mullahs intend to use their nuclear program as a leverage in their bargain with the West, they can only be persuaded to give up only by guaranteeing the security of the Islamic Regime. 84 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -As the government moves from one humanitarian organisation to another, begging basket in hand and people sink deeper into food insecurity, what was once the country s commercial agricultural empire lies desolate, reduced to an extension of the subsistence farming sector. This work problematises the situation in the former commercial farms, and argues that, the crisis was intrinsic in the jambanja process, and the subsequent state incapacity to offer post-settlement support to the new landholders. Using ethnographic data from three resettlement farms in uMguza District, it argues that jambanja gave birth to subsistence landholders in commercial farming zones.These landholders were not farmers but they fulfilled a political objective for the government, which later abandoned them without any post-settlement support. Without state support, the new landholders failed the transition from a traditional agricultural system to commercial orientated production, resulting in their falling back on the agricultural system they knew best.Resettlement also interfered with traditional institutions, which have long informed African farming practices. 76 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Considering the current global recession, the U.S. pulp and paper industry started already in 2008 facing the impact of the U.S. housing downturn, on top of the continued suffering from relatively weak financial performance. In this case, the main purpose of the study determination of the value- added components (gross value-added and investments), size and leverage effects on the long- and short-term financial performance gains its particular significance. The analysis output indicates that companies focused on tangible investments tend to have poor performance in the short run. In addition, small firms outperform large companies in growth opportunities and are considered to be more flexible in strategic choices. Furthermore, higher leveraged firms are discovered to improve their performance by aggressive financing of their business with debt. However, no evidence on the gross value-added impact on the firm s business success has been obtained. The presented analysis should support strategic managers in their decision- making procedures giving advice in potential factors and techniques that could be successfully applied in their work. 72 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -To analyze how Micro Finance Institutions are managing their non-repayment risk by using Group-Based Lending approach, the deductive approach has been used in this study and the case study method is deployed. Khushhali Bank Limited, Pakistan has been taken for the subject Micro Finance Institutions. The four inter-related theories have been taken into consideration, namely Portfolio, Principal-Agent, Contract and Transaction Cost Theories, to have a detailed literature review about the threat of non-repayment risk through Group-Based Lending. The study chalked out a result that by combining diversified members in a group under Group-Based Lending approach, Micro Finance Institutions can able to minimize their non-repayment risk. 76 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Global sustainable development discourse comprises two sub-discourses; the Earth and Equity. It argues that sustainability on Earth will be attained when equity between human beings and the environment, and between developed and developing countries, take place. Economic development is seen as a means to accomplishing these two concepts of equity. Differently, grassroots farmers in northern Thailand define sustainability as having rice to eat and having land on which to stay . However, as the farmers have experienced developmental problems introduced to the community by outsiders, namely government development policies, they view that in order to attain sustainability, the villagers themselves have to have control over development direction. This control consists of control over agricultural production and food supply, land and forest management, and knowledge used in development processes. To have control, power to negotiate with the state development direction is required, and this power will be gained through strengthened people s organisations and networks. 96 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This study found that only some people have access to HIV/AIDS related health information. Access to HIV/AIDS related information is limited for some participants who identified language, lack of interest, alcohol abuse, time allocation as some of the barriers. Most reading materials are either written in English or Afrikaans which made it impossible for most of PLWHA to understand it. Those who understand those languages do not share it with others because of stigma.Recommendations were formulated. Problems such as the language issue need to be looked at by all stakeholders who are responsible for preparing information materials. More programmes on HIV/AIDS are needed on radios and NBC television in local languages. Stigma and discrimination need to be addressed seriously from all levels of society. This will enable PLWHA to live positively. Poverty was also identified as a barrier to living positively with HIV/AIDS. It is, therefore, recommended that specific programmes/projects need to be developed to reduce poverty among PLWHA. Approaches to enable men to participate in HIV/AIDS issues should be developed and strengthened. 96 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book assesses the uranium enrichment route and the plutonium production route for fissile material acquisition. The method to perform the analysis is a direct comparison of both routes across three dimensions: general factors, technology, and probability of detection using intelligence collection means. Three conclusions are derived from the analysis. First, using uranium enrichment to produce fissile material requires less time, fewer steps, and is less expensive than using plutonium production to produce fissile material. Second, technology availability and complexity have been the main barriers for states to acquire significant quantities of fissile material. Third, the uranium enrichment route is less detectable than the plutonium production route by modern intelligence collection means. The conclusions derived from the analysis imply that if a state were to choose between uranium enrichment and plutonium production for fissile material acquisition today, it will likely choose the uranium enrichment. Policy recommendations are developed to ensure that uranium enrichment route is addressed properly in the light of the anticipated nuclear renaissance. 76 pp. Englisch.…