FW: The Handbook of Japanese Linguistics

 

 

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This Handbook brings together major aspects of Japanese linguistics, presenting overviews, current concerns and future directions of each topic. The areas included are phonology, syntax, semantics, morphology, language acquisition, sentence processing, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics. This Handbook is for those who are familiar with the topic at the basic level and wish to investigate it in more detail, but it also can be used as a language-specific and typological reference. Read more...

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FW: Springer Handbook of Electronic and Photonic Materials

 

 

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"Kasap and Capper put together a broad coverage of electronic and photonic materials, starting from fundamentals and building up to advanced topics and applications. Additional topics include practical applications, details on experimental techniques, tables of equations, and the properties of materials. The book provides an accessible treatment of the subject matter for graduate students and researchers." (Materials Today, Vol. 10 (1-2), January-February, 2007) "This book is an invaluable source of systematized knowledge regarding the materials used in electronics and photonics. … The book has 900 figures and 150 tables to support the information it supplies in a straightforward manner. … the handbook is a useful tool for anybody working in electronics and photonics. The entire handbook is also available on a CD that is included with the print publication." (Mircea Dragoman, Optics and Photonics News, April, 2007) Product Description Electronic materials is a truly interdisciplinary subject that encompasses a number of traditional disciplines such as materials science, electrical engineering, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, physics and chemistry. This unique handbook provides broad coverage of a wide range of electronic and photonic materials, starting from fundamentals and building up to advanced topics and applications. Its wide coverage, with clear illustrations and applications and its chapter sequencing and logical flow, make this a very useful and Read more...

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FW: A Hypersexual Society: Sexual Discourse, Erotica, and Pornography in America Today

 

 

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Subject: A Hypersexual Society: Sexual Discourse, Erotica, and Pornography in America Today

 

The origins of this book started quite casually at a Baltimore Orioles baseball game. I was with my longtime friend and colleague George Ritzer. George had just agreed to edit a series about social issues in American society and he asked if I would be interested in writing a book about pornography in American society. The subject of pornography was one that I had previously written about, and since I had no other pressing obligations I replied, “Sure.” As I drove home from the game that night, I was thinking about sex and pornography in American society when the concept of “sexual saturation” jumped into my mind. It seemed to be a good working title for a book. I had recently written an essay about pornography in which I argued that sexual materials, including erotica and pornography, were pervasive in American society. The “sexual saturation” title did not make the final cut, but the term will still appear at various times in this book because others have described American society as sexually saturated. Read more...

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FW: Chirurgische Proktologie

 

 

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Das ganze Spektrum der chirurgischen Proktologie in einem Band: - mit uber 350 vierfarbigen Aquarellen zum operativen Vorgehen - therapeutische Alternativen und neue Entwicklungen sind berucksichtigt - mit detaillierten Empfehlungen zur Diagnostik, Therapiestrategie und Therapiedurchfuhrung Profitieren Sie von der Kreativitat und vom Erfahrungsschatz eines internationalen Autorenteams! Read more...

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FW: Smartsourcing: Driving Innovation and Growth Through Outsourcing

 

 

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Subject: Smartsourcing: Driving Innovation and Growth Through Outsourcing

 

Management guru and bestselling business author, Tom Peters, has called Thomas Koulopoulos' writing, "a brilliant vision of where we must take our enterprises to survive and thrive." Outsourcing is the most popular movement of the new global business economy. In fact, the typical executive will soon spend one-third of his or her budget on outsourcing. But the smart ones will spend it on smartsourcing. Smartsourcing goes a step further by showing companies how to partner with service providers strategically-to not only cut costs but increase innovation as well. Rather than moving the work to where the least expensive workers are, Smartsourcing shows you how to abandon the status quo-and make outsourcing an opportunity to improve operations across the full spectrum of your business. The first book to be ahead of the curve, Smartsourcing is the hands-on guide every manager needs to capitalize on one of the most important shifts in business today. Not since the industrial revolution has there been such a dramatic change in how-and where-work is performed. In today's marketplace, a company's products and services must be positioned and sold against global competitors with larger, cheaper, and highly skilled workforces. Organizations today are faced with significant quandaries, including how to: • Cut costs while increasing innovation • Grow the business-and maintain accountability-while moving operations offsite • Increase productivity and efficiency By embracing the Read more...

