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This work is based on the premise that there are risk factors, including social cohesion that regulate health and disease in groups. Until now, relatively little work has focused on how increased social cohesion sustains or improves health.

This text introduces a unique strengths-based framework that identifies the spectrum of positive influences on child development inside and outside the home, as well as the qualities that can be nurtured with the help of community institutions such as schools.

Incorporating concepts of globalization into family research introduces a new, unstudied dimension into the understanding of family dynamics. In forging a link between globalization and families, this book highlights the complex relationship between the two.

The authors present an overview of recent applications of symmetry to the description of atomic nuclei. They use simple examples to introduce symmetry concepts. Special emphasis is put on the introduction of neutron-proton and boson-fermion degrees of freedom.

This book examines both psychophysics, the science of relationships between human sensations, and the stimuli that evoke them. Authored by a "giant" in the field of psychophysics, this is the first book to focus on multisensory psychophysical laws.

Intended for advanced level students in computer science and mathematics, this key text, now in a brand new edition, provides a survey of recent progress in primality testing and integer factorization, with implications for factoring based public key cryptography.

The objective of this book, being the first one on magnesium injection molding, is to treat both the scientific background and the technological aspects as they are understood at present. The book provides a single source of information covering the interdisciplinary field of net shape forming of magnesium alloys.

A presentation of all aspects of neural crest cell origins (embryological and evolutionary), development and evolution; neural crest cell behavior (migration) and anomalies (neurocristopathies and birth defects) arising from defective neural crest development.

Is our society color-blind? Trans-racial? Post-racial? And what should this mean to clinical professionals with diverse clients? This ambitious volume probes these questions, compelling psychotherapists to look differently at their clients-and themselves.

This book describes best practices for successful FPGA design. Coverage includes the complete FPGA design flow, from basic to advanced techniques, and presents a complete, field-tested methodology for FPGA design.

This book reviews activity systems analysis as an effective method for mapping complex human interactions from qualitative data. It is the first to methodological publication that explores how researchers engage in activity systems analysis.

Focusing primarily on Swedish, a Germanic language whose particles have not previously been studied extensively, this study develops a theory of non-projecting words in which particles are morphologically independent words that do not project phrases.

This book provides an introduction into physiology using the tools and perspectives of mathematical modeling and analysis. It contains a variety of physiological problems and the current and new mathematical techniques used in this area.

This book presents mathematical techniques for understanding sequence evolution. The theory is developed in close connection with data from more than 60 experimental studies that illustrate the use of these results.

This book examines how genetic parasites and addiction modules have been involved in the origin of toxins/antitoxins modules as systems of group identity. It traces the evolution of biological identity systems from molecules to human social structure.

This book is an overview of mathematical physiology. It contains a variety of physiological problems and the current and new mathematical techniques used in this area. Numerous exercises and models are included.

Details the experimental and theoretical aspects of ferroelectric devices, and their extensions to other ferroic systems such as: ferromagnetics, ferroelastics, piezoelectrics, and others. This work presents the theory and experimental results pertaining to non-homogeneous active ferroic devices and structures.

Finally, we learn about the modern study of interstellar matter: the discovery of complex organic molecules between the stars and how they may have seeded the early earth with the precursors for life, new insights into star formation, the structure of the Milky Way and the elusive interstellar magnetic field.

Clinical Physiology of the Venous System is a comprehensive overview of vein physiology. - Presents data in the fields of venous physiology, pharmacology and venous diseases as well as the field of phlebology, which has seen rapid and important progress in the last decade.

Environmental Systems Engineering and Economics emphasizes the application of optimization, economics, and systems engineering to problems in environmental resources management.

Describes a school's potential for improvement in new intrinsic terms, in terms of its internal intellectual capital; the resource that comes from relationships between the school and its stakeholders, from its ability to innovate and manage change, from its infrastructure, and from the knowledge and transferable competencies of its staff.

Proposes that fetal growth retardation and low-grade systemic inflammation can be prevented by perinatal supplementation of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFAs). This book presents and discusses evidence for this hypothesis, along with possible mechanisms by which these substances produce beneficial actions.

Dialogue and Learning in Mathematics Education is concerned with communication in mathematics class-rooms. Both are considered important for a theory of learning mathematics. Thus a theory of learning mathematics is developed which is resonant with critical mathematics education.

"Piezoelectric-Based Vibration-control Systems: Applications in Micro/Nano Sensors and Actuators" discusses recent developments in smart structures and emerging areas in micro and nanotechnology. There is specific emphasis on piezoelectric systems.

WIGs (Wing in Ground) are advanced hybrid air cushion crafts that offer a combination of speed, fuel efficiency, and ride smoothness. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the design, development and building of these vessels.

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unfavorable sites for plant growth, and an R- Five traits that are coordinated across species are axis (Ruderal species) reflects adaptation to leaf mass per area (LMA), leaf life-span, leaf N disturbance.

This book signals a paradigm shift in oral communication. Unlike mainstream psycholinguists, the authors approach spoken discourse as a dynamic process rich with with structures, patterns, and rules other than conventional grammar and syntax.

This sourcebook of electrochemical, engineering and economic principles involved in the development and commercialization of fuel cells offers a thorough review of applications and techno-economic assessment of fuel cell technologies, plus in-depth discussion of conventional and novel approaches for generating energy.

This history of science analyzes how we came to be. It starts with life's origins and tracks the universe to present day, covering astronomy, physics, chemistry and biology and offering biographical details of science's greatest thinkers.