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As the research Scientist in charge of animal production and health unit of Biotechnology and Nuclear Agriculture Research Institute, my area of interest is sustainable improvement of the productivity of indigenous small ruminants and monogastrics, using nuclear techniques. Current studies include the exploration of strategic nutrition including the use of probiotic, as a complementary tool to achieve these objectives. The ultimate goal howeve...

Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the developed countries. Atherosclerosis begins in childhood and young adulthood. Physical activity reduces the risk of chronic disease, including diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease. Lower exercise levels have been associated with the incidence of coronary heart disease and stroke among youngs. Despite active lifestyles having an array of positive health and soci...

La motivation de ce travail provient des mathématiques financières, où l'évaluation et la couverture des options est un problème important. Cette thèse est constituée de deux parties. La première consacrée à la présentation des mathématiques financières utilisées dans ce domaine. La deuxième partie est focalisée sur le calcul du prix des options asiatiques, options dont la fonction pay-off dépend de la moyenne du cours entre les instants 0 et ...

Nowadays, there is an urgent need for sophisticated mobile marketing techniques based on detailed knowledge of customer's context, Tourists, who request information while on the move, intentionally seek quick and precise answer either from Google Maps, Bing or Yahoo Maps portals, etc. However, the quality of these map providers heavily relies on the relevance of their geographic datasets. So, to reduce inconsistency and rigidness in the result...

Le regain du religieux d'inspiration chrétienne et messianique sur la scène politique est, plus que jamais, manifeste sur le continent africain et ce, dans le contexte post-guerre froide et des processus de démocratisation en Afrique noire. Au Congo-Kinshasa, l'exacerbation des crises politiques et des conflits armés connus depuis les années 90 en tant que manifestations de la crise de l'Etat lui-même a suscité l'émergence d'un phénomène de vi...

There has been an accepted view among the academicians and policymakers that the shift in BoP financing from debt to non-debt flows would expect to remove the vulnerabilities in India's BoP. There must be a shift in the finance from debt to non-debt capital flows and minimisation of current account deficit was the two main recommendations of Rangarajan committee. Available evidence hardly shows any evidence of strengthening in India's balance ...

Digitally-enabled generative organizational processes (such as product design and development) change frequently and vary greatly within and between companies, and over time, making them difficult to understand and manage. These kinds of generative processes can be viewed as sets of organizational routines afforded by technology, which in this thesis are commonly labeled as "sociomaterial routines". To further complicate sense-making of such p...

L'internationalisation de la distribution oblige les enseignes qui se risquent sur les marchés étrangers à relever de nombreux défis économiques et managériaux. L'internationalisation peut se faire soit à partir d'une démarche universaliste visant à reproduire les processus de fonctionnement du pays d'origine vers des pays cible, soit à partir d'une adaptation aux particularismes locaux dans une approche dite particulariste. Cet ouvrage étudie...

Revision with unchanged content. In recent years, many jurisdictions around the world have moved from the vertically integrated power systems to the deregulated competitive electricity markets. Unlike the integrated systems, future prices are uncertain in the new competitive electricity markets. This price uncertainty generally introduces a great deal of complexity in optimal planning and operation of electric energy systems. This monograph de...

Inhaltlich unveränderte Neuauflage. Im Rahmen dieser Diplomarbeit beschäftige ich mich mit spieltheoretischen Modellen aus dem Bereich der politischen Ökonomie. Es werden drei verschiedene Modelle, welche das Thema der Wahlbeteiligung mikroökonomisch beleuchten, diskutiert. Insbesondere wird dabei Wert auf die Beweisführung gelegt. Mit Hilfe des Modells von Börgers gehe ich zunächst auf die Frage ein, ob ein Abstimmungszwang, zumindest in klei...

Inhaltlich unveränderte Neuauflage. Die demographische Entwicklung Deutschlands führt in absehbarer Zeit zu einem Mangel an hochqualifizierten Arbeitskräften mit direkten Auswirkungen auf die ökonomische Leistungsfähigkeit volkswirtschaftlicher Schlüsselsektoren. Wie ist es zu erklären, dass in Zeiten scheinbarer und politisch gewollter Gleichberechtigung Führungspositionen an eines der beiden Geschlechter nur in absoluten Einzelfällen vergebe...

For more than sixty years Argentina has suffered from very high inflation and government instability. The authorities have tried several different policies to bring inflation down but up to now there has been no long-term efficient inflation stabilization policy. Peronist periods and dictatorships impoverished the society which has for a long time experienced a very high unemployment rate.The new Keynesian Phillips curve is a good model to exa...

Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit den Herausforderungen, denen sich Väter nach einer Trennung bzw. Scheidung zu stellen haben. Auf Basis des theoretischen Grundlagenwissens wird zunächst die gesellschaftliche Entwicklung der Vaterrolle erläutert. Darauf aufbauend wird die Bedeutung der Vater-Kind-Beziehung aus der Sicht der Psychoanalayse und der Bindungstheorie erarbeitet. Anschließend wird auf die Trennung zwischen Vater und Kind eingegangen...

CDS indices are widely accepted as market indicators for systematic credit risks and tools for credit risk correlation trading. This paper examines the major North America and European CDS Indices on their abilities to capture the systematic risk of the overall CDS market. Through designing and constructing two synthetic CDS indices that represent the North America and European CDS markets respectively, we compare the current CDS indices and t...

Die Absicherung von Finanzierungen ist ein ständiges Thema in einer Bank. Vor allem grundbücherliche Sicherheiten, im Speziellen solche auf einer Baurechtseinlage oder einem Superädifikat, stellen Kreditinstitute in der Sicherheitenbestellung und -verwertung immer wieder vor größere Herausforderungen. Diese Arbeit soll zum einen den Unterschied der beiden Rechtskonstrukte "Baurecht" und "Superädifikat" herausarbeiten, zum anderen auf mögliche ...

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This two volume set LNCS 7446 and LNCS 7447 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2012, held in Vienna, Austria, September 3-6, 2012. The 49 revised full papers presented together with 37 short papers and 2 keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 179 submissions. These papers discuss a range of topics including: database query processing, in p...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, PRIMA 2012, held in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, in September 2012. The conference was collocated with the 12th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI. The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. The papers are organized in topic...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International RuleML Symposium, RuleML 2012, held in Montpellier, France, in August 2012 - collocated with the 20th biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2012. The 14 full papers, 8 short papers and 2 track papers presented together with 2 keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The accepted papers address topics such as business...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.4, 8.9, TC 5 International Cross Domain Conference and Workshop on Availability, Reliability and Security, CD-ARES 2012, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in August 2012. The 50 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the volume. The papers concentrate on the many aspects of information systems bridging the gap between research results in compu...