This study is the first comprehensive assessment of warfare in Angola to cover all three phases of the nation's modern history: the anti-colonial struggle, the Cold War phase, and the post-Cold War era. It also covers, in detail, the final phase of warfare in Angola, culminating in Jonas Savimbi's death and the signing of the Luena Accord

This is the first book entirely dedicated to Intravital Microscopy. It provides the reader with a broad overview of the main applications of Intravital Microscopy in various areas of the biomedical field. The book contains accurate descriptions of the state of the art methodologies used to image various organs at different level of resolution, ranging from whole tissue down to sub-cellular structures. Moreover, it is an extremely valuable guide to scientists that want to adopt this powerful technique and do not have experience with animal models and microscopy.

With the erosion of the economic boundaries that once defined the American middle class, the United States seems nearer to becoming an economically dichotomous society of rich and poor. While this alarming economic trend has spurred much discussion in the political and economic arenas, the working poor--individuals whose incomes are insufficient to support either themselves or their families--have been overlooked in the current debates about poverty in America. As their numbers continue to swell, however, America's working poor can no longer be ignored. In this wide-ranging volume five economists, three sociologists, an ethicist, and an urban ethnographer examine the changing size, composition, and location of the working poor in the United States. Kathleen Maas Weigert sets the stage by providing a definitional context and overview of the problem. Elijah Anderson then puts a human face on some hard statistics by analyzing the shifting role of the heroic grandmother in the African-American community. Employing a unique data source based on the 1980 and 1990 censuses, John D. Kasarda answers the questions of who and where the working poor are and how their numbers have changed since 1980. Rebecca M. Blank and Rebecca A. London take an in-depth look at the working poor population as it has evolved over the past 15 years and offer a comprehensive examination of the policy options designed to address its shifting needs. Sheldon Danziger and Peter Gottschalk effectively debunk the myth that "anyone who works hard can get ahead in America" by arguing that uneven tides in the economic mainstream leave an increasing number of willing workers behind. Sandra L. Hofferth raises the important issue of child care for the working poor. James P. Sterba argues that the working poor have a right to welfare assistance, and finally, Thomas R. Swartz brings the topic into the current political arena by speculating about the consequences of the various welfare reform proposals that are currently making their way through Congress.

This study examines a political-military tradition in sub-Saharan Africa which has survived colonialism as well as the Cold War. Five modern African insurgencies are evaluated: Madagascar 1947, Kenya (Mau Mau) 1952-63, Cameroon (UPC) 1955-70, Congo/Zaire (Kwilu) 1964-8 and Mozambique (RENAMO) 1977-92. These case-studies demonstrate a persistent link between traditional African religion and contemporary nationalist movements whose political as well as military significance has frequently been underestimated and often misunderstood.

In electronics manufacture, the expanding range of products and the smaller-and-smaller scale of increasingly integrated components is producing a trend towards complex and fault-susceptible processes. This fact, coupled with shorter production times and the importance of quality assurance necessitates that process technology be more adaptable and open to new procedures than ever before.

Electronics Process Technology is a systemised presentation of new techniques and methods in electronics manufacture. Planning, preparation and execution are interlinked to achieve robust manufacturing processes that realise optimum quality, costs and quantities in the final product.

Topics covered include:

• modelling of manufacturing processes;
• graph-theoretical approach to manufacturing planning;
• process simulation and optimisation including cost optimisation;
• quality assurance and statistical process analysis and control;
• reliability models for electronic products and
• assembly accuracy.

The authors co-ordinate these disparate subjects into a coherent whole that will be of great interest both to manufacturing engineers working in electronics production and to academics studying the manufacturing process. The book will also be a valuable reference for students of electronics manufacturing technology.

This long-awaited "second edition" of the classical textbook on "Stellar Structure and Evolution" by Kippenhahn and Weigert is a thoroughly revised version of the original text. Taking into account modern observational constraints as well as additional physical effects such as mass loss and diffusion, Achim Weiss and Rudolf Kippenhahn have succeeded in bringing the book up to the state-of-the-art with respect to both the presentation of stellar physics and the presentation and interpretation of current sophisticated stellar models. The well-received and proven pedagogical approach of the first edition has been retained.
The book provides a comprehensive treatment of the physics of the stellar interior and the underlying fundamental processes and parameters. The models developed to explain the stability, dynamics and evolution of the stars are presented and great care is taken to detail the various stages in a star's life. Just as the first edition, which remained a standard work for more than 20 years after its first publication, the second edition will be of lasting value not only for students but also for active researchers in astronomy and astrophysics.

