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In the twenty first century, imagery of 'Nirvana' (empty perfect waves breaking in remote exotic locations) fuels a multi-billion dollar global surf industry and drives surfing tourism to every...

"CONSUMING//TERROR: Images of the Baader-Meinhof" an "urban guerilla cell" active in West Germany in the 1970s-80s, traces the visual history of the Red Army Faction (RAF) and its relations both to...

This book takes the reader on a journey of scientific discovery through Psychology. This elegantly written Contemporary Issues in Psychology is brimming with interesting issues that are inclusive...

The quality of advertisements and its social acceptance are two sides of the same coin. Various problems arise due to this. The dispute is not about having or not having advertisements but about...

Many second language learners encounter challenges involved with acquiring the level of proficiency required to use the language as the medium of learning. The case studies in this volume explore the...

Images are being generated at an ever-increasing rate by various sources. They include military purposes, aviation satellites, biomedical purposes, scientific experiments and home entertainment. The...

Ethical problems continually confront managers in the workplace, but how do they know what the "right" thing to do is? A manager's world is more complicated than choosing between "doing well" and...

For reasons having to do with the Soviet resource allocation model, many Russian forest sector enterprises were miserably unfit to meet the market competition that started to emerge after the...

A topological space can be thought of as a set form which has been swept away all structure irrelevant to the continuity. So, concepts of semi-continuity, weaker-continuity and pre-continuity are...

In the public construction market, the award price levels of many projects are abnormally low and such a situation has long been to blame for poor project quality. Previous studies have regarded the...

This book proposes a linguistically motivated approach to terminological processing.Specifically, it investigates how syntactic functions can be utilized for enhanced term extraction. The rationale...

In this book, we present a pilot control algorithm, which converts two joysticks' commands into two torque directives for movement. This technique allows the user to operate the ABTWC linearly for...

Control Loop Performance in an Industrial SettingAuthor: Ghassan Al SoraihiPublisher: VDM VerlagPublication Date: Dec 08, 2008Number of Pages: 100 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Development times, costs and flexibility are very important factors of every technical project. Applications which must be implemented become increasingly complex. Automatic code generation is a...

Liposomes, vesicles with one or more lipid bilayers entrapping an inner aqueous core, are widely used as drug delivery systems. When liposomes are smaller than 100 nanometers (nano liposomes) they...

Over the last few years, illegal logging and the associated trade in illegally harvested timber has emerged as one of the greatest threats to forests around the world. Various initiatives have been...

Sharing stories or personal experiences in everyday conversation may constitute the basis for all storytelling activities including telling folk tales, legends, fictive stories, or even writing...

Photovoltaic cells under concentrated illumination experience a high heat load which must be dissipated efficiently in order to maintain a low cell temperature. Tower and dish solar concentrators...

Cooperative learning as a teaching strategy for the economics classroom: A learner centred approach offers a sound theoretical framework and practical ways how to implement the different cooperative...

This thesis is a quantitative review of research on cooperative learning in secondary mathematics. It uses meta analytic procedures for quantitatively synthesising the findings from empirical studies...

Multiple antenna solutions for wireless communications are widely acknowledged as an effective technology (in conjunction with channel coding) to increase the link throughput as they are known to...

Depression in older adults has been widely studied in the institutionalized population but less is known about independent community dwelling older adults and depression. This work was designed to...

Despite the increasing concern over Asian delinquency in Canada, there is a paucity of research in this area. This book reports a qualitative study on the experiences of Asian youth in the criminal...

The phenomenon of sudden job loss (SJL) has existed in the Cayman Islands and globally for decades. This work seeks to understand the emotions that are experienced, and how individuals cope with this...

Traditional correlation-based approach under normality to dependence modeling is no longer adequate, as dependence of extreme events must be modeled and the scale-invariant measures of dependence...

Global climate change is leading to the rise of ocean temperatures and is triggering mass coral bleaching events on reefs around the world. The expulsion of the symbiotic dinoflagellate algae from...

Cornish CASCs is a workbook providing 29 pairs of mock consultations, similar to those used in the Clinical Assessment of Skills and Competencies (CASC) MRCPsych exit exam of the Royal College of...

Internal combustion engines are widely spread in our civilization. They are used in various areas spanning from energy production to transportation. At the moment most of them are ignited by spark...

Distributions of dividend and interest, issue of rights and bonus shares, issue of fresh securities, share splits, consolidations, hive-off, warrants, mergers, de-mergers, acquisitions etc. made by...

Performance measurement and incentive compensation are considered two primary and interrelated business control systems. A performance measurement system provides information that is essential for...