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Similarity and Compatibility in Fuzzy Set Theory: Assessment and Applications

Valerie Cross and Thomas Sudkamp

Assessing the degree to which two objects, an object and a query, or two concepts are similar or compatible is a fundamental component of human reasoning and consequently is critical in the development of automated diagnosis, classification, information retrieval and decision systems.
Kitty Hawk and Beyond: The Wright Brothers and the Early Years of Aviation: A Photographic History

Ronald R. Geibert and Patrick B. Nolan

This handsomely illustrated book tells the story of two twentieth-century heroes who fashioned from the raw materials of ingenuity and ambition a legacy that will live forever in aviation history. Aided by over 100 rarely seen photographs from the Wright brothers' personal collection, the authors tell the story of Wilbur and Orville Wright: how they went from operating a printing shop and bicycle store in Dayton, Ohio, to ushering in the Age of Flight; why Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, was chosen as the site of their initial experiments; and how Orville made the crucial discovery that led to man's first powered, sustained, controlled airplane flight on December 17, 1903.
Managing Project Quality

Timothy J. Kloppenborg and Joseph A. Petrick

Make breakthroughs in project quality by combining project management with quality management - this books shows you how. Guiding you from project initiation through closure, the book provides a detailed stage-specific flowchart of activities correlated with appropriate tools to give you new power to meet customer expectations and institutionalize project quality.
GaN and Related Alloys - 2001: Volume 693

John E. Northrup, Jörg Neugebauer, David C. Look, Shigefusa F. Chichibu, and Henning Riechert

This book focuses on three main themes. Theme one - advances in basic science. Point defects, dislocations, doping, the properties of nitride alloys with a special emphasis on localization phenomena and GaAsN alloys (which are very promising for long-wavelength emitters), transport and optical properties are also featured. Theme two - growth and growth-related issues. Significant advances have been made in understanding/improving all major nitride growth techniques (MBE, MOCVD, HVPE). Techniques such as ELOG and the development of bulk-like substrates are receiving attention as methods to reduce the number of dislocations. Theme three - devices. Tremendous progress has been reported in device design and optimization, and also in understanding device processing issues such as p-contacts, laser lift-off, and etching. Overall, the book offers a broad exchange of scientific knowledge and technical expertise. Topics include: molecular beam epitaxy and growth kinetics; point defects and doping; light emitters; nitride alloys and lateral epitaxy; quantum wells; transport and optical properties; vapor phase epitaxy; extended defects; electronic devices and processing.
Coping: A Practical Guide for People with Life-Challenging Diseases and their Caregivers

Rubin Battino

How do you cope with a life-challenging disease? How you do respond can have an effect on the course of the illness. Some people are better at creating the right attitude, but we can learn to improve our coping skills. This is aimed at those living with or dealing with life-challenging diseases.
Motor Neurobiology of the Spinal Cord

Timothy C. Cope

Traumatic injuries of the spinal cord continue to be the most common cause of permanent paralysis in young adults in the United States. New information has emerged on the response of spinal neurons to injury of either the spinal cord or peripheral nerves demonstrating that dendrites of injured motoneurons take on characteristics of axons. These and other new developments have helped to promote an exciting new era in the study of spinal cord neurobiology.

Motor Neurobiology of the Spinal Cord provides a description of the recent conceptual and technical advances in the field. It provides a description of the new experimental tools available for investigating the neuronal properties that allow populations of spinal cord neurons to control muscles responsible for limb movements and posture. It covers topics ranging from genetics to kinematics and examines cells, tissues, or whole animals in species ranging from fish to humans that are normal, injured, or diseased.

By integrating data derived from many new approaches, you'll learn about how spinal cord circuits operate under a variety conditions and about new and exciting inroads being made in motor neurobiology of the spinal cord. Motor Neurobiology of the Spinal Cord elucidates concepts and principles relevant to function and structure throughout the nervous system and presents information about changes induced by injury and disease.
Fundamental Themes in Clinical Supervision

John R. Cutcliffe, Tony Butterworth, and Brigid Proctor

This title provides a definite guide to the subject of clinical supervision, bringing together contributions from a well-known team to map out policy, practice, training and research in the area.
The Seaweed Rebellion: Federal-State Conflicts Over Offshore Energy Development

Edward A. Fitzgerald

This study examines the role of the courts in the public policy process by analyzing the federal-state conflicts over offshore energy development - known as the seaweed rebellion - from the Roosevelt through Clinton administrations.
Social Studies Ambassadors to People’s Republic of China.

