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The 1990s were in many ways the Balkan decade, as the break-up of Yugoslavia returned the Balkans to the center of Western consciousness. While journalism has been the most important channel of...

One Last Chance HighAuthor: Hireshemo ClarkPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Sep 17, 2008Number of Pages: 224 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639078314ISBN-13:...

Today, banking is an information-intensive business in which information technology (IT) is increasingly important. Online banking is a term used for performing transactions, payments etc. over the...

Online BrandingAuthor: Rebekka RaffPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Aug 29, 2008Number of Pages: 120 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639075803ISBN-13: 9783639075809

Online CommunicationAuthor: Martin ChristensenPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 14, 2008Number of Pages: 120 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3836472597ISBN-13:...

The Internet is increasingly being used in higher education in several countries in the last decade, resulting in online, blended, and web-enhanced course offerings for students. Instructors who...

The objective of this study is to determine how museums might incorporate the use of online publishing and communication technologies as a tool to initiate and foster connections with their audiences...

There are countless methods for how to proceed in a design process. Any sort of 'perspective' or 'point of view' can create the basis for a design. The question is the relevance of this foundation...

Environmental regulators are routinely challenged to devise innovative methods for reducing air pollution that limit the negative economic impacts to commerce and industry. Recent experiments with...

Open Plan OfficesAuthor: Cecilia BengtssonPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jun 23, 2008Number of Pages: 76 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639045610ISBN-13:...

The migration of the TELCO networks towards Next Generation Net-works (NGN) requires new solutions in OSS/BSS. The standardization bodies for New Generation Operational software and Systems (NGOSS)...

Theology is one of the hindrances to seeing ecojustice take place. Evaluation of the God/human/world relationship in Christian environmental ethics is necessary due to difficulties regarding...

Mobile computing devices like PDAs, cell phones or laptops have become an indispensable part of everyday's life. As these systems are battery-powered and the user expects long operating times,...

Police leadership development has evolved significantly over the past twenty-five years. The former "command-and-control" models of obsolete police leadership methods are simply no longer viable with...

Financial investors frequently confront factors such as financial regulations that prevent them from attaining a first-best solution to the optimal asset allocation problem. For example, they may be...

Most of the ways for Optical Flow estimation in computer vision depend on static algorithms or dynamic algorithms which need some kind of training. The subject of this work is to use a model of...

We investigate the optical properties of liquid crystal devices whose dark states are optically compensated to give minimum transmittance. Firstly, the effect of multiple internal reflections on the...

The deregulation of the energy industry has created marketplaces in which producers and consumers can operate in order to more effectively. This book develops a new model for electricity retail where...

Real-time optimisation of natural gas pipelines in transient conditions is a challenging problem. Many pipeline systems are, however, only mildly non- linear even in large transients such as...

The optimal shape is found for structures that can be characterised by an order of hierarchy or branching (examples of such structures include tower cranes and the Eiffel tower). The objective is to...

Optimization methods are increasingly used to design structures. Structural optimization with linear static analysis is pretty much mature in methodology and therefore several codes now have...

This work proposes a hybrid of stochastic programming (SP) approaches for an optimal midterm refinery planning that addresses three forms of uncertainties: prices of crude oil and products, demands,...

Optimize Structural Topology and Computer Experimental DesignAuthor: Longjun LiuPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Oct 30, 2008Number of Pages: 276 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

The volatility smile phenomenon appears to violate the Black-Scholes model and has puzzled numerous scholars. This book uses the relation between the option vega and its moneyness to rigorously...

Option Pricing by Means of Genetic ProgrammingAuthor: Andreas HeiglPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 03, 2008Number of Pages: 68 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Cheese consumption and the economic importance of cheese pro-duction have steadily increased in Europe and North-America over the last decades. This book evaluates means of selecting dairy cattle to...

This book is aimed at researchers and PhD students in mathematical finance. It studies the pricing and hedging of options in financial markets with proportional transaction costs on trading in...

A major challenge of the nascent Semantic Web is the multitude of data formats, languages, schemas and ontologies. "A General Framework for Evolution and Reactivity in the Semantic Web" was designed...

Oral assessment of student learning has a long history in tertiary education, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and features in examinations for entry into many professions. Despite its...

This book aims to present the power of the African American oral folk traditions. It shows how a simple folk song is able to embody past and present, family origins and cultural identity at the same...