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  Sequence Data Mining

  Guozhu Dong and Jian Pei

  Understanding sequence data, and the ability to utilize this hidden knowledge, will create a significant impact on many aspects of our society. Examples of sequence data include DNA, protein, customer purchase history, web surfing history, and more.

  This book provides thorough coverage of the existing results on sequence data mining as well as pattern types and associated pattern mining methods. It offers balanced coverage on data mining and sequence data analysis, allowing readers to access the state-of-the-art results in one place.

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  The Private Library of Eric Blair

  Ronald R. Geibert

  Today is often labeled as the Information Age. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, we are inundated with pictures, video, sound, and text. DSL, cable, cell-phones, fax machines, satellite radio, and other technologies keep us instantly in touch with events. To be "connected" is to be seen as contemporary and knowledgeable.

  Unfortunately, this instant access is not without risk. Much of this immediate information is unfiltered, untested, and, on occasions, suspect. The anonymous Internet "expert" that is quoted might no more be an expert than your next-door neighbor (in fact, that web site might just be the creation of your neighbor). Often, more effort is spent channel surging, Googling, or just chatting, rather than addressing the need for careful sorting, consideration, reflection, and thoughtful contemplation.

  This series examines the power and place of the book in today's digital environment. Acknowledging that the printed book is perhaps an instrument destined for obsolescence, the plates nevertheless take the viewer on a visual tour of the beauty and beguiling power of images and text found within the pages of volumes "disconnected" from the digital world. I am sharing the private library of one ordinary citizen.

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  Perspectives of Neural-Symbolic Integration

  Barbara Hammer and Pascal Hitzler

  The human brain possesses the remarkable capability of understanding, interpreting, and producing language, structures, and logic. Unlike their biological counterparts, artificial neural networks do not form such a close liaison with symbolic reasoning: logic-based inference mechanisms and statistical machine learning constitute two major and very different paradigms in artificial intelligence with complementary strengths and weaknesses. Modern application scenarios in robotics, bioinformatics, language processing, etc., however require both the efficiency and noise-tolerance of statistical models and the generalization ability and high-level modelling of structural inference mechanisms. A variety of approaches has therefore been proposed for combining the two paradigms.

  This carefully edited volume contains state-of-the-art contributions in neural-symbolic integration, covering `loose' coupling by means of structure kernels or recursive models as well as `strong' coupling of logic and neural networks. It brings together a representative selection of results presented by some of the top researchers in the field, covering theoretical foundations, algorithmic design, and state-of-the-art applications in robotics and bioinformatics.

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  Teaching Instrumental Music: Developing the Complete Band Program

  Shelley M. Jagow

  This book is a unique resource for both novice and experienced band directors, gathering effective teaching tools from the best in the field. Includes more than 40 chapters on: curriculum, "then and now" of North American wind bands, the anatomy of music making, motivation, program organization and administrative leadership, and much more.

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  Real Estate: Building a Strong Foundation

  James E. Larsen, Bill Carey, and Chantal Howell-Carey

  Whether preparing for a career, or seeking a better understanding of real estate in everyday life, this book will provide the basis to conduct real estate transactions in the real world. Larsen presents a clear understanding of current theories and practices in the real estate market with this accessible introduction.

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  Denmark, 1513-1660: The Rise and Decline of a Renaissance Monarchy

  Paul D. Lockhart

  One of the largest states in Europe, Denmark in the 16th and 17th-centuries was at the height of its influence. This work examines the unlikely career of Denmark as the major power of northern Europe, exploring its rise to the forefront of European affairs and its decline in fortunes following its disastrous involvement in the Thirty Years' War.

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  Team-Based Learning for Health Professions Education : a Guide to Using Small Groups for Improving Learning

  Larry Michaelsen, Dean Parmelee, Kathryn McMahon, and Ruth E. Levine

  Education in the health professions is placing greater emphasis on “active” learning―learning that requires applying knowledge to authentic problems; and that teaches students to engage in the kind of collaboration that is expected in today’s clinical practice.
  
