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Algorithms in Computational Molecular Biology. Techniques, Approaches and Applications
Elloumi Mourad
This book represents the most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of information on the topic of computational molecular biology. Bringing the most recent research into the forefront of discussion, Algorithms in Computational Molecular...
Family Conflict Among Chinese- and Mexican-Origin Adolescents and Their Parents in the U.S.. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 135
Umana-Taylor Adriana J.
Gain a nuanced understanding of parent–adolescent conflict in Chinese- and Mexican-origin families in the United States. This volume explores key issues related to family conflict such as acculturation gaps parent and adolescent internal...
Scattering and Dynamics of Polymers. Seeking Order in Disordered Systems
Han Charles C.
Scattering is a very powerful tool to study the structure of polymers. Written by highly regarded and respected scientists in the field, this book presents the latest developments in the field of scattering in a uniform, systematic manner. This...
Fiber Optic Sensors. An Introduction for Engineers and Scientists
Spillman William B.
Since the technology has moved strongly into a number of different areas a textbook of this sort could be used by a wide variety of academic departments including physics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, civil engineering,...
Motivating and Retaining Online Students. Research-Based Strategies That Work
Concei??o Simone C.O.
Finally, the first research-based book of sound strategies and best practices to help instructors motivate students to complete their online courses. Although studies support the effectiveness of learning online, students often fail to complete...
Creating a Sense of Presence in Online Teaching. How to "Be There" for Distance Learners
Concei??o Simone C.O.
This important new resource shows how a strong sense of online presence contributes to greater student satisfaction and retention. The authors explore the psychological and social aspects of online presence from both the instructor and student...
Managing Online Instructor Workload. Strategies for Finding Balance and Success
Concei??o Simone C.O.
Managing Online Instructor Workload is a groundbreaking book that offers strategies, advice, illustrative examples, and a four-step process for identifying challenges and rethinking, prioritizing, managing, and balancing one's online instruction...
Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology
Ayala Francisco J.
This collection of specially commissioned essays puts top scholars head to head to debate the central issues in the lively and fast growing field of philosophy of biology Brings together original essays on ten of the most hotly debated questions...
Assessing Meaning Making and Self-Authorship: Theory, Research, and Application. ASHE Higher Education Report 38:3
Magolda Marcia B.Baxter
One reason so many students fail to achieve complex learning goals may be that they rely too heavily on others’ opinions about what to believe, who to be, and how to relate to others. The meaning-making capacity of self-authorship provides a...
Meteorology of Tropical West Africa. The Forecasters' Handbook
Diop-Kane Mariane
Meteorology of tropical West Africa: the Forecasters’ Handbook presents the science and practice of weather forecasting for an important region of the tropics. Connecting basic theory with forecasting practice, the book provides a unique...
Solid State Proton Conductors. Properties and Applications in Fuel Cells
Vona Maria LuisaDi
Proton conduction can be found in many different solid materials, from organic polymers at room temperature to inorganic oxides at high temperature. Solid state proton conductors are of central interest for many technological innovations,...
Teaching Intensive and Accelerated Courses. Instruction that Motivates Learning
Ginsberg Margery B.
In this comprehensive resource, Raymond J. Wlodkowski and Margery B. Ginsberg describe how to meet the challenge of teaching intensive and accelerated courses to nontraditional learners and working adults. By making motivation and cultural...
Modern Analog Filter Analysis and Design. A Practical Approach
Raut R.
Starting from the fundamentals, the present book describes methods of designing analog electronic filters and illustrates these methods by providing numerical and circuit simulation programs. The subject matters comprise many concepts and...
The Fracture of Brittle Materials. Testing and Analysis
Freiman Stephen
Supports the use and development of strong, fracture-resistant, and mechanically reliable ceramic materials The Fracture of Brittle Materials thoroughly sets forth the key scientific and engineering concepts underlying the selection of test...
Preventing College Student Suicide. New Directions for Student Services, Number 141
Robertson Jason
Suicide is the second-leading cause of death among college students. Further, one in ten college students has considered suicide in the past year. Experts have called for a comprehensive, systemic approach to campus suicide prevention that...
Stem Cells in Craniofacial Development and Regeneration
Thesleff Irma
Stem Cells, Craniofacial Development and Regeneration is an introduction to stem cells with an emphasis on their role in craniofacial development. Divided into five sections, chapters build from basic introductory information on the definition...
