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The topic of copyrights is a crucial component in understanding today's media landscape. The purpose of having a copyright system as outlined in the U.S. Constitution is to provide content creators...

While many countries in the developed world are struggling with the challenges that arrive with immigration, Canada appears to have developed a successful approach: an official multiculturalism...

This action research project explored the various roles of women in the sport of rowing within the organizational structure of Rowing Canada Aviron. The purpose of this study was to assess the...

Ultrasound covers a broad range of applications from underwater exploration and nondestructive evaluation of materials to medical diagnosis and treatment. The Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic...

This book examines the economic effects of capital account liberalization on economic growth. The first essay investigates the growth effects of financial opening, using cross-country regressions and...

One-dimensional structures, such as nanofibers, have the smallest dimension for efficient transport of electrons and optical excitations, and can be used in diverse applications such as...

A fully integrated field emission diode (FED) using carbon nanotubes as electron field emitter was constructed. The device was designed and fabricated on a glass substrate by screen-printing thick...

The synthesis and chemistry of several carbosilane dendrimers were investigated. These dendrimers were analysed using a variety of techniques. Both a convergent and a divergent methodology were used...

Despite medical intervention many patients with chronic illness remain functionally limited and psychologically distressed. As a result, many lose productive years of life and become frequent...

Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death for all Americans despite improvements in prevention, detection, and treat-ment. Cardiovascular disease is no longer thought of as a disease...

Providing care for the newborn might differ in many ways after a caesarean birth or a complicated birth from what we know of care of natural childbirth delivered babies. This book illuminates that...

...an exemplary work, wherby few cases were skillfully selected to demonstrate the challenges & needs of children with EBDs. It softens the heart to feel, awakens the mind to understand and respond...

Preparing skilled and knowledgeable workforce that fits the labor market requires continued collaboration between education and work. Examining educators' and employers' perceptions on technical and...

This book explores how the intersectionality of gender and chronological age impacted upon women managers' perceptions of career barriers within hotels. The research was carried out in a major...

A novel cascaded multilevel converter is discussed in this book. The book discusses an innovative approach to produce more voltage levels from fewer H- bridges in the cascaded multilevel converter...

This research focuses on upper limb motor dysfunction for stroke patients. This book describes the design, implementation and evaluation of a novel system to facilitate stroke diagnosis which relies...

The present paper considers the concept of cashback as a trend in online marketing. This topic was chosen for the analysis and research due to its relevance and the current tendency for the...

The Indian subcontinent is prone to multiple disasters. The consequences for the poor in general are known. However, little academic work exists to understand the specific ways multiple disasters...

People with catatonia suffer from rigid stupors and/or lashing about excitedly. When the DSM-III (APA, 1987) was published, catatonia was included only as a subtype of schizophrenia. However,...

This book explores the relationships between categories of perceptual learning style preference of engineering students from a polytechnic with their field of study, level of study, type of primary...

In this work, a novel formulation of the Cauchy method is presented, which can be applied in the extraction of circuit models from measured (lossy) response of microwave filters. The presented...

Almost every statistics instructor emphasizes to their classes that a strong association does not necessarily imply causation. How researchers could draw causal interpretations from the results of...

This book examines the impact of foreign worker status on workplace stress. Over the last few years, a considerable amount of public concern and empirical research has been devoted to the issue of...

This work discusses the challenges of intercultural communication at micro level. Challenges I encountered as an immigrant in Norway, and my career as an interpreter inspired me to focus on issues of...

Watercraft are and have always been used for transportation of goods and people. Although ships have changed much over time, there is always one danger they all encounter and that is the danger of...

A key issue in the development of chronic implantable devices is the study of appropriate material surfaces. The book addresses the interactions of materials with the central nervous system cells...

Processes of functional plasticity, i.e. long-lasting changes of the strength of synaptic connectivity in response to relative short-lasting afferent stimulation, are the most likely mechanisms...

Our brain houses the network of 10 billion neurons, and glutamate is the major neurotransmitter mediating rapid and excitatory synaptic transmission. Interestingly, glutamate receptor channels travel...

Many companies are embarking on strategies to share consumer sales data among the supply chain members. This is a move away from being 'customer centric' towards being 'consumer centric'. Various...

This book comes about at a precise time in human history when civilizations aggressively "collide" with one another, history is said to have "ended", secular enlightenment rationales are being...