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Over the last decade, we have witnessed an increasing use of Business Intelligence (BI) solutions that allow business people to query, understand, and analyze their business data in order to make better decisions. Traditionally, BI applications allow management and decision-makers to acquire useful knowledge about the performance and problems of business from the data of their organization by means of a variety of technologies, such as data wa...

A First Amendment Profile of the Supreme Court focuses on the nine justices of the United States Supreme Court and determines their frames for assessing First Amendment cases. In each of the chapters, a justice is profiled in terms of his or her claims during the nomination hearings and the positions they have taken in significant Supreme Court decisions. These chapters provide a rhetorical frame that each of these justices would find appealin...

What Is Film Noir? surveys the various theories of film noir, defines film noir, and explains how the genre relates to the style and the period in which noir was created. It also provides a very useful theory of genre and how it relates to film study.

An examination of the effectiveness of knowledge nonproliferation programs implemented by the United States after the fall of the Soviet Union.

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Kevin Williams has authored an account of "foreign" correspondence and international journalism that is the most comprehensively-sourced, inclusive, contextualized, timely and critical in its field. At last, we have an account that acknowledges that the largest employers of "foreign" correspondents for nearly two hundred years have been and continue to be the news agencies, that the occupation is rooted in a history of imperialism, post-coloni...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems, ICVS 2011, held in Sophia Antipolis, France, in September 2009. The 22 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on vision systems, control of perception, performance evaluation, activity recognition, and knowledge directed vision.

For the Reformers, Galatians and Ephesians were living, capsule versions of Paul's grand epistle to the Romans. The commentary in this volume spans Latin, German, French, Dutch and English authors from a variety of streams within the Protestant movement, speaking with eloquence and intellectual acumen to the church today.

Covers polysaccharides and other important biomacromolecules, detailing their source, production, structures, properties, and current and potential application in biotechnology and medicine. 406 pp.

This is one damn unique blend of fantasy, horror and military fiction." - Benjamin Kane Ethridge, Author of the Bram Stoker Award winning Novel Black and Orange "It's a story that reminds me of old-school King and Koontz, you know, that classic supernatural thriller style that is character driven" - Ash Arceneaux, Lead Reviewer, Swamp Dweller Dark Fiction Book Reviews "There are no other stories like this out there-this is totally an o...

Vor ca. 400 Millionen Jahren im devonischen Meer entstanden, gehört der Hunsrück heute zu den bedeutendsten Fossilien-Lagerstätten der ganzen Welt! Mehr als 270 fossile Tier- und Pflanzenarten, von denen eine Auswahl einzigartiger Funde in diesem Bildband vorgestellt wird, sind nicht nur ein beeindruckendes Zeugnis der außergewöhnlichen Vielfalt des vergangenen Lebens dieses Erdzeitalters, sondern erlauben ¿ auf Grund ihres einmaligen Erhaltun...

Identified more than a hundred years ago by Camillo Golgi, the Golgi is a series of flattened sacs that acts as a critical sorting and processing station for intracellular traffic. This volume covers recent insights into Golgi architecture, mechanisms of trafficking through the Golgi stacks, and more.

A stark, primitive bicycle, looking suspiciously like the one the city used to designate a bike path, a giant zipper, pulling asphalt open on a busy commuter route, a giant's footprint, left behind after stomping through the sleeping city. By 2004, Roadsworth had pulled off close to 300 pieces of urban art on the streets of Montreal. Where would the nocturnal street artist strike next? Nowhere -- or so it seemed. In the fall, he was charged wi...

According to the Latina health paradox, Mexican immigrant women have less complicated pregnancies and more favourable birth outcomes than many other groups, in spite of socioeconomic disadvantage. This takes us from inside the halls of a busy metropolitan hospital's public prenatal clinic to the Oaxaca and Puebla states in Mexico to look at the ways Mexican women manage their pregnancies.

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Die hübsche Eun-yi wird von einer reichen koreanischen Familie als neues Hausmädchen eingestellt. Sie soll sich um die kleine Tochter des Hauses und die mit Zwillingen schwangere Mutter kümmern. Der Hausherr Hoon ist es gewohnt, sich zu nehmen, was ihm gefällt. Eines Abends verführt er das neue Hausmädchen und beginnt eine leidenschaftliche Affäre mit ihr.Doch den wachsamen Augen der erfahrenen alten Hausdame Byung-sik entgeht nichts. Sie beme...

Die hübsche Eun-yi wird von einer reichen koreanischen Familie als neues Hausmädchen eingestellt. Sie soll sich um die kleine Tochter des Hauses und die mit Zwillingen schwangere Mutter kümmern. Der Hausherr Hoon ist es gewohnt, sich zu nehmen, was ihm gefällt. Eines Abends verführt er das neue Hausmädchen und beginnt eine leidenschaftliche Affäre mit ihr.Doch den wachsamen Augen der erfahrenen alten Hausdame Byung-sik entgeht nichts. Sie beme...

Helps you learn to see photographically, expand your creative and conceptual use of apertures and shutter speeds, and choose the right media to create the look and feel you want. This title includes an introductory chapter with thorough explanations and training exercises in metering and exposure.

Paul Garner is Cowdray Professor of Spanish at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Porfirio D¿: A Profile in Power (2001) and La Revoluci¿n en la Provincia: Soberan¿estatal y caudillismo serrano en Oaxaca 1910¿20 (1988, 2003).

The role of science in society, along with its nature and development, are commonly misunderstood by students in the social sciences and humanities, and even those studying in the field. Fernando Espinoza shines light on these misconceptions to give readers a deeper understanding of science and its effect and influence upon society, through historical, philosophical, and sociological perspectives. This book incorporates the mandates by nationa...