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Almost all cultures and societies affirm the importance of having children. However, reproductive technologies challenge the traditional understanding of the process by which a couple becomes parents...

A Clash of Civilizations or a Clash of Interests?Author: Mate TozserPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jun 26, 2008Number of Pages: 52 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

A Climatology of South EcuadorAuthor: Paul EmckPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: May 19, 2008Number of Pages: 344 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639013638ISBN-13:...

The international community has seen a dramatic increase in the com-plexity of aid operations, with increasing numbers of donors partici-pating in humanitarian aid endeavors. Therefore, it is...

The analysis of acousmatic music has traditionally been very difficult since there is no score to freeze the music in time. Analysis relies heavily on the act of concentrated listening. Since aural...

A Combustion Model for Engineering ApplicationsAuthor: Vasileios HamosfakidisPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 23, 2008Number of Pages: 268 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

A Communication Perspective on LeadershipAuthor: Kathleen CzechPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 11, 2008Number of Pages: 88 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

The Internet has become a powerful tool for gathering data, communicating, and processing of transactions globally. It has also become a major market research tool used by commercial market research...

A Comparison of Cell Phone User Interface Design PreferencesAuthor: Ira JhangianiPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 16, 2008Number of Pages: 180 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

A Computational Investigation of Selective DNA MethylationAuthor: Kaushalya S. EkanayakePublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 28, 2008Number of Pages: 140 pagesBinding:...

Resource-protection policies are frequently implemented without prior know-ledge of the likely social and economic outcomes. The consequences of these management strategies can, however, severely...

What is nursing information behavior (NIB)? How do home care nurses--working independently in the community--gather, access, manage and use information? The author describes the professional...

The twentieth century saw the evolution of the former British Empire into a collection of independent countries. Many of these retain the Sovereign of the United Kingdom as their Queen. Using New...

This paper describes the development of a new music industry program whose purpose is meant to meet the needs of the following three demands: 1) Sectors of the music industry are nearing extinction...

The use of aggregate data for the calculation of subgroup estimates has been recognized as a methodological challenge with the potential for resulting in substantial bias. A recently developed method...

Controller Area Network is employed widely in modern automobiles, medical instrumentation, building automation, and manufacturing control systems. DeviceNet is one example of a commercial SCADA...

Today, a company s IT is challenged to support new business processes in continuously shortening cycles and to adapt to company structure or business strategy changes in a flexible way. Modern...

Recently using English newspapers as a useful teaching tool for English has emerged among educators due to its easy accessibility and wide range of content. In this stream, in particular, English...

This corpus-based study reveals facts about the proportion and structure of the English Tough Construction. Firstly, the overall ratio of TC pattern to Extraposition pattern is 3.5:6.5 when the tough...

The music of Pulitzer Prize winning composer Michael Colgrass is the music of our time. His works have been commissioned, performed and recorded by major symphony orchestras and noted soloists around...

The term of transnationalism has become increasingly widespread notion in many academic disciplines since 1980s. Although it has been articulated in a systematic way for the first time by...

As technology expands and borders between countries blur, more and more societies including the United States are becoming multilingual. The rich diversity of many languages is felt particularly in...

Clinical practice operates in increasingly more complex, diverse and uncertain environments. Patients are better informed, technology is advancing and health care practice is constantly changing. In...

The massive external debt burden of sub-Sahara Africa has gained widespread attention as a serious policy issue during the past few years. These countries are particularly vulnerable because 1.they...

In this work, we present a prototype for a large interactive display (LID) application that provides a 3D representation of a collection of geo-referenced units of information to commanders taking...

Physicians and patients face important ethical conundrums in their joint pursuit of health. When there is no more medical evidence to gather, a physician's decision is more ethical than medical. How...

A Dynamic Compiler for an Embedded Java Virtual MachineAuthor: Sami ZhiouaPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Oct 30, 2008Number of Pages: 96 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

This book presents a dynamic network model for imbibition, which accounts for complex dynamics of corner film flow, swelling and snap-off. In contrast to previously published models in which length...

There is a critical intersection between political rhetoric, public policy, and nationalism. Using two case studies in Australian public policy - policies in the 1970s and 1980s that focused on post...

Attempts to expand and globalize the free market over the past quartercentury have led to an intensely polarized society in the United States. In economic terms, American workers are systematically...