books by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing     books:       The Value Of a Home: Determinants of residential property prices Kanwar Dara Sandhu LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012 Real estate prices affect the wealth and mindset of all sections of society, from multibillionaire's to the unemployed. Residential real estate prices depend on a large number of demand and supply side factors. This book was written after a thorough qualitative analysis of all these factors affecting the residential property market, particularly in Hong Kong. To understand the impact that different demand and supply side variables have on ...             Economic and Financial Analysis of the Hospital Sector: Hospital Ownership Patterns and their Impact on ... M.Z. Younis LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2009 Hospital services comprise the largest share of health care expenditures. Studying hospital economic and financial performance is essential as a means of containing health care cost and maintaining hospital solvency. Hospital economic and financial performance can be examined based on the type of ownership (e.g., for-profit, not-for-profit, and the conversion of hospitals from non-profit ownership to for-profit status). This book presents a ...             CUBA, RUSSIAN ROULETTE OF AMERICA J. Antonio Marmol LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2010 Something of apparent little importance was happening in a small Caribbean island on the morning of December 31, 1958. Later, however, it shook world opinion and caused the exodus of almost a million of its inhabitants. The name of that island, CUBA. The event was the downfall of General Fulgencio Batista?s regime, overcome by the revolutionary Commander Fidel Castro. These men carried out a bloody terrorist plan that had brought panic to the ...             Optimal Deteriorating Inventory Control and Price Theory: Methodologies and Applications Yang Tan LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011 The implicit assumption in conventional inventory models is that the stored products maintain the same utility forever. However, almost all products experience some sort of deterioration over time. Fruits, vegetables, drugs, blood, perfumes, alcohol, gasoline, radioactive substances, photographic films, and electronic components are examples that can experience significant deterioration during storage. The current situation calls for an optimal ...             Re-Quarried: Reclaimed in an urban framework Sanksshep Mahendra LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2009 A narrative on abandoned urban spaces too new to be re-told, not too old to be left desolate, unfortunately like this. Blasted by the past and lacking impetus to thrive, these tainted sites create urban spaces, which are quarried by their poisons and their pasts. Abused, abandoned, underused, With, heavy metals, lead dynamites, RDX, and what not; traversed by plumes of oil, and with the wrong pasts; these stand awkwardly. Overages, it seems, ...             AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO IMPROVE TIME-LAPSE SEISMIC INTERPRETATION: Investigation of Pressure and Saturation ... MARCOS HEXSEL GROCHAU LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2009 Time-lapse (4D) seismic is a modern technology for monitoring production-induced changes in and around hydrocarbon reservoirs. Perhaps the most important challenges related to this technology are to perform quantitative time-lapse and to interpret time-lapse effects in thin layers. This book presents an integrated study of saturation and pressure effects on elastic properties. A workflow is developed to test the validity of Gassmann fluid ...             AVID Program Graduates: Negotiating the First Year of College Leslie Hays LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2009 The purpose of this case study was to investigate the transition experiences of AVID program graduates who were beginning their second year of college at competitive four-year public universities. All eight participants, in the AVID pre-college program for at least three years, had successfully transitioned to the university. The study was framed by two research questions: (1) How did AVID program graduates adapt academically and culturally to a ...             Employee Driven Change: Improving Morale, Efficiency, Productivity and Profitability in Organizations Steve Bailey LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012 The Employee Driven Change (EDC) process was developed to deal specifically with dysfunctional workplace behaviours in a non-punitive manner. The process encourages collaboration and concerted effort towards clearly defined company or departmental goals. This is achieved by targeting and reinforcing behaviours conducive to optimal employee functioning. The Process deals with Enhancing Employee Performance through Behaviour Modification -- ...             Billion Dollar Company: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Models for High Growth Companies Robert H. Hacker LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2010 A practical, industry proven methodology that integrates strategy and finance in a five-step process to develop a new business concept. The methodology is illustrated by stories from the author?s success in building a billion dollar company in Indonesia. Focus is on developing the business model through a powerful heuristic and how this method makes it easy to develop financial models. An in-depth examination of financial models and their use in ...             Einstein's Timeless Universe: The Foundation for Cosmic Religiousness Srecko Sorli LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2010 This book introduces the revolutionary perspective of integrating science and religiousness. From a psychological point of view the presented concept brings a dramatic change into understanding perception and especially in understanding cognition of the reality. I highly recommend the reading of this book because it offers our mind and our soul the chance to explore the core of the reality. Katarina Habe, PhD, assistant professor Srecko Sorli ...             