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The United States and Mexico have a close and complex bilateral relationship, with extensive economic linkages as neighbours and partners under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Bilateral relations are characterised by strong commercial and cultural ties and co-operation on a range of bilateral and international issues. In recent years, security issues have dominated the bilateral agenda, as the United States has supported Mexic...

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). The statute also contains detailed due process provisions to ensure the provision of FAPE. This book provides an overview of the act with particular attentio...

This book presents a profile of the diverse membership of the 111th Congress. Statistical information is included on selected characteristics of Members, including data on party affiliation, average age and length of service, occupation, religious affiliation, gender, ethnicity, foreign births, and military service.

This book proposes a novel design method that combines both genetic programming (GP) to automatically explore the open-ended design space and bond graphs (BG) to unify design representations of multi-domain Mechatronic systems. Results show that the method, formally called GPBG method, can successfully design analogue filters, vibration absorbers, micro-electro-mechanical systems, and vehicle suspension systems, all in an automatic or semi-aut...

Endometriosis is a common gynecological condition, characterised by the presence of endometrial-like tissue outside the uterine cavity. It is estimated that endometriosis affects up to 10% of women during their reproductive years, causing debilitating pain and infertility. The aetiology of this condition remains poorly understood, however, evidence suggests that certain immune factors are almost certainly playing crucial roles in the pathogene...

Migration has become a heterogeneous phenomenon today, with the emergence of migration lying in the quest of human beings to obtain a better life. However, this is not the sole factor for migration because some migrate for sheer survival while others migrate to improve their quality of life or search for fortune. The dominant explanatory model used in the study of migration has been Ravenstein's fundamental model. This book presents and discus...

Transistors play a central role in many electronic circuits, where they usually function as either a switch or an amplifier. This book reviews research in the field of transistors including a new class of transistors whose channels are made from semiconducting carbon nanomaterials, the evolution of these designs and the highlights of the work that has driven their development. Also discussed, herein, are the electronic properties and self-cons...

The advanced learning internet technologies indicated a need for methodologies, tools and pedagogues that support the introduction of synchronous e-learning applications and especially Interactive Videoconferencing (IVC) into the whole learning environment. This book presents the theoretical background and the methodology that have been developed, to implement a pedagogical model for IVC instruction. The proposed pedagogical model constitutes ...

This book provides an overview of Jordanian politics and current issues in U.S.-Jordanian relations, Jordan's government and economy and its co-operation in promoting Arab-Israeli peace and other U.S policy objectives in the Middle East. Several issues in U.S.-Jordanian relations include the stability of the Jordanian regime, the role of Jordan in the Arab-Israeli peace process, Jordan's role in stabilising Iraq, and U.S.-Jordanian military an...

Banach spaces may be finite and infinite dimensional over a field and manifolds are modelled on Banach spaces. This title reviews research in stochastic processes with values in Banach spaces, manifolds and topological groups.

This book shows that within the framework of EU, there has always been an ongoing struggle between two powers, food safety through feed hygiene and functioning of the market in financial terms. The direction of the outcome of this struggle depends on the balance of powers at a given time. For the question of "dilution principle" in the area of undesirable substances of feeds, this did work in favour of safety and the protection of the consumer...

The 2007-2010 economic crisis has profoundly shaken the foundations of mainstream financial economics. The apparent falsification of core concepts such as risk diversification, informational efficiency and valuation efficiency by an unexpected course of events has revealed the need to redefine the objectives and direction of research today. In a context where global public opinion has begun to doubt the merits of a deregulated economy, a conce...

Writing is a complex and cognitively demanding activity. To be successful, writers need an understanding of the components of a quality test as well as knowledge of writing strategies that can be used to shape and organise the writing process. This book discusses academic writing as a complex task which involves a variety of cognitive and metacognitive activities, a model for teaching writing strategies and the sociocultural processes of writt...

As an emerging market economy, China has been the fastest-growing major nation for the past quarter of a century. The rapid economic growth of China results in enormous market capacity and potentials for further growth. Undoubtedly, it is ascribed to the continuous market-oriented economic reforms in various fields of China. The economic entity behaviours are becoming increasingly regularised, tending to follow or be guided by the market econo...

Energetics of "nanoporous medium-nonwetting liquid" systems is one of the new directions in basic and applied research. In the simple model of a porous media in the form of cylindrical channels, this threshold pressure is described by the Laplace-Washburn equation, where is the surface energy of the liquid is the pore radius and the contact angle (for a non-wetting liquid). Among the systems under investigation are silochromes, zeolites with l...

Relational database applications cover such a great variety of subjects and cases that professionals from the software industries or researchers on the fields of database studies might encounter at the same time distinct issues based on DBMS. This book present a detailed description of designing a generic sync middleware system, GSMS, and provides in-depth coverage of key topics including that, sync network, schemes for capturing and logging d...

Improve your scales! Is a new method for learning scales that form an integral part of playing an instrument.

An anthology of papers that investigates the relationship of contemporary mass and communicative media, and legal practice, decision making and regulation. It covers two main areas: representations of law events in mass media, and use of digital and video media in legal practice.

Isoflavonoids are a valuable group of natural products and are primarily synthesised in leguminous plants, where they play important roles in plant defence. They also have significant health benefits for animals and humans and have been ascribed various estrogenic, antiangiogenic, antioxidant, and anticancer activities, leading to their popularity as dietary supplements. This book gathers and presents topical research data on isoflavones inclu...

Literature cultivates 'deep selves' for whom books matter because they take over from religion fundamental questions about the meaning of existence. This volume embraces and questions this perspective, whilst also developing a 'new humanist' critical vocabulary which specifies, and therefore opens to debate, the human significance of literature.