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Books in Social sciences and humanities

  • The Enzymes

    • 3rd Edition
    • Volume 3
    • English

  • Advances in the Study of Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 3
    • English

  • Computational Methods in Optimization

    A Unified Approach
    • 1st Edition
    • E. Polak
    • English

  • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 5
    • English

  • The Enzymes

    • 3rd Edition
    • Volume 1
    • English

  • Progress in Physiological Psychology

    Volume 4
    • 1st Edition
    • Eliot Stellar + 1 more
    • English

  • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 5
    • English

  • The Enzymes

    • 3rd Edition
    • Volume 2
    • English

  • Advances in Food Research

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 18
    • English

  • Psychology of Learning and Motivation

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 4
    • English

  • Psychology of Learning and Motivation

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 3
    • English

  • From Project to Production

    The Commonwealth and International Library: Social Administration, Training Economics, and Production Division
    • 1st Edition
    • A. M. Brichta + 1 more
    • R Brown + 2 more
    • English
    From Project to Production discusses the plans and development of an engineering project in any industry which yields or uses engineering plant of any kind. The book defines the concept behind project engineering and it also describes the administrative procedure involved in the completion of a project. It provides guidelines in order to effectively evaluate and monitor the progress of a project. The text demonstrates the important role of an industrial designer. Topics such as machine element analysis and synthesis, circuit calculations, design and drafting are explained in detail. Types of method of scheduling such as the C.P.M (critical path method), M.O.S.T (management operation system), R.A.M.P.S (resource allocation and multi-project scheduling), and P.E.R.T (programme evaluation and review technique) are discussed and analyzed. A section of the book describes the characteristics of a good engineering design. It also provides some design techniques. The book will provide useful information to design engineer, draftsman, and students of engineering.

  • Progress in Physiological Psychology

    Volume 3
    • 1st Edition
    • Eliot Stellar + 1 more
    • English
    Progress in Physiological Psychology, Volume 3 reviews major advances in the field of physiological psychology and includes neurological and physiological treatments of sleep, information storage, and hibernation. The mechanisms underlying sensorimotor integration during sleep are highlighted, along with central nervous control over the physiological regulation of hibernation. This volume is comprised of four chapters and begins with a discussion on changes in sensory and motor physiology that occur during sleep, with emphasis on postural reflexes and motor activity as well as transmission of somatic sensory volleys through spinal reflex pathways. It then looks at the role of neuronal membranes in the storage of information in the central nervous system, along with hibernation and its relationship to neurological mechanisms involved in temperature regulation and motivation. The final chapter focuses on the effects of removing striate cortex on residual vision in monkeys. This monograph will be of interest to neurophysiologists and psychologists.

  • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 4
    • English

  • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 4
    • English

  • Advances in the Study of Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 2
    • English

  • Algebraic Theory of Machines, Languages, and Semigroups

    • 1st Edition
    • Michael A. Arbib
    • English

  • Psychology of Learning and Motivation

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 2
    • English

  • Progress in Physiological Psychology

    Volume 2
    • 1st Edition
    • Eliot Stellar + 1 more
    • English
    Progress in Physiological Psychology, Volume 2 is a five-chapter text that covers the advances both in experimental and theoretical studies on physiological psychology. Chapter 1 deals with the application of recording of cortical steady potentials (DC potentials) to problems of motivation and learning, reflecting electrical changes correlated with these aspects of behavior and suggesting that steady potential shift may be a neurophysiological manifestation of Hull's behavioral concept of reaction potential. Chapter 2 provides an overview of the neurological mechanisms at work in learning and memory, especially the electrophysiological and neurochemical processes. Chapter 3 considers first the general properties of populations and communities of plants and animals, followed by a discussion on the influence of population pressures on various stages of reproductive function. This chapter also surveys the various theories concerned with the integration of mechanisms that regulate population growth and the natural selection of these mechanisms. Chapter 4 discusses the social interactions and population pressures, which act through the neuroendocrine systems to produce the degenerative changes that characterize arteriosclerosis, pancreatitis, cancer, and other diseases so prominent in civilized man. Chapter 5 describes the maternal and mating behavior showing the important role of limbic structures in positive as well as in negative motivated behavior. This book is directed toward neurophysiologists, psychologists, and researchers.

  • Advances in Food Research

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 15
    • English

  • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 3
    • English

  • Psychology of Learning and Motivation

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 1
    • English

  • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 3
    • English

  • Progress in Physiological Psychology

    Volume 1
    • 1st Edition
    • Eliot Stellar + 1 more
    • English
    Progress in Physiological Psychology, Volume 1 is a six-chapter text that covers the advances both in experimental and theoretical studies on physiological psychology. Chapter 1 provides the electrophysiological techniques to bear on classic problems of learning and performance in learning situations, while Chapter 2 describes the association between consciousness and attention. Chapter 3 considers the relations between functional demands and the development and maintenance of neural systems. This chapter also examines the effects upon microstructure and the various measures of neurochemical, neurophysiological, and behavioral growth. Chapter 4 presents certain dimensions of behavioral analysis, particularly in the continuing studies of self-stimulation and reward and punishment systems within the brain. Chapters 5 and 6 survey the mechanisms underlying motivation and emotional behavior. This book is of great value to neurophysiologists and psychologists.

  • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 2
    • English

  • Dynamic Programming and Modern Control Theory

    • 1st Edition
    • Richard Bellman + 1 more
    • English

  • Advances in the Study of Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 1
    • English

  • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 2
    • English

  • Advances in Food Research

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 12
    • English

  • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 1
    • English

  • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 1
    • English

  • Applications of Harmonic Analysis

    • 1st Edition
    • I. M. Gel'Fand + 1 more
    • English

  • Venture Capital and Private Equity Contracting

    An International Perspective
    • 2nd Edition
    • Douglas J. Cumming + 1 more
    • English
    Other books present corporate finance approaches to the venture capital and private equity industry, but many key decisions require an understanding of the ways that law and economics work together. This revised and updated 2e offers broad perspectives and principles not found in other course books, enabling readers to deduce the economic implications of specific contract terms. This approach avoids the common pitfalls of implying that contractual terms apply equally to firms in any industry anywhere in the world. In the 2e, datasets from over 40 countries are used to analyze and consider limited partnership contracts, compensation agreements, and differences in the structure of limited partnership venture capital funds, corporate venture capital funds, and government venture capital funds. There is also an in-depth study of contracts between different types of venture capital funds and entrepreneurial firms, including security design, and detailed cash flow, control and veto rights. The implications of such contracts for value-added effort and for performance are examined with reference to data from an international perspective. With seven new or completely revised chapters covering a range of topics from Fund Size and Diseconomies of Scale to Fundraising and Regulation, this new edition will be essential for financial and legal students and researchers considering international venture capital and private equity.

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