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The interconnected world has influenced notions of a global learning society in a global village, and many international schools around the world have embraced the concept of international-mindedness...

Internationalisation and Cross-cultural Training - Between Requirements and Reality - The Examples of Singapore and SwitzerlandAuthor: Christian V. KirschnerPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K...

This book examines the tensions inherent in Australian children's television drama production and Australian cultural policy in a multi-channel international television marketplace. Australian...

Since the e-commerce are booming on sales and information is becoming a critical resource to firms. How the market information and pricing strategies impact the performance of e-retailers?...

During the last years research has shown that Internet-based psychotherapeutic interventions are effective in a number of areas. Based on a cognitive-behavioral treatment protocol for posttraumatic...

Synnove Hofseth Almas is an associate professor at Biomedical Laboratory Science, Aalesund University College, Norway. She holds a PhD in interprofessional education in health care. Her interests and...

Within maternity care midwives and consultant obstetricians are frequently required to collaborate together in an attempt to provide optimal care for women and their babies. In this way they are...

International migration is affected by the increasing interdependence among countries caused by economic liberalization, income disparity among nations, accessible means of transportation, and...

Interrelationships of Job-housing Relocations and Commuting PatternsAuthor: Chansung KimPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: May 09, 2008Number of Pages: 144 pagesBinding:...

Is it a Girl or is it a Boy? This is usually one of the first questions the parents of the newborn baby ask, and in most cases this question can be answered rather quickly. However, in some cases the...

T cell signal transduction is not a linear pathway, but involves multiple components acting as a network. Though CD8 T cells are capable of being stimulated with a brief stimulus, recent studies have...

During the past few years, fast changes in the economic environment and massive technological developments in the field of information technology have constituted challenges for many companies. The...

This book describes empirical research undertaken into intuitive inter-action. This research is significant because it impacts on everyday use of everyday devices by everyday people, and has the...

Descriptions of data in the Semantic Web easily grow larger and more complex than the descriptions of traditional web pages and are thus more difficult to handle. The problem of how to structure...

Many of today's languages used in software engineering have bad built-in support for software composition. It is important for software engineering to provide languages and tools to define, reuse and...

As a one-time working cowboy in the American Southwest, the author was intrigued to find cowboy sports in his adopted state of Virginia. Blending scholarship and horsemanship, he competed in dozens...

This book clarifies a number of methodological issues in Life Cycle Inventory modelling, as part of LCA. Some of these issues have been on the agenda for a long time, without coming to generally...

Zaleznik (1977) addressing "Development of leadership" in Managers and leaders: Are they different? states that, "The development of every person begins in the family..." Also, beyond early...

In this volume, Ben Medlock investigates the application of machine learning classification techniques to four key natural language pro-cessing tasks: topic classification, spam filtering,...

The first objective of this book is to map the differences between an electronic and a traditional shopping environment and to indicate how these typical online environment characteristics affect...

Investigating Landscape Change and Ecological RestorationAuthor: Lisa LevesquePublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jun 19, 2008Number of Pages: 136 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Investigating TCP Performance in Mobile Ad Hoc NetworksAuthor: Stylianos PapanastasiouPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: May 28, 2008Number of Pages: 208 pagesBinding: Paperback...

Correlating Time-of-Flight (TOF) camera systems provide a novel approach to indirect range measurement. These systems pack the accuracy of common one-point TOF range measurements inside each pixel of...

New media technologies are enabling users to develop a new generation of applications which move in the centre of gravitation between Theatre, Cinema, Literature, Games, and the Arts. These new type...

Culture has a duality of meaning in every day use. It is either the value system that shapes the aspirations, identity and attitudes of individuals and groups; or the way of life for a particular...

Real investment takes a prominent position in determination of natio-nal income in modern industrial economies. Unfortunately investment behaviour of firms remains an area still poorly understood by...

Are you ready to "go China"? With the pressure of going global growing, the question of "going China" has gained even more relevance. Yet, despite China's booming economy, success there represents a...

Financial markets frequently deviate from postulated efficiency, which is largely caused by the "irrationalities" of investors. This book contributes to the understanding of how investment strategies...

The research was of a qualitative nature with some quantitative analysis, questionnaires were used to conduct the analysis. This study also shows linking of various quality initiatives such as...

A number of recent movements in cognitive science have been inspired by Merleau-Ponty's philosophy of perception, and his work is often used to provide philosophical support for post-cognitivist...