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Handbook of Politics
State and Society in Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2009
Political sociology is the interdisciplinary study of power and the intersection of personality, society and politics. The field also examines how the political process is affected by major social trends as well as exploring how social policies are altered by various social forces.
Political...
The Next Generation of Distance Education
Unconstrained Learning
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
The world of education is being radically altered with the change being driven by technology, openness, and unprecedented access to knowledge. Older correspondence-style methods of instructional delivery are passé and “classroom adapted to the web” approaches to learning are often ineffective...
In Situ and Laboratory Experiments on Electoral Law Reform
French Presidential Elections
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
In the modern era, representation is the hallmark of democracy, and electoral rules structure how representation works and how effectively governments perform. Moreover, of the key structural variables in constitutional design, it is the choice of electoral system that is usually the most open to...
Green Computing with Emerging Memory
Low-Power Computation for Social Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
This book describes computing innovation, using non-volatile memory for a sustainable world. It appeals to both computing engineers and device engineers by describing a new means of lower power computing innovation, without sacrificing performance over conventional low-voltage operation. Readers will...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
The pursuit for better governance has assumed center stage in developmental discourse as well as reform initiatives of all organizations working for the public welfare, and includes such issues as service delivery and responding to citizens’ needs and demands. In the era of globalization, multilevel...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Since the earliest years of its development, Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) has been hailed for its clinical innovation and transformative power with clients across the range of disorders. Building on the foundations of their earlier volumes about this versatile therapy, the editors of The...
by Waleed Khalil, Samantha Yoder, Mohammed Ismail
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2011
This book introduces the concept of voltage-controlled-oscillator (VCO)-based analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). Detailed explanation is given of this promising new class of high resolution and low power ADCs, which use time quantization as opposed to traditional analog-based (i.e. voltage) ADCs.
Advances in Electromagnetic Fields in Living Systems
Volume 5, Health Effects of Cell Phone Radiation
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Health Effects of Cell Phone Radiation will offer a concentrated and up-to-date overview on the effects of radio frequencies on human tissue. While significant advances are being made on many fronts, ranging in frequency from quasi-static to the optical regime, a special emphasis of this volume is...
by Ying Xu, Juan Cui, David Puett
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
This book provides a framework for computational researchers studying the basics of cancer through comparative analyses of omic data. It discusses how key cancer pathways can be analyzed and discovered to derive new insights into the disease and identifies diagnostic and prognostic markers for cancer....
by Clarence R. Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2006
Human hair is the subject of a wide range of scientific investigations. Its chemical and physical properties are of importance to the cosmetics industry, forensic scientists, and to biomedical researchers. This updated and enlarged fourth edition continues the tradition of its predecessor as being...
Theoretical Principles of Sociology, Volume 1
Macrodynamics
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
In a general study of Sociological Theory, social processes are usually broken down into three tiers: macrodynamics (societies and large-scale institutions), microdynamics (interpersonal encounters), and mesodynamics (corporations, communities, smaller organizations). In this seminal work, the author...
Residue Reviews
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Worldwide concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental com munities over traces of toxic chemicals in foodstuffs and in both abiotic and biotic environments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field: comprehensive reviews, rapidly published progress reports,...
Real World Ecology
Large-Scale and Long-Term Case Studies and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2008
Ecological and environmental research has increased in scope and complexity in the last few decades, from simple systems with a few managed variables to complex ecosystems with many uncontrolled variables. These issues encompass problems that are inadequately addressed using the types of carefully...
The Economic Impact of Public Support to Agriculture
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
Despite a gradual and sustained decline in the contribution of agriculture to the economies of the member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the sector remains socially and politically important. Although agriculture accounts for less than 2% of the gross...