One of the most important factors in ensuring successful osseointegration is the stability of the implant after its insertion. In order to achieve optimum conditions for implantation, it is often necessary to prepare the area and reconstruct the bone to ensure that it is the correct shape and size for the implant. Preprosthetic and maxillofacial surgery provides a thorough review of the current status and future direction of this important field. Part one reviews bone grafting for implantology and reconstructive preprosthetic surgery. Chapters in part two discuss reconstruction and rehabilitation whilst the final group of chapters analyse tissue engineering applications.

This unique volume brings together original essays by well-known mass communication experts--master teachers--who provide practical information on teaching the communication and journalism courses in which they specialize. The authors make recommendations for practical/applied, theoretical, and advanced courses, representing every area of the mass communications curriculum. Its contributors include eminent specialists such as Maurine H. Beasley, who offers advice to teachers of media history; Dan Nimmo (political communication); Roy L. Moore (media law); Jay Black (media ethics); and John De Mott (media management). Chapter authors suggest course outlines, teaching strategies, and methods of testing, and provide reviews of current texts and supplementary materials such as films and other audio-visual aids.

Chapter topics in part I, The Introductory Course, include The Beginning Course in Mass Communication, and introductory courses to broadcasting, public relations, the film course, and internship programs. Part II, Applied Coursework, includes chapters on writing news for print and broadcast, reporting, advertising campaigns, audio and video production, and teaching research methods. Part III, which deals with advanced coursework, includes chapters on courses in mass communication law, mass media management, and history, mass media and politics, media criticism, and media ethics. Teaching Mass Communication will prove vitally important to faculty with new preparations for mass communication courses (including senior faculty keeping up with changes), media professionals, and new faculty preparing their teaching assignments.

This book examines the pattern of growth of the Spanish economy in the last few decades, and studies the causes of its labor productivity, and the special features characterizing business cycles in Spain.

Willing Suspension of Disbelief: Poetic Faith in Film is a study of the way we watch film. Anthony Ferri explores the way expectations influence what they see, feel, and experience. Using Coleridge's term "willing suspension of disbelief" as a starting point, Ferri sets forth a fascinating study of the psychology of watching film. While film scholars and professionals have alluded to Coleridge's term in a parenthetical or tertiary manner, this volume makes a definitive account for the concept and provides a contemporary analysis of the film viewing process from a variety of critical and empirical perspectives.Willing Suspension of Disbelief is valuable for film scholars and students of film.

The twin epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) continue to affect an ever increasing number of children, adolescents, and young adults. Management of Pediatric Obesity and Diabetes provides healthcare trainees and professionals with practical, comprehensive, and contemporary approaches to the pediatric patient at risk for obesity, T2DM, and related conditions. A unique guide on the subject, this volume provides clinical paradigms for diagnosis and management of pediatric T2DM and related conditions, while succinctly describing state-of-the-art basic and clinical sciences underlying these problems. The chapters in this volume are independent and concise. Each chapter focuses on a key clinical issue or mechanism of disease. Providing practical, data-driven resources based upon the totality of the evidence, this important text helps the reader understand the basics of pediatric obesity and T2DM and implement strategies to prevent and treat obesity and diabetes in children and adolescents. Management of Pediatric Obesity and Diabetes provides health professionals across many areas of research and practice with up-to-date, well-referenced, and comprehensive evidence on identification, treatment, and prevention of these chronic, serious, metabolic diseases in children. This volume will serve the reader as the most authoritative resource in the field to date.

This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition and the 3rd International Workshop on Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition, SSPR 2000 and SPR 2000, held in Alicante, Spain in August/September 2000. The 52 revised full papers presented together with five invited papers and 35 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 130 submissions. The book offers topical sections on hybrid and combined methods, document image analysis, grammar and language methods, structural matching, graph-based methods, shape analysis, clustering and density estimation, object recognition, general methodology, and feature extraction and selection.

The twin epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) continue to affect an ever increasing number of children, adolescents, and young adults. Management of Pediatric Obesity and Diabetes provides healthcare trainees and professionals with practical, comprehensive, and contemporary approaches to the pediatric patient at risk for obesity, T2DM, and related conditions. A unique guide on the subject, this volume provides clinical paradigms for diagnosis and management of pediatric T2DM and related conditions, while succinctly describing state-of-the-art basic and clinical sciences underlying these problems. The chapters in this volume are independent and concise. Each chapter focuses on a key clinical issue or mechanism of disease. Providing practical, data-driven resources based upon the totality of the evidence, this important text helps the reader understand the basics of pediatric obesity and T2DM and implement strategies to prevent and treat obesity and diabetes in children and adolescents. Management of Pediatric Obesity and Diabetes provides health professionals across many areas of research and practice with up-to-date, well-referenced, and comprehensive evidence on identification, treatment, and prevention of these chronic, serious, metabolic diseases in children. This volume will serve the reader as the most authoritative resource in the field to date.

This book examines the pattern of growth of the Spanish economy in the last few decades, and studies the causes of its labour productivity, and the special features characterising business cycles in Spain.

