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This volume collates articles investigating antioxidant, oxidant and free radical research. It examines the role of such research in health and disease, particulary with respect to developing greater understanding about the many interactions between oxidants and antioxidants.

With contributions from leading experts, this title intends to strike a balance between generic and specific fundamentals and generic and specific applications. It presents an overview of the field of high-performance scientific computing and its role in fluid flow and heat transfer problems.

Access, Resource Sharing, and Collection Development explores the role of libraries in acquiring, storing, and disseminating information in different formats to help you better use technology to share scarce resources and connect library users with collections. With an expressed goal of encouraging continued debate and further investigation, this book provides you with developing strategies and procedures to meet the challenges you face as a collection development librarian during this dynamic time. Among the vital concerns addressed are the competition for limited resources, trends in document delivery, the evaluation of document delivery products, and libraries'options for the future. The chapters collected in Access, Resource Sharing, and Collection Development represent the proceedings of the annual conference held by the University of Oklahoma Libraries and the University of Oklahoma Foundation. The book provides insight into your peers'findings and ideas on: access vs. ownership the future role of the bibliographer changes in collection management managing restrained resource budgets an emphasis on the library user as customer the growth and acceptance of document delivery as a component of collection development and ILL electronic publishing and copyright issues commercial document delivery services Access, Resource Sharing, and Collection Development also shows you how to discover and evaluate "free" resources on the Internet, as standards for production, promotion, and maintenance are nonexistent. The challenge of using these materials is being met by developing criteria for selection, looking at cataloging options, and working in cooperation with other institutions. You'll also learn the different options for document delivery and how to evaluate document delivery products. Among the book's advice: you should consider the types of document delivery available, examine the benefits of combining outside services with in-house systems, review the criteria for selecting technologies and suppliers, and explore examples of institutions creating customized systems.

The use of multimedia strikes at the very heart of traditional teaching and learning methods, and is changing the way educators think about the whole process of teaching and learning. Multimedia and Megachange spurs ideas for the use of interactive technology to revolutionize teaching and learning. It describes and analyzes issues and trends that are currently setting a research and development agenda for educators.Contributors to this volume explore all fronts on which computer technology are changing the educational process: concept and theoryresearchapplicationdesignMultimedia and Megachange opens up the exciting world of how technology is dramatically changing how teachers teach and students learn. It also highlights spin-off changes for classroom management, greater sources of information, and improved evaluation and grading techniques.

Provides examples of computer programs that have proved helpful in private and institutional treatment settings. Programs discussed include those used within the Veterans Administration system, a system to help choose the best reinforcers for patients in a behavioural program, and others.

Presents a comprehensive survey of the field of graph drawing, from its combinatorial and geometric foundations to its applications in various areas of the physical, life, and social sciences. This book covers combinatorial, geometric, and algorithmic foundations. It also presents various graph drawing algorithms as well as graph drawing systems.

Statistics plays an important role in pharmacology and related subjects such as toxicology and drug discovery and development. Improper statistical tool selection for analyzing the data obtained from studies may result in wrongful interpretation of the performance or safety of drugs. This book communicates statistical tools in simple language. The examples used are similar to those that scientists encounter regularly in their research area. The authors provide cognitive clues for selection of appropriate tools to analyze the data obtained from the studies and explain how to interpret the result of the statistical analysis.

This book addresses various clinical and sub clinical applications of antioxidant nutraceuticals, with a primary focus on preventive use for general wellness, common ailments, and such chronic illnesses as cancer and neurological applications. This unique book captures the applications of natural antioxidants, which have been used for thousands of years in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurvedic Medicine as well as modern nutraceuticals formulations. It covers antioxidant applications in clinical scenarios including the historical perspective, basic antioxidant properties and applications, anti-inflammatory properties, and antioxidant applications in a variety of clinical conditions.

This book is an excellent educational aid for teaching the methodology of experimental design and response surface analysis. It is also a valuable resource for use in R&D as well as for the development or improvement of both analytical methodologies and industrial processes. The authors describe the benefits of the sequential strategy of factorial design, explore the screening design technique developed by Plackett and Burman as an alternative to preliminary selection, and review statistical science essentials to aid readers in understanding and applying the concepts presented.

This book provides a detailed overview of the vulnerabilities of digital protection relays to natural and intentional destructive impacts. From lightning strikes, electromagnetic fields generated by operating equipment, and issues with control cable shielding to modern technical tools that realize intentional destructive impacts remotely, this first-of-its-kind text covers the latest cyber and electromagnetic threats to digital protection relays. It discusses passive means of protection, such as screened cabinets, filters, cables, special materials, and covers, as well as advanced solutions based on hardware methods.

This book identifies the most important concepts of charged particle optics theory, and derives each from the first principles of physics.

