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The loneliest of children are those who know of their fate, but cannot discuss their future due to adults' inability or unwillingness to communicate. Due to several misconceptions, children's...

This book is a self-analysis of Shelley Robinson's own act of creative writing. In a (modified) think-aloud protocol, Robinson metacognitively reflects upon her own act of writing, working in three...

In the first part of the book, the author explains the concept of the division of labor in economics from an historical perspective, beginning with ancient Greek and Islamic insights. In what...

The area of WSN is one of the emerging and fast growing fields in the scientific world. This has brought about developing low cost, low-power and multi-function sensor nodes. However, the major fact...

This book focuses its attention on developing creative writing skills of the gifted through an enrichment program based on Renzulli's enrichment triad model.This book would be of benefit to the...

Motivation is key to all instructional effectiveness and is perhaps more difficult to create with children who have developmental disabilities. The study discussed in this monograph tested the...

BACKGROUND: Recent literature on the dental health of people with Down syndrome (DS) is scarce. The caries experience of this cohort is also confused with mixed results. AIM: To evaluate the caries...

The aim of this work is to investigate a new application of the Ranque-Hilsch tube, also known as vortex tube: the exploitation of the temperature separation provided by this device for HVAC purposes...

The greatest demand facing the automotive industry has been to provide safer vehicles with high fuel efficiency, at minimum cost. Current automotive vehicle structures have a fundamental handicap: a...

The oak woodlands of central and northern California have seen a rapid decline of native oak trees in the last ten years attributed to Sudden Oak Death (SOD). P. ramorum has been isolated as the...

In the field of sustainable manufacturing, a wide range of research has been carried out to attain the more effective use of natural resources and the reduction of environmental impacts. This goal...

Several environmental, economic and geopolitical factors are driving the European Union interest on alternative energy sources and in particular on liquid biofuels. Biofuels are being promoted by the...

The aim of this research work is to develop a highly efficient process environment for the production of PET bottles. The ingenious process design carried out includes optimization of both the...

Agricultural Economics is one of the compulsory courses that must be taken by all students in the broad disciplines of agriculture both in the sciences and engineering. And so, to many students who...

Noninvasive estimation of myocardial electrical activity traditionally used potential measurements on the human body surface, such as body surface potentials(BSPs, pl.) or electrocardiograms (ECGs,...

Volunteer tourism is regarded as a travel alternative in which tourists devote not only their financial support but also themselves to a conservation, preservation or humanitarian project. Compared...

Typical solar domestic hot water systems use a liquid working fluid to transfer heat from the solar collectors to the hot water storage tank. This book presents the results of a detailed...

As an essential dimension of our information space, time plays a very important role in every aspect of our lives. A specification of temporal information is necessarily required for a large group of...

St. Augustine said about Matthew 12:31-32, which deals with blasphemy of the Holy Spirit: "There is probably no greater, no more difficult problem to be found in all the Holy Scriptures." The...

How does material production become socially recognised in Capitalism? This is a fundamental question for Economics, since material production takes place privately and independently in a worldwide...

Animal wastes are a significant environmental concern in countries such as Ireland, where meat production activities are an important sector of the national economy. The purpose of this work is to...

Innovationen sind unbestritten wesentliche Erfolgsfaktoren eines Unternehmens. Sie sichern sowohl deren wirtschaftlichen Erfolg als auch deren Zukunft. Jedoch, wie werden Innovationen in einer Gruppe...

Labor productivity plays an important role in the successful delivery of construction projects. It is substantially important to understand the nature and extent to which certain factors affect...

Power disturbances, for example like voltage sags, voltage swell, transients and harmonics can happen at any time and may cause adverse effect to the machines or equipment running in the industries...

The proliferation of collaboration technologies and the www has led to the development of global networks with spatially distributed actors interacting synchronously or asynchronously in virtual...

This book analyses the effectiveness and constraints of specific methods and approaches of anti- corruption strategies in Africa. Nigeria and Ghana are country specific case studies. A great input to...

This document uses critical discourse analysis to examine language related to First Nation's Residential Schools in Canada. The research uses the four discursive operations developed by Coates, Todd...

well this book covers the faults on a three phase transmission line using simulink tool of matlab. after going through the book, you ll be able to understand the various tools used, the basic...

Cavitation is an extremely attractive option to improvise the efficacy of conventional unit operation and unit processes, for its ability to provide energy in concentrated form and at the location of...

This book critically analyzes effectiveness and sustainability of educational models in mitigating impact of HIV on children in Zambia. It is based on research findings carried out in four (4)...