scholars' press mai 2015 (75 results)

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book studies short- and long-term relationships between macroeconomic growth and real estate investment in Hong Kong. Literature shows that residential investment leads gross domestic product, while non-residential investment lags behind GDP. This book shows that real estate investments do not necessarily have a long-run equilibrium relationship with the economy. Private residential does not have a long-run equilibrium relationship with the economy, but public housing investment does. This book confirms the conservative fiscal policy and the reactive nature of the public housing policy. This book is an empirical approach to macroeconomics and real estate investment. It utilises a set of advanced theories and econometric methods to deal with time-series data. These theories and methods embrace cointegration, Granger causality, structural break, VAR and error-correction model (ECM). This book estimates long- and short-term elasticities. Hence, theories, test techniques, analysis processes and results lead this book to being appropriate for economic analysts, policy makers, real estate investors, college students and postgraduates to read.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 92 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Social media is not a new term, not a trend or a new wave of communication. When it comes to business, majority of new start-ups and newly launched brands from the very beginning are based on power of social media. Although some companies still fight social networking era existence and keep investing their resources into traditional marketing means. Therefore this book solves a problem of a fashion brand which was launched for Latvian market 10 years ago. Research study in the book ascertains social technographical types of the target market, their level of involvement into fashion and patterns of their behavior on social media spaces. Statistically significant relationships are examined between fashion involvement and social media related variables. Therefore book offers communication plan for the whole year which includes suggestions for the content of the message, timing, budgeting and platforms to enter. Even though it is very difficult to predict success or failure when it comes to marketing, the final goal of communication plan generated is to increase brand awareness and involvement.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 124 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -In the present book the problems of stability and non-stability of dynamical systems are considered, systems with declining argument and systems with distributive parameters when the system at the end of the time interval is affected by integrally small perturbation forces. The problems of stabilization and optimal stabilization of such systems are also considered. A new definition is given to stability, that is: 'stability with integrally small perturbations'. Besides, these perturbation forces, defined at the final interval of time, are chosen from the class of generalized functions (they can be impulsive functions).VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 108 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The application of Web 2.0 tools in online learning has been increasing (Blees & Rittberger, 2009; Sigala, 2008). Through the rich support of Web 2.0 tools, adult online learning experiences have become social, participatory, and flexible experiences for students (Blees & Rittberger, 2009). The Web 2.0 online learning tools have enhanced interactivity, collaboration, learner-centered learning, and authentic learning (Kim, Liu, & Bonk, 2005; McLoughlin & Lee, 2010). However, as adult online learners continue to drop out of online courses at significantly high rates (Park & Choi, 2009; Tyler-Smith, 2006) concerns have been raised about the barriers faced by adult online learners using Web 2.0 tools. There have been calls to examine the impact, barriers, and motivations associated with social interactions by adult online learners who use Web 2.0 tools (Dunlap & Lowenthal, 2009; Dunlap & Lowenthal, 2011; Redecker, Ala-Mutka, Bacigalupo, Ferrari, & Punie, 2009; Stevenson & Liu, 2010). The primary purpose of writing this book was to examine how adult online learners who use Web 2.0 tools describe their experiences with these tools.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 116 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -What skills and attributes do successful online instructors have This phenomenological study answers that question and explores faculty experiences in online classrooms determining factors that could produce job burnout and stress. Challenges and related stress-producing factors are examined to classify best practices in distance learning environments. Personal and professional attributes most suited for the expectations and demands required of online faculty are identified. Discovery may be useful to stakeholders such as higher education leaders, K12 leaders, corporate trainers, faculty trainers, administrators, retention specialists, researchers, job seekers, and students. Realistic and identifiable criteria are available to base employment practices, hiring standards, training, and decisions regarding online instruction. Best practices and procedures are established to help education leaders seek out and recruit faculty who have the necessary skills, abilities, and characteristics required rather than hiring based merely on academic credentials that might fail to identify specific attributes necessary.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 104 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Effective decision-making is paramount to the success or failure of any organization. Leadership decisions must reflect proper understanding of customers¿ needs, as well as the needs of the organization. This study utilizes quantitative statistical methods of correlation to provide a better understanding of the impact of customers¿ satisfaction levels on an organization¿s reputation, as perceived by the organization¿s leadership. By comparing the criteria used in the determination of Fortune magazine's list of the ¿World's Most Admired Companies¿ to that of the American Customer Satisfaction Index, the study finds patterns of correlation that provide further credibility to the theory that effective leadership should incorporate the relationship between achievements of corporate reputation and customer satisfaction levels.