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Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are increasingly recognised as playing a significant role in the health sector in developing countries. This book examines the background to the growth both in the sector and interest in it, the strengths and weaknesses of NGOs and the arguments for and against their use for different aspects of the health sector. It focuses particularly on the relationship between the State and non-governmental organizati...

Der Band versammelt die Beiträge, die beim 30. Linguistischen Kolloquium in Danzig 1995 vorgetragen wurden. Es wurden verschiedene Bereiche der Linguistik behandelt, von der theoretischen über die deskriptive und historische hin zur angewandten Linguistik und der Computerlinguistik. Zu den besprochenen Sprachen gehören u.a. Englisch, Deutsch, Französisch, Gotisch, Hebräisch, Ungarisch, Italienisch, Isländisch und Polnisch, ein Beitrag widmet s...

Imaginative literature, argues Michael Dash, does not merely reflect, but actively influences historical events. He demonstrates this by a close examination of the relations between Haiti and the United States through the imaginative literature of both countries. The West's mythification of Haiti is a strategy used to justify either ostracism or domination, a process traced here from the nineteenth-century until it emerges with a voyeuristic f...

Current problems of nuclear technology and future perspectives and co-operative research possibilities involving Russian and East European facilities are discussed by scientists from Russia, the United States and seven other countries in this report.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Database Theory, ICDT '97, held in Delphi, Greece, in January 1997. The 29 revised full papers presented in the volume were carefully selected from a total of 118 submissions. Also included are invited papers by Serge Abiteboul and Jeff Ullman as well as a tutorial on data mining by Heikki Mannila. The papers are organized in sections on conjunctive queries i...

This book constitutes the strictly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Database Issues for Data Visualization, held in conjunction with the IEEE Visualization '95 conference in Atlanta, Georgia, in October 1995. Besides 13 revised full papers, the book presents three workshop subgroup reports summarizing the contents of the book as well as the state-of-the-art in the areas of scientific data modelling, su...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Applied Parallel Computing, PARA'96, held in Lyngby, Denmark, in August 1996. The volume presents revised full versions of 45 carefully selected contributed papers together with 31 invited presentations. The papers address all current aspects of applied parallel computing relevant for industrial computations. The invited papers review the most important numer...

Ein renommiertes Autorenteam behandelt in diesem interdisziplinären Studienbuch Probleme der Energiegeschichte, Energiesysteme, Energietechnik und der Potentiale der erneuerbaren Energien: Wasser- und Windkraft, Biomasse, Geothermie, Photovoltaik und Solarthermie, der Verbesserung der Rahmenbedingungen für ihre Markteinführung, Handlungskonzepte und Förderungsschwerpunkte der EU, USA und Japans in diesem Bereich, Aktivitäten der Bundesregierun...

As the title of this engaging book suggests, "catholicity" was the true intent of the Reformation. The Reformers did not set out to create what later came to be known as Protestant Christianity. Theirs was a quest for reformation and renewal in continuity with the "one holy catholic and apostolic church" of ancient times. The authors of the essays collected here demonstrate this catholicity of the Reformers and stress the importance of recover...