Green Chemistry and Engineering. A Practical Design Approach
Jim?nez-Gonz?lez Concepci?n
The past, present, and future of green chemistry and green engineering From college campuses to corporations, the past decade witnessed a rapidly growing interest in understanding sustainable chemistry and engineering. Green Chemistry and...
Performance Management and Evaluation. New Directions for Evaluation, Number 137
Nielsen Steffen Bohni
This issue focuses on connections between performance management and evaluation, a contentious topic at the moment. It does so by placing evaluation and monitoring under the overarching concept of performance management, and then by...
Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics. An Integrated Approach
Hardy Robert J.
This textbook brings together the fundamentals of the macroscopic and microscopic aspects of thermal physics by presenting thermodynamics and statistical mechanics as complementary theories based on small numbers of postulates. The book is...
Evaluation Theory, Models, and Applications
Stufflebeam Daniel L.
The golden standard evaluation reference text Now in its second edition, Evaluation Theory, Models, and Applications is the vital text on evaluation models, perfect for classroom use as a textbook, and as a professional evaluation reference. The...
Synthetic Diamond Films. Preparation, Electrochemistry, Characterization and Applications
Brillas Enric
The book gives an overview on the current development status of synthetic diamond films and their applications. Its initial part is devoted to discuss the different types of conductive diamond electrodes that have been synthesized, their...
Adult Education and the Pursuit of Wisdom. New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, Number 131
Tisdell Elizabeth J.
Delve into the nature and mystery of wisdom in adult education, and what it might mean for the practice of adult education in the complexity of changing times. This issue begins with a look at the nature of wisdom, the wisdom of nature, and how...
Intercultural Language Teaching and Learning
Scarino Angela
This wide-ranging survey of issues in intercultural language teaching and learning covers everything from core concepts to program evaluation, and advocates a fluid, responsive approach to teaching language that reflects its central role in...
Managing Technology in Higher Education. Strategies for Transforming Teaching and Learning
Sangra Albert
Universities continue to struggle in their efforts to fully integrate information and communications technology within their activities. Based on examination of current practices in technology integration at 25 universities worldwide, this book...
Quaternary Carbonate and Evaporite Sedimentary Facies and Their Ancient Analogues. A Tribute to Douglas James Shearman (Special Publication 43 of the IAS)
Alsharhan Abdulrahman S.
This book is part of the International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS) Special Publications. The Special Publications from the IAS are a set of thematic volumes edited by specialists on subjects of central interest to sedimentologists....
Grant Seeking in Higher Education. Strategies and Tools for College Faculty
The University of Missouri Grant Writer Network
Written for anyone in higher education who is responsible for submitting and running a grant-funded project, Grant Seeking in Higher Education offers a hands-on resource for developing and managing the grant process from start to finish. Step by...
Handbook of Green Analytical Chemistry
Miguel de la Guardia
The emerging field of green analytical chemistry is concerned with the development of analytical procedures that minimize consumption of hazardous reagents and solvents, and maximize safety for operators and the environment. In recent years...
Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment
Keen Patricia L.
Examines effects of the environmental distribution of antimicrobial resistance genes on human health and the ecosystem Resistance genes are everywhere in nature—in pathogens, commensals, and environmental microorganisms. This contributed work...
Assessment Methods for Student Affairs
Upcraft M. Lee
Editor John Schuh and his fellow contributors, all experts in the field, detail the methodological aspects of conducting assessment projects specifically for the student affairs practitioner who is ready to conduct assessment projects, but is...
Ethics, Technology, and Engineering. An Introduction
Royakkers Lamb?r
Featuring a wide range of international case studies, Ethics, Technology, and Engineering presents a unique and systematic approach for engineering students to deal with the ethical issues that are increasingly inherent in engineering practice....
X-Ray Absorption and X-Ray Emission Spectroscopy. Theory and Applications
Lamberti Carlo
During the last two decades, remarkable and often spectacular progress has been made in the methodological and instrumental aspects of x–ray absorption and emission spectroscopy. This progress includes considerable technological improvements in...
Net Locality. Why Location Matters in a Networked World
Gordon Eric
The first book to provide an introduction to the new theory of Net Locality and the profound effect on individuals and societies when everything is located or locatable. Describes net locality as an emerging form of location awareness central to...
Industrial Crystallization Process Monitoring and Control
Kramer Herman J.
Crystallization is an important technique for separation and purification of substances as well as for product design in chemical, pharmaceutical and biotechnological process industries. This ready reference and handbook draws on research work...
