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Until the early 90s, Chinese Koreans maintained their Korean culture, language, traditions, and lineage based on kinship relations. Contrary to many scholars' predictions that the growing interaction...

Since the beginning of the "Open-Door-Policy", China has scored remarkable achievements. However, the resources that such growth demands have raised deep concerns about the long-term sustainability...

China, as the largest emerging economy in the world, began its accounting reforms in the early 1990s. It is not known, however, whether its accounting reforms, intended to harmonize with the...

Chinese Culture has shaped action patterns as well as people's opinions in China for several millennia. Thus, their behaviour as well as form of thinking is fundamentally different than what...

During the past fifty years, many Chinese and other Asian composers have combined Western compositional techniques with their own musical heri-tages in their works. The prevalence of non-Western...

This book presents an interpretative study of an Australian leadership development program conducted in China. The study explored the conceptions of learning and leadership brought by a group of...

Chinese International Students?NarrativesAuthor: Wendy Wen LiPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 01, 2008Number of Pages: 96 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Chinese Word Segmentation and Language ProcessingAuthor: Lezhong LiuPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jun 20, 2008Number of Pages: 264 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Research studies suggest that young people from immigrant families inherit at least two different cultural traits in the process of identity formation, and the factors affecting the identity of young...

The choroid plexus (CP) epithelium forms the blood-cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) barrier and, along with the blood-brain barrier, maintains the fluid environment of the brain. The CP not only secretes...

This timely and culturally relevant study examines the perceptions and behaviors of African American students and how they practice and use their Christian Spirituality in school and other life...

An outgrowth of the circus as re-cast in a modern form in London in the late 18th century, an Australian circus profession has existed almost continuously since 1847. Australia's circus entrepreneurs...

Citizen Deliberation in Urban RevitalizationAuthor: Navdeep MathurPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 28, 2008Number of Pages: 200 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Much of the language of the church--messiah, kingdom, lord--belongs to the realm of politics as much as it does that of religion. Yet, given the tendency in Western society to treat politics as the...

This book explores the nature of Roman identity through a study of the cultural and ideological effects of Roman citizenship on Greeks living in the first three centuries AD. Terms such as culture...

From 1729 to 1857, Natchez was a city under siege. Its populace saw conflicts as flags of various nations flew over the area. Frenchmen, Englishmen, Spaniards, Americans, Indians, and African slaves...

In the present global age when nations and populations struggle with economic, political, and cultural forces generated by the interplay of domestic politics with the world system, there is...

Civil Military Humanitarianism during Military InterventionAuthor: Christian M. HuberPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 25, 2008Number of Pages: 112 pagesBinding: Paperback...

Civil Society and Democracy in Post-apartheid South AfricaAuthor: Alain VandormaelPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Dec 14, 2007Number of Pages: 156 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

This research seeks to contribute to our understanding of the role played by civilian leaders in the consolidation of democracy examining changes in levels of military influence over politics in...

Class Conflicts and PlanningAuthor: Stale HolgersenPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 30, 2008Number of Pages: 152 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Contemporary virtue ethics had developed mainly in the Aristotelian tradition. Recently, however, a few non-Aristotelian forms of virtue ethics have emerged. Among them, the most radical departure...

The survival of classical books in the Early Middle Ages is a question never-entirely-answered that still tackles our attention. The distinc-tiveness of the classical works was fading at the time of...

Classification of Human Facial ExpressionsAuthor: Abu Sayeed MD SohailPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Sep 03, 2008Number of Pages: 180 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Classification of River Networks for Prediction in Ungauged BasinsAuthor: Anne ReungoatPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Aug 27, 2008Number of Pages: 160 pagesBinding: Paperback...

This work discusses the theoretical abilities of three commonly used classifier learning methods and optimization techniques to cope with characteristics of real-world classification problems, more...

Climate Change and CaribouAuthor: Rebecca ZalatanPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Aug 07, 2008Number of Pages: 128 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Diagnosis and its underlying clinical reasoning are central to medical practice. Formerly, both doctors and patients alike tended to view diagnosis as an art, an intuitive ability that could not be...

This book entails a description of a web application with a dynamic central database which allows the creation and management of clinical studies. Over a multi user system, users are able to...

This book investigates several research problems which arise in modern Web Information Retrieval. First of all we consider the fact that there are many situations where a flat list of ten search...