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People with disabilities often require personal care assistance (PCA) to perform daily activities and pursue life roles. PCA has historically been institution-based, resulting in the segregation of...

The overarching focus of this book is the link between the micro-strategies of socio-economic Reintegration and the wider macro-strategies of economic reconstruction and rehabilitation. It will...

Displacement is an important issue in a developing society. It needs to be studied carefully since it involves various stake holders that need to be partnering in these projects. Natural or Man-made...

This book entitled "Disaster Risk Management" describing and analysing the spatial variations of disasters in general and floods in particular. Disaster is a serious disruption of the functioning of...

All over the world, disasters are known to destroy developments which have taken years to achieve in a short time. The effects of these disasters on developed and developing countries are more or...

This book is an investigation of the discourse of gender in relation to the work of Michel Foucault, Susan Bordo, Judith Butler and the artists Louise Bourgeois, Fiona Hall, Jo Spence and Neil...

Asianisation of Asia, the focus of this book, signifies the synchronous development of Asian regionalism and regionalisation, in the wake of the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98. The author probes...

Este libro estudia la construcci?n ret?rica de las figuras de los h?roes, antih?roes y antagonistas en el poema ?pico del siglo XVI titulado "Nuevo Mundo y Conquista," de Francisco de Terrazas, y su...

This book examines the relationship between ecology of birds and their parasites and diseases. Global change in ecosystems has allowed parasites and their associated diseases to increase in abundance...

This work examines relationships between religious communities and laity in Warwickshire in the period 1500-1540. It is hoped to show whether the laity of Warwickshire were disillusioned with...

The subsequent study concentrates on the importance of travel agents and the responsibilities undertaken in the UK travel industry with regards to the British Regulating Body, known as the...

Chronic patterns of hostile and disorganized controlling behaviors account for more than half of the most destructive interactions experienced by couples in romantic relationships. These behaviors...

The optical signals pass through a number of components such as optical fibers, filters, multiplexers and switches. These components increase the amount of total dispersion. Dispersion or pulse...

The Playboy magazine has contributed significantly to the shaping of American popular culture and the ongoing formation of masculinities. The following analysis will trace the emergence of the...

Research reports indicate that approximately one third of retirees have difficulties adjusting to retirement. Depression is one possible consequence of adjustment difficulty. The present study was...

If it is possible to identify and understand reasons why some people are able to respond without prejudice and the underlying mechanisms of prejudice reduction, then appropriate intervention programs...

Statistical machine translation (SMT) offers many benefits over rule based and example based machine translation especially ease to train and robustness. It represents state-of-the-art in machine...

Motivated by the growing commercial viability and widespread use of Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS), this book analyzes regulatory classifications for wireless DAS deployments. It emphasizes that...

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are attempts to overwhelm a computer system in order to deny access by legitimate users. They are generally unstoppable, but there is a good deal of...

Unregelm? igkeiten im Nachfrageverhalten, stark schwankende Mengenabrufe, enorme Variantenvielfalt sowie vertraglich festgelegte Langzeitbevorratung sind nur einige der vielen Herausforderungen im...

The book considers works of imyaslavians Sergei Bulgakov, Aleksei Losev and Pavel Florensky, symbolists Vyacheslav Ivanov and Ernst Cassirer, and Jacques Derrida by focusing on their radically novel...

In the last years, DNA arrays have attracted increasing attention among medical diagnosis and analytical chemists. The broad range of application that has been found for DNA arrays makes them an...

DNA EvidenceAuthor: Janne HolmgrenPublisher: VDM VerlagPublication Date: Dec 05, 2008Number of Pages: 340 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639073266ISBN-13: 9783639073263

A short investigation into the present European and US notions of power. As Europe attempts to consolidate its power into three main functioning pillars, Europeans have an unsettling and lingering...

Routine activity theory suggests that neighborhood-level activity patterns influence crime rates, and that the convergence of three elements in space and time-a motivated offender, a suitable target,...

A case study of Coca Cola and Pepsi has been undertaken in order to comprehend whether or not branding affects consumer purchase decesion. Previous research ' The Pepsi Challenge' has been emulated...

Mentoring and coaching are popular, modern ways of developing talent-mostly using the 'wise old man' notion of Mentor in Homer's Odyssey with an older, wiser person taking a younger, much less...

Addis Ababa the capital city of Ethiopia is the largest as well as the dominant political, economical, cultural and historical city of the country. The city generates large volume of waste from...

Domestic violence is recognized as the most pervasive form of violence against women and almost all countries in the world experience this scourge. Yet, it was only in 1993 that the United Nations...

Domestic violence includes spousal battery, verbal and sexual abuse, child abuse and assault, and abuse of parents perpetrated by adult children. This study is a secondary analysis of the data...