scholars' press feb 2019 (228 résultats)

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The Arms transfer and trafficking is having a devastating impact on Africa. The proliferation of small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) is no doubt a global phenomenon whose adverse effects are most visible in Africa. These weapons make conflict more deadly and crime easier, feeding cultures of retribution and downward spirals of violence around the world. This has undermined the nations` development. The wide spread of abuse of weapons deprives developing countries of the skills and talents of the victims of the small arms. The arms are also commonly used in domestic and transnational crime. In culture of violence and gun-ownership these weapons become symbols of power and pride, even objects of affection. The ownership of such weapons as AK-47 rifles conferred a political, social and economic status. In northern Kenya a very high male population possesses illegal arms, a report by the Nairobi based Security Research and Information Centre-SRIC entitled profiling small arms to be about 127,519. It is the prevalence of insecurity in this region that has contributed to the gun culture.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The book discusses whether it is illegal for Iran, NPT active member state and signatory of IAEA agreement, to produce & develop a nuclear program and whether sanctions imposed on Iran have legal grounds. The concept is that if sanctions could be attributed to a country because of production of Uranium or development of its nuclear power while it is not signatory of NPT, there is no legal basis to impose sanctions or while a country build its capacity in nuclear for peaceful purposes 'NPT Article IV'. Concerning this case study, sanctions are highly motivated by the agreement ratified by Iran. Iran did not comply with 'NPT' and non-compliance with IAEA agreement. Through this book, you will mainly learn whether the right to development and self defense should apply to challenge UN sanctions, the historical perspective & the politics of Iran Nuclear weapons, Legal Concept,UN's efforts to handle an issue& the legal basis to impose sanctions. The experience on Iran is that every state must be bound by the treaty it has ratified and must respect all UN Resolutions to ensure compliance with the UN Charter. As a result, each human being will find himself living a world without conflict.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 52 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Medical negligence is directly connected to right to life and medical care which is a significant human rights issue in Bangladesh. In Bangladesh there are a number of incidences against which no legal actions are brought. Unaccountably of medical professionals leads to raise dissatisfaction of patients and general people in connection with health care sector in Bangladesh. There are some existing laws in Bangladesh that deal with the remedies for medical negligence incidences; but the remedies are not provided as expected as it should be. Due to loopholes in the existing legal provisions and due to poor management and litigation procedure for medical negligence; such instances are still occurring and are given impunity by not bringing any legal actions against medical professionals. It is a demand of time to check medical negligence instances and medical professional¿s variation from standard of care; moreover, to take legal actions against such medical malpractices in Bangladesh.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The aim of this book is to provide detailed information of methods used for analysis of antioxidant, antimicrobial and phytochemical compounds present in plants. Plant based medicines are used in all civilizations and cultures, and have been one of the indispensable means of defence in maintaining health and combating diseases worldwide. With the increasing demand of plant based medicines for use in pharmaceuticals and dietary supplements, biotechnology has emerged as a powerful tool for their conservation and improvement. This book discusses all major assays for evaluation of important constituents naturally present in plants and will serve as a useful tool for research workers and students in a variety of disciplines, including biotechnology, microbiology, food science, nutrition, chemistry, and biochemistry as well as for health professionals. Researchers in the industry, universities and research laboratories will find it very useful and informative as it provides detailed methodology of methods that can be used in this ever-growing area.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 52 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The work characterises the types of nations and process of building the national states in Central and Eastern Europe. The nations in this region are more ethnic than civic and the relations between the state nations and minorities are complicated than in the West because of historical heritage and the impact of the adjacent states. The main thesis of the paper proclaim that the extreme nationalism is the vice (fault) and the moderate nationalism (patriotism) is a virtue. The moderate nationalism enables dialogue and solving the conflicts between nations and other communities in a peaceful way. Extreme nationalism makes dialogue impossible. The moderate nationalism means the love of the own nation and support of it in a privileged way but by assuring the human and civic rights to all ethnic and religious minorities in the state. The cultural authonomy should be granted to the peaceful tolerant minorities.