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The Ontogeny of Human Bonding Systems takes an interdisciplinary look at the phenomena of human bonding.

Rice is the major staple food in Asia, and food security means rice security for most Asians.

As jobs requiring little skill are automated or go offshore and demand increases for the highly skilled, the pool of educated and skilled people grows smaller and the backwater of the unemployable rises.

Developing some guiding principles to be used when evaluating alternative proposals for reorganizing the US electric power industry, this text contains preliminary versions of papers that were presented at a Workshop convened by the Electric Power Research Institute at Stanford University in 1997.

To make an optimal choice between these techniques it is important to have a uniform and quantitative approach for describing the errors and how these errors propagate to the estimated parameters.

This text describes and illustrates limb-sparing surgical procedures in lieu of amputations for bone and soft-tissue tumours of the extremities, shoulder and pelvic girdle, and trunk and abdomen. It provides step-by-step guidance to surgeons performing surgery for musculoskeletal tumours.

The authors show how their concept may be applied to age-related crises, the acquisition of a moral status, the achievement of educational independence, the assessment of readiness for school, acquisition of peer status, acquisition of concepts of morality, and the task of ageing.

Aims to be a balance between theory and applications, of analysis and synthesis, keeping the focus on the comprehension of the physics ruling our planetary system. This work is a textbook for students and a fundamental reference for researchers in the Solar System field.

Proceedings of a Workshop, organized by the Directorate-General for Agriculture (DG VI) of the Commission of the European Communities, and held in Boignville (France) on May 25-27, 1988

Proceedings of a Special Water Quality Session Dealing with the Restoration of Acidified Waters, held in Toronto, Ontario, September 12-15, 1988

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, September 23-October 2, 1985 in honour of Prof. Dr. rer.nat. Ihsan Ketan

Standardized testing in the United States has been increasing at a rapid pace. One of the main features of this book is that the market for standardized testing is highly fractured - with segments of the market facing monopoly conditions, others facing oligopoly conditions and still others where near free-market conditions exist.

In Elements, Principles and Particles, Antonio Clericuzio explores the relationships between chemistry and corpuscular philosophy in the age of the Scientific Revolution.

close circle of anaesthetic scientists but, with the help of computer technology, has greatly influenced the practice of the modern clinical anaesthesiologist. EuroSIVA The concept of EuroSIVA has been to provide a forum to co-ordinate, facilitate and promote high quality presentations in the area of intravenous drug admini stration.

oil is the lifeblood of the World's economy. To conceive of a world without traffic jams and airliners is unthinkable, and while not so obvious, oil lies behind every supermarket shelf, fuelling the tractor that ploughs the field and the delivery van that brings the consumer his food.

This collection is the final volume of a four book survey of the state of phenomenology fifty years after the death of Edmund Husserl.

What determines the focus of a researcher's interest, the sources of inspiration for a study, or the variables scrutinized?

Achievement assessment has undergone a major shift, from what some call a `culture of testing' to a `culture of assessment'. The second part deals with issues related to assessment of the learning process, specifically: questions concerning the assessment of individual differences in prior knowledge, learning skills and strategies.

In this text, The Training Evaluation Process, David Basarab and Darrell Root provide commercial industry training with a step-by-step approach to use when evaluating training progrruns, thus allowing training to be viewed as an investment rather than an expense.

The objective of this book is to enable those professionals who have responsibility for the well-being, health and care of others to develop insight into and to become more empathetic to the needs, motivations, feelings and behaviour of their charges.

This is the first book to treat two areas of speech synthesis: natural language processing and the inherent problems it presents for speech synthesis; The book will be of interest to researchers and students in phonetics and speech communication, in both academia and industry.

Urban seismic risk is growing worldwide and is, increasingly, a problem of developing countries. Unless urban seismic safety is improved, particularly in developing countries, future earthquakes will have ever more disastrous social and economic consequences.

Proceedings of the International Symposium held in Belgirate, Italy, 13-15 October 1992

Approximately 650 scientists attended and approximately 50 lectures covering the topics of Agrobacterium-plant interactions, Rhizobium-plant interactions, bacteria-plant interactions, fungal-plant interactions and new aspects of biotechnology were presented.

ETHICS IN THE MELTING-POT Jack Mahoney & Elizabeth Vallance Professor Jack Mahoney is Director of the King's College Business Ethics Research Centre, University of London, and Elizabeth Vallance is Visiting Professor in Politics at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.

Understanding life through its origins reveals the underlying autonomous generative matrixes. Following the primogenital matrix of generation, three generative matrixes of the human sense of life establish humanness within the creative human condition as the existential sharing-in-life.

In that relatively short period of time, study of the disease has moved from the level of early clinical description to exhaustive and extensive laboratory characterization of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the immune responses directed towards it and reasons for their failure.

The thesis of this book is that the long-term effectiveness of the FCCC runs the risk of a horizontal negotiation deadlock between countries and the risk of vertical standstill within countries if there is little domestic support for the domestic implementation of measures being announced in international negotiations.

A detailed study of the science, engineering and applications of terahertz technology, based on room-temperature solid-state devices, which are seen as the key technology for wider applications in this frequency range. The relative merits of electronic and optical devices are discussed and new device principles identified.

This book has been written to fIll a substantial gap in the current literature in mathemat ical education. we have deliberately avoided descriptive statistics as it is a separate area and would have made ideas less coherent and the book excessively long.