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Not all yarns are alike and it happens far too often that we use
the wrong type of yarn for the wrong project - sometimes with
disasterous results. In these pages, Clara Parkes provides in-depth
insight into a vast selection of yarns, giving you the inside
stories behind the most common fibre types, preparations, spins and
ply combinations used by large-scale manufacturers and importers,
medium-sized companies, boutique dye shops, community spinneries
and old-fashioned sheep farms. And, because we learn best by doing,
Parkes went to some of the most creative and inquisitive design
minds of the knitting world to provide a wide assortment of
patterns created to highlight the qualities (and minimize the
drawbacks) of specific types of yarns. "The Knitter's Book of Yarn"
will teach you everything you need to know about yarn: How it's
made, who makes it, how it gets to you, and what it wants to
become. The next time you pick up a skein, you won't have to wonder
what to do with it, you'll know intuitively.
This book, first published in 1985, provides an overview of
resource management, together with a geographical treatment of
physical, landscape and social resources. Drawing on British,
European and North American material, the book has three main
objectives: to offer an integrated review of the rural resource
system, to isolate potential and actual conflicts between resources
in the countryside with the aid of detailed case studies, and to
explore various broad management techniques and their applicability
to differing types of resource use and resource conflict. This
title will provide important insight for students of geography,
resource management, environmental planning and conservation.
This title, first published in 1987, provides an authoritative
account of both the science and the politics of acid rain. Chris
Park places the debates surrounding acid rain in context, and
examines the full implications of scientific studies and the
effects of acid rain on surface waters, soils and buildings.
Evidence is drawn from around the world, including an examination
of the damage in Scandinavia and Germany and the effects of acid
rain in the U.K. and U.S.A. A comprehensive and relevant work, this
is an important guide for students of geography, environment and
sustainability and energy policy.
The importance of the effective management of the natural
environment has become vital over the past few decades. In
different countries, varying policies are implemented by
governments to manage the environment, both to foster growth and
reduce pollution and destruction. Employing a broad country-based
approach, this edited collection, first published in 1986, surveys
the growth, nature and effectiveness of the environmental
management policies implemented by governments around the world.
The overarching argument is that a coherent international approach
is needed to deal with the problems surrounding environmental
sustainability. This title will be of great value to students of
the natural environment, sustainability and resource management.
First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This title, first published in 1987, provides an authoritative
account of both the science and the politics of acid rain. Chris
Park places the debates surrounding acid rain in context, and
examines the full implications of scientific studies and the
effects of acid rain on surface waters, soils and buildings.
Evidence is drawn from around the world, including an examination
of the damage in Scandinavia and Germany and the effects of acid
rain in the U.K. and U.S.A. A comprehensive and relevant work, this
is an important guide for students of geography, environment and
sustainability and energy policy.
The importance of the effective management of the natural
environment has become vital over the past few decades. In
different countries, varying policies are implemented by
governments to manage the environment, both to foster growth and
reduce pollution and destruction. Employing a broad country-based
approach, this title, first published in 1986, surveys the growth,
nature and effectiveness of the environmental management policies
implemented by governments around the world. Park's overarching
argument is that a coherent international approach is needed to
deal with the problems surrounding environmental sustainability.
This title will be of great value to students of the natural
environment, sustainability and resource management.
This title suitable for knitters who want to understand the ins and
outs of sock knitting "from the yarn up" and create a perfect pair
of socks every time. Socks are a perennially hot topic in the
knitting world and in this, the third book of her popular "The
Knitter's Book of..." series, bestselling author Clara Parke's
shows knitters how to create the perfect pair of socks, with a
collection of 20 fresh, original patterns from today's sock-design
visionaries.
This book, first published in 1985, provides an overview of
resource management, together with a geographical treatment of
physical, landscape and social resources. Drawing on British,
European and North American material, the book has three main
objectives: to offer an integrated review of the rural resource
system, to isolate potential and actual conflicts between resources
in the countryside with the aid of detailed case studies, and to
explore various broad management techniques and their applicability
to differing types of resource use and resource conflict. This
title will provide important insight for students of geography,
resource management, environmental planning and conservation.
Advanced Engineering Economics, Second Edition, provides an
integrated framework for understanding and applying project
evaluation and selection concepts that are critical to making
informed individual, corporate, and public investment decisions.
