Nick Davis leads an ordinary life until the sight of an intruders shadow in the mists of an early morning storm sets in motion a series of events that will reveal his familys mysterious pastand change Nicks life forever. This seemingly random event makes Nick aware for the first time that he and his family are in grave danger.Nick learns that back in the 1940s, his father had unwittingly become entangled with an evil international organization as he investigated the death of his brother. When his father is killed, Nick decides that he must disappear if he ...

Pitch - Man proposes and God Superimposes. This is a tale of the war between Dreams and Destiny. This happens in Vijay's case. He - an Indian, always wanted to go to U.S.A. and settle there. He is a youth from Lucknow, State of U.P., India. And like many young Indians, he also aspires to reach and settle in America. He finds himself technically there sooner than expected. He is a cook in American Army camp (Amiraly) in Iraq employed by an American company. Prior to this, he has struggled a bit in Delhi and Mumbai. Before this, by sheer turn of events ...

On a Grey Thread is the groundbreaking poetry collection of Elsa Gidlow – the first in North American history to openly express lesbian desire. Both personal and political, Gidlow’s poems express the poet’s complex feelings as a young woman whose political ideology and sexual identity ran counter to the traditional values of her time. Opening her collection with “The Grey Thread,” Gidlow expresses herself with ornamental imagery, decorating her drab existence with the colorful beads of her personal identity. Employing ...

Dieses Manuskript ist das Ergebnis einer kreativen Sondierungsstudie, mit der ermittelt werden sollte, inwieweit von multilateralen Agenturen finanzierte Alphabetisierungsprogramme das Schicksal von Lernergebnissen in ressourcenarmen Regionen verändern. Die Erfolgsbilanz des Forschers bei der Umsetzung von Alphabetisierungs- und Veränderungsinitiativen in ressourcenarmen Gemeinden hat dieser Arbeit einen zusätzlichen Impuls verliehen und sowohl den technischen als auch den fachlichen Inhalt bereichert. Es wird davon ausgegangen, dass diese ...

Have you ever landed your dream role as an executive only to immediately face challenges your training never equipped you for? Have you wondered, "How am I going to do it?", or found yourself managing people and wondering "Am I doing it right?" It seems there's no magic C-suite playbook that tells you how to navigate the unique aspects of upper-level leadership. If you feel like this, you are not alone. Many of the people Philippe Mathijs met and coached over the years faced similar questions and sometimes spent years frustrated, without answers. ...

The highly hydrophobic nature of PVDF membranes makes it prone to fouling, and hydrophilic additives are frequently used to improve its wettability and fouling performance. Another approach to mitigate fouling is to alter membrane via surface modification. Under optimum conditions of membrane fabrication, in-situ membrane surface modification may be achieved as a result of the spontaneous migration of amphiphilic additives to the membrane upper surface resulting in so-called surface segregation. In this study, a novel approach was taken to use nanoparticles ...

Este trabalho analisa a adoção de inovação gerencial, através da implantação de Tecnologia da Informação (TI) na administração pública, sob a percepção do cliente (usuário) do valor deste recurso. Procura-se conceituar o Valor Baseado em Recurso (VBR), analisando a sustentabilidade desta estratégia através do framework "VRIO" (sigla que representa "valor", "raridade", "imitabilidade" e "organização"). Ressalta-se a relevância ...

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