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This second edition of a successful book provides updated clinical and research knowledge, including information on the licensing of new antiepileptic drugs. All chapters are updated to reflect present accepted practice. New chapters highlighting the importance of the genetic aspects …
This book comprehensively addresses the physics and engineering aspects of human physiology by using and building on first-year college physics and mathematics. Topics include the mechanics of the static body and the body in motion, the mechanical properties of the …
View book details for Electrical Properties of Graphite Nanoparticles in Silicone
Flexible Oscillators and Electromechanical Sensing
This thesis examines a novel class of flexible electronic material with great potential for use in the construction of stretchable amplifiers and memory elements. Most remarkably the composite material produces spontaneous oscillations that increase in frequency when pressure is applied …
View book details for Internationale Markenstrategien
Erfolgswirkung der Markenstandardisierung auf den Markenwert
Michael Muller entwickelt auf Basis eines identitatsbasierten Markenverstandnisses und dem Status quo der Forschung ein Modell zur internationalen Markenstandardisierung. Fur die Uberprufung des Modells fuhrt der Autor eine Untersuchung in der Automobilbranche in 13 Landern durch. Er belegt damit einen …
View book details for The Politics of Palm Oil Harm
A Green Criminological Perspective
This book examines the politics of harm in the context of palm oil production in Colombia, with a primary focus on the Pacific coast region. Globally, the palm oil industry is associated with practices that fit the most conventional definitions …
View book details for Rehabilitative Surgery
A Comprehensive Text for an Emerging Field
This book represents the first interdisciplinary text on the emerging field of rehabilitative surgery, in which state of the art procedures from multiple surgical specialties are combined. It proposes a completely new framework for understanding, coordinating, and providing treatment for …
This book will provide an overview of basic epigenetic phenomena; interaction between epigenetic and genetic factors; and the influence of epigenetic factors on inheritance. Epigenetic states may contribute to the penetrance of genetic polymorphisms or mutations and thereby modify inheritance …
View book details for Proceedings of First International Conference on Smart System, Innovations and Computing
SSIC 2017, Jaipur, India
The edited volume contains original papers contributed to 1st International Conference on Smart System, Innovations and Computing (SSIC 2017) by researchers from different countries. The contributions focuses on two main areas, i.e. Smart Systems Innovations which includes applications for smart …
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Incorporating Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XXI Proceedings of AI-2013, The Thirty-third SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence
The papers in this volume are the refereed papers presented at AI-2013, the Thirty-third SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, held in Cambridge in December 2013 in both the technical and the application streams.They present …
View book details for Real Southern Barbecue
Constructing Authenticity in Southern Food Culture
The focus on barbecue in this book uncovers how processes and rhetoric surrounding a specific food product, and food culture as a whole, shape the food appearing on our plates, which can impact peoples health as well as market dynamics. …
View book details for Pedagogical Supervision
A Competency Standards Framework
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
As pedagogical leaders, principals and vice-principals must necessarily prioritize teacher supervision. Whether used individually or with a group, this effective approach centers on improving educational services for students and optimizing their academic achievement. However, teacher supervision is influenced by ambiguities …
View book details for REACH Beyond Borders
Europeanization Towards Global Regulation
This book discusses how much other countries reflect the EU chemical regulation REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorization, Restriction of Chemicals), in the context of Europeanization theory. The main hypothesis verified in this book is that more trade with the EU means …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
This text is a call to action. The title Escape from Teaching may sound a bit like an imperative. However, much of the recent findings from educational and brain research, especially regarding the potential benefits of informal and self-structured learning, …
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Live Well, Lead Strong for Courage and Integrity
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Uncommon Leaders have a gift: While inspiring and serving others with integrity, they also model a commitment to self-care and reflective practices. These skillful leaders are focused on being intentional and mindful of their values, beliefs, and guiding principles---in short, …
A team of launched and coordinated Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), requires advanced technologies in sensing, communication, computing, and control to improve their intelligence and robustness towards autonomous operations. To enhance reliability, robustness, and mission capability of a team of UAVs, …
View book details for South Asia Conundrum
The Great Power Gambit
Lexington Books
South Asia Conundrum offers fresh ideas and enlightening narratives about how geopolitical and geostrategic entanglements of extra-regional powers, notably the United States, Russia and China, in South Asia and its extended neighborhood have transformed the Af-Pak region into a theater …
This comprehensive book provides a comparative analysis of religious nationalism in contemporary, globalized Asia. Exploring the nexus of religion, identity, and nationalism, Jeff Kingston assesses similarities and differences across the region, focusing on how religious sentiments influence how people embrace …
This book provides an overview of multiscale approaches and homogenization procedures as well as damage evaluation and crack initiation, and addresses recent advances in the analysis and discretization of heterogeneous materials. It also highlights the state of the art in …
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Relocation of Innovative Visual Knowledge and Expertise
This book reports cutting-edge cases of emerging health technologies. Some health care fields are experiencing paradigmatic shifts because of robotic technologies and the new relationships that they create in r-Health (r-Curing and r-Caring) activities. The book explores emerging health care …
View book details for Chicago Muslims and the Transformation of American Islam
Immigrants, African Americans, and the Building of the American Ummah
Through the Hart-Celler Act of 1965, Islam in America underwent a dramatic transformation. In the city of Chicago, African American and immigrant Muslims increasingly came into contact and collaboration with each other. Aided by shifts in American foreign and domestic …
View book details for George W. Bush's and Barack H. Obamas Foreign Policies toward Ghana
A Comparative Analysis
Lexington Books
This book is the first of its kind to systematically compare the policies of George W. Bush and Barack H. Obama towards Ghana, with a focus on economic aid, military aid, and immigration. In order to do so, the following …
From Show Boat and Oklahoma! to Wicked and Hamilton, the musical is constantly evolving thanks to the contributions of some of theatres most prominent figures. Never have musicals been more popular than they are today. With live television broadcasts of …
View book details for Many-electron Electrochemical Processes
Reactions in Molten Salts, Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids and Ionic Solutions
Here, the authors provide a unified concept for understanding multi-electron processes in electrochemical systems such as molten salts, ionic liquids, or ionic solutions. A major advantage of this concept is its independence of assumptions like one-step many-electron transfers or discrete …
View book details for Complications in Maxillofacial Cosmetic Surgery
Strategies for Prevention and Management
This book is designed to offer practitioners clear, up-to-date guidance on the management of complications associated with maxillofacial cosmetic surgery. The first section provides a detailed overview of general topics relating to cosmetic surgery patients, including assessment, anesthesia and medical …
View book details for Soft Skills for Leaders
Scenarios from Higher Education Administrators
Based on Leadership Intelligence: Navigating to Your True North and Leadership Intelligence: Navigating with Confidence and Humility (forth coming in the fall of 2019), inthis book, Scenarios in Higher Education Leadership: Improving Your Leadership Intelligence Volume 2, Maulding Green and …
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