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Nanotechnology And His Effects In Medicine, Hatixhe Bilibashi

UBT International Conference

Nanotechnology is a great revolution in the field of information technology that has effects on almost every aspect of the human society nowadays. It is one of the technologies with huge potentials in many directions. Nanotechnology can be defined as the manipulation, precision-placement, modeling and manufacture of material at the nanometer scale (One meter consists of 1 billion nanometers) ( 10〗^(-9) of a meter). ).Therefore nanotechnology can help save the lives of many people. Main fields in medicine where nanotechnology can be found are the control and prevention of cancer, diagnostication of the drug dependance, diagnostication of the diabet es, …

Impact Of Collective Residential Building In Environmental Sustainability Of Cities In Region, Ferhat Bejtullahu

UBT International Conference

Cities in region haze experienced social disturbances. War, crime and corruption divert resources from areas of greatest human need; damage the capacity of societies to plan for the future, and generally threat human well-being and the environmental sustainability. Sustainability is studied and managed over many scales of time and space and in many contexts of environmental, social and economic organization. The focus of this study is on Environmental Sustainability of Cities in region thru impact of collective residential buildings in neighborhoods, occupations, lifestyles, behavior patterns and so on. Best international approaches and principles will be analyzed and compared with regional …

Territorial Planning Policy For Sustainable Development, Gjergj Thomai

UBT International Conference

Urban planning in Albania, has been promoted in various forms of organization and ultimately Territorial Planning Law represents another form of policies on the territory that is closely linked to the decentralization of control of the territory. In Albania more than half of the population lives in urban areas. However, with the exception of Tirana, Albanian cities are generally smaller than cities EU-Balkans region. After massive rural migration, social changes show a new kind of rural Albania.Territorial planning policy for sustainable development requires meeting the challenges posed by changing economic, social and cultural development, and to achieve a balance of …

Project Management And Role Of Human Resources, Besnik Skenderi

UBT International Conference

This paper is about project management and impact of human resources and training regarding the successful project management. In the first part author discuss about project management, role of the project manager and about project, management standards that are implemented by privately owned companies and state owned enterprises. In the second part author had conducted a brief literature review about professional knowledge of project managers and impact of training for project managers and for the project team members. In the last part, author had provided conclusion and recommendations.

Urban Heat Islands(Uhi) Mitigation In Densely Urban City Of Tirana, Albania: Materials, Energy, Comfort, Sokol Dervishi, Eltjona Lacaj, Regina Vathi

UBT International Conference

Heat Island (UHI) is considered as one of the major problems in the 21st century as a result of urbanization and industrialization of human civilization. The urban structures generate a large amount of heat from solar radiations and other sources (i.e. anthropogenic heat). This situation is even worse in cities with high density and large population and extensive economic activities, Tirana, a densely urbanized city, is seriously facing this problem. In this context, the present paper is a review article aiming to present the actual state of the art on the development and the assessment of potential benefits (i.e. materials …

Bioclimatic Architecture Of Residential Building In Kosovo, Mimoza Dugolli

UBT International Conference

The sustained Earth is our chain of the ecological survival. We have over used and over abused every material, every resource and every environmental attributes available for us, trying to find quick and easy solution to the problem. The general concern of modern word today is focused on creating the modern and clean living environment for its inhabitants. Kosovo, which is the newest state in the world, has a long road ahead to achieve the standards in order to create a healthy environment for its residents. A fast economic growth versus low possibility of energy production has caused concerns on …

Quality Development And Organizational Renovation At Construction Companies, Esat Gashi

UBT International Conference

Today, companies working in construction engineering field are facing with the process of quality development. We believe that only the companies which will implement interchanges of organisational renovation or reengineering from the quality viewpoint will be able to offer holistic quality answers to the customer‘s needs and their preferences. For that reason it is important that company retains its ability of ongoing monitoring of organizational model of viewpoints of quality management in order to:

• Realize, how responsible the company controls and operates its relations with quality according to its competitors,
• Identify, which components of organisational model of quality management are …

Monetary Valuation Of Voluntary Contributions: The Case Of Lower Austria, Réka Heim, Andrea Hoeltl

