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Christ Alone

Wittmer, Michael E.
Christ Alone
In this highly readable and wonderfully engaging response to Rob Bell's New York Times best seller Love Wins, Michael Wittmer examines Bell's claims about "heaven, hell, and the fate of every person who ever lived" in the light of the Bible and historic Christian doctrine. Wittmer writes in the introduction, "I respect Rob Bell. He wrote Love Wins to start a dialogue about the most important issues of our faith, and this book is my attempt as ...

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Modelling Hyperfine Interaction

Ahmed Alvi, Shahbaz
Modelling Hyperfine Interaction
Computer simulations have become an important part of spectroscopic studies. Not only do they help experimenters analyse results, they are also important for data collection and information management. The use of computer simulation becomes especially important in the study of hyperfine interactions within atoms and ions where there are many levels to be managed. The study of hyperfine splitting is of special importance in Astrophysics and Ste...

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Chinese Musical Language Interpreted by Western Idioms

Guo, Xin
Chinese Musical Language Interpreted by Western Idioms
By incorporating recent achievements of music theorists, composers, musicologists and ethnomusicologists, this monograph proposes a multidimensional approach to the analysis of Chinese composers Chen Yi''s music for Western instruments. The analytical procedures are informed by Richard Waterman''s theory of syncretism and Peter Chang''s research on composers'' reinterpretation of cultural elements, which serve to explore Chen Yi''s cultural an...

CHF 102.00

Hyperoperations for Science and Technology

Rubtsov, Konstantin / Romerio, Giovanni
Hyperoperations for Science and Technology
The authors called "Hyperoperations" a set of algorithmic tools studied by scientists since Euler''s times (18th century). Modern mathematical sectors of computer science and artificial intelligence (AI) have shown that these tools are in close relationship with iteration and recursivity, as well as with mathematical objects such as the Ackermann''s Function and the Grzegorczyk Hierarchy. The properties of the fourth rank operation of this hie...

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Fair Value Measurement

Dirksen, Michelle
Fair Value Measurement
Because of the current credit crisis, the property market had become less active. The rising problem is how to determine the real values of the properties? The guidance on measuring fair value is dispersed across many standards and not always consistent. The IASB issued an exposure draft in May 2009 for a new standard 'Fair value measurement'' following the credit crisis. This book offers insight into the consequences of this proposed valuatio...

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Risk Factors of Female Breast Cancer in Kelantan Malaysia

Norsa'adah, Bachok / Rusli, Nordin / Imran, Khalid
Risk Factors of Female Breast Cancer in Kelantan Malaysia
Breast cancer is the commonest cancer in women. There was an increasing trend of breast cancer incidence and mortality in Malaysia because of the increasing life-expectancy, unhealthy diet and life-styles and increasing prevalence of reproductive risk factors. This study was aimed to identify the profile and risk factors of breast cancer. A matched case-control study was carried out at hospitals in Kelantan. We interview 147 cases and 147 cont...

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Impact Assessment of Two Women Empowerment Programs

Roy, Amit / Chakrabarty, Suhrita
Impact Assessment of Two Women Empowerment Programs
In India plethora of grassroots experiences abound which dovetail livelihood and micro credit related activities around Self Help Group (SHG) paradigm. The SHG is the organisational means for channelling credit and imparting training for micro enterprise for women living in disadvantaged livelihood environment. The costal district in West Bengal, India is constrained in many of the livelihood opportunities. The first study deals with the param...

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Nanotechnology

M. O., Viji. / K . K. Nair, C.
Nanotechnology
Various compounds are synthesized and tested to sensitize tumor cells to radiation. Among the various nitro-heterocyclic hypoxic cell radiosensitizers, Sanazole commonly referred as AK2123 has been shown to have less toxicity in normal cells and have selective toxicity for hypoxic cells.The present work focuses on the radiomodifying property of sanazole and its nanoparticles complex in Dalton''s Lymphoma Ascites (DLA)cells.These data suggest t...

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Formation of the mechanism of enterprise performance mana...

Goncharuk, Anatoliy
Formation of the mechanism of enterprise performance management
The basic idea of the monograph is a formation of the mechanism of enterprise performance management through the development of methodological, organizational and methodical approaches to the management, estimation and analysis of efficiency at different levels of industrial management. Book includes: the models for a general mechanism and organizational mechanism of enterprise performance management, essence of the methodology of enterprise p...

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Cameroon Without Poverty

Sharma, Ajay K.
Cameroon Without Poverty
The book addresses issues chronic underdevelopment and abject poverty in the midst of plenty. It attributes the dilemma of the country to in- appropriate policy articulation and aggregation, castigating the ruling elites for impoverishing the bottom billion because of articulate self-interests. The way forward is through a triangular relationship between state, civil society and the private sector working in unionism for the common good. The p...

