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In recent decades, more women around the world have taken the
opportunity to enter the market, join the workforce, and start
their own entrepreneurial ventures. These changes have had a strong
impact on market demographics. Particularly within the tourism
industry, it is important to investigate the behavior, motivations,
experiences, and needs of women as travelers, employees, and
entrepreneurs. Women's Empowerment Within the Tourism Industry
offers a conversant and comprehensive overview of the themes and
concepts of women as tourists, employees, and entrepreneurs in
tourism. Providing interdisciplinary insights from leading
international researchers and academicians, this book makes a
critical contribution to the knowledge of women's participation
within the tourism industry. It discusses the nature of their work
and ways in which tourism creates tension between the attitudes and
conduct of tourists and the beliefs and behavior of local women.
Covering topics such as consumer experience, gender studies, and
women's employment, this premier reference source is an excellent
resource for business leaders and managers, entrepreneurs,
marketers, government officials, students and educators of higher
education, librarians, researchers, and academicians.
There has been a rapid increase in the interest in the study of
Islamic finance, resulting in a dramatic rise in financing since
the beginning of the century. By the end of 2017 global industry
assets had reached $2.4 trillion and were forecasted to reach $3.2
trillion by 2020, despite historic challenges to Islam itself at
the same time. This collection of chapters provides key
theoretical, empirical, and policy insights into Islamic finance
from an overall complex financial and economic systems perspective.
Within the complex financial and economic systems framework, this
book addresses questions such as how to conceptualize Islamic
financial institutions in a nonlinear general equilibrium system,
how to promote Islamic Finance in Africa, how "Islamic" is Islamic
finance, and how it affects price stability, among other topics.
The book provides case studies in Africa and Asia, addresses the
subject in a structural financial CGE model, demonstrates the
development impact of Islamic finance, and presents an Islamic
version of the Iceland Plan for Monetary Reform.
Self-Cleaning of Surfaces and Water Droplet Mobility deals with the
self-cleaning of hydrophobic surfaces. Chapters cover the basics of
wetting states of fluids and surface characteristics in terms of
texture topology and free energy. The self-cleaning aspects of
surfaces, such as various synthesizing and fabrication processes
are then introduced and discussed, along with environmental dust
properties, including elemental compositions, particle sizes and
shapes, and their chemo-mechanics characteristics. In addition, mud
formation in humid air, as well as ambient and dry mud adhesion on
optically transparent surfaces is explored, as is water droplet
dynamics on hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces, amongst other
topics. The book fills the gap between the physical fundamentals of
surface energy and texture characteristics for practical
applications of surface cleaning and provides a basic understanding
of the self-cleaning of surfaces that will be idea for academics,
researchers and students.
Heat Transport in Micro- and Nanoscale Thin Films presents aspects
and applications of the principle methods of heat transport in
relation to nanoscale films. Small-scale parts and thin films are
widely used in the electronics industry. However, the drastic
change in the thermal conductivity with reducing device size and
film thickness modifies the energy transport by heat-carrying
phonons in the film. Energy transfer in small-sized devices and
thin films deviate from the classical diffusion to radiative
transport. This book deals with micro/nano scale heat transfer in
small scale devices and the thin films, including interface
properties of cross-plane transport. The book fills the gap between
applications of the physical fundamentals and energy transport at
the micro- and nano scale, which will be valuable for academics,
researchers and students in the fields of materials science and
energy transport.
In recent decades, more women around the world have taken the
opportunity to enter the market, join the workforce, and start
their own entrepreneurial ventures. These changes have had a strong
impact on market demographics. Particularly within the tourism
industry, it is important to investigate the behavior, motivations,
experiences, and needs of women as travelers, employees, and
entrepreneurs. Women's Empowerment Within the Tourism Industry
offers a conversant and comprehensive overview of the themes and
concepts of women as tourists, employees, and entrepreneurs in
tourism. Providing interdisciplinary insights from leading
international researchers and academicians, this book makes a
critical contribution to the knowledge of women's participation
within the tourism industry. It discusses the nature of their work
and ways in which tourism creates tension between the attitudes and
conduct of tourists and the beliefs and behavior of local women.
Covering topics such as consumer experience, gender studies, and
women's employment, this premier reference source is an excellent
resource for business leaders and managers, entrepreneurs,
marketers, government officials, students and educators of higher
education, librarians, researchers, and academicians.
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