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Tanaka Yasuo's Nantonaku, kurisutaru (Somehow, Crystal, 1980) and Yoshimoto Banana's Kitchin (Kitchen, 1987) have been denigrated as em-ble-matic of a so-called "bastardized line" of Japanese...

This research began in conversations I had with women, diagnosed with a mental illness, whilst employed as a social work practitioner at a women's health centre. The problematics of having been given...

In image retrieval scenarios, many methods use interest point detec-tion at an early stage to find regions in which descriptors are cal-culated. Finding salient locations in image data is crucial for...

This book explores into people's dependence on informal neighborhood transit in their key role that connects between people's residences inside the local street network and mainline transit on the...

Government agencies in Japan are often faced with public oppositions to their infrastructure building proposals. Can consensus building processes, as practiced in the US, be used to resolve such...

Location and Evaluation of Underground InfrastructureAuthor: Cristian SiposPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 29, 2008Number of Pages: 160 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Through a careful, Lacan-inspired reading of Hegel's Logic, this book discusses how the anti-war movement must avoid repeating the same fantasmatic structure as the war it deplores. "A brilliantly...

In recent years the strategy of concentrating on core competencies of companies led to a vertical disintegration of processes along the value chain. Practical experience shows that companies focusing...

Loneliness in the workplace has received relatively little attention in the literature. The research surrounding loneliness tends to focus almost exclusively on personal characteristics as the...

Financing options currently available for long-term care are insufficient and poorly understood by consumers. Heavy reliance on public programs such as Medicare and Medicaid has led to considerable...

2008 marks 40 years of Red Ladder Theatre Company. In 1968, a large number of agit prop theatre companies mushroomed in Britain. The Agit Prop Street Players who later renamed themselves as Red...

Quantum mechanics has radically changed our classical conception of information and communication. The elementary unit of information, the "bit", is replaced by the "qubit" which is a superposition...

My thesis attempts to show how English humour is translated into Hungarian by using various examples taken from British productions shown on television. The goal is to analyse different strategies...

Christianity s East-West split lasts to this day. Both halves of the Church drifted apart prior to the Great Schism of 1054. Poor communication, personality conflicts, few theologians conversant in...

Love is blind, according to Shakespeare. Everybody would agree with that. But do we fall in love because we are blind, or does love turn us blind when we are crazy about someone? Surprisingly little...

With the release of her debut solo album, 2004's Love. Angel. Music. Baby., No-Doubt front-woman Gwen Stefani turned to the street fashions of Tokyo's Harajuku district for her inspiration. The...

Low Back Disorders in Heavy Jobs and their ControlAuthor: Edgar Ramos VieiraPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 29, 2008Number of Pages: 252 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Low Intensity Conflict (LIC) is a significant feature of the contemporary world and it is a particular challenge to the armed forces of many states which are involved in such conflict, or are likely...

An important issue in the development of mobile embedded systems is the optimization of energy consumption. The increasing complexity of these systems leads to an increased power consumption...

Low Temperature Oxydation of HydrocarbonsAuthor: Chitralkumar NaikPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Sep 30, 2008Number of Pages: 168 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Low-energy Ion ScatteringAuthor: Sergey MarkinPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 24, 2008Number of Pages: 96 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639007247ISBN-13:...

An Analysis of the M&A Market in Mainland China was developed on the back of practical experience and the lack of available market data. The book provides an introduction into the Mergers &...

Since the year 2003, there has been a strong surge in the e-Business industry with many successful startups been formed in North America, Europe, China and India. At the same time, a stronger...

Presently some on-line vibration monitoring methods was used as an in-flight diagnostic and trend monitoring device. But very little work has been accomplished on the detection and quantification of...

Machine Learning for RoboticsAuthor: Jan PetersPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: May 20, 2008Number of Pages: 128 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 363902110XISBN-13:...

Fully automatic high quality Machine Translation (MT) is traditionally being considered as one of the most desirable dreams of the mankind, but only limited achievements have been obtained in the...

The number of industrial applications requiring interplay between machine vision and motion control increases tremendously. This book describes clearly, step by step and easy comprehensible how to...

Macroeconomic and Financial Analysis of Mega-EventsAuthor: Evangelia KasimatiPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 28, 2008Number of Pages: 240 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

In a world dominated by plastics, functional polymers are increasingly prominent materials due to their unique properties and applications. Phosphorus-containing polymers are found ubiquitously in...

Macronutrient Intake and SleepAuthor: Ahmad AfaghiPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Oct 09, 2008Number of Pages: 160 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...