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

First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This work re-evaluates the use of technology in higher education. The editor draws upon case studies of the use of computer-mediated academic work and sets his conclusions in the context of social science, that is, that teachers' beliefs about computing lead to pedagogical change.

Based on extensive reasoning acquisition research, this volume provides theoretical and empirical considerations of the reasoning that occurs during the course of everyday personal and professional activities. Of particular interest is the text's focus on the question of how such reasoning takes place during school activities and how students acquire reasoning skills.

First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Transitional care is crucial to older adults with complex care needs who are moving between different locations or different levels of care. Charting a Course for High Quality Care Transitions addresses this problem by providing leading experts and leaders in the field discussing practical strategies that ensure care quality and safety for transitioning vulnerable older adults. This helpful resource comprehensively discusses current research, quality improvement, risk targeting, risk identification, patterns of care, care coordination, and performance assessment. This informative text is extensively referenced and contains numerous tables to clarify and illustrate important data.

The Healthy Families America® Initiative: Integrating Research, Theory and Practice examines the home visitation program aimed at preventing child abuse. This detailed study of the HFA is a guide for future prevention efforts covering the history, challenges, benefits, and best practices in the field.

The numbers of women offenders involved in the correctional system are quickly growing. Drugs, Women, and Justicegathers a distinguished group of researchers and policy analysts into one volume to explore the broad social and individual implications of current policy and practice pertaining to women in the criminal justice system. This valuable resource provides readers with a superb overview of the current state of knowledge and provides recommendations for new directions. Each top-notch chapter was originally presented at the Drugs, Women, and Justice symposium at the Jane Addams Substance Abuse Research Collaboration.

The Semantic Web, extends the popular, day-to-day Web, enabling computers and people to effectively work together by giving information well-defined meaning. Knitting the Semantic Web explains the interdisciplinary efforts underway to build a more library-like Web through ¿semantic knitting.¿ The book examines foundation activities and initiatives leading to standardized semantic metadata. These efforts lead to the Semantic Web¿a network able to support computational activities and provide people with services efficiently. Leaders in library and information science, computer science, and information intensive domains provide insight and inspiration to give readers a greater understanding of the evolution of the Semantic Web.

Technological advances and innovative perspectives constantly evolve the notion of what makes up a digital library. Archives and the Digital Library provides an insightful snapshot of the current state of archiving in the digital realm. Respected experts in library and information science present the latest research results and illuminating case studies to provide a comprehensive glimpse at the theory, technological advances, and unique approaches to digital information management as it now stands. The book focuses on digitally reformatted surrogates of non-digital textual and graphic materials from archival collections, exploring the roles archivists can play in broadening the scope of digitization efforts through creatively developing policies, procedures, and tools to effectively manage digital content.

Examining the concepts and application of integrated programs in sponsoring organizations, this work provides strategies to make an organization's human services useful, and thus help employees be more productive. It presents the research, with a review of program models, that illustrates what is effective in work-based human services.

Provides professionally principled therapy based on the truth of God. This book features techniques for connecting the everyday world of the client with Christian principles and Scripture. It assists therapists in helping clients achieve therapy goals.

Disability and Social Work Education: Practice and Policy Issues presents insightful strategies from leading experts that address the gaps between social work and individuals with disabilities, and offers different perspectives on how to integrate practice with social justice, accessibility to services, and human rights.

This comprehensive bibliography provides more than 1600 references to publications from the past half century on education in relation to African American Vernacular English, English-based pidgins and creoles and other vernacula Englishes, with accompanying abstracts for many.

Assists your clients in making positive strides toward a nonviolent life.

Now you can more fully understand and help your clients with this description of the development of the consciousness of identity as it occurs in well-defined stages. How the Brain Talks to Itself synthesizes recent discoveries in cognitive neuroscience with a psychoanalytic understanding of human dynamics and a working model for clinical diagnosis. In studying how the brain talks to itself to solve survival problems, this text looks at two sets of situations. In the first, neural possibilities mesh adaptively. In the second, dysfunction clouds the picturesomething has gone wrong with the brain, in the life, or in a combination that ends in clinical syndromes.