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 52 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -In this book, the author has addressed and analysed the key factors affecting efficiency including profitability, cost, stability, risk and growth of Islamic Banking. The study also analysed the major challenges facing the Islamic Banking sector including legal, regulatory, competition, product, complaint and marketing oriented issues. The study illustrates that, even though Islamic Banking is facing some serious internal and external challenges, but it is still performing efficiently and can survive and compete with conventional counterpart banks. The study has identified some of the key challenges and maintained that overall Islamic banking industry is suffering. For example, the unavailability of (trained and expert staff, inter-bank money market, correspondence banks for foreign remittances, international accounting standards, international operational standards and international sharia auditing) as well as liquidity fund management problem, lack of marketing and customer awareness, lack of products standardization, nonexistence of empathy of opinion between different school of thoughts, non-unified Sharia complaint and finally double taxation.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Shipping industry is facing downturn due to over capacity competition and new CAPEX OPEX due to environmental regulations like BWM Convention and IMO 2020 0.5% sulphur fuel cap. To reduce these costs its important for them to make alliances and opt for shared solutions. In addition to BWM convention, ship owners also need to comply with 0.5 % Sulphur cap regulations from 2020 which will cost them approximately $250 extra per ton fuel either through using low Sulphur fuel or LNG or scrubber installation. So Ballast water treatment system fitment on ship is further burden to ship owners amid maritime slowdown. Thus strategically it is most likely that BWTBoat concept can be savior for shipping industry and profitable international business opportunity for investors whose market will rise to $120 billion dollars by 2024. Implementation among SAARC & ASEAN countries can be a starting point to realize Indian Innovation.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 76 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Waste generated by daily human activities and left to accumulate in ubiquitous, illegal, unregulated dumpsites close to dwellings, is a problem in informal settlements. If not collected and appropriately disposed of, it poses risks to public and environmental health. The quality of life and living conditions of those that already suffer deprivation due to living in informal settlements are further compromised. Waste services provided by local government are generally not adequate in informal settlements. Many municipalities struggle to provide even the most basic services to contain solid waste in these areas due to a lack of infrastructure and financial resources. This book sought to determine the efficacy of current solid waste management in enhancing living conditions in informal settlements in Ethekwini Municipality. The functionalism theory, neoliberalism theory, and communicative planning theory provided the theoretical background for the study and enabled an understanding of the role of different stakeholders in the management of solid waste in informal settlements.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 88 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Due to increasing complexities in the real world, the importance of risk analysis has increased in recent years. The development of risk analysis has also benefitted from developments in modern finance. The basic financial decision-making process focuses on the relationship between return and risk associated with any investment. This monograph traces the use of probability and statistics to provide a suitable base for risk analysis and discusses various models which are used in the analysis of risk in modern finance. The models discussed include Option Pricing models, VaR models, Credit risk models, and simulation models. The discussion concludes with a brief on the limitations of models, the role of financial innovation and recent developments in modern finance ¿ regret theory, behavioural finance, intelligent finance, the theory of KuU and strategic risk taking. The success or failure of financial modelling is bound to have impact on the future scope of risk analysis. The monograph also provides an appendix giving key terms and definitions and also additional reading references.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book is based on the basic knowoledge of chemical process control of temperature , pressure, level and other variables. Analysis of the data of back days for early fault detection and diagnosis . Analysis is carried out by visualization of these variable through parallel coordinate plot on the Visulab software. Images are shown for understanding. Data is taken from the website of university of california, irvine . which is of the waste water treatment plant located at catalonia spain. Data is of the years in 19's.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 56 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The fact that botanically-derived chemicals have been recognized as potent tools in mosquito control programme, and that plant-derived insecticides have advantages over the synthetic poisonous chemicals, and are readily biodegradable thus eco-friendly, less harmful to non-target organisms and comparatively cheap, therefore, this study was carried out to evaluate extracts from leaf of F. vallis-choudae (Moraceae: Rosales) for Larvicidal and insect-growth-regulatory activities against Culex quinquefasciatus, as a mosquito model species. There research has shown the great effect of plant extract on egg, larvae of different stages.