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  • Psychobiology and Early Development

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 46
    • H. Rauh + 1 more
    • English
    This volume is the outcome of an international symposium held in Berlin, FRG, which brought together researchers in the field of infant development.The contributors are from Europe and North America, and have as their primary professional interest either pediatrics, biology or psychology. These fields, in spite of common involvement and large overlap, still have to overcome communication problems and differences in scientific approaches. The emphasis of this book is on the efforts of the participants towards reaching a mutual understanding. In spite of disciplinary diversity, the papers in this book complement each other, and set the scene for future multidisciplinary research and exchange in the field of infant development.

  • The Career Psychology of Women

    • 1st Edition
    • A. L. Betz
    • English
    Summarizing literature from the twenty-year-old field of women's career development, this book brings scholars and professionals up-to-date in their understanding of the factors influencing women's career choices and career adjustment across the life span. It serves as a vital base for theoretical and empirical work in the study of women's career development.

  • The Earth's Core

    • 2nd Edition
    • Volume 37
    • John A. Jacobs
    • English
    The Earth's Core, Second Edition is a six-chapter book that begins with the general physical properties of the Earth, with emphasis on the core-mantle boundary. This edition discusses the accretion mechanism, heat sources in the early Earth, time of core formation, thermal regime of the Earth, melting-point depth curves, and thermal consequences of iron-alloy core. Subsequent chapters focus on reversals of the Earth's magnetic field; the energetics and the constitution of the Earth's core; and the cores of the Moon and other planets. The role of the Earth's core is vital to the understanding of many geophysical phenomena. It is the seat of the Earth's magnetic field and is responsible as well to some variations in the length of the day.

  • The Enzymes

    • 3rd Edition
    • Volume 18
    • English

  • Neurophysiological and Neuropsychological Aspects of Spatial Neglect

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 45
    • M. Jeannerod
    • English
    Spatial Neglect is one of the few areas in Neuropsychology where clinicians, psychologists and animal experimenters have succeeded in adopting a common language. The result of interaction between these three approaches has been some important new advances, which are presented in this volume.Apart from its clinical significance in neuropsychology, Spatial Neglect raises important questions in the field of behavioral neurosciences. In this volume, three aspects are examined: a) normal subjects, where new findings on spatial behavior are described. b) brain-lesioned subjects, where the classical studies on neglect are reconsidered in the light of new findings. c) animals, where new experimental situations allow a deeper understanding of the neural substrate.

  • The Organic Chemistry of Museum Objects

    • 1st Edition
    • Stephen G Rees-Jones
    • English
    The Organic Chemistry of Museum Objects provides an account of the composition, chemistry, and analysis of the organic materials which enter into the structures of objects in museum collections. This book is not intended to duplicate the information available in existing handbooks on the materials and techniques of art and conservation but rather to convey the state of knowledge of the chemical composition of such materials and so provide a framework for a general understanding of their properties. The book begins with a review of basic organic chemistry, covering hydrocarbons and compounds with functional groups. It then describes spectrometry and separation methods. This is followed by discussions of the chemistry and composition of oils and fats, natural waxes, bituminous materials, carbohydrates, proteins, and natural resins and lacquers. Subsequent chapters deal with synthetic materials, i.e., high molecular weight polymers of a wholly synthetic nature; and natural and synthetic dyestuffs. Also discussed are the deterioration and other changes in organic materials resulting from both free radical and ionic reactions; and the application of analytical methods to identify the organic materials of actual museum objects. This book is intended for both chemists and nonchemists.

  • Handbook of Labor Economics

    • 1st Edition
    • Orley Ashenfelter + 1 more
    • English
    The Handbook brings together a systematic review of the research topics, empirical findings, and methods that comprise modern labor economics. It serves as an introduction to what has been done in this field, while at the same time indicating possible future trends which will be important in both spheres of public and private decision-making.Part I is concerned with the classic topics of labor supply and demand, the size and nature of the elasticities between the two, and their impact on the wage structure. This analysis touches on two fundamental questions: what are the sources of income inequality, and what are the disincentive effects of attempts to produce a more equal income distribution ?The papers in Part II proceed from the common observation that the dissimilarity in worker skills and employer demands often tempers the outcomes that would be expected in frictionless labor markets. And the last section of the Handbook deals explicitly with the role of institutional structures (e.g. trade unions) that now form an important part of modern labor economics.For more information on the Handbooks in Economics series, please see our home page on http://www.elsevier....

  • Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics

    Regional Economics
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 1
    • P. Nijkamp
    • English
    This first volume of the Handbook serves as a definitive reference source and teaching supplement for the field of regional economics, and for related fields such as geography, transportation economics, regional science and physical planning. It provides an advanced state-of-the-art survey for professional teachers, researchers and advanced (post-) graduate students in these disciplines. In addition to a representative survey of past developments, it also points to new directions and trends within the field.For more information on the Handbooks in Economics series, please see our home page on http://www.elsevier....

  • Handbook of Labor Economics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 2
    • R. Layard + 1 more
    • English
    The Handbook brings together a systematic review of the research topics, empirical findings, and methods that comprise modern labor economics. It serves as an introduction to what has been done in this field, while at the same time indicating possible future trends which will be important in both spheres of public and private decision-making.Part 1 is concerned with the classic topics of labor supply and demand, the size and nature of the elasticities between the two, and their impact on the wage structure. This analysis touches on two fundamental questions: what are the sources of income inequality, and what are the disincentive effects of attempts to produce a more equal income distribution?The papers in Part II proceed from the common observation that the dissimilarity in worker skills and employer demands often tempers the outcomes that would be expected in frictionless labor markets. And the last section of the Handbook deals explicitly with the role of institutional structures (e.g. trade unions) that now form an important part of modern labor economics.

  • Attachment in Social Networks

    Contributions to the Bowlby-Ainsworth Attachment Theory
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 44
    • L.W.C. Tavecchio + 1 more
    • English
    The main objective of the research presented in this book is to broaden the scope of attachment theory by stressing the importance of a social network approach to the study of attachment.This approach forms the integrating theme of this volume, as is testified by various studies of attachment as it develops in an "extended" rearing context over and beyond the limits of the traditional mother-child dyad. In this connection attention is paid to the importance of sibling relationships, attachment relationships with professional caregivers, the role of the father in caring and rearing young children, and the (short-term and long-term) effects on attachment quality of maternal employment in infancy. Also, the cross-cultural validity of Ainsworth's Strange Situation is discussed, with reference to the USA, Sweden, Israel, Japan, The Netherlands, etc. In adopting a social network approach, the attachment theory proves to be a particularly useful instrument for reflecting on the consequence of social change (maternal employment, symmetrical families, socialisation of childrearing) for child development.

  • Accounting Control and Organisational Behaviour

    • 1st Edition
    • David Otley
    • English
    This book goes beyond the material usually included in traditional management accounting texts and provides both managers and management accountants with a simple guide to the major issues involved in developing and using accounting systems for management control. Attention is focused particularly on budgetary control systems because these form the basis for management control in most organisation of any size.

  • Discontinuous Constituency

    Syntax and Semantics
    • 1st Edition
    • Geoffrey J. Huck + 1 more
    • English
    Syntax and Semantics: Discontinuous Constituency is a collection of papers that discusses the role of discontinuous constituency in grammar. One paper proposes a program which combines the key ideas of the categorial theory of grammatical relations with a phrase structure view of syntax. The program provides a direct account of English verb-participle constructions, of extraposed relatives, and of the peculiar distribution of particles in English. Another paper shows that, given certain plausible assumptions about the type of grammar which children are predisposed to acquire, exposure to free word order triggers the postulation of discontinuous constituents. The paper also cites evidence involving the interpretation of reflexive pronouns and quantifiers in Korean grammar that make use of such discontinuous constituents. One paper tackles some issues surrounding the treatment of discontinuity and multidominance in the Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG) framework. The task is accomplished through a "phrase marker," a discontinuity and multidominance as ingredients of linguistic description, and a GPSG framework extension. Another paper analyzes extraposition and variations in surface order among syntactic constituents in English. The collection can prove valuable for linguists, students, and academician involved with semantics, syntax, and the philosophy of language.

  • The Adaptive Brain II

    Vision, Speech, Language, and Motor Control
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 43
    • English

  • Taxation

    Made Simple
    • 3rd Edition
    • Henry Toch
    • English

  • The Adaptive Brain I

    Cognition, Learning, Reinforcement, and Rhythm
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 42
    • English

  • Basic Business Systems Simulation

    Butterworths Basic Series
    • 1st Edition
    • Peter Stratfold
    • English

  • The Alarm Book

    A Guide to Burglar and Fire Alarms
    • 1st Edition
    • Dan McTague + 1 more
    • English

  • Psychology's Compositional Problem

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 41
    • K. Hillner
    • English
    The primary purpose of this book is to document the pervasive ramifications of the compositional problem (the discipline's historical inability to define or give a technical specification to psychological phenomena) for the conduction of academic, experimental psychology at five levels of analysis: methodological, epiphenomenal, explanatory, metaphysical, and normative.

