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Rather than looking to high school geometry as the locus of geometric reasoning, the contributors to this volume suggest that reasoning about space can and should be successfully integrated with other forms of mathematics, starting at the elementary level and continuing through high school.

This text provides background material from developmental psychology and psychopathology - following the theory that eating problems and disorders are typically rooted in childhood. Applications are then outlined, including research, treatment, protective factors and primary prevention.

This volume focuses on identifying, reporting, and evaluating significant applied developments in the field of women's career counselling. The contributors examine counselling theories, concepts, and techniques utilized in career planning and decision making for women.

Includes papers which shows the conceptual impact that ecological psychology can have on HF/E, as well as presenting a number of specific examples illustrating the ecological approach to human-machine systems. This collection draws a connection between these two fields.

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This volume examines ways in which families are influenced by outside agencies, and how families influence the functioning of children and adults in extra-familial settings - school, work, and peer group contexts. The contributors also look at the processes that account for this mutual influence.

Documents the dialogue processes in naturally-occurring human tutoring, in the context of informing the design of intelligent tutoring systems, and of interactive systems in general. This title represents the empirical study of human tutorial dialogue from a conversation analytic perspective.

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book is a snapshot of the state of the art of controlling unit operations. It describes the optimization of air handlers, boilers, chemical reactors, chillers, clean-rooms, compressors and fans, cooling towers, heat exchangers, and pumping stations.

This edited collection addresses the context of poverty in the United States and focuses on poverty issues that family members must confront as they move through the life course.

What do you have to know, today, to be an effective group worker and what are the different group work approaches? With 110 articles and entries, this book provides a comprehensive overview of social work with groups from its initial development to its astounding range of diverse practice with many populations in different places.

This reference presents a complete perspective on recent developments in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) signal processing technology, based on the contemporary use of multiple SAR systems, or a single SAR with array instead of single antenna elements. These techniques improve the generation of 3-D images and make possible additional capabilities, such as images of moving targets. The author draws on his own research to present innovative approaches for microwave remote sensing using multiple-antenna SAR. Coverage includes azimuth, elevation, and multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) multi-antenna SAR.

Couples: Building Bridges shows therapists how to successfully apply basic principles of human interaction and communication to help facilitate intimate connections between people. Using the approaches in this book, you will see how the bridge between couples materializes naturally as a result of the combination of respect, truth, careful observations, awareness, and shared information.

This text distinguishes itself from related books by offering both graphical and analytical methods for mechanism analysis. The author presents a method that he developed to simplify the application of kinematic analysis. He uses analytical and graphical methods for solving problems and includes simulation software as a graphical interface for various mechanisms. Specific topics covered include mechanisms, velocities and accelerations, cams, spur gears, gear trains, force analysis, balancing, and helical, worm, and bevel gears.

This work presents a bold new path for analyzing and designing games. The author offers a radical yet reasoned way of thinking about games and provides a holistic solution to understanding the difference between games and other types of interactive systems. He clearly details the definitions, concepts, and methods that form the fundamentals of this philosophy. He also uses the philosophy to analyze the history of games and modern trends as well as to design games.

Presenting diffusion and mass transfer from both engineering and fundamental science perspectives, this book offers a comprehensive summary of the theory and applies that theory to obtain detailed solutions to a wide variety of problems. It covers conservation laws and field equations, boundary conditions, constitutive equations, parameters in constitutive equations, and mathematical solution methods including Green¿s functions. The authors pay particular attention to polymer mass transfer, and they also discuss the free-volume theory for prediction of self-diffusion coefficients. Problems analyzed include bubble dissolution, impurity migration in plastic containers, and drug delivery using polymers.

Now in its second edition, this volume explains the concepts, mechanism, design, and performance of ad hoc mobile wireless networks. It explores MAC layer, routing, multicast, and transport layer; quality of service; and energy management systems. Additional chapters cover mobility models for multi-hop ad hoc wireless networks as well as cross-layer design issues. The book contains appropriate examples and problems at the end of each chapter to illustrate each concept. This edition includes a new chapter on recent developments in the field, including sensor networks, personal area networks (PANs), smart dress, and vehicular ad hoc networks.

