The valuation of firms is one of the topics that valuation theorists and practitioners have addressed since the early stages of economic sciences. Firm valuations are regularly conducted using discounted cash flow (DCF) ...

Among other things, the question about the extent to which the parameters “isometric and dynamic maximal strength” of the leg muscles show manifold changes after twentytraining units on the Desmotronic leg press and on the ...

The theoretical departure point of this thesis is the determination hypothesis , for which Baerns first provided scientific evidence. She showed that Public Relations influenced both topics ...

Due to far-reaching consequences of the US subprime crisis and rising housing prices in many countries, social sciences have rediscovered housing policy as a research topic. Numerous studies show trends in marketisation ...

Recent developments have caused important changes in the IT industry: while being considered comparatively resistant to international relocation of jobs for a long time, the IT industry's ...

This thesis investigates the factors that determine the demand for education in developing countries as well as the difference in the demand of poor and rich households. Next to a discussion ...

The research deals with the fact that the Order for the purpose of rehabilitation and settlement integrated into the StGB and which is possible as such: Order of the economic relations ...

Several empirical studies on the innovation activity of local jurisdictions are presented. Focussing on the innovation activity of local school districts in the US, structural evidence on ...

This dissertation tells the story about the beginnings, transformations and ‘afterlives’ of a set of education policies and programmes (the National Education Policy of 1986 and the Mahila Samakhya programme) that introduced ...

Why do the security mechanisms of the African Union (AU) and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) resemble the United Nations Security Council, and each other? This thesis argues that the existing literature ...

The dissertation focuses on highly religious Muslims in Germany who are involved in activities of their own religious community as well as in non-religious civil society organisations. They are thus committed to society ...

The central issue of this thesis is the subject of abstraction in teaching and learning processes through the use of models. The use of graphical verbal models is said to improve three-dimensional ...

In 2007 Pratt called on social scientists to concentrate on the generativity of indigeneity. Heeding his call, this dissertation focusses on the multiplicity of processes induced by an identification as masyarakat adat. ...

In Social Sciences standardized surveys are an approved and frequently used elicitation method to get insight into attitudes of population groups. In the last decades however there has been a notable decline in the ...

The dissertation deals with the work analysis of the French political group Socialisme ou Barbarie 1949-1967), among them members a Cornelius

The influencing potential that lies in the conscious inclusion of time in social interactions has not yet been explicitly researched for the medical context - and especially for the encounter between doctors and patients. ...

Marketing of special product qualities in the food sector in these days requires a high level of commitment and marketing skills. The food market is characterized by a polarisation into a ...

Aims: To uncover the social meanings of mood-modifying drugs and to describe the underlying connotations from the users' perspective of three different samples. They consist of German primary care patients, Spanish migrants ...

Nowadays, some fathers find themselves in an inconsistent situation. On the one hand, demographic changes have caused a re-definition of men s role within families who are no longer exclusively ...