Bøger i Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Europeennes serien

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 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.

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 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 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.

This study analyses the evolution of ethnolinguistic variability in Cameroon English (CamE) pronunciation along the educational echelon. Focus is on the phonetic/phonological variables of ethnolects distinctive from Received Pronunciation and CamE, and markers which prompt attitudinal reactions in speakers and listeners' perceptions.

This book addresses operational planning problems (e.g., routing and partitioning problems) that are encountered in intermodal freight transportation. The reader is given an overview of the relevant literature, as well as of different mathematical formulations.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Computer Networks, the Internet and Next Generation Networks

The European regulation of financial reporting has substantially changed. Both the contents of accounting standards and the regulatory framework governing the setting of these standards are novel. This study explores the way of private-public governance from a political perspective.

Access to European Justice for Environmental Civil Society Organizations

Innovation remains to be the widely recognized leverage in the quest for future growth. This book presents a model of technological, marketing and complementary competencies in relation to firms' innovative performance, drawing from a study of medium and large-sized Slovenian manufacturing enterprises.

The Mexican Crisis of 1994/5 was the first financial crisis that spilled over into the real sector. In this book, this thesis explores unconventional research strands.

From Darkness to Light

Offers insights into different aspects of financing companies with venture capital (VC) and corporate venture capital (CVC) using three independent and specific datasets. This study analyses particular VC financing mechanisms depending on differences in the national institutional framework and the experience of the VC investor.

Comparing Selected Modern Methods of Teaching English to Young Learners

Investigates the relationship between private equity investors and fund managers and how intermediaries can mitigate their agency problems. This book also presents a new statistical method to predict the performance distribution of venture capital direct investments.

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.

Essays on Labor Market and Human Capital - Korea and Germany

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.

People make contact with the risen, glorified Christ and through him with God and God's saving grace in and through community of Church, as it exists now in time and space as Spirit-filled Body of Christ. This title offers perpetual truth about nature and purpose of Church, emphasized by Second Vatican Council and propagated by Otto Semmelroth.

Multilateral evidence has continued to show that the conspicuous absence of reputable ethical-ecological criteria for evaluating companies and businesses in Nigeria is not only a lamentable disservice to the Nigerian people; but does not augur well for the Nigerian economy in particular and society at large.