The paradoxology of scientific inference refers to the study of the nature of scientific inference and evidence through controversies or, more precisely, paradoxes. This book analyzes paradoxes from many different perspectives, such as statistics, mathematics, philosophy, science, and artificial intelligence. It compares various quantitative methods of evidence measures, including frequentist hypothesis testing, likelihood, and Bayesian methods. The text elaborates on recent findings to reach new and exciting conclusions. Other topics covered include probability, plausible reasoning, multiplicity, and inferences.

Acquiring data from the deployment area of a WSN is not always easy and multiple issues arise, including the limited resources of sensor devices run with one-time batteries. Additional WSN concerns include the external environment, routing, data aggregation, and ensuring quality of service (QoS) and security. Solutions have been developed for various types of application scenarios, but many problems still remain as open research challenges. This volume covers the various issues associated with WSNs, including their structure, activities, and applications. It reviews current trends in research and development as well as future expectations in the relevant areas.

Written by renowned experts in the field, this book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of neural coding. It describes the basic principles, covers some of the major developments in the area, and presents a complete view of how neurons in the brain encode information. The text not only contains the most important experimental findings, but also explores the main methodological aspects for studying neural coding. In addition, the book describes alternative approaches based on simulations with neural networks and in silico modeling.

Taking a holistic approach, this book examines changeover/SMED (single minute exchange of die), the conversion of a manufacturing process/machine from running the current product to running the next product. It addresses both the machinery issues and the operational issues, such as costs, waiting times, material movement, documentation, training, and product/component design. Focusing on the operational aspects, it offers readers opportunities for reducing changeover time and cost. The book contains proven methods and practical examples from a variety of industries.

A unique encyclopedic guide to all aspects of boiler design and technology, entries address key foundational concepts and cover all types of boilers found in process industries and power plants. The book also addresses all major auxiliary equipment, including air pollution control technologies. Key subject areas include fundamentals such as heat transfer, fluid flow, and metallurgy; engineering, including boiler components, pressure parts, and boiler instrumentation; essential auxiliaries, including mounting and fittings, pumps, and valves; and various types of boilers. The book also covers the latest clean and green technologies.

This work presents the principles of space and surface potential theory involving Euclidean and spherical concepts. It offers new insight on how to mathematically handle gravitation and geomagnetism for the relevant observables and how to solve the resulting potential problems in a systematic, mathematically rigorous framework. The authors build the foundation of potential theory in three-dimensional Euclidean space and its application to gravitation and geomagnetism. They then discuss surface potential theory on the unit sphere along with corresponding applications.

An excellent introduction to the field of fat technology for students and researchers, this second edition focuses on the characterization of physical properties of fats, including laboratory protocols and quantitative treatments used to quantify structure and function. This comprehensive text covers the complex analysis of fat structure and the underlying theory, and it links analysis data to macroscopic functionality. The text also contains a quantitative method for the characterization of polycrystalline colloidal oleogels and quantification of intercrystalline interaction forces, useful for engineering material properties for the food industry.

Making IT Lean presents Lean concepts and techniques for improving processes and eliminating waste in IT operations and IT Service Management. The authors provide a context for discussing several areas of application within this domain, allowing you to quickly gain insight into IT processes and Lean principles. The text reviews IT Service Management, with reference to the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL®) as a framework for best practices. Filled with straight forward examples, it provides enough modeling tools so you can start your Lean journey right away.

Going beyond standard introductory texts, this well-illustrated book brings together many new mathematical techniques from optical science and engineering research at a level accessible to students and newcomers to the field. The text presents the mathematical formalisms used in wave optics, explores current research and technological advances in plasmonics, and describes the powerful methods of group theory and modern quantum optics. With many examples and exercises, it also covers super-resolution imaging and differential geometric methods in image processing.

Rapid advances in recombinant DNA technology and the increasing availability of peptides and proteins with therapeutic potential pose a challenge for pharmaceutical scientists who have to formulate these compounds as drug products. This book focuses on general pharmaceutical developmental aspects of peptides and proteins. The general principles of production, purification, degradation mechanisms, and analysis are discussed. Several chapters discuss the formulation design of peptides and proteins, including protein modification and alternative administration strategies. This second edition also includes chapters on the immunogenicity of protein pharmaceuticals and the biosimulation of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.