  Team-Based Learning (TBL) is a strategy that accomplishes these goals. This book is an introduction to TBL for health profession educators. It outlines the theory, structure, and process of TBL, explains how TBL promotes problem solving and critical thinking skills, aligns with the goals of science and health courses, improves knowledge retention and application, and develops students as professional practitioners. The book provides readers with models and guidance on everything they need to know about team formation and maintenance; peer feedback and evaluation processes, and facilitation.
  
  The book includes chapters where instructors describe how they apply TBL in their courses. The examples range across undergraduate science courses, basic and clinical sciences courses in medical, sports medicine and nursing education, residencies, and graduate nursing programs. The book concludes with a review and critique of the current scholarship on TBL in the health professions, and charts the needs for future research.

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  The Rise of the Anti-Corporate Movement: Corporations and the People Who Hate Them

  Evan W. Osborne

  Against the backdrop of Enron and the other high-profile cases of corporate malfeasance, it is easy to paint today's executives as villains and blame big business, and corporations generally, for a wide array of social ills. Is the criticism warranted? Not quite, says Evan Osborne, as he traces the history of anti-corporate sentiment and assesses the fever-pitch hatred, by some, of all things corporate. While not perfect angels, Osborne argues, corporations confer many more benefits to society than ills. Moreover, they are an essential engine of human progress, and longstanding legal principles are more than adequate to address their flaws. And that makes the rising tide of anti-corporate sentiment dangerous.

  Why? Look at the facts: Large corporations inspire both awe and fear. On the one hand, they create jobs, introduce scientific and technological breakthroughs, open up borders through trade, and provide indispensable products and services that make life easier. On the other hand, many think they undermine the will of the people, encourage bribery and corruption, finance oppressive regimes, ruin values and culture, befoul the environment, and encourage economic inequality. It was no accident that the terrorists of September 11 targeted the World Trade Center, an iconic symbol of American financial power. In this provocative book, Evan Osborne pulls back the curtain to illuminate how corporations have evolved as an essential element of society, and how opposition to them has developed out of proportion—a fire fanned by anti-business activists, the media, and other groups. He sets the record straight, explaining how corporations work, how they have evolved in the context of other institutions, the net benefits they provide—and how to deal with their undeniable imperfections. At the same time, he shows how anti-business claims have become more strident and where these arguments fail to stand up to scrutiny.

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  Semantic Web-Based Information Systems: State-of-the-Art Applications

  Amit P. Sheth and Miltiadis Lytras

  This book covers new semantic Web enabled tools for the citizen, learner, organization, and business. Real-world applications in development of the knowledge society and semantic Web issues, challenges and implications in each of the IS research streams are included as viable sources.

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  Interfaces in Electronic Materials: Proceedings of the International Symposium

  L. Cook, D. Misra, Sharmila M. Mukhopadhyay, W. Wong-Ng, O. Leonte, and K. Sundaram

  Papers presented at the symposium on "Interfaces in Electronic Materials," held during the joint annual meetings of The Electrochemical Society and the Electronics Division of the American Ceramic Society, October 12-16, 2003 in Orlando, Florida.

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  Critiquing Nursing Research

  John R. Cutcliffe and Martin F. Ward

  This 2nd edition of Critiquing Nursing Research retains the features which made the original a 'best seller' whilst incorporating new material in order to expand the book's applicability. In addition to reviewing and subsequently updating the material of the original text, the authors have added two further examples of approaches to crtitique along with examples and an additonal chapter on how to critique research as part of the work of preparing a dissertation. The fundamentals of the book however remain the same. It focuses specifically on critiquing nursing research; the increasing requirement for nurses to become conversant with research, understand its link with the use of evidence to underpin practice; and the movement towards becoming an evidence-based discipline. As nurse education around the world increasingly moves towards an all-graduate discipline, it is vital for nurses to have the ability to critique research in order to benefit practice. This book is the perfect tool for those seeking to gain or develop precisely that skill and is a must-have for all students nurses, teachers and academics.

