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The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of early adolescent girls regarding friendships, peer relations and stress. Ten early adolescent girls (aged 12-13 years) were interviewed...

Early childhood curriculum and pedagogy are complex. Although children's interests are a common source of early childhood curriculum, little literature exists that has researched the nature of...

In this monograph we present an Early Cognitive Vision framework that aims at providing a rich and reliable scene representation from visual information. This framework preserves conflicting...

Estimating the size of addressable markets before they exist or are well established, is one of the major challenges faced by marketing and investment managers. Waiting for maturity and then...

Early Zhuangzi CommentariesAuthor: David ChaiPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Aug 13, 2008Number of Pages: 268 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639041151ISBN-13:...

Earthquake Design of Large Liquid-Filled Steel Storage TanksAuthor: Markus KettlerPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 25, 2008Number of Pages: 144 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Discrimination between earthquakes and chemical explosions is a significant problem facing many regional seismic networks around the world. Both earthquakes and chemical explosions are sources of...

IT has changed the way organizations function. This has resulted in reliance of help desks to support users to deal with a wide range of IT related problems such as hardware, software and...

Econometric Analysis of Corporate Governance in India empirically examines the influence of corporate governance framework on firm performance and dividend policy, for an unbalanced panel of Indian...

Selection and forecasting are integral to econometric modelling but a unified treatment is rarely considered. This book addresses both issues, with an application to UK inflation. The theme of model...

Econometrics of Exchange Rate MovementsAuthor: Narsid GolicPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Dec 20, 2007Number of Pages: 200 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Prohibitive drug policies have been implemented in varying degrees throughout the world. These policies fail when analyzed from the perspective of law and economics and are in actuality the...

This book explores how political and business leaders are presented in television news and current affairs programs and how they promote their interests. It examines how television has become a...

As representative of the Republic of Hungary in Seoul it is my great pleasure to welcome the readers of my fellow citizen Istv?n Medvigy's work "Economic and Trade Relations Between the European...

Economic Assessment of Different Management Approaches of a Kenyan Rain ForestAuthor: Paul Maina GuthigaPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 07, 2008Number of Pages: 188...

Oil exporting developing countries have the common problem of how best to transform their valuable but nonrenewable oil reserves into a permanent flow of income for achieving their long term...

Oil and workers' remittances play an important role in the international economy. Only a few articles have been trying to investigate the effects of oil price fluctuations on both oil producing and...

Economic Value of Urban DesignAuthor: Taner R. OezdilPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 09, 2008Number of Pages: 148 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

As reserves of conventional crude oil are depleted, there is a growing need to develop unconventional oils such as heavy oil and bitumen from oil sands. In terms of recoverable oil, Canadian oil...

Since electricity systems of nowadays are increasingly penetrated by renewable electricity generation, the integration and political support of distributed generation became a main topic. Moreover,...

This study examines the factors that influence the simultaneous adoption of no-till farming technology and Roundup Ready soybean (RR) varieties and the welfare benefits of the adoption of the...

The provision of governmental services and the very nature of governance changes with the ever growing influence of Information and Communication Technologies in all governmental institutions. This...

Educating EntrepreneursAuthor: Michael R. WholihanPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Aug 20, 2008Number of Pages: 116 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Educating for Cultures of Peace within the AcademyAuthor: Bryan WrightPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Aug 08, 2008Number of Pages: 108 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

This book investigates the extent to which the concept of democracy is taught and practiced in schools in the post-colonial Botswana taking into account Botswana educational philosophy of Education...

Less than 50% of those who enter graduate school complete their advanced degree. While that figure will hardly be surprising to anyone who has experienced the pressures of graduate education, this is...

Although infant and child mortality rates have declined in Ghana, child health in Ghana and sub-Saharan Africa generally continue to lag behind other world regions. This book explores some of the...

The Philippine political milieu is characterized by a "weak state" dominated by elite cacique patron-client relations whom exploit state mechanisms for the private accumulation and distribution of...

Educational Language Policy in Nigeria is a very simple and easy to understand work that will facilitate some learning about issues of language in Nigeria and environ. The book shows that issues...

The internet has affected nearly every aspect of modern educational life. Ubiquitous access to information from a diverse range of perspectives has created a new educational reality in Chinese...