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 136 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -There is continuing debate and conflict of interest as to whether the use of Health Level Seven (HL7) Version 3 Messaging standard is sufficient in implementing interoperable healthcare information systems. Many healthcare providers, Information Technology (IT) vendors, government agencies, and educational institutions have questioned the acceptance, usage, interoperability, data quality improvement, and practicality of implementing the HL7 V3 Messaging standard in the healthcare domain. To these professionals and academics, the HL7 V3 Messaging standard is more or less a conceptual standard than a pragmatic standard. This book is the first of its kind to use a positivist lens to enlighten and contribute to our understanding of a predictive model for predicting and explaining the individual behaviors towards the acceptance and usage of HL7 V3 Messaging standard. The book is beneficial to healthcare providers, government agencies, researchers, healthcare IT professionals, and healthcare IT vendors who depend heavily on HL7 V3 Messaging standard to explicitly specify how clinical and administrative data are represented, captured, and exchanged in integrated healthcare environment.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 152 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Without the necessary training, guidance, and support, currently practicing teachers are faced with a dilemma in creating accessible lessons that meet the needs of all students. Today's modern classroom requires teachers to be flexible and versatile in their lesson plans and instructional delivery. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a viable tool to reach all students in today's classroom. Whether or not teachers are able to implement lesson plans that integrate UDL principles in their classrooms requires thoughtful training that will lead to transfer of learning. The effects of teacher training in UDL on lesson plan development of special and general education teachers in a K-5 public school setting were investigated in this book. A descriptive-comparative experimental design with a control group and a treatment group was used for this study. A one-hour training in UDL was introduced to the experimental group. The control group did not receive training. Differences were found between the pretest and posttest measures for both groups. Results suggest that a one hour training in UDL for teachers can lead to improved lesson plans and transfer of learning.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 128 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The book is written as a user-friendly manual to yield the real basic needs in a community for the planning of community development projects and/or programmes. It uses the basic needs community development theory as point of departure and gives a step-by-step explanation of the community needs assessment process and how to prioritise the real needs in a community, using the focus group data collection technique. It also provides an example of the practical application of the unique Priority Index (P-Index) and Community Index (C-Index) techniques used to prioritise the basic needs in a community. The P-Index is a unique community needs prioritisation technique which is theoretically well founded and proven in practice. Using the qualiquantive measuring technique of the Schutte Scale makes it possible to quantify qualitative responses of needs among both literate and illiterate respondents, as well as across languages, with the same level of validity. The addition of the C-Index makes the comparison of results between communities possible and is also an excellent monitoring tool for measuring the progress in community development projects.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 56 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The study is about some consequences effect of feeding a blend containing both genetically modified (GM) soybean and maize using albino rats. The animals were divided into two groups (A) and (B) were fed on blend of genetically modified and non-genetically modified soybean and maize with experimental diets iso-proteinic and iso-caloric. The results showed that no significant differences (PVDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 52 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The synthesis of quinoline quinone and the corresponding coupling reaction with diamines affords phenoxazinones which on coupling reaction with aryl triolbotates in the copper catalyzed reaction, yields N-arylation derivatives of the phenoxzazinones. The importanc of copper catalysis covers a wide range of interest in synthetic organic chemistry and it creates a gate way for further research areas in organic chemistry.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 68 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The design of efficient communication is a challenging issue for the success of the next generation WMNs to handle real-time and QoS sensitive applications and to satisfy both service providers and users. Unfortunately, the significant point in the literature is that today¿s cutting edge routing standards in WMNs are not perfectly equipped to cater to this task as these standards come with an inherent complexity and suffer from innate problems with respect to efficient communication based applications. Thus, the aim of this book is to enable the WMNs to handle efficiently real-time multimedia applications, in different operating conditions. This book should be especially useful to researcher and students in wireless networking.