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FW: Polyphosphazenes for Biomedical Applications

 

 

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Brings together, analyzes, and contextualizes the latest findings and practical applications Polyphosphazenes, an emerging class of polymers, include macromolecules, which have been proven to be biocompatible, biodegradable, and bioactive. Their unprecedented structural diversity and unique properties make them suitable as vaccine adjuvants, microencapsulating agents, biodegradable materials, scaffolds for tissue engineering, biocompatible coatings, and carriers for gene delivery. Polyphosphazenes for Biomedical Applications offers a thorough review of polyphosphazene research findings in the life sciences, chemistry, and chemical engineering. It emphasizes biomedical applications as well as recent advances in polyphosphazene development such as high-throughput discovery and the latest controlled methods of synthesis. The book brings together, analyzes, and contextualizes a wealth of knowledge that previously could only be found scattered throughout the scientific literature. Following two introductory chapters, the book reviews: Vaccine delivery and immunomodulation Biomaterials Drug delivery systems Biodetection Well-defined polyphosphazenes: synthetic aspects and novel molecular architectures Read more...

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FW: Design, Execution, and Management of Medical Device Clinical Trials

 

 

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Subject: Design, Execution, and Management of Medical Device Clinical Trials

 

An essential introduction to conducting the various stages of medical device clinical trials Clinical research continues to be one of the most vital components of pharmaceutical, biostatistical, and medical studies. Design, Execution, and Management of Medical Device Clinical Trials provides a uniform methodology for conducting and managing clinical trials. Written in a style that is accessible to readers from diverse educational and professional backgrounds, this book provides an in-depth and broad overview for successfully performing clinical tasks and activities. Throughout the book, practical examples compiled from both the author's and other researchers' previous clinical trial experiences are discussed in a sequential manner as they occur in the study, starting from the development of the clinical protocol and the selection of clinical sites and ending with the completion of the final clinical study report. Next, readers are guided through the development of important clinical documents, including informed consent forms, case report forms, and study logs. A careful review of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and International Conference on Harmonisation (ICH) regulations applicable to medical devices is also featured. Additional coverage includes: Qualification and selection of investigators Study monitoring visits Definitions and reporting procedures for adverse events The use of biostatistical methodology in clinical research, including the use o Read more...

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FW: A Guide to Polymeric Geomembranes: A Practical Approach

 

 

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Subject: A Guide to Polymeric Geomembranes: A Practical Approach

 

Geomembranes are flexible polymeric sheets which are used as relatively impermeable liners to contain liquid and vapour. With uses ranging from canal liners to hazard waste landfills, they are used extensively in a range of industries such as water conservation, mining, construction and waste management. A Guide to Polymeric Geomembranes: A Practical Approach offers an informed overview of the developments in this field and includes: Read more...

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FW: Design and Construction of Coordination Polymers

 

 

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A Unique Resource on coordination Polymers Coordination polymers are a growing, interdisciplinary field with numerous potential applications in chemistry and materials. Design and Construction of Coordination Polymers provides a comprehensive introduction to this field, focusing on synthetic strategies, structures, properties, and potential applications. Each chapter provides a unique perspective on coordination polymers, offering a dedicated approach as well as deeper insights on the most important facets of this interdisciplinary area. Combining the consistent editorial approach of a textbook with the up-to-date data and topics usually found in the latest monographs and handbooks, Design and Construction of Coordination Polymers offers an unparalleled reference to the state of the art. Among other topics, it covers: Coordination polymers with versatile structures Crystal engineering of coordination polymers Organic/inorganic hybrid complexes based on polyoxometalates Molecular-based magnetic and ferroelectric compounds Heavy main-group iodometalates Gas storage MOFs Bioinorganic coordination complexes Addressing a wide range of readers, Design and Construction of Coordination Polymers will prove an invaluable resource to everyone from senior-level undergraduate and graduate students to working scientists. Read more...

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FW: ABC of Pediatric Surgical Imaging

 

 

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Subject: ABC of Pediatric Surgical Imaging

 

This book has been specifically designed to serve as a quick reference that will be of immediate help in decision making. The book is ordered alphabetically according to diagnoses. The intention is that the clinican consults the information on a suspected diagnosis, and then considers the surgical and radiological differential diagnoses that are listed. A total of 80 common diagnoses are covered. For each diagnosis, the left-hand page presents information relevant to the surgeon, while the right-hand page is designed for the radiologist. The information for the surgeon comprises clinical insights, including symptoms, warnings, controversies, important facts of which the surgeon should be aware, and the surgical differential diagnosis. The intention is to enable the surgeon to request the most suitable investigation using the appropriate terminology, ensuring that the correct test is done within the correct time frame. The radiologist is provided with lists of the primary and follow-on investigations, the imaging findings, and helpful tips, as well as the radiological differential diagnosis. Informative supporting images are included for each diagnosis. The authors are all experts in their fields, with extensive practical experience and in-depth knowledge of new imaging techniques. This book belongs in the pocket of every student, house officer, resident, medical officer, or generalist consultant who may be the first practitioner to see the patient. Read more...

