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In this work, Robert Krause of Oklahoma State University explores the dynamic interplay between agriculture, urban development, and hu-man recreation on the Illinois River. In providing an...

An Evaluation of Automated Dietary AssessmentAuthor: Yasmine ProbstPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Sep 04, 2008Number of Pages: 212 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Practice management software is a computer program that integrates and organizes the administrative and clinical areas of practice. It is expected that by using this software, practices will become...

The wave of financial crises that ravaged the developing world during last decade often resulted in drastic reversals of capital flows, which searched for cover after the first signs of economic...

Unsatisfactory working conditions and job stress may be indicative of working in a society where work-life balance is a desired, but often elusive, goal. Working conditions in the healthcare sector...

The study included a review of the ideologies of punishment, correctional education, and Minnesota's and Indiana's DOC pre-release handbooks. The methodology implemented was a mixed methods content...

An exploration of anxiety in the context of long-term griefAuthor: Paul DepompoPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Aug 22, 2008Number of Pages: 168 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Though it involves significant harms and is a widespread and entrenched practice, legal punishment lacks a sure philosophical footing. In spite of frequent attempts by utilitarians, retributivists...

This book discusses one of the most powerful tools of Soviet propaganda - "political" caricatures, which were published in the official Soviet newspaper Pravda. The main focus of the work is the...

Most of the information stored in digital form is hidden in natural language texts. The purpose of Information Extraction (IE) is to find desired pieces of information in unstructured or weakly...

The miraculous powers of modern calculations are due to three inventions: Arabic Notation, Decimal Fractions and Logarithms (Cajori, 1919). However, while the first two of these inventions have been...

This is a multi-method case study of a small, local newspaper, which in the last several years has developed innovative product design changes and experienced an increase in its circulation...

Youth gangs in the United States have grown in number, location, age span of membership, diversity of cultural origin, complexity of structure, degree of involvement, and level of violence. These...

An Investigation of Constructs of Second Language Listening TestsAuthor: Minhee EomPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Nov 10, 2008Number of Pages: 184 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Information technology (IT) investments have continued to increase over the last few decades while, concurrently, executives continue to question the value being obtained from these investments. In...

Ideas and theories that consider the intersection of leader diversity and development needs are in the beginning stages of exploration and understanding. The purpose of this investigation is to...

An Object Oriented Approach to Land Cover ClassificatioAuthor: Navendu ChaudharyPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 07, 2008Number of Pages: 124 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

The significance of wine in ancient Palestine is demonstrated by the wine installations in archaeological sites and the role wine plays in the Hebrew Bible. However, there has been little or no...

The three largest regional economies, North America, Europe and Asia have evolved along different integration paths. North America has NAFTA which is a preferential trade area, Europe has the EU...

An Uneasy LegacyAuthor: Janine HiddlestonePublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 03, 2008Number of Pages: 352 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3836492938ISBN-13:...

Analog Filter TechniquesAuthor: Artur LewinskiPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: May 08, 2008Number of Pages: 148 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639012992ISBN-13:...

The objective determination of seating comfort plays an important role for the development of seating systems. Currently the evaluation is based on subjective impressions and mainly focussed on...

The proliferation of bands and modulation formats calls for a universal software-defined radio (SDR) receiver. This digitizes the received waveforms as soon as possible to relegate most of the...

In recent years the analysis of random network structures has become an important issue in various applications. This book illustrates results from two inter-disciplinary projects which focused on...

In an outsourcing relation both parties have an obligation to provide knowledge and a need for receiving knowledge. Whether or not this KM is successfully contributing to the outsourcing business is...

Apoptosis, induced in cancer cells by antitumor agents such as doxorubicin, dactinomycin, and the platinum drugs, is characterized by impaired respiration, decreased ATP, and activated caspase. To...

Analysis of IPv6 Internet PerformanceAuthor: Michael SwobodaPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Mar 31, 2008Number of Pages: 76 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Chemical shifts provide detailed information about non-covalent structure, solvent interactions, ionization constants, ring orientations, hydrogen bond interactions, and other phenomena. Since...

Positive systems arise naturally in many areas of biology or medicine, where the variables represent nonnegative quantities such as concen-trations or population numbers of bacteria or cells. One...

In the past years protein-protein interactions have gained a strong interest in the fields of pharmacy, medicine, biology, and bioinformatics. In this book, statistical information on protein-protein...