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A Fragile Life: The Epic of a Multiple Kidney Transplant Recipient is an in-depth effort to understand living with a chronic illness (specifically kidney disease) as perceived by a woman who is a...

The wide adoption of XML and related technologies led to the rise of a new paradigm for applications development. Web Services: WS, extend the traditional role of the Web for a stronger support for...

Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are currently one of the major research topics in Grid Computing, as they serve as a foundation for reliable and predictable Grids. SLAs define an explicit statement...

Transmission congestion has widespread impact on electricity markets. Of the various congestion management schemes, the locational marginal prices (LMPs) based scheme have become the most widely used...

Intangible Assets are earmarked as the value source for today's know-ledge-centric businesses. This book highlights a study that purports to make intangible assets a visible entity to businesses...

A Fraud-Prevention Framework for Mobile DevicesAuthor: Alessandro BrawermanPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 24, 2008Number of Pages: 104 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Widely accepted flow control methods in wireline networks, such as TCP for data and TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC) for multimedia, assume that packet loss is primarily due to congestion. As such,...

What is known as the Darwin Theory of Evolution is a simple principle: species evolve by means of random changes and natural selection to adapt to a specific environment. The basic idea behind...

The purpose of this study is to offer a reliable and valid German questionnaire on organizational identification, suitable for practical settings. The term "organizational identification" is...

A Glimpse into East African TraditionsAuthor: Rosemary OnyangoPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Sep 10, 2008Number of Pages: 296 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

A Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon TongueAuthor: Erasmus RaskPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Feb 14, 2008Number of Pages: 300 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

This work provides the first linguistic description of Isaalo (Western Sisaala [SSL]), a language spoken by less than 10,000 people in and around Lambussie, in the Upper West Region of Ghana. It...

Computing architectures based on software agents are an important trend in computing technology today. Within such architectures, there are many applications in which planning procedures can play a...

The publish/subscribe interaction scheme is claimed to provide the loosely coupled form of interaction required in large scale environ-ments. There are important implications for the underlying...

The quest for more productive ways of developing high quality software has been ongoing and software product lines promises to improve product qua-li-ty and the development speed at a fraction of the...

A Human Empowerment Approach to Economic and Social JusticeAuthor: Lawrence DakaPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Sep 30, 2008Number of Pages: 280 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

The data rate in conventional wireless communications systems is limited by multipath-induced inter-symbol interference (ISI). Modern systems, such as UMTS, employ measures to counter the effects of...

Most transportation systems fall into two broad categories: fixed route systems that are cost efficient but lack of flexibility and demand responsive transit (DRT) systems which are flexible but...

Nowadays, the competitiveness of manufacturing companies depends on a fast responsiveness to the change of customer demands. In a competitive situation, reducing the product development lead time is...

The McEliece cryptosystem was proposed by R.McEliece in 1978. In its original version it is based on Goppa codes. Given a public key matrix G and a codeword c=mG+e, we reduce the problem of...

Nonprofit organizations providing social services face a growing concern for accountability and productivity on the part of funding sources. Methods for improving organizational functioning come and...

Evidence supports the benefit of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) of psychosis for people experiencing psychotic symptoms, often diagnosed with schi-zophrenia. This study explores whether a...

A Meta-Analysis Investigating the Effects of Reading on Second Language LearningAuthor: Safary Wa-MbalekaPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: May 29, 2008Number of Pages: 204...

Supporting domain-specific functions and relieving users from the database details are two major challenges faced by many today's database applications, especially in life science research. The most...

A Mobility Architecture for Terrestrial and Space NetworksAuthor: Shaojian FuPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Nov 06, 2008Number of Pages: 200 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

A Model for Practical Christian HolinessAuthor: Dennis LawrencePublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Oct 29, 2008Number of Pages: 112 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

A Modular Tool Architecture for Worst-Case Execution Time AnalysisAuthor: Andreas ErmedahlPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Aug 18, 2008Number of Pages: 180 pagesBinding:...

The Mann-Whitney (MW) test and the Kolmogrov-Smirnov two sample test (KS-2) are nonparametric statistical tests used to detect whether there is a general difference between two samples when the two...

A Morphological Testing Tool for Language LearningAuthor: Ayako HoshinoPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Mar 07, 2008Number of Pages: 80 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

A Mother? Decision Making ProcessAuthor: Wendy AltamiranoPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Sep 25, 2008Number of Pages: 100 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...