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The research explores the optimal levels of optimism, perceived locus of control, hope, and degree of adversity experienced in life with regard to the development and maintenance of psychological...

Not even Joseph Conrad might have thought that his novel, Nostromo, will be so topical at the beginning of the 21st century as it was more than a hundred years ago. It was first published in 1904,...

The technological development increases flexibility and mobility and allows new ways of organizing work, such as telework. But, it is unclear how these changes are related to stress, health, and...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neurological disease primarily diagnosed in young adulthood. However, a proportion of MS patients have onset during childhood and adolescence. Very little is...

In this theoretical exploration, Clinical Psychologist Benjamin Skolnik explores the sometimes complicated balance between working to facilitate change and respecting the rights of people to live...

American governments are developing performance measurement systems to make them more responsive and to increase the quality of services they provide. Concerns have emerged, however, that government-...

Anecdotal accounts and media stories about poor birth outcomes following a major disaster have as yet not been verified in an academic context, especially for the United States. If this relationship...

Public Participation, Deliberation, and FACA: Insights from US Land ManagementAuthor: Rebecca J. RomsdahlPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: May 27, 2008Number of Pages: 128...

The struggle to integrate American public schools has not been as successful as many had hoped in the fifty plus years since Brown v. Board of Education. Judicial trends away from desegregation...

Despite widespread implementation across the industrialised world, public sector outsourcing remains a contentious policy for the simple reason that many outsourcing contracts fail. Critics of...

Public Spaces and IstanbulAuthor: Efe GonencPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 10, 2008Number of Pages: 100 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639040899ISBN-13:...

Public street surveillance - a domain of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) - has grown enormously and become common place in our society as an all-purpose security tool. Previous authors have raised...

Public/private Partnerships in EducationAuthor: Timothy Sweet-HolpPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 25, 2008Number of Pages: 216 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

The International Cooperation for the Integration of Processes in Pre-press, Press and Postpress Organization (CIP4) provides a technical standard for reliable interoperability between different...

Pulsed ThermographyAuthor: Sergey LuginPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: May 16, 2008Number of Pages: 116 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 363902009XISBN-13:...

The need to ensure that people are technologically literate has become an issue of major significance with an ever increasingly technological world. In order to more clearly understand the various...

Purpose Driven LearningAuthor: Bruce CalwayPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 28, 2008Number of Pages: 288 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639034902ISBN-13:...

Data network services and voice network services are converging; the VoIP protocol enables voice communications over internet infra-structure. At the same time, wireless 802.11 network equipment has...

Quadratic Fields and CryptographyAuthor: Aleksandar PetrovPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Oct 31, 2008Number of Pages: 96 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Qualitative KabbalahAuthor: Richard OelbergerPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Feb 08, 2008Number of Pages: 144 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3836434903ISBN-13:...

Having passion for teaching is a true gift some teachers posses. They change the lives of their students with their enthusiasm, commitment and devotion. They turn students into scholars. They inspire...

Distance education has been growing considerably in higher education and with the growth of students taking online courses, there has been rising concern about the quality of online instruction...

Web-based information systems, such as search engines, news portals, electronic markets and community sites, provide access to information originating from numerous information providers. The quality...

Quality-of-Service and Security in Mobile Ad Hoc NetworksAuthor: Marek HejmoPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 02, 2008Number of Pages: 116 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

China as well as other low-cost countries have gained increasingly in significance as procurement markets for companies aiming to optimize their supplier basis as well as the cost performance within...

This work investigates the quantifier elimination problem in real closed fields with respect to the application in description logics. The motivation for the investigation in this topic is mainly...

Researchers have devoted decades towards improving garbage collec-tion performance. A key question is: What opportunity remains for performance improvement? Because the perceived performance...

The atomic force microscope (AFM) was originally utilised for its imaging capabilities. The full potential of the AFM as a three-dimensional force profiling instrument is only now being realised in...

Quantitative Risk- The Way ForwardAuthor: Jason Patrick SheddenPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Nov 12, 2007Number of Pages: 204 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Early pharmacokinetic optimisation is a key principle in drug discovery and development. Modeling absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion (ADME) using experimentally-derived data is...