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Germany is World Champion in Exports. Almost all big enterprises have relations abroad and achieve a big part of their turnover there. This also applies more and more for SMEs. More than 70 percent...

The past three decades have witnessed a growing body of literature on pastoral health and longevity in ministry. However, little attention is devoted to the connection between educational...

For four decades, researchers have been investigating effects of teacher expectations on student outcomes. Often the question is asked, what is it about students that leads teachers to have high or...

Over the past fifty years, the push towards modernity and urbanization has accelerated changes in various aspects of socio-cultural conditions, and has brought about new standards for domestic...

Experiencing Diversity in a South African SchoolAuthor: Rakgadi PhatlanePublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Nov 06, 2008Number of Pages: 220 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Experimental Study of the Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen Cycle at Low EnergyAuthor: Daniel BemmererPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 17, 2008Number of Pages: 100 pagesBinding:...

Experimental Test Methods for Inflatable Fabric BeamsAuthor: Adam TurnerPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 14, 2008Number of Pages: 188 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Expert Knowledge Based Reliability ModelsAuthor: Ali ZuashkianiPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 11, 2008Number of Pages: 184 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Explaining Civil Society Core ActivismAuthor: Tove Lind?Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Sep 12, 2008Number of Pages: 328 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

The study correlates the growth of organic farming with past support policies. Not the recent, direct organic farming payments are of importance, but rather the past support policy orientation. The...

In this work, several novel algorithms for the numerical simulation of homogeneous gas-phase combustion chemistry are introduced and investigated. In the first instance, stochastic methods for the...

The huge amount of data over the Web offers numerous possibilities to bridge the digital gap between the people working in heterogeneous contextual settings, such as the different social contexts,...

In criminal justice, restorative justice holds great promise where punitive regimes often fall short; remorse appears to be a key element for success. While remorse may strongly influence course and...

Microarray gene expression data are produced around the world in huge amounts. This data is not easy to analyse manually. Therefore, there is a need for automated techniques to do the job. Clustering...

Exploring Conversational LearningAuthor: Cory DobbsPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 30, 2008Number of Pages: 176 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Ever more research is engaged in understanding corruption. But we still need more knowledge about which areas in society it affects, and how institutional and contextual conditions influence...

The purpose of this study is to explore how differences in breast cancer prognostic factors contribute to the diminished survival rate of African-American women in the United States with breast...

Information Systems outsourcing has become a popular strategy for managing the technology needs of organizations. However, a considerable number of outsourcing deals fail to produce expected...

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become increasingly utilized in the rebuilding of war-torn countries. NGOs venturing into the chaotic devastation of countries like Afghanistan are required...

Future-generation solar cells are continually being introduced and refined. These new designs, however, are often based on new materials and there is a lack of fundamental understanding about how...

Law enforcement agencies are changing their prescription regarding autonomous police duty. Specifically, trends in law enforcement management now concentrate on police duty within the parameters of...

Sentence Retrieval is the task of retrieving a relevant sentence in response to a query, a question, or a reference sentence. In this work we begin by demonstrating that because sentences are much...

Agencies that offer literacy education have sought to introduce program innovations that more closely reflect learners' everyday lives. A growing number of research studies have documented the...

This thesis presents three studies on empathy based on qualitative and quantitative data. In Study 1, narrative accounts of empathy situations were collected to identify constituents that exist in...

Teasing is often regarded as a normal and common activity of child-hood, a rite of passage. Yet, teasing is a complex relational issue involving many elements such as intent, verbal utterances,...

This book provides an exploration of the Stages of Change Model of treatment for substance abusers, a treatment approach developed and implemented over the years. Substance abusers were tested from...

As Web-based interactive 3D graphics, popularly referred to as Virtual Reality (VR), continue to become more affordable, research and development groups in various fields have been adopting Web-based...

The increase in youth unemployment levels across the world, significantly in the African developing nations, threatens the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals thereby frustrating efforts...

Exposing Internet Address Use to EnhanceNetwork SecurityAuthor: Evan M. CookePublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 17, 2008Number of Pages: 152 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Uniquely presented, this research follows the experience of ten participants in a six week, work/study program, Yoga and the Expressive Arts which was held at Hollyhock Education and Retreat Centre...