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Genre and ChangeAuthor: Paul R. WeldonPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 25, 2008Number of Pages: 244 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639052390ISBN-13:...

This project explores the impact of aquaculture development in Tan Duong, Vietnam on family structures, roles and activities. Through critical engagement with theories of kinship, development, gender...

We explore various optimization problems which appear in computer vision and image processing. By exploiting the geometric structure of the underlying search spaces, we develop more efficient and...

Edgard Var?se began composing D?serts in 1949, completing it late in 1954. Scored for 15 instruments, 5 percussionists and 2 tapes of organized sounds, D?serts comprises acoustic instrumental music...

Unlike published shell theories restricted on wavelengths and timescales in question, the main two parts of this work are devoted to the asymptotic construction of a refined theory for composite...

In 2001, the German pharmaceutical company Bayer withdrew an anticholesterol drug - Baycol/Lipobay - because the product was suspected to be connected to several deaths. The alleged side-effects of...

Media have become extremely important channels for deploying ideology among viewers, readers and listeners worldwide. When film represents history, it inevitably re-shapes, re-interpretes and...

The present compilation is a commented overview of post-1945 public opinion surveys in Germany, focused on contents, regularity and availability of the surveys. The compilation breaks down into seven...

Germanium is gaining interest in the semiconductor industry as a replacement channel material for high mobility applications. Con-tamination directly affects the device performance, yield and...

The author analyzed eleven selected school districts in Texas through a five-year historical period, from 1996-2001. This record showed a similar pattern of underrepresentation that still pervades...

Women are still underrepresented in math-intensive fields like computer science or engineering. Math-gender stereotypes have been identified to diminish both math performance and math interest in...

Most critics accept that the genre of horror is quite similar to fairy tales. However, few explain the direct correlation between horror films and folk-fairy tales. Girls, Wolves, and Madmen...

Gis-Based Hydrological ModelAuthor: Weizhe AnPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Nov 06, 2008Number of Pages: 204 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639098382ISBN-13:...

Giving Voice to Asian ChristiansAuthor: Swee Hong LimPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Aug 06, 2008Number of Pages: 344 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

2,5-dimethyl-celecoxib (DMC) is a close structural analog of the selective cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitor celecoxib (Celebrex(R)) that lacks COX-2 inhibitory function yet maintains all of...

THE FUTURE SUCCESS OF GLOBAL BRANDS WILL DEPEND ON BRAND MANAGERS' UNDERSTANDING OF CULTURAL CONTEXT AND ITS INTEGRATION INTO A DYNAMIC BRAND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. Brands can no longer be treated as...

Human activities such as the intensive use of fossil fuel have been imposing significant perturbations to the atmosphere and air quality on the global scale. Tropospheric ozone is important as a...

The Global Compact (GC) is a multistakeholder initiative that was introduced in 1999 by former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. The initiative aims at filling the governance void of the...

The Turkish banking sector has been comprehensively restructured since the late 1990s. Historically Turkish private banks has been parts of commercial-industrial conglomerates (called Finance...

Global warming is one of the most urgent environmental problems facing us today. A reliable projection of future climate change requires an accurate prediction of atmospheric CO2 concentrations,...

As the chorus demanding substantive worldwide action on global warming grows louder, the stakes are ever higher for human health, the environment, and the economy. Research has established that the...

Global emissions of particles and chemical compounds from wildland fires into the atmosphere have a strong impact on the air's composition. In the tropics, every year numerous deforestation and...

Globalisation has been a subject of intense debate in academic circles for decades. Despite the numerous publications on globalisation, it is found that few existing studies have incorporated proper...

As increasingly diversified patterns of growth are emerging and different avenues are followed by industrial districts to face globalisation, more attention should be paid to industrial districts...

Globalization and Its Impact on Israel's Society, Economy, and Labor MarketAuthor: Itzhak HarpazPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jun 05, 2008Number of Pages: 76 pagesBinding:...

One of the most distinctive features that characterizes 21st century is globalization. The sweeping power of globalization not only changes the material conditions of human beings but also radically...

George Ho was a professional translator with more than 15 years' translation and editing experience both in New Zealand and China, which covers commercial, technical, scientific, medical, military,...

Over the past 30 years, China has enjoyed the longest and most rapid economic development in history. As part of that phenomenon, Chinese companies such as Lenovo, Huawei and Haier have in recent...

The question of gain from the degree of economic openness, in both trade and investment, is challenged in this study. The computable general equilibrium (CGE) model named GTAP has been modified to...

Accelerated globalization challenges educators to provide culturally accessible learning to countries other than their own. However, to do so, we must investigate the differences that may affect the...