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This is the first comprehensive book treatment of the emerging subdiscipline of set-valued mapping and enlargements of maximal monotone operators. Throughout the text, examples help readers make the bridge from theory to application. Numerous exercises are also offered to enable readers to apply and build their own skills and knowledge.
This book explores the historical and contemporary relationships of Protestant Puritanism to political and social authoritarianism. It focuses on Puritanism's original, subsequent and modern influences on and legacies in political democracy and civil society within historically Puritan Western societies.
Special and General Relativity are concisely developed together with essential aspects of nuclear and particle physics. Problem sets are provided for many chapters, making the book ideal for a course on the physics of white dwarf and neutron star interiors.
This book explores the links between food and human cultural and physical evolution. This book catalyzes discussion between scientists working on one side in food science and on the other side in biological and biomedical research.
While plenty of literature discusses theory for learning and memory, almost none exists for teaching. This book probes the need and possibility for a theory of teaching and offers many effective teaching practices based on theory.
This book is a general introduction to the uses of ceramics and glasses in the human body for the purposes of aiding, healing, correcting deformities, and restoring lost function.
This unified, comprehensive treatment of an order-theoretic fixed point theory in partially ordered sets shows its various useful interactions with topological structures. Covering the preliminaries before moving to more advanced topics makes it approachable.
This is the second volume covering native and introduced American orchids north of Mexico and Florida, with detailed data on genetic compatibility, breeding systems, pollinators, pollination mechanisms, fruiting success and limiting factors for each species.
Firmly grounded in the principles of neuropsychology, this volume analyzes both successful and unproductive learning in terms of the brain's organizing processes - that is, its unconscious sifting, selecting, and meaning-making that enable students to incorporate and build on what they have learned in the past.
This book provides the reader with an authoritative reference for today's major group visit models: what they are, their strengths and weaknesses, and how they can best be used together and in combination with traditional individual office visits.
Presents the science, history, and biography, all wrapped in the story of a great human enterprise. This book is of interest to those working in the sciences and humanities.
This is an overview of major therapeutic systems in practice today, outlining the philosophical differences and opportunities for integration among them. Considers new ideas and approaches to therapy stemming from the postmodernist and integrative movements.
This comprehensive and clearly structured text begins with an overview of analytical techniques and moves on to discuss the full range of relevant issues, from purification of proteins and their modification to enzyme kinetics and laboratory quality control.
Focusing on the kinetic description of the inner magnetospheric plasma, this volume illustrates how to determine the best approach to any upper atmospheric or space physics problem. Readers will find a full theoretical description of the inner magnetospheric plasma.
This review of numerical computation methods in high resolution conventional and scanning transmission electron microscope images shows how image calculations help separate information from artifact. Updated with instrumental developments and new references.
Conveys general principals of passive (physiological traits such as fingerprint, iris, face) and active (learned and trained behavior such as voice, handwriting and gait) biometric recognition techniques to the reader. This work discusses aspects such as sensor characteristic dependency, and the generation of cryptographic keys from handwriting.
Now in a second, expanded edition, this book bridges the gap between standard geometry books, which are primarily theoretical, and applied books on computer graphics and introduces a range of geometric methods including Lie groups and Euclidean geometry.
Based on the findings of a unique longitudinal study, this volume provides experts with unprecedented analysis of prospectively collected data following the road from childhood to early adulthood of 1,517 boys and young men from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Based on the authors' everyday research experiences in the field of high-energy heavy-ion collisions, this volume bundles temperature, heat, entropy and disorder into modern physics. The main focus is thermodynamics -- the very concept of temperature, its use, and extensions.
This reference fully explores the particulars of the sounds made by all standard instruments in a modern orchestra as well as the human voice. It discusses how acoustics vary in different rooms and offers recommendations for adjustment.
Written for engineers, this fourth, updated edition of the popular text differs from other books on solid-state physics in stressing concepts, not mathematical formalism. The new edition emphasizes applications and covers next-generation electronic materials.
This is the largest and most comprehensive atlas of the universe ever created for amateur astronomers. It provides a detailed observing guide for almost any practical amateur astronomer. Spanning some 3,000 pages, this is a project that is possible only on CD-ROM.
Closely paralleling the history of psychology is the history of its critics, their theories, and their contributions. This book traces this alternate history. It synthesizes major historical and theoretical narratives to describe two centuries of challenges to and the reactions of the mainstream.
This well structured book provides a systematic introduction to the theory of continuous-time descriptor linear systems. It aims to provide a relatively systematic introduction to the basic results in descriptor linear systems theory.
This monograph leads the reader to the frontiers of the very latest research developments in what is regarded as the central zone of discrete geometry. It is constructed around four classic problems in the subject, including the Kneser-Poulsen Conjecture.
Pluralism is arguably one of the most important features of modern society, and may be a key driver of progress in science, society and economic development. This book examines archaeological evidence pointing to effective power-sharing for the public good.
In-depth studies analyzing evidence-based measures to prevent school violence remain thin on the ground. This volume translates available data into practical preventive measures that can be put to use in school settings and covers a plethora of related issues.
Structured in a problem-solution format, this undergraduate text motivates the student to think through the programming process. New to the second edition are added chapters on suffix trees, games and strategies, and Huffman coding as well as an appendix illustrating the ease of conversion from Pascal to C.
Drifting on Alien Winds surveys the many creative, and often wacky, ideas for exploring alien skies. Through historical photographs and stunning original paintings by the author, readers explore the weather on planets and moons, from the simmering acid-laden winds of Venus, to liquid methane-soaked skies of Titan.
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