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 196 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Digital Watermarking is a developing field of research which stands for embedding a signature signal, called ¿watermark¿, into a digital cover, in order to prove ownership, check authenticity or integrity of the cover, and apart from images it may relate to audio, video or even text. In data hiding the medium-carrier is of no importance, and its purpose is restricted in transmitting a secret message through a communication channel without being noticed. Data hiding and digital watermarking are two close but distinct fields which are characterized by data embedding in digital media and sometimes share common characteristics and algorithms. An overview of digital watermarking domain is presented in the first chapter while the rest of the book is dedicated to advanced algorithms and techniques for watermarking and data hiding. This book is ideal for post graduate students who are interested in specializing in digital watermarking and data hiding fields, as well as for pre graduate students who wish to take their first steps in watermarking. Researchers of the field will also find interest in the latest algorithms which achieve increased robustness with minimum image distortion.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 124 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book is a comprehensive presentation of a study related to the static behavior of piles as well as their performance during earthquakes investigated through ¿long duration impulse method¿ which is usually called the Rapid Loading Test. The book confirms the applicability of Rapid Loading Test by considering the data of experiments carried out in three sites. In all the cases, Falling Mass method was employed to carry out the experiments. The experiment in Sakai-machi was conducted for the aim of this study. The main purpose was to observe the applicability of the method for piles seated in different soil layers and to determine the set-up ratio of dynamic resistance and the effect of falling mass weight. For each case, static load-movement curves were derived by using Unloading Point Method and were compared with existing load-movement curves from Static Loading Tests. Applicability of Unloading Point Method was confirmed also.The author proposes a Developed Signal Matching Method, which can improve the quality of the derived solutions and also can adjust the parameters, such as modulus k or damping factor c, characterizing the pile/soil model.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 168 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The use of audio technology by online nursing educators is a recent phenomenon. Research has been conducted in the area of audio technology in different domains and populations, but very few researchers have focused on nursing. Preliminary results have indicated that using audio in place of text can increase student cognition and socialization. This quasi-experimental comparative study was designed to explore the effect of audio feedback versus text-only feedback in online discussion boards using the constructs of the community of inquiry theoretical framework: social, cognitive, and teaching presences in students enrolled in an asynchronous online RN-BSN program. Additionally, perceived student satisfaction, retention and academic performance were examined. Multiple regression data analysis of these variables suggested a preference for text-only feedback over audio-text feedback in relation to teaching presence and perceived student satisfaction. The conclusion supports further research on these variables possibly using mixed methods to elicit themes identified by this quantitative study.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 116 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This textbook is a study of traditional farming practices of tribal farmers of Madhya Pradesh. In this book author covered different traditional farming practices such as sowing method, seed treatment, weather prediction, harvesting method, storage practices, indigenous livestock practices, indigenous human health practices, communication pattern etc. The documented study also validated by more than 50 expert. the validated study recommended to the farmers for improvement in their farming. Author also suggested that recommended farming practices should make available to other regions also, so the farmers of that region also take the benefit.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 104 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book in your hands is a serious attempt to facilitate studying practical part of Histology. More over provide useful scientific material which might be used by students in medical laboratory science and in order to facilitate the achievement of Objectives of this book I tried to be comprehensive scientific material, containing 15 different topics in histology lab. course In conclusion . ask God to guide us to what he likes and makes my work is useful and realize our hopes of a creative generation.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 96 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book is intended to provide information about the latest innovations in tall building design and construction technologies. Providing a historical background on the early development of tall buildings, it mainly presents the innovative technologies applied, by means of architectural design, structural systems, new and smart materials and improvements in vertical transportation systems via the help of latest applications. The book also presents a number of super and mega tall buildings of our recent era, focusing on their innovative construction technologies and sustainability features.