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In this next volume of Progress in Economics Research, chapters discuss the harmfulness of excessive public debt levels in a zero level bound framework; the implications of the Great Recession for scenario forecasting of home prices; Amartya Sen''s socio-economic analysis of famines; gender wage gaps from a social perspective; theories and recent developments about the economic and social impact of transport; coherence in policies for providing and regulating global public goods; the perceptions of Gold Coast locals regarding the proposed cruise ship terminal; tourism strategies for rural economic prosperity; and long-term challenges and opportunities in global competition in the automotive industry.

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is used extensively in both the military and civilian communities for diverse activities, such as navigation, surveying, remote sensing, asset management and precise timing. Ionospheric scintillations are rapid variations in the amplitude and phase of transionospheric radio signal which affect the accuracy and reliability of GPS systems. This book provides new research on the performance, challenges and emerging technologies of Global Positioning Systems.

The sustainability of the construction industry is a matter of pressing concern. Construction activities pose a significant burden on the environment. This book reviews different improvement strategies for construction projects. It also review management models and discusses challenges that arise in construction projects.

This book provides new research on the advances in non-linear dynamics. Chapter One studies compactions in carbon nanotube arrays. Chapter Two reviews the elastic and plastic type behaviours in the Fractal Theory of Motion at nanoscale. Chapter Three analyses a particular model of tumour progression, assuming that the invasive cells, the connective tissue and the proteases are moving through a non-differential medium governed by the Non-Standard Scale Relativity Theory (NSRT) (Scale Relativity Theory with arbitrary constant fractal dimension). Chapter Four studies the process of drug release from a polymer matrix. Chapter Five examines the implications of drug release from a polymeric matrix process. Chapter Six reviews behaviours of travelling waves and Shapiro step types in a tumour-growth model. Chapter Seven discusses the astonishing evolutionary dynamics of a class of nonlinear discrete 2D pattern formations and growth models.

The authors of this book examine the latest research in business and management. Chapter One demonstrates how Business Process Management Notation (BPMN) interacts with the social constructs and dynamics of Virtual Communities (VCs). Chapter Two examines the moderating role of individual consumer culture on the relationship between web design, visual appearance, social networking services, consumer behaviour, privacy, security, emotions, interpersonal trust (iTrust), cognitive and affect-based trust concerning online purchasing intentions. Chapter Three uses results from a 2015 National Public Radio/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health survey of 8038 US adults nationwide and in seven selected states to illuminate the self-reported experiences of health care consumers. Chapter Four discusses implications for tracking the behavioural health workforce in rural communities. Chapter Five presents a case for integrating social marketing practices and business principles into dissemination projects. Chapter Six identifies the extent to which non-manufacturing overhead costs are included in product costs used in decision making; the influences on their inclusion or exclusion; and the methods used to include them. Chapter Seven describes market culture and places of marketing in Senegal. Chapter Eight discusses the marketing mix of agri-food products tailored to the African context and offers guidance to industrial companies, retailers as well as local small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

The chapters in this volume present the latest developments in medicine and biology. Chapters One focuses on the synthesis of bisphosphonates and its biomedical applications. Chapter Two reviews polymeric nano-vectors based siRNA delivery. Chapter Three discusses the use of thrombophilia and pharmacological throboprophylaxis screening in women. Chapter Four provides insights into Geobacillus species through an overview of the model strain HTA426. Chapter Five examines how glycans provide molecular recognition motifs which regulate endoplasmic protein folding, transport, lysosomal targeting, and also how they are used by pattern recognition receptors in pathogen surveyance and innate immunity. Chapter Six discusses the effect of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) on diabetes, obesity, and atherosclerosis. Chapter Seven discusses the various classifications, clinical features, diagnosis, and management options of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). Chapter Eight studies several surgical approaches for knee arthroplasty with their relevant advantages and disadvantages. Chapter Nine explores the antioxidant potential of lipoic acid in ameliorating the oxidative stress produced during lung carcinogenesis.