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 52 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book helps to go through the overall symptoms, diagnosis and causes of PCOS. It also specifies the siddha treatment and food style to be followed by patients who are affected by PCOS. It also enlightens let food be thy medicine and medicine not be thy food for healthy life. The nutritional food habits pave the major role in regulating the body¿s metabolism especially for women to maintain the normal menstruation. Here, it is mentioned certain food habits based on PCOS symptomatic categories and also the diet which can also be consumed by every women to strengthen their reproductive system and to regulate their menstrual cycles.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Postoperative care of the cardiac surgery patient is challenging in that changes can occur rapidly. The preoperative condition of the patient as well as intraoperative events should be considered in postoperative care. Intensive care nurses are in the best position to apply knowledge into practice as they are at the patient¿s bedside 24 hours a day and therefore they play an important role in the post-operative care for a patient with open heart surgery in the first 24 hours. This is descriptive cross-sectional hospital-based - the study was conducted in Sudan heart Centre (SHC) with the main aim to assessment nurse¿s knowledge and practice for post-operative care for the patient with open heart surgery in the first 24 hours. It involved 44 ICU nurses are included in this study as from open heart surgery ICU, neurosurgery ICU, and intermediate ICU. Nurses have good knowledge for post-operative care for patient open heart surgery in the first 24 hours, but fair practice is high than knowledge. It is necessary to be aware of such measures. Without this practice, nursing knowledge and patient care are not of high standards.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Bioinformatics is the application of information technology to the study of living things, usually at the molecular level. Bioinformatics involves the use of computers to collect, organize and use biological information to answer questions in fields like evolutionary biology. Bioinformatics involves the integration of computers, software tools, and databases in an effort to address biological questions. Bioinformatics approaches are often used for major initiatives that generate large data sets. Two important large-scale activities that use bioinformatics are genomics and proteomics. Genomics refers to the analysis of genomes. A genome can be thought of as the complete set of DNA sequences that codes for the hereditary material that is passed on from generation to generation. These DNA sequences include all of the genes (the functional and physical unit of heredity passed from parent to offspring) and transcripts (the RNA copies that are the initial step in decoding the genetic information) included within the genome.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 76 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Transgenic cottons producing Cry toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) were prepared for control of lepidopteran pests and were first commercially grown in Australia, Mexico and the USA in 1996. As of 2007, a total of six additional countries (Argentina, Brazil, China, Colombia, India, and South Africa) now grow Bt cotton on a total production area of 14 million hectares. To control these polyphagous herbivores, farmers routinely use large amounts of broad-spectrum chemical insecticides, killing many non-target arthropods in the process. However, since heliothine caterpillars have a history of developing resistance to almost all the insecticides used for their control, alternative control methods have to be developed. One option is the use of insect resistant genetically engineered (GE) varieties expressing lepidopteran active Cry proteins derived from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis. So-called Bt cotton plants are grown commercially since 1996. Most of today¿s varieties express the Bt protein Cry1Ac either alone or in combination with Cry2Ab, protecting plants from damage by the main pest Lepidoptera.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The advances in mobile technology and availability of broadband have made it easier to search for a hotel and book through an online reservation system. Although mobile applications are unlikely to revolutionize a hotels¿ reservation system to the same extent that the internet did, it may have an impact on hotel revenue management and the concept of implementing price structures. An effective reservation system has to employ the latest technology to allow hoteliers to gain a competitive advantage over their rivals and remain at the forefront of emerging trends. Hotels must therefore adapt their websites to respond to this development by adopting the use of booking engines and developing marketing strategies to include mobile technology. The ideas in the book will help hoteliers to control all reservations that come from different sources in a single control system, distribute rooms favorably to different online channels and analyze the contribution each sales channel provides to revenue, identifying the most efficient ones.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 56 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -1,3,4-Thiadiazoles is a five membered ring system containing one sulphur and two nitrogen atoms. 