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"The main emphasis of the book is on applications of various models that facilitate managerial decisions to be taken....The algorithms and techniques are explained by providing insight and illustration." --ZENTRALBLATT MATH

We are struggling through a worldwide economic and financial crisis. No company can afford to take a wait-and-see attitude. In this book, international strategy guru Hermann Simon offers 33 practical actions that any company can take immediately.

This book contains several papers related to the physics and chemistry of the Earth's crust, its metamorphic history as a function of pressure and temperature, and the mode of melt generation in the crust. It includes over one hundred illustrations.

This volume presents a full overview of plant biotechnology, from its roots in the basic sciences to its current applications in the biological and agricultural sciences, industry, and medicine. Coverage also examines the associated risks of biotechnology.

This book examines algebraic number theory and the theory of semisimple algebras. It covers classification over an algebraic number field and classification over the ring of algebraic integers.

Here is an alphabetical listing of issues pertaining to hallucinations and other misperceptions. It includes definitions of individual symptoms, medical conditions and substances, and historical figures who are known to have experienced hallucination.

This guide is divided into two sections. The first covers theoretical and practical aspects, including the best preparative technique. The second part offers technical hints, including twenty-two detailed protocols for preparing thin slices for TEM analysis.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory of ordinary differential equations with a focus on mechanics and dynamical systems as important applications of the theory. It also features a complete collection of proofs for the major theorems.

Benefiting from the authors' long clinical experience, this practical volume takes readers through the EBP decision-making process in assessment, treatment planning, and evaluation, providing guidelines the correct application of research findings.

This text is an overview of the design and analysis of nuclear power reactors. Topics covered include nuclear fuel, reactor core, plant control, plant stand-up and stability as well as safety system and safety system analysis parameters.

This book presents the necessary analytical and computational tools for MEMS designers to model and simulate most known MEMS devices, structures, and phenomena. In also provides analysis and treatment for the most common static and dynamic phenomena in MEMS.

This book focuses on the reliability and manufacturability of MEMS at a fundamental level. It demonstrates how to design MEMs for reliability and provides detailed information on the different types of failure modes and how to avoid them.

School consultation has become an important vehicle for delivering psychological and educational services. The Third Edition of School Consultation: Conceptual and Empirical Bases of Practice shows in expert detail how school consultation works.

Racism in America is most-commonly studied as white racism against minority groups (racial, gender, cultural). This title reveals the pernicious, complex, and often misunderstood forms of skin color discrimination: their origins and their manifestations in modern world. It is suitable for researchers studying the Sociology of Race and Racism.

This book is a product of my commitment to developing both theory and practice in political economy.

Basic income is a regularly debated topic in various scholarly disciplines (political philosophy, political theory, welfare economics, labour market economics and social policy) and in circles of policy makers, administrators and activists.

This comprehensive book outlines and explains the parameters of design science research. It demonstrates how to conduct such research, and provides examples of various types of research that have been conducted using design science.

This accessible book explores key discoveries in recent years of space exploration and addresses major questions such as: How prolific is life in the universe? How far back to the Big Bang can we probe? And what hidden treasures still lurk in our Solar System?

This comprehensive, practical reference can help schools meet the urgent need to identify, assess, and treat students with ADHD. It offers guidance on everything from conducting assessments and addressing classroom issues to navigating potential legal issues.

This work is based on the premise that there are risk factors, including social cohesion that regulate health and disease in groups. Until now, relatively little work has focused on how increased social cohesion sustains or improves health.

This text introduces a unique strengths-based framework that identifies the spectrum of positive influences on child development inside and outside the home, as well as the qualities that can be nurtured with the help of community institutions such as schools.

Incorporating concepts of globalization into family research introduces a new, unstudied dimension into the understanding of family dynamics. In forging a link between globalization and families, this book highlights the complex relationship between the two.

The authors present an overview of recent applications of symmetry to the description of atomic nuclei. They use simple examples to introduce symmetry concepts. Special emphasis is put on the introduction of neutron-proton and boson-fermion degrees of freedom.

This book examines both psychophysics, the science of relationships between human sensations, and the stimuli that evoke them. Authored by a "giant" in the field of psychophysics, this is the first book to focus on multisensory psychophysical laws.

Intended for advanced level students in computer science and mathematics, this key text, now in a brand new edition, provides a survey of recent progress in primality testing and integer factorization, with implications for factoring based public key cryptography.

The objective of this book, being the first one on magnesium injection molding, is to treat both the scientific background and the technological aspects as they are understood at present. The book provides a single source of information covering the interdisciplinary field of net shape forming of magnesium alloys.

A presentation of all aspects of neural crest cell origins (embryological and evolutionary), development and evolution; neural crest cell behavior (migration) and anomalies (neurocristopathies and birth defects) arising from defective neural crest development.

Is our society color-blind? Trans-racial? Post-racial? And what should this mean to clinical professionals with diverse clients? This ambitious volume probes these questions, compelling psychotherapists to look differently at their clients-and themselves.

This book describes best practices for successful FPGA design. Coverage includes the complete FPGA design flow, from basic to advanced techniques, and presents a complete, field-tested methodology for FPGA design.

This book reviews activity systems analysis as an effective method for mapping complex human interactions from qualitative data. It is the first to methodological publication that explores how researchers engage in activity systems analysis.