Since the 1940s, there has been an explosion of writings, both scientific and nonscientific, about the question of 'identity' and what it means to be an individual in today's world. This book examines sociological perspectives on identity in order to illuminate the perennial problem of defining the human person, and to pose an alternative definition of identity based on it being socially constructed. Beginning with a review of previous studies of identity, the authors present a set of propositions for organizing the wide range of uses of the term, and for arriving at an adequate definition of it. Identity is then analysed in two contexts: gender identity, linked to present bodies; and prenatal and postmortem identities, linked to future and past bodies. Whereas gender identity reveals the powerful but breakable link between body type and identity, prenatal and postmortem identities illustrate the symbolic reality and partial independence of identity from any corporeal existence. This is an innovative and insightful study which will appeal to all those concerned with understanding the nature of human identity.

Michael Potter, Fritz Melchers, Martin Weigert The second workshop on Mechanisms of B Cell Neoplasia was held in Bethesda, Maryland in Wilson Hall at the National Institutes of Health on March 5, 6, and 7, 1984. It followed a workshop on the same topic that was held at the Basel Institute for Immunology, March 15-17, 1983. That first meeting attempted to bring together cell biologists, experimental pathologists and molecular geneti- cists interested in B cells, to discuss pathogenetic processes in the development and maintenance of the neoplastic state. The impetus for this discussion emanated from two important developments: first, the discovery of the viral promoter insertion mechanism for acti- vating the myc oncogene in bursal lymphomatosis by Hayward, Neil, and Astrin;-second, the findings that the non-random chromosomal trans locations involving the immunoglobulin gene chromosomes occur- red in very high frequencies in murine plasmacytomas and human Burkitt's lymphomas. During the planning stages of that meeting Shen-Ong et al. discovered that non-random translocations activated the myc oncogene. Promoter insertions and non-random trans locations were-rwo mechanisms that caused transcription of the myc oncogene messages in three different kinds of well defined experimental and clinical B cell tumors. Unregulated myc gene transcription provided the first evidence of a specific bioChemical lesion in B cell neo- plasia.

This book provides a systemized presentation of new techniques and methods in electronics manufacture. It helps the reader reduce the cost and increase the reliability of electronic products by employing up-to-date technology. It also details the latest ideas for reducing the scale of electronic components and products to the nano-scale by organizing all the elements of the complicated modern electronics manufacturing process showing how they affect each other.

Another Disney animated adventure for Tinker Bell and her fairy friends. When Tinker Bell (voiced by Mae Whitman) ventures with her friends into the mysterious Winter Woods, she meets the frost fairy Periwinkle (Lucy Hale), and discovers the magical Secret of the Fairy Wings. The film also features the voice talents of Anjelica Huston, Timothy Dalton and Lucy Liu.

A complete and comprehensive treatment of the physics of the stellar interior and the underlying fundamental processes and parameters. The text presents an overview of the models developed to explain the stability, dynamics and evolution of the stars, and great care is taken to detail the various stages in a star's life. The authors have succeeded in producing a unique text based on their own pioneering work in stellar modeling.
Since its publication, this textbook has come to be considered a classic by both readers and teachers in astrophysics. This study edition is intended for students in astronomy and physics alike.

Aus dem Inhalt: Was ist Operations Research? Uberblick uber die Modellierungsgrundsatze des Operations Research. Einfuhrung in die lineare Programmierung. Die Losung linearer Programmierungsprobleme: Das Simplexverfahren. Stochastische Prozesse. Warteschlangentheorie. Lagerhaltungstheorie. Prognoseverfahren. Markov-Entscheidungsprozesse. Reliabilitat. Entscheidungstheorie. Die Theorie des Simplexverfahrens Qualitatstheorie und Sensitivitatsanalyse Spezialfalle linearer Programmierungsprobleme. Die Formulierung linearer Programmierungsmodelle und Goal-Programmierung. Weitere Algorithmen der linearen Programmierung. Netzwerkanalyse einschliesslich PERT-CPM. Dynamische Optimierung. Spieltheorie. Ganzzahlige Programmierung. Nichtlineare Programmierung Simulation. Anhang. Losungen fur ausgewahlte Ubungsaufgaben."

