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This book provides a comprehensive introduction on the rainfall characteristics in a tropical area, Indonesia, on a time scale monthly to interannual. Unlike the monsoonal South Asia and East Asia,...

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, imports of milk protein concentrate had brought the U.S. agricultural programs to a crisis. The USDA was rapidly accumulating stocks of nonfat dry milk and unable...

Certification sponsored by industry or professional association has been a form of credentialing for over half a century. Since its adoption by the ICT sector, industry certification has become a...

This book considers how inequality of income and educational attain-ment affects participation in local government and community de-velopment. Adapting a standard economic model, it shows that...

Infant Pain Expression throughout the First Year of LifeAuthor: Rami NaderPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 22, 2008Number of Pages: 140 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

This essay elaborates and defends a certain broad orientation in the philosophy of mind-the inferentialism of Sellars and Brandom-and explores the striking consequences of that orientation for the...

The Internet has grown into a tremendously large and complex system with hundreds of millions of end hosts. Because of its size, complexity and heterogeneity, understanding the Internet has proved to...

Inferring Infant IntentionalityAuthor: J. Steven ReznickPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 07, 2008Number of Pages: 164 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Inflammatory Response and Oxidative Stress Related to Cardiopulmonary BypassAuthor: Balazs GaszPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Aug 04, 2008Number of Pages: 80 pagesBinding:...

Inflation Targeting and Exchange Rates in Emerging EconomiesAuthor: Amalia WidyasantiPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 28, 2008Number of Pages: 180 pagesBinding: Paperback...

The "advice industry" is one of the fastest growing industries in the United States. Americans harbor an endless appetite for self-help. Year by year, thousands of new "how-to" materials are being...

Despite a long history of prevention efforts and laws prohibiting the consumption of alcohol for those below the age of 21 years, underage drinking continues at both a high prevalence rate and high...

Research on students' approaches to learning in higher education has consistently demonstrated a range of factors influencing students' approaches to learning. Very little literature exists on how...

In many companies HRM is still trapped in processing administration tasks and is not accepted as a strategic business partner. Therefore HRM is not always involved from the beginning in the corporate...

I want to feel I am making a difference at work. For me, developing and implementing a user-centred intranet became a challenge for influencing the organisational culture where I worked. Being in a...

The general aim of this book is to describe and analyse patterns of informal care and support for carers in Sweden. A typology of four different care categories based on what carers do revealed that...

In business life not only the existence of a well developed strategy and marketing plan is crucial to the success of an enterprise. A further important factor, which is often underestimated, is the...

Anxiety disorders belong to the most prevalent psychiatric disorders, justifying a high motivation for high-standard diagnostic and thera-peutic approaches. To date, check-up tools for psychological...

This was a Strategic Management research study of the Technological-Innovation differences involving Corporate Leaders and Information Technology Managers in high tech clusters in the cross-border...

This work is framed within the context of computer graphics starting out from the intersection of three fields: rendering, information theory, and complexity. Initially, the concept of scene...

Informed Consent as a Requirement for Post Mortem Organ DonationAuthor: Sara E. JosselynPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 11, 2008Number of Pages: 120 pagesBinding:...

The use of co-branded ingredients has become a popular means of improving customer response to brand extensions. Research in this area has however been limited to the host brand s perspective. The...

A new human in vitro anti-angiogenesis assay was established and applied to identify novel angiopreventive agents. Subsequently, two chemopreventive compounds, xanthohumol (XN) from Humulus lupu-lus...

Inhomogeneous Chirality in Scattering ProblemsAuthor: Moamer HasanovicPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Mar 20, 2008Number of Pages: 160 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Injection and Recombination in Organic Semiconductor DevicesAuthor: Christoph LungenschmiedPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 28, 2008Number of Pages: 108 pagesBinding:...

Inner-city Renewal in Addis Ababa, based on case studies, examines the impact of inner-city renewal and resettlement on the socio-economic and housing conditions of low-income residents. It analyzes...

Many university administrators throughout the country are apprehensive about the attrition rates on their campuses. These attrition rates range from 10% to 80%; furthermore, a high percentage of the...

Innovation in primetime network programming is claimed by network executives to be the future of the television business. It is asserted to keep a constant programming flow, expand the network's rank...

Innovation through Action Research in Environmental EducationAuthor: Julie DavisPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 02, 2008Number of Pages: 328 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

This book here proposed aims to research the possibility of improving the monitoring heart activity in order to obtain a more complete status of the heart. Finally it shows how cardiac physiological...