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An Exobiological Report and Recommendations Based Upon Periodic Observations of Human Behavior by Aliens.

MED-02 Sustainable Development: Issues and Challenges Topics Covered Block 1 - Introduction to Sustainable Development Unit 1 - What is Sustainable Development Unit 2 - Parameters of Sustainable Development Unit 3 - Approaches to the Study of Sustainable Development Unit 4 - Issues and Challenges Block 2 - Developmental Issues Unit 1 - Natural Resource Exploitation Unit 2 - Patterns of Industrialisation Unit 3 - Inequitable Growth Unit 4 - Gl...

Working as a spirit talker is as dangerous as it is underpaid¿and that is just the start of Jack Worthington¿s problems in the urban fantasy, Old Haunts. Jack is behind on the rent, terminally single, and is greeted every morning by the ghost of an eighty-year-old woman with a bad memory. But things are about to get worse. In saving the life of a client, Jack is forced to break one of the fundamental laws of existence, a crime that carries wit...

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Shambles paints a vivid portrait of the beauty and grandeur of Antarctica. Through a journey resplendent with sheer joy and heart-breaking loss, one man must wage a war against nature. The consequences of that battle will echo throughout a lifetime. In 1981, Stephen Tait was part of a four-man traveling party in Antarctica. After several equipment problems and fierce weather conditions, the team found themselves in a very dangerous positio...

The growing incidence of obesity and type 2 diabetes became the major global health problem. The peculiarities of energy metabolism in the development of both these conditions are of particular interest. This book, therefore, provides an overview of the following aspects: body composition assessment using laboratory techniques and bedside methods, estimation of resting energy expenditure, methods for the evaluation of energy intake, assessment...

Copula is used to model multivariate data, as it accounts for the dependence structure and provides a flexible representation of the multivariate distribution. Recently a large number of Archimedean copulas have been proposed to deal with various dependence aspects in financial risk management, which invokes several new questions in some important yet under-researched areas.This dissertation comprises three essays and probes into three untouch...

THE VERDICT OF THE VERSAILLES TREATY that Germany and her allies were responsible for the War, in view of the evidence now available, is historically unsound. It should therefore be revised." These are the words of Sidney Bradshaw Fay, noted revisionist historian, on the concluding page of his magisterial Origins of the World War, published in 1928. We now know more about the Great War than merely its origins. We now know that Great Britain's ...

In this anthology you might come face to face with your own fear, or your own story. Perhaps, your perspective on military life will be changed by these stories. Maybe, if you are a military person struggling to find your place in the world, you will find a way home. Milspeak: Warriors, Veterans, Family, and Friends Writing the Miltary Experience grew organically from the Milspeak Creative Writing Seminars, a series of workshops developed for ...

This work addresses the problem of finding the minimum number of vehicles required to service weekly a set of customers subject to time windows. The specific structure of the problem requires that a full loaded vehicle serve only one customer each time it leaves the depot. As a consequence, all feasible schedules involve the same total distance traveled. The fleet is homogeneous and is located in a common depot. Vehicle capacity is finite, wee...

An unabridged, digitally enhanced printing with updated layout and typeface. Chapters include, but are not limited to: THE SENSES - Number of the Senses - Action of the Senses - Perfectness of the Senses - Powers of the Taste - Object of the Action of the Senses - TASTE - Definition of Taste - Sensation of Taste - Flavors - Influence of Smelling on the Taste - Analyses of the Sensation of Taste - Order of the Impressions of Taste - Enjoyments ...

Schlaf - ein insbesondere in den letzten Jahrenintensiv beforschtes Gebiet, das Laien und Wissenschaftler gleichermaßenfasziniert. Jeder kennt das Gefühl, nach Schlafmangel nicht"richtig zu funktionieren", die Reaktionsgeschwindigkeit istherabgesetzt, das Denken fällt schwerer.Immer deutlicher wird die Bedeutung, die Schlaf -insbesondere der Tiefschlaf der ersten Nachthälfte - auf dieGedächtniskonsolidierung hat, während der REM-Schlaf die mot...

Carbon fibres exhibit outstanding mechanical properties at low weight, which are maintained even at more than 2000 °C. They are the most favourable material for aironautic and space industrie. Thus the fibre properties and their structural development at high temperatures under load are of particular interest for technical applications. Within the frame of this work, two different testing devices are presented, which allow simultaneous loading...

Aufgrund der Aufnahme des Fürstentums Liechtenstein in die sogenannte "schwarze Liste" der unkooperativen Länder bei der Geldwäscherei der FATF kam es im Fürstentum Liechtenstein in den Jahren 2000/2001 zu den gravierendsten Verschärfungen der gesetzlichen Bestimmungen im Bereich der Geldwäscherei und der organisierten Kriminalität. Die Auswirkungen dieser Gesetzesrevision waren für den Finanzplatz Liechtenstein nachhaltig und reichen bis zum ...

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2, 3, University of Wuppertal, course: Contrastive Phonology, 2 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The constraints on sequences of segments are called phonotactic con -straints or phonotactics of a language. Word phonotactics in English are based on syllable phonotactics. This means that only clusters which can b...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Linguistik, Note: 1, 0, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Veranstaltung: Sociolinguistics, 8 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Contents 1. Pidgin 2. Theories about the origin of pidgins 2.1. The Baby-Talk Theory 2.2. The independent parallel development theory 2.3. The nautical jargon theory 2.4. The monogenetic/relexification theory 3. Creoles 3.1. ...

This book springs from a need to research the links between market dynamics and companies' ability to sustain competitive advantage. If market dynamics risk eroding the competitive advantage of a multinational company, and organizational learning is a way of sustaining this competitive advantage, then there is a need to understand the links between distinctive capability, organizational learning and sustainable competitive advantage and, in pa...