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The Derivative Action and Good Corporate Governance in China

Zhang, Zhong
The Derivative Action and Good Corporate Governance in China
Good corporate governance is crucial for the long- term success of Chinese economy. To achieve good corporate governance, legal liability is essential, because only legal liability can deter serious managerial misbehavior. Legal liability comes from both public and private enforcement of law, but public enforcement of law has various limitations. In private enforcement of law, the derivative action is preferable to the securities class action,...

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When Children Witness the Sacred

Blinston, Irene
When Children Witness the Sacred
This study explored the impacts, lifelong aftereffects, and aspects of disclosure pertaining to religious apparitions encountered during a person''s childhood. The procedure consisted of 3 parts: (a) a questionnaire, (b) the creation of a creative expression piece and writing an autobiography, and (c) an interview with 1 participant. Participants were 23 adults (21 women and 2 men) ranging in age from 25 to 70 years. Participants claimed, that...

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PREPOSITIONS IN ENGLISH AND ARABIC

Al-Marrani, Yahya
PREPOSITIONS IN ENGLISH AND ARABIC
This study attempts a comparative and contrastive analysis of the subsystems of the prepositions in Arabic and English, in terms of their uses, function and meanings in order to find the major similarities and differences between Arabic and English and to account for any possible deviations that may characterize the performance of Arabic learners. The result showed that there are similarities and differences between these two subsystems of the...

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Dwarfing peach trees grafted on vigorous rootstocks

Hossain, Abm Sharif / Mizutani, Fusao
Dwarfing peach trees grafted on vigorous rootstocks
These studies were conducted using two, five and nine- year-old peach trees grafted on vigorous peach rootstocks. The site was in the Ehime University Experimental Farm, Japan. Slender spindle type pruning, partial bark ring and growth inhibitors were employed in peach trees. Summer pruning was done in late July after fruit harvest from 2000 to 2004, and winter pruning was done in February 2001 to 2005. Pruned shoot weight, shoot length and fl...

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Measuring SaaS Applications based on Utilized Features

Bou Nassif, Ali
Measuring SaaS Applications based on Utilized Features
Software as a Service (SaaS) is an online delivery of software to customers as a service. Cumulative licensing (also known as pay-as-you-go licensing) is a type of software licensing which allows users to pay fees based on the actual usage of the software as opposed to traditional licenses where users are required to purchase a license to use the software regardless of the usage of the computing resources. The interest in applying Cumulative l...

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Lyrics of Basotho Accordion Music as an Alternative Moder...

Mokemane, Senqunyane
Lyrics of Basotho Accordion Music as an Alternative Modernity
The study explores how the lyrics of Basotho accordion music qualify as an expression of alternative modernity. It analyzes why the music still retains some elements from the ''traditional'' past despite being in the modern era. Issues of to which the music reflects modern subjectivity of Basotho are dealt with in the study as well as the role of music in upholding or not upholding existing hegemonic relations in the modern world. In pursuing ...

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Public and Private Primary Schools in Tanzania

Ngalawa, Athanas
Public and Private Primary Schools in Tanzania
Education is a basic human need and one form of human capital necessary for transforming nature into a form most suitable for human utility. This book explains the role of access to education in class formation and perpetuation in poor countries like Tanzania. The underlying assumption is that, Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) and its subsequent liberalization that took place beginning mid 1980s increased private primary schools which o...

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TRANSHUMANCE EFFECT ON YAK-CATTLE HERDING MANAGEMENT & IT...

Chetri, Dipesh Kumar
TRANSHUMANCE EFFECT ON YAK-CATTLE HERDING MANAGEMENT & IT''S PHYSIOLOGY
Transhumance, a seasonal migration of herds between summer pastures in the mountains and winter pastures in the lowlands to exploit seasonal availability of herbage resources is an ecological reality and is 'no option'' system of Chauri/Yak-Cattle (the crosses of yak/Bos grunniens and local hilly cow/Bos indicus) herding in Nepalese Himalaya. Wandering being a rule of management, not an exception, most physiobiochemical values and milk composi...

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CASH MANAGEMENT AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF HOTELS

Tumwine, Emmanuel / Buwule, Henry / K Nimusiima, M.
CASH MANAGEMENT AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF HOTELS
This study sought to determine on an empirical basis, whether cash management influences the financial performance of hotels in Uganda.The objectives of the study were to examine the effect of cash planning, cash flow management and cash surplus management on the financial performance of IGH. A survey was conducted on a sample of respondents drawn from IGH in order to consider statistically significant relationships between financial performan...

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Computational Methods for Solving System of Volterra Inte...

K. Saeed, Rostam / M. Al-Faour, Omer
Computational Methods for Solving System of Volterra Integral Equation
In this work the existence and uniqueness theorem for single linear Volterra integral equation has been generalized to a system of linear Volterra integral equation of the second kind. Depending on Banach fixed point theorem, some new results have been proved.Also, a Taylor series expansion has been considered to solve a system of linear Volterra integral equations of the second kind and a system of linear Volterra integro-differential equatio...

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