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Despite significant efforts to improve safety, occupational accidents continue to occur at an unacceptable rate. Most research attempts to convince stakeholders that the problem can be solved by...

Occupational AspirationsAuthor: Kevin ReedPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jun 18, 2008Number of Pages: 176 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639042328ISBN-13:...

Satisfactory performance in personally valued roles is known to be important to a sense of purpose and well-being in everyday life, yet there is little understanding of how the concept of role might...

OD and Change Management ConsultantsAuthor: Miles DavisPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Sep 17, 2008Number of Pages: 196 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

This book advances a set of explicit functional relationships that link energy and the economy. Despite the reliance on energy permeating the whole economy, no such complete relationships had been...

Dynamic Traffic Assignment (DTA) models estimate and predict the evolution of congestion through detailed models and algorithms that capture travel demand, network supply and their complex...

In the past century the growing population of mankind parallel with the rapid industrialization led to several environmental problems. The damages have far exceeded the national and regional borders...

The Alberta Government posted record budget surpluses in 2005 and 2006. Revenues were attained primarily through record non-renewable resource revenues. Oil sands development as the major economic...

This book explores the processes and outcomes of two US social justice campaigns against the violence associated with extractive industries in Sierra Leone, Angola and Sudan: The Campaign to...

In recent years information has steadily increased in importance for modern day companies and data-warehousing has been described by many as the highest priority post-millennium IT project. As...

Demographics point to a rapid increase in the number of older adults in many countries. This situation has been debated primarily from the perspective of an unrealistically optimistic or unduly...

The book focuses on older adult users of computer. The group is noteworthy in today's society due to its growing numbers and burgeoning economic strength. Literature paints the senior citizens as...

Adventure education in the U.S. has long been understood from within the context of young adults in adventure education programs. Adventure education programs have historically treated young people...

On Becoming Chicana in the MidwestAuthor: Adrienne ViramontesPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Nov 05, 2008Number of Pages: 160 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

As issues related to climate change and the environmental impact of human behavior promolgate a pervasive sense of urgency to action at both the individual and global level, a fundamental question...

According to the International Population Reports (U.S. Census Bureau, 2001), our global population, including the United States and other nations, is growing old and aging at an extraordinary rate...

On Perturbative Dynamics in Gauge Field TheoriesAuthor: Sirous HomayouniPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: May 15, 2008Number of Pages: 104 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

The RCD codes are a class of regular low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes constructed on square arrays with the rows, columns, and diagonals of the array defining the parity-check equations. These...

On Terra FirmaAuthor: Adam KossoffPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Aug 04, 2008Number of Pages: 136 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639051998ISBN-13: 9783639051995

There was no place for street trade and open-air markets in the opti-mistic picture of democracy and socio-economic development of many CIS countries. Once considered a short-lived phenomenon,...

On the Common-Link TheoryAuthor: Fahad AlhomoudiPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jun 23, 2008Number of Pages: 160 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 363904522XISBN-13:...

The importance of scalability and fault-tolerance in modern distributed systems has led to considerable research in multi-cast gossip protocols. In a gossip protocol, each node forwards messages to a...

The thesis on which this book is based upon has been honored with the 2007 Doctorate Extraordinary Award of the Faculty of Mathe-matics of the University of Barcelona.Author: Sergi Simon I...

The question of the self has been a relevant one since early Plato and Aristotle. However, there is no universally accepted definition of the self. Identity as a concept lies at the basis of...

In light of future sea-level change investigations of the polar ice sheets have become a major concern in climate sciences. Despite all research efforts it is not accurately known today whether the...

In today s hectic world, managing the integration of life domains is a challenge most people face. We all often complain there is too much to do and we might feel that our life is "out of balance"...

On Vessiot? Theory of Partial Differential EquationsAuthor: Dirk FesserPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Sep 25, 2008Number of Pages: 156 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Spatial sound has long been a topic of interest in electro-acoustic music. With continual technical advancements of methods to achieve spatialisation of sound, an increase in the realisation of...

Traffic estimation and prediction (or dynamic traffic assignment) models are expected to contribute to the reduction of travel time delays. In this book, an on-line calibration approach that jointly...

Once Preferred, Now Peripheral: Poetry and PedagogyAuthor: Helen Josephine O'NeilPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: May 09, 2008Number of Pages: 216 pagesBinding: Paperback or...