  • Sedad Eldem

    Architect in Turkey
    • 1st Edition
    • Sibel BozdoÄŸan + 2 more
    • Hasan-Uddin Khan
    • English

  • Restaurants Clubs & Bars

    Planning, Design and Investment
    • 1st Edition
    • Fred Lawson
    • English

  • Reading in Nonmonotonic Reasoning

    • 1st Edition
    • Matthew L. Ginsberg
    • English

  • Charles Correa

    Architect in India
    • 1st Edition
    • Hasan-Uddin Khan
    • English

  • Current Issues in Theoretical Psychology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 40
    • W.J. Baker + 3 more
    • English

  • The Roots of Perception

    Individual Differences in Information Processing Within and Beyond Awareness
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 38
    • U. Hentschel + 2 more
    • English
    The subject matter of this book is subliminal perception and microgenetic perceptual processing, two important topics on the interface between perception and personality. It presents a different way of handling these topics, biological in its emphasis on process, humanistic in its focussing on the dynamics of individual experience. The reader will not only find new theoretical perspectives but a host of new, efficient and penetrating methods for analyzing problems of personality and psychopathology. The book is filled with empirical data supporting its theoretical and methodological claims.Main Features: - New perspectives on information processing in relation to personality. - New methods applicable in many fields, such as clinical psychology, developmental and personality psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, education (creativity), etc. - Constructive analysis and critical review of the fields of subliminal perception and microgenesis.

  • Psychology of Learning and Motivation

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 20
    • English

  • The Enzymes

    • 3rd Edition
    • Volume 17
    • English

  • Human Movement Understanding

    From Computational Geometry to Artificial Intelligence
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 33
    • P. Morasso + 1 more
    • English
    The volume applies to the study of the motor system the computational approach developed by David Marr for the visual system. Accordingly, understanding movement is viewed as an information processing problem, centred on the representation of appropriate computational structures. In particular, the book deals with the representation of objects, concurrent parallel processes, trajectory formation patterns and patterns of interaction with the environment.A number of modeling techniques are discussed, ranging from computational geometry to artificial intelligence, integrating very different aspects of movement, especially those which are not directly motoric.

  • Communication and Handicap

    Aspects of Psychological Compensation and Technical Aids
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 34
    • E. Hjelmquist + 1 more
    • English
    Theory and data on various aspects of cognition, communication and handicap are presented here, related to two sorts of psychological compensation. On the one hand, basic principles of cognition are employed with the purpose of helping to overcome communicative difficulties among handicapped people, and on the other, various sorts of technical aids used for compensatory purposes are examined. Many of the papers presented here stem from a conference held in Stockholm in 1985, sponsored by the Swedish Council for the Planning and Coordination of Research, as part of a large-scale project on handicaps. Although researchers in psychology were in the majority, students of other disciplines also took part.

  • Graphonomics

    Contemporary Research in Handwriting
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 37
    • H.S.R. Kao + 2 more
    • English
    Graphonomics is the newly created term for the science of handwriting and other graphic skills.The Second International Conference on the Neural and Motor Aspects of Handwriting attracted contributions from experimental psychologists, neuropsychologists, neurologists, linguists, biophysicists, and computer scientists from 12 countries.This volume, the proceedings of the conference, features clinical studies of the neural basis of agraphia and dysgraphia from brain-damaged patients. The motor aspects of handwriting are further extended to new areas of interests. Research on handwriting in the English, Chinese and Japanese languages forms the first attempt in the field to investigate handwriting from the psycholinguistic perspective of different languages.

  • Motor Skill Acquisition of the Mentally Handicapped

    Issues in Research and Training
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 31
    • M.G. Wade
    • English
    Based upon a conference held in Bethesda in 1985, this volume brings together the research and theoretical perspectives of experts in the developmental aspects of motor control, coordination, and skill in the mentally handicapped. This is accomplished within the context of cognition. Section I deals with the dynamics of controlling movement skill and the nature of the variables that mediate the learning of motor skills. Sections II and III examine the traditional area of research in motor behavior, i.e., the speed of information processing and reaction time paradigms. The last section discusses the issue of training to minimize the effects of mental retardation on motor behavior.

