Ein Bankuberfall mit Geiselnahme in Brandenburg, eine Kindesentfuhrung in Berlin – zwei Verbrechen, eine hei?e Spur. An einem brutend hei?en Sommertag wird in Berlin-Wedding ein kleines Madchen entfuhrt. Zur gleichen Zeit ereignet sich im brandenburgischen Rheinsberg in einer kleinen Bankfiliale ein Uberfall mit Geiselnahme....

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3, University of Duisburg-Essen, course: A Survey of American History, 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: America in the sixties was above all a time of protest in which the minorities includingAfro- Americans as well ...

eveloping Cross-Cultural Measurement in Social Work Research and Evaluation, Second Edition is a practical, hands-on guide for social work researchers to learn how to develop, assess, and validate meaningful measurements across cultures and populations....

Reading in a second language is an interesting area of research because the factors affecting reading have brought about much controversy in related theory and research. Particularly, schema theory has raised long-term debate about whether background knowledge facilitates or impedes reading comprehension....

It was in 2000 that Nguyen, the author of the book, first met Pham Thi Hue, an HIV-infected mother who later became an Asian heroine. A long talk with Hue had made Nguyen a deep impression on the lives of HIV-infected women. After that, she found more chances to work with HIV-positive people....

E-procurement has increasingly been applied by grocery supermarket chains around the world as a tool to reduce procurement costs and improve supply chain management to increase leverage and competitiveness. In Vietnam, however, little information is known as to what extent this method is used by supermarkets....

The radical political and economic reforms sweeping through former socialist countries during the last decades have opened rich opportunities for privately owned businesses to emerge and develop....

At some point in university study, you may be asked to review the literature on a certain subject, a particular area, an assignment, or part of a research. You may realize that you have not been trained for this academic writing style, and you would be asking questions such as: What is this? Why do I have to write it?...

This book introduces two Autoregressive Neural Network (ARNN) and mean threshold methods for recognizing eye commands for control of an electrical wheelchair using Electroencephalogram (EEG) technology. Eye movements such as “eyes open”, “eyes blink”, “glancing left” and “glancing right” ....

Deterioration and distress of concrete structures in service is a result of a variety of physiochemical processes. These processes include attack by acids or alkali, cycles of wetting and drying, freezing and thawing, alkali – aggregate reaction, etc....

The work has two independent parts. The first part concerns the convergence toward equilibrium of discrete gradient flows or of some discretizations of autonomous systems which admit a Lyapunov function....

With the expansion of the Internet, many enterprises have been deploying web-based distributed applications for most of the aspects of their business processes. To stay competitive in the dynamic and changing business environment, enterprises require open architectures for these applications that continuously evolve to meet new requirements....

The morphology-dependent unexpected properties of nanomaterials offer useful applications in nanotechnology. Development of effective synthetic methods for controlling size and shape of monodisperse nanocrystals presents a great challenge in materials science....

Grid technology offers the potential for providing secure access to remote services, thereby promoting scientific collaborations in an unprecedented scale....

Authored by experts in the field, this brand-new reference presents a systematic approach to which flap or graft to use in which clinical situation and how to cut and move the skin. More than 350 full-color photographs and line drawings offer you step-by-tep guidance....