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Distributed computing infrastructures are designed to be highly flexible and feature-rich to support a wide range of applications and product lines in multiple domains. Applications with stringent...

With continued development of forest machines the operators risk becoming a bottleneck, due to the ever increasing pace they have to work in. Different kind of aids for the operators will become...

In the search for improved treatment for eating disorders many constructs have been researched in the pursuit of improved clinical care and the prevention of relapse. Issues of autonomy and locus of...

In this book, a high fidelity ball bearing and squeeze film damper (SFD) model including thermal effects is developed for an energy storage flywheel system with active magnetic bearings (AMBs). A...

Frustration, excitement, anger, happiness, anxiety, pleasure, grief - there are various ways how people may respond to living, studying, or working abroad, and everything that is related to it. While...

Describes business-to-business communication modes used in small to medium enterprises and the requirements for an open standard for electronic communication within the Australian timber and wood...

Reports consistently indicate that baby boomers are unprepared for retirement, a potentially long phase of life. Many studies have targeted financial planning to the exclusion of other important...

Backcalculation of Pavement Moduli Using Genetic AlgorithmsAuthor: Wael AlkasawnehPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 23, 2008Number of Pages: 240 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Microactuation systems are currently enabled only using large external appratus. This essentially defeats the original purpose of miniaturization. We employ flagellated bacteria as reconfigurable...

This book examines organizational change & its impact on patient safety. It reviews the system & leadership issues & reconciles it with best practices from health & industy including engaging...

Over the last few decades, interest on the role of finance for investment and macroeconomic fluctuations under systemic uncertainty and crisis has grown rapidly. This book provides one of the first...

The internationalization and deregulation of domestic financial sys-tems since the 1980s has increased the risks and propensity of failure in national banking systems and financial markets, as...

The absence of a robust small and medium-sized ("SMEs") formal business sector - or the "missing middle" - has long been identified as both a contributing factor and a distinguishing characteristic...

After the fall of the Berlin wall, the socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe embarked on a process of profound economic transition. An important element of this transition process has...

International economic sanctions keep increasing their popularity, but empirical studies show that sanctions rarely persuade targeted countries to change their policies. If sanctions are ineffective,...

Barriers & BridgesAuthor: John R. WoodPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Sep 04, 2008Number of Pages: 188 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639009509ISBN-13:...

Many information technology (IT) projects fail to meet specified project objectives of scope, time and budget. Despite well-established best practice project risk management processes, project...

This book explores a relatively unknown area regarding the status of technology integration in private schools in Puerto Rico. This study in-vestigated personal practices of teachers related to...

Base-Isolated Bridges Under Seismic LoadsAuthor: Mario RinkePublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 07, 2008Number of Pages: 116 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Basel I and II analyzes how international regulatory policy is made within the context of implementing international standards for bank capitalization levels. The book investigates the complexity of...

Canada's air navigation service provider has embarked on a project to re-align the delivery of flight information services to the aviation community. As a result of this project, new offices known as...

Basques of BoiseAuthor: Colleen Asumendi FillmorePublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 02, 2008Number of Pages: 100 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

This book is a comprehensive analysis of kinematical modeling for a flight platform with flexible wings applying robotic manipulator theory. The Denavit-Hartenberg notation is widely employed for the...

Cricket diplomacy, playing an important part in the Pakistani-Indian peace process, is more relevant than ever twenty years after Pakistani president Zia went cricket-watching to India in 1987. Sport...

In many areas of applied statistics like economics or finance it is often desirable to find groups of similar time series in a set or panel of time series. Therefore, clustering techniques are...

Modeling the interaction between persons and items for binary response data, item response theory (IRT) has been found useful in a wide variety of applications. Over the past decades, studies have...

Advances in genetic sequencing technology make it possible to study the effect of genetic variations on the risk of developing a complex disease, such as cancer. The most common form of genetic...

A challenge in computational biology is to uncover the gene-protein inter-actions from gene expression data. A good approach for discovering inter-actions between genes based on multiple expression...

In real life often we need to make inferences about the behaviour of the unobserved responses for a model based on the observed responses from the model. Regression models with normal errors are...

Beckoning the HeartAuthor: Michele BowersPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jun 25, 2008Number of Pages: 280 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639028694ISBN-13:...