1,3,4-Thiadiazole was first described in 1882 by Fischer and further developed by Busch and his coworkers. Thiadiazols display anticarcinogenic, antimicrobial as well as antiviral activities. In this book several approaches for synthesis of 1,3,4-thiadiazoles and their biological activities have been collected in brief.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 52 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This publications is for purpose of enlightening people, government and other infrastructure designers of mainly houses and roads to reduce effects of air pollution on organisms especially people. It also shows how effects to measure effects on plants on a short period. Particulate matter is very lethal to humans were it causes heart diseases and lung diseases. This pollution is emitted by vehicles mainly and people should stop living near roads.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 88 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -In computer technology, the uncertain database is information that incorporates noise that makes it deviate from the correct, intended or original values. Inside the age of big records, uncertainty or facts veracity is one of the defining traits of facts. In Logical databases which save results of logical investigations, lots of the time contain doubtful facts as an instance, inadequate perceptions or uncertain estimations. Sensor and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) statistics are clearly doubtful. Packages almost about scuffling with wrongdoing, following transferring articles, observation, and written falsification reputation basically depend upon methods for managing and analyzing expansive doubtful datasets.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Maxillofacial surgery deals with major surgery of jaw bone tumour, oral cancers, temporomandibular joint, congenital facial defects, jaw bone fracture etc. This branch of surgery has come up more recently with advanced surgical technique and bone grafting has become a regular job for maxillofacial surgeons in the reconstruction of acquired or congenital jaw defect. Various types of bone grafts, such as- xenogenic bone grafts, autogenic bone grafts, allogenic bone have been successfully transplanted time to time by some authors. However, the success of bone grafting is still a challenging issue in the maxillofacial surgery. Autogenous bone graft is the gold standard for reconstruction of mandibular defects.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 52 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Super-resolution refers to the process of creating a higher-resolution image with finer details, by utilizing the information of a single low-resolution image or multiple low-resolution ones taken from almost the same scene. Single-frame super-resolution is essentially a task of interpolating between the pixels in the original single-frame image. After a comprehensive bibliographic study of the existing super-resolution techniques, several of the most efficient of these techniques are selected. Also a new implementation, based on a tree data structure is presented.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The health of each and every individual is at risk of contacting one kind of an infection, disease or tumor at one of the three ¿transitional stages of human development, namely: pre, intra and post delivery. Hence, if the final outcome of the contact is in favor of infection disease or tumor, it is the death that would be celebrating, but if the final outcome of the contact is in favor of treatment, the patient [ life] and various heath personnel would be jubilating, and they include doctors, nurses, radiologists, scientists and pharmacists contributing at various capacities. In this scenario the cardinal features of a modern health settlement has been depicted. There is a programming language in support of this scenario which will be communicated to the readers shortly.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 76 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Today manufacturing is focused on nano technology products which are necessary for manufacturing variety of micro products like micro ¿ turbine, micro-assemblies etc. However manufacturing of these products to high precision and accuracy is a challenge before manufacturing community. Final finishing of product category becomes critical and labour intensive and difficult to control. These technology products depends upon ultra-precision finishing process and it give longer fatigue life with least wear/tear. Precision engineering concerns the manufacture of items that have wide range of sizes, form those that are as large as the satellite rocket launcher to ones that are as small as microchip. The necessity of having high precision due to following reasons \* Reduction in the running cost \* To extend life span \* To improve interchangeability of components so that corresponding parts made by other factories can be used in their place \* To improve quality control through higher machine accuracy capabilities and hence reduce scrap rework and conventional inspection \* To achieve greater fatigue life of components.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 64 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -In this work polyaniline (PANI) has been made through polymerization of aniline using emulsion polymerization technique. The polymerization is carried out in an emulsion comprising water and a non-polar or weakly polar organic solvent (Xylene) in the presence of the functionalized protonic acid dodecylbenzenesulphonic acid (DBSA). It is found that using the emulsion polymerization technique, conducting PANI-DBSA complexes can be produced that exhibit high molecular weight, good conductivity and high solubility in organic solvents in the electrically conducting state. Electrically conducting polyaniline PANI-DBSA prepared by an inverted emulsion polymerization in which DBSA played both roles of surfactant and dopant. Fourier transform infrared FTIR. spectroscopy for the PANI-DBSA showed the existence of hydrogen bonding between PANI and DBSA which indicates the existence of PANI. UV-Vis spectra was performed to check the doping level of DBSA. The electrical conductivity measurement, TGA test and measurement of viscosity was also studied in the book.