Taylor francis inc jun 2005 (24 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Give students the ability to solve their problems and you'll give them a skill they'll use for a lifetime. This book presents creative problem solving in a step-by-step manner young children can understand and enjoy. Use CPS to solve the problems of the three little pigs, Rapunzel, the frog prince, and much more. Grades 2-4. Draze, Diane (illustratore).…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Watch the excitement ripple through your classroom as students use their intellect to find out who committed the 'crime' at your school. Enliven your students as they practice critical thinking skills. Students are often taught skills such as the scientific method, scientific research, critical thinking, making observations, analyzing facts, and drawing conclusions in isolation. Studying forensic science allows students to practice these skills and see theories put into practice by using circumstances that model real-life events, meanwhile letting students explore a variety of career options.This exciting unit includes: - background information on forensics, - exploration of careers in forensic science and law enforcement, - a simulation involving a fire in the school library, and - instructions for writing your own crime scene simulation. To crack the case, students examine evidence left at the scene, interview suspects (staff members), and use critical thinking to connect all of the clues and eliminate suspects. Students will feel like real investigators with this true-to-life simulation.Let your students solve more mysteries with Mystery Disease, Mystery Science, Detective Club, and The Great Chocolate Caper.Grades 5-8.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Learn to better control costs for print and digital resources--from recognized leaders in library administration!Academic libraries have been using electronic resources for several years, yet library administrators still find that the evolution from print to digital takes meticulous planning. Collection Management and Strategic Access to Digital Resources is a collection of eight presentations from the 2004 University of Oklahoma Libraries Conference focusing on the ways academic research libraries can successfully make the transition from print materials to electronic resources. Respected authorities offer effective strategies to efficiently coordinate the use of digital materials in the contemporary research library. As acquisition budgets tighten and fresh emphasis is placed upon finding strategies to afford needed resources, library administrators find it increasingly difficult to meet the challenge of providing information to today's students and scholars. Collection Management and Strategic Access to Digital Resources focuses on innovative, practical solutions to difficult problems facing librarians and library administrators today and in the coming decade. The book is carefully referenced and includes tables and charts to clearly explain data.Collection Management and Strategic Access to Digital Resources presents and thoroughly discusses: the impact of digital resources on libraries, research, and learning in history and science open access of research results beyond the print journal regime Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and electronic journal subscriptions an introduction to Ithaka--a not-for-profit organization that acts as an 'incubator' for electronic projects and research for libraries evaluations--and innovative alternatives--of the rules and beliefs of electronic resource collection the historical and contextual considerations that have made collections cooperation difficult to achieve--and a global resources network initiative that may answer the challenge transforming scholarship's role by offering access to the raw material of research--offering new opportunities for access to a greater range of information the responsibilities of research libraries in a rapidly evolving digital worldCollection Management and Strategic Access to Digital Resources is essential reading for senior library administrators in public, special, and academic libraries, as well as acquisitions, reference, collection development, and systems librarians.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The influential essays of ethicist and theologian Hauerwas on the theology of disability, with critical responses by experts and theologians.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Presents the work of the American Educational Research Association's Panel on Research and Teacher Education. This title examines research about the pool of prospective and entering teachers and about local, institutional, state, and federal preservice teacher education policies and practices.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Written by a highly regarded power industry expert, this comprehensive manual covers in full detail all aspects of electric power distribution systems, both as they exist today and as they are evolving toward the future. A new chapter examines the impact of the emergence of cogeneration and distributed generation on the power distribution network. Topics include an overview of the process of electricity transmission and distribution, a thorough discussion of each component of the system - conductor supports, insulators and conductors, line equipment, substations, distribution circuits and more - as well as both overhead and underground construction considerations. Improvements in both materials and methods of power distribution are also explored, including the trend toward gradual replacement of heavier porcelain insulators with lighter polymer ones. The complex aspects of electric power distribution are explained in easy-to-understand, non-technical language.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Emergency and Backup Power Sources: Preparing for Blackouts and Brownouts provides invaluable information on emergency and backup power sources, as we deal with an aging power distribution system that often fails to provide reliable power. The massive power outage in the summer of 2003 that affected eight states and parts of Canada exemplifies the importance of this topic. You will find much useful information on the types of systems that can take over during power interruptions, such as standby power systems that employ batteries, kinetic energy storage, fuel cells, reciprocating engines, and turbines. Topics include power disturbances and interruptions, spikes and noise, sags and surges, surge suppression, voltages regulation, load management, power quality issues, reliability and maintainability, comparison of operating costs, environmental issues, blackout planning, emergency procedures, and more.…

