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Der Wettbewerb um die besten Mitarbeiter wird immer h?rter. Die Personalabteilungen der Unternehmen sehen sich Herausforderungen gegen?ber, die nicht zu untersch?tzen sind. Die richtigen Medien zur...

Early detection of colorectal cancer is a strategy for reducing death of the disease. Detection in this book refers to both clinical diagnosing and to presymptomatic detection of colorectal neoplasia...

This volume brings together critical editions, translations into English, and textual studies of two seminal early printed books in the history of German mining. Johan Haselberg's "Der Ursprung...

This book focuses on the two early plastics casein and celluloid encountered in late nineteenth and early twentieth century furniture. The comparison between casein formaldehyde and cellulose...

The latest financial crisis has resulted in a widespread concern about the quality of firms financial information and the need to improve the mechanisms of corporate governance. We analyze the link...

Earnings Quality and Earnings ManagementAuthor: Sanjay BissessurPublisher: VDM VerlagPublication Date: Nov 13, 2008Number of Pages: 216 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639055446ISBN-13:...

"CRUSTAL MODIFICATION BY TECTONIC EVENTS AND UPPER MANTLE ANISOTROPY BENEATH THE MIDCONTINENT RIFT AND NEW MADRID SEISMIC ZONE: INSIGHTS FROM RECEIVER FUNCTION STUDIES AND TELESEISMIC SHEAR WAVE...

The performance of piles in liquefying ground under earthquake loading is a complex problem due to the effects of a progressive build-up of pore water pressures in the saturated soils. The loss of...

At first glance, it is difficult to comprehend why East Timor is free and West Papua continues to be held by Indonesia. The human rights offenses these peoples have suffered include what appear to be...

From missionaries to anthropologists to today's scholars, Western writers have propagated the view that Native American peoples had no philosophers, and that no such thing as Indigenous higher...

A numerical model is developed to simulate the steady state behaviour of a Domestic Refrigerator Evaporator controlled by a expansion valve. The liquid-vapour slip in the two-phase region of the...

Current sustainable design paradigms do not represent the time dimension of design nor do they deal with the balance between needs and limitations of user through the life cycle of the building...

This book underscores ecological democracy as a conceptual tool through five interrelated chapters. Forest-dependent communities of the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca, Mexico were chosen for this study due...

Our escalating consumption of natural products and services directly impacts the planet. The challenge is to ensure that our needs are not exceeding the ecological capacity of the biosphere. But how...

Agricultural Water development projects modify the downstream flow regime resulting in changes in riverine biodiversity. This study attempted to predict the likely impacts of flow regulation on...

Reservoir releases for generating power need to be reconciled to maintain healthy ecosystems in regulated rivers. Fluctuating, complex flow patterns near river obstructions such as boulders provide...

We know very little about the ecology of our designed world. Contrary to all appearances, design is not about making objects. Rather, it is about structuring the conditions for life. Design is our...

Traditionally, police agencies have allocated resources in response to their operational demands or requirements, with the majority of resources being distributed in response to political demands and...

With population growth and expansion of economic activities, and the change in location preference towards suburban and rural locations, urban areas have sprawled. In many places, such expansions...

Economic Discourse of Homeless YouthAuthor: Renjan JohnPublisher: VDM VerlagPublication Date: Nov 21, 2008Number of Pages: 336 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639098978ISBN-13:...

Economic regulation of liner conference agreements and similar cooperation agreemetns in the liner shipping evolved rapidly and this has had an impact on the structure of the industry. The industry...

IT-security sounds like a subject purely for a company's IT-department, for the IT-specialists alone. But IT-security definitely is more than just a technical "toy", its influence on a company's...

The purpose of this book is to examine and explore how economic sanctions can be used as a successful instrument to influence countries. The analysis of the application of sanctions against...

The present study deliberates on state of competitiveness in Indian Banking Industry by drawing heavily on Economic Value Added and Market Value Added Analysis. In India, banking sector reforms...

This study provides methods for empirical application of cost-benefit analysis in the projects of industrial pollution abatement. For the measurement of marginal abatement costs of pollution, output...

This book provides detailed guidelines for applied policy modeler showing all steps in conducting a research. It starts with data base construction in form of social accounting matrix (SAM),...

The research is based upon my Wharton thesis, focuses on pharmaceutical R&D investment decision. It is organized into 1 theoretical chapter, 4 empirical chapters and 3 empirical appendices. Chapter2...

Over the past decade, non-communicable health outcomes such as overweight and obesity have been escalating in epidemic proportions across the U.S. and, more prominently, in economically lagging...

This volume exposes the colossal implications that valuation of water resources has in providing an explanation to transboundary water disputes. By challenging the "scarcity induces disputes"...

The "Economics of Information Biasing (EIB)" focuses on information sharing strategies of individuals and their impact on institutions and human values. It introduces a simplified modeling of...