One of the most fundamental human urges is to form a pair. Despite many tendencies that threaten traditional marriage and even make committed cohabitation problematic, very few people live through adulthood without at least one lengthy relationship, and up to 90 percent of Americans marry at least once in their lives. This volume draws attention ...
This volume covers extensions of the Rasch model, one of the most researched and applied models in educational research and social science. This collection contains 22 chapters by some of the most recognized international experts in the field. They cover topics ranging from general model extensions to applications in fields as diverse as cognition ...
Providing a unique combination of perspectives, treatment approaches and expertise, The Practical Handbook of Clinical Gerontology explores issues relevant to practitioners who work with the elderly. In 22 accessible chapters, renowned contributors - representing fields such as psychology, medicine, neuropsychology, nursing and law - examine what ...
From the Introduction The intent of this text is to develop with the student or reader, an ability to look at data and draw all the possible inferences from them; evaluate such inferences statistically; and then, most importantly, to form a picture, mathematically or not, of the actual process that is responsible for the responses. Hence, it has ...
This multidisciplinary study of entrepreneurship in Russian society from the sixteenth to the twentieth century demonstrates the crucial influence of the central government on economic initiative.
Possible new breakthroughs in understanding the aging mind that can be used to benefit older people are now emerging from research. This volume identifies the key scientific advances and the opportunities they bring. For example, science has learned that among older adults who do not suffer from Alzheimer's disease or other dementias, cognitive ...
A number of important American industries have undergone a significant transformation from direct regulation to a market-oriented system, commonly referred to as deregulation. Recognized scholars examine seven of these industries - electricity, natural gas pipelines, telecommunications, railroads, airlines, hospitals and banking - to show how ...
In this book, a team of IBM technical experts cover everything you need to maximize server reliability and performance with the latest versions of Caldera OpenLinux running on IBM's powerful Netfinity servers. The perfect guide for beginning-to-intermediate-level system administrators running Caldera OpenLinux 2.2/2.3 on Netfinity Servers, this ...
In this book, a team of IBM technical experts cover everything you need to maximize server reliability and performance with the latest versions of RedHat Linux running on IBM's powerful Netfinity servers. The perfect guide for beginning-to-intermediate-level system administrators running RedHat Linux 6.x on Netfinity Servers, this book covers the ...
Ideal for courses in American history, this book gathers first-person accounts of the trauma of the Thirties in the Heartland and assesses these accounts from the distance of several decades.
Significant demographic changes are transforming the structure of today's American population to include a much larger proportion of older people. Factors such as immigration and changes in marriage, cohabitation, divorce, and childbearing are all affecting the roles of older people and the way in which older people are financially, emotionally, ...
This work combines basic theory, current industrial practice and useful regulatory aspects in an overview of pharmaceutical stability. It examines data analysis of packaged drug's stability, experimental methods for achieving stable marketed products and the stability principles of drugs in dissolved, dispersed and solid states. This second ...
This extensive reference/text explores the principles, instrumentation, processes, and programs of pharmaceutical solid science as well as new aspects on one-component systems, micromeritics, polymorphism, solid-state stability, cohesion, powder flow, blending, single-unit sustained release, and tablet coating. It reveals unique approaches in ...
This comprehensive guide presents the principles underlying the formation, properties and manufacturing of solid dosage forms. Developed by a leading pharmaceutical expert with 25 years of experience, this book is a precise handbook to powder dosage forms, hard shell capsules, milling, tablet, granulation and drying, stability, crystalline solids, ...
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