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Thomas F. Torance argues that St. Paul teaches that God has truly dealt with sin and guilt, and thus brought forth the new creation, by Christ coming in the likeness of sinful flesh to condemn sin in...

This book examines scientific and philosophical foundations of the Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum physics and judges it unfit for use in worldview formulation, Christian theology, or...

Each person, whether religious or not, has a worldview. This fact leads to inevitable differences and to the issue of worldview analysis. For Christians, it is vital to realize that apologetics must...

The study shows how Clement connects his disitnctive christology to the images of the New Song, the didaskalos, and High Priest. Clement's conception of God's logos embedded in these images permeates...

This is the first comprehensive study of magic realism in cinema. Cinemagic realism deserves close examination because of its extensive presence and its power to combine aesthetic sophistication with...

Circular dichroism (CD) is the differential absorption of left- and right-handed circularly polarized light. This phenomenon is exhibited in the absorption bands of optically active molecules and...

English was a completely new foreign language to most Chinese people at the beginning of nineteenth century. My research on the social acceptance of English reveals that English was a cultural...

This study examines the impact of the legalization of an indigenous model of municipal government known as usos y costumbres on the political system of Oaxaca, a predominantly rural state in southern...

Class, Ideology, and HegemonyAuthor: Ramin FarahmandpurPublisher: VDM VerlagPublication Date: Dec 18, 2008Number of Pages: 160 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 363911227XISBN-13:...

Cleaner production is considered the ideal solution to environmental problems as it reduces pollutants and at the same time improves product quality, reduce raw materials and energy inputs. While the...

The flow initiation pressure (FIP) is used as an estimate of the differential pressure (between the reservoir and the well) required to initiate production of oil or gas. The standard practice to...

Amazonia is a center of biodiversity and explanations of its evolutionary history have hinged on climate change. Recently, attention has shifted to the role of future climate change on that...

Saudi Arabia as the rest of the world is facing a warmer climate, and it is in the interest of all to know how energy, water and natural resources will be affected by those changes. There are several...

The International Community is largely ignoring the problem of climate induced migration. The most affected regions of Climate Change are the least developed countries with no access to technical and...

Camels as productive animals are considered one of the primary fundamental constituents of animal population. Healthiness of this part of animal populations required healthy respiratory, urinary,...

This study was designed to compare the pharmacokinetic parameters of Metronidazole in healthy volunteers and in human patients suffering from amebiasis (by confirming after Stool test). It was...

This is the first transcultural mental health project focusing on sport. The book highlights the psychological problems and mental crisis of athletes beyond the competition from "Western" and Eastern...

Closed-end funds do certainly own a very unique characteristic in the world of finance. They are always negotiate in a different price than their net asset value. Most of the times in a discount...

This book gives an overview of Cloud Computing and Virtualization. It discusses the issues in Computational Resource Allocation and does an extensive experiments to evaluate the performance of web...

Clustering algorithms partition a collection of objects into a certain number of clusters (groups, subsets, or categories). Object clustering algorithms generally partition a data set based on a...

Coal has been and will remain a major source of electricity generation for the world. Unfortunately, the demerit associated with coal-fired energy generation systems is the pollutant gaseous...

Under what circumstances will cooperation emerge, in a world of self-interested individuals and without central authority? This question has intrigued people for generations, with regards to aspects...

In this work, an advanced active vibration control system acting on a railway vehicle multibody dynamic model is applied to show the possible reduction of rail car body vibration amplitudes to...

Joint estimation of code timing and carrier frequency offset for (DS) direct sequence CDMA systems is investigated. The goal is to provide an algebraic solution to the joint estimation problem, in a...

Today's Internet is accessible to diverse end devices through a wide variety of network types. To react to this diversity of usage contexts new media codecs include adaptation support in the codec...

The use of coercion by the international aid community and resistance from developing country governments is an issue of key importance to democracy and international aid. Dr Gilfillan examines...

In parallel to the developments in computer technology and the broad use of computers in the design domain, computer media presentations are widely used today in architecture. Architectural...

There is growing concern worldwide regarding the rising prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents whereby many of the adverse health effects associated with adult obesity are...

The difference between conscious and unconscious processes is a hard issue. Usually in the literature it is argued that without a mask, participants are conscious of the stimulus, but with a mask...

This book is intended especially for students and researchers working with generation, interpretation and applications of THz transition radiation. It concentrates in much detail on theoretical and...