Author John E. Weinrich directed a study concerning environmental pollution in Macau and identified ways to minimize it. The study was concerned with various industries and sectors in Macau including
On Friday, February 20, 1980, I had the pleasure to be present at the inaugural lecture of my colleague Jan Reedijk, who had just been named at the Chair of Inorganic Chemistry of Leiden University. A
This powerful book reveals how modern strategies of punishment—and, by all accounts, their failure—relate to political and economic transformations in society at large. Jonathan Simon uses the practic
The ultimate objective of any controls text is to teach students how to achieve the best possible design. In this new text, Wolovich integrates classical and modern techniques, systematically develops
Can knowledge of financial policies in developing countries over four decades help the socialist economies of Asia and Eastern Europe become open market economies in the 1990s? In all these countries
A comprehensive discussion of risks involved with electronic data interchange, the computer-to-computer mode by which more and more companies conduct business with each other worldwide. Identifies the
One long-legged beauty, 25 chic outfits: luxurious capes and furs; spectacular suits, dresses, gowns, and glamorous wigs. Also, 3 male figures dressed in formal and casual attire. 16 plates.
Criminologists agree that crime has its roots at the level of the local neighborhood, but many criticize social disorganization theory for its fairly narrow view of the community dynamics related to c
In this work, Eugene Narmour extends the unique theories of musical perception presented in The Analysis and Cognition of Basic Melodic Structures. The two books together constitute the first compreh
In light of research during the 1980s on new ways of representing and performing computations, this book provides a reexamination of computer organization and computer architecture. It investigates th
From about 1960, the author and his colleagues in the MIT Man-Machine Systems Laboratory have been carrying out experimental research in the area of teleoperation, telerobotics, and supervisory contro
This seminal book presents a fundamental reconsideration of modern American administrative law. According to Christopher Edley, the guiding principle in this field is that courts should apply legal do
Genetic algorithms are playing an increasingly important role in studies of complexadaptive systems, ranging from adaptive agents in economic theory to the use of machine learningtechniques in the des
In this comprehensive study of Wittgenstein's modal theorizing, Bradley offers a radical reinterpretation of Wittgenstein's early thought and presents both an interpretive and a philosophical thesis.
This history of the political economy of Kenya is the first full length study of the development of the colonial state in Africa.Professor Berman argues that the colonial state was shaped by the contr
The first volume in a new series apparently incorporates material contained in the first edition (1988). Describes the current methods for analyzing the mathematical aspects of the initial and initial
In the four decades following the end of World War II, Morris Janowitz (1919-88) published major works in macrosociology, urban and political sociology, race and ethnic relations, and the study of arm
Eugene Narmour formulates a comprehensive theory of melodic syntax to explain cognitive relations between melodic tones at their most basic level. Expanding on the theories of Leonard B. Meyer, the a
One service mathematics has rendered the 'Et moi, ...‧ si Javait so comment en revenir. je n'y serais point alle.' human race. It has put common sense back Jules Verne where it belongs, on the topmost
A revision of Energy technologies & the environment (1980), published by the US Dept. of Energy. The information included is from Energy technologies & the environment environmental informa
"A timely, tightly reasoned, thought-provoking examination of ways to select policies for the enforcement of federal marijuana drug laws." Choice "Mark Kleiman has written a thorough . . . analysis of
Designed as a text for a one semester course to introduce graduate students in mathematics and statistics to the engineering concepts of the discrete Kalman filter and its implications. Annotation cop
Contrary to the popular belief, "Le sommeil n'est plus milieu s(lr" (J. Cocteau, cf. Cl. Gaultier, Pathologie respiratoire du sommeil, La Presse Medicale, 16, 561-563, 1987), and anesthesia is even le
Seeds for economically important crops are big business indeed. As large seed companies continue to improve their product in various ways, they make use of the original gene pools of these plants, oft
