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Articulates nineteen assumptions that elaborate and make clearer Herbert Blumer's famous premises of symbolic interactionism.

How much of a role does genetics or environment play in accounting for reasoning skill and other intellectual aptitudes? This book argues that both environment and genetics play a role in a child's intelligence, but family environment, especially at an early age, is of primary importance - and suggests how intelligence may be heightened.

Describes Brownian motion and the associated stochastic calculus, including their relationship to partial differential equations. This book solves stochastic differential equations by a variety of methods and studies in detail the one-dimensional case.

Spatial statistics is a specialised field of research, concepts and methods directed towards addressing problems inherent to the statistical treatment of spatial data.. This book is directed towards an audience of social and political scientists, much broader than the scientific community specialized in spatial statistics and spatial econometrics. As such, it will be written in a language appropriate for non-experts, requiring only a basic knowledge of statistics and a minimum familiarity with mathematical formalism.

Many different statistical methods have been developed for predicting the disease classes of patients. However, in order to have confidence in the results of such methods, their performance needs to be assessed. This handbook includes articles by the leading researchers in this area.

In this book, professionals faced with a case of possible child torture will find guidelines for the recognition, investigation, treatment and prosecution of child torture. The text covers the three major settings for child torture: intra-familial, sexual, and political. The main goal is to increase the awareness of the broad spectrum of child torture presentation, and its treatment and prevention. With over 300 color photographs, figures, tables and charts, The Investigation and Prosecution of Child Torture is the first published book on this subject for medical, law enforcement, and legal communities.

This book provides a roadmap for city-specific environmental health studies based on ambient air quality and measures of public health. Chapter one highlights the benefits of city-specific understanding toward the main goal of improving human health through knowledge and action. The book does not address environmental regulation, but rather focuses on the opportunities for individual cities to properly inform their residents of risks and concerns.

Compositional Data Analysis (CoDA) refers to the analysis of all those vectors representing parts of a whole which only carry relative information. This type of data is ubiquitous in most applications, especially in geology, chemistry, genetics, and environmental sciences. The last comprehensive treatment was written by John Aitchison in 1986, and this book represents an update of that classic book.

Distilling more than twenty years of experience with intravascular ultrasound (IVUS), Intracoronary Imaging summarizes Dr Mintz's own experiences as well as published and unpublished observations of others in the field. The text incorporates angiographic and uses pathologic observations to fill in the gaps in knowledge of coronary artery disease as assessed by IVUS alone. A major effort went into selecting and presenting figures for their illustrative value. In most cases each IVUS figure includes a linear sequence of equidistant image slices that illustrates the full length morphology of the lesion and/or the pullback of the transducer through the lesion. It provides the reader with an excellent guide for revision, confirming diagnoses, and teaching.

Addressing issues of global change from an evolutionary perspective, this book is divided into four parts. It discusses the impact of climate change on the spatial distribution of plants; the means by which plants acquire resources in a changing environment; plant responses to predictable and unpredictable environmental conditions affecting resource availability; and the integration of currently disparate fields to provide the foundation for a new literature on how plants respond to a world changing faster than ever before.

This book presents an overview of the diverse literature on change-point methodology and describes some unifying themes and recent breakthroughs. It can be used as a second-year Ph.D. level course in statistics. It is expected to be useful to researchers and graduate students, not only in statistics but also in engineering, biomedicine, economics and finance.

A stochastic flow is a mathematical model used to simulate a system of interacting particles in random media. There have been many developments in methodology and applications in recent years, and this book synthesizes this research. The methods are important for applications, particularly in physics and engineering. The book also covers stochastic flows with singular interaction, which are not covered in great detail in other books.

This book highlights all the rapid changes occurring in the understanding of the behavior and design of composite steel¿concrete structures and links them to a variety of international standards. It addresses the needs created by the increasing internationalization of engineering practices and the need for structural engineers to be adept in design provisions from more than their home nations. It offers an in-depth treatment of the fundamental behavior and design of composite steel¿concrete building structures incorporating beams, columns, joints, slabs, and systems.

This advanced textbook goes beyond the current limits of item response modeling to enhance understanding and help readers be more creative in the development and usage of the models. The book first provides a basic survey of the approach and then lays out a large space of important models and their applications. It finishes with information about using different computational approaches to estimating the models, including aspects of testing, as well as several appendices containing helpful codes and examples.

While many know about the format of some of the typical 4-1-9 Nigerian scam letters, what is largely unknown is the organized nature of the network of criminals responsible for sending them. This book illustrates how these criminals are organized; how they operate, communicate, and transfer money; and why they are so successful. Based on the author¿s five-year investigation as a U.S. Federal Agent, the book draws on information from numerous sources and extensive victim interviews, as well as the actual words of the scammers to show an unbiased picture of how these criminals operate.

Environmental criminology and its many sub-fields are increasingly becoming the focus of discussion among criminologists and criminal justice professionals. Many of the new courses being developed at universities through North America, Europe, and Oceania focus on geography of crime, geographic profiling, and crime prevention through environmental design. This work is one of the first works to specifically explore how the tenets of environmental criminology can be applied to modern urban design and crime analysis with the aim of creating safer and more secure communities.