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Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Production TechnologiesAuthor: Philipp GagglPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Aug 19, 2008Number of Pages: 200 pagesBinding:...

Correctional Education, Programs, Services, and Inmate RecidivismAuthor: Joshua SearcyPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Oct 29, 2008Number of Pages: 152 pagesBinding: Paperback...

Strongly correlated matter can exhibit novel behavior ranging from superfluidity to exotic magnetism. When condensed-matter systems are subjected to cryogenic temperatures, strong correlations are...

Textbooks are important resources to support learners. In order to explain structures and relations of real existing objects, expository texts are frequently complemented by illustrations. A key role...

Corruption is a major problem that has affected police services and the communities they serve around the world for many years. Much discussion has gone into how best to deal with this situation and...

The relationship between corruption and democratic performance has always been a key question for political economists. It is important in terms of understanding the incentives that may improve...

Corruption is a major issue for managers operating in emerging mar-kets. The multidimensional aspect of corruption significantly compli-cates managerial decision-making and increases business risks...

Through the discourse of technological embodiment, scientific progress in medicine and technology have advanced to the point that the human body is no longer thought of as a fixed form void of...

Cossack Motifs in Ukrainian Folk LegendsAuthor: Roman ShiyanPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: May 05, 2008Number of Pages: 388 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

The goal of assessing health care quality is to recognize gaps in performance and identify opportunities for improvement that will increase the health of individuals and society. The complexity...

Analytical software quality assurance (SQA) constitutes with about 50% a significant part of the total development costs of a software system. Hence, it is a promising area for cost-optimisation...

Ethiopia is the origin of Coffea arabica, which is the most important agricultural commodity of the country, both economically and socially. Besides, the country is an important potential gene source...

The need for clergy to employ pastoral counseling techniques re-quires education and training in such skills. With a current emphasis on global interaction and missionary work, many priests and...

Counterculture of the Sixties in AmericaAuthor: Imre HanyeczPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jun 06, 2008Number of Pages: 80 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

The attacks of 11 September 2001 represented a new terrorist trend which targets liberal Western states. The United States and Germany both interpreted September 11 as a declaration of war and an...

This book is a qualitative study of women who consider themselves to be both rural and non-heterosexual which examines the perceived effects of living in a rural environment surrounded by rural...

The effect of the country of origin of a product is an important influence in consumers' product evaluations and has been studied for more than 40 years. Marketing practice shows that consumers...

How do course Web sites affect student engagement with the curriculum? Are there discernable correlations with educational theories of learning and engagement? What are the claims and goals of...

Covering ConflictsAuthor: Ali RafeeqPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 28, 2008Number of Pages: 260 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639008537ISBN-13:...

The globalization of trade has lead to an enormous growth in sea transportation over the last years. A great majority of general cargo is containerized and handled in container terminals, which are...

In recent years man-machine-communication has become more important. Several speech dialogue systems have been developed in order to provide a very comfortable interaction for categorising users...

To deliver the focused and current training that rapidly changing busi-ness environments require some organizations are implementing a reusable learning object approach to instructional design. As...

Any service industy is a challenging enough environment without having to second guess the needs of your customers. Meeting customer service needs of the consumer in healthcare has become one of the...

Virtual 3-D models of architecture featuring metric surface texture ori-ginating from photographs are becoming wanted data sets, combi-ning the geometric and photographic documentation of building...

This book provides useful approaches to sustainable business practices for business executives, managers, and consultants who have to manage their obligation to the environment and society, while...

Throughout the world, the rail industry historically has been one of the most extensively regulated of all industrial sectors. In the past three decades however, policymakers and economists have...

Despite the common use of cooperative groups, dissatisfaction with group work is often reported. Dissatisfaction with group work may result when personalities clash, yet methods for matching...

Creating Disturbance - Provoking ImaginationsAuthor: Michael FosterPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: May 23, 2008Number of Pages: 216 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

The open content movement is enabling the advent of a major turn in information- based products through the enormous potential of collective intelligence. The Linux operating system, the Firefox...

Name forms and naming traditions among North American Indians have not previously been studied, leading to references to Black Elk as Elk, Black (found by the author in a major bibliographic...