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Cost-benefit analysis is normally used for evaluation of economic efficiency. Distributional weighting is a way of including income distribution effects in welfare evaluations. Weighted cost-benefit...

Membership in the European Union (EU) provides small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Czech Republic access to grants for development projects from the European Regional Development Fund...

Anthropometric History - the study of human stature and its secular trend - provides a powerful framework for the analysis of interactions between eco-nomic and biological processes. Medical research...

This thesis consists of three essays on the relationship between con-sumption, the business cycle, and expected returns on financial assets. The first essay is "A Consumption-Based Explanation of...

Essays on Fisheries ManagementAuthor: Ramesh BaskaranPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Nov 07, 2008Number of Pages: 224 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

The book is divided in three chapters. Chapter one examines the role that labor market features and institutions have in explaining barriers to technology adoption. It concludes that the unemployment...

This thesis develops new techniques for analyzing cointegrated relation-ships in panel data. The first chapter is introductory while the remaining six contain the main contributions. The second...

To fulfill the purpose of satisfying customer requirements as efficiently as possible, the area of supply chain management has been broadened substantially in the past decade. A lot of efforts are...

The World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement system can be viewed as a major achievement of the 1986 Uruguay Round. Especially in the ongoing dispute settlement understanding (DSU) review,...

Emission from motor vehicles is a major source of air pollution. Accurate emission estimation is imminent to effectively control air pollution. Modal emission models are the thrust of recent...

The research presented in this document explored the relationship of perceived ethical climate and perceived organizational support on the job-related affective well-being of an organizations...

Ethical clothing is the keyword that gives sustainable garments not only a new name, but also a whole new image. The Bio culture is booming and leaving environmental activists and others with the...

Ethics and ethos in the South African Police ServiceAuthor: Nakampe Michael MasiapataPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Oct 29, 2008Number of Pages: 156 pagesBinding: Paperback...

Training tools and subject-matter for teaching ethics to law enforce-ment personnel were examined. A literature review revealed seven categories of training tools including: (a) books and...

In the northern highlands of Ethiopia, patchy remnants of old-aged Afromontane forests can be found mainly around the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Churches (EOTC). Forests in other areas have been...

This book investigates the production and perception of suprasegmental features, such as rhythm and intonation, of the two main ethnic dialects of New Zealand English. Maori English is spoken by the...

Ethno-Religious PerpetuityAuthor: Henry KimPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Oct 30, 2008Number of Pages: 128 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639088387ISBN-13:...

Subsistence and dietary studies in the Archaeological record are poorly understood. This work describes a study on modern peoples diet undertaken within and adjacent to the Koobi Fora region of the...

Using pollen to answer questions from the past or from the present is a useful and interesting pursuit that is continually changing the ways in which we view our world, our ancestors and ourselves...

This work is one of the first attempts to analyze EU-South Caucasus relations. The work gives a short overview to the EU-South Caucasus relations in areas like trade, political and legal cooperation...

Crop Biotechnology has the potential to achieve a more food-secure world. However, the strong opposition to GM food, particularly in Europe, will undoubtedly affect the diffusion of GM crops...

Within the community of scholars that accepted the existence of a European foreign policy, the lack of military means was long seen as central to the argument about the civilian nature of EC/EU power...

EuripidaristophanizingAuthor: Gavin KentchPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: May 26, 2008Number of Pages: 168 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639017730ISBN-13:...

The meaning of the European Citizenship is not easy to explain. We know the meaning of the words, but we might not know how many-sided the implications are inside them. After a brief historical...

City Tourism Organisations are nowadays facing more difficult conditions than ever before. Guest surveys and statistics have shown that tourist behaviour has changed dramatically in recent years. On...

One of the main and most controversial issues in competition policy is that of merger control. Work by academic researchers and practitioners during the last decades has resulted in laying a...

The growth of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) of the European Union, and in particular its military dimension during recent years, has been the subject of much public debate. Meanwhile,...

Europeanization has become a frequently used word, both in the everyday debate about society and in social science literature. This book analyses the Europeanization of defence industry policy, with...

Britain's relationship with the European Union has never been straightforward. Edward Heath negotiated British membership, but his successor Harold Wilson cited it as the cause of economic stagnation...

This study evaluated a custom-designed course management system in use at a public institution in the United States. While focusing on gathering information relevant to the continued development of...