  • Theory Building in Developmental Psychology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 36
    • P. van Geert
    • English
    Discussing (from various viewpoints) problems in theory building and theory evaluation, this book starts from the assumption that theories of development are particular ways of defining the concept of psychological development in terms of a specific conceptual framework, as well as in terms of a specific empirical range (nature of the explained phenomena, prototypical experiments and applications, etc.).The first three parts deal with basic problems in modern developmental psychology, namely ways of describing development and how they direct theory formation; causes and conditions of development in relation with learning and the problem of precursors; and the individual and the socio-cultural dimension in theory building. The fourth part demonstrates three different forms of theory building, while the final part deals with an old philosophical problem in developmental psychology, the rationalism-empirici... controversy.

  • Handbook of Econometrics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 3
    • Michael D. Intriligator + 1 more
    • English
    The Handbook is a definitive reference source and teaching aid for econometricians. It examines models, estimation theory, data analysis and field applications in econometrics. Comprehensive surveys, written by experts, discuss recent developments at a level suitable for professional use by economists, econometricians, statisticians, and in advanced graduate econometrics courses.

  • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 19
    • English

  • Handbook of Mathematical Economics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 3
    • English
    The Handbook of Mathematical Economics aims to provide a definitive source, reference, and teaching supplement for the field of mathematical economics. It surveys, as of the late 1970's the state of the art of mathematical economics. This is a constantly developing field and all authors were invited to review and to appraise the current status and recent developments in their presentations. In addition to its use as a reference, it is intended that this Handbook will assist researchers and students working in one branch of mathematical economics to become acquainted with other branches of this field. Volume I deals with Mathematical Methods in Economics, including reviews of the concepts and techniques that have been most useful for the mathematical development of economic theory. Volume II elaborates on Mathematical Approaches to Microeconomic Theory, including consumer, producer, oligopoly, and duality theory, as well as Mathematical Approaches to Competitive Equilibrium including such aspects of competitive equilibrium as existence, stability, uncertainty, the computation of equilibrium prices, and the core of an economy.

  • Advances in the Study of Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 16
    • English

  • Research in Organizational Behavior

    • 3rd Edition
    • Volume 8
    • Barry Staw
    • English

  • The Care and Conservation of Georgian Houses

    A Maintenance Manual for Edinburgh New Town
    • 3rd Edition
    • Andy Davey + 2 more
    • English

  • Readings in Natural Language Processing

    • 1st Edition
    • Barbara J. Grosz + 2 more
    • English

  • More Kinks & Hints

    • 1st Edition
    • John Sanger
    • English

  • Working Drawings Handbook

    • 2nd Edition
    • Keith Styles
    • English

  • Geoffrey Bawa

    Architect in Sri Lanka
    • 1st Edition
    • Brian Brace Taylor + 1 more
    • Hasan-Uddin Khan
    • English

  • Understanding Crime Prevention

    National Crime Prevention Institute
    • 1st Edition
    • National Crime Prevention Institute
    • English

  • Taxation

    Made Simple
    • 2nd Edition
    • Henry Toch
    • English

  • Organizational Communication

    A Managerial Perspective
    • 1st Edition
    • Jane Whitney Gibson + 1 more
    • English

  • The Autoimmune Diseases

    • 1st Edition
    • Bozzano G Luisa
    • English

  • REPLACEMENT TAPE For Music Cogntion

    • 1st Edition
    • W. Jay Dowling
    • English

  • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 19
    • English

  • Inferences in Text Processing

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 29
    • H. Strohl-Goebel + 1 more
    • English
    This volume critically evaluates the present state of research in the domain of inferences in text processing and indicates new areas of research.The book is structured around the following theoretical aspects: - The representational aspect is concerned with the cognitive structure produced by the processed text, e.g. the social, spatial, and motor characteristics of world knowledge. - The procedural aspect investigates the time relationships on forming inferences, e.g. the point of time at which referential relations are constructed. - The contextual aspect reflects the dependence of inferences on the communicative embedding of text processing, e.g. on factors of modality and instruction.

  • Psychology of Learning and Motivation

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 19
    • English

  • Handbook of Natural Resource and Energy Economics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 1
    • A.V. Kneese + 1 more
    • English
    The three volumes comprising the Handbook of Natural Resource and Energy Economics examine the current theory, and sample current application methods for natural resource and energy economics. Volumes 1 & 2 deal with the economics of environmental and renewable resources, and are divided into six parts. The first deals with basic concepts, and subsequent sections are concerned with ethics and environmental topics. Volume 3 deals primarily with non-renewable resources. It analyzes the economics of energy and minerals and includes chapters on the economics of environmental policy.For more information on the Handbooks in Economics series, please see our home page on http://www.elsevier....

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