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This project is an analysis of how Chinese counterfeiting and cloning affects high tech products. It provides a thick description of the concepts and context of Intellectual Property (IP)...

Ixtl?n and Guelatao, indigenous Zapotec communities in the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca, Mexico, have achieved an important degree of community-based autonomy relying on dialogue at the internal and...

The story of the Medici in Renaissance Florence has always polarized opinion, both in popular culture and within academic circles. The family have been seen as either ruthless political manipulators...

Large networks of interconnected, independently actuated systems can be found these days in a broad spectrum of applications ranging from robotics and formation flight to civil engineering. The...

Most local decision-makers do not have the experience to apply to many proposals and rely on existing anecdotal data and "expert" testimony. A lack of evaluation criteria adds to the difficulties of...

Assessment of potential petroleum exploration and development (E&D) and/or reserve acquisition projects is a crucial initial step for petroleum companies to ensure the success of their investments...

Decision Science (also called Management Science or Operation Research) is an approach to decision making which utilizes extensively quantitative analysis. Students training to become managers, who...

Deconstructing Ageism Through Educational Curriculum examines a school-based curriculum designed to educate grades 3, 6 and 9 students about aging, ageism and intergenerational relations. The work...

This Book is based on a Study which aimed to outline Jamaica's existing health financing system through the functions of revenue collection, risk pooling and purchasing. It also looks at the extent...

Until recent years, terahertz waves were an undiscovered, or most importantly, an unexploited area of electromagnetic spectrum. Recent advances in hardware have started to open up the field to...

This book explores recent trends in deforestation in the Southern Yucat?n (SY) of Mexico. Our main empirical finding is that in recent years the expansion of pasture for cattle has driven net forest...

Composite materials have been the most significant revolution in structural mechanics since 1960. There is a general lack of data on the long-term performance of these materials. The objective of...

Ethiopian constitution and several human rights laws recognized the right to speedy trial. This right guarantees defendants against delay and allows the enforcement of several rights regardless of...

Accurate knowledge of the Antarctic ice sheet mass balance plays an important role on the global sea level change. Here two-pass differential InSAR (DInSAR) technique is applied for tidal signal...

Demand for International Foreign ReservesAuthor: Hamza AlsalemPublisher: VDM VerlagPublication Date: Nov 21, 2008Number of Pages: 212 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3836469146ISBN-13:...

Over the last decade in Kenya there has been a proliferation of laws, and even this increase is yet to meet the ever growing need for statutory regulations in many areas of governance, especially...

This book suggests studying democracy promotion within the framework of international socialization through the perspectives of the constructivist and rationalist approaches. It argues that for...

In consequence of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the US administration under George W. Bush began to distance itself from its traditional approach to the Middle East and proclaimed its new foreign...

Participatory design is an attitude about a force for change in the creation and management of environments for people. Its strength lies in being a movement that cuts across traditional professional...

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the world is in the midst of a fundamental transformation triggered by the transition from a regime of high mortality and high fertility to a regime of low...

Density Functional Theory is a mainstream electronic structure theory of many-electron systems, which has achieved a high-level sophistication. In this theory, everything is known except for the...

The demand for posterior aesthetic restorations has dramatically increased in recent years. Several new materials have been developed with improved aesthetic, adhesive and mechanical properties...

"Extreme, synchronized rises and falls in financial markets occur infrequently but they do occur. The problem with the models is that they did not assign a high enough chance of occurrence to the...

The trend to develop small, low-cost spacecraft has led many to recognize the advantage of flying multiple spacecraft in formation to achieve the correlated instrument measurements formerly possible...

A comparative study of hydrolysis of PET waste and other plastic waste ( compact disc. Polyethelene, polystyrene) has been carried out under various reaction conditions. PET was hydrolyzed with...

It has been demonstrated that levels of depression are elevated in individuals diagnosed with Schizophrenia. This monograph describes doctoral research that investigated the role of hopelessness in...

Depression, anxiety and stress often coincides with breast cancer and adjuvant therapy treatments. Despite breast cancer is primarily a woman's disease, there is little attention paid to describe...

Dieses Buch soll ein Leitfaden f?r den angehenden oder schon erfahrenen Betriebswirten sein. Planung ist heute gerade auf Managementebene eine wichtige Komponente geworden. Man sollte sich immer...

This work provides an approach to overcome the limitations of folksonomies, in order to get one step closer to a collaboratively created semantic web. The basic idea of the described techniques is to...

This paper attempts to investigate the relationship among fingerprint patterns and pianists. From scholarly research, fingerprint patterns are grouped into three main families which are Whorl, Loops...