Rosenthal notes that reality-based stories taken from topical journalism are the most popular drama genre on U.S. and British television today. This three-part collection of diverse and provocative essays addresses the dominant questions and controversies the genre poses.
This text examines the successes and failures of empowerment as a remedy for American social and economic problems. The author argues that if people took control of their lives, betterment would ensue.
Significant advancements in nutrition's impact on the eye have occurred faster than any volume can document... until now. This book gives the background and rationale regarding the physiological damage caused by biological oxidants as well as the rationale for the protective roles for nutrient-antioxidants and how they affect the risk for cataracts. This volume also contains information on how to quantitatively assess age-related diseases of t...
This proceedings volume focusses on the applications of geometry in present day science. It contains contributions from a variety of fields, including biology, computer science, mathematics, medicine, physics and stochastics.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on High-Performance Computing and Networking, HPCN Europe 1999, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in April 1999.
The 115 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from a total of close to 200 conference submissions as well as from submissions for various topical workshops. Also included are 40 selected poster presentations. The conference papers are...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of 11 IPPS/SPDP '98 Workshops held in conjunction with the 13th International Parallel Processing Symposium and the 10th Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing in San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA in April 1999. The 126 revised papers presented were carefully selected from a wealth of papers submitted. The papers are organised in topical sections on biologically inspired solutions to parallel p...
This original textbook provides a comprehensive and integrated approach to using quantitative methods in the social sciences. Thomas R Black guides the student and researcher through the minefield of potential problems that may be confronted, and it is this emphasis on the practical that distinguishes his book from others which focus exclusively on either research design and measurement or statistical methods.
Focusing on the design and execu...
This monograph deals with theoretical fundamentals and numerical methods of optimizing nondetermined models of systems. The main body of this work is devoted to investigation and optimization of system models under incomplete information. Much consideration is given to one-, two- and multistage problems of stochastic programming, solution methods and problems of solution stability. Optimization problems with fuzzy variables and optimization pr...
Replete with practical ideas for materials, activities, and strategies, Nurturing Inquiry is the perfect resource for teachers looking to create a community of scientists in their classroom.
Studies the effect of Thatcherite ideology and policies on British subsidized theatre, left-wing drama, the development of women's and black theatre, and innovative new writing for the stage.
Myelopeptides are a new class of endogenous bioregulatory peptides. Each has its own definite immunoregulatory activity and differs in their final effects and mechanisms of action. Myelopeptides act as immunocorrectors and thus prevent the development of immunodeficiency states. They have an antitumor effect which contributes to the retention of active immune defense in the tumor-bearing body. The ability of myelopeptides to induce terminal ce...
In his new concluding chapter, Peter Kivy advances his argument on behalf of a distinctive intellectual and musical character of opera before Mozart. He proposes that happy endings were a musical -- as opposed to a dramatic -- necessity for opera during this period and that Mozart's Idomeneo is properly enjoyed and judged only when listeners axe attuned to its seventeenth and eighteenth-century forebears.
An introduction to the cross-cultural study of art from an anthropological perspective, this book is about the human condition in all its diversity. It explores the question of whether there is a correlation between the level of complexity of society and the nature of art.
Volume 3 of Computational Chemistry: Reviews of Current Trends adds well to the first two volumes of the series, presenting results of current developments in the methodologies and the applications of computational chemistry methods. The topics covered include fundamentals and applications of multireference Brillouin -- Wigner coupled-cluster theory, as well as recent developments in quantum-chemical modeling of the interaction of solute and s...
