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At one level, this book examines the inventory of global issues, dimensions, and debates discussed by educators, curriculum practitioners, and researchers in two U.S. journals, Social Education and...

Until today, the interlaced scan format is widely used by the TV in-dustry. The interlaced video is an easy way to halve the bandwidth, but exposes well known artifacts like line crawling, edge...

Change is inevitable in this global environment. The "business as usual" sentiments are now past memories. Organizations, both profit and non-profit, are being challenged to find new and better ways...

The strong devotion to musical quotation that arose in the latter half of the twentieth century has elicited increased research in the area of musical borrowing as a field of study, leading composers...

It is a commonly held belief among literary scholars that translation is a nuisance, to be performed only when necessary, and capable of producing only failed copies of an irreproducible original...

A question that 21st century politicians and policy makers must answer is whether the diversity of species that existed before mankind will be preserved or succumb to the self-interests and power of...

Decentralisation and Regionalisation in SerbiaAuthor: Anita KocicPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Sep 08, 2008Number of Pages: 84 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Decentralized Control of Interconnected SystemsAuthor: Javad LavaeiPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 30, 2008Number of Pages: 208 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Decentralized Optimization with Independent Decision MakersAuthor: Gokhan InalhanPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Nov 06, 2008Number of Pages: 184 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Deception, the Polygraph, and PsychopathyAuthor: Bruno VerschuerePublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Sep 15, 2008Number of Pages: 144 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

The book examines the formation and transformation of the Chinese exportled footwear industry from a political-economic perspective. In particular, it explains why Taiwanese businessmen succeeded in...

Harnessing an idea can cause an organization to reach new levels of competency, integration and innovation. But for the idea to have relevance, decisions must be made to support whether the idea will...

Decision-making involves a complex set of variables including cues and barriers to action that can trigger specific patterns of behavior. With respect to health and health care, the influences of...

To spend or to save? That is the choice for anyone with spare cash. The in-ter-nal conflict we experience between our immediate desires and our re-spon-si-bi-li-ty towards our future has been...

This study explores decision making amongst ski area management. In particular, it examined how managers are challenged by the risk and uncertainty as a result of weather and visitor activity...

Computer forensics is evolving and is still in its infancy when compared to other fields in the world of information technology. Software tools for computer forensics have been developed to automate...

The way of dealing with relevant information in a professional style, called Knowledge Management, becomes topic with growing interest regarding business matters. Out of that, implicit knowledge is...

Rabbi Moses Cordoeiro (aka Cordovero, 1522-1570) was a towering mystical thinker in Safed and retains to this day a seat of honor in Jewish intellectual history. Ranking among the most prolific and...

Defining Factors of Successful University-Based Community InitiativesAuthor: Erik L. CarltonPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jan 14, 2008Number of Pages: 108 pagesBinding:...

As Goa, India increasingly becomes an important international tourist destination, its people must define their identity in order to compete with other popular vacation sites. Defining identity is...

Deforestation in the TropicsAuthor: Richard J. CulasPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jun 27, 2008Number of Pages: 136 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Since the HIV epidemic of the 1990s, researchers have attempted to develop a red blood cell analog. Even though some of these substitutes are now in Phase III of clinical trials, their use is limited...

Delamination in CompositesAuthor: Albert TuronPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 15, 2008Number of Pages: 140 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3836499282ISBN-13:...

Genetically-modified organisms in food production represent a new technology with attributes that are valued differently by producers and consumers. Producers' heterogeneous preferences for specific...

Dementia and CaregivingAuthor: Jo Anna KellyPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jun 27, 2008Number of Pages: 204 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639032705ISBN-13:...

Demise of the DecapolisAuthor: Bernhard LuckePublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: May 09, 2008Number of Pages: 248 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639006135ISBN-13:...

Democratic peace theory tends to view democracy in homogeneous terms. There are theoretically compelling reasons, however, to believe that variations in democratic institutions and leadership can...

How much influence does the regime type of a country have on its ability to win an international war? Upon closer inspection, very little. A careful study of the process by which peaceful citizens...

Although recent decades have shown much interest in the possibility of democratizing China, Chinese understandings of democracy remain understudied. Considering that these domestic understandings...

Anastassia has produced research that makes a significant and original contribution to our knowledge about the generic relation between democratization and federalization and about their specific...