Meta-analysis is the application of statistics to combine results from multiple studies and draw appropriate inferences. Its use and importance have exploded over the last 25 years as the need for a robust evidence base has become clear in many scientific areas, including medicine and health, social sciences, education, psychology, ecology, and economics. Recent years have seen an explosion of methods for handling complexities in meta-analysis, including explained and unexplained heterogeneity between studies, publication bias, and sparse data. At the same time, meta-analysis has been extended beyond simple two-group comparisons of continuous and binary outcomes to comparing and ranking the outcomes from multiple groups, to complex observational studies, to assessing heterogeneity of effects, and to survival and multivariate outcomes. Many of these methods are statistically complex and are tailored to specific types of data. Key features Rigorous coverage of the full range of current statistical methodology used in meta-analysis Comprehensive, coherent, and unified overview of the statistical foundations behind meta-analysis Detailed description of the primary methods for both univariate and multivariate data Computer code to reproduce examples in chapters Thorough review of the literature with thousands of references Applications to specific types of biomedical and social science data Supplementary website with code, data, sample chapters, and errata This book is for a broad audience of graduate students, researchers, and practitioners interested in the theory and application of statistical methods for meta-analysis. It is written at the level of graduate courses in statistics, but will be of interest to and readable for quantitative scientists from a range of disciplines. The book can be used as a graduate level textbook, as a general reference for methods, or as an introduction to specialized topics using state-of-the art methods.

Meta-analysis is the application of statistics to combine results from multiple studies and draw appropriate inferences. Its use and importance have exploded over the last 25 years as the need for a robust evidence base has become clear in many scientific areas, including medicine and health, social sciences, education, psychology, ecology, and economics. Recent years have seen an explosion of methods for handling complexities in meta-analysis, including explained and unexplained heterogeneity between studies, publication bias, and sparse data. At the same time, meta-analysis has been extended beyond simple two-group comparisons of continuous and binary outcomes to comparing and ranking the outcomes from multiple groups, to complex observational studies, to assessing heterogeneity of effects, and to survival and multivariate outcomes. Many of these methods are statistically complex and are tailored to specific types of data. Key features Rigorous coverage of the full range of current statistical methodology used in meta-analysis Comprehensive, coherent, and unified overview of the statistical foundations behind meta-analysis Detailed description of the primary methods for both univariate and multivariate data Computer code to reproduce examples in chapters Thorough review of the literature with thousands of references Applications to specific types of biomedical and social science data Supplementary website with code, data, sample chapters, and errata This book is for a broad audience of graduate students, researchers, and practitioners interested in the theory and application of statistical methods for meta-analysis. It is written at the level of graduate courses in statistics, but will be of interest to and readable for quantitative scientists from a range of disciplines. The book can be used as a graduate level textbook, as a general reference for methods, or as an introduction to specialized topics using state-of-the art methods.

The properties of proteins are determined not only by the sequence of amino-acid residues in the polypeptide chains, but also by the con- figuration of the chains-the way in which the chains are coiled or folded. It is probable that denaturation, the loss of some of the specific properties of a native protein, may in many cases be the result simply of a change in configuration of the polypeptide chains, without any change whatever in the sequence of amino-acid residues. During the past few years great progress has been made in the attack on the determination of the sequence of amino-acid residues in the poly- peptide chains of proteins, through the work of SANGER and his collabora- tors (Io9, IIO) and of other investigators. There has also been significant progress in the attack on the problem of the configuration of polypeptide chains, largely through the application of the X-ray diffraction technique.

