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This book explores the issue of legitimate criminalization in a modern, liberal society. Coverage provides a comparative study between two major criminal legal systems and its theories: the Anglo-American, on one side, and the Continental criminal legal system of Germanic legal circle, on the other.

This book introduces affect control theory to lay readers of sociology, and additionally guides sociology specialists into the theory's deep structure. It is the most comprehensive available introduction to affect control theory, an important and expanding framework in sociology.

The authors of this book have learned to emphasize the fundamental materials science, structure-property relationships, and biological responses as a foundation for a wide array of biomaterials applications. This edition is extensively revised and includes a new chapter.

This book presents a visionary concept for future development of space travel. It describes the enabling technology for future propulsion concepts and demonstrates how mankind will 'live off the land in space' in migration from Earth.

Considered a major field of photonics, plasmonics offers the potential to confine and guide light below the diffraction limit and promises a new generation of highly miniaturized photonic devices.

This reference text presents comprehensive coverage of the various notions of stochastic orderings, their closure properties, and their applications. It is an ideal reference for anyone interested in decision making under uncertainty.

This much-anticipated textbook illuminates the field of discrete mathematics with examples, theory, and applications of the discrete volume of a polytope. It weaves a unifying thread through basic yet deep ideas in discrete geometry, combinatorics, and number theory.

This book presents chemical analyses of our most pressing waste, pollution, and resource problems for the undergraduate or graduate student. Its holistic approach provides a solid ground in theory and a laboratory manual detailing experimental applications.

Principal conclusions of this investigation are that instructors' grading practices have a significant influence on end-of-course teaching evaluations, and that student expectations of grading practices play an important role in the courses that students decide to take.

This book places spatial data within the broader domain of information technology (IT) while providing a comprehensive and coherent explanation of the guiding principles, methods, implementation and operational management of spatial databases within the workplace.

Interest in constrained optimization originated with the simple linear pro gramming model since it was practical and perhaps the only computationally tractable model at the time.

Liberal defences of nationalism have largely neglected the fact that nationalism is primarily about land. This book examines the generic types of territorial claims customarily put forward by national groups as justification for their territorial demands.

The 2nd edition presents image analysis applications, outlines their precise mathematics and shows how to discretize them. It reviews progress in image processing applications covered by the PDE framework, and updates the existing material. Also provides programming tools for creating simulations.

This book covers the main topics of welfare economics - general equilibrium models of exchange and production, Pareto optimality, un certainty, externalities and public goods - and some of the major topics of social choice theory - compensation criteria, fairness, voting.

Mass transportation problems concern the optimal transfer of masses from one location to another. This title is suitable for researchers in applied probability, operations research, computer science, and mathematical economics.

Many books on stability theory of motion have been published in various lan guages, including English. Also, using appropriate examples, he demonstrates the process of investigating the stability of motion from the formulation of a problem and obtaining the differential equations of perturbed motion to complete analysis and recommendations.

The authors introduce the basic theory of braid groups, highlighting several definitions showing their equivalence. This is followed by a treatment of the relationship between braids, knots and links. Important results then look at linearity and orderability.

This book provides a thorough description of hypercomputation, covering all attempts at devising conceptual hypermachines and all new promising computational paradigms that may eventually lead to the construction of a hypermachine.

When and how do children become mathematical beings? That's the question this comparative study of educational systems and academic development seeks to answer. It charts the progress in mathematics of ten children, ages seven through ten, from five countries.

In this book, the authors challenge some broadly-held assumptions about how children learn about fractions. After detailing their arguments, they then offer new research that could open the way for a dramatically improved way to teach children fractions.

This book uses a multi-dimensional conceptual framework to study and analyze issues in equity and quality. The framework can be viewed as a pyramid with mathematics as its base and the societal, educational, ideological, and genetic perspectives as its faces.

Expanding on what we know and candid about what we don't, this book presents a contemporary application of psychodynamic theory and addresses the complex issues surrounding declining health. Its aim is to ultimately improve the lives of older patients.

As many as one in four adults in the workforce will suffer from psychiatric illness in a given year. This book approaches this topic from a dual perspective by presenting a unique collaboration between a clinical professor of psychiatry and a legal expert.

This book sets out to examine the impact of terrorism on the policing organisation and culturally diverse communities. It is the first book of its kind to contextualise counter-terrorism policing in a conceptual framework and takes account of the unique challenge of the increasing cosmopolitan character of major cities.

It traces the language policy and planning related developments for Chinese characters, with particular emphasis on post-1950 period in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the more recent challenges that technology, and particularly the World Wide Web, have posed for the language.

Remembered mainly as a logician and mathematician, Leibniz also endeavored to resolve political and religious conflicts of his day by bringing opponents into negotiation. The book sheds new light on the familiar, yet incomplete image of Leibniz, providing further reason for cherishing and cultivating the heritage of a truly great man.

This volume opens up new perspectives on the physics of the Earth's interior for graduate students and researchers working in the fields of geophysics and geodesy.

This book covers a highly relevant topic that is of wide interest, especially in finance, engineering and computational biology. With an emphasis on the practical implementation of the simulation and estimation methods presented, the text will be useful to practitioners with minimal mathematical background.

The measured and passionate essays in this volume bring to contemporary debates about educational research both a first-hand familiarity with the practices and arguments of the educational research community and a clear grasp of the ways in which philosophical sources and analysis can inform them.