Ethiopians in the Diaspora and Their Spirituality: The Influence of the Orthodox Church on its Faithful Moses Haregewoyn LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010 Dr. Moses Haregewoyn has achieved what few others have, an intimate look into the lives of a refugee immigrant population of postmodern America. Focusing on a major capitol city in the Midwest, he illuminates the triumphs and tragedies of Ethiopians who fled from Communism. The role of their Coptic Church, the oldest Christian denomination in the world, is vital. The study shows the difference between generations in assimilating to the ...             Student Aid And Completion In The California Community Colleges System: Affordability, Accountability, And ... Lundon Jackson LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012 As an instrument of access, the Federal Student Aid (FSA) system is a patchwork of policy that has evolved into a multi-billion dollar industry. There is little argument FSA increases access to higher education for those living in poverty, but there is a dearth of knowledge on its impact to completion rates. This research focuses on the California Community Colleges (CCC) system which enrolls a quarter of all undergraduates in the nation. In ...             Implications of Allowing FDI in Indian Multi-Brand Retail: An Incisive Analysis Sona George LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012 The retail industry in India has often been hailed as one of the sunrise sectors in the economy. The Indian government is mulling about allowing FDI in multi- brand retailing. While some people welcome this move, others oppose it. The study tries to identify the opinion of retailers towards this move. The study examines the issues related to various aspects of FDI including, product related, place related, process related, promotion related, ...             CURITIBA, BRAZIL: PIONEERING IN DEVELOPING BUS RAPID TRANSIT AND URBAN PLANNING SOLUTIONS EVANDRO SANTOS LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011 Curitiba, the capital city of the Paraná state in southeastern Brazil, has become a global model for urban development, environment preservation and transit. This book releases Curitiba's odyssey through pioneering and developing Bus Rapid Transit ‘pari-passu' with urban and metropolitan planning, bringing valuable experiences to cities worldwide. Similarly, this book contrasts Curitiba's design as a Transit Oriented Development ...             Incorporation of an Aerosol Module into WRF/Chem: Model Development and Retrospective Applications Xiao-Ming Hu LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011 Gas/particle mass transfer process plays an important role in determining aerosol mass concentrations and shaping aerosol size distribution. Its treatments in three dimensional (3-D) Air Quality Models (AQMs), however, are largely uncertain. In this thesis work, the gas/particle mass transfer approaches in an aerosol module are improved and evaluated to identify an accurate yet computationally efficient approach for use in 3-D AQMs. The ...             The Expressive Arts in Teacher Education: Cultivating Social Justice Leadership Lucy Barbera LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011 How does one ?teach? social justice? How can teacher educators present issues of equity that have relevance to teachers and their students? What strategies can be employed to teach this critical discipline? What inspires teachers to initiate action and lead change? Social justice advocates and educators must ask these questions if they are to succeed in teaching social justice. This book explores the power of the expressive arts to ...             Adult Development: Emergent Wisdom in the Family Context: A Study of the Developmental Experiences of Adults ... Josette Luvmour LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2010 Everyone accepts that the adult influences the child but few realize how much the child changes the adult. This scholarly work centers on adult development that is influenced by nurturing the child?s developmental imperatives. It is a mixed-methods study that explores the lived experiences of adults when they intentionally focus on nurturing the development of their children. The research captures twenty mothers? and fathers? ...             A Lexical Syllabus for Teaching English in Junior High School: Improving vocabulary acquisition Chemda Benisty LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010 Vocabulary is widely recognized as a key factor comprising the basis of any language and of a second/ foreign language in particular. Its prominent role in both comprehension and production has been repeatedly established by research. In this book an experimental complementary lexical syllabus for Israeli intermediate schools is introduced. It is designed as a working disc for teachers of EFL in Israel aimed at providing a starting ...             Perceptions of First-Year Teachers in an Urban High School: The Necessity for Improvements of Mentoring and ... Dawn T. Lambeth LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2013 This qualitative study examined beginning teachers' perceptions of mentoring and induction. The rationale for the study was that the first years of teaching are typically the most challenging for beginning teachers. Data sources included observations, interviews, and field notes. This study had three objectives: to provide an up-to-date, readable, and wide-ranging account of the perceptions of beginning teachers; to offer a guide to some of the ...             Caribbean Cruise Tourism: Power Relations Among Stakeholders: The Future of Cruise Tourism in the Caribbean Fritz Pinnock LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012 This research addresses two main issues; the first, is the anomaly that the Caribbean accounts for over fifty percent of the world’s market share of cruise ship passenger deployment, but generates less than five percent of the industry’s revenue, while imposing significant financial and environmental costs on a number of Caribbean nations. The central finding is that the Caribbean cruise industry operates almost entirely for the benefit ...              search for books accountability, administrators, affordability, applications, cultivating, deteriorating, determinants, development, developmental, entrepreneur, experiences, imperatives, implications, improvements, incorporation, interpretation, investigation, methodologies, negotiating, organizations, perceptions, persistence, productivity, profitability, re-quarried, religiousness, residential, retrospective, spirituality, stakeholders books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: No Way to Kill a Lady: A Blackbird Sisters Mystery home  impressum - about us