Conflict in social movements is too often misunderstood as being an indication of a movement's impending demise rather than as important, reflexive work that allows movements to renew themselves.
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International knowledge is becoming a key resource for international operating companies. To acquire this global perspective many companies send their employees for a few years abroad on internati...więcej »
To reduce dependency on fossil fuels, there is tremendous interest in using biomass feedstocks for producing fuels, heat, power, chemicals, and bio-products. Biomass feedstocks such as corn stover ...więcej »
This pioneering book provides a new interpretation of the Anglo-American special relationship's fundamental nature, its strengths and weaknesses, and the heart of its operational dynamic. Revealing...więcej »
This study examines the stability of legislative decisions in the European Union before and after enlargement and after the possible entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty. Stability of decisions is...więcej »
This monograph discusses a clinical decision-making rule for mild head injury in young children, an extremely common type of injury seen in emergency departments. These children appear to respond d...więcej »
Proper design, conduct, analysis and interpretation of epidemiological studies are the major challenges faced by students and researchers involved in such areas. The author of this book describes i...więcej »
A novel automated approach of multi-modality biomedical image control point detection, registration, and fusion has been successfully developed. The new algorithm, which consists of the Adaptive Ex...więcej »
Baccalaureate education is intended to develop nurses who can function beyond task-focused roles, and instead serve as professionals with a broad range of competencies and critical thinking skills...więcej »
A child with specific language impairment (SLI) does not acquire normal language ability at the appropriate age. Findings in SLI studies are contradictory, and the core problem of the disorder is s...więcej »
Measuring the mechanical properties of human soft tissue is a current topic in the field of diagnostic ultrasound research. Long before ultrasound was used in medical diagnosis, palpation was the i...więcej »
This book presents a methodology for fault diagnosis – detection, isolation, and identification – for dynamic systems whose models are faced with parametric uncertainties. This class of problems is...więcej »
The recent trend of urban sprawl in the United States has resulted in a demand for alternatives. Long commutes and automobile centered lifestyles leave less time to exercise, increase air pollution...więcej »
The aim of this book is threefold: to reinstate distance functions as a principal
tool of general topology, to promote the use of distance functions on various
mathematical objects and a thinking i...więcej »
Family business studies can benefit from research attention focused on successors. Researchers have proposed that founder leadership has an overshadowing affect on subsequent generations in the fa...więcej »
Emotional labor is a type of emotion management that occurs when people
modify their actual or displayed emotions to meet the demands of their job.
Research indicates that individuals who feel as t...więcej »
China, as the largest emerging economy in the world, began its accounting
reforms in the early 1990s. It is not known, however, whether its accounting
reforms, intended to harmonize with the Intern...więcej »
The corset in eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe was a complex and
often contradictory social and cultural symbol. It symbolized both the sensual
female body and the chaste virgin; the female...więcej »