Books in the Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Europeennes series

Throughout 1990s, several observers of post-communist transformation in East Central Europe viewed Slovaks as a non-historic nation hastily modernized during the communist era. This study examines Slovakia's evolution from downfall of Communism to accession of independent Slovak Republic into European Union from a broader historical perspective.

Renewable energy has an important role to play as they provide solutions to pressing environmental and developmental challenges particularly in developing countries. This book explores the conditions under which wind energy projects are successfully deployed in Indian states.

Examines the learning intents and learning capacities of partner companies in selected cases of alliances as well as the types of knowledge they acquired through the alliances. This title identifies the pattern of inter-partner learning and the factors affecting learning in such asymmetric alliances.

Essays on Labor Market and Human Capital - Korea and Germany

Presents a novel matrix of the regional embeddedness of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and systematically classifies the case study firms. This title shows that geographical proximity to Regional Innovation Systems (RIS) is important for Open Innovation and enables MNEs to strengthen their absorptive capacity.

Comparing Selected Modern Methods of Teaching English to Young Learners

Access to European Justice for Environmental Civil Society Organizations

Computer Networks, the Internet and Next Generation Networks

Addresses the vagueness of past conceptualizations by providing a theoretical background, the development of a reliable and valid measurement model of CEO reputation as well as the validation of identified relations to its antecedents and consequences.

From Peasants to Farmers? Agrarian Reforms and Modernisation in Twentieth Century Romania

Focusing not only on Gould's writings on music technology but also on those of Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) and Jean Le Moyne (1913-1996), this book provides a fresh perspective on Gould's thinking, which was embedded in and keenly alert to the intellectual world outside music.

Allocating scarce medical resources has become an important topic in public discussion. In this book, the author shows how the concepts of Nash and Kalai/Smorodinsky can be applied to a medical allocation problem and discusses implications of their properties and solutions for the German health system.

This book provides a thorough discussion of Dutch multicultural society seen through the lens of literature. The literary work of four important contemporary authors - Kader Abdolah, Robert Anker, Abdelkader Benali and Hafid Bouazza - is analysed alongside the public debate about the encounter between Islam and the West.

The book describes English language contact-induced features in the language of medicine through contact linguistic analysis of Hungarian cardiology discharge reports. The author investigates how Hungarian physicians are influenced by the English language and the types of interferences in the Hungarian documents written by them.

In this study, the author takes the Nigerian situation for offering new opportunities for developing a poverty alleviation strategy that aims at creating decent work opportunities in the informal economy. An important contribution to further development of the Catholic social ethics for Africa and at reducing poverty in a sustainable way.

This book studies causes and effects of country specialization and industry concentration in Europe. The most important indices used in studying the heterogeneity of countries and industries are examined, the economic development of individual industries is analyzed in detail and the heterogeneity across Western European countries is shown.

The book considers sequential competitive location problems on networks. It reviews the relevant literature and extends well known models by incorporating proportional choice rules, edge demand or a pricing stage. The models are analyzed with respect to their computational complexity. Mathematical models and adequate solution methods are presented.

This book deals with reasons for the persistence of the practice of female genital cutting (FGC) among the Kurya in Tanzania. The study recommends intervention programmes based on in-depth cultural knowledge, and concludes that addressing the problem in its local context is crucial for efforts directed at stopping the practice.

The book focuses on Russian-Hebrew bilingual speech. It identifies, describes and accounts for diverse types of bilingual varieties spoken in the Russian immigrant community in Israel. Therefore an interdisciplinary approach was chosen, examining the structural aspects of the immigrants' speech under consideration of their personal social networks.

This book explores how emotions, ethnic or national belonging and digital technologies work together in constructing an apocalypticizing national self. Thus, it offers a complex analysis of far rightist apocalyptic narratives that imagine the Gypsification and Hungarization of Romania and the Islamization of Europe as irreversible change.

The Muslim festival of sacrifice, id al-adha, is celebrated all over the world annually in the month of pilgrimage. The book examines the foundations of this festival in the Qur'an and early Islamic history. In the analysis it applies ritual theories to the narratives about various sacrifices, esp. the role of Muhammad for the Muslim community.

Drawing upon theoretical and methodological paradigms from speech science and applied linguistics, this study advances our understanding of the factors that constrain attainment and assessment of second language pronunciation.

The island of Cebu, located in Central Philippines, appeared in Western documents basically due to two events in world history. Apart from these events in maritime history, Cebu played a significant role in interisland trading during the pre-Hispanic period. This book investigates, as an example, found pieces of a blacksmith's shop.

The legislative dynamic in post-Amsterdam era is increasingly challenging the Schengen Acquis as it leads to legal harmonization and fragmentation. This book focuses on theoretical considerations regarding various concepts of Europeanization, and on their effect on the multi-layered policy processes and actors implementing the Schengen complexes.

The book offers a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the occurrence and combinations of phonemes in Modern Standard Czech. It accounts for more than 500 combinations of consonants as well as combinations of vowels and consonants. It also presents a way to predict structurally possible but actually unattested combinations.

Incorporates the assumption that the 'human' in education is being threatened by certain processes. This title is argued that the debate on education is still dominated by the language of performance and global economic comparison.

This book is an exploration of the classical music stage within a framework of informal learning through the interactive concert performances of Fazil Say. It presents a detailed demonstration of such a space as a learning medium, and interprets its pedagogical meaning from both the artist's and the audience's perspectives.

This book brings the study of metaphorical language back to the heart of Psalm scholarship: The author carries out his research by analyzing a few selected Psalms (Pss 18; 19; 28; 31; 42; 62; 71; 73; 78; 89; 92; 94; 95; 144). It results that the address "God, my Rock" is a creative form of language and is a norm or standard when speaking of Yahweh.

Exchange Marriages in South Punjab, Pakistan

In 2004 tsunami waves caused huge economic losses along the coastline of Southern Thailand. These resulted from direct damages and the following economic downturn. This study investigates the factors that led to this vulnerable situation.