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This volume covers current genetic techniques in maize, one of the most successful examples of breeder-directed evolution. Contents include principles and data that can be applied to maximize genetic improvement of germplasm and develop superior genotypes.

Computational Ocean Acoustics presents state-of-the-art numerical techniques to solve the wave equation in heterogeneous fluid-solid media. Thoroughly revised, this volume completely updates the material in the first edition and includes new models based on current research.

This book provides a unified review of analytical methods for neural data that have become essential for contemporary researchers. Illustrated with more than 100 examples drawn from the literature, ranging from electrophysiology to neuroimaging to behavior.

This book, now in its third edition, is an excellent introductory text for students, scientists and engineers who want to learn the basic theory of linear integral equations and their numerical solution. Features problems at the end of each chapter.

This book explores the history, influence on culture and clinical details of the condition popularly known as 'sleeping sickness,' which swept the world in the decade following the First World War, before disappearing without its cause being discovered.

Fully revised for a third edition, this highly regarded guide to the methodology of data collection and synthesis of exam scores explains the process of equalizing, scaling, and moderating results, and how best to design, administer, and mark standard tests.

Based on a survey of health-related behaviors conducted for the Department of Defense by RTI International since 1980, this book examines trends in substance abuse, health behavior, and mental health among active duty military personnel over the past 20 years

This book is a comprehensive introduction to stochastic control problems in both discrete and continuous time. It covers stochastic dynamic programming and the optimal stopping problem for discrete time with a finite or infinite horizon.

This book offers a detailed account of IBM's Deep Blue chess program, the people who created it, and its historic battles with World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov.

. 11 Chapter II The Problem of Inner Speech in Psychology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 . . . . . Verbal Interference Methods in the Study of Inner Speech . . . . 52 .

This volume continues the theme established in Volume 1 of providing a con spectus of the current state of knowledge on topics of active nutritional re search.

The field of Digital Signal Processing has developed so fast in the last two decades that it can be found in the graduate and undergraduate programs of most universities. If accurate information of the signals to be processed is available, the designer can easily choose the most appropriate algorithm to process the signal.

This book introduces the elementary computational techniques of optimal control in aerospace engineering. Throughout, use is made of the time-optimal launch of a satellite into orbit as an important case study. Includes problems and an online solution manual.

This book covers the spectrum of pediatric pathology with particular reference to those conditions that may be identified at autopsy. It details cutting-edge methods that demonstrate great care in technique and dissection.

This book explains the engineering required to bring geothermal resources into use. It covers techniques developed in the petroleum industry and explains these techniques at a fundamental level.

This book illustrates the majority of diseases pathologists, clinicians and oncologists are likely to encounter in practice. It includes macroscopic images of disorders as well as tables that help readers understand and comprehend diseases that look alike.

This book presents the peridynamic theory, which provides the capability for improved modeling of progressive failure in materials and structures, and paves the way for addressing multi-physics and multi-scale problems.

This book offers a systematic overview of the research on accounting-based valuation, focusing on recent theoretical developments and the resulting empirical analyses that recognize the role of accounting information in making managerial decisions.

Presented in this new, full-color edition, with the first polychrome phase diagrams to be published, this geoscientific atlas is backed by the author's unrivalled dataset, and amounts to the most complete survey yet of phase relations in Earth's chemistry.

Contents 11. Summary . . . Making Sense of the Issues . . Introduction . . . . Science and Matters of Society . Summary . Tying It All Together . . . . Introduction . . . . Critical Systems Thinking 253 11. Conclusion 254 Questions . . . 255 REFERENCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

A discussion of the role of modeling in the management process, with an overview of state-of-the-art modeling applications.

This book examines such elements of family structure as father-mother, father-children, mother-children relationships, and relationships between offspring of different mothers. Explores the role of Islam, and the social and economic consequences of polygamy.

This book explores in detail the "extensions" of rings and modules. It covers mathematical interdiscipllinary applications throughout and features exercises and open problems.

This book offers a manual and reference guide on such issues as excavation techniques, ethical issues in handling of human remains including NAGPRA compliance, lab and forensic techniques, field and taphonomic clues and more. Includes a range of field studies.

This book explores quantum walks, which are important in building quantum algorithms. Coverage includes Grover's algorithm; Analytical solutions of quantum walks using Fourier transforms; Quantum walks on generic graphs; Spatial search algorithms and more.

The Atlas describes and illustrates normal and pathologic conditions afflicting human bone, focusing on tumor and tumor-like conditions and their non-neoplastic mimics. Its high quality digital images are suplemented with radiographic and special study images.

Designed to help teach genetics with greater ease and less anxiety, this book includes a comprehensive, interactive learning program developed at at the University of Chicago and Purdue University, that focuses on chromosome simulation and model building.

In its expanded new edition, this book covers boundary layers, multiple scales, homogenisation, slender body theory, symbolic computing, discrete equations and more. Includes exercises derived from current research, drawn from a range of application areas.

Updated to include the latest computational methods, this second edition explains how to use the 'gss' R package and features expanded empirical studies, a reorganized content, and a further new appendix analyzing new and controversial topics in smoothing.

Focusing on the architecture and implementation of algorithms, this volume presents real-time and causal processing implementation, as well as architectures of FPGA design and parallel processing. Readers will find coverage of applications to both imaging and medical imaging.