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 64 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -¿The human body is a ball of renewable energy; this study is based on the scientific definition of the relativity at the corporal level compared to the atmospheric environment which shelters it. This hypothesis accentuates the importance of the energetic material and its primordial role in future cures for certain diseases, especially neurological ones. The relativity provokes the law of body weight with respect to atmospheric deficiency.The atomic model means the component formula of any body, agent or element but determines provenance of the latter.The median intersection zone C3-M4 covers the radioactive layer of the atmosphere by degrading the molecular infrastructure composing the opposite layer to the intersection projection which is evaluated as an obstructive field of the atomic energy of the radiation layer C.A.B. Simplifying its energy hypothesis, the C3-M4 zone operates on the solar system in the first stage and favors a condensing magnetic field of hydrogen in order to perforate the operational zones of the atmospheric electric field.¿VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The cure and relapse prevention of allergic skin disease is attainable when the causative allergens are properly diagnosed and then scientifically eliminated from one's environment.Here described in details are the treatment methods for intractable atopic dermatitis,severe cases of alopecia areata and relapsing facial cosmetic dermatitis.Remarkable lasting effects of eliminating various allergens from the contact environment of patients who suffer from chronic allergic skin diseases such as severe atopic dermatitis,atopic alopecia, other severe types of alopecia areata,recurrent or rosacea type cosmetic dermatitis are reported.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 136 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Socially anxious tendencies have potential to become social anxiety disorder, which is characterized by fear of social situations associated with being evaluated or embarrassed by others. In particular, others¿ gazes induce social anxiety. People with social anxiety disorder have a negative interpretation bias toward ambiguous emotions in others¿ faces; however, negative interpretation bias toward ambiguous emotions in others¿ gazes has not been fully investigated.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 52 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book seeks to inform the artiste of his greatest tool which is his/her body, and how to master it. It also tends to inform aspiring artistes on how to become an artiste in mastering their craft. It borders on the human skeletal system,brain, the skin and how all these come together to help the artiste in the execution of their roles. As the scientist works in the laboratory, so does the theatre artistes work in the theatre laboratory. This helps to train the theatre artiste's body, mind, soul and voice to work together in the creative process. The human body is intertwined and as such works collaboratively. Such collaboration is also needed in the theatre to create an amazing theatrical piece and experience. This is what is embedded in this book.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Zimbabwe used to be considered as a potential developing country in Africa, however, it has been facing various aspects of drawbacks. This book seeks to unravel two key problem topics which are being faced by youths and women in Zimbabwe. It is comprised of studies which were carried out by the researcher, who is also the author, using an exploratory design to capture data pertaining to the above mentioned issues. The book seeks to inform various stakeholders about challenges being faced in Zimbabwe such as discrimination and oppression of women as well as problems faced by youths in both rural and urban settings. It is therefore the book's contention to facilitate change out of the detected vacuums for quality national development.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 52 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The newly privatized banks initiated efforts to increase loan disbursement to individuals so as to boost the economic growth of the country and enhance their own performance. Unfortunately, given the inexperience of some new bankers, this increase in credit was accompanied by an increase in non-performing loans. This can be attributed to lack of adequate skills to analyze loan application process and to give technical assistance to borrowers. The main objectives of this study were to find out the influence of education on firm productivity in the banking sector; to find out the influence of experience on firm productivity in the banking sector; and to find out the influence of health on firm productivity on the banking sector. The study used a descriptive research design where events were recorded; analyzed, interpreted and described. Data was analyzed by using SPSS program in order to identify the levels of the influence of human capital on firm productivity in the banking sector, respondent responses were determined by their demographic profiles.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 52 pp. Englisch.