Dieser Band, der zeitlich als erster erscheint, enthalt die Katalyse in Losungen. Ihm sollen in kurzester Zeit Band I (Allgemeines und Gaskatalyse) und Band III (Biokatalyse) folgen, so dass dann all s, was etwa den reinen Chemiker, den Biologen und viele Praktiker interessieren durfte, fertig vorliegt. Es waren hauptsachlich drei Fragenkreise, die bei der Zusammenstellung dieses Bandes zu beachten waren: die katalytische Rolle des Mediums selbst zunachst. Hier erfordert die Erforschung der nichtwassrigen Losungen, wie man sehen wird, noch viel Entwicklungsar. beit, wahrend die Salzeffekte in wassriger Losung im wesentlichen aufgeklart sind. Dies ist wichtige Voraussetzung fur den zweiten grosseQ Fragenkreis, die Saure-Basen-Katalyse, die jetzt endlich auf dieser Grundlage eine ganz geschlossene kritische Darstellung finden konnte, wie sie den Kenner der bisherigen Sachlage befriedigen wird. Es erschien wichtig, hier nicht nur den Kinetiker, sondern auch den Organiker zu Wort kommen zu lassen, nachdem besonders die englische Schule auf Grund einer weitgehenden Sichtung des Tatsachenmaterials zu allgemeineren und mit der Kinetik uberein stimmenden Gesichtspunkten gelangt ist. Der dritte grosse Fragenkomplex sind die Vorgange der Oxydation und besonders Autoxydation und ihrer Hemmung. Hier bringt das Handbuch an Stelle eines heute notwendig noch unvollstandigen kinetischen einen mehr chemisch orientierten Artikel, der alle einschlagigen Ge sichtspunkte berucksichtigt. Die Liste der Verfasser zeigt wohl ohne weiteres an, dass die Fertigstellung der eingegangenen Beitrage zeitgebundene Schwierigkeiten zu uberwinden hatte."

The cultural issues were part in my carrier since I started in an earlier organisation of PwC Switzerland and had several functions as controller or economist for international companies. The opportunity to combine the knowledge gained with the ken acquired from literature during my MBA program is the driving motivation of this book. I have often realised that the biggest barrier to doing business successfully is misunderstandings or managers who do not recognise their own ethnocentric views on doing business. My attraction to India's as a case study country is attributable to the country's multi-ethic, multi-linguistic, pluralistic and free-market democracy with a population of over one billion people. In contrast is Switzerland, my native country, where I live and work. The fact that my actual employer is investing in India led to the idea to identify the main elements of our management relations on a cultural basis. The research ascertains that Swiss (or European) companies should reflect on their mindsets before pursuing business relations with Indians to determine whether they are well-prepared to do business with Indian business partners.

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Associate Professor Gale Ruthven, a vampire with nearly four hundred years of service at eighty-three colleges and universities, teaches British Romantic poetry at an obscure commuter college somewhere in far West Texas, enjoying an existence of literary research, student papers, and the bare amount of blood-sucking necessary to survive. His chief aggravation is the Regency Romantic poet, Lord Byron, on whom he fed in 1816 and who refuses to play the role of submissive underling. When a powerful and seductive vampire named Tempest joins the faculty, Ruthven becomes entangled in a dark mystery involving ancient vampire cults in Mexico and the American Southwest, a hippie vampire named Via Medea, grave robbers in Byron's Gothic ancestral estate in Nottinghamshire, and a shadowy vampire associate from Ruthven's early nineteenth-century past-all of which lead him on a wild chase across two continents and to a final showdown in the New Mexico badlands.

Die Konigsbucher schildern die Epoche des Konigtums von der Thronbesteigung Davids bis zum Ende des Konigtums in Juda zur Zeit der Eroberung Jerusalems durch die Babylonier. Der namentlich nicht bekannte Verfasser, in der heutigen Forschung als deuteronomistischer Historiker bezeichnet, hat fur diesen Teil der israelitischen Geschichte Quellen ausgewertet und Aufzeichnungen gemacht, die zahlreiche Einzelheiten der Konigszeit dokumentieren. Hauptzweck dieser Geschichtsschreibung ist es aber, den Untergang des Konigtums in Juda und Israel als Folge menschlichen Fehlverhaltens zu erklaren. In diesem Sinn bietet der Kommentar nicht nur die notige Klarung von Sachfragen, sondern zeigt die theologischen Bezuge des Geschichtswerks und die Absichten seines Verfassers. Dabei fuhrt der Weg von der glanzvollen Zeit unter Salomo immer weiter ins Verderben bis zum Ende der staatlichen Selbstandigkeit verbunden mit der Abschaffung des Konigtums durch die Babylonier und Assyrer.