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In this study a framework for an online database-driven repository of information - QuantNet - is presented. QuantNet is aimed at easing the process of web publishing for those who are unfamiliar...

Quantum computing is an exciting new area between computer science and quantum physics. The computation is based on quantum mechanics. Quantum computing has the potential to demonstrate that for some...

The weak interactions inherent in dilute Bose Einstein Condensates make it an ideal testing ground for basic many body quantum theories; to an extent that is not possible in traditional condensed...

Quantum Superalgebras at Roots of Unity & Topological Invariants of 3-manifoldsAuthor: Sacha BlumenPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jun 25, 2008Number of Pages: 264...

The electronic structure and the quantum transport properties of graphene, carbon nanotubes and graphene nanoribbons are studied using analytical and numerical tools, taking special care in...

This work pertains to the spin and charge transports in low dimensional electronic systems. The general concept of low dimensional physics is briefly introduced. We studied the spin transport of a...

Quasiconformal HomogeneitisAuthor: Jianhua GongPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 23, 2008Number of Pages: 132 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 363900650XISBN-13:...

Within the educational setting, certain people--both teachers and students-- are marginalized because they are seen as different through their sexual orientation. The negative experiences endured by...

Do public participation processes such as stakeholder roundtables facilitate the capacity to develop and implement sound environmental policy? This work is an in depth, case study that provides some...

The population in Kerala, India is frequently displayed as more literate, more educated, healthier and less poverty struck than those of other Indian states. Women's high development scores are...

Almost half a century of diversification research supports the suggestion that related resources lead to a superior performance of multibusiness firms. Nonetheless no direct measurement concept on a...

Black women have the greatest mortality from breast cancer despite greater incidence of the disease among White women. Additionally, they are more likely to be diagnosed at late stages, although...

There is a paucity of information to help guide mental health practitioners explore the ways that racism influences a client's well being (Harrell, 2000). The stress caused by racism has been...

Punitive measures taken by the United States criminal justice and juvenile justice systems have expanded over the past thirty years. With punitive poli-cies and practices in place, many Americans...

In the U.S., minority students lag behind their White and Asian counterparts academically at all levels of the educational structure. Research has shown that the perceptions and attitudes teachers...

This study investigates the existence of an ethnic separation in different settings of leisure activities. The author examines the relationship between race, gender, socioeconomic status, and...

Counseling programs have recognized the importance of preparing counselors to become multiculturally competent within recent decades. Research on racist attitudes has found that more overt forms of...

This is the 21st century. Mankind has gone through lots of critical and dangerous times. A lot of our wars have been fought just because of the distribution of power. The atrocious and despicable...

Radical ecology has emerged as a potential point for linkage, or nodal point, of a wide plurality of anti-systemic struggles. Many have long expected that the "nature-society" question will provide...

Analyses of radionuclide transport in geologic radioactive waste repository are made for a water-saturated repository and an unsaturated repository. To deal with the transport problem at the...

Radiotherapy and the Human BrainAuthor: Ciprian D. IgnaPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 17, 2008Number of Pages: 144 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

More than fifty years have past since the Shoah, but the relationship between Jewish and non-Jewish Germans is still strained. Why do Jewish-Germans choose to live in post-Shoah Germany? How does...

The aim of the presented doctoral thesis is the development of components for an operational flood forecasting system. Two methods to determine the rainfall-runoff relationship were applied in a case...

Rapid, Low Cost Modeling and SimulationAuthor: David BrownPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Sep 25, 2008Number of Pages: 288 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

This work addresses two problems of distributed software development projects: Inconsistencies between related artifacts such as documents and models and inefficient collaboration of distributed...

Over the last few decades, the notion of rationality has come to dominate the social sciences. This book stresses that the all too narrow economic conception of rationality should be complemented by...

Wang Shuo established a new discursive space written from the perspective of the liumang or "player" within the burgeoning pop culture of the late 1980s. Wang Shuo"s roles as a cultural mirror and a...

The role of commercial qualitative research is to help guide client decision making. Its purpose - and the way in which it is evaluated - is primarily determined by its perceived usefulness. Until...

The purpose of this monograph is to attempt to reconcile the growing adult population in our universities, colleges, and community colleges with a pedagogy that has largely been focused upon...

The question of regulatory quality draws increasing attention in literature and practice. One instrument to monitor high regulatory quality is impact assessment. This book traces the major...