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  • Research in Organizational Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 10
    • B. Staw
    • English
    Includes essays which span several levels of analysis, ranging from studies of individuals to groups to organizations and their environments. This series covers topics from individual emotion and cognition to social movements and networks. It provides contributions to research on organizations.

  • Cognitive Psychology and Reading in the USSR

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 49
    • J. Downing
    • English
    The ideas of Soviet specialists on the psychology and teaching of reading are here made available in English.The volume gives an overview of psychology and education in the U.S.S.R., and presents translations of the work of major Soviet authors, such as Elkonin and Luria. The contributions offer many valuable proposals for teaching literacy which are quite unique outside of the Soviet Union. A concluding chapter provides a commentary, tracing the links between these specialist contributions and the general cognitive theories of Vygotsky.The result of ten years of research, this book was completed by Professor Downing shortly before he passed away in June 1987.

  • Development Aid

    A Guide to National and International Agencies
    • 1st Edition
    • Eurofi (UK) Limited
    • English

  • Sales & Distribution Guide to Malaysia

    South East Asian Business Guides
    • 1st Edition
    • Tim Allen + 2 more
    • English

  • Thematic Relations

    • 1st Edition
    • Wendy Wilkins
    • English
    Syntax and Semantics, Volume 21: Thematic Relations provides information pertinent to thematic relations, which focus both on what sematic roles are expressible in the grammar and how these roles come to be associated with noun phrases. This book presents the interaction of components of the language faculty and other aspects of cognition. Organized into 13 chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the semantic relations involved in verb–argument structure. This text then examines the predicate-argument representations, which have come to figure prominently in all current generative theories of syntax. Other chapters consider the generalizations about thematic relations that are most insightfully captured at the level of syntax of at the level of semantics. This book discusses as well the importance of thematic roles to the grammar. The final chapter deals with the central role of thematic roles in language comprehension. This book is a valuable resource for linguists, syntacticians, and semanticists with an active involvement in research on natural language.

  • The Developing Adult

    • 2nd Edition
    • Lily C Gerdes + 2 more
    • English

  • Intrusion Detection Systems

    • 2nd Edition
    • Robert L. Barnard
    • English

  • Handbook of Public Economics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 2
    • M. Feldstein + 1 more
    • English
    This second volume of the Handbook of Public Economics is a continuation of volume one, with chapters surveying the literature on both the tax and expenditure areas of public economics.The material presents an up-to-date survey of the field of public economics by those actually doing work on the frontier of the subject, and is written in a manner that renders it useful to the public finance specialist, whilst remaining understandable for the student and non- specialist.For more information on the Handbooks of Economics series, please see our homepage on http://www.elsevier....

  • Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics

    Urban Economics
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 2
    • E.S. Mills
    • English
    This second volume of the Handbook presents professional surveys of all the important topics in urban economics. The first section contains 6 surveys on locational analysis, the second, 5 surveys of specific urban markets, and the third part presents 5 surveys of government policy issues.The book brings together exhaustive research by distinguished scholars from many countries. It is the only complete survey volume of urban economics and should serve as a reference volume to scholars and graduate students for many years.For more information on the Handbooks in Economics series, please see our home page on http://www.elsevier....

  • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 20
    • English

  • Human Factors Psychology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 47
    • P.A. Hancock
    • English
    This book is a collection of contemporary applications of psychological insights into practical human factors issues. The topics are arranged largely according to an information processing/energetic approach to human behavior. Consideration is also given to human-computer interaction and organizational design.

  • Tutorials in Motor Behavior I

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 1
    • George Stelmach + 1 more
    • English
    The contributors to this book are all distinguished, internationally-know... specialists working in the motor control and learning area. The result is a unique collection of papers that discuss many aspects of this intricate and diverse subject and at the same time manage to provide the reader with a good overview of the major topics.

  • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 20
    • English

  • Advances in the Study of Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 17
    • English

  • Intelligence: Its Structure, Growth and Action

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 35
    • R.B. Cattell
    • English
    With essentially the same basis as the 1971 Abilities, Their Structure, Growth and Action, this new volume reflects the developments of subsequent years.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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
    • 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 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The Adaptive Brain I

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

  • The Adaptive Brain II

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

  • 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

  • Taxation

    Made Simple
    • 3rd Edition
    • Henry Toch
    • English

  • The Alarm Book

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

  • Charles Correa

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

  • Basic Business Systems Simulation

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

  • Reading in Nonmonotonic Reasoning

    • 1st Edition
    • Matthew L. Ginsberg
    • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

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