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 »
History's only four-time world heavyweight boxing champion and one of America's most admired and beloved athletes reveals the dramatic story of his rise from poverty to the very pinnacle of the tou...więcej »
"Lean Thinking" has dominated product development and project management for over a decade. Now, however, a six-year study by MIT's International Motor Vehicle Program led by Michael Cusumano and K...więcej »
In a tradition of political satire that ranges from A MODEST PROPOSAL to DR. STRANGELOVE falls the perplexing, ingenious, and ceaselessly curious REPORT FROM IRON MOUNTAIN.
Upon its first appearan...więcej »
In today's complex work world, things no longer get done simply because someone issues an order and someone else follows it.
Most of us work in socially intricate organizations where we need the h...więcej »
Torie Clarke, renowned and respected in political and business circles as one of the nation's most gifted communicators, offers a complete guide to the new age of transparency. Clarke's message is ...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 »
The explosive definitive account of the Michael Jackson saga, chronicling the King of Pop's battles against child molestation charges from 1993 to 2005, from award-winning journalist
Diane Dimond,...więcej »
Now more than ever, a company's success -- indeed its survival -- depends on a firmwide effort to create the best products and bring them to market quicker than competitors. Going beyond the tradit...więcej »
Put your eyes up here,
put your eyes on me!
Ms Roys asks for her students' attention, but she doesn't really need to. Who can ignore a teacher who wears silly hats and colorful skirts, has a grave...więcej »