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This encyclopaedia was compiled to add to the literature and understanding of historic events leading up to the recent efforts of a regional peace process and to the projected evolution of a Middle East/North Africa economic community.

Shows the changes in the transportation arena. This title presents a diverse view of transportation economics, in a field that is forever changing as regulations change, economic growth continues, and our econometric and modeling methods become increasingly refined.

Outlines the techniques required to undertake a detailed analysis of the cash flow dynamics of the business from both a historical and forward looking perspective. This book explains how to: determine appropriate cash flow figures from pro forma financial statements; and interpret detailed cash flow forecasts.

There has been a major growth in research on how memory is used in everyday life. This volume aims to represent a reaction to traditional laboratory-bound studies of the first half of the century which sought to identify the fundamental principles of learning and memory through the use of materials and methods totally divorced from the real world.

Employs the analytic techniques based on the solution of the Neumann Problem as the main tool. This book emphasises on results where these methods are particularly important.

Stimulus class formation has been studied independently by two groups of researchers. One group has come out of a learning theory approach, while the second has developed out of a behavior analytic tradition. This book is aimed at further establishing the ties between these two research areas.

A collection that initiates explorations of the human mind via the technologies the mind produces. It covers such topics as: using technology to empower the cognitively impaired; the ethics versus aesthetics of technology; and, the externalisation of emotive and affective life and its special dialectic ('mirror') effects.

Contains contributors who work on sensory-motor aging and presents a large range of affiliations and backgrounds including psychology, neurobiology, cognitive sciences, kinesiology, neuropsychology, neuropharmacology, motor performance, physical therapy, exercise science, and human development.

Aims to give an integrative approach of time sense and to focus the analysis on temporal factors in the processing of movement, trying to link temporal perception studies in the final common pathway, that is motion. This work also seeks to give some clues of human brain integrative processes at higher levels.

Contains papers presented at a workshop that was organized to develop a coherent view of the results accomplished in the field of intelligent and adaptive user interfaces, and organize basic ideas which might lead to a more general methodology for adaptivity in order to overcome the problem of specialized, non-generalizable solutions.

This volume contains selected and edited papers from the 7th European Conference on Eye Movements held in Durham on August 31-September 3, 1993.

Electrochemical reactions make significant contributions to organic synthesis either in the laboratory or on an industrial scale. This book presents a logical development of reactions and mechanisms in organic electrochemistry. It is also a reference guide to the literature.

A biosensor is a device that has a biological sensing element either intimately connected to or integrated within a transducer. Biosensors represent a trend in the diagnostics industry. This work talks about the principles and applications of biosensors and discusses ways that can be used to fabricate biosensors for a variety of applications.

Deals with fundamental perceptual processes resulting from the simple localization of an object in space or from the temporal determination of an event within a series of events. This book includes two sections that are devoted to the perception of unimodal spatial and temporal events.

This is a compilation of the best of "Jim Blinn's Corner". Jim Blinn shares useful graphics tip and tricks.

Includes chapters that describe the interlingua texts used in knowledge-based machine translation, the grammar formalism embodied in the system, the grammars and lexicons and their roles in the translation process, the process of source language analysis, and the generator, which produces target language sentences.

Shows IT professionals how to overcome the social crisis that has resulted from the use of information technology. This work also shows managers how to take charge of key aspects of their IT operations and follow an ethically, and legally correct path to success. It includes instructions on how to accomplish objectives of privacy and security.

Volume 14 of a series which aims to provide details of advances in stratification research from various, international, points of view.

Provides information on taking the necessary measures to improve EMC performance and therefore the chance of achieving compliance. This book shows how to achieve EMC compliance early on in the design process; provides the knowledge to trace system EMC performance problems; and, follows best design practices.

This reference work is a practical guide to the selection and design of the components of machines and to their lubrication. It has been revised by experts in this field.

Attempts to bring together a collection of approaches to, and related empirical investigations on, the development of coordination in the first two years of life. This book is intended to scientists and students in, for example, biology, human movement sciences, kinesiology, psychology, pediatrics, physiology, physical education, and robotics.

Historically batch control systems lacked the ability to convert to new products without having to modify the control systems. This work arranges the structures of modern batch management systems to produce flexible schemes suitable for automated batch management, with capability to be reconfigured to use the same plant equipment.

The Health and Safety at Work Act obliges those responsible for hazardous areas, those who work in such areas and those who supply equipment for use in such areas to demonstrate that they have taken all necessary steps to prevent fires and explosions. This book seeks to explain the complexity of standards and codes pertaining to this field.

Aims to encourage integration of the natural and social sciences with the policy and design-making community, and thereby develop a deeper understanding of complex environmental problems. This book also deals both with the state of the science and the level of consensus among scientists on key environmental issues.

A two-part set, which provides reference for metallurgists, material scientists and crystallographers. The first part covers the general theory while the second part is concerned with descriptions of specific types of transformations.

Presents the history of the language sciences, from ancient times through to the twentieth century. For twentieth century, this book contains a section on the various trends, schools, and theoretical framework developed in Europe, North America and Australasia.

Explores three major areas in which thick film technology contributes as a sensor technology, namely: hybrid circuits for signal processing (in combination with either thick-film sensing elements or transducing elements derived from other technologies), creation of architectural structures, and transducing elements derived from thick-film pastes.

Suitable as a teaching supplement for industrial organization, or industrial economics, the microeconomics field that focuses on business behavior and its implications for both market structures and processes, and for related public policies.

Experimental methods in economics respond to circumstances that are not completely dictated by accepted theory or outstanding problems. This book reflects the spirit of adventure that experimentalists share and focuses on experiments in general rather than forcing an organization into traditional categories that do not fit.

Provides a collection of articles from the year 2000. This work includes papers from the following journals: "Computers and Geotechnics Geotextiles", "Geomembranes International Journal of Rock Mechanics", "Mining Sciences Journal of Terramechanics Soil Dynamics", "Earthquake Engineering Tunnelling", and "Underground Space Technology".