In the last decade, reliability-based design methodologies have been adopted or are close to adoption by design codes in USA, Europe, and Japan, especially as ISO 2394 now relies more on risk-based design. This book explains how calculations can be carried out using simple tools, and by presenting illustrative or actual examples. It presents all the "need-to-know" information for a non-specialist to calculate and interpret the reliability index and risk of geotechnical structures in a realistic and robust way.

This book focuses exclusively on the beneficial effects of microbes in food. The section on traditional and modern fermented foods covers the role of microbes and their diversity in fermented foods, interaction between the different microflora present in fermented food products, development of starter cultures to improve the nutritional and sensory quality of fermented foods, and factors and processes affecting the safety of various fermented foods. The second section focuses on microbes in and as functional foods: probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics.

This volume offers information about memory and psychotherapy and integrates multiple perspectives of clinical, political, empirical, ethical and legal issues to provide a thorough understanding of the memory debate and its context.

Explores plant molecular virology. This book highlights the progress of knowledge in different areas of the field. It offers information about virus taxonomy, the molecular basis of virus transmission, replication and gene expression of RNA/DNA viruses, and novel aspects of plant virus detection technologies.

This book presents modern biomolecular computational techniques that address protein flexibility/dynamics at all levels of theory. It shows how these advanced methods provide insights into dynamic aspects of biochemical processes. The book covers a wide spectrum of dynamics, from electronic structure-based to coarse-grained techniques via multiscaling at different levels. It describes the methods and results of enzyme catalysis, examines computational techniques to tackle biological problems involving intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), and discusses computational issues related to experimental characterization of IDPs.

This textbook treats system dynamics from a bond graph perspective. It guides students from the process of modeling using bond graphs, through dynamic systems analysis in the time and frequency domains, to classical and state-space controller design. Although established texts exist for system dynamics, bond graph modeling, and automatic controls, this book combines the three into a cohesive text optimized for upper-level undergraduates. It serves as a reference for practicing engineers as well as a textbook for system dynamics and controls courses that use bond graphs. It also includes real-world challenges, vodcasts, and animated examples.

Although many industrial applications have adopted parallel robots, few textbooks introduce their analysis in terms of dynamics and control. Filling the gap, this book combines the analysis of kinematics and dynamics with methods of designing controllers. It brings together analysis and design tools for engineers and researchers who want to design and implement parallel structures. Coverage includes Jacobian analysis, three methods for dynamic analysis, and advanced topics in control. Throughout, case studies show how the techniques can be applied in practice.

This book gives engineers and managers working in companies and governments around the world a pragmatic approach to system safety and risk assessment techniques. It explains in easy-to-understand language how to design workable safety management systems and implement tested solutions immediately. The book¿s many practical tips and best practices explain not only how to prevent accidents, but also how to build safety into systems at a sensible price. The book includes numerous case studies from real disasters that describe what went wrong and the lessons learned.

An exploration of how the theory and practice of integrated peacebuilding can be applied across diverse disciplines

This comprehensive and uniquely organized text is aimed at undergraduate and graduate level statistics courses in education and psychology. An organization scheme built around common issues and problems rather than statistical techniques allows students to understand the conceptual nature of statistical procedures. Likewise, it is so comprehensive and clearly written that instructors are freed from a considerable amount of didactic presentation thus allowing them to engage more with cases and examples of analysis. Whenever possible, presentations contain explanations of the underlying reasons behind a technique. For example, nearly all introductory texts specify that when doing chi-squared tests on count data, expected cell frequencies should be five or more but most don't tell why. This text does.

Examines social work administration by separating management and administrative practise into two distinct aspects - clinical management and upper level management.

A collection of essays which address themselves to the American concern for constitutional government and its attendant political liberty.

This work combines an empirical analysis of productive efficiency change in Newly Industrializing Countries with a theoretical growth model that explore the implications of improvements in efficiency on the economy.

This encyclopedia charts the influence of philosophic ideas that have had the greatest influence on educational thinking from ancient Greece to the present day.

The compiler of Time: A Bibliographic Guide (Garland, 1991) used that reference "to locate the subjects which have been energized by a concern with time, to identify their relationships with other such subjects, and to help in identifying appropriate articles and potential authors." The result is t

A defence of high school graduation testing. A special issue of "Applied Measurement in Education", it discusses the G1 Forum versus the Texas Education Agency case.

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This text provides two case studies of social studies curriculum reform and textbook policy in California and New York, to illustrate how curriculum decision-making becomes an arena in which battles are fought over national values and priorities.

Presents the history of western education through the biographies of 70 individuals, past and present, who exemplify the education of their times, or who have made important contributions to the development of educational theory or practice. Included are Sappho, Malcolm X, Foucault and Erasmus.