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FOX TAIL FARMS, Volume One, is a collection of eight short stories for young adult readers who love horses and farm animals either from close up, hands-on experience or observing from afar. The stories are loosely based on real animals and people, and real experiences. The short stories are currently available for sale individually or in this collection.

Providing a convenient routing protocol for MANETs is a challenge because of the dynamic topology. Therefore, the suitability of each routing protocol depends on many parameters such as, network size, node mobility speed, andtraffic load. All that, together with the dynamic nature of MANETs, made an optimum routing protocol selection a complicated task. Extensive nodal mobility of MANETs makes multi-hop routinga genuine challenge. The frequent...

A multi-scale morphological analysis of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 (DR5) was performed. We adapted the Metric Space Technique to perform a space-scale morphological analysis by filtering the galaxy point distributions with a smoothing Gaussian function, thus giving quantitative structural information on a range of scale sizes. The analysis was performed on 2-D (a dozen slices of a volume of space containing many newly m...

Community workers are an under-researched sector of society and the economy. Research suggests that they are vulnerable to negative stress-related effects, including burnout. We provide evidence to show that life satisfaction, positive affect and negative affect need to be considered to fully understand the complex construct of well-being. This book also reports on an experimental intervention based on the transactional model of stress and cop...

Heart disease or cardiovascular disease are the class of diseases that involve the heart or blood vessels (arteries and veins). While the term technically refers to any disease that affects the cardiovascular system (as used in MeSH C14), it is usually used to refer to those related to atherosclerosis (arterial disease). These conditions usually have similar causes, mechanisms, and treatments.Most countries face high and increasing rates of ca...

Migration itself contains the notion of the unknown, and this opens up space for human imagination, for fantasy. This book explores some aspects of how foreigners create an imaginary of Brazilian immigrants and how immigrants themselves reinforce these imaginaries through re-fantasized identities. It will also look at the case of Brazilian self-fantasies in Brazil and their verbalized fantasies of foreigners in Brazil. The book frames the noti...

Sylvester Calabrello and his family face a precarious Christmas with his grandson Joey diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor. Sylvester is determined to give Joey a very special and joyful Christmas. However, unbeknownst to Sylvester, Jesus has blessed his family and has chosen eight-year-old Joey to be His righteous leader to usher in His second coming. Jesus' plans start to unfold in Joey's dream.

Towed hydrophone arrays are used for determining the spatial characteristics of the underwater acoustic fields. The assumption that the hydrophone array lie in straight line is often made when the beamforming the hydrophone outputs. But when vessel turns, the direction-of-arrival estimation will be critically degraded if the array shape was still to be assumed straight. In this paper, an effective method was used to estimate the shape of towed...

Manyu division is one of the more than fifty basic administrative units of the Republic of Cameroon, West Africa. It is situated in the south west region of Cameroon, bordering with Nigeria. Most Manyu people do not know the meanings of their names and a significant number even think Manyu names have no meaning at all. This book attempts to dispel such notions and provide the name meanings. It is the first ever attempt at such an important sub...

Every institution of higher education in the United States must, in order to award degrees and financial aid, be recognized by an accrediting organization under the guidelines and oversight of the US Department of Education. This process of recognition is known as accreditation. Via an investigation of the world of accreditation in higher education, it became immediately evident that institutions are not currently equipped to abbreviate the ti...

Introduction:HIV prevalence in the general population of Nepal was below 0.5% in 2008, but in Female Sex Workers (FSWs) in Kathmandu it was 2.2%. FSWs have limited access to proper sexual health information, sexual and reproductive health services, including testing, counselling and care of STIs and HIV/AIDS. Objectives:The study aim was to explore the health seeking behaviour of FSWs for Sexually Transmitted Infections STIs) and HIV/AIDS.Meth...

Dental hypersensitivity probably affects most individuals and at times, pain may be so severe that patient believes that his/her dentition is seriously and perhaps irreversibly affected. Iontophoresis i.e. use of desensitizing agents along with electric current has been utilized as a lasting and predictable treatment of dental hypersensitivity. In the recent past, researchers have been trying to manage this problem by surgical means also by re...

Among the four species of bear in India, the Himalayan brown bear (Ursus arctos) is least distributed and occurs in very low densities in the alpine region of the Greater and Trans Himalayan zones in India. It is rare and usually encountered between 2800m to 4800m elevation. Population of brown bear is largely confined to the western and northwestern Himalayan regions in India and distributed mainly in the states of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal...

Independence and objectivity are the cornerstones of the auditing profession. Even though internal auditing is generally not mandatory for companies to set up, its importance these days has increased phenomenally due to the fact that it assists companies to systematically evaluate and improve their risk management, internal controls and governance processes. Internal auditors are therefore expected to be independent and objective in order to p...

The past two decades have seen a changing face to both postsecondary education providers and the economic landscape. This economic climate has also produced a competitive workforce with training and education being central. With the increased emphasis on academic and vocational skills and the introduction of a user-pays educational system students question the quality and relevance of teaching, demanding more for their money. How have these ch...

This book is centered on the impact of maintenance management in the sustainability of gas turbine power systems in achieving high production capabilities, equipment availability and reliability. This study is relevant for the provision of development in the nation's power supply system, and to ensure its effective energy delivery through the provision of continuous power supply of electricity for businesses, homes, industries and towards a be...

This work describes a four year study of 80 students who completed Fast ForWord programs at various levels. Fast ForWord products are designed to sensitize individual sensory systems to sounds of specific frequency and duration while improving language skills, memory, and reading skills related to phonics and phonemic awareness.Students who participated in this study were selected on based on Oral Reading Fluency scores, a measure distally rel...

This book introduces some new achievements in the field of nanocomposites and can be useful for all practitioners and students that are interested in the field of nanocomposites. The author during her work with nanocomposites found some new and interesting points which can be used by others who are interested in the field. Accordingly, some suggestions were included in the book which can be helpful for the students and prevent them from repeat...

Theory without practice has no powerPractice without theory is blind KantThis little book is an insight into some studies on the dynamism of theory and practice in caring. It elaborates on reflection on theoretical caring concepts and on expanding clinical sensibility in caring practice. The text may be a contribution to the cultivation of an expanded caring consciousness.

Heritage assets and the values associated with their protection deserve recognition as they represent a reference point from which cities can look to their past, understand the present, and plan for the future. To strengthen our understanding, this research explores the relationship between Heritage Conservation District (HCD) designation and its effect on community improvement efforts.In doing so, it seeks to explore the reasons for and value...