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  Key Debates in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing

  John R. Cutcliffe and Martin F. Ward

  Presenting a range of key issues such as - practice, policy, research and education related issues that psychiatric/mental health nurses face, this book also seeks to make psychiatric/mental health nurses aware of the uncertain nature of much of psychiatric/mental health nursing practice and knowledge.

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  Business Process Management: 4th International Conference

  Schahram Dustdar, Jose Luiz Fiadeiro, and Amit P. Sheth

  Conference proceedings from the 4th International Conference on Business Process Management, Vienna, Austria, September 5-7, 2006.

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  Photography Now: One Hundred Portfolios

  Ronald R. Geibert

  PHOTOGRAPHY NOW among the most significant multimedia art publications sponsored by Kodak featured works selected from nearly 1,300 photographers representing 60 countries.

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  Humor in Advertising: A Comprehensive Analysis

  Charles S. Gulas and Marc G. Weinberger

  Although the use of humor in advertising has its origins in the early days of the business, its widespread use as an advertising strategy is a more recent phenomenon. Humor in Advertising draws on extensive serious research on the use of humor from the fields of Advertising and Marketing, as well Psychology, Mass Media, and Communications Studies. The authors are careful to point out not only the benefits, but also the potential pitfalls in advertising's attempts at humor, as advertisers continue to use humorous message to break through the clutter of proliferating ads, and the line between advertising and entertainment is further blurred.

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  Languages and Machines: An Introduction to the Theory of Computer Science

  Thomas Sudkamp

  Provides readers with a mathematical presentation of the theory of computer science at a level suitable for junior and senior level computer science majors. The theoretical concepts and associated mathematics are made accessible by a "learn as you go" approach that develops an understanding of the concepts through examples and illustrations.

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  Semantic Web Services and Web Process Composition

  Jorge Cardoso and Amit P. Sheth

  The first international workshop on Semantic Web Services and Web Process Composition (SWSWPC 2004) intends to bring researchers, scientists from both industry and academics, and representatives from different communities together to study, understand, and explore the phases that compose the lifecycle of Semantic Web Processes. The workshop presents what can be achieved by symbiotic synthesis of two of the hottest R&D and technology application areas: Web services and the Semantic Web, as recognized at the latest the twelfth international World Wide Web conference (WWW 2003) and in industry press. The emphasis of the workshop is mainly on Web Services, Web processes and semantics which are important movements emerging in the World Wide Web. Web Services and Web processes promise to ease various of nowadays infrastructure challenges, such as data, application, and process integration. Web services are truly platform-independent and allow the development of distributed loosely-coupled applications, a key characteristic for the success of dynamic Web Processes. This volume contains all the papers presented at SWSWPC 2004, held at the Westin Horton Plaza Hotel, San Diego, California, USA, July 6, 2004, in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2004). A total of 9 papers were selected from 19 submitted papers, after a double blind revision process. In addition, we were honored by the presence of two distinguished invited speaker, namely Prof. Munindar Singh (North Carolina State University, USA) and Prof. Boualem Benatallah (The University of New South Wales, Australia). We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all the authors, who provided the rich material discussed at the workshop, and the members of the Program Committee who have reviewed and assessed the scientific merit of each submitted paper, thus ensuring high quality standards.

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  The Essential Concepts of Nursing: A Critical Review

  John R. Cutcliffe and Hugh McKenna

  For the first time, leading authorities come together to offer their expertise as they present the building blocks and concepts of nursing theory.

