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Hierarchy is a form of organisation of complex systems that rely on or produce a strong differentiation in capacity (power and size) between the parts of the system.

By providing a comprehensive look at statistical inference from record-breaking data in both parametric and nonparametric settings, this book treats the area of nonparametric function estimation from such data in detail. Statisticians, mathematicians, and engineers will find the book useful as a research reference.

Part 1 presents the five keynote addresses of the conference, while Parts 2 through 4 present selected papers related to each of three sub-themes: knowledge construction and learning to teach, perspectives on teachers' personal and professional lives, and teachers' workplace as context for learning.

There is much to understand about employment discrimination law as a social system. How do employers respond to discrimination law? This book presents answers, from a distinguished group of scholars, and social scientists, offering a broad reconsideration of employment discrimination and its treatment in law.

Recent disasters such as the tsunami disaster continue to demonstrate Professor Allinson's thesis that valuing human lives is the core of ethical management. His unique comparison of the ideas of the power of Fate and High Technology, his penetrating analysis of the very concept of an "accident", demonstrate how concepts rule our lives.

Focuses on articles relevant to mouse chemical mutagenesis. This book provides an overview of the history of the Human Genome Project and use of the mouse as the primary organism for the functional annotation of the mammalian genome. It analyzes data on DNA damage after chemical treatment; summarizes the power of allelic series; and more.

Effective Learning and Teaching of Writing is a handbook on research on the effective teaching and learning of writing.

Prepared by the investigation of the first two matrixes (the "Womb of Life" and "Sharing-in-Life"), this collection of essays focuses upon the third and crowning creative matrix "Imaginatio Creatrix" that proves itself to be the source and driving force which brings us to the origins of the human mind - human life.

This is the first text to deal with mobile learning in formal education. Focusing on at risk groups in formal education and how portable technologies can support them, the book offers a sound theoretical foundation supported by case studies and examples.

Developments in the practice of mathematics have led to new types of proof and argumentation, challenging the established norms in this area. This book directs the attention of educational researchers to the newest developments in the philosophy and practice of mathematics.

This book goes beyond left-handed materials or negative index materials and focuses on recent research activity. It includes an introduction to optical transformation theory and coverage of a new rapid design method for inhomogeneous metamaterials.

This book prepares graduate students for research in numerical analysis/computational mathematics by giving a mathematical framework embedded in functional analysis and focused on numerical analysis. This helps them to move rapidly into a research program.

This book is devoted to the topological fixed point theory of multivalued mappings including applications to differential inclusions and mathematical economy. It is the first monograph dealing with the fixed point theory of multivalued mappings in metric ANR spaces.

Essays on Cooperative Games collates selected contributions on Cooperative Games. The papers cover both theoretical aspects (Coalition Formation, Values, Simple Games and Dynamic Games) and applied aspects (in Finance, Production, Transportation and Market Games).

Researchers who participate in IEA studies have a unique opportunity to work collaboratively with their counterparts from many different countries and disciplinary backgrounds over a period of several years on questions of shared academic interest.

The counterfactual approach to estimate effects of causes from quasi-experimental data or from observational studies was first proposed by Rubin in 1974 and further developed by James Heckman and others.This book presents both theoretical contributions and empirical applications of the counterfactual approach to causal inference.

China's concentrated HIV epidemic is on the brink of becoming a generalized one and syphilis infection has become a major public health threat. A better understanding of the proximate social determinants of HIV related to gender will be crucial to effectively curbing HIV and other STIs in China.

This book isolates and examines the main arteries running through the intermingled forces prompting the quest to endow life with meaning.

Handbook of International Insurance: Between Global Dynamics and Local Contingencies analyzes key trends in the insurance industry in more than 15 important national insurance markets that represent over 90 percent of world insurance premiums.

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Bioremediation of Soils Contaminated with Aromatic Compounds, Tartu, Estonia, 1-3 July 2004

Economic globalization has been accompanied by implementation of education reforms linked to accountability and public finance schemes that emphasize student choice in schools and student loans in higher education. This book provides a systematic evaluation of the effects of state education reforms and finance policies over the past decades.

This book is the culmination of several years of work by geographers, planners, and economists. The chapters included in this volume represent the collective efforts of the International Geographical Union's Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces, at their 2005 annual meeting in Toledo, Ohio (USA).

Every year 13.3 millions boys and 2 million girls are subjected to circumcision, the involuntary removal of part or all of their external sex organs. Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Circumcision illuminates the vulnerability of human society to medical, economic, and historical pressures.

But the paradox is that if globalization facilitates terrorist violence, the fight against this war without borders is potentially disastrous for both economic development and globalization.

Written for the educated non-scientist and scientist alike, it spans a variety of scientific disciplines, from observational astronomy to particle physics. However the themes are explained in such a way that no prior understanding of science beyond a high school education is necessary.

To help us understand what happened during the Ice Age, Peter Ward takes us on a tour of other mass extinctions through earth's history.

MRI Physics for Radiologsits: A Visual Approach, Third Edition delineates the principles of magnetic resonance imaging in a format that can be understood by readers who do not have a sophisticated physics or mathematics background.

Here is an introduction to the theory of quantum groups with emphasis on the spectacular connections with knot theory and Drinfeld's recent fundamental contributions. It presents the quantum groups attached to SL2 as well as the basic concepts of the theory of Hopf algebras.

This book is a very well-accepted introduction to the subject. Now, in this fourth edition, the book has again been updated with an additional chapter on Lewy's example of a linear equation without solutions.

This set of four volumes on brings together evidence and insights on educational change issues from leading writers and researchers in the field from across the world.