How can you translate complex information in real time from one computer language into another? In a virtual database a variety of databases form a system. For the integration of a new database with different language into the collective a logic has to translate the information. This practical work is part of the Edutella project which has the aim to create a peer-to-peer network for storing, querying, exchanging and processing any kinds of RDF metadata.
The focus is on the development of a wrapper module for the Rssdb database. This wrapper provides the features for translating Edutella...

This book addresses the challenge of reforming defense and military policy-making in newly democratized nations. By tracing the development of civil-military relations in various new democracies from a comparative perspective, it links two bodies of scholarship that thus far have remained largely separate: the study of emerging (or failed) civilian control over armed forces on the one hand; and work on the roots and causes of military effectiveness to guarantee the protection and security of citizens on the other. The empirical and theoretical findings presented here will appeal to scholars...