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The design of a password system is a complex process. Ideas from computer science, cognitive science, and human factors research should all be considered in the development of an improved password...

Improving Teacher Knowledge and PedagogyAuthor: Joanne AntrimPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Sep 17, 2008Number of Pages: 112 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Development cooperation is a rather young field, which emerged only after World War II with the introduction of the Marshall Plan in an effort to aid Western Europe's recovery. Unfortunately, poverty...

There are many attempts coming from EU institutions aiming at har-monizing EU labor immigration policy. These efforts have faced many blockages from EU member states and a common labor immigration...

Student persistence has long been valued by higher education (Glynn, Sauer, & Miller, 2003). Student interaction significantly impacts persistence rates (Tinto, 1975). The environment has a major...

Migrating from place to place is a fact of life for many in today's world. Globalization and increased interdependence privilege some people to emigrate to work, study and get new experiences in...

Global fresh water scarcity and empirical studies on the bad quality of water in Europe made the Community aware of the need to protect this vital resource. Since water has no frontiers, the Member...

Recent years have witnessed a considerable increase in the interest in international reading literacy studies, such as PISA. The results of these studies, in turn, are often the basis on which...

In Search of SecurityAuthor: Fredrik DoeserPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Sep 05, 2008Number of Pages: 328 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639078489ISBN-13:...

This is a comparative and thematic study of the New Confucian move-ment of twentieth century China and the Kyoto School of twentieth century Japan, whose purpose is to show the two schools as a...

The success of Australian Rules football, which emerged from a innovative game in the mid-1900s and grown into a multi-billion dollar industry and social institution of the 21st century, owes much of...

The infamous Two Cultures debate and the so-called Science Wars frame all discourses on the topic of science and literature. The problematic of an ongoing mutual misunderstanding between the two...

The 18th and the 19th century saw both the rise of the sciences on crime and the rise of gothic literature. In this book Per J rgen Ystehede examines the relationship between the work of Cesare...

In vitro development of islets from human adult pancreatic tissuesAuthor: Ru GaoPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Sep 30, 2008Number of Pages: 76 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

In-situ Conservation of Indigenous TreesAuthor: Thorben KrusePublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Sep 08, 2008Number of Pages: 88 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Inbetween PlaceAuthor: Narongpon LaiprakobsupPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Aug 26, 2008Number of Pages: 160 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639063783ISBN-13:...

A number of surveys have tapped the interests of older employees as a way to understand the factors that encourage extended employment (Bass, 1995; Sterns, 1998). The current research has two...

Scheduling generating unit maintenance is an important and necessary function in both vertically integrated and deregulated power systems. The objective in scheduling preventive maintenance is to...

Relational.OWL is a technique to automatically convert a relational database into a Semantic Web representation, enabling Semantic Web applications to access data actually stored in relational...

An increasing number of agencies are taking steps to incorporate the concept of sustainability in the regional transportation planning process. Planning for sustainable transportation systems should...

This study analyzes the relationship between corporate financial and environmental performance from the aspect of entrepreneurial deci-sion-making with regard to investment and financing. With the...

While some progress has been made toward increasing diverse student populations on college campuses in the USA, statistics show that the presence of racially and ethnically diverse faculty has...

For future wireless communications systems there is a greater empha-sis on providing higher data rates and improved quality in terms of reliability over multipath fading channels. Multiple Input...

Independent SRI rating agencies are relatively new players in the socially responsible investment (SRI) market that have first emerged in the 1990s. Their presence can be seen as a result of the...

This book concerns two broad classes of Markov decision problems that fall within the family of "restless bandits", an intractable class of decision processes introduced by P. Whittle. For the first...

Transnational relationships between Indian migrant women household workers in Hong Kong and their family members in India is the focus of the book. The impact of migration on these solo women...

Indian Ocean Climate - The state from the late 19th throughout the 20th centuryAuthor: Chie IharaPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jan 16, 2008Number of Pages: 124 pagesBinding:...

Indigenous Development and Self-Determination in West PapuaAuthor: Toru HisadaPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: May 28, 2008Number of Pages: 200 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

The evolutionary development of new engine materials and designs has allowed turbines to be operated at much higher temperature and achieve higher efficiencies, thus new materials have been developed...

The motivation for this thesis was to find, by a literature review, determinants that could show if the concept mass customization can be used successfully to implement the individualized printed...