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The book presents new models of axion for the solution of the strong CP problem. The main feature of these models is the modification of the relation between the axion mass and the Peccei-Quinn(PQ) constant, with quite interesting phenomenological consequences in particular for physics of supernovae, gamma ray burst and cosmology. We have hypothesized the existence of another sector of particles and interactions, the mirror world, which is an ...

Popular music is an exceptionally complex and broad field that has developed into a large amount of genres. Not all of them are still successful but none disappeared completely. They left some traces and were influential for the subsequent artists. No Wave is one of them. In the book, No Wave is explained from the point of view of culture and music. It was part of the punk subculture, which is described in the first section. The second section...

Many people suffer from lactose intolerance because of lack of the required enzyme, lactase (beta-galactosidase) in their digestive system. Lactose intolerance is common as much as 70-90% of most populations. Some commercial solutions have been found against lactose intolerance such as low lactose milk and oral enzyme tablets. Fungal ß-galactosidases are generally used for the production of oral enzyme tablets due to their high stability at st...

WiMAX which represents World Interoperability for Microwave Access is a major part of broadband wireless network having IEEE 802.16 standard provides innovative fixed as well as mobile platform for broadband internet access anywhere in anytime. This thesis provides the detail about the two main applications of WiMAX which are fixed WiMAX and Mobile WiMAX. Fixed WiMAX 802.16 delivers point to multipoint broadband wireless access to our homes an...

Within sustainable development one strives for structures with a minimum volume of material. At conceptual design stage a clear hierarchy among different structural morphologies can be established with Morphological Indicators (or MI). MI are dimensionless numbers that represent a property of a structure (e.g. its volume) and only depend on a reduced number of variables, providing user-friendly and efficient tools to guide students, architects...

The growth of image content production and distribution over the world has exploded in recent years. This creates a compelling need for developing innovative tools for managing and retrieving images for many applications, such as web image search engines, medical decision support systems, etc. Until now, content-based image retrieval (CBIR) addresses the problem of finding images by automatically extracting low-level visual features. The main ...

This book investigates the overall process of adoption of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) in private organizations (e.g. logistics service providers and local public transport firms). Both students at undergraduate and master level and professionals from the technological sector and the logistics industry can benefit from this text. This book can be used as a strategic handbook to guide the selection and the evaluation of technologica...

In a world that we know today Contract Law plays major role between countries and it is of a vast importance that the contracting parties would have same understanding of their rights and arising obligations from a contract made between them. This work starts with the brief historical background of the main legal systems: Common Law and Civil Law. Furthermore the introduction to the concept of 'Consideration' and 'Intention' is being introduce...

The book seeks to create a model that can generally be applied in assessing performance of banks in several dimensions using the balanced scorecard framework. The theory section looks at different concepts and relevant theories that come up when analyzing how the bank's financial results are being impacted by other non-financial perspectives. The objective is to create a theoretical conceptualization of corporate strategy implementation and ba...

In advance radio communication, cooperative communication introduces a new method of collectively transmit information using antenna array with each terminal having single antenna in order to exploit spatial diversity in wireless fading channels. In this monograph the performance of important transmission protocols, amplify-forward, decode- forward and adaptive decode-forward in terms of symbol error rate have been demonstrated. In relay netwo...

Within the framework of coevolution between the central black hole and the host spheriod galaxy, the black hole growth has been investigated, the associated luminosity function of active galactic nuclei at different redshift has been calculated. Compared with the results of all kinds of deep survey observations, the semi-analytic results provide the fully explanation for the downsizing features. On the other hand, star formation processes, dus...

Since the 1970s, traditional methods of evaluating educational achievement have received severe criticism.The criticism voiced against the intensive use of standardised multiple-choice external tests that resulted in closing pupils¿ minds and lowered the status of teachers.Challenged by such criticism, significant change in the examination practice of educational systems in many countries has taken place in the last two decades mainly with the...

This book analyzes the impact of the EU accession process over the central and local levels of administration in Turkey from an institutionalist framework. The analytical tools of historical and sociological institutionalism are utilized in order to analyze whether Europeanization leads to devolution and the city of Kayseri constitutes the case through which the EU impact at the local level is determined. The main point of the book is that alt...

This book analyses the interaction of monetary and fiscal policies in the Economic and Monetary Union in order to determine whether any form of cooperation between policymakers is welfare enhancing and can be sustained. The strategic relationship between policymakers in the EMU is analysed within the framework of a general equilibrium model with price rigidities. In this model, fiscal policy is assumed to have positive demand spillovers and th...

When films growth under nonequilibrium conditions, phenomena not predicted from microscopic interactions emerge at the macroscopic level. Statistical Physics concepts and methods are then the meaningful methodology to study the problem. This book discusses the influence of the particle/particle and particle/substrate interaction rules on the morphology of the obtained film. Based on the work of the author''s phD thesis, interesting structures ...

Corporate social responsibility is an important management tool today. Economic growth is generated mainly by innovation and knowledge. Contemporary organizations need to innovate to be successful. The need for social innovations that meet social problems and needs increases every day. Successful enterprises integrate corporate social responsibility strategy and innovation performance. The results of current survey in Estonian, Chinese, Japane...

The frequency range between 10 and 100 GHz, contains continuum signals of interest both for astrophysical and cosmological studies. However, astrophysical continuum signals along our line of sight towards the CMB modify (like in the case of the Sunyaev-Zel''dovich effect) or contaminate (like the signals from the Milky Way or from other galaxies) the CMB signal, complicating the full exploitation of the CMB maps. So, characterizing the foregro...

The increasing application of constructed wetlands for leachate treatment is an ever-growing incentive for the development of better process design tools. This book provides a study that was conducted to investigate leachate treatment performance of horizontal subsurface flow constructed wetlands (HSSFCW) installed with water dispersal system, called Safety Flow® to produce a defined subsurface wetting pattern along the line and length of the ...

Long cherished in America and sought after around the world, the freedom of the press is under attack. With the advent of the "war on terror, " war over the air waves has broken out between producers of the media, the government and terrorists themselves.The events of 9/11 have resulted in unprecedented legislation, police measures and military initiatives dramatically impacting the complex relationship between freedom of expression, state sec...

In recent years, proponents of green building have made significant progress in combating the widespread public perception that use of green materials and processes in real estate development is expensive and ultimately not cost effective. The successful development of numerous green residential and office buildings have been helpful in rebutting this popular misconception time and time again, and there is an emerging consensus that green buil...