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This study used ordinary least squares multiple regressions to examine 10th-, 11th, and 12th-grade Career and Technical High (CTC) School students' gender, student disability, student grade, highest...

The focus of this research was an analysis in a distribution corporation of supervisors and managers in a third party logistics company. Specific goals of the study were to (1) determine the primary...

The present book aims at analyzing two works of Manju Kapur-Married Woman(2002), Difficult Daughters (1998) and two works of Anita Nair-The Better Man (1999) and Ladies Coup? (2001) in the light of...

The increase in life expectancy observed over the last decade has particular relevance for conditions such as cognitive decline and dementia.This is a cross sectional study to determine the...

A Tensioner for the B-ISG System presents the design and analysis of a Twin Tensioner for a Belt-driven Integrated Starter-Generator (B-ISG) system. The B- ISG is an emerging hybrid transmission...

The book "A Text Book of Automobile Engineering" is designed to fill several needs as a text book for B. Sc Engineering Degree, Diploma in Engineering, and Diploma in Automobile Engineering...

Until the works of Castells, Lefebvre and Harvey, a Marxist theory of urban space and urbanisation was hardly seen. The book deals with the Marxist urban space theory developed by David Harvey...

With the use of multimedia technologies increasing every day, image compression techniques not only need to incorporate new features but also better performance. This book will present two hybrid...

Examining the religious and spiritual dimensions of dreams often leads directly to an awareness of the striking contrast between the reality of the dreamworld and the reality Western science...

Orhan Pamuk, who has been established in Turkey as a distinct literary figure since the late 1970s, now stands as the only Turkish author who has been awarded the Nobel Prize and the second most...

A little examined aspect of the Black Diaspora, the plight of the Black Seminoles is explored in this work. From Jamaica to Florida to Oklahoma, the reader is introduced to this least discussed...

Many developments were introduced for presenting information using digital visualisation techniques, including 3D interactive visualisations and virtual environments. Additionally, the way a group of...

A Vision for Their FutureAuthor: Gloria DunnivanPublisher: VDM VerlagPublication Date: Dec 03, 2008Number of Pages: 68 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639100689ISBN-13: 9783639100686

This book examines the practice of confirmation in the post-communist context of Slovakia and the Slovak Lutheran Church during 1993-2003. It proposes a fresh approach to the theory and practice of...

In the modern age, information is a crucial aspect of management. It is an important source needed to develop other resources and it is believed that information is power. The development and use of...

"The Social Responsibility and Expanded Pedagogy of the Black Artist" examines the expansion of pedagogy and formal instruction of Aaron Douglas and Hale Woodruff, two African-American artists who...

This book describes a novel cell biological basis contributing to aberrant innate immunity and inflammation in the cystic fibrosis (CF) respiratory tract. The first aspect covered involves the basis...

This book deals with a contextual analysis of Kathak dance in relation to the differences between pre-modern Indian society with its modern times. With theoretical perspectives about thematic trends...

Aboriginal Tourism Development in Central AustraliaAuthor: Doris SchmaleggerPublisher: VDM VerlagPublication Date: Nov 27, 2008Number of Pages: 160 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Reinforcement learning is the problem faced by an agent that must learn behavior through trial-and-error interactions with a dynamic environment. Usually, the problem to be solved contains subtasks...

This reprint of an LL.M thesis completed in year 2004 analyses the EC competition law rules on the duty to supply competitors, and in particular the impact of the modern essential facilities ...

This book reports new findings associating learners' willingness to delay gratification with their academic achievement, motivation for learning, and use of cognitive and self-regulated learning...

Academic EntrepreneurshipAuthor: Matthew G. KenneyPublisher: VDM VerlagPublication Date: Jul 01, 2009Number of Pages: 124 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639114302ISBN-13: 9783639114300

Although not extensively documented, academic libraries in the United States of America have been involved in fund raising for centuries. This study expands knowledge regarding library development...

The current literature illuminates alarming acadmic deficits demonstrated by adolescents assigned to self-contained classrooms for emotionally behaviorally disabled adolescents in reading and...

Acanthocephala the thorny-headed worms are one of the important parasites of vertebrates including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. Several species are also reported from humans. This...

Sales organizations striving for excellence and increased profitability have begun to realize the need for a true, long term business strategy and philosophy to accelerate sales force performance...

Scientists have strong motivations to communicate with the public, yet this communication is often ineffective, due to divisions of audience and discourse community, as well as the scientists' biases...

ACCOUNTABILITY IN PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS The role of collaborative forms of organizing in achieving important societal purposes has significantly increased in the most recent decades. So have...

This book presents the US pension system and its development which is described by an overview of accounting standards and regulation boards and by comparing those to the International Financial...