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A great deal of literature recognizes that metaphors exploit similarities. However, there is little empirical research on how people from different cul-tu-ral backgrounds perceive similarity in...

Multidimensional data sets pose a number of problems for graphs, and their visualizations (in the form of charts, tables, graphs, or more exotic forms like Chernoff faces) generally end up complex,...

Metaphors We Serve ByAuthor: Joby Blaine TaylorPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 28, 2008Number of Pages: 228 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639034465ISBN-13:...

Seafood consumption has drawn the attention of researchers from a variety of disciplines. One of the concerns is whether fish consumption is healthy or risky. While fish is considered a component of...

Comparative studies of bacterial genomes generate massive amounts of information. In order to support a systematic and efficient approach to genomic analyses, a database driven system with...

The urban transformation and the increasing inter-urban competition pose new challenges for city-regions. Cities have extended far into their hinterlands and the social and economic relations within...

Over the last decade, the impact of globalization on financial markets, specifically banking, has led to an increased need to understand financial systems throughout the world. This book, therefore,...

The increase in Mexican migration to the United States in recent years constitutes one of the most divisive issues in the US-Mexican relationship. The phenomenon is especially interesting and...

Mexican Migration to the USAuthor: Alfredo CuecuechaPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Sep 01, 2008Number of Pages: 96 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Mexico's Implementation of the CBD and the Cartagena Protocol in the GMO EraAuthor: Juan IzaguirrePublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 28, 2008Number of Pages: 252...

Despite mounting popular global resistance to neoliberalism in recent years, it has been given a breath of new life by its renewal in a 'neo-Washington consensus'. This book uses Mexico's experience...

Micro/Nano-Architecture of PolymersAuthor: Jolanta WatsonPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jun 04, 2008Number of Pages: 148 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Security and reliability in microprocessor based systems are concerns requiring adroit solutions. Countermeasures by software-only approa-ches increase code size and therefore significantly reduce...

Microarray Gene Expression Data Integration and Cancer SignaturesAuthor: Lei XuPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Sep 25, 2008Number of Pages: 120 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Microbial CaCo3 PrecipitationAuthor: Victoria WhiffinPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jun 05, 2008Number of Pages: 168 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Microcantilever sensor systems have recently attracted much attention as a promising and highly sensitive approach to "label-free" detection of biomolecules. These techniques have the potential to be...

Corporate business has turned its attention to the businesses of corporate social responsibility. Moreover, corporate entities have changed their traditional view on philanthropic engagements.Since...

Microlending in Western EuropeAuthor: Ulrike LorenzPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Sep 02, 2008Number of Pages: 116 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

This book discusses the work aimed to develop plastic millimeter-wave components, including waveguides, tunable filters, phase shifters and antennas, toward the low-cost, batch fabrication for...

Increasing evidence has shown that living cells respond to mechanical stimuli not only mechanically but also biochemically. But how they respond to mechanical stimuli and the mechanisms through which...

This book examines the conditions that lead to micropolitics in international schools, investigating the effects and manifestations of power, and analysing the factors that create conflict. It looks...

In almost any eucaryotic cell microtubules are essential for a great variety of processes, including the separation of sister chromatids during cell division, the spatial organization of organelles...

The microwave imaging is generally perceived as the reconstruction of permittivity distribution function of the medium-under-test from the measurement of the scattered electromagnetic fields...

Middle School Teachers?Influence on their Students` Mathematics AttitudesAuthor: Betsy ShowalterPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Oct 02, 2008Number of Pages: 172 pagesBinding:...

Dante's allegorical "dark wood" has familiar symbolism to those of us who walk its path through our midlife and older years, especially in religious life. We are still in our prime, but we have...

Migration and Gender IdentityAuthor: Christina HoPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: May 28, 2008Number of Pages: 280 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Macau, the small territory on the South China coast administered by the Portugal until 1999, saw major refugee waves, immigration, emigration and through-migration throughout the 20th century. The...

The study of liquid drop migration on fibers is significant to many industrial applications (automotive, chemical, textile) and in particular to coalescence filtration of liquid aerosols. Liquid drop...

Millennial Generation and Computer EducationAuthor: Li-Jen ShannonPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 02, 2008Number of Pages: 84 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

This book presents the method that estimates MIMO channel charac-teristics analytically using the 3-D ray tracing propagation model. Discrete spatial correlations are calculated between sub-channels...