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Component-based software development is becoming more generalized, representing a considerable market for the software industry. The perspective of reduced development costs and shorter life cycles acts as a motivation for this expansion. However, several technical issues remain unsolved before the software components industry reaches the maturity as other software industries. Problems such as component selection, the lack of component catalog...

The visual world is about an individual's perception, while one unfolds the concepts of visual phenomenon multiple unknown characters and layers come to fore. The realization of these changes is accredited to elapse of time and cognition of brain and eye. In the first layer the characters are neutral and unidentified on the given picture plane. They create what is called the retinal images in the back of the eye. Once the brain registers these...

In the run up to the general elections of 12th April 2003 and the EU referendum of the 8th March 2003 in Malta, much uncertainty existed in the country's main sectors, particularly the manufacturing ones, on the future of SMEs, which make up a large proportion of the country's business. This dissertation investigates, through primary research, whether Maltese SMEs can, and have, learnt anything from the Greek experience of EU membership.

Faustino Taderera, the celebrity and towering figure, is the finest International Business brains ever produced in Zimbabwe and Africa and the most published business icon and guru nicknamed, "The Tom Peters of Zimbabwe, Africa and the Middle East." This book, The Marketing Manager's Guide, his 23th book, is a companion for top marketing executives in "The Kitchen Cabinet, " and covers, among others, topics such as:- status of world economy, m...

Faustino Taderera, the celebrity, is the finest International Business brains ever produced in Zimbabwe and Africa and the most published business icon and guru nicknamed, "The Tom Peters of Zimbabwe, Africa and the Middle East." His students call him, "The Rumbler and the Caterpillar." This book, Essentials of Entrepreneurship, his 24th book, is a necessary companion for existing and aspiring entrepreneurs and covers, among others, topics suc...

Zinc is now one of the recommended therapies for the long-term management of Wilson's disease. Zinc has shown clinical efficacy at doses of 50 mg three times daily in the stimulation of metallothionein synthesis and reduction of copper absorption. The mean plasma elimination half-lives of most highly water soluble drugs, like zinc sulphate, are relatively short (2-4.5 h), which necessitates several applications a day. Long-acting sustained and...

This thesis presents a conceptual and empirical investigation of why some individuals and not others enact opportunities. It takes a distinct view of opportunities - enacted possibilities of economic gain - thereby bridging economics and psychology perspectives. In the developed theoretical model, opportunity enactment is an ideal type construct involving distinct configurations of information context, learning style, and specific human capita...

An investment decision can generally be described as a contingent decision relying on information gatherings from a previous decision or decisions made concerning the investment at hand. It is thus like the same investment decision is made over and over again. The difficulty in applying this tactic in human resource decisions is that the decision is trans-formed over time into another type of investment decision with other properties than the ...

This study analyzed the effectiveness of tourism development as a tool to achieve conservation and improved livelihoods in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. The concept of social capital, sustainable livelihoods framework and the Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) paradigm informed the study. Qualitative and quantitative data were gathered through field-based research, using tools of participant observation, semi- structured inter...

This book contains the research about three routing protocols in Wireless Mesh Networks that have been carried out in Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden under the kind supervisory of Mr. Alexandru Popescu. The beauty of this research is that it involves the simulation of routing protocols in WMNs and the simulation is carried out on OPNET Modeler 14.5, which is a very efficient latest Network Designing tool.

The book analyses the use of natural resources and associated land use conflicts in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Fishing, wildlife conservation, tourism, crop farming, livestock farming, and veld product collection are some of the uses of natural resources in the Okavango Delta. Between resource users, there is resource conflict over these resources. This is caused by the lack of an integrated natural resource use policy. The Okavango Delta M...

This study aims at identifying morality models through metaphors from the perspective of public (media political) discourse. By analysing metaphorical expressions, restructuring conceptual metaphors on the basis of the activated frames, different morality systems can be distinguished. The findings reveal that British media political discourse is based on the Complex Morality Model. The combination of pragmatic, rational and sentimental values ...

This study is to examine selected issues, which are fundamentally related to management in general and to leadership in particular. The main objective of the study is to explore the domain of motivational and coaching skills within telecom business sector by using empirical analysis. It will explore, first, how leaders make effective use of motivational and coaching skills to improve employees' performance in both Batelco and Zain, the two maj...

In many areas, like geometric reasoning, computer modeling, implicitization, computer vision, robotics and kinematics, polynomial equations are used to model various behaviors and/or configurations. Frequently, it is necessary to derive direct dependence between parameters of the problem. Variable elimination helps to derive these dependencies and get direct correspondence between the parameters of the problem. In general, we are seeking to de...

Advanced information systems for the enterprise and the supply chain can help to ensure the integrity and the safety of food products. Problems caused by poor design and bad communication of information systems, must be avoided both on the level of the enterprise and the supply chain. Reference-data modelling is a method that supports the development, standardisation and integration of information systems in enterprises and supply chains. In t...

In Bosnia and Herzegovina thousands of women were subjected to rape and other forms of sexual violence during the war from 1992 to 1995. Fifteen years after its end, those whose lives were wrecked by rape still await for their perpetrators to be convicted. Only a handful of the perpetrators have been brought to justice and the authorities have failed to ensure adequate reparations to the survivors of this violence. This book discloses that vio...

While one of the most studied disorders in the field of psychology, schizophrenia continues to be resistant to the modes of treatment most commonly used, be these pharmacological or psychological. People with schizophrenia continue to be for the most part, unable to function normally in the community, to sustain meaningful relationships, and to be satisfied with their lives. The present book is a quantitative study that examines quality of lif...

As the government moves from one humanitarian organisation to another, begging basket in hand and people sink deeper into food insecurity, what was once the country's commercial agricultural empire lies desolate, reduced to an extension of the subsistence farming sector. This work problematises the situation in the former commercial farms, and argues that, the crisis was intrinsic in the 'jambanja' process, and the subsequent state incapacity ...

In this dissertation we prove local existence and uniqueness of solutions of the focusing modified Korteweg - de Vries equation u_t + u^2u_x + u_{xxx} = 0 in classes of unbounded functions that admit an asymptotic expansion at infinity in decreasing powers of $x$. We show that an asymptotic solution differs from a genuine solution by a smooth function that is of Schwartz class with respect to $x$ and that solves a generalized version of the fo...

In China's unprecedented upsurge of construction since the late 1970s, one of the leading forces is the state-owned design institutes, which are distinguished by their associations with the central government. Taking CAG (China Architecture Design and Research Gruop), a renowned design institute as an example, this book summarizes the common and consistent features of the design practice of the institute in the post-Mao era, and analyzes an un...