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As a member of the British Stroke Research Group, the British Society of Gerontology and relevant special interest groups of my own profession, and as a clinical practitioner specializing in, and teaching, stroke rehab ilitation, the need to bridge these gaps becomes increasingly urgent.

Focusing on psychological, medical and sociological processes of ageing, this work addresses emotional and sexual life, the problems associated with ageist discrimination and the needs of those with different sexual preferences. Its overall aim is to increase the quality of health care available.

Using case studies to show the full process of VLSI implementation of a network, this book approaches VLSI neural networks from a practical viewpoint. It also addresses the important issues of learning algorithms and limited precision effects.

It is characterized by emphasis on the need for renewed and careful observation of the huge variety of social phenomena occurring in nature; by emphasis on a balanced study of the three main biological problems function, causation, evolution; by emphasis on an appro priate sequence of description, qualitative analysis, quanti tative analysis;

This text provides a general introduction to purchasing and supply - a key part of industrial/commercial management.

Offers a basis of theory and practice for hearing aid audiologists. This book covers the Hearing Aid Council examination syllabus, introduces aspects of hearing aid audiology, and lays the theoretical foundations and then applies this theory to current practice.

This book covers a wide range of technical issues relating to lightwave technologies using high coherence lightwaves. However, present lightwave communication systems do not fully utilize the fruitful potential oflightwaves, namely the capacity of extremely high frequency electromagnetic information carrier waves.

Freud, they might argue, was not only (and very explicitly) a psychologist, but also (and equally explicitly) a clinical psychologist, whose most immediate preoccupation was that of trying to cure the mental illnesses of his patients.

The restricting of mental health systems affects many people. This text focuses on the service users, workers and planners, covering both the experience of planning and the perspective of being at the receiving end of closure. Case studies of specific closures are also included.

Much past attention has been directed to the general concepts and philosophy of automation as a way to convince owners and managers of manufacturing facilities that automation is indeed one of the few avenues available to increase productivity and improve competitive position.

Following this diversified research activity, the ionic transport mechanism in polymer ionics was soon established and this has led to the development of new host polymers of various types, new salts and advanced polymer architectures which have enabled room temperature conductivity to be raised by several orders of magnitude.

Presented by a team of international experts, this book provides information on almost all the major parameters of plant growth and the effect upon them of global climate change. Drawing from UNEP-sponsored training courses in the subject, it is useful for students and researchers in plant science, ecology and environmental science.

How we see the world - our attitudes and assumptions about it - profoundly affects the way we deal with it. It seeks to make the connection between the theoretical approaches to the valuation of the natural world and how these work in practice.

Focuses on practical ways of enhancing communication between health professionals and their patients or clients and between those professionals and their colleagues. Covered are educational, therapeutic, organizational and personal skills, and each section contains a skills checklist.

Taking a broad perspective, this book offers an educational approach to spinal cord injury managment in which the client becomes an active participant.

This book is both an introductory text to the rehabilitation of stroke for student therapists and a reference text for qualified therapists. These chapters provide an introduction to the condition of stroke itself, the problern therapists face in assessing and treating stroke patients and therapeutic approaches in occu pational therapy.

The fundamental technologies for the integration of these services have been developed in the last decade: optical communications, photonic switching, high speed local area networks, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), ISDN and B-ISDN, Internet packet networks and mobile communications.

It contains the selected proceedings of Interact '95 - the Fifth International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - arranged by the International Federation for Information Processing and held in Lillehammer, Norway, in June 1995.

Using an interdisciplinary approach, the authors provide an adaptionist interpretation of the basic features of recombination, its evolutionary significance as a key process in reproduction and its importance in genetic mapping.

This second edition provides the basic, practical understanding of computer-based design that has led to the creation of a knowledge-driven approach. This approach, through constraint modelling, has been specifically developed to handle the problems of conflict present in the conceptual stages of a real design situation.

Intended for engineers with little or no previous exposure to experimental design, this book shows how to use statistically designed experiments to improve products and processes. A prerequisite is an appreciation for the concept of random variation.

The history of life is illustrated by fossils which give crucial information on the plants and animals of the past. Fossil Record 2 is a compilation of this mass of data. All families of protists, plants and animals and their ranges in geological time are documented, with full details of first and last species for each family.

Reviews the latest research in the field for researchers and clinicians. After a general introduction to DNA base excision repair, chapters cover uracil DNA glycosylases, repair of oxidized purines in DNA, mammalian mismatch-specific DNA glycosylases, repair of apurinic/apyrimidic sites in DNA by AP endonucleases, mutagenesis of abasic sites, a pro

Since Surface Coatings first appeared in 1974, the industry has undergone dramatic and rapid changes both in direction and emphasis, and this new edition mirrors these changes.

This text on animal pollution dynamics should be of interest to those studying ecology, population dynamics and pest control.

Because of the heavy design loads and the complicated environments, the traditional design concepts, construction materials, methods, and equipment also need improvement.

Blends of natural rubber with speciality synthetic rubbers, such as nitrile rubber and ethylene propylene rubbers, have, in the past, failed to combine the best properties of polymers, resulting in a poor return in terms of added value from the blending process.

This book deals with the theoretical and practical issues involved in working with language- handicapped children from bilingual communities.

Written for diploma level students and those undertaking introductory courses or modules in microbiology as part of their degree course, this book aims to cover the fundamental principles of microbiology and their applications.

Microbiology may be described as one of the younger sciences with its history, as a precise subject, only dating as far back as Pasteur in the mid 1800s and his revelation both of the role of microorganisms in nature and their importance to human welfare.