BOOKS with Alphabet P (Pa, Pb,Pc, Pd, Pe…... )

Overview: Even in this age of information explosion, Seminars and Symposia have an importance of their own, particularly in countries which are scientifically and geographically remote from active centres of learning. Our scientists suffer this isolation very acutely; the Cow~ission recognises this problem and has endeavoured to solve it through organisation of meetings and conferences in Pakistan to which international specialists in different fields are invited to share their experience with colleagues in Pakistan. We find that the personal encounter and human touch still remain one of the m

Overview: Gives an overview of statistical permutation methods.Provides associated scripts in the R programming language.Presents comparisons of permutation and classical statistical methods.This book takes a unique approach to explaining permutation statistics by integrating permutation statistical methods with a wide range of classical statistical methods and associated R programs. It opens by comparing and contrasting two models of statistical inference: the classical population model espoused by J. Neyman and E.S. Pearson and the permutation model first introduced by R.A. Fisher and E.J.G.

Overview: First book on preference change.Addresses acute problem for philosophers and social scientists.Interdisciplinary approach.Top-of-their-field contributorsChanging preferencesis a phenomenonoften invoked but rarely properlyaccounted for. Throughout the history of the social sciences, researchers have come against the possibility that their subjects’ preferenceswere affected by the phenomenato be explainedor by otherfactorsnot taken into accountin the explanation.Sporadically, attempts have been made to systematically investigate these in uences, but none of these seems to have had a la

Overview: Photothermal science continues to be an area of rapid development and active investigation, as is demonstrated by this volume. The various contributions present fundamental research in materials science, physics, chemistry, biology, and medicine, as well as important applications of photothermal techniques in nondestructive evaluation, aeronomy and pollution control, and other areas. The topics treated include measurements of spectral properties of gases, the theory of thermally generated elastic waves, a method of monitoring local surface displacements, materials characterization an

Overview: 5. Eine Auseinandersetzung mit der Problematik des Selbst und ihre Bedeutung für die Partnerschaft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 5. 1 Freuds Narzißmus-Konzept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 5. 1. 1 Freuds Begriff des Selbstgefühls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 5. 1. 2 Das Verhältnis von Selbstgefühl, Idealbildung und Objektlibido . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Overview: Considers different aspects of popular music, such as cultural policy, censorship, journalism and stars.Covers most Eastern European countries.Written by specialists with inside knowledge of Eastern EThis book explores popular music in Eastern Europe during the period of state socialism, in countries such as Poland, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Czechoslovakia, the GDR, Estonia and Albania. It discusses the policy concerning music, the greatest Eastern European stars, such as Karel Gott, Czesław Niemen and Omega, as well as DJs and the music press. By conducting original research, in

Overview: Focuses on the relationship between music, video games, and broader social and cultural contexts.Accessible to both academic and casual readers.Engages with popular culture on multiple levels, making .This book looks at the uses of popular music in the newly-redefined category of the nostalgia game, exploring the relationship between video games, popular music, nostalgia, and socio-cultural contexts. History, gender, race, and media all make significant appearances in this interdisciplinary work, as it explores what some of the most critically acclaimed games of the past two decades

Overview: ETAPS 2006 was the ninth instance of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software. ETAPS is an annual federated conference that was established in 1998 by combining a number of existing and new conferences. This year it comprised ?ve conferences (CC, ESOP, FASE, FOSSACS, TACAS), 18 satellite workshops (AC- CAT, AVIS, CMCS, COCV, DCC, EAAI, FESCA, FRCSS, GT-VMT, LDTA, MBT, QAPL, SC, SLAP, SPIN, TERMGRAPH, WITS and WRLA), two tutorials, and seven invited lectures (not including those that were speci?c to the satellite events). We - ceived over 550 submissions to th

Overview: In June of 1990, a conference was held on Probablity Models and Statisti­ cal Analyses for Ranking Data, under the joint auspices of the American Mathematical Society, the Institute for Mathematical Statistics, and the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematicians. The conference took place at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and was attended by 36 participants, including statisticians, mathematicians, psychologists and sociologists from the United States, Canada, Israel, Italy, and The Nether­ lands. There were 18 presentations on a wide variety of topics involving ranki

Overview: Examines EU law and regulation on private health insurance at a national and supra-national level.Explains how and why EU legislation has often collided with incompatible legislation in member states.Research has paid little attention to date on how European Union law and regulation affect both the public-private mix in healthcare and the organization of private health insurance as an industry. Filling this gap, this collective book provides insights on the political economy of EU insurance regulation, its impact on private health insurers and on its interactions with domestic health

