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This book describes the integration of several different approaches to examine questions regarding the function of interesting plant metabolites. This new edition generates new syntheses and conclusions about the biogeochemistry of the Hubbard Brook Valley.

This engaging contribution to popular science explores hot-button topics in mathematics that up to now have been largely absent from the genre. Real-world examples and visual aids help unlock the numerical principles of topics such as wavelets and encryption.

Cultural forces govern a synergistic relationship among information institutions that shapes their roles collectively and individually. The book addresses the origins of cultural information institutions, the history of the professions that run them, and the social imperative of information organization as a catalyst for semantic synergy.

Close analysis of the experiences of Germany, the US, and Japan allows this study to assess the relative successes and failures in reparations policy, using it as a vector to analyze the role of reparations and apologias in obtaining transnational justice.

This book gives a short introduction to parts of modern discrete geometry in addition to leading the reader to the frontiers of geometric research on sphere arrangements. It contains 30 open research problems ideal for graduate students and researchers.

This book offers the first comprehensive molecular theory of the living cell since the cell doctrine was formulated in 1839. The author formulates physically, chemically and enzymologically realistic molecular mechanisms to describe basic living processes.

Lavishly illustrated with both detailed line drawings and clinical photos, this book offers comprehensive coverage of every aspect of the management of intestinal stomas.

This book reviews current statistical methods for inferring residual life distribution, including inference methods for mean and median, or quantile, residual life analysis through medical data examples. The concept is extended to competing risks analysis.

Accessible to researchers in a wide range of disciplines, this book examines the energy applications of using nanotechnology in electrocatalysis. It covers their use in numerous contexts including low-temperature fuel cells and electrochemical valorization.

This book shows why community programs often founder and proposes a framework for success. Demonstrates the power of community interventions in offering services, reducing inequity and giving individuals more control over their health, environment and lives.

This volume covers current genetic techniques in maize, one of the most successful examples of breeder-directed evolution. Contents include principles and data that can be applied to maximize genetic improvement of germplasm and develop superior genotypes.

Computational Ocean Acoustics presents state-of-the-art numerical techniques to solve the wave equation in heterogeneous fluid-solid media. Thoroughly revised, this volume completely updates the material in the first edition and includes new models based on current research.

This book provides a unified review of analytical methods for neural data that have become essential for contemporary researchers. Illustrated with more than 100 examples drawn from the literature, ranging from electrophysiology to neuroimaging to behavior.

This book, now in its third edition, is an excellent introductory text for students, scientists and engineers who want to learn the basic theory of linear integral equations and their numerical solution. Features problems at the end of each chapter.

This book explores the history, influence on culture and clinical details of the condition popularly known as 'sleeping sickness,' which swept the world in the decade following the First World War, before disappearing without its cause being discovered.

Fully revised for a third edition, this highly regarded guide to the methodology of data collection and synthesis of exam scores explains the process of equalizing, scaling, and moderating results, and how best to design, administer, and mark standard tests.

Based on a survey of health-related behaviors conducted for the Department of Defense by RTI International since 1980, this book examines trends in substance abuse, health behavior, and mental health among active duty military personnel over the past 20 years

This book is a comprehensive introduction to stochastic control problems in both discrete and continuous time. It covers stochastic dynamic programming and the optimal stopping problem for discrete time with a finite or infinite horizon.

This book offers a detailed account of IBM's Deep Blue chess program, the people who created it, and its historic battles with World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov.

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This volume continues the theme established in Volume 1 of providing a con spectus of the current state of knowledge on topics of active nutritional re search.

The field of Digital Signal Processing has developed so fast in the last two decades that it can be found in the graduate and undergraduate programs of most universities. If accurate information of the signals to be processed is available, the designer can easily choose the most appropriate algorithm to process the signal.

This book introduces the elementary computational techniques of optimal control in aerospace engineering. Throughout, use is made of the time-optimal launch of a satellite into orbit as an important case study. Includes problems and an online solution manual.

This book covers the spectrum of pediatric pathology with particular reference to those conditions that may be identified at autopsy. It details cutting-edge methods that demonstrate great care in technique and dissection.

This book explains the engineering required to bring geothermal resources into use. It covers techniques developed in the petroleum industry and explains these techniques at a fundamental level.

This book illustrates the majority of diseases pathologists, clinicians and oncologists are likely to encounter in practice. It includes macroscopic images of disorders as well as tables that help readers understand and comprehend diseases that look alike.

This book presents the peridynamic theory, which provides the capability for improved modeling of progressive failure in materials and structures, and paves the way for addressing multi-physics and multi-scale problems.

This book offers a systematic overview of the research on accounting-based valuation, focusing on recent theoretical developments and the resulting empirical analyses that recognize the role of accounting information in making managerial decisions.

Presented in this new, full-color edition, with the first polychrome phase diagrams to be published, this geoscientific atlas is backed by the author's unrivalled dataset, and amounts to the most complete survey yet of phase relations in Earth's chemistry.

Contents 11. Summary . . . Making Sense of the Issues . . Introduction . . . . Science and Matters of Society . Summary . Tying It All Together . . . . Introduction . . . . Critical Systems Thinking 253 11. Conclusion 254 Questions . . . 255 REFERENCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .