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The Total Car Care series continues to lead all other
do-it-yourself automotive repair manuals. This series offers
do-it-yourselfers of all levels TOTAL maintenance, service and
repair information in an easy-to-use format. Covers all
Chevrolet/GMC 1/2, 3/4, and 1 ton pick-ups and Suburbans, Blazer
and Jimmy; 2 and 4 wheel drive, gasoline and diesel.: Based on
actual teardowns: Simple step-by-step procedures for engine
overhaul, chassis electrical drive train, suspension, steering and
more: Trouble codes: Electronic engine controls
This book focuses on design in the domain of human-computer
interaction. Including a broad sampling of case studies as well as
narrower theoretical or empirical studies, it includes
consideration of educational uses of design rationale, methods for
teaching it in industry, and applications to a variety of software
and user interface/application domains. The volume promises to be
the largest collection of work on design rationale ever assembled,
and thereby to energize the considerable, widespread interest in
this topic. It will also act as a focus for the existing but
scattered work in this domain.
This book focuses on design in the domain of human-computer
interaction. Including a broad sampling of case studies as well as
narrower theoretical or empirical studies, it includes
consideration of educational uses of design rationale, methods for
teaching it in industry, and applications to a variety of software
and user interface/application domains. The volume promises to be
the largest collection of work on design rationale ever assembled,
and thereby to energize the considerable, widespread interest in
this topic. It will also act as a focus for the existing but
scattered work in this domain.
The Occupy Central/Umbrella Movement of 2014 and the
anti-extradition protests of 2019 revealed how much Hong Kong's
relationship with mainland China has deteriorated since the former
British colony returned to Chinese sovereignty in July 1997. With
mutual distrust and suspicion at an all-time high, many Hong Kong
people have become increasingly hostile toward the Chinese
government and the mainland in general, identifying themselves as
Hongkongers rather than as Chinese. Yet, as John Carroll shows, for
more than 150 years, colonial Hong Kong and China not only
coexisted with but benefited each other, even during the
anti-imperialist campaigns of the Republican and Communist eras.
The porous boundary between Hong Kong and China enabled the two to
use each other economically, politically, socially, and culturally.
The Hong Kong-China nexus, although firmly embedded in global
dynamics of colonialism, Cold War politics, and capitalist
expansion, defies many common assumptions about nationalism,
colonialism, and decolonization.
Today, "community" seems to be everywhere. At home, at work, and
online, the vague but comforting idea of the community pervades
every area of life. But have we lost the ability truly to
understand what it means? The Neighborhood in the Internet
investigates social and civic effects of community networks on
local community, and how community network designs are appropriated
and extended by community members. Carroll uses his conceptual
model of "community" to re-examine the Blacksburg Electronic
Village - the first Web-based community network - applying it to
attempts to sustain and enrich contemporary communities through
information technology. The book provides an analysis of the role
of community in contemporary paradigms for work and other activity
mediated by the Internet. It brings to the fore a series of design
experiments investigating new approaches to community networking
and addresses the future trajectory and importance of community
networks. This book will be of interest to students of sociology,
community psychology, human-computer interaction, information
science, and computer-supported collaborative work.
Infants and children spend one- to two-thirds of their life asleep.
Despite this, very little attention has been paid to understanding
both normal sleep and sleep-related abnormalities during child
development. This volume is devoted to breathing during sleep, its
changes with development (from the fetus onwards), and the
pathophysiology of sleep-related breathing disorders. Sleep and
Breathing in Children: investigates breathing during sleep from the
fetus onwards examines the effects of sleep on upper airway
resistance, ventilatory drive, and respiratory muscle tone compares
differences between childhood and adult obstructive sleep apnea,
and the profound changes in breathing and sleep during growth and
maturation discusses the current research within the field of
pediatric sleep disorders reviews the history of childhood
obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, and outlines a future framework
for the study of childhood sleep-disordered breathing
Today, "community" seems to be everywhere. At home, at work, and
online, the vague but comforting idea of the community pervades
every area of life. But have we lost the ability truly to
understand what it means? The Neighborhood in the Internet
investigates social and civic effects of community networks on
local community, and how community network designs are appropriated
and extended by community members.
Carroll uses his conceptual model of "community" to re-examine
the Blacksburg Electronic Village - the first Web-based community
network - applying it to attempts to sustain and enrich
contemporary communities through information technology. The book
provides an analysis of the role of community in contemporary
paradigms for work and other activity mediated by the Internet. It
brings to the fore a series of design experiments investigating new
approaches to community networking and addresses the future
trajectory and importance of community networks.
This book will be of interest to students of sociology,
community psychology, human-computer interaction, information
science, and computer-supported collaborative work.
Spacetime and Geometry is an introductory textbook on general
relativity, specifically aimed at students. Using a lucid style,
Carroll first covers the foundations of the theory and mathematical
formalism, providing an approachable introduction to what can often
be an intimidating subject. Three major applications of general
relativity are then discussed: black holes, perturbation theory and
gravitational waves, and cosmology. Students will learn the origin
of how spacetime curves (the Einstein equation) and how matter
moves through it (the geodesic equation). They will learn what
black holes really are, how gravitational waves are generated and
detected, and the modern view of the expansion of the universe. A
brief introduction to quantum field theory in curved spacetime is
also included. A student familiar with this book will be ready to
tackle research-level problems in gravitational physics.
You don't need to be convinced. You know that usability is key to
the success of any interactive system-from commercial software to
B2B Web sites to handheld devices. But you need skills to make
usability part of your product development equation. How will you
assess your users' needs and preferences? How will you design
effective solutions that are grounded in users' current practices?
How will you evaluate and refine these designs to ensure a quality
product?
"Usability Engineering: Scenario-Based Development of
Human-Computer Interaction" is a radical departure from traditional
books that emphasize theory and address experts. This book focuses
on the realities of product development, showing how user
interaction scenarios can make usability practices an integral part
of interactive system development. As you'll learn, usability
engineering is not the application of inflexible rules; it's a
process of analysis, prototyping, and problem solving in which you
evaluate tradeoffs, make reasoned decisions, and maximize the
overall value of your product.
* Written by prominent HCI educators who understand how to teach
usability practices to students and professional developers.
* Interleaves HCI theory and concepts with a running case study
demonstrating their application.
* Gradually elaborates the case study to introduce increasingly
sophisticated usability engineering techniques.
* Analyzes usability issues in realistic scenarios that describe
existing or envisioned systems from the perspective of one or more
users.
* Emphasizes the real world of usability engineering-a world in
which tradeoffs must be weighed and difficult decisions made to
achieve desired results.
* Includes a companion Web site which provides additional case
studies in a multimedia format, along with a Java application for
creating and editing scenarios. This site also provides instructors
with sample syllabi, lecture slides and notes, in-class exercises,
solutions to textbook exercises, additional project ideas, and
links to other HCI resources.
The comprehensive and authoritative guide to clinical reproductive
science The field of clinical reproductive science continues to
evolve; this important resource offers the basics of reproductive
biology as well as the most recent advance in clinical embryology.
The author - a noted expert in the field - focuses on the
discipline and covers all aspects of this field. The text explores
causes of male and female infertility and includes information on
patient consultation and assessment, gamete retrieval and
preparation, embryo culture, embryo transfer and cryopreservation.
Comprehensive in scope, the text contains an introduction to the
field of clinical reproductive science and a review of assisted
reproductive technology. The author includes information on a wide
range of topics such as gonadal development, the regulation of
meiotic cell cycle, the biology of sperm and spermatogenesis, in
vitro culture, embryo transfer techniques, fundamentals of
fertilisation, oocyte activation and much more. This important
resource: Offers an accessible guide to the most current research
and techniques to the science of clinical reproduction Covers the
fundamental elements of reproductive science Includes information
on male and the female reproductive basics - everything from sexual
differentiation to foetal development and parturition Explores the
long-term health of children conceived through IVF Contains the
newest developments in assisted reproductive technology Clinical
Reproductive Science is a valuable reference written for
professionals in academia, research and clinical professionals
working in the field of reproductive science, clinical embryology
and reproductive medicine.
Examines how the Irish American community, the American public, and
the American government played a crucial role in the making of a
sovereign independent Ireland On Easter Day 1916, more than a
thousand Irishmen stormed Dublin city center, seizing the General
Post Office building and reading the Proclamation for an
independent Irish Republic. The British declared martial law
shortly afterward, and the rebellion was violently quashed by the
military. In a ten-day period after the event, fourteen leaders of
the uprising were executed by firing squad. In New York, news of
the uprising spread quickly among the substantial Irish American
population. Initially the media blamed German interference, but
eventually news of British-propagated atrocities came to light, and
Irish Americans were quick to respond. America and the Making of an
Independent Ireland centres on the diplomatic relationship between
Ireland and the United States at the time of Irish Independence and
World War I. Beginning with the Rising of 1916, Francis M. Carroll
chronicles how Irish Americans responded to the movement for Irish
independence and pressuring the US government to intervene on the
side of Ireland. Carroll's in-depth analysis demonstrates that
Irish Americans after World War I raised funds for the Dail Eireann
government and for war relief, while shaping public opinion in
favor of an independent nation. The book illustrates how the US
government was the first power to extend diplomatic recognition to
Ireland and welcome it into the international community. Overall,
Carroll argues that the existence of the state of Ireland is owed
to considerable effort and intervention by Irish Americans and the
American public at large.
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