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This is an edited book based on papers presented at a 2003 invitee-only conference under the sponsorship of the Merrill Advanced Studies Center of the University of Kansas. The purpose of the gathering was to discuss theoretical issues and research findi

There are four ways to revitalize a church, organizationally speaking. The easiest change is policy change. You simply adjust the way you do things.A second strategy is to change personnel. Firing the minister or electing new lay leaders is a common approach.Another change tactic is to create new program structures. Reorganization plans are familiar in institutions of all kinds.Change policy. Change people. Change programs. Each of these appro...

Every church leader knows the necessity and difficulty of maintaining and enhancing morale. Visions of service, excellent programs, and capable personnel are not enough to keep the ship of the church on course if spirit is lacking. In 'Keeping the Dream Alive', Robert D. Dale skillfully analyzes the various factors that determine congregational morale. Using the metaphor of weather, he discusses such subjects as steering currents, seeding the ...

Our understanding of the pathogenesis of hypertension and the development of new therapies for its management have each proven to be directly dependent on the availability and application of novel molecular biological methodologies. In Hypertension: Methods and Protocols, a panel of recognized experts from key institutions around the world describes in step-by-step detail many new and essential molecular techniques for cardiovascular hypertens...

Population mobility increases with economic development and globalization. The migration of people affects countries in many ways -- socially, economically and politically. However, there are fundamental tensions in efforts to manage international migration in a globalizing world. On the one hand, business is transnational as it necessitates the unrestricted flow of people internationally. On the other hand, politics is still national. In an i...

This leadership texttakes readers inside the minds of CEOs who have been celebrated by the Harvard Business Review over the last decade of the twentieth century.

Now available in lay flat, paperback edition, here's the book you need to help elementary students with special needs develop basic writing skills, relate writing to real-life tasks, and explore writing as a creative, enjoyable event! The book includes 135 step-by-step lessons and 269 illustrated activity sheets. It moves from copying words and completing sentences to processing the writing reports and stories, from filling out necessary forms...

This revealing volume sheds new light on the Renaissance in Ireland, Wales and Scotland.A revealing look at the Renaissance in Ireland, Wales and Scotland. Written by leading scholars in the field. Covers a wide range of topics, such as the printing press and book trade in Reformation Scotland, and the debate between the "old" and the "new" in Welsh poetry. Shows that the Celtic countries were an integral part of the wider European Renaissance...

The authors skillfully present different approaches to the same problem and even different ways to look at the same type of data. If you have ever been stumped by a controversy in product assessment, the design of studies, or the analysis of data, you will find the answer in this book

This book is an outgrowth of research done by Dr. Gamt Dijsterhuis for his doctoral thesis at the University of Leiden. However, there are also contributions by several other authors, as well, including Eeke van der Burg, John Gower, Pieter Punter, Els van den Broek, and Margo Flipsen.This book discusses the use of Multivariate Data Analysis to solve problems in sensory and consumer research. More specifically the focus is on the analysis of t...

Phytochemicals are components acting individually, additively or synergistically, usually as a component of whole food, that have the characteristics of providing protective, preventative and possibly curative roles in the pathogenesis of cancer and other chronic disease progressions. Nutraceutical is a term used to describe beneficial phytochemicals. The mechanisms of action of nutraceuticals may be one of several. Free radical scavenger and ...

In defining sensory properties of products, descriptive techniques that utilize trained panels are used. Arthur D. Little, Inc. pioneered a desriptive technique in the 1950's known as the "Flavor Profile" that laid the foundation for the development of current desriptive techniques used today in academia and industry. Several collections of published papers are reprinted in this book. The main areas covered include dairy products, meats, alcoh...

Meat Preservation is written as an integrated and all-encompassing text that includes historical aspects and trends, discussion of basic background information, the evaluation and status of techniques and procedures, and treatments of potential future developments. The latter are particularly important because based on consumer desires, there is a definite trend developing to produce and market meat and meat products that have been subjected t...

This book discusses experimental designs which are very useful in sensory and consumer testing. As an added feature this coverage is fully illustrated with real-life examples. In addition, the importance of fractional factorial designs are explained more fully than in books now available.The heart of this book is product optimization which covers in great detail designs and analysis of optimization studies with consumers. A rundown of this cha...

One of the several developments in regard to food safety is the legal change that consumers have a right to be sold safe food, and that the primary producer is part of the process, which must guarantee the delivery of safe products.

meat science, meat manufacturing, meat technology, meat quality, meat safety, food safety

Meat has been treated for centuries with rock salt as a means of preservation. However, only one century has passed since the German researchers, Polenske in 1891, Kisshalt in 1899, and Lehmann in 1899, discovered that the active component in the curing process was nitrite. Soon after the role of nitrite as a meat curing agent was revealed, government regulators placed guidelines on the level of nitrite and nitrate permitted for use in cured m...

Open dating plays a vital role in the distribution of the food products from the farm or place of manufacturing to the consumer's home. One principle is that the shelf life is a function of the distribution conditions and can be looked at as the percentage of consumers a manufacturer is willing to displease. Thus, one purpose of an open date is to give consumers enough time to purchase a food product and store it at home for a reasonable perio...

Verocytotoxin-producing "Escherichia coli" (VTEC), and in particular, stains of serogroup O157, have emerged as significant pathogens causing a range of severe and potentially fatal illnesses. The European Union has recognized the threat posed by "E. coli" O157: H7, and the need to devise control strategies. Thus, the EC funded a Concerted Action Project, and this book compiled for the above project integrates contributions from a number of ex...

There are 71 chapters in the book and authors from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico, Taiwan and the United States. The chapters are arranged under seven sections, which include General Topics in Food Science and Technology, Food Processing and Engineering, Antioxidants in Foods, Nutrition and Food Science, Food Safety, Sensory Science of Foods, and Food Biotechnology. Many of the chapters are exceptional in the qualit...