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  The Usual Mistakes

  Erin Flanagan

  These characters may be the usual suspects, making the usual mistakes, but their stories are not the usual fare. Populated by pretenders, ex-cons, and wannabes who bend the rules, break the law, and risk everything to salvage their own hearts, the twelve stories in The Usual Mistakes conduct readers into a world where betrayal is just a beginning. Deception, infidelity, even death—where a person goes from there is the mainspring of Erin Flanagan’s fiction, and in the turns her characters take, we find rare insights: that we are often wedded to one another because of, not in spite of, our flaws and that this paradoxical connection may be cause for hope. An impostor medical assistant and an ex-neo-Nazi, covered head-to-toe in swastika tattoos; a seemingly oafish but suddenly sympathetic husband and a boorish mother-in-law in need of comforting; a young boy who finds adulthood by learning to forgive: the characters in these stories are by turns inappropriate, outlandish, selfish, and kind, complicated in the ways only real people are. Though they ask for little and rarely get even that, they do astonishing things with whatever does come their way; and their stories, in Flanagan’s sure hands, never fail to surprise.

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  Teaching Grammar with Playful Poems: Engaging Lessons with Model Poems by Favorite Poets That Motivate Kids to Learn Grammar

  Nancy Mack

  No kidding, this is a collection of grammar lessons that teachers and students will love! Poems by Jack Prelutski, Shel Silverstein, and others who take a playful approach to language introduce each grammar concept—from parts of speech to sentence construction and agreement. Lessons include an engaging modeled writing activity, provide helpful ways to explain grammar concepts to students, and support student understanding with hands-on extension activities that appeal to all types of learners.

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  The Inspiration of Hope in Bereavement Counselling

  John R. Cutcliffe

  A person's sense of hope is essential to the process of bereavement counselling and nursing. This book brings together empirical research and theoretical thinking on hope to give practical guidance to professionals working with the bereaved. Experienced practitioner and academic John R. Cutcliffe takes into account evidence-based practice, describing not only what we know about the role played by hope, but also how we know about it. The text builds on the requirements of practitioners consulted in its development, identifying and examining the dynamics, principles and social processes involved in bereavement counselling and helping practitioners to understand how they can break through grief, anger and despair to inspire hope in their clients. In addition it covers the wider implications of hope-centred counselling on training and policy. Taking in a variety of sources from philosophy to health policy, this book gives a unique and comprehensive view of the developments and possibilities in hope-inspiring bereavement counselling, providing a wealth of advice and guidance for practitioners at all levels.

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  Desolation's March: The Rise of Personalism and the Reign of Amusement in 21st Century America

  Stephen Paul Foster Ph.D.

  Dr. Stephen Foster (author of Melancholy Duty, Kluwer, 1997) has undertaken a critique of American decadence and moral squalor. He argues that three basic cultural phenomena have conjoined to warp and degrade the moral and cultural landscape of the country. Treated together for purposes of critique these phenomena have intertwined in the national psyche. They are the impact of personalism (via J. J. Rosseau) and the leveraged individual, the growth of the therapeutic state and the overwhelming preoccupation with entertainment. The author suggests the moral and cultural quandary these "states" have wrought and the attendant loss of artistic, moral and social integrity that the United States has suffered.

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  Frederik II and the Protestant Cause: Denmark's Role in the Wars of Religion, 1559-1596

  Paul D. Lockhart

  This book considers the role played by Denmark's King Frederik II (1559-1588) in the international diplomacy of the 'age of religious wars'. As Europe's leading Lutheran sovereign, Frederik commanded great influence, his conviction that an international Catholic 'conspiracy' threatened to destroy Protestantism led him to work towards the creation of a Protestant alliance that included both Calvinist and Lutheran states.

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  Sweden in the Seventeenth Century (European History in Perspective)

  Paul D. Lockhart

  Paul Lockhart examines the institutions of the Swedish 'empire' at the height of its influence, while focusing on the key historical questions: why did this impoverished state become a great power, how was it able to maintain this status, and what brought about its eventual decline?