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This book addresses the central puzzle of Pakistan''s educational experience, i.e., its relatively high growth rate of per capita income for a developing country at the same time that its education sector continues to suffer from a severe twin deficit: a very low overall level of educational attainment of the population, and a particularly low level of educational attainment of women. Ghaffar Mughal makes three significant contributions to the...

A fully operational transport system with good quality physical infrastructures and effective management tools is essential for the economic growth, as trade and transport are strongly interrelated. This book examines the problem of guaranteeing a sustainable development of the intermodal freight transport in Europe, in particular by short-sea shipping and railway transport exploitation, as these transport modes are recognized as environmental...

This work has two main goals. The first is to analyze the construction of the female identity of the main character of the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston. In order to do that, the first chapters bring the readers closer to the main aspects that will be further discussed by presenting the author, Zora, her work, and, last but not least, the historical moment in the United States during the period of the African-Americ...

Tourism has been proffered as a sound way to address Park-people troubled relationship. Through tourism, economic benefits for local people can be generated to help address land-use incompatibilities so that pressures on the Park could be reduced. At the same time Park authorities would have an incentive to improve and strengthen their management capacity. The expected outcome is reconciliation that would facilitate collaborative management of...

The general aim of the present work is to study the relationship between Visuo-Spatial Working Memory and map learning processes. Theoretical models by Baddeley (2001) and by Thorndyke and Hayes-Roth (1982) were used as frameworks for Working Memory and Spatial Knowledge respectively. Possible links between the two models are discussed. In order to investigate the role of Working Memory in map learning, the methodology of the dual task is appl...

The end of the Cold War has witnessed the rise of a new humanitarianism. The increase in human rights abuses and atrocities, such as those that took place in Rwanda, East Timor, Sierra Leone, and Kosovo have shifted the focus from a state-centred approach to international security to one of individual and community security and protection. Within this shift there has been a noticeable increase in the engagement of non-governmental organisation...

Option markets have become among the most heavily transacted financial markets in the world. Option pricing models are used to price the options transacted on these markets. These models have been described as amongst the most accurate in the social sciences. Despite this outstanding success, claims that the conventional option pricing models are failing are appearing with increasing frequency. These anomalies represent a serious problem for o...

This book focuses on different problems and issues related to education surfaced as my career in tourism and hospitality. This project intends to sinthesize a hand-on perspective the praxis with theory. Most likely, the empirical rich basis of the chapters that are integrated in this work makes a valuable contribution to expand the current understanding of the conflic relationship between educators and students.

Unser Sommerurlaub 2010 führte Hannah, meine siebenjährige Tochter, und mich auf eine zehntägige Wanderung über Rothaarsteig und Höhenflug, einmal quer durch das Sauerland. Dies ist das Tage- und Bilderbuch unserer Tour vom Langenberg und vom Kahlen Asten bis zur Nordhelle über die höchsten Berge und entlang der schönsten Orte meiner Heimat.

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Liebe light - Leichte Liebe! Mit dir ist jeder Tag leicht, das Leben so einzigartig, so lebenswert und Freude pur! So manche Leserin wird sich in der Protagonistin wiedererkennen! Mit einem Augenzwinkern und fragendem Blick, einfühlsam und humorvoll begleiten wir Kathrin auf ihrem Weg in ein leichteres Leben .... Wer kennt es nicht? Frau ist mit sich unzufrieden! Frisch verlassen, mit dem eigenen Körper hadernd und einfach sich von dem Lebe...

Dieses Buch zeigt Ihnen ganz konkret, was Sie bei der Umsetzung einer Social Media Marketing Strategie tun können - schnell, einfach und kurz erklärt in 100 praxisorientierten Anwender-Tipps für Ihre Social Media Strategie. Bei jedem Praxis-Tipp erhalten Sie eine Einschätzung, wie hoch der Aufwand der Aktion ist. Das Buch wendet sich an Praktiker, also an Marketing-Entscheider, Unternehmer und Agenturen, die bereits Basis-Kenntnisse über das W...

In Form von Kurzgeschichten wird versucht einen Einblick in das abwechslungsreiche Leben des Autors zu geben. Der Bogen spannt sich von Tagespolitik über Beziehungsreisen bis hin zu Philosophischem. Das ganze garniert mit historischem Wissen vor einem sehr lebenserfahrenen Hintergrund. Einfach zum Nachdenken! UND: Durchlesen

One nano meter (one billionth of a meter) is magical point on a dimensional scale. Nanostructure are at the confluence of the smallest of human-made devices and the largest molecules of living things. Nanoscale science and engineering here refer to the fundamental understanding And resulting technological advances arising from the exploitation of new physical, chemical and biological properties of system that are intermediate in size, between ...

Electronic mail is a medium of communication that is not new to media relations and journalism. However, the situations where it is used might be guided not only by requirements of the industry, but also by personal preferences of its users. This qualitative study analyzes the motives behind the usage of email by journalists when receiving information from public relations firms and organizations and the public relations practitioners who are ...

In the book, "Experimentation in Mathematics, " authors J.Borwein and D.Bailey write: "One of the greatest ironies of the information technology evolution is that while the computer was conceived and born in the field of pure mathematics, through the genius of giants such as John von Neumann and Alan Turing, until recently this marvelous technology had only a minor impact within the field that gave it birth." One of the main objectives of this...

There have been few studies on brand extensions in a Pakistan context. In this book, we study brand extensions in Pakistan from viewpoint of Brand Managers as their analysis coupled with their personal preferences can provide interesting insights for forming a successful brand extension strategy.Since T. Gamble first published an article about brand extensions (1967) there has been a growing interest for the topic. With the passage of time the...

As soon as we have to make a choice or take a decision, the optimisation concept becomes major. Stemming from the operational research, the optimisation was little approached in geography, probably because the relations between human and nature are complex. So the optimisation in geography is the result of the study of this concept in various sciences. Some geographers'' works have already studied the optimisation but it is in a quite other pe...

Ultra sonic machining has a vast application in modern world. By using this method, metal should be removed so easily and also with a short time. How this process works? How works should be done by using ultrasound? Different graphical representation and the metal removal rate of the process. High range of frequency is used for this process. Also, ultrasound is used for detecting material defects. In Bangladesh, there is no Ultrasonic Machine ...

This correlational design study systematically evaluated the degree to which a selected prereferral to special education intervention was implemented according to two levels by regular education elementary teachers grades two through five in four elementary buildings within a rural Pennsylvania school district. Consultation, intervention scripting, self-monitoring intervention, and enhanced consultation were utilized. Results of the research r...