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The "British Elections and Parties" series publishes research on parties, elections and voting behaviour in Britain, providing analyses of current and historical developments. It is produced under the auspices of the Political Studies Association's Election, Public Opinion and Parties study group.Volume 9 includes research based around four themes: electoral reform, partisanship and voting, parliamentary behaviour, and the attitudes of the you...

Corrects the false impression that male critics generally respond poorly to the work of Ireland's women poets by assembling a collection of essays that helps establish these artists' rightful place in the Irish literary canon.

Defining planning as an inherent aspect of human life, Branch presents conclusions reached from 20 previous volumes dealing with different aspects and applications of planning, as well as from actual professional planning experiences. He shows how planning has been a directive force during human evolution and an intrinsic element in human reactions, actions, and activities.Focusing on the existing situation in the United States, he examines th...

The debate over gun control is a complex and compelling one that has created a deep divide between gun rights and gun control supporters. Student researchers can use this reference source to explore the issue through the lives of fifty people who have become actively involved in either supporting gun control and stricter laws, or in supporting the rights of people to own and carry guns. This unique approach to the debate provides profiles of t...

This volume serves as a handbook for readers seeking an overview of China's major developments and transformations in the political, economic, legal and social spheres since 1978.

Fuzzy Logic and Soft Computing contains contributions from world-leading experts from both the academic and industrial communities. The first part of the volume consists of invited papers by international authors describing possibilistic logic in decision analysis, fuzzy dynamic programming in optimization, linguistic modifiers for word computation, and theoretical treatments and applications of fuzzy reasoning. The second part is composed of ...

In recent years, much work has been done in formulating and clarifying the concept of sustainable development and related theoretical and research issues. Now, the challenge has shifted to designing and stimulating processes of effective planning and decision-making, at all levels of human activity, in such a way as to achieve local and global sustainable development. Information technology can help a great deal in achieving sustainable develo...

Family Diversity and Family Policy describes the dimensions of diversity which characterize the contemporary American family and discusses the implications for public policy and associated intervention programs linked to this diversity. The authors contend that if the programs and policies available to support families are to be most useful, they need to reflect the diversity of the families they intend to help. Beginning with a discussion o...

Cellular drug resistance is a major limitation to the success of chemotherapy of leu­ kemia and lymphoma. The importance of this has now been recognized by both clinicians and scientists. It is of utmost importance to bridge the gap between laboratory and clinic in this field of research. This is the main purpose of the series of International Symposia on Drug Resistance in Leukemia and Lymphoma. These are held every three years in Am­ sterdam...

Fuzzy Sets, Logics and Reasoning about Knowledge reports recent results concerning the genuinely logical aspects of fuzzy sets in relation to algebraic considerations, knowledge representation and commonsense reasoning. It takes a state-of-the-art look at multiple-valued and fuzzy set-based logics, in an artificial intelligence perspective. The papers, all of which are written by leading contributors in their respective fields, are grouped int...

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Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Marketing wird heute überwiegend als Management des komparativen Konkurrenzvorteils verstanden. Im Rahmen der Marketing-Konzeptionen und Marketing-Denkens soll eine Existenzsicherung durch Stabilisierung von Marktanteilen und Geschäftsbeziehungen erreicht werden. Die zunehmende Berücksichtigung von Kundenzufriedenheit in Marketing-Konzepten führt zu zwei strategischen Konsequenzen: 1. In den Unternehmen müssen mehr ...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: In bestimmten Fällen ist es sinnvoll, Szenarien (Zukunftsbilder) für die Personalplanung zu entwickeln. Dies kommt vor allem dann in Frage, wenn ein Unternehmen in neue Märkte diversifiziert, eine neue Produkt- und Dienstleistungslinie aufbaut, oder wenn eine Umstellung auf völlig neue Technologien erfolgt, die Mitarbeiter mit neuen Qualifikationen erfordert. Gerade auch bei Fusionen und Akquisitionen prallen oft unt...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Parallel zu den Einschaltquoten der öffentlich-rechtlichen und privaten Fernsehsender stiegen in den letzten zehn Jahren in Deutschland auch die Besucherzahlen in den Stadien der Fußball-Bundesliga kontinuierlich an. Diesem Boom wird zunehmend durch Modernisierungsbestrebungen und den Bau neuer Stadien Rechnung getragen. Der Fußballsport übernimmt als Hauptzuschauermagnet dieser zum Teil multifunktionalen Anlagen ein...

Inhaltsangabe:Gang der Untersuchung: Ausgehend von der aktuellen Wertermittlungsdiskussion britischer und deutscher Gutachter erfolgt im Rahmen der Arbeit eine Untersuchung der deutschen Bewertungspraxis. Nach Erläuterung der allgemeinen Grundlagen zur Bemessung des Wertes von Immobilien werden die rechtlichen Restriktionen, die Wertdefinitionen sowie die Wertermittlungsmethodik in Deutschland eingehend erläutert. Anschließend werden die an d...

Inhaltsangabe:Abstract: The following report explores the main aspects of knowledge management. The history of knowledge management reveals that different trends and developments influenced the evolution of a new management theory. Advanced information technologies that enable global knowledge-sharing and the recognition that people are the most valuable resource in a fast changing environment are the main reasons why knowledge management ha...

With contributions by the major experts on campaign finance, this book examines the now pervasive use of soft money, advocacy groups, and other stratagems to circumvent the reforms put in place after the Watergate scandals.

Tracking the evolution of the Red Army through the war against Japan and the Chinese civil war, Wortzel's book provides a comprehensive basic reference focusing on the major events, people, and issues that have produced the historical legacy of the People's Liberation Army. Placing contemporary Chinese military history in the context of China's 19th century clashes with the West and Japan, Wortzel illustrates how the imposition of unequal trea...

The interaction of 19th-century Russian missionaries with three indigenous groups, the Chukchi and Altaians in Siberia and the Dena'ina Indians in Alaska, resulted in widely different outcomes. The Chukchi disregarded the missionary message, the Dena'ina embraced Christianity, and the Altaians responded by selectively borrowing from Orthodox religion. Znamenski-in the first work of its kind in English-argues that the relationships between indi...

Silverman provides graduate students who intend to pursue a career in academia and tenure-track junior faculty with candid information about developing an adequate publication record. The book also provides graduate students, tenured faculty, and others with information they need to maximize the likelihood of having their articles accepted for publication by peer-reviewed professional, scientific, and scholarly journals. The focus throughout i...