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This book is concerned mostly with time, change and imaginary numbers. The starting point is an argument for the theory of dynamic time. Its central roadblock - McTaggart's proof of the unreality of...

Time Synchronization Application in Wireless Sensor NetworkAuthor: Jen Chie JayPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: May 23, 2008Number of Pages: 92 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

The factors affecting the childhood overweight are many and not well understood. Childhood overweight problem has its own distinct aspects compared to adult obesity: parental time constraints and...

This book provides techniques for symbol tracking and carrier acquisition in a Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) coded transmission. In traditional receiver architectures, acquisition and tracking are...

This study of nineteenth-century British prisoner resistance and protest uses government reports, unpublished prison governor journals, and prisoner memoirs to uncover the variety of ways in which...

The magnitude and complexity of the Public Health problem created by tobacco use and its accompanying diseases heightens the impor-tance of tobacco-related research and tobacco control programs...

The book investigates the effects of federalism and multi-level governance on tobacco control policy adoption in the United Kingdom and South Africa. It uses theories of federalism and multi-level...

Together AloneAuthor: David MegarrityPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 25, 2008Number of Pages: 112 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 363905248XISBN-13:...

Positive Psychology formulates the foundation of prevention science: the application of scientific methods to the promotion of develop-mental assets and minimization of risk behaviors. The...

Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) offers a new concept for improving the modularity of crosscutting concerns. The advanced composition mechanisms introduced for realizing this concept cause serious...

Mismanagement and miscalculations of the Top Management Team (TMT) are, alongside general economic cycle arguments, the most commonly proposed determinants of firm performance. The composition of the...

Everyday, we engage in the use of networked information systems and websites to search for information. Whatever information users search for, it is highly possible that it can be found somewhere in...

Of the children who survive a disaster, only a small amount will come through the experience entirely unscathed. The majority of the children will show negative consequences, if only for a short...

The work focuses on local poor people. It identifies the correlation between tourism and poverty alleviation by tracing the cash flows to the local poor, reviews the social and environmental effects...

Tourism is more and more popular as a part of development strategy in developing countries due to three main motivations: tourism contributes to economic growth; tourism improves income distribution;...

Tourist InformationAuthor: ?vind Gr?flatenPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 28, 2008Number of Pages: 348 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639008545ISBN-13:...

Toward a Broader Appreciation of Human Motion in EducationAuthor: Graham DoddPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 08, 2008Number of Pages: 216 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

This work presents an investigation of Hebrew Bible passages containing the heavenly sanctuary/temple motif in order to achieve a threefold purpose: (1) to ascertain the function of the heavenly...

Current educational operation for informal science institutions tends to be based on the staff's experience and intuition rather than on educational theories or research findings. This status study...

This book frames a peer-to-peer information retrieval problem as a multi-agent framework and attacks it from an organizational perspective by exploring various adaptive, self-organizing topological...

With the ubiquity of powerful, mobile computers and rapid advances in sensing and robot technologies, there exists a great potential for creating advanced, perceptual computing environments. In this...

Towards 6th Generation of R&D ManagementAuthor: Dennis NobeliusPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Sep 16, 2008Number of Pages: 112 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Towards a Balanced Psychology of Persons, Situations, and BehaviorsAuthor: Seth WagermanPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 25, 2008Number of Pages: 208 pagesBinding:...

This dissertation develops the outlines of a theory of information strategy. It addresses the way in which firms decide to influence market transparency either negatively by allowing and maintaining...

What is humour? What function does it serve? How does humour challenge authority? Packed full of insight this fascinating book examines the concept of humour from a variety of perspectives and...

Automated recommender systems make product suggestions that are tailored to the individual needs of the user and represent powerful means to combat information glut. However, their practical...

Bullying, or mobbing as it is called in the European literature is a longstanding workplace safety and performance issue. This behaviour can have adverse effects for individuals, including both the...

This Masters degree thesis looks at the family oriented, holistic approach used by a residential treatment centre for alcohol and other drug addictions for Canadian First Nations in central British...

In 1986, with the advent of the "era of renovation" (doi moi), Vietnam began to experience significant economic growth which has continued up to the present. Geographically, it is particularly the...

Supervised word sense disambiguation (WSD) for truly polysemous words (in contrast to homonyms) is difficult for machine learning, mainly due to two problems: the lack of sense-tagged training data...