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Mental disorders cost the United States over $72 billion for treatment, related support and lost productivity each year - yet funding for prevention of such disorders has been inconsistent due, partly, to lack of confidence in the effectiveness of specific prevention programmes. This book highlights some of the most effective prevention programmes and offers a common set of principles to reduce maladaptive behaviour. Following an overview of ...

This volume contains a selection of papers which have been revised and extended for publication from two working groups held at conferences at Galway (1992) and Göteborg (1993) which celebrated the quincentenary of Columbus' discovery of America in 1492. The pre-Columbian period of language contact is covered by articles on Old Norse in the Faroes, Scotland and Ireland, the Shetland dialect and Norn, and placenames in Iceland and Greenland. Th...

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supple...

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on la...

The volume assembles papers by 27 scholars from Quebec, France, Germany and Russia on various problems posed by the lexicology of Canadian French. The proceedings of the 4th international colloquium "Français du Canada - Français de France" are an attempt to give further impetus to the in-depth comparison between Canadian and French lexis. The questions broached are wide-ranging indeed: origins and relations of traditional Quebec vocabulary, n...

Der vorliegende Band basiert auf Vorträgen, die auf einer vom Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Tübingen im Februar 1994 auf dem Schloß Hohentübingen veranstalteten Tagung gehalten wurden. Das Rahmenthema dieser Tagung war die Verfügbarkeit textueller Ressourcen in maschinenlesbarer Form und die Entwicklung von Werkzeugen zur Akquisition lexikalischen Wissens für Lexikographie und Sprachverarbeitungssysteme. Die Themenpalette der ...

Wenn Wörterbücher für fortgeschrittene L2-Lerner ihre Funktion als Produktionshilfe optimal erfüllen wollen, müssen sie möglichst viele Informationen über die Kombinationsmöglichkeiten der aufgenommenen Wörter liefern. In dieser Studie wird untersucht, in welcher Weise und in welchem Ausmaß lexikalische Kollokationen in einsprachigen Wörterbüchern des Englischen für fortgeschrittene Lerner verzeichnet sind. Anhand eines Korpus von über 1000 Ko...

Cardiac performance is regulated not only by cardiac muscle properties but also by several other factors, including those associated with the neurohumoral system and the mechanical characteristics of the peripheral circulation. New information con­ cerning these regulatory factors has furthered our understanding of the pathophysi­ ology of cardiac dysfunction. However, controversy remains, along with a need to integrate these multidisciplinary...

Wind Loads on Structures Claës Dyrbye Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby Svend O. Hansen Svend Ole Hansen, Consulting Engineers, Copenhagen, Denmark Wind loads have to be taken into account when designing civil engineering structures. The wind load on structures can be systematised by means of the wind load chain: wind climate (global wind), terrain (wind at low height), aerodynamic response (wind flow to pressure), mechanical response (w...

P. A. G. M. DE SMET Safrole - General Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 G. ABEL Safrole - Sassafras Albidum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 G. ABEL X Contents Spirulina Species . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 P. A. G. M. DE SMET Teucrium Chamaedrys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137...

A stimulating and enticing selection of the writings and witticisms of the early 19th century liberal cleric and founder of 'The Edinburgh Review', arranged thematically along with biographical extracts written by his daughter.

Imaginative literature, argues Michael Dash, does not merely reflect, but actively influences historical events. He demonstrates this by a close examination of the relations between Haiti and the United States through the imaginative literature of both countries. The West's mythification of Haiti is a strategy used to justify either ostracism or domination, a process traced here from the nineteenth-century until it emerges with a voyeuristic f...

Katz explores the relationship between welfare and municipal reform, the role of welfare capitalism, eugenics, and social insurance in the reorganization of the labor market, the critical connection between poverty and politics in the rise of the New Deal welfare state, and how the War on Poverty of the 60s became the war on welfare of the 80s.

Interdisciplinary teams, lauded as the most effective way to investigate and prosecute physical and sexual abuse cases, are often difficult to create and maintain. This book assists in demystifying the process of establishing such teams with an eight-step model - the `Protocol Development Cycle'. Through extensive contact with a wide variety of professionals and communities, the authors provide accessible and well-organized guidelines for thos...

Offers an introduction to a wide range of topics and concepts encountered in the field of communications technology. This title covers technologies including: video on demand, wire-less distribution systems, high speed data transmission over telephone lines, smart cards and batteries, and, global positioning systems.

Thomas H. Bestul is Professor of English at the University of Illlinois, Chicago.

This book explores some of the complex ethical quandaries entailed by proposed phase III HIV preventive vaccine trials. The book argues that such trials must be initiated as soon as politically and ethically feasible on the one hand, and that no such trials should be undertaken until we can assure full compliance with the Nuremberg Code and the WHO/CIOMS International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects on the o...

This classic, authoritative translation brings the full meaning and power of the sacred book of Islam to Western readers. "Certainly the most beautiful English version, and among those by non-Muslim translators, the one that comes closest to conveying the impressions made on Muslims by the original".--Wilfred Cantwell Smith, Harvard University.

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This book examines how China's decentralization process has affected and will affect the country's macroeconomic performance and the functioning of the market. With an innovative application of game theory, the author develops an analytical framework that can explain the behaviour of the central and local governments under alternative institutional environments. The study also suggests how to establish desirable rules of games in China's polit...