Ronald G. Helms Ph.D.

From childhood to present, I have been fascinated with China and with the Chinese. This book will report some events of my leadership of a PEOPLE TO PEOPLE Ambassador program to China. Winter, spring, and fall had served as a time of preparation for this great Chinese adventure. As a forty-five-year veteran of the International Sister to Sister Program and as a veteran foreign traveler and veteran delegation leader, I was delighted to lead a delegation to China.
The Present Past: A Survey of Work by David Leach

David Leach and Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries

In 1982 printmaker and painter David Leach created a photo intaglio print titled Broken Line (fig .1) that records an illusion, a seeming change in angle of a twig partly immersed in water, an effect resulting from light refraction. The image might almost serve as commentary on Leach's production as artist. He has stated that in 1982 he realized he was not a "post-studio" artist. 1 That conclusion caused him to move away from the conceptualist investigations that had become the focus of his art by the later 1970s and for which work he had established a reputation. Partly out of discomfort at finding himself narrowly defined as an artist, Leach began giving increased attention to formal and technical issues. as well as to expressive content, in a move that allied his work with more traditional approaches to art.
Romantic Generations: Essays in Honor of Robert F. Gleckner

Ghislaine McDayter, Guinn Batten, and Barry Milligan

These essays express a common belief that the study of Romantic literature must be at once professionally serious and personally engaging. Topics discussed range from Wordsworth to Lady Caroline Lamb, and from Blake and Burke to the contemporary Irish poet Paul Muldoon. Each essay also offers close readings of essential works on English and Irish Romanticism. Introducing the collection is a tribute by the celebrated Romanticist Peter Manning.
Mothers Who Kill Their Children: Understanding the Acts of Moms from Susan Smith to the "Prom Mom"

Cheryl L. Meyer, Michelle Oberman, Kelly White, Michelle Rone, Priya Batra, and Tara C. Proano

There is every reason to believe that infanticide is as old as human society itself, and that no culture has been immune. Throughout history, the crime of infanticide has reflected specific cultural norms and imperatives. For instance, infanticide was legal throughout the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome, and was justified on grounds ranging from population control to eugenics to illegitimacy. Archeological evidence suggests that infant sacrifice was commonplace among early peoples, including the Vikings, Irish Celts, Gauls, and Phoenicians.

Historians of infanticide cite a host of factors associated with the incidence of this crime: poverty, overpopulation, laws governing inheritance, customs relating to nonmarital children, religious and/or superstitious beliefs regarding disability, eugenics, and maternal madness. This broad range of explanations for the act of a mother killing her child suggests that infanticide takes quite different forms in different cultures. Indeed, there is no intuitively obvious link between the exposure of disabled or otherwise ill-fated newborns in ancient Greece, for example, and the practice of female infanticide in modern-day India.

Nonetheless, a close examination of the circumstances surrounding infanticide reveals a profound commonality linking these seemingly unrelated crimes. Specifically, infanticide may be seen as a response to the societal construction of and constraints upon mothering. Factors such as poverty, stigma, dowry, and disability are significant because they foretell the impact that an additional baby will have upon a mother, as well as upon her existing family.
Microstructure Modeling and Prediction During Thermomechanical Processing

Raghavan Srinivasan, S. L. Semiatin, Armand Beaudoin, Steven Fox, and Zhe Jin

This proceedings volume includes papers on recent developments in the modelling and prediction of microstructure during thermomechanical processing of titanium, superalloys, aluminium, and ferrous alloys. It covers both physical and computer modelling.
The National Board Certified Teacher

Dora L. Bailey and Ronald G. Helms Ph.D.

