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Spaceflight studies have demonstrated that adaptation to gravitational stress after prolonged microgravity includes sympathetic activation, water retention, and arterial pressure increase, i.e. a process very similar to development of essential hypertension, which from this perspective looks like an advanced stage of that adaptation with sympathetic hyperactivity, vasoconstriction, volume overload, and arterial hypertension in case of some fur...

The public perception of the First Lady has evolved through the years and the press and scholars are beginning to take note of the essential role presidents' wives have played in the Administration and in the nation as a whole. Their participation in the country's historical, philosophical and sociological experience has made them 'First Women' and 'First Partners'. They have been identified as standard bearers of the whole female community, a...

Agriculture in the United States is in the midst of a major transition motivated by economic and environmental factors. These include water quality and quantity, soil erosion, and the compatibility of agricultural production practices and the quality of the environment. Within the context of this change, US agricultural policy seeks to balance several objectives including an abundance of food and fibre at reasonable prices, economic security f...

The theory of Brownian motion as proposed by Einstein is now hundred years old. Over the span of a century the theory has grown in various directions to understand stochastic processes in physics, chemistry and biology. An important endeavour in this direction is the quantisation of Brownian motion. While the early development of quantum optics initiated in sixties was based on density operator, noise operator and master equation methods prima...

Stupidity Stupidity is unconscious man, groping in the dark. Stupidity is unawareness: unable to join things together. When commonsense is not around, Stupidity gains ground. Sometimes it lasts a moment, often a lifetime. Like starting a war. Like getting married. The little Book of CommonSENSE will spark many a conversation with its witty banter and playful prose. Embark on a whirlwind tour of hot topics-personal and universal-throughout the ...

This important book deals with the problem of youth violence by attacking it at the grass-roots level -- the community.

This new book deals with the actions of the major corporate scandals of recent years and their meaning within a society in which it is necessary that these corporations both be competitive on the international playing field and protect their own workers and their rights.

One of the hallmarks of American democracy is the right to vote. In fact, the freedom to vote is so ingrained in American culture that it is taken for granted. Each election shows increasingly decreasing voter turnout and a decline in eligible voters registering. This can be partially attributed to a general antipathy toward the political process and partisan debates. However, there is no legitimate excuse for not availing oneself of the preci...

Technology in the 21st century has redesigned most editorial jobs and extended the potential reach of any publication, no matter how small . In effect, not only the individual business models but also the overall industry competitive model has changed. No longer confined to serving a physically defined environment, individual newspapers can set their own goals, both for news distribution and for advertising reach, without concern for physical ...

The book describes the oil spill and its fate in the marine environment and clarifies how to treat and reduce oil input in coastal and offshore waters. How much oil is entering the world-wide marine environment is also discussed. The ecological impacts of oil spills and the hazardous effects of petroleum on marine habitats are also discussed.

Kathie Klarreich, a white Jewish girl from the West Coast, arrived in Haiti as a naove twenty-something in the late 1980s. There she worked for a fair trade organization. Weeks became months, and months became years, as Klarreich, despite the spiraling political violence, became enthralled by the island, its lifestyle and traditions, to the extent that she started to grow dreads, attend Voodoo masses and started to file reports for the Christi...

Das Bild, das sich die Physiker vom Elektron machen, hat sich mit der Entwicklung der modernen Physik entsprechend geändert. Anhand dieser Änderung wird gezeigt, daß die Physik nicht nur trockener und starrer Formelkram ist, sondern daß sich hinter den Formeln eine phantastische und bizarre Welt verbirgt. Um die Natur und deren Erscheinungen nur einigermaßen zu begreifen, ist sehr viel Phantasie notwendig. Hinter den Erscheinungen tut sich ein...

He follows the disputes over the interpretation of this document - focusing on James Madison's changing views - as the new government took shape and political parties were formed. Lynch points out that the first six Congresses and President George Washington disregarded the framers' intentions when they were deemed impractical to follow. In contrast, he warns that the version of original intent put forth in recent Supreme Court opinions regard...

Explores the myth, so abused by the mass media, that the Japanese are a grey, anonymous mass of efficient, obedient workers. The book's international contributors examine the role in modern Japanese society of a range of leisure and play activities, from drinking to travel, football to karaoke, and tattoos to rock fandom.

This is the story of a skinny Italian boy from an immigrant Sicilian family who goes to war to fight for his country and ends up playing the taps on Mount Suribachi as the colors are raised. Travel with Peter as he explores the journey from boyhood to manhood and experiences a terrible battle in the fight for American freedom along the way. Learn the Sirna family secret and what it meant to Peter to be a real American boy, but most of all, tak...

This book examines an intercultural translation of economics as an academic field from Western to post-Soviet university settings.

Where economic activity will locate in the future is one of the most important questions in economics. Even though advances in technology have reduced the cost of transport, communication and information gathering and processing, hence curtailing the distance penalty', local proximity (clusters) of firms that produce similar, competing and/or related products together with supporting institutions still matter. Economies of scale, activity-spec...

Education tax credits were introduced as a new subsidy for higher education in 1997 and have cost, on average, $4.6 billion a year in lost tax revenue since their enactment. The introduction of the Hope Credit and the Lifetime Learning Credit marked a dramatic increase in education spending through tax expenditures. Prior to 1997, tax incentives for higher education expenses totalled less than $2 billion in estimated lost revenue. The educatio...

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) provides funds to states for the education of children with disabilities. It contains detailed requirements for the receipt of these funds, including the core requirement of the provision of a free appropriate public education (FAPE). IDEA was comprehensively revised in 1997 by P L 105-17, but Congress has continued to grapple with issues relating to the Act. This book provides an overview...

Affirmative action remains a focal point of public debate as the result of legal and political developments at the federal, state, and local levels. In recent years, federal courts have reviewed minority admissions programs to state universities in Texas, Georgia, Michigan, and Washington, questioning in general the constitutional status of racial and ethnic diversity policies in public education, invalidated minority preferences in public and...