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 296 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The building industry economic situation has shown a continuous descending tendency starting from 2008 in the field of efficiency and future development. Individual building companies have to undertake previously banned optimisation processes that affected both the company itself and its employees. Moreover, when assessing the role of the government and its involvement in the stabilisation of the current ¿bitter¿ situation, we cannot but state that such an involvement is zero. Therefore, this paper has two core objectives: the first one is to ¿define methods of the economisation of the personnel management in the building industry¿ and to ¿identify the economic policy of the state relative to building organisations and to determine the impacts of such policy on the behaviour of building organisations¿. The building industry is a very specific area of the national economy that, due to a considerable variety of construction works and complexity of working conditions of individual fields of activity (building construction, civil engineering, specialized construction works). Personnel management principally influences the right and effective use of employees in the working process.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 384 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -College students that have learning disabilities (LDs) are a growing population in higher education today. Whereas elementary and secondary school teachers are responsible for identifying and protecting the rights of students with special needs, at the postsecondary level, the students must assume the responsibility of identifying themselves and for supplying evidence of disability and the need for accommodation. Nursing students with learning disabilities in particular face additional challenges, as the nursing curriculum is composed of skills drawn from cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains (Ijiri & Kudzma, 2000). Eight current or former California community college nursing students were interviewed for this qualitative research study. Results reveal that fear of stigmatization was the primary feeling associated with reluctance in self-disclosure, but for these participants, the benefits of utilizing accommodations, especially extended test-taking time and testing in a quiet environment, outweighed the risks associated with disclosing having a learning disability. Participants reported that these, and other accommodations, attributed to their academic success.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 176 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book is the added and revised publication of the previous author¿s book ¿Thermonuclear processes of the Universe¿, New-York, NOVA Sci. Publ., 2012, 194p. The first chapter contains the review of thermonuclear processes in the Sun and stars. The second is devoted to the description of the using model and basic calculation methods of some characteristics for bound states and continuum of nuclear particles. In the rest 13th chapters, the radiative capture processes for the p2H, p3H, p6Li, p7Li, p9Be, p10B, p11B, p12C, p13C, p14C, p15N, and also 2H4He, 3H4He, 3H¿4He, 4He12C systems were considered at astrophysical energies. It was shown that using approach allows one to describe available experimental data comparatively well in this energy range. Besides, it was shown that in some cases, for certain nuclear systems, it was possible to predict the behavior of the S-factor at energies lower than 100¿200 keV, because these calculations were published in 1995, and new experimental data were appeared only in 1997-2002 years.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 332 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book is about pronominal co-reference in World Standard English and its usage among educated Nigerians. It explores the processes of pronominalization, reflexivization and relativization within the transformational generative framework. It is written in six chapters that include an overview of English globally and in Nigeria, a consideration of four types of data analysis in second language learning modes of inquiry, a theoretical examination of pronominal co-reference, an error analysis of data collected, an evaluation of the findings as well as a concluding chapter that suggests three practical recommendations for the enhancement of teaching and learning English as a second language. The book is an exemplar of the challenges that second language users of English encountered in differentiating the underlying syntactic conceptual contrasts between their first and their second languages. It will be an invaluable asset to undergraduate and postgraduate students majoring in English Language Studies as well as in Applied Linguistics especially those interested in Contrastive and Error analysis. All teachers of English in second language contexts will find it extremely useful.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 352 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The engineering of heat transfer has become extremely important and diversity. To improve the performance of devices such as thermoelectrics, thermal interface materials, thermal diodes, and thermal cloaks, one needs to control the heat flow in a very good manner. And those requirements on thermal transport range from very low/high thermal conductivities to well controlled favored heat flow directions. In this book, we engineer the thermal conductivity/conductance in nanowires via defects including dislocations, twinning boundaries, anti-phase boundaries, and vacuum. Those defects are shown very promising in low thermal conductivity design. To understand the corresponding mechanisms, a set of methods including molecular dynamics, lattice dynamics, Green's function, and ab-initio calculations, have been combined to study those systems.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 144 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The need of radiation detectors capable of efficiently measuring in pulsed neutron fields is attracting widespread interest since the 60s. The efforts of the scientific community substantially increased in the last decade due to the increasing number of applications in which this radiation field is encountered. This is a major issue especially at particle accelerator facilities, where pulsed neutron fields are present because of beam losses at targets, collimators and beam dumps, and where the correct assessment of the intensity of the neutron fields is fundamental for radiation protection monitoring.