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After 13 years there are new areas to discuss and more recent trials to be included. The references are expanded from 305 to 512 and include the recent advances in trial design, such as the n-of-1 trials and megatrials, and up-to-date examples to illustrate the points made in the 20 chapters.

Perhaps surprisingly, this is the first comprehensive treatment of production planning and control problems in semiconductor wafer fabrication. It covers the role of modeling, analysis, and related information systems in this key manufacturing sector.

Handbook of Neuroevolution Through Erlang presents both the theory behind, and the methodology of, developing a neuroevolutionary-based computational intelligence system using Erlang.

This book proposes that clinical psychology and psychotherapy practices could reach a scientific level in this digital age, by changing three paradigms that have controlled practice in the past century: (1) one-on-one, (2) personal contacts, (3) through talk.

The biopsychosocial lifespan model outlined here is readily adaptable to clinical work. Updated for this second edition, it is essential reading for a range of health professionals requiring effective strategies for handling patients' sexual health concerns.

This book presents scientific and medicinal analysis of the anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anti-aging and immune boosting properties of some herbs and spices, and appraises their constituents, medicinal applications, toxicology and physiological effects.

After six years, a new the new vistas edition of this textbook must therefore take into account some of that have opened up recently.

This volume focuses on a wide range of behaviors and outcomes in stepfamily relationships, both positive and negative. The authors use the normative-adaptive perspective to seek out and study adaptive, well-functioning stepfamilies and find how they differ from those who struggle to cope.

In this new, digitally re-mastered edition, 'The Hatfield Lunar Atlas' has been extensively updated to accommodate the digital imaging equipment and capabilities of 21st century amateur telescopes up to and beyond the 12-inch aperture.

Physics of Ultra-Cold Matter

This book covers the development of continual models of turbulent natural media. Processes of self-organization are addressed in detail using irreversible thermodynamics and stochastic dynamics, and focusing on formation and evolution of protoplanetary discs.

This book explores rhetorical attempts to authorize the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a grassroots initiative to investigate a traumatic event in the city's past. It describes mechanisms of transitional justice that are frequently overlooked.

The third edition of this book is updated to include current best practices and new developments in HACCP, offering a compendium of up-to-date thinking and standards in development, implementation and maintenance of HACCP programs for food safety management.

Continuum Mechanics of Anisotropic Materials presents an entirely new and unique development of material anisotropy in the context of an appropriate selection and organization of continuum mechanics topics.

This book offers a new framework-based approach to process reengineering, linked to organization life cycle, process life cycle and process management. Describes fundamental concepts behind business process reengineering and examines them through case studies.

Providing practitioners and supervisors with a valuable resource on solution-focused approaches to supervision, this publication includes video and previously unpublished material by Insoo Kim Berg, a leading developer of solution-focused techniques.

Including detailed instructions for using the latest data envelopment and stochastic frontier methods of analysis in benchmarking, this book by the leading expert in the field brings his expertise to bear in an accessible treatment of leading-edge techniques.

This book explains the fundamentals and concepts behind fusion power. It traces the development of fusion decade-by-decade--covering its history as dictated by US government policies, its major successes, and its prognosis for the future.

This book details experiments on studying the Brownian motion of an optically trapped microsphere with ultrahigh resolution and the cooling of its motion towards the quantum ground state.

This book focuses on the fundamentals of Monte Carlo methods using basic computer simulation techniques. It illustrates the best ways to select input distributions and parameters with or without sample data.

This book introduces mathematical techniques needed to analyse PDEs coming from incompressible fluid mechanics, including Stokes and Navier-Stokes equations and more specific models, and offering methods applicable to a range of domains in nonlinear analysis.

The fifth volume in a series on modeling and simulation of flows in the cardiovascular and ventilatory systems, this book covers cells, tissues and organs of the cardiovascular and ventilatory systems, emphasizing mechanotransduction-based regulation of flow.

In its revised and expanded second edition, this book examines the theoretical aspects of small strain theory of elastoplasticity with hardening assumptions, offering a comprehensive and unified treatment of mathematical theory and numerical analysis.

This authoritative text on plasma behavior in diverse astrophysical contexts combines classical and contemporary theory to show how fundamental principles in electromagnetism, hydrodynamics, and quantum mechanics find expression in plasma physics.

This updated and revised second edition is designed to help students advance from basic calculus to higher-level linear and abstract algebra and number theory. It introduces an array of fundamental structures and shows how to balance intuition and rigor.

In its third edition, this classic book on the integration of mind/body relationships offers updates on microanatomy, biochemistry and tomography, and revisions to incorporate the significant advances in the field over the past eight years.

This book focuses on the experience of fathers' lives after divorce, and offers advice for mental health professionals on helping them make a healthy transition. Discusses critical issues using empirical findings, clinical insights and case studies.

Written by leading experts in the field, The Atlas of Mohs Histopathology discusses everything from normal skin histology and rare tumors to pitfalls and incidental findings. The text is anchored by hundreds of high resolution images.

This book addresses how exposure parameters influence the diagnostic quality in digital systems, what the current acceptable radiation doses are for useful diagnostic images, and at what level the dose could be reduced to maintain an accurate diagnosis.

This book describes a unique approach to smart receiver system design. It starts with the analysis of a very basic, single-path receiver structure, then using similar methods, extends the analysis to a more complicated multi-path receiver.