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Dealing with various topics at the intersection between education and language, this work provides a description of various topics of interest to language educators and those concerned with making and implementing policy in language education. It covers fundamental topics such as: the social context, society, and national.

Intends to describe those perceptual and cognitive components which contribute to skilled motor performance in sports, microsurgery, video games, and speech. This volume is suitable for kinesiologists, sport psychologists, physical educators, and cognitive psychologists who are interested in a different perspective on the nature of motor skills.

The papers in this volume consider a general area of study known as network routeing: how we can best route material or people from one place to another. The underlying problems are conceptually simple, yet mathematically complex.

Contains terms used in forest science, management and conservation, comprising forest ecology, forest entomology and pathology, forest fire management, forest geomatics, forest meteorology and hydrology, forest soils and geomorphology, forest surveys and mensuration, genetics and tree improvement, harvesting and forest operations, and more.

Provides information on chromatography-mass spectrometry methods, helping readers to understand the analytical basis, technical characteristics and possibilities to evaluate pesticides in food by gas chromatography and liquid chromatography mass spectrometry. This book also provides a compilation of the sample treatment and clean-up procedures.

This text explores basic elements of engineering design for structural integrity. It analyzes design problems as sophisticated systems made up of simpler constituents and develops an approach that allows the student to tackle unfamiliar design scenarios and to consider failure points at each stage.

Tackles the electronic aspect of the design of a security system, and also examines the human factor in such systems. This book deals with methods of reducing false alarms, allowing the police to concentrate on real breeches of security, and thus ultimately to reduce crime. It contains 40 photographs and 25 line diagrams, an index, and more.

Covering various aspects of aircraft, both fixed wing and rotary craft, this pocket book provides access to useful aeronautical engineering data and sources of information for further information.

Part of a series which aims to present work across a broad spectrum of regulation issues, with papers covering a wide range of topics. The volumes review essays of recent books, offering insights into regulation and its processes. A glossary related to securities, law and accounting is included.

Includes articles about advancements in the development of accounting and its related disciplines from an international perspective. This title examines how these developments affect the financial reporting and disclosure practices, taxation, management accounting practices, and auditing of multinational corporations.

Aimed at academics and professional engineers, this book aims to re-establish the basis of the science of aerodynamics. It provides the aeronautical community with an insight into the historical development of aerodynamics.

Introduces the concepts of temperature and its measurement to engineers, physicists and chemists of all disciplines. This book describes a range of techniques and devices available for temperature measurement and provides guidance for the selection of a particular method for a given application. It also includes worked examples of real situations.

Covers the story of the history of CERN from the mid 1960s to the late 1970s. This book includes contributions by historians of science who perceive the laboratory as being at the node of a complex of interconnected relationships between scientists and science managers on the staff, the users in the member states, and the governments.

Covers the building and the running of the CERN laboratory. This book studies the construction and exploitation of the 600 MeV Synchro-cyclotron and the 28 GeV Proton Synchrotron. It considers the setting up of the material and organizational infrastructure which made this possible, and covers the reigns of four Director-Generals.

The Handbook of Magnetic Materials has a dual purpose; as a textbook, it provides an introduction to a given topic within magnetism, and as a work of reference, it serves scientists active in magnetism research. To fulfill these two goals, each chapter in the Handbook is written by leading authorities in the field, and combines state-of-the-art research results with an extensive compilation of archival knowledge. Magnetism is a rapidly expanding field which constantly continues to encompass new phenomena. Examples of such subfields of magnetism are quadrupolar interactions, magnetic superconductors, and quasiscrystals: topics that are all covered in the present volume. The only common ground between these new materials and ferromagnets, is the possession of a magnetic moment; the series title has been slightly adjusted to reflect this. But in keeping with tradition, the Handbook of Magnetic Materials continues to allow readers to acquaint themselves in great depth with topics through the entire breadth of magnetism research.

Describing the history of CERN from its inception in the late 40's up to the mid-60's. The authors have divided these 17-18 years into roughly two successive periods. Volume I deals with the birth and official establishment of the organization and thus covers the years 1949-1954, while Volume II studies the life of the European laboratory during the first twelve years of its existence.

Spectrophotometry enables one to determine, with good precision and sensitivity, almost all the elements present in small and trace quantities of any material. This book focuses on separation and preconcentration methods, since they play an essential role in increasing the selectivity and sensitivity of spectrophotometric methods.

Covers various aspects of dredging including operating methods, outputs, costs, contracts and the impact on the environment. This book is illustrated with line drawings, photographs and tables. It also covers planning and implementing dredging projects, including pre-contract works. It is useful for engineers and managers alike.

Designed to serve as a bridge between the study of the basic principles of metal founding and their application, this book brings together basic metal casting phenomena, foundry techniques and product characteristics. It takes account of the changes in the casting processes and products since the publication of the original edition in 1972.

Responding to the requirements for performance, flexibility, and economy, the networking industry has opted to build products around network processors. This volume defines and advances the field of network processor design. It contains 20 chapters, with topics ranging from architectures to programming models, from security to quality of service.

Contains the papers presented at the International Conference on FRP Composites in Civil Engineering, held in Hong Kong, China, on 12-15 December 2001.

There has been a major shift in the way we conceptualize and provide services to children and adolescents with mental health needs. We are moving away from the traditional disorder-oriented model of treatment to a child-centered, family-focused service delivery system that mandates mental health services in the context of the child's family.

This volume presents studies relating to grasp movement and aims to provide a necessary and valuable contribution to the field of motor control. Evolutionary and developmental aspects are included together with descriptions of how this movement is affected by nervous system damage.

For researchers involved with trace metal and species analysis in clinical, biochemical and environmental research. This book presents analytical approaches to trace metal and speciation analysis in biological specimens. It emphasises on the reliable determination of a number of toxicologically and environmentally important metals.

Aims to contribute to the integration of three traditions that have remained separate in psychology - the developmental, the psychometric, and the cognitive tradition. This text offers answers to questions such as: What is common to intelligence, mind, and reasoning? And, what is specific to each of these three aspects of human knowing?

The demand for high quality aquacultured products and concern for resource conservation has led to invest time and money in commercial scale recirculating production systems. This book intends to provide basic information for the reader so that they may make the proper design or investment decisions concerning water reuse and recycle systems.

Can the study of cognition across cultures lead to conclusions about human cognition in general? This book attempts to look at this issue of universals by providing a compendium of cross cultural investigations in areas of cognitive psychology.

This tenth volume is the sixth in the series devoted to stereoselective synthesis.