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Transparency, Accountability and Public ParticipationAuthor: Lada V. ProgunovaPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Dec 10, 2007Number of Pages: 96 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

The well-being of the elderly population has become an impending public policy issue. With the oldest of the baby boomers about to reach retirement age, the mobility issues of the elderly are...

Traversing Paris is an analysis of the travel writing of Annie Ernaux, Fran?ois Maspero and Jean Rolin and the photography of Anaik Frantz. The book examines the writing practices of three French...

The rehabilitation of the offender in the community is today an integral part of many criminal justice jurisdictions. This book takes a step back and describes how this modern aspect of criminal...

Change is the very constant that is ruling the (business) world. The task of Management task is to utilize change in order to prepare and successfully lead the company into the future. A crucial and...

This book advances knowledge of how the academic field of educational technology and distance education has developed in Canada. It identifies key events and trends to provide new insights into the...

An important aspect in the calculation of emissions is the knowledge of the emission abatement technologies that are in place in the different emission sectors. One of the sectors for which insight...

Based on robust time series data, the book established clear patterns of relationships between real farmland prices and a range of macro-aggregates, including real interest rate on debt, the rate of...

As the population of certified teachers shrinks due to the number reaching retirement age, alternative certification programs have been proposed and, in some cases, implemented on state and national...

Since the 1970s, securitization has become a major financial technique in the international financial arena. Most developed countries and some developing countries utilize it for financing and...

Today, many employees are skeptical of trust and commitment in the workplace. HR professionals work diligently to build and maintain the kind of organizational culture that instills trust and...

Issues of trust and transparency have become a top concern in organizations with regard to managing internal and external stake-holder relationships more effectively, especially those involving the...

The revelation that eating can pose risks makes consumers rethink the ways they choose and eat foods. Today market choice becomes more shaped by references to safety. This book is focused on concepts...

TSET H?WSTEXW TE SQW?TELTSET, We Hold our Language HighAuthor: Stel?ethet Ethel B. GardnerPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 29, 2008Number of Pages: 324 pagesBinding:...

This book examines how the current day tuberculosis discourse in South Africa is shaped by ideological factors that have led to a dominant focus on biomedical and HIV/AIDS issues. These dominant...

In India TB was identified as an infectious disease in 1902 at British Congress on Tuberculosis. Since then it continues to be the major killer. Incorrect policies and lack of investments led to...

Recent experimental studies have demonstrated that active flow control (AFC) has a potential to enable significant advances in many engineering applications. Though demonstrated experimentally,...

This monograph is based on the doctoral thesis of the author at the University of California, Berkeley (2006). The text outlines a com-putational investigation of the turbulent air flow in hard disk...

Turkish ConsonantsAuthor: Ercan BalciPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Mar 27, 2008Number of Pages: 148 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3836484196ISBN-13:...

Beginning with introductory studies of type, house typology, structure classification, and manufactured houses, this work proposes a generative system for creating unique detached houses. Three...

"What should I perform?" This book is to serve as a study guide of twentyfive works for the dramatic soprano voice with orchestra. Criteria used for inclusion include range, tessitura, orchestral...

Pavement performance modeling is one of the key challenges facing pavement engineers and researchers. Although many new techniques have been applied to the pavement performance modeling, the accuracy...

This book follows the interaction of "double-voicing" and "double-consciousness" in Native American literary history. It begins with the surviving records from the time of colonial contact and ends...

Some argue that an elite newspaper reflects the culture of the country where it is published. If it is correct, does the research on Le Monde (France) and Asahi Shimbun (Japan) help to interpret the...

Two-dimensional AutomataAuthor: Joni PirnotPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 07, 2008Number of Pages: 128 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639033043ISBN-13:...

The overarching goal of the current book is to pave the road towards a comprehensive solution to the decades old problem of integrating databases and programming languages. For this purpose, we...

People find themselves commuting longer and longer times to work or traveling away from home. Many families have both parents working. Time dedicated for household chores and monitoring has become...

Uitlization of Concentrated Solar Beam RadiationAuthor: Lou StoynovPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Aug 20, 2008Number of Pages: 368 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

A fabrication process for PFCB waveguide air-trench bends on silicon substrate with electron beam lithography (EBL) and autoalignment has been developed and a high efficiency air-trench bend (97.2%...

Motivated by continuously decreasing automotive exhaust emission limits, car manufacturers are motivated to develop a measurement system that can determine the mass emission of all exhaust gas...