This volume covers the advances in the study of tomato diversity and taxonomy. It examines the mapping of simple and complex traits, classical genetics and breeding, association studies, molecular breeding, positional cloning, and structural and comparative genomics. The contributors also discuss transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and bioinformatics. The information in this book will be useful to researchers working on other Solanaceaous crops as well as those interested in using the tomato as a model crop species.

The pharmaceutical applications of powder technology have long been recognized. "A Guide to Pharmaceutical Particulate Science" discusses key principles of particulate science and their practical applications.

Bringing together the concepts of design control and reliability engineering, this book is a must for medical device manufacturers. It helps them meet the challenge of designing and developing products that meet or exceed customer expectations and also meet regulatory requirements. Part One covers motivation for design control and validation, design control requirements, process validation and design transfer, quality system for design control, and measuring design control program effectiveness. Part Two discusses risk analysis and FMEA, designing-in reliability, reliability and design verification, and reliability and design validation.

Designed as a practical guide for the pharmaceutical industry, Pharmaceutical Marketing applies cutting-edge marketing concepts and tools to the real-world intricacies of marketing a heavily regulated product whose success is determined not by the actual end-user, but by various industry stakeholders. From creating a worldwide vision that cascades into local tactics to managing a drug portfolio or pricing a particular product, this book guides readers through developing, implementing, and auditing a successful marketing strategy geared specifically to the pharmaceutical industry. It provides graphs, tables, worksheets, pharmaceutical case studies, and a sample marketing strategy.

When a pharmaceutical company decides to build a Quality System, it has to face the fact that there aren't any guideline that define exactly how such a system has to be built. With terms such as quality system, quality assurance, and quality management used interchangeably, even defining the system's objectives is a problem. This book provides a practical guide to building a quality system. Beginning with explanations of key terms and concepts, it covers ISO 9000 and GMP and how to combine them, and includes a matrix showing their similarities and differences. Implementation reviews illustrate how Quality (Management) Systems have been installed successfully in pharmaceutical companies. Also covered are the individual components of a Quality System; auditing, validation, and supplier qualification systems; and Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP).

In this book, recognized industry experts and regulatory inspectors from the world's pharmaceutical manufacturing regions provide stability requirements in all the major markets and discuss all aspects of stability testing and biotechnology. Participants in the ICH debates interpret the ICH guidelines. Other discussions focus on European requirements, the ICH initiatives, the US SUPAC initiative, matrixing and bracketing approaches from the cGMP and FDA perspective, and stability requirements in Japan, Australia, and WHO. Stress programs, testing of preservatives, and physical stability topics are addressed as well as various protocols and statistical approaches.

Spectroscopy of Pharmaceutical Solids

Oral Cavity Reconstruction

Gaining knowledge on the nature and application of stem cell sciences is a prerequisite for understanding their potential in treating or preventing bone disorders. This book addresses these issues in three sections: Introductory Text and Sources of Stem Cells for Skeletal Tissue, Cellular and Molecular Aspects, and Conditions, Applications, Treatments and Repairs. Coverage includes general aspects of stems cells, sources of stems cells, isolation and purification, applications in regeneration, nanoscale topography, myostatin signalling, chromatin remodelling, osteoporosis, and many other areas.

DNA repair is a rapidly advancing field in biology and these systems represent a major defense mechanism against environmental and intracellular damaging agents such as sunlight, ionizing radiation, and reactive oxygen species. With contributions from eminent researchers, this book explores the basics and current trends in this critical field. Topics include carcinogenesis as a predictive and/or prognostic biomarker for cancer therapy, nucleotide excision repair, and tumor genetics and personalized medicine. The contributions provide essential information to scientists, pharmaceutical investigators, and clinicians interested in cancer therapy.

An Introduction to Christian Ethics uses a Christian approach while encouraging students to consider a variety of current ethical issues and apply relevant biblical and theological concepts to these issues. The main goal of the text is to acquaint students with both the field of ethics in general and varieties of Christian ethical systems in particular. Learning Goals Upon completing this book, readers will be able to use a Christian method of making moral decisions and view issues from a Christian perspective.

The latest volume of Culture and Civilization gathers contemporary exponents of critical theory, specifically those based in the Frankfurt School of social thinking. Collectively, this volume demonstrates the continuing intellectual viability of critical theory, which challenges the limits of positivism and materialism.