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This volume looks at the study of successful pathways through middle childhood. The chapters look at how diverse environmental contexts (economic, culture, history, politics) influence child and family development.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - For young children, two of the important tasks they face are learning how to communicate and learning how to think about themselves and the world around them. Inherently linking these two, this book is divided into four thematic sections, each introduced by an overview. It is aimed at those concerned with young children's learning and development.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This comprehensive textbook offers a basic introduction to phonetics in an applied systematic presentation that equips the communication disorders student to deal with the wide range of speech types that will be encountered in a clinic. While the major discussion is articulatory, speech acoustics are also examined. Illustrations of sample spectrograms appear in tandem with the more traditional articulatory drawings. Two CDs of sound examples accompany the textbook. This comprehensive textbook offers a basic introduction to phonetics in an applied systematic presentation that equips the communication disorders student to deal with the wide range of speech types that will be encountered in a clinic. While the major discussion is articulatory, speech acoustics.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Explore how lifestyle concepts are linked to marketing the hospitality and tourism industryHospitality, Tourism, and Lifestyle Concepts: Implications for Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction is a comprehensive benchmark review of how lifestyle concepts can be applied to the hospitality and tourism industry. Noted authorities present multifaceted viewpoints examining a range of topics, such as matching the lifestyles of tourism providers and guests, lifestyle segmentation studies, and methodological issues in lifestyle segmentation research. You'll learn how the consideration of lifestyle concepts can improve the effectiveness of marketing in addition to providing quality management and improved customer satisfaction in the hospitality and tourism industry.This book provides an in-depth exploration of the implications of lifestyle concepts in the marketing of the hospitality and tourism industry. Each chapter of Hospitality, Tourism, and Lifestyle Concepts: Implications for Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction examines essential issues, including quality management and customer satisfaction, improving customer experience through host-guest lifestyle matching, ways to segment customers by lifestyle, and the benefits and burdens of the gay tourism market. The book confronts widely held beliefs about the industry, confirming or adjusting those views through solid data. Research is clearly presented, always with an eye toward strengthening this fragile industry.Hospitality, Tourism, and Lifestyle Concepts: Implications for Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction discusses: the potential use of lifestyle segmentation to achieve psychographic matching between hosts and guests the significance of the lifestyle concept for the management of service quality and customer satisfaction research into gay tourism marketing, with a discussion about recent evidence suggesting that the distinct purchasing patterns of gays are exaggerated lifestyle market segments and the relation to satisfaction with a nature-based tourism experience a lifestyle segmentation analysis of the backpacker market in Scotland three different approaches to lifestyle segmentation in improving the quality of tourism and leisure marketing decisions improved understanding of tourists' needs through cross-classification Hospitality, Tourism, and Lifestyle Concepts: Implications for Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction is an essential review of the lifestyle marketing concept that will prove invaluable for hospitality and tourism professionals, instructors, and industry members.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Scalable and Secure Internet Services and Architecture provides an in-depth analysis of many key scaling technologies. The book demonstrates the effectiveness of the technologies via mathematical modeling and analysis, simulation, and practical implementations. The text blends technologies in a unified framework for scalable and secure Internet services, delivering a systematic treatment based upon the author's research. The book tackles each topic by first defining a problem, then reviewing representative approaches for solving it. The author then describes the underlying principles of the technologies and the application of these principles, along with balanced coverage of concepts and engineering trade-offs.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Critical Reflections on Stanley Hauerwas' Theology of Disability: Disabling Society, Enabling Theology examines the influential writings of one of the most important contemporary theologians. Over the past thirty years, Time Magazine Theologian of the Year (2001) Dr. Stanley Hauerwas has consistently presented a theological position which values the deep theological significance of people with developmental disabilities, as well as their importance to the life and the faithfulness of the church. Ten key Hauerwas essays on disability are brought together in a single volume--essays which reflect and illustrate his thinking on the theology of disability, along with responses to each essay from multidisciplinary authoritative sources including Jean Vanier, Michael Berube, John O'Brien and Ray S. Anderson. