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As a small child I did not really know what I would be in my adult-hood. I lived the everyday life of a child, but as far as I remember my keen admiration towards English language started as soon as...

Component-Based Software Engineering is considered one solution for the problem of growing complexity and size of modern software systems. Applications are not built in a monolithic fashion from...

Over the last decade, popularity of NGOs in Japan has grown rapidly and drastically after their heroic rescue mission in a site of the Great Awaji-Hanshin Earthquake in 1995 attracted wide media...

Noone questions today the increasing role of non-governmental organizations in international relations. The field of refugee protection requires a complex attitude from NGOs, as here they meet with...

The business cycle is a complex phenomenon which attracts both scientific and public interest. But what are the defining characteristics of the business cycle? Is the business cycle asymmetric or...

For the clinical diagnosis of myocardial perfusion images there is a need to register 3D datasets originating from different modalities. CT datasets provide good resolution of anatomic structures and...

Access to reliable and easily extractable fetal electrocardiogram recor-dings would help the physician better determine fetal heart conditions and diagnose fetal cardiac defects early in the...

This book describes the design and implementation of control strategies for the following topics: i) Whole-arm-grasping control for redundant robot manipulators, ii) Neural network grasping...

Nonlinear eigenvalue problems arise in many fields of natural and engineering sciences. Theoretical and practical results are scattered in the literature and in most cases they have been developed...

In the last decade, there has been a rapid growth in research on the wavelength-scale design of materials to control optical information. Photonic crystal microcavities allow the trapping of optical...

Access to health care and the undersupply of necessary medicaments are key constraints in poor countries. The advancement of health care in impoverished regions in the world is a major task in the...

Nora and BarbaraAuthor: Katalin S?v?iPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Sep 08, 2008Number of Pages: 60 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639080017ISBN-13:...

Academics and policymakers have turned their attention to innovation as a source of growth. Until recently, many studies adopted linear, R&D-based approaches to innovation, but these serve poorly...

British and American women lost ground in gaining personal, civil, and legal rights in the last half of the nineteenth-century. This was a particularly surprising turn of events considering that...

In this study, I observed and interviewed six novice secondary mathematics teachers who were attempting to implement the NCTM (1991) Professional Standards for Teaching Mathematics. I found that,...

Nuestra herenciaAuthor: Angela FelixPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Aug 26, 2008Number of Pages: 128 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639076699ISBN-13:...

The blast waves generated by the explosion of a bomb or the violent thrust of a missile launch would damage the personnel and facilities. Understanding the blast effects and behaviors is very...

Numerical Study on Some Rheological Problems of Fibre SuspensionsAuthor: Xijun FanPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 01, 2008Number of Pages: 188 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationships between nurse staffing ratios and patient outcomes. This investigation studied the relationships among nursing quality indicators of...

Nurses' Understanding of Domestic Violence IssuesAuthor: Kumiyo InouePublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jun 27, 2008Number of Pages: 288 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Oasis of AirAuthor: Joakim WrethedPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jun 05, 2008Number of Pages: 148 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639038800ISBN-13: 9783639038804

Object Detection and AnalysisAuthor: Donovan ParksPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: May 06, 2008Number of Pages: 172 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

The goal of object recognition is to label objects from images and to estimate the poses of the labeled objects. The field of object recognition has seen tremendous progress with successful...

Object Substitution MaskingAuthor: Jason ReissPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Sep 09, 2008Number of Pages: 136 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639071972ISBN-13:...

Creating land-cover and land-use maps for urban areas has always been challenging due to the complexity of an urban landscape. The greater availability of remotely sensed high-resolution imagery and...

As feminists have long argued, objectification as a form of oppression is often manifested in women's weight and appearance preoccupation, eating disorders, and body image disturbances. While these...

Recognition memory (RM) is one of the most studied areas in cognitive psychology and neuroscience; yet, there are many unresolved matters. This thesis tackles some of the main contentious issues. A...

In the mid/high latitudes during cold seasons, a substantial portion of precipitation falls in the form of snow. Falling snow has been one of the last great unkonwns for the hydrological water cycle...

Models that can represent the range of objects from sub-atomic particles to planets have a major obstacle preventing them from practical use. If they can act with such diversity they may also require...

Over the previous years, precipitation signal has been traditionally considered as clutter (unwanted echoes) by the radar community. Thus, most of the VHF signal-processing and analysis have avoided...