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Ethnographische Studie über den größten Stamm der Westsahara (1966: 30.000-60.000 Mitglieder), der bis zum Beginn des Westsahara-Krieges zwischen der Polisario-Front und Marokko im Jahre 1975 mit seinen Kamelherden über die Grenzen des Landes hinaus nomadisierte (Zusammensetzung, Lebensweise, Genealogie, politische Organisation usw.); Stand: Beginn der 1970er Jahre. (DÜI-Cls)

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Models, chasms & vectors -- Science &technology-enabled innovation -- Economic paradigms & the meso-economic environment -- The triple chasm model -- Chasm-crossing and commercialisation vectors -- Customers, propositions & synthesis -- Market spaces -- Proposition framing & the competitive environment -- Customer definition -- Technology development & deployment -- Synthesizing new products and services -- Manufacturing & assembly -- Strategy, funding & go-to-market -- Distribution, marketing and sales -- Commercialisation strategy -- Business models -- Intellectual property management -- Funding and investment -- Human capital : talent, leadership & culture -- The commercialisation canvas, actors & interventions -- The commercialisation canvas for single-product firms -- Commercialising across borders -- Actors, roles and interventions -- Innovation in mature firms : the corporate challenge -- Orchestrating the journey : the workbench -- Notes -- Index -- About the author

We conducted a broad-scale aerial survey between 20 August and 12 October 2001 to ascertain the distribution and abundance of feral camels in the southern part of the Northern Territory. There was a minimum of 80 533 feral camels in the Northern Territory at the time of the survey. This figure is corrected for perception bias (a result of observers missing animals that are potentially visible), but not for availability bias (a result of some animals being concealed from the observers). The population of feral camels in the Northern Territory increased at a mean annual exponential rate, r, of 0.093 between 1993 and 2001. This represents an increase of ~10% per year or an approximate doubling in population size every 8 years. This trend is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. We use the results of an earlier survey (which included the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia) to give a minimum figure of 300 000 feral camels for Australia in 2001. We discuss what is known of the impacts of feral camels in Australia, the inadequacy of current management practices and issues to be considered in designing an effective long-term management strategy for the species.

This article examines interspecies cooperation in camel herding in Somaliland. It presents the case of a particular joint activity in this task-scape: moving a camel herd, by leading and driving it, from the night-camp to the daytime grazing area and back. The analytical aim is to clarify the role that skills and nonhuman agency play in the constitution of cooperative human-camel relationships. On the basis of empirical data, collected in a multispecies ethnographic project by following and observing one herd and herder closely, this article demonstrates how nonhuman agency, as an individual capacity to engage in an activity and an epistemological potential, manifests in this human-camel cooperative task. Cooperation is made possible through human-camel sociality and intersubjectivity, through the ability to interpret and respond to each other, and it depends on the empathetic acknowledgement of the enabling or disabling powers of each counterpart, her or his agency. Leading and driving camels is a skilled practice requiring the responding and enabling capacities of the cooperation partner. Hence, it is a case of distributed skills – distributed in the sense that skills of humans and nonhumans are intertwined in this practice, that they complement each other.

Realization of the undeniable role of banks in the functioning of the economic system assumes their successful business, based on the achievement of key financial performance. Interrelatedness and interdependence of bank performance indicators, their dynamic relationship, and interaction, on the one hand, as well as differences and contradictions, on the other hand, require precise monitoring and harmonization by banks, in order to achieve adequate business results and minimize negative financial developments. In this sense, it is very important to choose appropriate ways to measure and manage bank performance. A key role in this process belongs to a banking rating system, measured by CAMELS model. Therefore, the paper attempts a comprehensive analysis of bank performance measurement, using CAMELS model. The aim is to examine the possibility of applying this model to effectively measure the performance of the banking sector in the Republic of Serbia.

Annabel Teh Gallop, The British Library, London Camels, Seals and the Early Tin Coinage of Brunei
Parmi les collections de monnaies islamiques frappées en Asie du Sud-Est, l'une des plus intéressantes et des plus inhabituelles provient du sultanat de Brunei. Ces pièces, appelées pitis, ont circulé pendant une très longue période, depuis au moins la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle jusqu'au milieu du XIXe. Beaucoup d'entre elles portent, sur une face, un grand quadrupède, alternativement décrit comme un chameau, un tigre, un âne, un éléphant, un taureau, un buffle, voire un chat, et sur l'autre face, une inscription en caractères arabes stylisés. Ces pièces ont été publiées et étudiées de nombreuses fois, et leurs motifs singuliers ont fait l'objet de théories diverses. Le présent article suggère que tous les quadrupèdes en question dérivent du prototype d'un chameau, qui pourrait, à son tour, avoir eu pour modèle la poignée en forme de chameau qui ornait probablement le sceau offert au souverain de Brunei par l'empereur Ming Yung-lo, en 1405. L'intérêt de cette hypothèse est qu'elle offre pour la première fois une explication plausible au fait qu'un chameau puisse figurer dans une position d'une telle signification symbolique sur les pièces de Brunei.

In the Arabian Peninsula, the Dhofar region is rich in camels. This national wealth has always been administered by traditional nomadic pastoral management, which must have evolved in Oman with the introduction of camels as domesticates in prehistoric times. In this region, camels have always depended on the free grazing system which is governed by tribal territoriality. Today, Dhofar is experiencing an extensive process of development. Land value has increased immensely, to the extent that it cannot be used for camel pastoralism. Furthermore, traditional camel management has always been directed to meet requirements of a subsistence economy. It has never managed to convert to the organization of political economy. This paper intends to raise the alarm that national wealth is endangered by certain challenges. The paper proposes certain ideas that might assist in safeguarding and investing in a national asset.

"This book discusses the nutritional, physical, and chemical factors of camel milk in comparison to other animal and plant-based milks and introduces benefits attributed to camel meat. It explores the health benefits of fresh and fermented camel milk in vitro and in vivo as well as the link between functional constituents and the functional properties of milk"-- Provided by publisher.