Grounded in the foundational principles of economic analysis, this
well-regarded reference describes a comprehensive range of central
topics, from basic concepts such as accounting income and cash
flow, to more advanced techniques including deterministic capital
budgeting, risk simulation, and decision tree analysis. Fully
updated throughout, the second edition retains the structure of its
previous iteration, covering basic economic concepts and
techniques, deterministic and stochastic analysis, and special
topics in engineering economics analysis. New and expanded chapters
examine the use of transform techniques in cash flow modeling,
procedures for replacement analysis, the evaluation of public
investments, corporate taxation, utility theory, and more. Now
available as interactive eBook, this classic volume is essential
reading for both students and practitioners in fields including
engineering, business and economics, operations research, and
systems analysis.
Regulated turnover of extracellular matrix (ECM) is an important
component of tissue homeostasis. In recent years, the enzymes that
participate in, and control ECM turnover have been the focus of
research that touches on development, tissue remodeling,
inflammation and disease. This volume in the "Biology of
Extracellular Matrix" series provides a review of the known classes
of proteases that degrade ECM both outside and inside the cell. The
specific EMC proteases that are discussed include cathepsins,
bacterial collagenases, matrix metalloproteinases, meprins, serine
proteases, and elastases. The volume also discusses the domains
responsible for specific biochemical characteristics of the
proteases and the physical interactions that occur when the
protease interacts with substrate. The topics covered in this
volume provide an important context for understanding the role that
matrix-degrading proteases play in normal tissue remodeling and in
diseases such as cancer and lung disease.
After the first phase of industrialization in Britain, the child
emerged as both a victim of and a threat to capitalism. This book
explores the changing relationship between the child and capitalist
society in the works of some of the most important writers of
children's and young-adult texts in the Victorian and Edwardian
periods.
Regulated turnover of extracellular matrix (ECM) is an important
component of tissue homeostasis. In recent years, the enzymes that
participate in, and control ECM turnover have been the focus of
research that touches on development, tissue remodeling,
inflammation and disease. This volume in the Biology of
Extracellular Matrix series provides a review of the known classes
of proteases that degrade ECM both outside and inside the cell. The
specific EMC proteases that are discussed include cathepsins,
bacterial collagenases, matrix metalloproteinases, meprins, serine
proteases, and elastases. The volume also discusses the domains
responsible for specific biochemical characteristics of the
proteases and the physical interactions that occur when the
protease interacts with substrate. The topics covered in this
volume provide an important context for understanding the role that
matrix-degrading proteases play in normal tissue remodeling and in
diseases such as cancer and lung disease. The series Biology of
Extracellular Matrix is published in collaboration with the
American Society for Matrix Biology.
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Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce V - Designing Mechanisms and Systems, AAMAS 2003 Workshop, AMEC 2003, Melbourne, Australia, July 15. 2003, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 2004 ed.)
Peyman Faratin, David C. Parkes, Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar, William E. Walsh
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The design of intelligent trading agents, mechanisms, and systems
has received growingattentionin the
agentsandmultiagentsystemscommunities in ane?ort to address the
increasing costs of search, transaction, and coordination which
follows from the increasing number of Internet-enabled distributed
electronic markets. Furthermore, new technologies and supporting
business models are - sulting in a growing volume of open and
horizontally integrated markets for trading of an increasingly
diverse set of goods and services. However, growth of technologies
for such markets requires innovative solutions to a diverseset of -
isting and novel technical problems which we are only beginning to
understand. Speci?cally, distributed markets present not only
traditional economic problems but also introduce novel and
challenging computational issues that are not r- resentedin the
classiceconomicsolution concepts.Novelto agent-mediatedel- tronic
commerce are considerations involving the computation substrates of
the agents and the electronic institutions that supports, and
trading, and also the human-agent interface (involving issues of
preference elicitation, representation,
reasoningandtrust).Insum,agent-mediatedelectronictraderequiresprincipled
design(fromeconomicsandgametheory)andincorporatesnovelcombinationsof
theories from di? erent disciplines such as computer science,
operations research, arti?cial intelligence and distributed
systems. The collection of above-mentioned issues and challenges
has crystallized into a new, consolidated agent research ?eld that
has become a focus of attention in recent years: agent-mediated
electronic commerce.
This comprehensive and extensively classroom-tested biophysics
textbook is a complete introduction to the physical principles
underlying biological processes and their applications to the life
sciences and medicine. The foundations of natural processes are
placed on a firm footing before showing how their consequences can
be explored in a wide range of biosystems. The goal is to develop
the readers' intuition, understanding, and facility for creative
analysis that are frequently required to grapple with problems
involving complex living organisms. Topics cover all scales,
encompassing the application of statics, fluid dynamics, acoustics,
electromagnetism, light, radiation physics, thermodynamics,
statistical physics, quantum biophysics, and theories of
information, ordering, and evolutionary optimization to biological
processes and bio-relevant technological implementations. Sound
modeling principles are emphasized throughout, placing all the
concepts within a rigorous framework. With numerous worked examples
and exercises to test and enhance the reader's understanding, this
book can be used as a textbook for physics graduate students and as
a supplementary text for a range of premedical, biomedical, and
biophysics courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. It
will also be a useful reference for biologists, physicists, medical
researchers, and medical device engineers who want to work from
first principles.
