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This book examines the diagnostic approach to bipolar illness, with special reference to the borderline zones with unipolar depression and schizoaffective disorder. It details treatment options, long-term pharmacotherapy, and psychosocial therapies.

Neal Koblitz is a co-inventor of one of the two most popular forms of encryption and digital signature, and his autobiographical memoirs are collected in this volume. These engaging stories fully capture the experiences of a student and later a scientist caught up in the tumultuous events of his generation.

This book moves toward the realization of domestic robots by presenting an integrated view of computer vision and robotics, covering fundamental topics including optimal sensor design, visual servo-ing, 3D object modelling and recognition, and multi-cue tracking, emphasizing robustness throughout.

This book introduces algorithms for fast, accurate pricing of derivative contracts. These are developed in classical Black-Scholes markets, and extended to models based on multiscale stochastic volatility, to Levy, additive and classes of Feller processes.

This book explores the role of regional government in economic guidance and regulation, showing how it can effectively leverage market forces using investment, tax policy and innovations in organization and technology to promote sustainable regional economies.

This comparative analysis of the major Chinese literary histories in China and in the West illuminates alter ego perspectives in literary historiography. Includes two case studies of Chinese poems on the notion of discursive communities and the Cultural Tang.

This book presents mathematical techniques for modeling complex cases such as scarcity of data points, or unrepeatable experiments, and applies these to nuclear deterrence, political stability and even issues involving deaf and hard of hearing children.

This interdisciplinary study surveys the evolution of our changing conceptions of time, organizing coverage around the central themes of cosmology and regularity, stasis and flux, symmetry and asymmetry. Defends a dynamic, rather than a static view of time.

This book describes effective and efficient structure-preserving algorithms for second-order oscillatory differential equations by using theoretical analysis and numerical validation. Includes advances in ARKN, ERKN, Falkner-type and energy-preserving methods.

This book demonstrates the power of isotopic enrichment for high-resolution spectroscopic characterization. It records properties of transition metal centers in silicon with unprecedented accuracy.

This book explores advanced Bayesian statistical methods for extracting key information for cosmological model selection, parameter inference and forecasting from astrophysical observations, in particular dark energy from observations of supernovae type Ia.

This book shows how speech transmission quality can be modeled based on perceptual dimensions. The author introduces a new assessment method allowing the dimensions to be rated by non-expert listeners, backed by evidence of meaningful and reliable results.

This book reviews construction safety measures in different regions of the world, and provides detailed evidence of the need for construction safety measures. Gathers and presents worldwide construction accident statistics, and costs of construction accidents.

This book details how Feynman integrals can be evaluated analytically. It presents the most powerful methods and features numerous examples which help the reader apply them in practice.

In its revised and extended second edition, this book covers the basics of bioinformatics/information technology: programming with Bash, Sed and AWK, and the respective terminology. Case studies, exercises with solutions and worked-out examples are included.

Here is a detailed review of current understanding of thermodynamics and statistical physics relating to glass. The new edition adds material on biologically important vitrified aqueous solutions, geologically important glass-formation processes and more.

Economic globalisation and technological change are the two issues that concerned people in the past, concern them today and will concern them in the future - all over the world, poor or rich.

Dynamic Provisioning for Community Services outlines a dynamic provisioning and maintenance mechanism in a running distributed system, e.g.

Presents the findings on behaviours of steel structural components in a fire, such as the catenary actions of restrained steel beams, the design methods for restrained steel columns, and the membrane actions of concrete floor slabs with steel decks. The book is of interest to architects, code officials, building designers and fire fighters.

As the basic discipline of service dominant era, service science mainly studies common rules of service activities, aiming to provide theoretical bases for creating service value in the new era. Service science research system constitutes service philosophy, resource allocation, operational management and service technology.

In this book the author develops normative knowledge management guidelines which draw from a unique view on knowledge, discussed in the field of philosophy since Plato but neglected by most knowledge management authors - by applying a philosophically grounded 'social epistemology' to organizations.

The author worked out that a company, which achieves to align its sound strategy cascading with the company context and leadership style of its top-management team, is likely to realize more operations improvements than do companies that missed to do so.

Beginning with the Pi Theorem, the theoretical basis of dimensional analysis, this book offers many examples of dimensional analysis in various branches of mechanics. Includes findings of the author's research group on explosion mechanics and impact dynamics.

Rather than offer a general methodology, this book proposes a framework and means for actively taking into account the relationships between pedagogical settings and software, and for working together in a multidisciplinary way to develop educational software.

Here is a single-source, detailed, practical guide to the various components of a demand-driven supply chain. Based on robust real-life experience and academic research, it details a step-wise process of making a supply chain strategy demand-driven.

When one reads the memoirs, one has to admit that on ly very little is known about this great psychiatrist's personality and path through life and that this gap has by no means been filled by the publica tion of his memoirs.

The contacts between man and nonhuman primates enable the transmission of mic roorganisms from one species to the other. Also the retrans mission of originally human pathogens via nonhuman primates to man may pose a considerable risk to human health.

Finely sifting their results, the authors constructed a concise reinterpretation of their achievement to date. This was especially true in the analysis of the existence, uniqueness and global stability of the Cournot-Nash equilibrium for oligopoly with multi-product flrms, and for several modilled Cournot and related models.

This book explores structural and electronic properties of strained epitaxial layers and the thermodynamics and kinetics of layer growth, and describes such growth techniques as metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy, molecular beam epitaxy and liquid phase epitaxy.

This compact presentation of quantum physics deploys examples at the simplest level that display the basic features of the system, providing undergraduates and practitioners with concise and easily assimilated coverage of nonrelativistic quantum theory.