Today any teacher can assess his or her professional competencies in relation to appropriate, authentic teaching standards by participating in the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) certification process.
Guided Imagery and Other Approaches to Healing

Rubin Battino

Guided imagery involves thoughts which have a positive effect on health. This book demystifies the how, the why and the wherefor of the technique, and includes sections on preparing people for surgery, nutrition and the native American traditions.
Information Brokering Across Heterogeneous Digital Data: A Metadata-Based Approach

Vipul Kashyap and Amit P. Sheth

Information intermediation is the foundation stone of some of the Internet companies, and is perhaps second only to the Internet Infrastructure companies. This book on information brokering discusses next step in information interoperability and integration. It is useful for researchers, software architects, CTOs, and product developers.
The Research Process: A Complete Guide and Reference for Writers

Martin Maner

The Research Process explains, models, and analyzes the recursive process of conducting research and writing research papers. The text - along with the dedicated website and free student CD-ROM - provides exceptional guidance on writing substantive research papers using print and electronic sources and emphasizes the enjoyment and rewards that research writing offers.
The Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting Contribution to the Continuing Care of People with Mental Health Problems: A Review and Action Plan

Martin F. Ward, John R. Cutcliffe, and Kevin Gournay
Economic Power in a Changing International System

Ewan W. Anderson, Ivar Gutmanis, and Liam Anderson

An analysis of international economic power. Using as indicators the salient features of the economies of the major powers - the USA, Japan, the EU, Russia and China - it examines the concomitants of the new global system, dominated by economic rather than military considerations.
Ericksonian Approaches: A Comprehensive Manual

Rubin Battino and Thomas L. South

Set against a clinical background and assuming no previous knowledge, this text covers essential subjects such as advanced metaphor and examines Ericksonian approaches in medicine, dentistry, substance abuse and life-threatening diseases.
Sexual Medicine In Primary Care

William L. Maurice and Marjorie A. Bowman

A practical guide to interviewing patients about sexual matters with suggested questions, guidelines for the assessment and treatment of common sexual problems, and guidelines for referral. It incorporates sample questions and case histories for a more clinical focus.
Strategic Minerals: Resource Geopolitics and Global Geo-Economics

Ewan W. Anderson and Liam Anderson

Strategic minerals are a major element of resource geopolitics. The US has always provided the umbrella for the West and is now the global policeman on strategic mineral supply.
Solving Patient Problems: Ambulatory Care

Marjorie A. Bowman and Judith A. Fisher

This new series assists students at all levels in developing their clinical problem-solving or reasoning skills by leading them through the "clinical reasoning process around common presenting complaints" in the various clinical rotations. The most common diseases that the students are likely to encounter are the foundation upon which the student may begin to build a more extensive diagnosis.
Socialism and Christianity in Early Twentieth-Century America

Jacob H. Dorn

Despite an anti-religious reputation and the anti-religious worldview of many members, the American Socialist movement held a primarily religious and moral attraction for a small but highly articulate group of American Christians of diverse religious tradition. This study explores the dramatic and at times dangerous lives of individuals who found in the vibrant, growing socialist movement before World War I the grounds for hope that the biblical ideals of human worth and economic justice would at last be fulfilled. Its subjects are male and female, black and white, native- and foreign-born, clergy and lay people, and products of Christian traditions ranging from African-American Baptist to Episcopalian. Readers will find not Milquetoasts standing hesitantly on the sidelines, but Christians with an unequivocal commitment to the complete socialist program who made major contributions to socialist work as authors, political candidates, and party leaders.

Biographical chapters examine the interaction between their subjects' experiences amidst the suffering of an urban-industrial society and their religious commitments, the perspectives on the meaning of socialism they brought to their work for the Socialist Party of America, and their careers after war and the rise of communism shattered the socialist movement. These biographies and an introductory chapter on the wider relationships between religion and socialism in Progressive-era America demonstrate that Christians made quite substantial contributions to the party, and that, far from being a monolithic group, they spread out across the spectrum of socialist ideology and tactics. Other issues include attempts to spread socialism within the churches, the Socialist Party's debates over religion, Roman Catholic efforts to prevent Catholic workers' acceptance of socialism, and the ethical qualities that made socialism appealing to Christians.