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Plant modeling is a well established field of research of highly interdisciplinary character. First attempts date back into the 60's and since then the proposed models have been continuously improved...

Over the past decades, the horror genre has depicted terror coming from various sources. Even a video game console can serve as a potential source of antagonism. Video games allow players the...

We work in the setting of time series of financial returns. Our starting point are the GARCH models, which are very common in practice. We introduce the possibility of having crashes in such GARCH...

The gas-kinetic methods for viscous flow simulations have attracted much attention and become mature during the past decade. Ever since they were originally invented for compressible gas flows, the...

Computer-mediated communication offers opportunities for gay men to affirm their identities in digital contexts. Many gay men have turned to online journals, or "blogs," and internet-bound...

This book tries to develop social capital as an analytical concept in sociology and applies it in an empirical study of health service utilization among people who live with HIV/AIDS in New York City...

Unlike other mediated communication technologies which have been analyzed over decades or centuries rather than years, IM communication has been the focus of relatively few academic inquiries, and...

Gender Differences in Work StyleAuthor: Alan GambrellPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 28, 2008Number of Pages: 128 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

The 1990s brought democratic transition to the countries of Central Eastern Europe - a still ongoing process, with specific social, economic and political challenges to be met in each country,...

The nation is facing a critical shortage of registered nurses. At a time when the health care industry requires more nurses, the capacity of the nursing education system is diminishing. Drawing on...

J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels are known throughout the world. They are credited with getting children and adults away from other forms of entertainment and back to reading a book for enjoyment...

Do you want to know why women are rarely found at the top levels of professional accountancy careers? This book presents a doctoral research study undertaken in New Zea-land that investigates the...

Despite the fact that women re-entered the workforce in greater numbers many decades ago and various anti-discrimination laws have been passed, sex and gender inequality and discrimination still...

Consistency modeling for gene selection is a new topic emerging from recent cancer bioinformatics research. The result of classification or clustering on a training set was often found very different...

Genealogy ManiaAuthor: Adrienne HornePublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: May 19, 2008Number of Pages: 140 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639013360ISBN-13:...

Since the nineteenth century we live subject to ever-quickening social change. To deal with this challenge, Friedrich Nietzsche recommended employing purposeful historical analyses that could explain...

General Education ClassroomsAuthor: Zulma Y. M?dezPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 16, 2008Number of Pages: 196 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Magnetic Resonance (MR) Imaging (MRI), a non-invasive method for imaging the human body, has revolutionized medical imaging. MR image processing, particularly segmentation, and analysis are used...

Static methods are very successful in deriving crucial properties (e.g.timing behaviour) of safety critical systems. Some information in the analysed program are not available either because they...

Las Vegas, Nevada, as the fastest growing metropolitan area in the United States, represents the perfect microcosm in which to look at the ways younger (30-45 years of age) and older adults (65 years...

Over the last decade, a wide spectrum of multimedia resource formats has become available to an increasing number of users who desire to access it through various devices and over heterogeneous...

In this book a generic library of efficient metaheuristics for combi-natorial optimization is presented. In the version at hand classes that feature local search, simulated annealing, tabu search,...

Two topics are in the focus of this book: the generic construction of versatile data structures for numerical linear algebra, as well as the application of algebraic multigrid methods for stabilized...

Amongst the general population it is widely held that it is possible to say how much of a characteristic is due to nature and how much is due to nurture. The thought in the background here is that...

The accessibility of high-throughput biology data brought a great deal of attention to disease association studies. High density maps of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP's) as well as massive...

In this book, we present novel methodologies for automatically generating online scheduling strategies with the help of real life workload data. The scheduling problem includes independent parallel...

This book explores design tools based on evolutionary computation (EC), oriented primarily toward conceptual design of architectural and civil engineering structures. EC tools are well suited for...

From Frankenfoods to Golden Rice, several recent studies in the field of science communication explore media coverage of genetically engineered (GE) foods with a central focus on public awareness and...

Traditional contrastive rhetoric research is often restricted to the textual level of analysis. By providing both a textual and contextual view of genre across languages and cultures, this book...