The chapters in this book thoroughly cover the structure,
regulation, and function of matrix metalloproteinases, and provide
information on the latest strategies to inhibit enzyme activity.
This work will be an indispensable reference tool for investigators
with an interest in extracellular matrix biology, matrix turnover,
enzymology and biochemistry of proteinases, developmental biology,
pathology, and therapeutic interventions.
Key Features
* Provides state-of-the-art information on a field with broad
implications to many areas of biology
* Includes detailed coverage of the structure and regulation of all
major matrix metalloproteinases
* Chapters focus on a timely and expanding field
* Topics have direct relevance to understanding human disease
pathology of cancer, arthritis, and vascular disease
* Discusses latest strategies used in the development of new
therapeutics to inhibit metalloproteinase activity
The 13th edition, while retaining materials that have stood the
test of time, represents a major overhaul of the text, with
significant changes to every chapter. The changes are meant not
only to update the text but to give the entire book a fresh, new
feel. It is designed to give students a strong sense both that much
of the law of evidence reflects enduring principles and that it
continues to respond to contemporary situations and problems. This
edition retains what has made this book so distinctive for decades,
classic problems and materials, some of them from non-legal
sources. Teachers who have used prior editions will still find here
their favorites. But this edition replaces many old materials that
have a tired feel with new ones from the last few years. The new
edition adds three important new Supreme Court cases, one on the
right to confrontation and two on impeachment of jury verdicts, and
numerous significant and interesting cases from state courts and
lower federal courts. The authors have continued the practice of
choosing cases and other materials on the basis of teachability,
and the additions promise to be fun to teach. At the same time, the
authors have tightened up on the entire text, so that this edition
is significantly shorter than the last one.
This comprehensive and extensively classroom-tested biophysics
textbook is a complete introduction to the physical principles
underlying biological processes and their applications to the life
sciences and medicine. The foundations of natural processes are
placed on a firm footing before showing how their consequences can
be explored in a wide range of biosystems. The goal is to develop
the readers' intuition, understanding, and facility for creative
analysis that are frequently required to grapple with problems
involving complex living organisms. Topics cover all scales,
encompassing the application of statics, fluid dynamics, acoustics,
electromagnetism, light, radiation physics, thermodynamics,
statistical physics, quantum biophysics, and theories of
information, ordering, and evolutionary optimization to biological
processes and bio-relevant technological implementations. Sound
modeling principles are emphasized throughout, placing all the
concepts within a rigorous framework. With numerous worked examples
and exercises to test and enhance the reader's understanding, this
book can be used as a textbook for physics graduate students and as
a supplementary text for a range of premedical, biomedical, and
biophysics courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. It
will also be a useful reference for biologists, physicists, medical
researchers, and medical device engineers who want to work from
first principles.
After the first phase of industrialization in Britain, the child
emerged as both a victim of and a threat to capitalism. This book
explores the changing relationship between the child and capitalist
society in the works of some of the most important writers of
children's and young-adult texts in the Victorian and Edwardian
periods.
French-colonial Tunisia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries witnessed shifting concepts of identity, including
varying theories of ethnic essentialism, a drive toward
"modernization," and imperialist interpretations of science and
medicine. As French colonizers worked to realize ideas of a
"modern" city and empire, they undertook a program to significantly
alter the physical and social realities by which the people of
Tunisia lived, often in ways that continue to influence life today.
Medical Imperialism in French North Africa demonstrates the ways in
which diverse members of the Jewish community of Tunis received,
rejected, or reworked myriad imperial projects devised to foster
the social, corporeal, and moral "regeneration" of their community.
Buttressed by the authority of science and medicine,
regenerationist schemes such as urban renewal projects and public
health reforms were deployed to destroy and recast the cultural,
social, and political lives of Jewish colonial subjects. Richard C.
Parks expands on earlier scholarship to examine how notions of
race, class, modernity, and otherness shaped these efforts. Looking
at such issues as the plasticity of identity, the collaboration and
contention between French and Tunisian Jewish communities, Jewish
women's negotiation of social power relationships in Tunis, and the
razing of the city's Jewish quarter, Parks fills the gap in current
literature by focusing on the broader transnational context of
French actions in colonial Tunisia.
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