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With coverage ranging from basic concepts to research grade material including future directions, this handbook is a complete reference for technical information about all aspects of 3GPP LTE. The book details low chip rate, high-speed downlink/uplink packet access (HSxPA)/TDSCDMA EV 1x, LTE TDD, and 3G TDD. It introduces new technologies and covers methodologies to study the performance of frequency allocation schemes. It also discusses the p...

This book offers a comprehensive explanation on how to dimension, plan, and optimize WiMAX networks. The first part of the text introduces WiMAX networks architecture, physical layer, standard, protocols, security mechanisms, and highly related radio access technologies. It covers system framework, topology, capacity, mobility management, handoff management, congestion control, medium access control (MAC), scheduling, Quality of Service (QoS),...

Provides a presentation of the design, monitoring, analysis, and interpretation of clinical trials in which time-to-event is of critical interest. This book discusses the design and monitoring of Phase II and III clinical trials with time-to-event endpoints.

Answering a long-standing need in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology fields, this definitive reference focuses on the biology, pharmacology, and therapeutic applications of endogenous peptide mediators and their analogues. This book takes peptide science beyond chemical synthesis strategies and into the realms of peptide biology and therapeutics. It presents the overall contribution peptide science has made to molecular, cellular and whole o...

Presents demonstrations of Evidence-Based Practice in Psychology (EBPP) with diverse clientele, focusing on multiple dimensions and intersections of identity and diversity. This title integrates research and clinical expertise that helps readers to examine, conceptualize and treat the multiple ways individuals identify themselves.

In what is both an entertaining autobiography and an introduction to the field of linguistics, Professor David Crystal gives his answer to the question 'What happens when you become a liguist?' Surprisingly, the answer he gives is 'Kidnapping, attempted assassination, espionage--'.

This book provides an overview of the globally ongoing research and development efforts to reduce carbon emissions and costs, and to improve the efficiency of emerging energy technologies. It covers current and future research and development of Coal, Oil, Natural Gas, Nuclear Power, and Renewable Energy Resources. The author provides optimal size, capital costs, powerplant operation costs and health consequences for each resource. The author ...

The study of and interest in adolescence in the field of psychology and related fields continues to grow, necessitating an expanded revision of this seminal work. This multidisciplinary handbook, edited by the premier scholars in the field, Richard Lerner and Laurence Steinberg, and with contributions from the leading researchers, reflects the latest empirical work and growth in the field.

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Reworked to be up to date with current standards, this new edition of a bestseller provides comprehensive and authoritative information on environmental issues in soil science.

Focusing on fossil-fueled, nonpolluting power generation systems, this timely volume presents alternative solutions to the severe emissions problems of power plants. Along with a description of new thermodynamic cycles and the results of computational analyses, it provides modern analytical tools and equations to evaluate exergy and introduce currentology. The authors explore various aspects of zero emissions power plant technology, including ...

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The African Development Bank have commissioned four case studies on Debt Relief Initiatives, Development Assistance and Service Delivery in Ghana, Malawi, Senegal, and Uganda from the last quarter of 2006 to mid 2007. The objective of this study is to appraise the extent to which debt relief resources are being used to improve social service delivery.

It is a near truism of philosophy of language that sentences are prior to words. Sentences, it is said, are what we believe, assert, and argue for, uses of them constitute our evidence in semantics, only they stand in inferential relations, and are true or false. Sentences are, indeed, the only things that fundamentally have meaning. Does this near truism really hold of human languages? Robert Stainton, drawing on a wide body of evidence, argu...

Sir Geoffrey Lloyd presents a cross-disciplinary study of the problems posed by the unity and diversity of the human mind. On the one hand, as humans we all share broadly the same anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, and certain psychological capabilities--the capacity to learn a language, for instance. On the other, different individuals and groups have very different talents, tastes, and beliefs, for instance about how they see themselves, oth...

Audre Lorde was not only a famous black poet, she was also one of the most important radical black feminists of the past half century. iI Am Your Sister rcollects her non-fiction prose from 1976 to 1990, and it is the first volume to provide a full picture of Lorde's political work (as opposed to her aesthetic work). The essays cover an impressive variety of topics: sexuality, race, gender, culture, class, parenting, disease, resistance, and p...

Drawing on examples from art, media, fashion, history and memoir, cultural critic Rosemarie Garland-Thomson tackles a basic human interaction which has remained curiously unexplored, the human stare. In the first book of its kind, Garland-Thomson defines staring, explores the factors that motivate it, and considers the targets and the effects of the stare. While borrowing from psychology and biology to help explain why the impulse to stare is ...

Surdas is unarguably the best known poet in Vrajbhasha, the most widely understood of the medieval Hindi literary dialects. In this volume, Jack Hawley offers a selection of his charming translations of the most appealing of these poems, arranged according to such themes as "Krishna growing up, " "the pangs and politics of love, " and "The Ramayana.