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Bioarchaeological Documentation and Cultural Understanding

This book provides the framework, basic methods, rationale and advanced techniques for translating the behavior of children, adolescents, and parents into visible, traceable data. Introduces Gridware, a versatile visualization and data manipulation tool.

This comprehensive review of biomimetic materials with self-healing, self-lubricating and self-cleaning properties addresses theoretical and practical aspects of the topic, especially where they have applications to 'green', biomedical and defense technology.

Knowledge of turbulent mixing by jets and plumes is important for environmental control, impact and risk assessment.Turbulent Jets and Plumes introduces the fundamental concepts and develops a Lagrangian approach to model these shear flows.

In the past decade we have witnessed the birth and maturing of a field of research centering on the Ca2+ signaling functions of cyclic ADP-ribose (cADPR) and nicotinic acid adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NAADP), which structures and mechanisms of action are truly unique among all Ca2+ messengers.

This book expands on the status and therapeutic importance of n-3 fatty acids and their mediators in normal brains and those with neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric diseases. It also presents the benefits of n-3 fatty acids on the Western diet.

"Ramanujan's lost notebook" contains considerable material on mock theta functions and so undoubtedly emanates from the last year of Ramanujan's life. It should be emphasized that the material on mock theta functions is perhaps Ramanujan's deepest work.

Introducing the reader to the core concepts of motivation and motivational design, this volume applies this knowledge to the design process in a systematic, step-by-step format. It takes the theoretically robust ARCS model as the basis for its approach.

This overview of solid state physics provides up-to-date developments in semiconductors and nanotechnology. Mathematical results are carefully described in a standardized style and notation, while ample problems illustrate principles throughout the text.

The relationship between population intelligence and public health could be a driving factor in the strong rise in IQ over time. The latest medical and behavior science research are examined in this text to determine social and political implications at play.

Why the difference?Recent developmental research has demonstrated a relationship between sleep/wake patterns and different kinds of problem behaviors, including social adjustment problems, family coercion, and disaffection from school.

This work examines the profusion of Mexican-Americans in low wage or service sector jobs, which rarely come with health or retirement benefits. It deemphasizes cultural explanations for the economic disparities and focuses on practical, policy-based solutions.

Providing the necessary materials within a theoretical framework, this volume presents stochastic principles and processes, and related areas. Over 1000 exercises illustrate the concepts discussed, including modern approaches to sample paths and optimal stopping.

Makes these ideas accessible to a general reader complex concepts of relativity and the stimulated emission of light through the use of mathematics no more difficult than one learns in high school. Written by a noted and successful science writer.

This text recasts theories of self, synthesizing a range of psychologists and philosophers to restore to psychology the centrality of personhood and choice. Its unique perspective de-emphasizes method and formula in favor of moral agency and life experience.

With the aim of facilitating signal processing in manufacturing, this book presents a systematic description of the fundamentals on wavelet transform and the ways of applying it to the condition monitoring and health diagnosis of rotating machine components.

Illustrated through dozens of examples and discussion of application to small and medium-sized businesses and not-for-profits, this book presents a fundamentally new approach to corporate strategy, focused on the customer, not competitors.

The differences between FPGA and ASIC technologies are examined in this reference, with a particular focus on cost, performance and power consumption. Common misconceptions between the two devices are addressed and specific design choices are highlighted.

Scilab is a free open-source software package for scientific computation. This is the first book to focus on simulation and modeling, and to put a major emphasis on Scicos and discuss it in depth. This new edition includes expanded chapters and major rewrites.

The Variational Analysis and Aerospace Engineering conference held in Erice, Italy in September 2007 at International School of Mathematics, Guido Stampacchia provided a platform for aerospace engineers and mathematicians to discuss the problems requiring an extensive application of mathematics. This work contains papers presented at the workshop.

A treatment of the problems of inference associated with experiments in science, with the emphasis on techniques for dividing the sample information into various parts, such that the diverse problems of inference that arise from repeatable experiments may be addressed.

These articles span the years from 1961-1980 while David Mumford was an active researcher in the area of algebraic geometry. This volume includes many important papers previously omitted. Mumford's correspondence with Grothendieck is also included.

This fully revised and updated edition addresses the fundamentals of epidemiological methods and statistics applicable to evolving systems, programs, technologies and policies in the healthcare industry. New chapters discuss casual thinking, economics, ethics, and web resources on a global scale.

This text on a central area of number theory covers p-adic L-functions, class numbers, cyclotomic units, Fermat's Last Theorem, and Iwasawa's theory of Z_p-extensions.

Intended for students in the visual arts and for others with an interest in art, but with no prior knowledge of physics, this book presents the science behind what and how we see.

The authors of this book are experts on the subject of extrasolar planets. By presenting an updated perspective of our planet as seen from outer space, they provide a guide for the remote detection of life on other planets and planets beyond the solar system.

This book collects 20 papers that span the areas of mathematical physics, dynamical systems, and probability. Yakov Sinai is well-known as both a mathematician and a physicist, with numerous theorems and proofs bearing his name in both fields.

Restructuring Electricity Markets examines the results of energy restructuring in a variety of countries, including the United States, Canada and Russia. Readers will find a comprehensive analysis of electricity market models and their compatibility with the properties of power systems and countries.

Covering software implementations in S-plus and R, this volume serves as both a handbook for measurement specialists, as well as a textbook for students of the Bayesian approach to modern test theory. Software implementations are made available online for further instruction.