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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
Latinos are the fastest growing and largest minority group in the United States. In 2008, this group numbered over 47 million; by 2050, the population is expected to triple, reaching 133 million. Traditionally, Latinos have immigrated to large urban centers (e.g., New York, Los Angeles) that over...
America’s Most Sustainable Cities and Regions
Surviving the 21st Century Megatrends
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2016
This book takes you on a unique journey through American history, taking time to consider the forces that shaped the development of various cities and regions, and arrives at an unexpected conclusion regarding sustainability. From the American Dream to globalization to the digital and information...
Understanding Crime Incidence Statistics
Why the UCR Diverges From the NCS
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The prominence achieved by the novel measure of "households touched by crime" when it was introduced into the National Crime Survey (NCS) in 1981 was responsible for renewed attention to comparisons between the crime rates reported by the NCS and the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR). The new...
Open Government
Opportunities and Challenges for Public Governance
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
On January 2009, President Obama signed the Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government. The memorandum declares the new Administration’s commitment to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government and establishing a system linking three principles: transparency, public participation...
by Michael O. Finkelstein, Bruce Levin
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
This classic text, first published in 1990, is designed to introduce law students, law teachers, practitioners, and judges to the basic ideas of mathematical probability and statistics as they have been applied in the law. The third edition includes over twenty new sections, including the addition...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In the middle of the 17th century, the great French philosopher Rene Descartes wrote (L'Homme, J. Le Gras, Paris, 1669) that a suitable stimulation of the brain results in two types of "movements": exterior movements, designed to seek desirable ends and to avoid undesirable or harmful ones...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Quantitative criminology has certainly come a long way since I was ?rst introduced to a largely qualitative criminology some 40 years ago, when I was recruited to lead a task force on science and technology for the President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice. At that...
Handbook of Social Resource Theory
Theoretical Extensions, Empirical Insights, and Social Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Our lives as human beings are characterized by production and use of social resources, material (e.g., money and physical possessions) as well as immaterial (such as love, knowledge, and power). Distribution and exchange of these resources are central to individuals’ physical and mental health and...
The Mystery of Personality
A History of Psychodynamic Theories
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
In The Mystery of Personality: A History of Psychodynamic Theories, acclaimed professor and historian Eugene Taylor synthesizes the field’s first century and a half into a rich, highly readable account. Taylor situates the dynamic school in its catalytic place in history, re-evaluating misunderstood...
Beyond Technocracy
Science, Politics and Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
"Will the ordinary man become a scientist?...Bucchi exposes the inadequacy of the ‘technochratic model’ but also the weaknesses of contemporary bioethics when facing the increasing dilemmas posed by science and technology to contemporary society."
-Il Corriere della Sera [Italian...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
Minimally invasive surgery has evolved as an alternative to the traditional approaches in orthopedic surgery and has gathered a great deal of attention. Many surgeons are now p- forming all types of procedures through smaller surgical felds. Along with changes in the surgical technique, there have...
Business Statistics for Competitive Advantage with Excel 2010
Basics, Model Building, and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
Exceptional managers know that they can create competitive advantages by basing decisions on performance response under alternative scenarios. To create these advantages, managers need to understand how to use statistics to provide information on performance response under alternative scenarios....
Enacting Electronic Government Success
An Integrative Study of Government-wide Websites, Organizational Capabilities, and Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2012
Many countries around the world are investing a great amount of resources in government IT initiatives. However, few of these projects achieve their stated goals and some of them are complete failures. Therefore, understanding e-government success has become very important and urgent in recent years....
by Kenneth Knoblauch, Laurence T. Maloney
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2012
Many of the commonly used methods for modeling and fitting psychophysical data are special cases of statistical procedures of great power and generality, notably the Generalized Linear Model (GLM). This book illustrates how to fit data from a variety of psychophysical paradigms using modern statistical...