Conservation and the Genetics of Populations
Allendorf Fred W.
Conservation and the Genetics of Populations gives a comprehensive overview of the essential background, concepts, and tools needed to understand how genetic information can be used to develop conservation plans for species threatened with...
Teacher-Student Relationships: Toward Personalized Education. New Directions for Youth Development, Number 137
Noam Gil G.
Explore the complexity of teacher-student relationships in secondary school settings and learn how these largely unscripted relationships function for students and teachers in their learning and socioemotional development. For teachers, the...
The Packaging Designer's Book of Patterns
Wybenga George L.
The essential packaging design resource, now with more patterns than ever! For more than two decades, The Packaging Designer's Book of Patterns has served as an indispensable source of ideas and practical solutions for a wide range of packaging...
Name Reactions for Carbocyclic Ring Formations
Corey E. J.
This book continues the well-established and authoritative series on name reactions in organic chemistry by focusing on name reactions on ring formation. Ring formating reactions have found widespread applicability in traditional organic...
Quaternary Environmental Change in the Tropics
Metcalfe Sarah E.
The global climate changes that led to the expansion and contraction of high latitude ice sheets during the Quaternary period were associated with equally dramatic changes in tropical environments. These included shifts in vegetation zones,...
Guide to Mitigating Spacecraft Charging Effects
Whittlesey Albert C.
The definitive guide to the modern body of spacecraft charging knowledge—from first principles for the beginner to intermediate and advanced concepts The only book to blend the theoretical and practical aspects of spacecraft charging, Guide to...
Complex Valued Nonlinear Adaptive Filters. Noncircularity, Widely Linear and Neural Models
Goh Vanessa SuLee
This book was written in response to the growing demand for a text that provides a unified treatment of linear and nonlinear complex valued adaptive filters, and methods for the processing of general complex signals (circular and noncircular)....
Budgets and Financial Management in Higher Education
Barr Margaret J.
Budgets and Financial Management in Higher Education This thoroughly updated and expanded edition of the classic resource The Jossey-Bass Academic Administrator's Guide to Budgets and Financial Management will help administrators become more...
Carbon Sequestration and Its Role in the Global Carbon Cycle
Sundquist Eric T.
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 183. For carbon sequestration the issues of monitoring, risk assessment, and verification of carbon content and storage efficacy are perhaps the most...
Advances in Enzymology and Related Areas of Molecular Biology
Purich Daniel L.
Encompasses the latest advances in the field. New series editor, Daniel Purich, is a well-known biochemist and enzymologist.
Separable Boundary-Value Problems in Physics
Willatzen Morten
Innovative developments in science and technology require a thorough knowledge of applied mathematics, particularly in the field of differential equations and special functions. These are relevant in modeling and computing applications of...
Risk Assessment of Phytochemicals in Food. Novel Approaches
Eisenbrand G.
Providing the scientific background on the risk and safety assessment of toxicity in phytochemicals in everyday food, this monograph contains the pros and cons of 20 testing methods, with comments by the internationally acknowledged and...
Destruction of Hazardous Chemicals in the Laboratory
Sansone Eric B.
The book describes practical procedures for the destruction of hazardous chemicals and biological agents in the laboratory in which they are used. The book is a continuation and expansion of “Destruction of Hazardous Chemicals in the...
Planning and Integration of Refinery and Petrochemical Operations
Elkamel Ali
Clearly divided into three main sections, this practical book familiarizes readers with the area of planning in petroleum refining and petrochemical industry, while introducing several planning and modeling strategies encompassing single site...
Organometallic Compounds of Low-Coordinate Si, Ge, Sn and Pb. From Phantom Species to Stable Compounds
Lee Vladimir Ya.
Until recently the low-coordinate compounds of the heavier elements of group 14 were known only as transient, unstable species which were difficult to isolate. However recent developments have led to the stabilisation of these compounds and...
The Importance of Pi-Interactions in Crystal Engineering. Frontiers in Crystal Engineering
Tiekink Edward R.T.
Crystal engineers aim to control the way molecules aggregate in the crystalline phase and are therefore concerned with crystal structure prediction, polymorphism, and discovering the relative importance of different types of intermolecular...
Fluid Dynamics of the Mid-Latitude Atmosphere
James Ian N.
This book gives a coherent development of the current understanding of the fluid dynamics of the middle latitude atmosphere. It is primarily aimed at post-graduate and advanced undergraduate level students and does not assume any previous...
