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As levers of financial management go, none bears more weight than working capital. The viability of every business activity rests on daily changes in cash, receivables, inventory and payables. It's the lifeblood of the business, and every financial manager's primary task is to keep it moving and put capital to work efficiently and effectively. The relative lack of attention to working capital management is rooted in its highly integrative natu...

Information is one of the key resources for the implementation of development infrastructure that requires implication of various levels of public and private sectors efforts including local, national and global. Implementation of information infrastructure for the sustainable development depends on several essential factors like, quality and quantity of optimal data, easy access at the grass root level, inclusion of modern IT methods with che...

With increasing concerns of global warming and rising emissions, the asphalt industry is making a constant effort to lower the mixing and compaction temperatures of asphalt mixture without affecting the mix properties. Several proprietary chemicals are available in the industry that can help reduce the mixing and compaction temperatures. A significant reduction of required heat can be achieved in most cases. While some studies have been conduc...

Nutraceutical products are an ever-evolving creative process that goes beyond scientific empiricism. Beta-glucan is one of the valuable nutraceutical polysaccharide having proven health benefits. Previously, beta glucan was very expensive to manufacture. Recent developments in manufacturing have made this product affordable. This book portrait all issues regarding extraction of ß-glucan from cereal source their characterization for end use and...

In 2002 the newly established Islamic-sensitive Justice and Development Party (AKP) rose to power and since then it, rather than the secular, western- oriented Kemalist establishment, has been the major supporter of full EU membership launching an 'aggressive reform program' aimed at restructuring the Turkish political system and the Kemalist ideology at its basis. AKP's project of 're- construction'concerned directly the Kurdish Question whos...

This study examined the effectiveness of a narrative and expository interactive read aloud (IRA) intervention on improving receptive and expressive academic language and vocabulary.The experimental pre/post design included 14 LEP kindergarten learners from a rural northern Georgia elementary school who were randomly assigned to an IRA experimental group or a traditional curriculum control group. The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT-III), ...

The effectiveness of a new cognitive-based support program for failing students, Planning and Achieving Student Success (PASS), was examined. Thirty students who were either returning from academic dismissal, or who had been on at least 2 semesters of academic probation, were randomly assigned to either the PASS program or to Treatment as Usual (TAU). Subjects in the PASS group showed significant improvement in their semester GPA (2.00) as com...

Performance-based design method is the emerging design procedure especially for reinforced concrete structures demanding a realistic assessment of the performance. This accurate assessment is critical especially for columns in bridges and tall buildings not only for designing new structures but also for decisions such as retrofit or replacement of the existing ones. The effects of the axial load and loading pattern are significant in the overa...

The purpose of this study has been to clarify the ritual use of music in Ancient Israelite and indigenous African religions. The function of music in the Bible, the relationship between music and religion, music and ritual, as well as the relationship between the living and the living dead has been investigated. Structurally, the study has been divided into four parts. The first part sets the problem formulation, proposes the solving of the pr...

This work is a simple yet insightful application of VHDL prototyping in a hardware design project using the Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA. A Smart Antenna System calculates the Direction of Arrival (DOA) of incoming receiver signals by implementing certain protocols or algorithms. Implementation of the protocols is executed on a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) platform or a custom Digital Signal Processor (DSP). The FPGA or DSP system performs ope...

This work illuminates how The Godfather and The Sopranos affect not only an individual's identity formation, but that of an ethnic culture as well. Important general dynamics of identity formation are revealed while beautifully demonstrating the power of cinematic images. Postmodern depictions are highlighted as a powerful persuasion on one's sense of self, especially when identity is viewed as performance. The author clarifies the difference ...

It has been shown that alpha-Gal is a relevant xenoantigen present on bioprostheses and elicits a specific IgM immune response. The aim of this work was to investigate whether that immune response proceeds after valve implantation. Plasma samples were collected from patients who underwent biovalve implantation or mechanical valve replacement, prior to, at ten days and at three months after cardiac surgery. ELISA was performed to quantify Gal s...

Our world is becoming more interconnected and mobile at the same time. Devices such as cell-phones and laptops are capable of receiving and displaying video, both live and pre-recorded. The energy-longevity of these devices is becoming more important. No user wants their battery to drain in minutes simply because they are using the video feature of their device. In addition to power constraints, network bandwidths can change during video trans...

In the last few years, Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have become increasingly popular for the broadband enterprise networking and community networking. Due to the relatively small transmission range of mesh routers compared to cellular networks, mobile stations in WMNs may experience frequent handoffs. Therefore, an effective mobility and association management has become vital to the performance of real-time applications (e.g., VoIP) over WMN...

The UN Millennium development declaration, which incorporated the goal of achieving universal access to primary education, is the current existing opportunity for children in developing countries. The Ethiopian government is committed to achieve universal access to primary education by 2015.As a result, the country has experienced dramatic increase in primary school enrollment since 1994.However, despite such tremendous achievement in enrollme...

The growing popularity of IEEE 802.11 standards for building local wireless networks has generated extensive literature on its performance in a variety of different environments using different types of traffic. WLANs support numerous applications ranging from simplistic web browsing, email and file transfer to delay-sensitive applications such as voice over IP, video streaming and video conferencing. However, most of the studies have been per...

Distributed programs are particularly hard to write and to reason about their correctness. The idea of checking an expected property in a given distributed program run (i.e. runtime verification) has recently been attracting a great deal of attention for analyzing distributed programs. Runtime verification verifies the implementation of the system directly rather than verifying a model of it as is done in model checking. It is also based on fo...

Onion (Allium cepa L.) production in semi-arid area is primarily limited by fertilizer and water. In 2007/8 an experiment was conducted at Mekelle University, Northern Ethiopia to determine effect of N and P on yield and yield components of onion under different irrigation regimes. A split plot design was used. Two irrigation regimes (full and deficit) as main plot, factorial combination of four levels of N (0, 46, 92, 138 kg ha-1) and four le...

This study was carried out to investigate the: (1) Effect of different periods 5, 6, 7, 9, 12 and 24 hours of ovary storage at 25 °C on recovery rate and oocyte categories of dromedary camel oocytes. (2) Effect of using of follicular fluid alone or in combination with fetal calf serum from dromedary camel on oocyte maturation in vitro. (3) Effect of storage period of camel testes at room or refrigerator temperature after slaughter on recovery ...

Vietnam has performed one of the economical success stories of the past decade. Indicated since the 1990s by a highly positive and stable social and economic development trend considering GDP and economical growth which has been heavily supported by the impressive performance of the T&C, industry and accompanied by the safe political surroundings and efforts of the Vietnamese government towards creating an inviting business and trade environme...