VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.

This thesis presents algorithm and architecture for simultaneous diagonalization of matrices. As an example, a subspace-based speech enhancement problem is considered, where in the covariance...

Speech sound disorder (SSD) and reading disability (RD) are both associated with impaired phoneme awareness (PA). This study explores how four measures of speech perception, tapping both segmental...

Stomach contents of 19 mature sperm whales, 18 males and one female, that stranded on New Zealand beaches between the mid 1990s and 2004 were examined, identified and measured. Three of the stomachs...

One hundred and fifteen sperm whales were involved in three mass stranding events during the month of February 1998 along the west and north-west coastlines of Tasmania, Australia. Three mass...

Spin Injection from Magnetic Thin Films into InGaAs Quantum WellsAuthor: Mark HickeyPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: May 26, 2008Number of Pages: 208 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Spin Polarization Measurements of Rare Earth Thin FilmsAuthor: Jami ValentinePublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Oct 29, 2008Number of Pages: 136 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Over the past 20 years, the Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWBS; Paloutzian & Ellison, 1991), a 20-item self-report inventory designed to assess spiritual, existential, and religious health, has been...

This book addresses the need for a greater delineation of the relationship between spirituality and health. Its contents are based upon the author's research that presents a more definitive...

Split-Ergativity in MaoriAuthor: Anna PucilowskiPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jun 19, 2008Number of Pages: 144 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639011716ISBN-13:...

This book is relevant for consultants, managers and others, who seek to understand the processes of relating in which they participate. Larsen uses improvisational theatre as a form of consulting. In...

What is your first idea when a 17-year old pregnant girl presents with sudden tinnitus and hemianopsia? Spontaneous cervical carotid artery dissection (SCAD) is probably not on top of your list. This...

During the turbulent years of the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) sports emerged as a popular phenomenon that critics often derided as a degenerate fad. But sports and art institutions as well as...

According to UNAIDS there are an estimated thirty-three million people living with HIV/AIDS. Since the mid-1980s governments, agencies, and non-governmental organizations have slowly mobilized to...

As Christianity flourished during the fourth century, believers were faced with the challenges not only of their own internal conflicts and theological dis-agreements, but also with religious,...

Time delays are present in control systems (sensing, actuation and decision-making) or they are inherent parts of dynamical systems (chatter in metal machining, heredity in biology). Delays are known...

This work presents a vision-oriented methodology for the early stages of the design process. It is divided into two stages: a vision-based and a specification-based stage. The vision-based stage has...

Despite the common memory of the 1950s being an intolerant, conformist decade in American history, many "underground" cultures developed and thrived in response to America's homogenized national...

Startup and Recovery of Fault-Tolerant Time-Triggered CommunicationAuthor: Wilfried SteinerPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 17, 2008Number of Pages: 160 pagesBinding:...

In West Africa, the endurance of the state culture as a comprehensive political culture depends largely on the ethnic entrepreneurs who mediate realtions between state and society.However, in West...

State High Court JudgesAuthor: Tara W. Stricko-NeubauerPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Feb 19, 2008Number of Pages: 164 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

State Laws May Shield Journalists from Testifying in Legal ProceedingsAuthor: John Fca RyanPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Oct 09, 2008Number of Pages: 228 pagesBinding:...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a growing concept for distributed software systems that opens new avenues for complex business processes spanning enterprise borders that require integration...

This book presents a unique application of statewide freight planning; it is used to analyze the effects of spring load restrictions on freight flows. The model estimates freight transportation cost...

Space-time modeling of atmospheric pollutants has been actively attempted by many workers, including Kyriakidis (1999) who successfully integrated the deterministic trend m(t) and the probabilistic...

For environmental data classical statistical analysis are often not useful which makes it necessary to find new methods to solve the resulting problems. To make it easier to understand the problems,...

Survey research collects data on respondent's perception on issues of concern or interest. Statistical analysis of survey data is thus an important tool in the summarization, manipulation and...

Recent years have seen great advances in software engineering and programming languages, but unfortunately, software is still far from bug-free. Static analysis is an effective approach to...

Statistical Mechanics of NetworksAuthor: Christoly BielyPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 23, 2008Number of Pages: 132 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Statistics in the Social SciencesAuthor: Brianne BarclayPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 17, 2008Number of Pages: 52 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Electrical generators used in power stations of electric utilities are the largest electrical machines and probably the most challenging ones to design. Experience shows that in terms of overheating...