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This book is based on the premise that changes in family structure require changes in methods of representation, assessment, research, and teaching. This book introduces such a method in the form of a model named the affinograph.

These peer-reviewed papers collated by the International Commission on Microbiological Specifications for Foods (ICMSF) have a wealth of practical guidance on appropriate testing of food processing environments, processing lines, shelf-life and products.

As the size of data sets grows ever larger, the need for valid statistical tools is greater than ever. This book introduces super learning and the targeted maximum likelihood estimator, and discusses complex data structures and related applied topics.

Does economics conform to the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics? This important and fascinating tour of these laws and their influence on natural, technological, and social evolution uses them to analyze economic growth in Germany, Japan and the USA.

This leading text on modeling of pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic data using nonlinear mixed effects models uses a building block approach. It starts from linear models and then moves up to generalized linear and non-linear mixed effects models.

Summarizing the work of several decades, this book culminates in a revolutionary model of recent human evolution. It challenges current consensus views fundamentally, presenting in its support a mass of evidence, much of which has never been assembled before.

This book offers current methods, software and applications involved in weighted networks, reviewing data mining methods and analysis strategies and showing how to use them in practice. The self-contained presentation requires minimal knowledge of statistics.

This book provides axioms of partial order and some basic material, for example consequences of criss-crossing of data profiles, the role of aggregations of the indicators and the powerful method of formal concept analysis.

This book examines some of the most fundamental and outstanding questions in nanoscience from a theoretical computational perspective. It features interdisciplinary applications for chemistry, physics, and materials science.

This book explores not only the challenges facing African American girls, but also the strengths and resiliencies used to meet them. Salient issues of self and identity are addressed, and crucial domains such as relationships and expectations are examined.

In an updated edition, this book explores real-time computing, placing emphasis on predictable scheduling algorithms. Each chapter offers basic concepts followed by algorithms, illustrated with concrete examples, figures and tables, exercises and solutions.

This book offers a hands-on guide to designing, analyzing and debugging a communication infrastructure based on the Controller Area Network (CAN) bus. It focuses on practical implementation and the implications of design choices at all levels.

Eschewing advanced mathematics, this volume provides a practical and accessible approach to the technical aspects of guitar-making, including complete coverage of alternative materials such as composites as well as background and historical information.

This book presents a unified approach to understanding the diverse phenomena observed at metal-dielectric interfaces. It offers a clear account of the relationship between interface science and its applications in interconnect structures.

This book addresses several well-known and new canonical location discovery problems in WSN, including engineering change-based node addition, design and operation of location discovery infrastructure for mobile users, and various security issues.

Presenting ways of using AI optimization techniques to operate and control electric power systems, this book is full of practical applications and examples and features, among other methods, functional analysis, simulated annealing and Tabu-search.

Covering 100 medicinal plant species of the Lesser Himalayas including Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms and Angiosperms, this book reviews ethnobotanical aspects, marketing and anthropogenic pressures, and also includes scientific description and traditional uses.

A reference for physicians and ancillary medical professionals involved in the care of patients with impaired immune systems due to cancer, chemotherapy, systemic steroids and other immunosuppressive drugs, HIV/AIDS or organ transplantation. It helps you recognize skin lesions and diagnose their infectious cause.

The primary goal of instructional design is improving the quality of learning and instruction. Many of the available books treat instruction as a formal process that proceeds according to specific and detailed instructional systems development models (see, for example, Dick, Carey & Carey, 2005).

This book presents key concepts in stochastic approaches for systems biology. It focuses on both analytical and numerical approaches and features Matlab examples as well as many illustrations.

As supply chain management has matured, maintaining the precise flow of goods to manage schedules (and minimize inventories) on a just-in-time basis still presents major challenges.

This is the first ever book that provides a comprehensive coverage of automotive control systems. The presentation of dynamic models in the text is also unique. The dynamic models are tractable while retaining the level of richness that is necessary for control system design. Much of the mateiral in the book is not available in any other text.

Electrostatic Discharge is a pervasive issue in the semiconductor industry affecting both manufacturers and users of semiconductors. This easy-to-read, practical handbook presents an overview of ESD as it effects electronic circuits and provides a concise introduction for students, engineers, circuit designers and failure analysts.

This text captures the important relationship between religion and the family with a review of relevant literature on the subject, synthesizing it within a theoretical framework. The book shows how these two social institutions work - or don't work together. Literature is drawn from folk religion, Christianity, Judaism and Islam.

Surgical excision of cancers of the nose typically requires reconstruction. This book offers guided surgical techniques and references, providing insight and practical guidance to the surgeon and trainee performing nasal reconstructions.

This book provides a comprehensive guide for practitioners who wish to understand, construct, and analyze intelligent systems for decision support based on probabilistic networks. The theory and methods presented are illustrated through more than 140 examples.

Depth recovery is important in machine vision applications when a 3-dimensional structure must be derived from 2-dimensional images. This is an active area of research with applications ranging from industrial robotics to military imaging.