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Much of the current debates in the social service delivery have focused on the blurring boundaries between three sectors: the nonprofit, business and public sector. Surprisingly no empirical research...

This book explores collaboration between composers and performers in the context of the clarinet concerto genre. Focus is placed on British works written between 1990-2004, in particular the outcomes...

As many business and educational organizations begin to consider using 3D virtual environments as learning platforms, it is important to ask the question, do such environments engender collaboration...

The 1990s saw the United States government begin initiatives to align local government domestic violence policies with federal policy priorities through grants-in-aid to local programs. This analysis...

Embryo transfer technology is based on the superovulation of high-quality donor animal and the subsequent recovery of embryos by flushing the uterus a week after breeding. In cattle, this technology...

Collective Dominance in EC Competition LawAuthor: Farid BektashiPublisher: VDM VerlagPublication Date: Dec 10, 2008Number of Pages: 68 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 363911020XISBN-13:...

This study was to determine how college students assess their college technology programs and how they perceive the adequacy of the technology skills they had acquired in meeting workplace needs. A...

The history of the role of CAEs in Australian accounting education is written against a backdrop of several decades of turmoil in higher education in Australia. Accounting struggled to be recognized...

A systematic study of spacetimes containing two timelike colliding branes is made in the framework of 10-dimensional string theory. After developing the general formulas to describe such events we...

This book is an exploration of Western Australia's colonial history: one that examines and critiques two major historiographical approaches to the writing of such history, and makes the case for a...

While color is the focus of many books, studies and inquiries, only few attempt to understand how to leverage color as a strategic lever. This research examined the role color plays in product or...

Does skin colour determine the friends a preschooler can make? How does it feel to be 'different' amongst peers in a preschool setting? Addressing these key questions, "Colours of Friendship"...

CHRONIC MECHANICAL LOW BACK PAIN HAS MAINTAINED A DEFIANT STANCE TO MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES. EFFORTS HAVE BEEN MADE TOWARDS MANAGING IT SUCCESSFULLY AND EXERCISE APPEARS TO BE CORE IN THE PHYSIOTHERAPY...

The book investigated the applications of combinatorics and graph theory in the analysis of the Feynman Identity of the partition function of the two dimensional Ising Model. Chapter one gives a...

With increasing security threats, biometrics is gaining increasing attention. However a biometric recognition system good for one case study may not be accurate for the other one. One solution to the...

Sportswear base layer provides an important function for physiological comfort. This book presents the investigation of base layer winter active sportswear fabrics with good comfort properties, made...

Open the door to most college classrooms, and you'll find experts in their fields--physics, mathematics, psychology--readying students for the 21st century. What you will rarely see, however, are...

This book discusses the issues surrounding the responsibility of commanders and other superiors under article 28(a) of the Rome Statute, but focuses on the superior responsibility of a person...

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) exists since the early 1960s. In the beginning the CAP had the aim to increase production and to maintain food supply. Over the years it emerged to an important...

As wireless networks become a predominant telecommunication technology, the need for greater communication protocol performance arises. Performance evaluation of communication software must be...

The concept of disaster management has received considerable research attention in natural and human disaster context, but the role of communication strategies in managing political violence has not...

This work involves the Filipino American communities of San Diego and Imperial Valley as case studies to examine salient cohesiveness. Within these two spaces, I consider how home bound linguistic,...

This book examines the role of consumption in mediating social relations and processes of identification. It presents a critique of theories that suggest symbolic consumption has become the critical...

This research paper has been published in order to analyze the linkages between biodiversity conservation and rural livelihoods improvement in the buffer zone of protected area. Biodiversity...

Along with the distress associated with HIV and AIDS for the individual, there is also psychosocial implications for other family members, significant others, households and communities. Community...

Already as a child most people became aware of the big continent Africa and its image of hosting a real unknown world, far away from the civilization. It promises adventure! Africa weaves its magic...

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) has created programs with the intention of fostering economic opportunities for the region. There are numerous instances where its programs have not...

HIV/AIDS which has been a pandemic in the last two and half decades has claimed many lives. It has left many widows, widowers and orphaned children. These are further complicated by the fact that...

In education, as in other institutional systems, decisions about school facilities tend to be made by a few people who are not the direct building users, often ignoring the direct involvement of...

Community Radio broadcasting is nonprofit service that is owned and managed by a particular community, usually through a trust, foundation or association. Its aim is to serve and benefit that...