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Broadly-scoped requirements such as security, privacy, and response time are a major source of complexity in modern software systems. This is due to their tangled inter-relationships with and effects on other requirements. Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering (AORE) aims to facilitate modularisation of such broadly-scoped requirements, so th...

The second Workshop on "Quality and Reliability of Large-Eddy Simulations", QLES2009, was held at the University of Pisa from September 9 to September 11, 2009. Its predecessor, QLES2007, was organized in 2007 in Leuven (Belgium). The focus of QLES2009 was on issues related to predicting, assessing and assuring the quality of LES. The main goal ...

Our eye movements in response to visual stimuli reveal much about how we experience the world. Focusing on the latest developments in the multidisciplinary field of eye tracking research, this volume ranges across a wide spectrum of research applications, with four sections covering the plethora of practical uses to which our expanding knowledge...

Gesten sind in Erziehung, Bildung und Sozialisation von zentraler Bedeutung. Als Handlungen ohne Worte initiieren, modifizieren und kontrollieren sie die Interaktion und Kommunikation in Familie, Schule, Jugendkultur und Medien. Vor allem dienen sie dem Ausdruck und der Darstellung von Emotionen. Ihr performativer Charakter unterstützt die Rede,...

This book is an introduction to Karl Marx (1818?1883) as a radical educational thinker. Marx?s own schooling and education are examined and we see how his interest in educational issues was informed by his own experience. Educational themes in Marx?s thinking are identified: the role of education within capitalist society, the contribution of ed...

Explores the position of women on corporate boards and trends in different countries, including the USA, Canada, UK, France, New Zealand, Australia, Iceland, Norway, Spain, Jordan and Tunisia. This book reports the research on the experiences and dif

Energy has been an inevitable component of human lives for decades. Recent rapid developments in the area require analyzing energy systems not as independent components but rather as connected interdependent networks. The Handbook of Networks in Power Systems includes the state-of-the-art developments that occurred in the power systems networks,...

This book contains selected, extended papers presented at the thematic ECCOMAS conference on Computational Modelling and Advanced Simulations (CMAS2009) held in Bratislava, Slovakia, June 30 - July 3, 2009. Modelling and simulation of engineering problems play a very important role in the classic and new composite material sciences, and in desig...

Whoever coined the adage "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" could not have known how important this adage would become. The challenge of altering the health trajectories of poor lifestyle decisions for such behaviors as smoking, drinking and using illicit drugs, violence, dropping out of school, engagement in risky sexual behavior...

The history of Italian colonial affairs has recently attracted renewed interest from historians and economists. It is a complex and involved question. Over the last few years, though perhaps slightly later than the more mature historiography of other European countries, the work of some important scholars has opened up new fields of investigatio...