This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2009, held in Saarbrucke
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A comprehensive collection of powerful phrases to help you face a variety of life’s challenges.Travelers to foreign countries often carry handy phrase books to help them navigate uncharted territory.
"Meet your Enemy Number One," a nervous Norwegian diplomat said to Uri Savir, the young director-general of Israel's Foreign Ministry, as he introduced him to Abu Ala, one of Yasser Arafat's top aides
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A collection of poems celebrates the riches of foreign travel, from seeing new landscapes and tasting new foods to making friends and experiencing unusual cultures
A look at the relationship between the U.S. and Mexico covers foreign policy, economic relations, social influence, public attitudes, cultures, and current problems
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Diagnosing learning disabilities (LD) in children has never been an easy task. The multiple approaches in use complicate the assessment process, raising the risk of young students getting the wrong se
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This book presents recent research in mobile learning and advanced user interfaces. It is shown how the combination of these fields can result in personalized educational software that meets the requi
Ada 2012 is the latest version of the international standard for the programming language Ada. It is designated ISO/IEC 8652:2012 (E) and is a new edition replacing the 2005 version. The primary goals
This book explores teacher workplace learning from four different perspectives: social policy, international comparators, multi-professional stances/perspectives and socio-cultural theory. First, it c
This short primer provides a concise and tutorial-style introduction to transport phenomena in Newtonian fluids , in particular the transport of mass, energy and momentum.The reader will find detailed
The book presents a basic introduction to epidemiology from the perspective of economics, using economic modeling to better understand and describe how infectious disease spreads. Three main elements
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Hybrid Learning, ICHL 2013, held in Toronto, ON, Canada, in August 2013. The 35 papers presented in this volume we
The primary purpose of this book is to show that a multilayer neural network can be considered as a multistage system, and then that the learning of this class of neural networks can be treated as a s
It's not about size or shape. It's not about skinny or fluffy. It's about balancing your scale and learning to be healthy for life. In My Healthy for Life Journal, author Dr. Olga Vaca Durr offers a v
This book has been written to highlight the medical dimensions of biblical injunctions. It explains in simple language the health benefits obtainable from living in accordance with the biblical precep
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The challenges a female doctor faces in choosing between family and career while practicing on the coast of Maine, along with dealing with a malpractice case and then learning how to fit into the quai
Why is it that by his death, having solved the country's hunger problems and set an example for Africa on how to deal with foreign donors and international aid organisations such as the IMF and the Wo
Why is it that by his death, having solved the country’s hunger problems and set an example for Africa on how to deal with foreign donors and international aid organisations such as the IMF and the Wo
Be Responsible is carefully written in simple English language to enable both students and pupils cultivate the right attitude and behavior to one's life and study while growing up as a way of focusin
Pilates speak only one language. He has a small business in a mid-sized town which he runs somewhat efficiently; yet, Pilates went from being a small time computer repairman to a world renown linguist
Wilson's approach can be seen as a communal romanticism, dealing with ordinary people, language, and problems, giving the priority to the feeling and human dignity over logic, power and money, putting
Parables from the Tree of Life depicts to us how nature often shows us the way. The story (somewhat autobiographical) follows a little girl growing up to become a young woman, learning spiritual lesso
In this book you will find the journey that a Light Being from the Central Universe Spheres makes to our planet and how he moves in it. This Being's objective is to create and on it is His learning ba
If you're a therapist, counselor, coach, or other healing professional, you can make a quantum leap in your ability to assess, clarify, clear blocks and encourage transformative change by learning to
Research in English Language Teaching: Mexican Perspectives Teacher research takes different forms and serves a variety purposes, but it is conducted by teachers, individually or collaboratively, with
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What if... we had a president more concerned with doing the right thing instead of the politically expedient thing? What if... that president was a man of simple gutsy faith who was learning to trust
What if... we had a president more concerned with doing the right thing instead of the politically expedient thing? What if... that president was a man of simple gutsy faith who was learning to trust
The book is laid out in very easy step-by-step guide on understanding what real estate is about, exploring what comprise good investments, learning ways to generate income & more. Complex topics s
Do you find yourself doing things you swore you would never do as a parent? Welcome to my world. As parents it is our responsibility to make sure we provide safety, love, structure and learning to our
"PLANET OF HOPE" is a biographical story of a middle aged man who lost his wife to cancer and sought answers in spirit world. Learning about the evolution of spirit became a big challenge. It moved hi
