Wissenschaftliche Literatur Development

Gaukhar Abdigaliyeva

Energieeinsparung in der Industrie und bei der Stromerzeugung im nationalen Rechtsrahmen

Rechtsvergleichende Betrachtung nach kasachischem und deutschem Recht

Schriften zum Energierecht

Die Verfasserin stellt in ihrer Studie einerseits die deutsche und kasachische nationale Gesetzgebung zur Energieeinsparung in der Industrie und bei der Stromerzeugung dar, bewertet diese und führt einen Rechtsvergleich durch. Andererseits untersucht sie die rechtliche Grundlage für die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Deutschland und Kasachstan im Rahmen CDM- und JI-Mechanismen des Kyoto- Protokolls. Im Rahmen der Studie werden folgende Fragen bearbeitet: [...]

Chrysi Cherouveim

A Proposal for an Effective Design for the Domestic Fiscal Frameworks of the EMU Member States Under the Fiscal Compact

EURO-Wirtschaft – Studien zur ökonomischen Entwicklung Europas

This book deals with current issues on fiscal policy frameworks at the national level and provides new insights to them. The main purposes is to examine the role of domestic numerical fiscal rules with special reference to the role of the design characteristics of the rules, the social and economic factors and to associate their role with the development of the European Union’s fiscal regulatory frameworks.

The main conclusion could be summarized as follows.…

David Yakubu Anambam

Added Value of Voluntary Sustainability Standards for Non-Traditional Export Products in the Agricultural Sector of Ghana

Schriftenreihe agrarwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Ghana just like most developing countries is facing the challenge of how to deal with high poverty rates coupled with declining prices of traditional export products. The export of non-traditional export products in the agricultural sector is considered as one of the strategies to address poverty. However, concerns are been raised about the free trade policy, stating that free trade may not necessarily be benefiting all participants equally. In other words, other nations,…

Anita Hökelmann, Notger Müller, Kerstin Witte, Thomas Wolbers (Eds.)

Active Healthy Aging

Proceedings of the International Conference of Sports and Neuroscience „Active Healthy Aging, AHA 2015“, 2nd–5th September, Magdeburg, Germany

Schriften zur Sportwissenschaft

This question has been of interest to mankind for a long time. The average lifetime has grown constantly across the last 150 years; however, what really matters is a long healthy life span.

But what is to do?

Normal aging is associated with the decline of physical and cognitive abilities along with structural and neurophysiological changes in the brain and the remainder of the body.

Lifestyle factors such as physical activity, education…

Josephine Ndagire

National Redress for ‘Gendered’ International Crimes

Uganda, Germany and the International Criminal System

Strafrecht in Forschung und Praxis

On the premise that the duty of states to prosecute international crimes is a fairly new development, this book assesses the extent to which Uganda is meeting this obligation, using the international criminal justice system as a benchmark and the German criminal justice system as a ’best practices’ case study.

The viability of law and justice structures to redress these crimes is evaluated through a comparative lens restricted to ’gendered’ international crimes,…

Sebastian Schlömer

The Project-Based MBA

An Alternative Approach to Postgraduate Management Education

Personalwirtschaft

MBA-Programs are the flagship product of business schools world-wide. The increasing enrolment as well as the price range of these postgraduate business degree programs reflect this relevance.

Despite its success, the MBA has been frequently criticized in respect to a number of typical characteristics and outcomes. Many of these are closely associated to the character of business schools which has shaped the fundamental instructional approach usually used for…

Nils Schütte

Prospective Study of the Development of the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Concerning Police Officers Six Months After Situations of Potential Psychotraumatic Nature

Studien zur Stressforschung

Theoretischer Hintergrund: Das Hauptziel dieser prospektiven Studie war die Identifikation von Charakteristika der traumabezogenen Symptomatik von PolizeibeamtInnen sofort nach der Konfrontation mit einem Ereignis schwerster beruflicher Belastung und einer Analyse des Verlaufs der Symptomatik über einen Zeitraum von sechs Monaten.

Methode: 50 PolizeibeamtInnen aus Nordrhein-Westfalen wurden sofort nach einem Ereignis schwerster Belastung (T1) und sechs Monate…

Guido Frisch

The Importance of World Wide Web Search Engines for Information Management

State of the Art and Desirable Developments

Studien zur Wirtschaftsinformatik

Information can undoubted be called as a factor of production. Due to the globalisation of the markets, the convergence of technologies and the Internet revolution, the importance of this factor has risen significantly during the past. This means that a company might gain competitive advantages from the „proper information? at the „proper time?.

This study gives an overview of the role Internet search engines play in the context of information management and how…

Pavlo Mozharovskyi

Contributions to Depth-based Classification and Computation of the Tukey Depth

Schriftenreihe volkswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

During the last several decades, classification proved to be useful in many spheres of science and daily life. Its further applications in numerous fields require constant improvement and development of the methodological basis. This book investigates latest advances in the data classification that exploit the recently emerged concept of the statistical depth function. Its first chapter provides a concise introduction into depth and classification. [...]

Mareike Elisabeth Hinsch

User Innovation in Techniques

Empirical Studies in the Medical Devices Industry

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

Techniques, i.e. systematic activities to accomplish a complex task, play an important role in innovation as they often are a prerequisite for the development of new products or increase the benefit drawn from already existing products. Users are a primary source of new techniques. Even though user-generated techniques are a pervasive phenomenon which can be observed in many different contexts, existing research on user innovation has focused on product and service…