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As consumers become more discerning and the international fruit trade becomes ever more competitive, suppliers are increasingly gaining competitive advantage through differentiated fruit quality...

Many persons have expressed alarm and surprise at the acquittals of alleged sexual offenders by juries in Jamaica. Women are the main victims of sexual offenses. Their confidence in the system of...

The International Bluegrass Music Museum, Owensboro, KY, has a large vinyl album collection which is difficult to share with their world-wide community. While having a revolving exhibit of album...

In the last decades, there has been a strong growth in private voluntary initiatives, such as Fairtrade labelling and company codes of conduct, aiming at improving conditions for workers and...

Network intrusion detection systems (NIDS) continuously monitor network traffic for malicious activity, raising alerts when detecting attacks. However, high-performance Gbps networks pose major...

Increasing amounts and various formats of multimedia data require technologies to automatically identify its content. Cryptographic hash functions can not be used for multimedia content...

In a bid to ease social unrest and gradually reform its politics, China implemented elections in a majority of its villages. Shortly thereafter, an explosion of protests was recorded throughout China...

Violence against Women and Femicide in MexicoAuthor: Natalie PantherPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 21, 2008Number of Pages: 140 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Violence Risk Assessment in SchoolsAuthor: Mark McGowanPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: May 14, 2008Number of Pages: 112 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Throughout world history, some military personnel have committed crimes. However, many times this social phenomenon has been ignored by scholars. To add to the study of military crime, this study...

The book seeks to provide a critical evaluation of viral marketing's potential as a new and possibly crucial dimension in 21st century marketing. It covers essential features of communicational and...

Virtual Collaborative GroupsAuthor: Fay SudweeksPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jun 30, 2008Number of Pages: 400 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639034236ISBN-13:...

Virtual Knowledge CommunitiesAuthor: Matthias TrierPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jun 05, 2007Number of Pages: 284 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a large number of events containing Z bosons will be available and the calibration of the absolute jet energy scale with these events becomes feasible for the...

Why be moral? One possible, and compelling answer is that to act morally is in an agent's self-interest. Such an answer can be either elevationist where self-interest is elevated to coincide with...

Vision-Based Image Retrieval (VBIR)Author: Kai EssigPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 16, 2008Number of Pages: 248 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Over the past centuries visual illusions have provided us with a better understanding of the human visual system. This book contributes to this research field by utilizing visual illusions as...

Visual Impairment in Australian School ChildrenAuthor: Dana RobaeiPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jun 30, 2008Number of Pages: 288 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Visual Metaphor and the Contemporary ArtistAuthor: Daniel SerigPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Mar 18, 2008Number of Pages: 172 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

In this analysis, Bernadette Sibuma reveals how the graphic design of characters differentially affects cognitive processes. Participants responded to face designs with and without emotional...

Visualizing RDF Data on a HandheldAuthor: Philipp HeimPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jan 14, 2008Number of Pages: 132 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

The Viterbi Algorithm was originally developed in the 1960's to decode linear error correcting convolutional codes. Its advantages include ease of implementation and using soft decisions to obtain an...

Vitruvius lived within spaces that contained implicit architectural codes for him to ponder. He prescribed Roman architecture not as he saw it, but rather, as he imagined it. The Roman architect...

Vocational Education in AustraliaAuthor: Lauri GracePublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 17, 2008Number of Pages: 196 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Courses taught online would benefit when synchronous com-munication such as voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP) is utilized. Although available for many years, VoIP has not yet been accepted in...

Volunteers in stewardship groups are a major element of the social mobilisation strategy used in Australia to manage natural resources. The ability of such groups to overcome problems, deal with new...

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) networks is becoming the most popular telephony system in the world. However, studies of the security of VoIP networks are still in their infancy. VoIP devices and...

Volatility TradingAuthor: Johannes H?merlePublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 28, 2008Number of Pages: 116 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639061748ISBN-13:...

This book is Sang-Ho Yun's Ph.D. work at Stanford University. It contains radar image processing parts and geophysical modeling parts. The data processing parts introduce an optimal algorithm to...

Volkswagen clients' purchase behavior in Czech Republic and ItalyAuthor: Zuzana ChytkovaPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jan 14, 2008Number of Pages: 168 pagesBinding:...