UBT International Conference

The circumstances of voluntary engagement have largely remained unexamined due to the vague and challenging description of their content. Voluntary engagement tends to increase in European nations characterized by civil societies with material prosperity and high life satisfaction such as in Norway, Sweden and in Austria. This paper studies voluntary contributions in Lower Austria by tracking a cumulative data file from STATISTICS AUSTRIA in terms which purpose is twofold: first, in order to estimate the quantitative dimension of voluntary contributions, data from an additional section of the Austrian Micro Census is considered, and second employment and unemployment data from the …

The Risk-Based Role Of Internal Audit Within Albania, Public Organizations, Holtjana Bello, Vjollca Karapici

UBT International Conference

The aspiration of Albania for European integration has added mandatory requirements for public sector to modernize the internal audit function in adherence with International Internal Auditing Standards. According to such Standards supported by Picket (2005) and CIPFA (2003) the internal audit is an assurance function that provides independent opinion on the effectiveness of internal controls that support the achievement of the organizations objectives. Internal auditors can provide consultancy service, in particular to aid management to improve the organization control environment. Meanwhile, Diamond (2002) explains that the internal audit role, remit, scope and activities are driven by the macroeconomic objectives and …

Impact Of Civil Servant Salaries On The Performance Of Local Public Administration In Kosovo, Naim Ismajli, Emira Qosja

UBT International Conference

Motivation is defined as the willingness to exert high level of effort to reach organizational goals, conditioned by the ability of these efforts to satisfy some individual needs (Robbis / De Cenze p, 407). As motivating factors are: wage increase in career, workplace safety, work contracts, working conditions, organizational culture, leadership in working organizations, the level of responsibility at work and rewards. All these factors have different scale in motivating employee performance. Based on the theory of many authors in the field of Human Resources, presented in scientific literature, scientific journal articles, reports of international institutions (UNDP, World Bank, Human …

Causes And Effects Of The Informal Economy – The Case Of Macedonia, Tome Nenovski

UBT International Conference

Republic of Macedonia (RM) has high level of informal economy activity. It accounts for about 35- 40% of GDP. It has a direct influence to the main indicators, categories and instruments for macroeconomic planning and regulation. By using qualitative, descriptive, statistic and comparative methodologies, this research attempts to locate causes and consequences of informal economy in RM. It also presents different ways for measurement of the size of informal economy and understands the basic characteristics of the Macedonian case in order to present well‐grounded policy recommendations. The main finding of the paper is that the informal economy in The RM …

The Challenges And The Insurance Industry Analysis. The Case Of Albania, Enida (Brakaj) Pulaj, Amali Cipi, Xhiliola (Shehu) Agaraj

UBT International Conference

Like any other industry, the service industries need to be analyzed in the light of changes and reforms improving them. Based on the nature of the product, the analysis, that accompanies the development and reforms in these industries, is very important. In the world, we live in every moment we are endangered by a high uncertainty. Our life, our house, our wealth and everything we dispose, is threatened by loss, theft, damage or destruction. To avoid the high intensity of natural risk, there are created the insurance companies. These companies cover the inability of insurers to take all the risk …

Water Resources Systems Planning And Management, Piro Zoga, Aida Bode, Ramiz Balla, Nevton Kodhelaj, Spartak Kucaj

UBT International Conference

The most fundamental human needs of water are for drinking, cooking and personal hygiene. In order to fulfill these needs, the quality of the water used should cause no risk to human health. The quality of the water in nature also affects the condition of ecosystems all living organisms depend on. At the same time, humans use water bodies as convenient sinks for the disposal of domestic, industrial and agricultural wastewaters. This, of course, degrades the quality of those water bodies. Water resources management involves the monitoring and management of water quality as much as the monitoring and management of …

Urban Waste Water Discharges And Their Treatment: Case Study Waste Water Treatment Plant Of Kavaja (Wwtpk), Aida Bode, Nevton Kodhelaj, Piro Zoga, Doriana Xhulaj

UBT International Conference

WWTPK is the first plant built sewage purification in the Republic of Albania (RA). This plant it is placed in the Kavaja region, district of Tirana. For this is an important area sewage treatment and waste water treatment according to the standards of the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Water Management (MoE) in Republic of Albania and not directly discharged untreated in nature. In order to determine productivity of the IPUZ and to predict the future of the operation, the results of the analysis of BOD, COD, SS are produced. According to chemical analyzes carried out in the period from …

An Approach For Integration Of Sustainable Transport Planning Indicators, Ylber Limani, Binak Beqaj