The authors'' of this latest volume discuss recent advances in chemistry research. Chapter One provides recent advances and developments in gliadin-based drug delivery systems. Chapter Two discusses advances achieved in the development of catalytic processes for the production of ß-citronellol derivatives as alkyl esters, aldehydes, carbamates, and carbonates. Chapter Three focuses on the developments and applications of a new type of polymer-supported organosilica layered-hybrid membranes. Chapter Four investigates the long-range order in natural oils and fats. Chapter Five reviews the possible link between the main classes content of monoterpenes and sesquiterpenes and finds a direct link between them and their antioxidant activity. Chapter Six reports on the chemical compositions and biological activities of essential oils hydrodistilled from three plants from Nigeria. Chapter Seven reviews fluorescence and phosphorescence spectra of xanthone in the vapor phase. Chapter Eight examiners mass transfer characteristics of an external loop airlift reactor. Chapter Nine studies applications of isolation and structure elucidation of secondary metabolites in a natural product chemistry laboratory.

This book focuses on the latest developments in psychology research. Chapter One reviews the discourse that emerges from brand marketing. Chapter Two examines the impact of subtle brand prompts on selection during blind taste tests. Chapter Three discusses the issue of psychological development in Vygotsky''s work. Chapter Four reviews a perspective of interpretation in projective drawing methods. Chapter Five discusses the development, criticisms, and current findings of Dual-Process Theory in the decision-making literature. Chapter Six provides an eco-friendly approach to classroom behaviour and development. Chapter Seven examines how children live the transition between elementary school and middle school. Chapter Eight discusses dyslexia and the impact of this disorder on the lives of children and adolescents. Chapter Nine provides a review of the conceptualisation of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and presents current evidence for psychotherapeutic treatment.

Biorefineries are the adaptation of the petroleum refinery scheme into a biomass-based production scheme. They comprise of a number of specialised methods used to extract the most out of primary and/or secondary metabolic products. This book provides new research on biorefineries. Chapter One reviews downstream recovery of microalgal bioproducts with highlights on biorefineries. Chapter Two focuses on small-scale biorefineries. Chapter Three studies biobutanol as a platform for future biorefineries.

This book focuses on the latest developments in psychology research. Chapter One reviews the existing literature on executive dysfunction in psychopathy. Chapter Two studies the what, where, and when of consciousness and psychology research. Chapter Three discusses the latest developments in research on standards battles. Chapter Four focuses on using Batik as an innovative teaching technique in group therapy. Chapter Five creates a scale to measure gender microaggressions experienced by women. Chapter Six reviews the role of gender, status and attractiveness in social success. Chapter Seven discusses health locus of control and life perception in parents of children with Leukaemia. Chapter Eight provides academicians and clinicians alike with guiding principles and practices necessary to start-up, as well as sustain, new behavioral health care services for youth. Chapter Nine discusses the increase in crime among the youth in central Ghana. Chapter Ten examines the relationship between coaches and athletes to provide an understanding of the dynamic and the main elements of this interpersonal relationship.

The subject of this text is vulnerable children, families and interventions within the community school system that work with people who have problems with their daily lives. A community school is a school that has broadened its mission and vision to meet the needs of all of its students. The community school is where health, mental health, and other services are provided, with an emphasis on prevention. The community school is a new environment where a systems approach to change is utilised. It is not a school where human services are an add-on, but one where collaboration and input from the community determines the services that are provided to the students and families. The text not only identifies critical issues that are faced in public schools and lower income neighborhoods but also workable solutions. The book integrates theory and practice to communicate to the reader what a community school looks like, the purpose of a community school, and the varying facets that are involved in developing, maintaining and growing a community school. This book adds to the knowledge base of faculty and university students, school personnel and community stakeholders, while focusing on systems theories, prevention and collaboration.

Based on previous studies in Second Language Acquisition (SLA), this book provides new information and pioneering research for academicians, educational technicians, language test developers, psychologists and second language researchers. It examines the cases of learning and testing in languages other than English (as a second language, L2), specifically focusing on the Portuguese case. This book also reinterprets the immigrants populations and their schooling (and concepts) considering the recent immigration changes. It encourages research in L2 research, focusing on other minorities and European contexts, including the refugees argument that is affecting/reinforcing European society. It reflects on the expected cognitive processing difference according to the mother tongues of children and their cognitive map structures. The author selects literature concerning the disproportions among L2 learners and the commonly saturated focus on English as a L2. This book is essentially evidence-based, providing specific data and statistical analyses to understand the size of disproportions showed by the professional perceptions and the risk of underrepresented minorities that could be misled inside host schools in Europe.

