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This book is a step towards the standardizing the quality of airline services. This book presents Airline Service Quality Index, which is a tool for measuring the quality of services provided by Full Service Carriers (FSC) from the perspective of Indian airlines but can be replicated to other airlines as well. Airline service quality can facilitate the decision makers or industry professionals to understand the market sentiments and develop th...

The present work attempts a Comparative Study of the literary works of Charles Dickens and a South Indian writer of the 19th century Chilakamarti Lakshminarasimham. This study is more in the manner of literary and cultural criticism. The two writers being compared represent two different hemispheres - the West and the East. Thus, in terms of their positionality - geographical, political, social, cultural and linguistic, there is hardly anythin...

This book represents the culmination of much of the ecological survey work conducted by The Department of Fisheries and Marine Resources (DFMR), Government of Anguilla, British West Indies, between 2006 and 2009. It is hoped that these data will act as a baseline for the newly established Anguillan Marine Monitoring Program and allow for future temporal comparisons not possible before, due to the paucity of data available for the island. Other...

As a result of crushing and processing hard rock, some unwanted fines, known as 'waste quarry dust', are generated. Accumulation of wastes has adverse environmental and financial effects. Currently, industry is investigating method of utilisation of such wastes in roads. In addition to giving the wastes an economic value, the idea will reduce the demand for the use of primary aggregates and the associated environmental and financial impacts of...

Over the past three decades, there has been ongoing debate about the advantages of coeducational versus single-sex education for children's socio-emotional and educational development among scholars. The ongoing debate that failed to come up with a conclusive result in favor of either single sex or coeducation schooling was once again a point of interest in this research. This study was aimed to make the first exploration in Ethiopian context,...

Cassava is a very important staple food for more than 500 million people following maize, rice, wheat, and potatoes. Recent estimates suggest that its roots provide 8% or more of the minimum calorie requirement for more than 750 million people. Besides, use for animal feed, starch, and bio-fuels with cassava is increasing tremendously in many countries, being under consideration as a very important starch or energy crop in developed countries....

Rural households generally practice a diversified livelihood strategy, whereby in addition to their involvement in agricultural production most engage in non-farm income earning activities. As a consequence, rural producers may diversify by changing the composition of what they produce, for example by increasing the number of crops or changing to crop and livestock production. An understanding of these strategies is particularly important, esp...

Many prospective studies found elevated blood sugar during perinatal period as a causal factor for the development of adiposity in offspring. Most of the studies were done on adolescents and choose BMI as a surrogate measure for adiposity. With the increasing prevalence of gestational diabetes (7% annually) childhood adiposity is also increasing both in developed and developing countries. In this book, the percent fat mass of offsprings (age r...

In the La Moskitia region of Honduras, boom and bust cycles have dominated the local economy since the 1600's. The most recent of the cycles is driven by the lobster-diving industry, which has been a main source of income in La Moskitia since the 1970's. Since then lobster-diving has not only become unsustainable, but has had many negative social, economic and environmental impacts. The Honduran government has set a goal of phasing out lobster...

The present study was taken up for evaluating the in-vitro antioxidant activity of ethanolic and aqueous extracts of Polyalthia longifolia. It involved scavenging of various free radicals like DPPH, H2O2, super-oxide, nitric oxide and estimate of the reducing capability. Anti-inflammatory potential of the extracts were evaluated using carragennan induced paw edema and cotton wool granuloma models. The study was also designed to screen antiulce...

La compréhension des séismes et de leurs effets sur la nature, les constructions et les sociétés concerne beaucoup de spécialité : géologie, archéo-sismologie, sismologie, ingénierie des structures, contrôleur technique, etc... Mais la seule connaissance ne suffit pas, il est nécessaire que la prise de conscience du risque sismique soit généralisée. Le plan 'Séisme 2005-2010' a permis d'informer la population, les professionnels et les respons...

Die deutsche Filmförderung blickt auf eine lange Geschichte zurück. Zeitgleich mit der Erfindung der Films gab es Förderungen und Eingriffe Seiten des States. Die Förderung des Films als wichtigstes Massenmediums unserer Zeit bringt eine hohe soziale Verantwortung mit sich, Politik, Kunst und Wirtschaft haben unterschiedliche Interessen an der Filmförderung, weshalb sie eine viel diskutierte und oft kritisierte Institution ist. Inwieweit beein...

THE SCARLET SENTINELS spans a period of one year at a large Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachment in the Interior region of British Columbia. Although written as a novel, this story accurately reflects the kinds of events that typically occur in the police world, presented graphically and in the lingua franca that is particular to this work. Readers will enter the lives of members of this famous police force at the detachment level, learnin...

THE SCARLET SENTINELS spans a period of one year at a large Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) detachment in the Interior region of British Columbia. Although written as a novel, this story accurately reflects the kinds of events that typically occur in the police world, presented graphically and in the lingua franca that is particular to this work. Readers will enter the lives of members of this famous police force at the detachment level, ...

Lewis Carroll, c'èst l'èspot di scrîjeû da Charles Ludwidje Dodgson qui f'yeut l' classe di matématiques al Christ Church d'Oxford. Dodgson a comincî a racontér ç'n-istwêre ci adon qu'i f'yeut ène pourmwin·nâde a bârquète su l' Tamîse, a Oxford, avou trwès djon·nes couméres: Alice Liddell, èl fîye du dwèyin dèl Christ Church èt sès deûs cheurs, Lorina, tréze ans, èyèt Edith qui d'aveut wit¿. Èl powème qu'èst ci ô cominç'mint du lîve raconte qu...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design, HAID 2012, held in Lund, Sweden, in August 2012. The 15 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on haptics and audio in navigation, supporting experiences and activities, object and interface, test and evaluation.

Adventurer's Destiny, is a collected book of short adventure stories by Lance Jones, over the period of 2004 to 2017. This is the early chapters of A.D. centered around school life and early encounters of Daisan and his evil empire.

A teacher struggles with loneliness and grief after the tragic death of her husband, a social worker carries with him the scars of an emotionally abusive parent, a teenager suffers unspeakable torture at the hand of his evil father, parents struggle to cope with the loss of their only child. Their lives become entwined, and as the plot unfolds, each finds escape from their painful past and hope for the future. The author, a former teacher, fos...

In insgesamt dreizehn Lektionen wird in Spezielle Soziologien eingeführt, die zugleich mögliche Praxisfelder für Soziologinnen und Soziologen im Beruf sind, z.B. Familie, Jugend, Alter, Bildung und Erziehung, Arbeit und Beruf, Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie, Medizinsoziologie. Editorial zum Einführungskurs Soziologie. Der Einführungskurs ist konzipiert für Studienanfänger an Universitäten und Fachhochschulen. Wer im Haupt- oder Nebenfach Soziol...

Because they raise both endocrine and neuro-oncological issues, pituitary tumors require the coordinated expertise of the clinical endocrinologist, the neuroradiologist, the neurosurgeon, the neuropathologist, and the radiation therapist. In Diagnosis and Management of Pituitary Tumors, eminent clinicians and specialists thoroughly review in great detail every aspect of this unique class of neoplasms. The historical, anatomical, physiological,...