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Concentrates on how to make predictions about the numbers of each kind of basic state of a quantum system from only two ingredients: the symmetry and linear model of quantum mechanics.

In April of 1992, war began in Bosnia. An immediate exodus began from Bosnia, and people who had never anticipated leaving their country became refugees, dependent upon a world system of resettlement for displaced persons.

This is a rigorous, systematic guide for the professional development of mindfulness practitioners across the range of professional clinical settings. It is also a hands-on text covering both the academic theory and the skills required in teaching mindfulness.

This comprehensive guide provides readers with the knowledge to use archaeological science methods to the best advantage. The guide describes and explains the analytical techniques in a manner that the average archaeologist can understand.

This highly readable book describes fundamental and advanced concepts and methods of logistic regression. The 3rd edition includes three new chapters, an updated computer appendix, and an expanded section on modeling guidelines that consider causal diagrams.

This handbook introduces 40 major mobility models, with numerous associate mobility models to be used in MANET networking environments in the ground, air, space and underwater mobile vehicles and handheld devices. Includes case studies, examples and exercises.

This book examines Relational Competence Theory - the study of traits that allow people to interact with each other effectively - with emphasis on its applicability to interventions, and examines what is robust and verifiable both in the lab and the clinic.

The goal of this ground-breaking volume is to show how neuroscience research is relevant to sociologists and social psychologists as well as examining those areas of neuroscience that can refine and broaden sociological theory.

This is a concise, integrated and coherent presentation of the theoretical framework of nonlinear mechanics, computational methods, applications, parametric investigations of nonlinear phenomena and their mechanical interpretation towards design.

This book addresses fundamental changes that have taken place in Russia in the last five to seven years, including increasing crime in the economy and the shift of power from organized crime and mafia-like organizations to the Organized Corruption Networks.

Investigating the capture and analysis of user's multimodal behavior (mainly eye gaze, eye fixation, eye blink and body movements) within a real controlled environment, this text shows how the response of the computer or environment can be adapted to the user.

This book is unique in the sweep of issues it considers and the way it integrates them under one general philosophical perspective. Vital reading for philosophers of education, educational researchers and social science methodologists.

Insomnia is often undiagnosed, or treated as a symptom of anxiety. This is the first guidebook for clinicians that considers the evaluation and management of insomnia and related sleep disturbances that occur conjointly with the common anxiety disorders.

With growing connections between physics and the life sciences, this text introduces the terminology and the biological systems physicists encounter. It sets out the dynamics of complex systems, and provides a problem-solving challenge from the literature.

This richly illustrated book provides a unique diagnostic reference text for the pathologic diagnosis of infectious diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Superior illustrations accompany carefully written prose to create a useful diagnostic companion.

"The main emphasis of the book is on applications of various models that facilitate managerial decisions to be taken....The algorithms and techniques are explained by providing insight and illustration." --ZENTRALBLATT MATH

We are struggling through a worldwide economic and financial crisis. No company can afford to take a wait-and-see attitude. In this book, international strategy guru Hermann Simon offers 33 practical actions that any company can take immediately.

This book contains several papers related to the physics and chemistry of the Earth's crust, its metamorphic history as a function of pressure and temperature, and the mode of melt generation in the crust. It includes over one hundred illustrations.

This volume presents a full overview of plant biotechnology, from its roots in the basic sciences to its current applications in the biological and agricultural sciences, industry, and medicine. Coverage also examines the associated risks of biotechnology.

This book examines algebraic number theory and the theory of semisimple algebras. It covers classification over an algebraic number field and classification over the ring of algebraic integers.

Here is an alphabetical listing of issues pertaining to hallucinations and other misperceptions. It includes definitions of individual symptoms, medical conditions and substances, and historical figures who are known to have experienced hallucination.

This guide is divided into two sections. The first covers theoretical and practical aspects, including the best preparative technique. The second part offers technical hints, including twenty-two detailed protocols for preparing thin slices for TEM analysis.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory of ordinary differential equations with a focus on mechanics and dynamical systems as important applications of the theory. It also features a complete collection of proofs for the major theorems.

Benefiting from the authors' long clinical experience, this practical volume takes readers through the EBP decision-making process in assessment, treatment planning, and evaluation, providing guidelines the correct application of research findings.

This text is an overview of the design and analysis of nuclear power reactors. Topics covered include nuclear fuel, reactor core, plant control, plant stand-up and stability as well as safety system and safety system analysis parameters.

This book presents the necessary analytical and computational tools for MEMS designers to model and simulate most known MEMS devices, structures, and phenomena. In also provides analysis and treatment for the most common static and dynamic phenomena in MEMS.

This book focuses on the reliability and manufacturability of MEMS at a fundamental level. It demonstrates how to design MEMs for reliability and provides detailed information on the different types of failure modes and how to avoid them.

School consultation has become an important vehicle for delivering psychological and educational services. The Third Edition of School Consultation: Conceptual and Empirical Bases of Practice shows in expert detail how school consultation works.

Racism in America is most-commonly studied as white racism against minority groups (racial, gender, cultural). This title reveals the pernicious, complex, and often misunderstood forms of skin color discrimination: their origins and their manifestations in modern world. It is suitable for researchers studying the Sociology of Race and Racism.

This book is a product of my commitment to developing both theory and practice in political economy.