This book focuses on the latest developments in psychology research. Chapter One discusses the evolution of morals throughout world history. Chapter Two reviews Vygotskys view on tools, signs and the spoken word, which are elaborated through a comparison of his early anthropological writings with his later works. Chapter Three describes facial emotion recognition in a group of juvenile offenders and compares it with a group of non-offender adolescents, and also determines which emotions were misrecognised and for which one they were misattributed in both groups. Chapter Four examines cumulative family risk and youth adjustment difficulties during early adolescence. Chapter Five reviews a study on the relationship between personality and happiness using a modified version of the Oxford Happiness Inventory and a 20 adjective checklist of personality traits. Chapter Six compares body dissatisfaction among Polish and Japanese women and defines risk factors for body dissatisfaction. Chapter Seven focuses on the adaptive functions of the focusing manner of experiencing. Chapter Eight studies a South African perspective on vicarious traumatisation and the self in professional learning of social work. Chapter Nine reviews literature based on predictors of food cravings, potential health impacts, and treatment options.

"Advances in Mathematics Research" presents original studies on the leading edge of mathematics. Each article has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial research results across a broad spectrum. Topics discussed include modern works in the field of mathematical modeling of intracellular processes; the improvement of Bezier basis function efficiency in object surface modeling; performance evaluation of simultaneous coding of scatter matrices in Two-Dimensional Linear Discriminant Analysis; the differential inequalities that make it possible to build a global theory of pseudoholomorphic functions in the case of one or several complex variables; and recent advances on short interest rate models which can be formulated in terms of a stochastic differential equation for the instantaneous interest rate (also called short rate) or a system of such equations in case the short rate is assumed to depend on other stochastic factors.

In this book, an attempt to augment the physical representations about some phenomena of the quantum electrodynamics in relation to medical physics is made. First of all, the physical theory of an electromagnetic radiation quantum is developed. The Schrodingers equation for a quantum is found and solved. The quantum length, how it is radiated, what the role of a vacuum in these processes, etc. are shown. The explanation of the quark confinement reason (impossibility to leave a hadron by a quark) is given. With the help of the Feynmans diagram method, some physical processes playing an important role in medical physics are analysed in detail: annihilation of the electrons and positrons in photons, breaking of the electrons in an electric field of a nucleus, changing of the quantum polarisation direction at the interaction site with molecules, etc. The use of Feynmans diagram method makes the loss of some physical phenomena accompanying a researched physical process possible, in particular the Doppler effect. On the basis of the quantum electrodynamics, the modern methods of diagnostics are investigated: a positron-emission tomography and a magneto-resonant tomography. Their developmental processes are also discussed. This book will be useful to students and scientists whose interests lay in the fields of quantum electrodynamics and medical physics.

Do you have any insights into the cause and therapeutic treatments of disorders that are available and present for some individuals on the autism spectrum? Acquiring a patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) may be the best way to communicate your idea and gain monetary compensation. Before submitting your idea, though, youll need to learn if it has already been disclosed. Since 1987, hundreds of patents have been granted by the USPTO in an effort to help alleviate some of the disabling symptoms present in individuals on the autism spectrum. To better understand this, Michael J. Dochniak has written this book to provide an easy-to-read summary of patents directed at autism spectrum disorders. Within the patent summaries are inventor profiles and news articles that are both informative and enlightening. Impactful inventors include James Cassily, William Louis Cleveland, Brian Eagleman, Bernard Rimland, and Patricia Rodier. Prominent organisations include the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Boston Scientific, Columbia University, IBM, Johns Hopkins, and MIT. Furthermore, youll discover a sampling of unique pending applications in Chapter Ten and several disputed rejected-applications in Chapter Twenty. The Autism Patents and Beyond is a quintessential review of creative people who invent or are trying to invent therapeutic interventions for autism spectrum disorders.

This book examines the most up-to-date research in the agricultural field. Chapter One reviews the role of plant cuticle in the postharvest of fruits and vegetables. Chapter Two provides a critical comparison between some emergent methods for bioactive compound extraction from fruits and vegetables residues. Chapter Three analyses the effect of exogenous abscisic acid spray on phenolic and scavenging free radical activity of olives during storage. Chapter Four studies the sustainable production of maguey (Agave salmiana) to improve the mezcal agroindustry competitiveness. Chapter Five describes the structure, sources, properties and potential applications of cereal arabinoxylans. Chapter Six focuses on the problems that arise from the wide use of pharmaceutical drugs and their entry routes to the natural systems. Chapter Seven describes the effect of a microwave-assisted hydrolytic treatment on the degradability of shrimp exoskeletons.