Combining traditional documentary research with new analytical strategies, Robert J. Ferry creates a rich, three-dimensional picture of early Caracas. His reconstitution and interpretation of important genealogical histories provide a model for historical studies of Latin American and other societies. Ferry's work partially eclipses previously accepted ideas about colonial Caracas. He shows how the society was dominated by a commercial-agricultural elite and demonstrates that women were responsible for arranging marriages and maintaining family lineages, that marriages among first cousins were very common, and that elite residence was matrifocal. The Colonial Elite of Early Caracas focuses on the salient features of the society and economy: agriculture, commerce, and labor. The first section treats the seventeenth-century transition from Indian encomienda labor to African slave labor. The society created by slavery and the cacao trade in the eighteenth century is the main subject of the second section of the book. Throughout, Ferry leads the reader to a deeper understanding of the elite planters of Caracas, who were wheat farmers in the seventeenth century and cacao hacienda owners in the eighteenth. Ferry also explores how some families suceeded in retaining wealth and local authority from one generation to the next. That success is momentarily halted in the 1730s and 1740s, and the revolt of Juan Francisco de Leon in 1749 is viewed as a crisis of both the colony's elite and the smallholder, immigrant class to which Leon himself belonged. The response to Leon's rebellion represents a major effort on the part of the Spanish crown to restructure royal authority in the colony, arguably the first of the Bourbon reforms in the American colonies. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

One objective in life that is often unappreciated and largely not sought after is human completeness. Concomitantly, the value of androgyny in living life is ignored by many, to the detriment of society. Another possibility along the same line is gaining the capacity for synchronicity and enhanced intuition, which are both essential in living a life endowed with completeness. Holy Love is about renewing your capacity for all of these characteristics. It teaches the value of self love as a way of reducing stress, gaining peace within and becoming of more value to your self, your family, your friends and your planetary home. To accomplish these goals, you need a time-honored spiritual journey into the darkness of your inner being. Holy Love provides not only a description of the author's journey, but some kenotic methodologies for accomplishing that. Of particular note is a unique meditation that allows you to travel the journey with confidence. It was born from a challenge by a spiritual colleague almost two decades ago as we both participated in self-healing spiritual retreats. The book not only provides the meditation but adds an expansion of the values inherent in its use. Whereas the author's academic credentials don't suggest he has the formal training for credibility in this endeavor, his experiences and perspective, as revealed through his personal story in Holy Love, are bound to surprise and delight you. Any reservations about using the material should melt away as you read it. Laced with many other helpful resources, this can be a bedside uplift of living power for the enhancement of your life, enabling you to participate actively in healing those involved with you on our planetary journey. You may then find it easy to participate in healing a planet so much in need. The expanded capacity for sophisticated and effective love is the goal. Christians who read it may find that it takes the love that Jesus taught to a new level to help fulfill his dream for civilization. Whereas this is not a religious book (it is quite critical of the current approach of Christianity), you may find that it will help renew your trust in Christian and other faiths but with certain changes that are boldly suggested. You may not want to have anything to do with such a profound journey of awakening to your spirit, but you will be ignoring your life's spiritual potential if you choose to pass it by. It takes courage and devotion to entertain this path, but your rewards will be found in a life you may never have dreamed possible. Try it on. If it fits, wear it

This book is a resource for the spiritual journey and opening the heart. It takes the reader from an image embedded in prehistory of how life can exist and be lived inside of love. Being inside of love is like being in an inner landscape of your true spirit - - a spiritscape. In other words, we are all pure love, speaking spiritually. From that beginning image some key elements of planetary and human history are sketched out, leading to the left-brained world of today, where we find love and peace mostly in lip-service, dreams and myth rather than in reality. This is the dysfunctional, insane world we inhabit today, where war and poverty are endemic and hope is an ephemeral delusion. To address the gap between myth and reality, ten steps are needed to arouse your right-brained capacity for "sacred seeing" which enables and excites the birth of an ability to sense the love in your spiritscape and to embody it in the real world. The process that unfolds is a transformation into an intuitive and synchronistic way of being that you can choose, if you have the courage for personal healing. This book goes beyond mere information and invites the reader to enter within their heart, where love is seeking to manifest. The process awakens your natural leadership capacity as stress is released. Insane living may have you bound up, but the ten steps proposed are simple yet profound. If you are sick of the way things are, if you are willing to look inside that world and breathe peace in your soul, and if you want to make a lasting contribution to the salvation of the earth and its humanity, this book is for you. The author contends you can choose to live life in your heart and be in peace by so doing. This process leads you naturally to want to contribute to creating love and peace in our world.

"At last a beautifully written book on how to manage this difficult external condition by internal means. I will recommend this book to all my patients with psoriasis." Dr Stephen Falkner MB., Ch.B. Psoriasis Healing from the Inside Out is an important book for people with psoriasis and other conditions, who feel controlled by their diseases. The author Heather Ferris shares her own profound (and simple) experiences with healing addressing issues of body, mind and spirit. She provides practical techniques and opportunities to reflect on individual situations. The author's warm and caring style is evident as she invites us to experience a more peaceful inner environment. Reading this book reminds us to live full, healthy lives.