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FW: Sobolev Spaces on Domains

 

 

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Victor I. Burenkov "Sobolev Spaces on Domains" B. G. Teubner Gmbh | English | 1998-01 | ISBN: 3815420687 | 312 pages | PDF | 5,4 MB Contents Notation and basic inequalities 11 1 Preliminaries 15 1.1 Mollifiers 15 1.2 Weak derivatives 18 1.3 Sobolev spaces (basic properties) 28 2 Approximation by infinitely differentiable functions 39 2.1 Approximation by C^\infty_0-functions on R^n 39 2.2 Nonlinear mollifiers with variable step 42 2.3 Approximation by C^\infty-functions on open sets 47 2.4 Approximation with preservation of boundary values 56 2.5 Linear mollifiers with variable step 60 2.6 The best possible approximation with preservation of boundary values 73 3 Sobolev's integral representation 81 3.1 The one-dimensional case 81 3.2 Star-shaped sets and sets satisfying the cone condition 92 3.3 Multidimensional Taylor's formula 100 3.4 Sobolev's integral representation 104 3.5 Corollaries 111 4 Embedding theorems 119 4.1 Embeddings and inequalities 119 4.2 The one-dimensional case 127 4.3 Open sets with quasi-resolvable, quasi-continuous, smooth and Lipschitz boundaries 148 4.4 Estimates for intermediate derivatives 160 4.5 Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality for integral of potential type 177 4.6 Embeddings into the space of continuous functions 181 4.7 Embeddings into the space L^q 186 5 Trace theorems 197 5.1 Notion of the trace of a function 197 5.2 Existence of the traces on subspaces 201 5.3 Nikol'skil-Besov spaces 202 5.4 Descripti Read more...

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FW: Pediatric Ophthalmology, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Genetics: Strabismus - New Concepts in Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment

 

 

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Subject: Pediatric Ophthalmology, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Genetics: Strabismus - New Concepts in Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment

 

The broad field of neuro-ophthalmology encompasses lesions of both the afferent and efferent pathways, which can result from various etiologies: tumoral, paraneoplastic, vascular, inflammatory, infectious, or hereditary, just to name a few. This volume of Essentials in Ophthalmology is dedicated to the review of new developments in neuro-ophthalmology, including those in diagnosis, physiology, investigations or therapeutic options. It is divided into six parts, designed to provide the clinician with a summary of some of the newest data regarding: Diseases of the optic nerve, unusual retinopathies, new methods of investigations of the retina, optic nerve, and visual brain, neuro-ophthalmic implications of some systemic disorders, oculomotility, visual rehabilitation. This up-to-date, concise, and practical book will help the clinician understand the unusual diseases of certain patients with neuro-ophthalmic disorders. Read more...

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FW: Ischemia and Loss of Vascular Autoregulation in Ocular and Cerebral Diseases: A New Perspective

 

 

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Subject: Ischemia and Loss of Vascular Autoregulation in Ocular and Cerebral Diseases: A New Perspective

 

From the introduction: “The purpose of the present book is to bring together in a coherent manner new knowledge gained from research over the past 50 years on the physiology of intraocular pressure, ocular blood flow and the relation of these fundamental parameters to early diagnosis and therapy of vascular diseases of the eye and brain. It will be evident to the reader that the presentation is influenced significantly by the author’s own research. My justification is that by good fortune I have spent many years with superb collaboration helping solve outstanding problems of ocular physiology. This knowledge has increased understanding of the parameters underlying the onset of ischemia and the loss of autoregulation associated with common ocular disease and thereby led to new methods of diagnosis and therapy.” Read more...

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FW: Direct Methods in the Calculus of Variations

 

 

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Subject: Direct Methods in the Calculus of Variations

 

A comprehensive discussion on the existence and regularity of minima of regular integrals in the calculus of variations and of solutions to elliptic partial differential equations and systems of the second order. While direct methods for the existence of solutions are well-known and were widely-used in the 20th century, the regularity of the minima was always obtained by means of the Euler equation as a part of the general theory of partial differential equations. In this work, using the notion of the quasi-minimum introduced by Giaquinta and the author, the direct methods are extended to the regularity of the minima of functionals in the calculus of variations, and of solutions to partial differential equations. This unified treatment offers a substantial economy in the assumptions, and permits a deeper understanding of the nature of the regularity and singularities of the solutions. The volume is essentially self-contained, and requires only a general knowledge of the elements of Lebesgue integration theory. Read more...

