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In this text, 3D reconstruction methods are evaluated based on their performance characteristics. Later on Conoscopic holography(CH) is presented to the reader, so as to explain its intricacies...

Viral haemorrhagic fevers have been among the most prominent diseases that have plagued humanity. Among the most notorious of haemorrhagic fevers are Ebola and Marburg, which are two highly...

Application of ICT in Managing Sales offers students as well as other software developers a good understand on how to design implement and report a software application. Initially, the work is done...

Thanks to the rapid developments in the high power short pulse laser technology, laser plasma interaction has become a vibrant and strongly evolving area of science with unprecedented expansion of...

Groundwater Modelling: Integrated approach with remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and more traditional fieldwork techniques was adopted to map the groundwater potential sites...

Coastal zones are known for their rich socio-cultural heritage, biological diversity, living resources, and environmental contamination. Application of remotely sensed data for coastal zone study has...

The book presents an overview of the solid-state kinetic literature in-cluding methodologies used, mathematical derivations and pharma-ceutical applications. The book investigates the relationship...

DNA Microarrays revolutionized the field of genomics, enabling biologists to study thousands of genes simultaneously. In this monograph we address two major problems in this area. First, how to...

A grid-connected wind-energy converter system including a matrix converter (MC) is proposed. Two dynamic models are addressed: MC dynamic model, and proposed wind turbine system overall model. The MC...

The study of geotechnical properties of landfill waste is relatively new area in geotechnics (soil mechanics in unsaturated state) and offers solutions for efficient and environment friendly design...

With significant growth of bio-molecular sequence data in the last decade the need for algorithms to extract patterns and meaningful information from such data has been felt strongly. Alignment of...

In this book I apply a game-theoretic model to analyze coexistence bet-ween organized crime and unaffiliated criminals in the context of union corruption. In case of two theft markets available to...

The purpose of this work is to introduce the CGE Model and apply it to measure the impacts of production activities to the economy. The expansion of hog production and processing on the economy of...

The purpose of training employees is to increase their knowledge and improve productivity. It is in the best interest of both employees and employers to make the training process as effective as...

Nation-states rarely go to war over water, but it is also rare that water conflicts in an international river basin are resolved through cooperation among the riparian countries that use the shared...

"Nanotechnology has brought radically changes in materials science research, creating a new era for functional materials. Treatment of the surface using nanotechnology facilitates the...

This situational case study examined the applicability of transformative learning theory and its attendant teaching and learning strategies of critical reflection and discourse to one program of...

There has been a global increase in incidence of tuberculosis (TB) over the last decade and rates of TB show wide disparities between migrants and host populations. New Zealand has followed this...

The increasing competition in banking sector is forcing GCC banks to improve efficiency and profitability in order to gain a competitive edge on rivals and enhance or even maintain their market share...

The Turkish language was deeply influenced by both Arabic and Persian during the centuries of existence of the Ottoman Empire, and was then called Osmanlıca, Ottoman Turkish, thus becoming a...

The design of circuit breakers is mainly based on experience rather than precise science. Empirical formulae can be used to determine dimensions of certain general types and the breaking capacity...

This Book is an attempt to outline the Archaeology, History and Environment of the Middle Benue Valley. The Valley is a contested landscape with a rich and varied history. The different chapters are...

The quest for greater computational power is never-ending. Recently, the architectural trend has shifted from improving single-threaded application performance to improving multi-threaded application...

The Architectural Performance Modelling Method is presented as a criteria for selecting the organisation of a parallel program based on estimating its probable performance. An Architectural...

The book is the first attempt to study privacy regulation in multi-cultural environments syntactically, visually and metrically that shed more light on privacy regulation. Moreover, it draws...

The subject of this book is twofold - a concept and its meaning, an architectural culture and its preoccupation. The architectural culture is that of Vienna during the last twenty-five years of the...

If we looked at Nature as a model for design, we could find that in its intelligence everything is connected. This connectivity is expressed on the smallest electron arrangement to largest...

Are Visegrad Countries Pollution Havens?Author: Michal MusilPublisher: VDM VerlagPublication Date: Jan 06, 2009Number of Pages: 72 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639111052ISBN-13:...

The book covers argumentation and conflict resolution from diverse theoretical perspectives: semantic, semiotic, rhetorical, dialectical, and human relations points of view in particular. Several...

What is wisdom? Can one become wiser? Can wisdom be systematically acquired? This is an attempt to answer those questions by formulating a concept of wisdom, and a method by which it can be acquired...