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 152 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Breast cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells that start in the breast. It was and still the most common cancer diagnosed in women worldwide. In this book, Computer-aided detection (CADe) and Computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) systems are developed and applied to the standard MIAS and DDSM databases to distinguish between the different breast tissues. In both CAD systems, regions of interest (ROIs) are selected then a set of 422 features are extracted and normalized. The features selection is performed using statistical methods such as t-test, KS-test and W-test and other methods by using Matlab PR-Toolbox such as SBS, SFS, SFFS and BBS techniques. Then four classifiers used including KNN, SVM, LDA and QDA for classification stage. The proposed systems were evaluated using many indices such as Overall accuracy, Cohen-k factor, Sensitivity, Specificity, PPV, NPV and the Area Under Curve (AUC) of the ROC curves. CADx has the same stages but the output is different where it indicates the likelihood of lesion malignancy. Both CAD systems provided encouraging results. These results were different corresponding to the selection method.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 132 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Generally solids are crystalline or amorphous in nature. Both the types of solids are of great importance in modern technological applications. Borate glasses have significant applications in different fields such as in transmission, electricity, electronics, radiation shielding etc. Glassy solid electrolytes like lithium based glasses have distinct advantages over their crystalline counterparts. Investigation of ionic conductivity in lithium based glassy solid electrolytes is interesting from practical as well as academic points of view. Since lithium is light and most electropositive, lithium conducting glasses are quite promising for the technological applications. From ionic conductivity point of view and other properties, the preparation and characterization of lithium based glasses was planned to give the valuable information and to fill up the gap in available literature. The lithium based borate glasses have been prepared using melt quenching technique. The structural,optical and thermal properties are discussed.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 144 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The purpose of this research effort was to develop a model that provides repeatable Location Management (LM) testing using a network simulation tool, QualNet version 5.1 (2011). The model will provide current and future protocol developers a framework to simulate stable protocol environments for development. This study used the Design Science Research methodology to develop and validate the model as the artifact for this study. This process used LM algorithms as the protocol to provide validity to the test of repeatability of the simulation events.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 132 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Although lawful, the widespread use of earnings management in financial reporting gives reasons to believe that companies may be indulging in illegally manipulating earnings in stead of managing them prudently. What motivate it are not straightforward because the nature of human motivation is complex. Although, earnings management is deemed an intentional action, wherein company decision-makers use managerial discretions and judgements to achieve desired earnings numbers; yet nothing has been said beyond this. In this empirical study, based on a real case, using vignettes, we have attempted to study relative deprivation ¿ i.e., people¿s reaction to objective situations depends on their subjective comparisons ¿ as one of the causes behind decision-makers¿ reasoning process to manipulate earnings. Our findings are mixed in the sense that while answering if relative deprivation causes earnings management to stray into earnings manipulations, the respondents have rendered varied levels of support to it under two different situations. Notwithstanding, we have some interesting findings as regards relative deprivation effecting manipulative earnings management practices.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 368 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Gastrointestinal diseases of chicken often have a multiple etiology. The combination of pathogens differs from place to place. Pathology of these diseases rely not only on the host immune status and strain of pathogen, but also on the predisposing factors like season, age of birds, environment temperature, method of rearing, and nutritional plane.Systematic pathological study of the gastrointestinal tract in poultry diseases has not yet been carried out extensively. Realising the paucity of information on the occurrence of such diseases in poultry, a detailed research on ¿Pathology of gastrointestinal diseases in laying chicken was carried out. Hence, this book will helpful for poultry Scientist to undertake research on gastrointestinal diseases of chicken.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 164 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Electronics and main thing manufacture in it - electro assembly joints - refers to the high production engineering demanding from specialists high extent of professionalism. Scientific bases of sampling of designs and materials of one-piece contact joints, tools and the equipment, used in production engineering of formation of electro assembly joints in electronics products are stated. Physical and chemical processes of creation soldered connections, the wire microwelded joints, application of intensifying affecting in processes, and also a quality monitoring of quality of joints are observed. The book is intended for technical specialists, post-graduate students and students of the technical universities specializing in area of the production technology of electronic equipment.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 204 pp. Englisch.