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Given the growing popularity of electronic textbooks (e-textbooks) in academia, it is important to evaluate the educational value of such textbooks and whether users can interact with the interface...

People in developed countries spend the majority of their time indoors. Therefore, studying the effect of outdoor air quality on indoor air is of great importance to human health. This book presents...

Biotic-abiotic degradation of two pesticides and their effect on the microbial properties in tropical soils were investigated considering different experimental variables (e.g., application rates,...

Effective Expatriate Selection and Cross-cultural Assistance Procedures for MNCsAuthor: Robert S. FlaakePublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 29, 2008Number of Pages: 88...

Today the global economy is changing the fundamental nature of governments, businesses, organizations and populations. In short, we are no longer constrained by national boundaries, but have all...

Effective Learning Networks in Health Care OrganizationsAuthor: Pavani RangachariPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Nov 11, 2008Number of Pages: 240 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Dialogue has become a lost art. Most public discourse takes place in the form of unilateral assertions, argument or debate. By contrast, dialogue can foster the co-creation of meaning among...

This book explores the story of a county that privatized mental health services by forming a nonprofit agency. The privatization created massive change, and at this agency the change created results...

Reading classes are based on active learning strategies. Active learning strategies have no purpose if they are not effective in conveying the necessary skills. This research focused on the...

School districts expend considerable resources to establish effective staff development opportunities that lead to increased student achievement. This study focused on a school based staff...

Effective Strategies to Ensure Business Continuity/Disaster RecoveryAuthor: Michael BarbaraPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Feb 01, 2008Number of Pages: 176 pagesBinding:...

Purpose. This study investigates and identifies the determinants of effectiveness within mandated One-Stop employment and training networks. Key within this analysis is the role of leaders and the...

Prior to this study, there were no scientific data examining specific psychological effects of sexual abuse by priests on adults who were victimized as children. This study addresses that void. A...

In this research AA6060 alloy was used and was extruded at 25m/min, 30m/min, 35m/min, 40m/min and 45m/min for a particular profile. The highest exit temperature increased from 542 C to 567 C when the...

Habitat fragmentation is a major threat to biodiversity all over the world and especially in tropical rainforests. The coastal Atlantic forest, Brazil (Mata Atl?ntica), is one of the 25 biodiversity...

The use of anticancer agents as part of the treatment strategy has greatly improved the overall prognosis of cancer. In clinical practice, chemotherapy for cancer often requires a combination of...

Effects of Peer Coaching on Collaborative Interactions and Student AchievementAuthor: Sarah MurrayPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Aug 01, 2008Number of Pages: 200...

Effects of Plant Sterols & Glucomannan on HyperlipidemiaAuthor: Roula BarakePublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Sep 03, 2008Number of Pages: 84 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Effects of Spatial Heterogeneity on Species RichnessAuthor: Sunil KumarPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 02, 2008Number of Pages: 156 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

A multidimensional approach to the measurement of stress response assessed the effects of a high workload short task battery and vigilance task on cerebral blood flow velocity (CBFV), salivary...

On-the-job training (OJT) can be among the most effective ways of training workers because of its direct focus on tackling workplace challenges. However, the problem was that the effects of visual...

Service-oriented architectures provide high levels of inter-operability and high means of adaptability. Nevertheless, distributed service-based business processes demand for robust, flexible and -...

The routing of vehicles is an important area in the field of transportation and logistics. Efficient routing of vehicles can save the transportation industry millions of dollars every year. This book...

In recent years, more and more security-sensitive activities like shopping or banking transactions are carried out over the Internet, an inherently insecure medium. In addition, many of these...

Efficient Service Discovery in Large-scale Mobile Agent SystemsAuthor: Thomas HentrichPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: May 16, 2008Number of Pages: 120 pagesBinding: Paperback...

Wireless communications systems are evolving to be more diverse in use and more ubiquitous in nature. It is of fundamental importance that we consume the resources available in such systems, i.e.,...

Data distribution management (DDM) is a mechanism to interconnect data producers and data consumers in a distributed application. Applications ranging from rich distributed virtual gaming...

Visual navigation of hierarchically structured graphs is a technique for interactively exploring large graphs with an additional hierarchical structure such as call graphs of telephone networks. In...

The size of volumetric datasets used in medical environments is increasing at a rapid pace. Due to excessive pre-computation and memory demanding data structures, most current approaches for volume...

In the last few years WLANs have become more and more popular, enabling access to the Internet and to private or company-internal networks all over the place. With the increasing amount of users...