All 13 episodes from the first season of the action adventure show starring Krysten Ritter as the Marvel Comics character Jessica Jones. After her short career as a superhero ends in tragedy, Jessica attempts to rebuild her life by becoming a private detective based in Hell's Kitchen, New York. When an investigation leads her to discover that mind controlling sociopath Kilgrave (David Tennant) has resurfaced, Jessica resolves to use her unique abilities to protect the city from this deadly threat. The episodes are: 'AKA Ladies Night', 'AKA Crush Syndrome', 'AKA It's Called Whiskey', 'AKA 99 Friends', 'AKA The Sandwich Saved Me', 'AKA You're a Winner!', 'AKA Top Shelf Perverts', 'AKA WWJD?', 'AKA Sin Bin', 'AKA 1,000 Cuts', 'AKA I've Got the Blues', 'AKA Take a Bloody Number' and 'AKA Smile'.

Das Lexikon vermittelt zuverlassig und aktuell Orientierung uber Erscheinungen und Vorgange im Bereich der Lebensversicherung, die in Zeiten der privaten Vorsorge fur alle Burger an Bedeutung gewonnen hat. Kriterium fur die Auswahl der Stichworte ist das aktuelle Standardwissen in der Versicherungswirtschaft. Uber wichtige Gebiete informieren Stichwortaufsatze, die von namhaften Experten verfasst worden sind."

Nicht allein fur Experten des Bank- und Versicherungswesens wurde dieses Lexikon unter der Federfuhrung des bekannten Autors erarbeitet: Es bietet jedermann zuverlassige Informationen auf diesem sich rasch entwickelnden Gebiet. In der Neuauflage durch vollige Neubearbeitung noch geschliffener und praziser."

Wer bereits im Internet "surft" oder dies plant, kommt an diesem ubersichtlichen, kompetenten und gut verstandlichen Nachschlagewerk uber die Internet-Begriffswelt bis hin zum Internet-Slang nicht vorbei."

This study is the first comprehensive assessment of warfare in Angola to cover all three phases of the nation's modern history: the anti-colonial struggle, the Cold War phase, and the post-Cold War era. It also covers, in detail, the final phase of warfare in Angola, culminating in Jonas Savimbi's death and the signing of the Luena Accord

Mit mehr als 5700 Stichworten prasentiert dieses Lexikon den aktuellen Wissensstand im Multimediabereich sowie weiterfuhrende Web-Adressen. Fur die in diesem Feld Tatigen und Interessierten unverzichtbar."

Aktuelles Nachschlagewerk zum Geschehen auf nationalen und internationalen Kapital- und Finanzmarkten nicht nur fur Wirtschaftsstudenten, sondern insbesondere fur Banker, Anleger und solche, die es werden wollen."

Dieses Lexikon gibt in annahernd 2000 Stichworten einen aktuellen Uberblick uber die Fachterminologie der Presse- und Offentlichkeitsarbeit. Es bietet aktuelle, knappe und verstandliche Definitionen und Informationen - "facts to use." Literaturverweise am Ende der Hauptstichworter erschliessen weiterfuhrende Literatur. Das Lexikon richtet sich an PR-Praktiker, Journalisten, Studierende und Lehrende an Einrichtungen der Aus- und Weiterbildung im Bereich der Presse- und Offentlichkeitsarbeit, Werbe- und Marketingfachkrafte sowie interessierte Laien."

All 36 episodes from HBO's critically-acclaimed, controversial western series, starring Timothy Olyphant and Ian McShane, set in the violent and corrupt South Dakota town of Deadwood in the days after Custer's defeat at the Little Big Horn.

The year: 1876. The location: The Black Hills of South Dakota. Witness the birth of an American frontier town - and the ruthless power struggle between its just and unjust pioneers.

In an age of plunder and greed, the richest gold strike in American history draws a mob of restless misfits to an outlaw settlement where everything - and everyone - has a price. The settlers, ranging from an ex-lawman to a scheming saloon owner to the legendary Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane, share a constant restlessness of spirit, and survive by any means necessary.

Welcome to Deadwood... a hell of a place to make your fortune.

Dieses Lexikon informiert knapp, ubersichtlich und mit weiterfuhrenden Literaturhinweisen uber zentrale Themen des Nachhaltigen Wirtschaftens. Es ist als alltagliche Arbeitshilfe fur Wissenschaftler, Studenten und Praktiker aus Unternehmen und Politik Konzipiert. Grundgerust stellen hierbei die Hauptstichworte dar, die von namhaften Vertretern aus Wissenschaft und Praxis verfasst wurden."