Overview: Provides in-depth case study on Russia and Kazakhstan.Includes countries for whom PPP is still in its infancy.Discusses how both government and stakeholders experience PPP.This innovative new book examines government approaches to Public-private partnership (PPP) formation. It explores the management experience and challenges that key stakeholders involved in PPP governance face in Russia and Kazakhstan. An increasingly common method of delivering public services, PPP deployment in these two countries is still in its infancy, beginning only in 2005. .Public-Private Partnerships. high

Overview: Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.978-3-662-23162-3978-3-662-25151-5

Overview: Spontaneous change of type is a widely observed phenomenon in physics. In this volume, leading experts survey from a mathematical point of view topics such as phase transitions in crystals, cluster dynamics, viscoelastic flows, motion of interfaces in thermodynamics, shocks in transonic flows, and nonlinear diffusion with finite speed of propagation. Owing to new mathematical techniques, there is now a renewed interest in these difficult questions. The present volume supplies new results but may also serve as an excellent introduction to recent literature. It will be of interest to r

Overview: About 10 years ago I began studying evaluations of distributions of or­ der statistics from samples with general dependence structure. Analyzing in [78] deterministic inequalities for arbitrary linear combinations of order statistics expressed in terms of sample moments, I observed that we obtain the optimal bounds once we replace the vectors of original coefficients of the linear combinations by the respective Euclidean norm projections onto the convex cone of vectors with nondecreasing coordinates. I further veri­ fied that various optimal evaluations of order and record statistics

Overview: Recent results of mesh generation and adaptation which has applications to finite element simulation.Outcome of the 20th International Meshing Roundtable organized by Sandia National Laboratories, hel.This volume contains the articles presented at the 20.th. International Meshing Roundtable (IMR) organized, in part, by Sandia National Laboratories and was held in Paris, France on Oct 23-26, 2011. This is the first year the IMR was held outside the United States territory. Other sponsors of the 20.th. IMR are Systematic Paris Region Systems & ICT Cluster, AIAA, NAFEMS, CEA, and NSF. T

Overview: Provides a clear overview ?on recent advances and discoveries applied to breeding for abiotic stresses.State-of-the-art contents in plant stresses.Excellent reference work for everybody who is interes.The rapid population growth and the increase in the per capita income, especially in the group of emerging countries referred to as BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) has created huge pressure for the expansion of the agricultural growing area and the crop yields to meet the rising demand. As a result, many areas that have been considered marginal for growing

Overview: Offers an innovative reading of the Platonic Dialogues of Definition.Resolves interpretive issues in Socratic philosophy.Provides systematic interpretations.In each of Plato’s “dialogues of definition” (.Euthyphro, Laches, Meno, Charmides, Lysis, Republic I, Hippias Major.), Socrates motivates philosophical discussion by posing a question of the form “What is F-ness?” Yet these dialogues are notorious for coming up empty. Socrates’ interlocutors repeatedly fail to deliver satisfactory answers. Thus, the dialogues of definition are often considered negative— empty of any positive phil

Overview: Presents the latest research on practical applications of computational biology & bioinformatics.Features the outcomes of the 13th International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational B.This book features 21 papers spanning many different sub-fields in bioinformatics and computational biology, presenting the latest research on the practical applications to promote fruitful interactions between young researchers in different areas related to the field. Next-generation sequencing technologies, together with other emerging and diverse experimental techniques, are evolving

Overview: Presents a comprehensive framework to understand political awareness.Addresses conceptual, theoretical and methodological questions.Presents case studies which examine political awareness in new conteThis interdisciplinary volume presents a comprehensive framework to understand political awareness. Political awareness has become an important part of research on political attitudes and political behavior since the publication of John Zaller‘s work on political opinion. The authors elaborate on his theory and present a new conceptualization, which stipulates that political awareness is

Overview: Showcases new solutions for generating non-standard structural joints for bamboo shells.Demonstrates the potential of digital form-finding design and digital manufacturing techniques.Examines algorith.This book offers a comprehensive overview of the use of bamboo in the building industry. It systematically demonstrates bamboo’s utility in terms of its properties, describing the material properties of typical industrial bamboo products, and discussing their performance evaluation and optimization as building components and in the creation of building envelopes. The book presents the r