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Although refrigerant mixtures have long been used in commercial products to improve environmental impact, there are few resources available that address the use of fluid mixtures in vapor compression systems. Vapor Compression Heat Pumps with Refrigerant Mixtures provides a comprehensive background and thorough discussion of the thermodynamics of working fluid mixtures and their applications. It covers the fundamentals of various refrigeration cycles as well as a basic background in the thermodynamics related to these mixtures. It also provides important data on heat transfer and pressure drop correlations as well as critical operational issues related to refrigerant mixtures.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book reviews the pathophysiology and physical manifestations of acromegaly and discusses the multiple treatment options now available for the management of the patient with acromegaly. The book contains an ample number of illustrations that help to emphasize points of particular interest, including radiological, histopathological, and physical diagnosis images. Sections are devoted to detailing important topics including determinants of pathological effects of disease activity in acromegaly, individual therapeutic choices and criteria for diagnosis, and disease control.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Taking a comprehensive approach in which all aspects of the vagal afferent system are considered, from the terminals in the visceral tissues to the neural pathways within the central nervous system, this extensive text reviews the development, neurochemistry, anatomy, biophysics, pharmacology, and physiology of the vagal afferent nerves. The authors present experimental techniques used to investigate the development, morphology, electrophysiology and reflex function of the vagal afferent nerves, and include state-of-the-art reviews of vagal afferent neurobiology by some of the world's leading experts in these fields. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Completely revised and updated, this new edition continues to serve as a tool that allows researchers to easily access and use databases to gather information on genes, proteins, and diseases. It covers new approaches to data analysis using databases around the world. New sections cover recent developments in genome projects, microarray, proteonics, brain mapping, and more.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Complications in Pediatric Otolaryngology.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Passive Micro-Optical Alignment Methods introduces the passive alignment methods that are currently available and illustrates them with many examples, references, and critiques. The first book dedicated to passive alignment, it begins with an overview of the current activities, requirements, and general results of passive optical alignments, followed by three sections of in-depth analysis. The first of these discusses mechanical passive alignment and the second, various visual alignment techniques. The final section details various utilities that aid passive alignment, their resulting tradeoffs, and the use of Monte Carlo analysis to evaluate the potential of a given passive method.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Enhanced surfaces are geometrics with special shapes that promote much higher rates of heat transfer than smooth or plain surfaces. This title traces the advancement of heat transfer research in areas such as integral-fin and micro-fin tubes, complex plate-fin geometries, and micro-channels for single-phase and two-phase applications.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Laser Remote Sensing provides an up-to-date, comprehensive review on LIDAR, focusing mainly on applications to current topics in atmospheric science. The scope of the book includes laser remote sensing of the atmosphere, including measurement of aerosols, water vapor, clouds, winds, trace constituents, and temperature. It also covers other interesting applications such as vegetation monitoring and altimetry. LIDAR systems described in this volume include ground-based (fixed or mobile), airborne, and spaceborne (satellite-based) systems. The book emphasizes instrumentation and measurement techniques, to enable the reader to understand what kind of a LIDAR system is necessary for a certain application.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Since the early days of radioisotope sequencing, a wide variety of new DNA sequencing techniques have emerged. New methods are aimed at reducing the amount of sample needed, improving the accuracy, and reducing the amount of time needed to generate a sequence. This text discusses the different analytical DNA sequencing techniques and the exciting applications of DNA sequencing in areas such as forensics, the sequencing of ancient DNA, and genome sequencing. Advances in DNA separations using advanced capillary electrophoresis and microchip sequencing are presented. Chapters cover improvements in the detection of DNA sequencing fragments, the use of mass spectrometry, and single molecule detection.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Until now, no comprehensive handbook on industrial biocatalysis has been available. Soliciting chapters from experts on virtually every aspect of Biocatalysis, this handbook is divided into three sections based on types of substrates. The first section describes the newest biotechnology and bioprocesses for producing industrial products from hydrophobic substrates such as oils and fats. The second section covers the production of value-added products from carbohydrate substrates. The third section is dedicated to other potential industrial applications such as bioelectrocatalysis for synthesizing chemicals, fuels, and new drugs. This reference is ideal for scientists in academic, industrial, and government research institutes, as well as for graduate-level students involved in biotechnology and other industries utilizing biocatalysis.…