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Treating human communication sciences as a truly interdisciplinary field, Anderson (Florida International U.) and Shames (U. of Pittsburgh) incorporate new chapters on literacy development, genetics, neurogenic speech disorders, dysphagia, and aural rehabilitation in this updated introductory text. Other chapters address basic concepts, and cultural and clinical issues related to language/speech development and disorders. Authors' personal motivations for choosing to work in this field should be of particular interest to students. The text also includes case studies, study questions, suggested readings, and a glossary. Previous editions appeared between 1982 and 2002. Annotation : 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

This study of ligand binding presents both the methodological and interpretative aspects of the process. Designed to direct researchers towards the appropriate protocols, the work focuses on the experimental measurement of interactions with appropriate attention to the assumptions and approximations inherent in data analysis.

Famed as the Great Contrarian, the life and business of this Wall Street Legend have been anything but boring--as his memoirs abundantly reveal. Here at last is Jenrette's account of how he succeeded in business, how he turned around his own upstart firm, and went on to rescue the vulnerable Equitable when it was in dire straits.

Over the last two decades economic analysis has begun to offer increasingly sophisticated and useful insights about environmental problems. Recent innovations have enlarged the range of economic policy instruments and transformed the roles of the various implementation and enforcement institutions.

Jerome Want provides valuable insight and practical advice on how to leverage change into an advantage rather than a prescription for disaster. Using case studies from companies in a variety of industries, Want outlines how to create elastic business plans that can be deftly altered to reflect changing business realities.

This handbook provides ready access to all of the major concepts, techniques, problems, and solutions in the emerging field of pseudorandom pattern testing. Until now, the literature in this area has been widely scattered, and published work, written by professionals in several disciplines, has treated notation and mathematics in ways that vary from source to source. This book opens with a clear description of the shortcomings of conventional testing as applied to complex digital circuits, revewing by comparison the principles of design for testability of more advanced digital technology. Offers in-depth discussions of test sequence generation and response data compression, including pseudorandom sequence generators; the mathematics of shift-register sequences and their potential for built-in testing. Also details random and memory testing and the problems of assessing the efficiency of such tests, and the limitations and practical concerns of built-in testing.

This book presents a coherent overview of cognitive psychology organized by themes that cut across topic areas. Written by well-known researchers, it is up-to-date in describing ongoing controversies in research, providing summaries of key experiments that distinguish between them and promoting thinking critically about current research and theories. The focus on the importance of physical and computational constraints on cognition is preserved throughout the book.

Planning and sample design. Quality assurance and quality control. Sampling waters. Sampling biota. Sampling solids and hazardous wastes.

"Designed to give [the beginning job seeker] a realistic overview of business careers and the requirements for specific job categories"--Preface.