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The enormity of the importance of banks in the global economy makes it essential that banks are led by effective leaders who are strong on their values, and are innovative and inspiring. The book explores the development of the concepts of transformational leadership, innovative work behaviour and crisis management skills and describes a study on the presence and interaction of the said attributes in Managers working at the Operational level i...

In stagnating, competitive markets existing customers are worth their weight in gold. Retaining existing customers rather than obtaining new customers is becoming the guiding star for an increasing audience of service companies. A common assertion within the service marketing literature is that successful service recovery may improve dissatisfied customers' repurchase intention, perception of and attitude toward the supplier. In short: they ar...

Resettlement has a long history in Ethiopia. Forced resettlement that took place during the Marxist Derg regime ended up in failure due to the lack of proper planning and follow-ups. The current EPRDF-led government in Ethiopia has also identified resettlement as a rural development option to tackle food security problems in drought-prone areas of the country. However, the implementation of resettlement schemes in Tigray and Amhara regions was...

In the 1990s, Ugandan farmers became increasingly interested in microfinance resources (MFRs) that were being promoted nationally as important means for poverty alleviation and for women's empowerment. In Arua and Mukono districts, households diversified their income generating strategies by using formal, semi-formal and informal financial institutions to access credit and savings. At the time of this study, little had been done to neither ass...

English Literature Made Easy is a series of critical commentaries and study guides based on prominent masterpieces of English Literature. Antar Abdellah presents these articles and critical essays, reproduced from his old study manuscripts, as part of a bigger project for facilitating the study of English literature to the new generations of university students who did not have the chance to undertake similar research work. Summaries, overview...

Despite the government has implemented different poverty reducing policies and strategies, Poverty has been remained daily experience of citizens in Ethiopia for so many years. Having an objective of providing information with respect to incidence of poverty and its determinants and income inequality in Wukro town, this book is of high worth for researcher, development agents and the government to design policies and strategies that intend to ...

Membrane reactors can be classified as multifunctional reactors, as different process steps (selective dosing of educts or removal of reaction products) are combined in a single unit. In a membrane reactor, chemical reaction is coupled with mass or heat transport and this requires a complete understanding of transport processes in the membrane. Typical industrial reactions like partial oxidation of hydrocarbons takes place at higher temperatur...

The malaria parasite P. falciparum has been the most lethal parasite of humans in history. It also has a most peculiar genome. This book reviews the origins of Plasmodium and details work carried out to investigate parasite genome evolution. It is filled with novel ideas and unique insights that shed light on the evolution of the organism. An array of topics are covered such as the impact the organism has had on human evolution, the unexpected...

The study of the district head system is a study of British colonial administration in Northern Nigeria. This is because the Indirect Rule system in various emirates of Northern Nigeria rested securely on the District Head system. Therefore, a total re-thinking of the philosophy of indirect rule system and its various contours is necessary. This is to challenge and correct the conventional notion that the British did not alter the pattern of t...

With the rapid urbanization and growth of urban population, urban poor is also increasing in the third world cities. Khulna, the third largest city of Bangladesh is one of those cities where native growth of urban population and rural push factors are keeping pressure. Urban poor tends to settle in place where they can invest their unskilled labor easily, minimize the house rent and transportation cost. In order that, they tend to gather near ...

The alarming rate at which concerns are expressed about deficiency in the reading ability of children at the primary school level, in most parts of the world, has become a concern to specialists in reading. These concerns have precipitated the need to continually carry out studies on how to improve the teaching of reading which is one of the fundamental language skills. Literature search have revealed that non-text factors such as pedagogic fa...

Post-colonial African people have witnessed undemocratic governments come and go-mostly thanks to nature's course. During the OAU's regime of 38 years will of the people have been forestalled countless times. The amendment to principle 4 (h) of the Constitutive Act to include legitimate order as one ground of intervention came with "good" news to the staggering democracy. Building on the claim that the right to democratic governance should att...

A lot is written about the influence of TV industry. The cases when media forgets about its main role becoming the tool of political manipulations are not exceptions. How does it work in partially free media surroundings? In the countries where TV media still "rules" among other media outlets. We come to Georgian Rose Revolution of 2003 interested in research of the role, influence and standards of the local TV media outlets through the prism ...

When recruiting teachers, administrators should consider the candidates' status of racial identity development. If European American educators have not accepted their race as a part of their identity then they are more likely to operate from a position of power and privilege in the classroom. The purpose of the research study was to examine the competency of teacher candidates to teach racially diverse students. In this investigation, I wanted...

This book studies the revisionary mythmaking of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony. More specifically, it explores Whitman's reworking of the Judeo-Christian Adamic myth in his "Children of Adam" poetry cluster, and Marmon Silko's reworking of Laguna Pueblo and Navajo conceptions of witchery- as well as the effects of such a reworking upon her presentation of Laguna's foundational mythic narratives. This study co...

Recent evidences tend to demonstrate that tuberculosis prevalence and its death rates are globally decreasing after having reached a peak. In developing countries, like Ethiopia, tuberculosis continues to be a major health problem. According to the MOH hospitals' statistical data, in Ethiopia, tuberculosis is the leading cause of morbidity, the third cause of hospital admission (following deliveries and malaria), and the second cause of death ...

An emerging class of harmonic sources is comprised of power electronic-based home appliances. These appliances are dispersed throughout the low-voltage distribution system, and their collective impact can result in unacceptable levels of voltage distortion. This book presents an evaluation of the relative severity of the harmonic currents from these devices. Typically, the voltage supplied to each harmonic source is already distorted, causing ...

The laser powder deposition (LPD) process is an area of laser material processing that has received much attention in the past three decades. This process has different applications such as rapid manufacturing, surface modification, and repairing high value components. Many attempts have been made to modify and promote the LPD process from the early stages of the process development. However, subjects such as connecting microstructural evoluti...

This book, which is derived from my master thesis, presents a self-organizing medium access protocol called A3C. It was especially designed for aeronautical air-air communication. The book provides a detailed description of A3C, including a solution to the hidden station problem. Beside this, the book also provides a general overview of existing wireless medium access protocols and digital aeronautical communication. At the end of the text pre...

The task of Pattern Recognition occurs in a wide range of human activities. The term could cover any context in which some decision or forecast is made on the basis of currently available information and a Pattern Recognition is then some formal method for repeatedly making such judgments in new situations. We shall assume that the problem concerns construction a procedure that will be applied to a continuing sequence of cases, in which each n...