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Covers the carbon materials for application in electrochemical energy storage and conversion. This title features different carbon materials and their physicochemical properties, and provides a review of their applications - including lithium-ion batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells, and primary cells.

Takes readers through the psychological and physical pain of an eleven-month hospital stay. This book is suitable for hands-on health care givers, those in medical and nursing schools, medical institution administrators, as well as the general public who may experience this situation from one or more perspectives at some time during their life.

This book presents a major compilation of the basic terminology in the field of ergonomics. It contains over 8,000 terms representing all areas of human factors. The book also provides a commentary, for many terms, to help place the term in perspective and elaborate on its use.

Explores the nature of Melville's relations to his reader in Moby Dick, arguing that Melville and Ishmael are so dazzled and seduced by the Ahab's charismatic charm that they are unable to see Ahab's character clearly.

Examines the nature and origin of adolescents' contemporary patterns of sexual and romantic relationships, spanning such diverse topics as the evolutionary roots of these behaviors. This book is useful for academicians and upper-lever undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of human development and family studies and psychology.

Reseach in cognitive science and psychology has yielded an improved understanding of the nature of knowledge and cognitive skills that psychological testing attempts to measure. This volume presents some accomplishments in the effort to bring testing and cognitive theory together.

For a wide audience of students and scholars of second-language learning and cultural identity, this book relates the author's stories about how languages have integrated her being, defined and formed her sense of self.

The culturally affirmative model for understanding and assisting deaf people views them in relation to the deaf community, as a group of people with a common culture and a collective identity. This text provides a model of culturally affirmative counselling and psychotherapy for deaf people.

Physics is really important to game programmers who need to know how to add physical realism to their games. In video games, the physics engine uses real-time physics to improve realism. This book aims to take readers through the process of building a complete game-ready physics engine from scratch.

Presents the information regarding the prevention, diagnosis, care, and management of patients with intestinal failure. This book reviews the basic principles and concepts. It discusses diagnostic evaluation using a variety of techniques. It covers treatment plan formulation. It addresses dietary modifications, medical management, and surgery.

Thermoelectrics is the science and technology associated with thermoelectric converters, that is, the generation of electrical power by the Seebeck effect and refrigeration by the Peltier effect. This handbook offers information on thermoelectrics.

Presents a source of reliable data embracing a range of properties of chemical substances, mixtures, and reacting systems.

Helps those involved in the engineering and financial operations of electric power systems to ensure reliable electric service at a fair and reasonable cost. This title examines the relationship between electricity, customers, and service providers as it relates to pricing.

This textbook, designed for courses in first-and-second language education, provides a "big picture" view of basic linguistics through readings organized in 3 thematic units-"What is Language and How is it Acquired?"; "How Does Language Change?"; and "Wh

Developments in digital technologies have altered teaching and learning environments, and will do so in the future. This text focuses on the issues related to the use of digital technologies in teaching the complex nature of social decisions, with particular attention to the use of digital role-play simulations..

Describing a rhetorical approach to crisis communication, this text reviews rhetorical perspective on organizational crisis, raising questions and provoking issues. It aims to add depth and a breadth of understanding to the analysis of the rhetorical implications of a crisis.

A basic introduction to American English linguistics for teachers of ESL, written in a conversational style with technical vocabulary introduced in meaningful contexts. Applications to the ESL classroom are presented in a direct way.

This volume summarizes evidence from various research domains on the subject of eyewitness testimony. Chapters are included on: differential aspects of recognition memory in children; elderly eyewitness' memory; person descriptions; and recommendations on how to conduct lineups.

The essays in this collection give voice to the plurality of approaches that scholars in the field of rhetoric and composition have when they set forth to assimilate Bakhtin for their various purposes. Together, the essays invite researchers to sustain a dialogue with Bakhtin in the future.

Karl Marx's early writing sets out his economic interpretation of history and his concept of communism in a comprehensive philosophical framework. Taking full account of these earlier writings, this book critiques and reinterprets Marx's thought.

First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Presents a comprehensive treatment of data analysis and assimilation. With practical applications from a range of fields, including climatology, this book introduces the optimal control mathematical framework for the data assimilation concepts of state vector, control space, observations, and departures.

Advances a unified theory of brain, mind, behavior and information. This work emphasizes the need to view psychological science - and our image of the 'self' - in the context of the physical world: matter, energy, and natural laws. It gives the background, tools, and methods for intervention and modeling.

Offers fluid mechanics measurement techniques as well as a comprehensive review of flow properties required for research, development, and application. This book discusses fluid-mechanics measurements in wind tunnel studies, aeroacoustics, and turbulent mixing layers, the theory of fluid mechanics.

This book contains a series of papers on some of the longstanding research problems of geometry, calculus of variations, and their applications. It is suitable for advanced graduate students, teachers, research mathematicians, and other professionals in mathematics.

Focuses on strategies to analyze the functionality and performance of food emulsions and explores developments in emulsion science that have advanced food research and development. This book probes technologies in food emulsion assessment for excellence in food product design and focuses on methods of emulsion characterization and investigation.

The controversies of redistricting have challenged America's commitment to participatory democracy and its ability to account for its historical record of voting and racial discrimination.

Volume five of this carefully selected collection of critical writings on Greek literature focuses on Greek literature in the Classical period and the prose of historiography.

This book is the first in-depth look at the past 120 years of struggle over the Oglala Lakota land base on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

An authoritative reference covering scientific instruments from antiquity to the present. The 325 entries by over 220 experts explain how the instruments work, and trace their invention, development, distribution and cost.