VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.

Savage to CivilizedAuthor: Alicia WalkerPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: May 28, 2008Number of Pages: 92 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639032519ISBN-13:...

We use farm household data from the Uganda household surveys for 1992/93, 1995/96, 1996/97 and 1999/2000 to examine peasant household saving behaviour in the face of shocks. We find that the size of...

In the last several decades, China has been experiencing dramatic economic development and institutional transition. One notable feature in this period is its very high saving rate. Although it is...

Scalable Video Screaming over the InternetAuthor: Taehyun KimPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Feb 21, 2008Number of Pages: 148 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Scaling Properties of Financial Time SeriesAuthor: David SchreierPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 02, 2008Number of Pages: 84 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Recently the number of applications in the Internet which use data broad-casts, such as pay-per-view services, has increased greatly. In broadcast scheduling one is interested in answering user...

A bank of parallel machines is an important setting in computer science. When dealing with parallel machines, the minimization of the maximal load (makespan) becomes an objective of significant...

The book focuses on Schema Matching, the task of (semi-)automatically identifying semantic correspondences between elements of metadata structures, such as, database schemas, ontologies, and XML...

The current standard query language SQL requires users to know how data is normalized and stored in a database schema to compose queries. One of the major challenges in generating these queries is...

Kubota examines Schiller's Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man, and revisits his concept of alienation, a key to understanding his controversial rhetoric. Kubota argues that his terminology -...

In an era of market reform and the corporatisation of schools, there is little academic literature that investigates the dynamics of governance and change at the individual school level as schools...

School Success Among Minority Youth- A Critical Review From a Counseling Psychology PerspectiveAuthor: Justin C. PerryPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Sep 05, 2007Number of...

This book began as an exploration of the scope and limits of a state-adopted suicide prevention manual. It expanded into the creation of useful and efficacious guidelines for school-based suicide...

People often seem to place science and religion as opposing forces in today's society. Consequently, many have compared the practicing of science to that of religion, however, few have explored the...

Nowadays, e-mail and Internet allows people to communicate anytime, anywhere to anyplace. E-mail and Internet is an alternative to face-to-face communication as it allow for an accurate and permanent...

Science and civilization are Siamese twins. Energy grids, transport infrastructure, the financial system, all the structures that allow civilization to exist are based on scientific research; nuclear...

We are living through a time of exponential change in which science makes significant contributions in areas such as health, nutrition, agriculture, industry, transportation, communications and...

Scolopendromorpha (Chilopoda) of TaiwanAuthor: Jui Lung ChaoPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 23, 2008Number of Pages: 100 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

The quinoline motif is an integral part of a wide variety of bioactive classes of compounds. An increasingly popular entry into tetrahydroquinolines is represented by the T-reaction, i.e. a subtype...

One of the key issues in making software development more efficient is facilitating reuse of existing software artifacts. In the context of large projects and a wealth of frameworks and components on...

The cost of equity is complex to estimate as investors require a premium for bearing risk. Finance experts have for years been dealing with a precise and practice-orientated model to estimate the...

In Indonesia, coastal villages traditionally strongly depend on fisheries. With increasing population density and fishing pressure, alternative sources of income become more important. One economic...

Secondary Numeracy ProjectAuthor: Fathimath ThereeshaPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 16, 2008Number of Pages: 116 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

The need for the study arose out of the lack of scientific validated data regarding the treatment of Secondary Traumatic Stress Disorder (STSD)/compassion fatigue among emergency rescue workers as...

Sentences with secondary predicates pose major problems for syntactic theories. Apart from the highly controversial Small Clause Theory, there have been complex-transitive, complex-predicate and...

The research on security issues is getting more important, as the number of embedded and networked computing systems is increasing constantly. Due to strict restrictions and requirements, only...

With the advent of an increasing number of multicast services such as audio/video streaming and news broadcast, accounting for the resources consumed by subscribers becomes essential. However,...

Secure NetworkingAuthor: Alper T. MizrakPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Aug 25, 2008Number of Pages: 132 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639072839ISBN-13:...

Securing Peer-to-Peer Video Conferences - From concepts to implementationsAuthor: Fuwen LiuPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Dec 10, 2007Number of Pages: 168 pagesBinding:...

Modern industrial facilities, such as oil refineries, chemical factories, electric power generation plants, etc. are large, complex, distributed systems. These systems are monitored and controlled by...