For social scientists, it is often confusing how to determine when missing data is a problem in analyses and how to handle it. This book presents a comprehensive overview of the available methods, focusing on which method should be used for specific problems. It features numerous real and simulated data examples to illustrate how the methods can be applied once the appropriate technique has been determined. It also includes exercises, computer-based problems, and suggestions for further reading. R code and the data sets are available on the book¿s website.

Beginning with a thorough discussion of electromagnetics, the book achieves two primary objectives. First, the book develops an understanding of electric and magnetic fields so that readers can connect the structure of electromagnetic fields to circuit structures and their lumped element models. Second, it allows the user to gain sufficient facility with electromagnetic waves to appreciate phenomena associated with waves traveling in circuits and on printed circuit boards such as reflection, transmission, dispersion, and loss.

Jonathan Morduch and Timothy Ogden define the fundamental components of finance and explain in straightforward language how the lack of financial inclusion reinforces broader inequities in our society. The book answers core questions: What is financial inclusion? Why does it matter? How does it work? When doesn't it work? What are the risks?

Flexible bronchoscopy is one of the most exciting and challenging procedures in respiratory medicine today. This unique and comprehensive atlas by an expert practitioner provides an innovative pictorial guide to this procedure. The book is invaluable to those training in respiratory medicine as well as specialist respiratory nurses and practicing pulmonologists who wish to expand their practice and knowledge of the technique. It guides readers through the range of anatomical and pathological possibilities and provides step-by-step instructions for bronchoscopic techniques, interpretation of images, and differential diagnoses.

Owing to its massive state sector, public procurement in China is a critical element of public policy. This book examines China's public procurement regime since the launching of market-oriented reform in 1978. It provides a detailed picture of the legal framework, assessing the impact of key legislative measures.

Emphasizing the finite difference approach for solving differential equations, this revised and updated edition presents a methodology for systematically constructing individual computer programs. The text provides accessible, accurate solutions to complex scientific and engineering problems. Each chapter includes objectives, a discussion of a representative application, and an outline of special features. Chapters conclude with a list of tasks students should be able to complete after reading the chapter-perfect for use as a study guide or for review. In addition, all computer code has been updated to reflect Fortran 95/2003.

What are the conceptual correspondences and gaps between theories of nature, ecology, environment, and aesthetics? This volume addresses the ecological and aesthetic dimensions of human interaction with geographical, geological, botanical, zoological, astronomical, and climatic formations. Other than literary ecocriticism which led to heated debates, this book deals with the ecological turn in visual studies, a territory of research still in its infancy. Art history is thus engaging in the crucial exchange between ecological and aesthetic studies. The contributions adopt a historical as well as a transcultural perspective reaching from the earliest known human interaction with the natural environment to the present day.

With expanded sections and added photographs and illustrations, this second edition reference demonstrates and explains many neuropathologic findings to help investigators of sudden and unexpected death integrate their own findings into the total case context. This new edition features more in-depth discussion of the subject matter, atlas photos, expanded discussion of natural disease topics, new sections on how and why to examine the central nervous system, and new information on normal human neuroanatomy. With more photomicrographs included to aid in histopathology, this book includes 300 new images among its 750 color photographs.

This book presents the historical, legal, and social aspects of female criminals and their offenses. It focuses mainly on the United States but also discusses female criminality around the world. It explores the treatment and experiences of female criminals within the context of the social, legal, and criminal justice systems in which they operate. Chapters highlight sociodemographic characteristics, explore myth and legends about notorious female criminals, and discuss the impact of drugs on criminality. The book also discusses gender-specific crimes, and issues related to apprehension and processing.

This book introduces factor analysis methods for the study of multivariate stochastic processes whose structure evolves over time. It introduces the theory of factor analysis and evolutionary stochastic processes and combines that to study evolutionary factor models. The book includes many real examples to illustrate applications from such fields as macroeconomics, finance, neuroscience, communication, and psychology. MATLAB® and R code is included throughout the book for implementation of the methods.

Provides a comprehensive methodological overview of systems analysis (modelling/simulation/quantitative analysis) of livestock systems. It places the method of systems analysis into the epistemological context of livestock science.

Accelerated life tests (ALTs) have become an indispensable tool for reliability engineers to quantify a product's reliability, and for product managers to make product release decisions. However, there are many common misuses of ALTs and misinterpretations of their results. This book provides a framework for the proper design and analysis of ALTs. It compares ALTs with other industrial testing experiments, and provides guidance on their appropriate application. It features lots of examples using real data from industrial experiments, and provides statistical software for their implementation. It can be used as a textbook for students of reliability, or as a reference for practitioners

Infrastructure needs monitoring, especially when it is sophisticated. Structural Health Monitoring delivers an abundance of information for life cycle assessment, maintenance planning and early warning.This graduate level textbook and professional guide provides an introduction to the more basic and system identification methods of SHM. Both parametric and non-parametric methods are formulated in the time or frequency domain. It also covers state and parameter identification, the task of identifying behavior that lies beyond the usual scope of the elastic region, and non-stationarity. All methods are demonstrated using Python, and example code is provided for the featured examples.

The second stand alone volume in the hit Drew and Jot graphic novel series by New York Times bestselling author Art Baltazar as Andrew & Foz's superhero adventure literlaly takes on a new life of its own!