Criticism that the compensation awarded to senior executives of publicly traded U.S. firms is excessive has a long, albeit somewhat cyclical histor...

It is well established that among the many known and tested immunomodulators, polysaccharides isolated from various natural sources occupy a promin...

Edith Roosevelt was one half of one of the most powerful and influential political couples in American history. She proved to be a perfect compleme...

When the fictional is fused with the real, the theoretical with the practical, and the line demarcating these spheres of knowledge is blurred there...

The Earth's water is always in movement, and the water cycle describes the continuous movement of water on, above, and below the surface of the Ear...

In this book, authors present current research on the implementation of reform mathematics in order to identify, explore, and evaluate five specifi...

This book contains one thousand fixed response questions. It is designed for students of paediatric dentistry who want to prepare for a certifying ...

Radiobiology has made great steps forward in the last five years in the development of new mechanisms forming the basis of various radiation effect...

It is commonly believed that Great Transformation -- the process of post-socialist changes leading from the system of more or less reformed central...

A presidential transition is a unique time in America and holds the promise of opportunity, as well as a possible risk to the nation's security int...

The Bureau of the Census Director's constitutional mandate to enumerate the U.S. population every 10 years has been summarized with deceptive simpl...

Many households in the United States have been tested by the Great Recession. Large-scale financial strain at the household level ultimately fed in...

On 1 March 2013, pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, the President ordered an across-the-board cancellation ...

The first half of the twenty-first century witnessed the tremendous upheaval in the world economy. The two world wars totally disrupted the normal ...

20th Century Revolutions in Technology

The Community College Labor Market Responsiveness (CCLMR) Initiative was created to develop and disseminate information and tools enabling communit...

The United States faces substantial challenges to its security, freedom, and prosperity. Transnational terrorism, continued proliferation of weapon...

On 5 January 2012, President Obama announced a new defence strategic guidance entitled "Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Cent...

Based upon the hypothesis that prognosis in childhood heart failure depends on autonomic dysfunction, the author introduced a new heart failure mod...

In angiosperms, about 30% -- 80% of species were estimated to be of polyploid origin. Polyploidisation is a key evolutionary process in higher plan...

Medical imaging of cardiovascular disease has improved rapidly with faster multislice CT angiography. The ability to visualise 3D reconstructed vas...

Electron microscope tomography (EMT) has emerged as the leading technique for three-dimensional (3D) structural analysis of unique complex biologic...

Three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction is the process of capturing the shape and appearance of real objects using computer vision and computer graph...

Recent volatility in financial markets highlights the need for prudent investment decisions if 401(k) plans are to provide an adequate source of re...

American workers are primarily saving for retirement through their 401(k) plans and will likely need assistance making complicated decisions about ...

The fundamental electrical and magnetic interactions between iron ions and biomaterials were investigated using an experimental approach, 57Fe Möss...

This book presents the 9/11 Commission's recommendations and the status of their implementation.

Edith Roosevelt was one half of one of the most powerful and influential political couples in American history. She proved to be a perfect compleme...

In this text, the author establishes a connection between classical and quantum mechanics through the normal field definition and related wave func...

In recent decades, obesity levels have increased worldwide, thus also increasing the prevalence of morbid obesity. This type of obesity is associat...

In this compilation, the authors propose chemometrics as an important contribution towards authentication, typification and traceability of grapes ...

A Code for Geoscientific Fieldwork in Africa is the first book to focus exclusively on the important subject of geoscience and geoecology research ...

This book examines in detail the early development of the game of football in and around Sheffield, England. When the first football club, Sheffiel...

In this collection, the authors present a new theoretical approach free from limitations of perturbation theory for calculating atomic emission spe...

This book, originally published in 1921, was written to help students of ethics comprehend the significance of morals and ethical behavior. We are ...

This book, originally published in 1919, is a telling of U.S. history from colonial times to Reconstruction. Written by a British soldier mostly fr...

Reporting about a federal trial court or appellate court is quite unlike reporting on the other two branches of government. Among the most notable ...

People with borderline personality disorder are always known as the most difficult client group to human service professionals. It is partly becaus...

The author presents a new approach to the therapy of stuttering. Instead of accepting stuttering and trying to make it more fluent, he prefers to m...

This Luria Festschrift is dedicated to the life and legacy of A R Luria, celebrating the centennial anniversary of his birth (1902-2002). The volum...

Sustainability assessment is the core instrument for implementing sustainable development targets. The energy sector is playing a crucial role in a...

The publication begins with a long interview with a PWS, which is a unique way of introducing the systems approach to the psychosomatics of stutter...

This book identifies a comprehensive set of actions for enhancing health care across the Nation through greater use of systems-engineering principl...

During the 1992 campaign, Bill Clinton repeatedly sought to distance himself from the liberal orthodoxy that had come to define the Democratic Part...

Small acidic protein a-lactalbumin, one of the major protein components of milk, is one of the most extensively investigated Ca2+-binding proteins,...

Advancements in medical imaging technology over recent years have revolutionised the management and treatment of all aspects of health care. Comput...

Since general surgeons first started performing laparotomies in the late 1880's, acquired hernias and abdominal wall defects have become a surgical...

What appears in this book are the selected and thoroughly revised papers from the international conference in honor of Mualim/Honorable Teacher and...