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FW: Foundations of Stress Waves

 

 

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The primary objective of this work is to give the reader an understanding of stress wave behaviour while taking into account the dynamic constitutive equations of elastic-plastic solids. The author has combined a ‘materials characteristics’ approach with a ’singularity surface’ approach in this work, which readers will find to be a novel and unique route to solving their problems. * Helps engineers understand the effects and behavior of stress waves in various materials * Aids in the process of engineering design, testing, and evaluation Read more...

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FW: Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits: Tools and Techniques

 

 

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Subject: Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits: Tools and Techniques

 

Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits: Tools and Techniques provides a basic understanding of how the most commonly used tools and techniques in silicon-based semiconductors are applied to understanding the root cause of electrical failures in integrated circuits. These include applications specific to performing failure analysis such as decapsulation, deprocessing, and fail site isolation, as well as physical and chemical analysis tools and techniques. The coverage is qualitative, and it provides a general understanding for making intelligent tool choices. Also included is coverage of the shortcomings, limitations, and strengths of each technique. Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits: Tools and Techniques is a `must have' reference work for semiconductor professionals and researchers. Read more...

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FW: Practical and Experimental Robotics

 

 

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Taking a completely hands-on approach, using cheap and easily available robotics kits, Practical and Experimental Robotics provides a detailed exploration of the construction, theory, and experiments for different types of robots. With topics ranging from basic stamp microcontrollers to biped and propeller based robots, the text contains laboratory experiments, examples with solutions, and case studies. The authors begin with a review of the essential elements of electronics and mechanics. They describe the basic mechanical construction and electrical control of the robot, then give at least one example of how to operate the robot using microcontrollers or software. The book includes a reference chapter on Basic Stamp Microcontollers with example code pieces and a chapter completely devoted to PC interfacing. Each chapter begins with the fundamentals, then moves on to advanced topics, thus building a foundation for learning from the ground up. Building a bridge between technicians who have hands-on experience and engineers with a deeper insight into the workings, the book covers a range of machines, from arm, wheel, and leg robots to flying robots and robotic submarines and boats. Unlike most books in this field, this one offers a complete set of topics from electronics, mechanics, and computer interface and programming, making it an independent source for knowledge and understanding of robotics. Read more...

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FW: Calculus of Variations and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

 

 

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Subject: Calculus of Variations and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

 

This volume provides the texts of lectures given by L. Ambrosio, L. Caffarelli, M. Crandall, L.C. Evans, N. Fusco at the Summer course held in Cetraro (Italy) in 2005. These are introductory reports on current research by world leaders in the fields of calculus of variations and partial differential equations. The topics discussed are transport equations for nonsmooth vector fields, homogenization, viscosity methods for the infinite Laplacian, weak KAM theory and geometrical aspects of symmetrization. A historical overview of all CIME courses on the calculus of variations and partial differential equations is contributed by Elvira Mascolo. Read more...

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FW: Electronic Materials and Processes Handbook(3rd Edition)

 

 

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The rise of cellular phones, PDAs, and palmtops has brought with it a host of new challenges for those charged with creating materials to meet those devices' specifications. And now, thanks to McGraw-Hill's Electronic Materials Handbook, engineers have comprehensive coverage of the materials that cater to the microminiaturization trend in electronics. Written by a team of experts from around the globe, this indispensable volume reflects the importance of engineering materials for thermal management system optimization and flexibility in microminiature sizes. It offers detailed discussions of a complete range of pertinent topics, including: * Full material breakdowns for high-density packaging techniques * Materials for communications wiring and cabling * And much, much, more! Read more...

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FW: Handbook of Monetary Economics, Vol. 2

 

 

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Subject: Handbook of Monetary Economics, Vol. 2

 

Due to the fundamental two-way interaction between the theoretical and the empirical aspects of monetary economics, together with the relationship of both to matters of public policy, any organization of material comprehensively spanning the subject is bound to be arbitrary. The 23 surveys commissioned for this Handbook have been arranged in a way that the editors feel reflects some of the most important logical divisions within the field and together they present a comprehensive account of the current state of the art. The Handbook is an indispensable reference work which should be part of every professional collection, and which makes ideal supplementary reading for graduate economics students on advanced courses. Review ....the two volumes would be regarded as invaluable additions to the literature. -- Economic of Planning ...in many ways the most important publication to date in this branch of our subject.......On some topics it is easily the best writing available, combining a careful exposition of central ideas, with firm and persuasive judgements about what is correct and important. -- Journal of Economic Surveys Even at the hardcover price, the two volumes we now have represent very good value for money. -- The Economic Record In the emerging tradition of the Handbooks in Economics, these two volumes offer a formidable array of contributions to the field which they survey..........an indispensable starting-point for graduate students and research worke Read more...

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