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Die Arbeit untersucht Kommunikations- und Koordinationsbedarfe in verteilten DV-Projekten und analysiert, wie sich die Verteilung von Projektmitgliedern auf mehrere Standorte auf diese Bedarfe auswirkt. Es wird aufgezeigt, welche Funktionen Kommunikationsmedien und -werkzeuge bieten können, um diese Bedarfe geeignet abzudecken und Kommunikationsstrukturen zwischen Projektmitgliedern zu etablieren. Basis der Untersuchung bildet eine umfangreich...

Volker Thewalt leitete von 1980 bis 1988 die Arbeiten zur Kartierung und Dokumentation der Felsbilder und Inschriften am Karakorum Highway in Nordpakistan zunächst als Stipendiat des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, danach im Auftrag der Ruperto Carola Universität Heidelberg und schließlich für die Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Im Laufe dieser Jahre wurden rund 5.000 Inschriften und mehr als 40.000 Felsbilder entdeckt und dokum...

As a relatively new field in academia and growing presence in American (as well as international) discourse, bioethics must balance the aspiration to guide biomedical research and practice with the need to become an institutionally legitimate influence in society. Since its inception three decades ago, to what extent has bioethics succeeded at making biomedicine more socially accountable? At the same time, to what extent has bioethics been ren...

Die ägyptische Muslimbruderschaft ist eine der ältesten und bedeutendsten Organisationen des politischen Islam in der arabischen Welt. Ihre Geschichte beginnt mit der Gründung 1928 in Ägypten. In einem stetigen Wechsel aus Konfrontation, gegenseitiger Tolerierung und kritischer Distanz mit dem jeweils in Ägypten herrschenden Regime hat sich die Ideologie der Bruderschaft gewandelt. Von einer primär auf die Errichtung eines islamischen Staates ...

Carole Fontaine, well known among biblical scholars for her feminist studies in the biblical wisdom traditions and the ancient Near East, is also a human rights and interfaith activist working on issues of violence against Muslim women in the Middle East and Southern Asia and a board member of many agencies such as the International Network for the Rights of Female Victims of Violence in Pakistan, and the Women's Forum against Fundamentalism i...

The Christian axis has shifted dramatically southward to Africa, Asia, and Latin America, so much so that today there are more Christians living in these southern regions than among their northern counterparts. In the case of Africa, the African Initiated Churches-founded by Africans and primarily for Africans-has largely contributed to the exponential growth and proliferation of the Christian faith in the continent. Yet, even more profoundly,...

Each of these poems makes you want to descend to its heart and discover the precious metal there. D. S. Martin knows how to evoke the mystery that lies beneath the relationships we have with ourselves, each other, and God. This is skillful and probing poetry." - Luci Shaw, author of What the Light Was Like Praise for So the Moon Would Not Be Swallowed (Award of Merit-2008-The Word Guild) "This little chapbook took me by surprise, with poem aft...

This substantial commentary presents 1 Samuel as a sophisticated work of literature, where the reader is challenged with a narrative that is fraught with interpretative possibilities. In his distinctive literary reading Bodner lays special emphasis on the intriguing array of characters that populate the narrative, and on the plot, in its design and its configurations. Thus, a host of intriguing episodes and personalities are passed in review: ...

Carole Fontaine, well known among biblical scholars for her feminist studies in the biblical wisdom traditions and the ancient Near East, is also a human rights and interfaith activist working on issues of violence against Muslim women in the Middle East and Southern Asia and a board member of many agencies such as the International Network for the Rights of Female Victims of Violence in Pakistan, and the Women's Forum against Fundamentalism i...

The Long Shadow " investigates the purposes and roles of nuclear weapons in the new security environment, the nature and content of the national nuclear strategies of relevant states, and their implications for international security and stability in the Asian security region

The Long Shadow " investigates the purposes and roles of nuclear weapons in the new security environment, the nature and content of the national nuclear strategies of relevant states, and their implications for international security and stability in the Asian security region

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery, DaWak 2008, held in Turin, Italy, in September 2008. The 40 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 143 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on conceptual design and modeling, olap and cube processing, distributed data warehouse, data privacy in data warehouse, dat...

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~A story based on a true experience~~C.F. Ka'ai has been aware of elements of the Peacegivers story since childhood, as told by the Ancestors in spirit. Once forgotten, it was brought back to memory unexpectedly during a session with an intuitive channeler. This launched a personal journey to uncover what the Ancestors had spoken of long ago, and to fulfill the instruction received as a child, "books need to be written." This book tells a stor...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ad-Hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks, ADHOC-NOW 2008, held in Sophia-Antipolis, France, September 2008. The 40 revised full papers and the 15 poster presentations were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions. The papers deal with advances in Ad-Hoc networks, i.e. wireless, self-organizing systems formed by co-operating nodes within communication...

The three volume set LNAI 5177, LNAI 5178, and LNAI 5179, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, KES 2008, held in Zagreb, Croatia, in September 2008. The 316 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers present a wealth of original research results from the field of intelligent information processing in the broad...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, ICTAC 2008 held in Istanbul, Turkey in September 2008. The 27 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from over 70 submissions. The aim of the colloquium is to bring together practitioners and researchers from academia, industry and government to present research results, and exchange experience, ideas, and s...

During her history, the steamboat Kingston survived wrecks and fires, until finally being sunk near one of Kingston's ship graveyards in 1930. This book tells her story.

Focuses on the importance of home in the lives of memory-challenged adults. This book offers insight into the richness and variety of life experiences associated with the idea of home, and suggests ways in which caregivers can encourage reminiscences to improve the quality of life for those with dementia or associated diseases.

The author shares a captivating diary of her struggles while searching for answers to a disease, not yet in medical terminology. Chronic Fatigue/Fibromyalgia afflicts thousands of people globally.