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Multi-frequency radar remote sensing techniques are not widely used because few of such radars are available to the science community. This problem initiated the development of an Advanced Multi...

The emergence of GaN-based devices promises a revolution in areas requiring high performance electronics, such as high speed earth and space-based communication systems, advanced radar, integrated...

The objective of this book is to review the methods most commonly used to predict the dynamic response of discrete non-linear structural systems. Several methods are available for the dynamic...

Fuzzy Algebra has witnessed a rapid growth in the last two or three decades. However, a very few books exists on the topic. The interested researchers have no option left than to rely upon the...

Treatment of landfill leachate is a challenge specially to the developing countries in the process of protecting their environment due to unaffordability of the available technologies. This study,...

Multi-stage Stochastic Programming (MSP) has many practical applications for solving problems whose current resolution must be made while taking into account future uncertainty. A variety of methods...

Finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) and finite-element time-domain (FETD) algorithms are among the most popular methods for the simulation of electromagnetics fields in the time-domain. This...

According to the increase in adventure sports tourism world-wide, this book focuses on the development of rock climbing tourism in South Africa. Whereas most western or industrialised countries are...

This comprehensive text will serve as a base for researchers and academicia on one hand and private and public sector commercial tourism organisations on the other hand related to both general as...

This research aims to find out if ethnic minorities who are born in the UK are influenced by fashion brand adverts using different ethnic models. The research aimed to identify whether branded labels...

The rich sound of musical wind instruments is a consequence of intricate phenomena involving the interaction between air flow and acoustic field, as well as the interaction between air flow and the...

Just like traditional AI applications, game AI mainly focuses on rational inference. But in the real world, human decision making is not only involving rationality, but also sense. In this book, we...

Research has found that the counselor's response to disclosure of child sexual abuse experiences has a significant impact on the client's well-being, continuation in therapy, and progress in...

For centuries, people around the globe have been subject to unequal treatment and discrimination because of their sex, race, skin color, ethnicity or national origin. The second half of the twentieth...

Despite the importance of design to engineering, industry, and the overall economy, design science remains a young and underdeveloped field. Current practitioners, researchers, and students of design...

The complex role of media within society, its impact on the development of democracy and relationship to the empowerment of women has yet to be defined, and is one that it difficult to measure by any...

The study examines current African American and Latino Relations in Philadelphia and postulates on how a rise in Latino immigration may affect inter-group relations. It hypothesized that as Latino...

Stress levels of African American college students attending Historically Black and Predominantly White Institutions were compared during this research. The GPAs of the students were correlated with...

This book contains a summary of how African American television sitcoms have negatively portrayed African Americans. This book looks at different television sitcoms from the 1970's through current...

The African literature is highly diversified, although it also shows similarities. In fact, the common denominator of the cultures of the African continent is undoubtedly the oral tradition. Writing...

This book addresses the crucial intersection between the African Renaissance and higher education. While using the case of Christian higher education in South Africa, the value of this...

The color revolutions that occured in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan between 2003 and 2005 were celebrated as democratic breakthroughs in a region that was governed by (semi-) authoritarian rulers...

One of the interesting applications of Forensic Odontology is age estimation by means of teeth. Age assessment proves to be a critical factor in the victim identification process, and teeth may be...

Do social workers tend to view older adults in negative terms? In order to assess differences in social workers' attitudes toward younger and older adult clients, social workers were surveyed...

The complexity and the extended reach of today's supply chain networks expose businesses to a huge range of unexpected disruptions. This calls for building resilience in supply chains, which is not...

Population aging is a consequence of a process known as demographic transition. India's elderly population, comprising of those aged 60 years and above is projected to more than quadruple, from 77...

This book addresses aging in the setting of the "Knowledge Economy" and indicates that aging in the "Knowledge Economy" does not necessarily just mean challenges, but also means unprecedented...

The research studied the performance of the agricultural cooperative activities to benefit the poor in An Giang province of Vietnam. The main objectives of the research were to describe the...

Cooperatives can help farmers to have access to inputs, credit, output markets, and opportunities to engage in more diversified, higher value crop production. They can reduce the transaction costs of...

One of the major attributions to failures of agricultural R4D to enable boost agricultural productivity in developing countries like Ethiopia is failure to communicate research outputs, millions of...