UBT International Conference

This paper describes the factors that need to be considered when selecting indicators for sustainable transport planning, principles for selecting indicators, and represents an indicator integration methodology. Indicators are very important components for various assessments due to proper decision making, and the end results depend on the accuracy of selecting, integrating and measuring them. The sensitivity ratio between decision makers and planners concerning sustainable transport planning indicators selection and application is not at a desired level and it needs to be improved. This may be as a result of lack of sufficient methodologies for making indicators more practical and understandable …

Public Building Maintenance And Rehabilitation, Florian Nepravishta, Andrea Maliqari, Ariana Nepravishta

UBT International Conference

The public buildings such as high schools, kindergartens, nurseries, universities, dormitories and buildings in their service used by the general public are valuable assets, normally built with substantial investment in a long period of time. These assets are not always managed with the care that they require. As a result, depreciation and destruction in time reducing the ability of these buildings to fulfil their functions by reducing the time of use, durability. General usage costs will also be higher because of the buildings require costly renovations or replacements of materials frequently than might be necessary if they are maintained regularly. …

Patty Smith Hill And The Progressive Kindergarten Curriculum, Rose A. Rudnitski

Education and Culture

Throughout the 20th century, there have been conflicting views on what kindergarten should look like and the types of activities that should take place there. The conflict might not exist if it had not been for the efforts of one woman, Miss Patty Smith Hill, of Louisville, Kentucky, a bright, energetic "kindergartner" who changed the American kindergarten curriculum forever, and fused it to the elementary school as the essential initial experience in public education.

Prescribed Reading: November 2012, Centracare Clinic

Prescribed Reading

• Health Care Matters: Health literacy on your radar screen
• Leading with Care until the end
• Are you registered to vote?
• Are you traveling out of the country?
• Welcome to these new providers
• Welcome to our new employees
• Recognizing years of service
• Please complete mandatory education
• Kudos to . . .
• 2013 employee benefits update

Scis News 11/2/2012, Slutzker Center For International Services

Newsletters from Slutzker Center for International Services - SCIS News

International Education Week 2012 events.

Longitudinal Functional Models With Structured Penalties, Madan G. Kundu, Jaroslaw Harezlak, Timothy W. Randolph

Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Biostatistics Working Papers

Collection of functional data is becoming increasingly common including longitudinal observations in many studies. For example, we use magnetic resonance (MR) spectra collected over a period of time from late stage HIV patients. MR spectroscopy (MRS) produces a spectrum which is a mixture of metabolite spectra, instrument noise and baseline profile. Analysis of such data typically proceeds in two separate steps: feature extraction and regression modeling. In contrast, a recently-proposed approach, called partially empirical eigenvectors for regression (PEER) (Randolph, Harezlak and Feng, 2012), for functional linear models incorporates a priori knowledge via a scientifically-informed penalty operator in the regression function …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 19, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

Usfsp And St. Anthony's Hospital Team Up For International Sinus Conference, November 2, 2012, Tom Scherberger

USF St. Petersburg Campus News and Press Releases

No abstract provided.

The Tiger Vol. 106 Issue 21 2012-11-02, Clemson University

Tiger Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Campus Report, Vol. 40, No. 3, University Of Dayton

Campus Report

The publication for faculty and staff of the University of Dayton. Mirror of Hope; Common Academic Program; new financial aid model.

Environews #1: Nov 2/12, Richard Philp

Data and Test Instruments

Environews #1 is, hopefuly, the first of a series dealing with current issues of environmental concern. This issue discusses the possible role of climate change in the massive floods that followed hurricane sandy, depletion of the world's fish stocks, the possible role, bothe positive and negative, of aquaculture, and the trend to seek oil in increasingly environmentally dangerous venues.

Reporter - November 2nd 2012, Rit Reporter Staff

University Publications

No abstract provided.

Murray Ledger And Times, November 2, 2012, Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Agenda And Minutes, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg General Education Committee Meeting, November 2, 2012, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Faculty Senate. General Education Committee

USF St. Petersburg General Education Committee Meetings

Agenda and minutes from the November 2, 2012, meeting of the General Education Committee of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's Faculty Senate.

Uruguay Decriminalizes Abortion, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

No abstract provided.

The Bison, November 2, 2012

The Bison Newspapers

No abstract provided.