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This advanced textbook goes beyond the current limits of item response modeling to enhance understanding and help readers be more creative in the development and usage of the models. The book first provides a basic survey of the approach and then lays out a large space of important models and their applications. It finishes with information about using different computational approaches to estimating the models, including aspects of testing, as well as several appendices containing helpful codes and examples.

While many know about the format of some of the typical 4-1-9 Nigerian scam letters, what is largely unknown is the organized nature of the network of criminals responsible for sending them. This book illustrates how these criminals are organized; how they operate, communicate, and transfer money; and why they are so successful. Based on the author¿s five-year investigation as a U.S. Federal Agent, the book draws on information from numerous sources and extensive victim interviews, as well as the actual words of the scammers to show an unbiased picture of how these criminals operate.

Environmental criminology and its many sub-fields are increasingly becoming the focus of discussion among criminologists and criminal justice professionals. Many of the new courses being developed at universities through North America, Europe, and Oceania focus on geography of crime, geographic profiling, and crime prevention through environmental design. This work is one of the first works to specifically explore how the tenets of environmental criminology can be applied to modern urban design and crime analysis with the aim of creating safer and more secure communities.

There has been a substantial amount of statistical research in adaptive clinical trials over the last two decades, yet few designs have appeared in the medical literature. This book covers the history of the development of these ideas by describing the ground-breaking publications and their subsequent impact. In each case, the book details examples using real studies to illustrate the ideas. Where it is necessary to introduce technical ideas these are provided in appendices so they don¿t interrupt the flow of ideas.

Recently, there has been a resurgent interest in ray tracing due to the capability of the GPU. Reflecting recent trends, this second edition uses Java as the language for writing the ray tracer. The authors explain all concepts and processes with the aid of hundreds of diagrams, ray-traced images, and sample code. A supporting website provides Java code and a Java version of the skeleton ray tracers. The text is suitable for computer graphics students as well as individual programmers who would like to learn ray tracing.

With an emphasis on social science applications, this introductory text shows how to perform quantitative analyses using R. Developed from the author's short courses, the book helps readers go from raw data to results in a timely manner. Topics are organized based on the logical order of adequate quantitative analysis. The book is suitable for novices with little analysis or programming experience as well as more experienced researchers transitioning to R.

This new edition of a practical manual is a basic reference for IT professionals developing criminal justice and public safety systems. Reviewing fundamental terms, definitions, and organizational structures, it explains the basic business processes used by criminal justice agencies and the systems used to manage those processes. Discussing the challenges to integration and standardization, it enlightens readers to federally sponsored efforts to promote integration and develop such standards as NIEM (National Information Exchange Model). The book cites and pulls together information from various criminal justice agencies as well as government publications.

This text covers life tables, survival models, and life insurance premiums and reserves. It presents the actuarial material conceptually with reference to ideas from other mathematical studies, allowing readers with knowledge in calculus to explore business, actuarial science, economics, and statistics. Each chapter contains exercise sets and worked examples, which highlight the most important and frequently used formulas and show how the ideas and formulas work together smoothly. Illustrations and solutions are also provided.

Providing a pragmatic approach to changing Internet protocols, this book introduces the SOCKS standard (Simple Solutions to Complex Problems). The SOCKS standard was originally developed as a generic proxy protocol, making it possible for network administrators to simply limit access to the Internet. The authors describe how to use an existing solution to problems within the Internet that would reduce rather than increase the complexity of an already complex system. The authors describe how to build a SOCKS-based solution as well as the tradeoffs with other approaches, such as IPv6.

The development of lasers emitting ultrafast pulses with durations of femtoseconds or picoseconds has opened up a range of spectroscopic applications in many disciplines. Based largely on the author¿s graduate and training courses, this book offers a complete overview of the topic. After reviewing the unique properties of short pulses, it explores laser systems that create them as well as a range of novel spectroscopic applications and techniques. The text also includes online supporting material, such animations, computer programs, and applets.

Exploring the challenging, interdisciplinary nature of nanotechnology through a life sciences filter, this book focuses on the applications of nanoscience and the engineering aspects of medical and biotechnological nanodevices. Divided into introductory, intermediate, and advanced sections, each chapter offers a succinct introduction, a detailed discussion of the topic at hand with illustrative examples, numerous figures and necessary equations, and a concise summary. Problem sets include exercises of varying difficulty as well as analytical and thought-provoking numerical problems.

Handbook of Optical Ceramics

Focusing on classical mechanics for performance, this work shows how applied mathematics is used in engineering areas. It explores the interplay between physical laws and mathematical methods as the basis for modeling natural phenomena and engineering devices. It discusses multilinear algebra, coordinate transformation, mass distributions, and tensors, covering numerous examples from particle physics, engine design, aeronautics, rigid body dynamics, and more. Each chapter includes problems and step-by-step solutions, encouraging readers to create their own mathematical-physical models.

In a consistent, coherent, and comprehensive presentation, this work emphasizes many analogies: how similar methods can be applied to analogous problems in different areas with their specific interpretations. It gives an overview of the mathematical modeling of physical phenomena and engineering processes, which is unified and includes interdisciplinary areas. The author covers interdisciplinary topics, combing several areas of physics, mixed technologies, and engineering. He explores the interplay between physical laws and mathematical methods as a basis for modeling natural phenomena and engineering devices.

Technology Driven Innovation for Project Management is a treasure of new and evolving concepts that must be understood by everyone managing projects or who are impacted directly or indirectly by projects.

A Psychodynamic Personality Model of Middle Childhood provides a theory of the child¿s personality based on ongoing research from the application of the Fairy Tale Test (FTT).

Written by one of the leading scholars in the field of creativity, the mission of this book is to provide instructors teaching courses in creativity with a textbook that provides both comprehensive content coverage and state-of-the-art pedagogy.

First published in 2013. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.