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Speech disorders, especially hypernasality, are common in children with cleft lip and palate. In order to simplify the diagnosis during the speech therapy of these patients an automatic non-invasive...

For at least two decades, it was believed that making managers into owners could ameliorate many agency conflicts existing in capital markets settings. In fact, it now appears that managerial...

To survive, terrorist organizations have to make new members. If the recruitment process is interrupt and stopped, sooner or later the terrorist organization will die. Understanding why an individual...

This book analyzes the relationships among monetary policy, stock prices and exchange rates. After introducing the relationship among the variables of interest and the problems of measuring the...

Over centuries a relatively clear articulation developed between the Gospel and traditional Western thought and therefore conveying the Gospel to people who share this view is relatively simple...

The archeologist Maria Gimbutas left us the gift of symbols and images she found in ancient burial sites of the goddess. From a Jungian perspective this symbolism is related to archetypes which are...

Androgynous Imagination of DifferenceAuthor: Alla BoldinaPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Feb 04, 2008Number of Pages: 224 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

The debate about the use of Anglicisms in German during the past decade has focused primarily on general language use, whereas languages for specific purposes (with the exception of advertising) have...

In order to create a more holistic perspective on the interrelationships between human and animal populations, this work considers animals as integral and dynamic aspects of human social life...

The idea behind the Semantic Web is to add machine-readable meaning to Web pages, enabling the automated interpretation of their semantic content and thus improving the way we express, search, and...

International knowledge is becoming a key resource for international operating companies. To acquire this global perspective many companies send their employees for a few years abroad on...

The transcription factor nuclear factor kappa-B (NFkB) plays a pivotal role in the immune response but is also involved in cancer development and progression. In unstimulated cells NFkB is kept...

In the aftermath of the terror attacks on September 11, 2001, several countries adopted anti-terror legislation as part of a global War on Terror. The US set the stage with its Patriot Act, and...

Antibiotics, Steroid Hormones, and Hormone Conjugates in the EnvironmentAuthor: Michael Schl?enerPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: May 05, 2008Number of Pages: 156 pagesBinding:...

In gaming contexts with uncertain outcomes, the majority of bettors understand that positive returns on their wagers, over time, are beyond reach. Because well-established marketing and economic...

The work examines the effect of antidepressants on the employment of HIV-positive persons receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). It uses U.S. panel data (1996-2004) from the Women's...

The binary compound semiconductors, InSb and InAs, along with their related alloys with similar lattice constants are candidates for high-speed, low-power electronic devices. Applications could...

The purpose of this research is to holistically study how Appalachian students view postsecondary institutions in order to understand the factors that promote academic achievement and the factors...

In general, commodity classification theory has served as the basis for consumer marketing theory for more than 80 years. This dissertation project examines the development of the theory and tests...

The human mind perceives patterns without conscious thought. Today patterns are used in a number of engineering disciplines such as soft-ware engineering, requirements engineering and mechanical...

Simulation is one of the most important techniques for analysis and improvement of technical systems. The reduction to the most important characteristics minimizes the complexity and points out the...

"In many cases, e-learning may be the only way forward. The future demand for business education is such that it is unlikely that traditional or campus- based education will be able to cope. [...]"...

Advances in causal inference have improved the ability of statistical methods to answer practical questions in epidemiology and clinical research. In particular, the counterfactual framework and...

This book begins by introducing the reader to Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM), covering the fundamental principles of the method, while also outlining the potential problems involved. It provides a...

Application of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) in Medical ImagingAuthor: Sandra MartinPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: May 06, 2008Number of Pages: 84 pagesBinding:...

A powerful new search algorithm, the difference map, has had notable success in many fields that involve finding a characteristic point in a high dimensional search space. The algorithm was first...

Since the onset of the explosive growth in demand for wireless communications during the 1990s, researchers are giving increasing attention to the use of adaptive antenna systems (AASs) technology to...

In this book, it is shown how pattern recognition approaches developed in computer science can be seamlessly combined with statistical techniques to produce a knowledge driven search algorithm. Two...

Planning and managing forest resources in todays ever-changing world is becoming very complex and demanding challenges to forest resource managers. Because of the multiple interests of forest users...

Applications of Machine Learning Techniques to BioinformaticsAuthor: Haifeng LiPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 10, 2008Number of Pages: 236 pagesBinding: Paperback or...