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This text explores the core principles of learning and memory in a clear, reader-friendly style, covering animal learning and human memory in a balanced fashion.

Through actual case studies and case analyses, this volume explains the best practices for assessing problem individuals and recommends the optimal protective response and management strategy. The authors provide key indicators of hunters and howlers, comparing and contrasting their behaviors and motivations.

This student workbook helps students learn the fundamentals of copy editing by giving them an abundance of exercises on which to work. Designed as a complement to the ninth edition of 'The Art of Editing in the Age of Convergence', the workbook is divided into sections that correspond to the major blocks of instruction in the main text.

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This book introduces music education majors to basic instrumental pedagogy for the instruments and ensembles most commonly found in the elementary and secondary curricula. This text focuses on the core competencies required for teacher certification in instrumental music. The first section of the book focuses on essential issues for a successful instrumental program: objectives, assessment and evaluation, motivation, administrative tasks, and ...

Functional foods products which have health-promoting properties over and beyond their nutritional value have become a significant food industry sector. This volume provides an authoritative introduction to the key scientific aspects and major product categories in this area. It focuses on the most significant product categories, reviewing ingredient sources, classification, chemical and physical properties, the wide range of therapeutic effec...

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The integration of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and nanotechnology (NT) in sensors and devices significantly reduces their weight, size, power consumption, and production costs. These sensors and devices can then play greater roles in defense operations, wireless communication, the diagnosis and treatment of disease, and many more applications. MEMS and Nanotechnology-Based Sensors and Devices for Communications, Medical and Aerospace...

Targeting the latest microprocessor technologies for more sophisticated applications in the field of power system short-circuit detection, this revised and updated edition imparts fundamental concepts and breakthrough science for the isolation of faulty equipment and minimization of damage in power system apparatus. The second edition clearly describes key procedures, devices, and elements crucial to the protection and control of power system ...

An introduction to the phenomenon and physics of spin glasses using an experimental approach. The book describes spin glasses as a state of magnetic ordering in third place after ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism.

As the demand for packaging more electronic capabilities into smaller packages rises, product developers must be more cognizant of how the system configuration will impact its performance. Practical Guide to the Packaging of Electronics: Second Edition, Thermal and Mechanical Design and Analysis provides a basic understanding of the issues that concern the field of electronics packaging. First published in 2003, this book has been extensively ...

While nanotechnology research is booming, increased nanofabrication also results in greater environmental implications of pollutant effects from these emerging industries. Nanotechnology and the Environment provides a fundamental understanding of the properties of nanoscale materials and the implications for worker safety and the environment. This book presents a comprehensive overview of developing environmental regulations and the implicatio...

Written in a reader-friendly and logical format, this reference emphasizes that high-pressure die casting is a predictable and highly effective method of transforming raw material to near net shape. It provides a broad study of each procedure in the die casting process and clearly outlines its basic science and principles. It also studies the evolution and latest developments in die casting machines, explains methods for strategic temperature ...

Advances in Chromatography, Volume 43 discusses the utilization and application of new analytical methodologies. It covers subjects such as gradient elution in liquid column chromatography, single-molecule dynamics, solid phase microextraction, and polyelectrolytes. World-renowned industry leaders examine supercritical fluids for off-line sample preparation in food analysis and assess technologies such as for the analysis of biologically impor...

The need for a comprehensive book on spillways and energy dissipators has been increasing for a long time. This book explores all aspects of spillways and energy dissipators with adequate coverage of recent advances in the field and brings out a comprehensive treatise in research and design. Drawing on the author's years of experience, Hydraulics of Spillways and Energy Dissipators analyzes the vast amount of information scattered in journals ...

The brain in the second trimester, the subject of Volume 3, is nearing anatomical maturity throughout the brainstem. In contrast, the neurogenesis and neuronal migration are still in progress in the cerebral cortex and cerebellum. Consequently, the authors chose to focus on the migration, sojourning, and settling of the neuronal populations belonging to these immature structures. These observations can help researchers develop a better underst...

Providing the necessary basis for any developments of theoretical thermodynamic models, this book provides a complete collection of practical thermodynamic data for a variety of applications, including: basic and applied chemistry, chemical engineering, thermodynamic research, computational modeling, membrane science and technology, and environmental and green chemistry. The data -- which includes such developments as vapor-liquid and liquid-l...

All geologists need a grasp on basic physics, and in plain language using simple mathematics, this book provides the understanding they need. It discusses a wide range of forces at work in geology against the background of Kepler's and Newton's laws, electromagnetic radiation, atomic structure, and age-dating. Other topics include. electromagnetic radiation, atomic structure and age-dating, heat and heat flow, electricity and magnetism, stress...

This book is a result of personal research and of the graduate lectures given by the authors at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon and the Paris VII University, respectively. The first part of the book presents historical background, the modern classification of liquid crystals, and mesogenic anatomy, the second part examines liquid crystals with nematic and cholesteric orientational order. Topics include dielectric and magnetic properties, ...