Increasingly, social researchers are engaging with marginalized communities and becoming aware of their obligations to those they research. This book identifies issues associated with researching in what have traditionally been recognised as "hard to reach" communities and offers both conceptual analyses and practical suggestions on undertaking research that emphasizes the experience and contribution of those with whom the research is undertaken.

Daphne Pitts, a native of Nashville TN was raised in a Christian home and herself accepted Christ while a student at Meharry Medical College. She has had a life-long desire to be an author was told by her 10th grade English teacher that she should write books. Several years later (after medical school, marriage, and raising 6 children) she wrote this book based on the questions her youngest child asked her when he was small. She is a graduate of St. Cecilia Academy in Nashville, TN. She holds a B.A degree from Tennessee State University and received her M.D degree from Meharry Medical College. After completing her residency in Emergency Medicine at Howard University Hospital in Washington D.C., she served as a physician for the US Air Force for several years. She currently resides in the southern United States with her husband Greg and is a member of Bible Home Church. Daphne Pitts loves to use her interaction with people who come to her for illnesses as a way to introduce them to the healing power and love of Jesus Christ. She is a member of the AMA, past member of the CMDS, Americal College of Emergency Physicians and numerous other organizations. This book follows the innocent conversation between a naturally inquisitive son and his mother about the nature of God.

Nominal sets provide a promising new mathematical analysis of names in formal languages based upon symmetry, with many applications to the syntax and semantics of programming language constructs that involve binding, or localising names. Part I provides an introduction to the basic theory of nominal sets. In Part II, the author surveys some of the applications that have developed in programming language semantics (both operational and denotational), functional programming and logic programming. As the first book to give a detailed account of the theory of nominal sets, it will be welcomed by researchers and graduate students in theoretical computer science.

Knowledge of risk models and the assessment of risk is a fundamental part of the training of actuaries and all who are involved in financial, pensions and insurance mathematics. This book provides students and others with a firm foundation in a wide range of statistical and probabilistic methods for the modelling of risk, including short-term risk modelling, model-based pricing, risk-sharing, ruin theory and credibility. It covers much of the international syllabuses for professional actuarial examinations in risk models, but goes into further depth, with worked examples, exercises and detailed case studies. The authors also use the statistical package R to demonstrate how simple code and functions can be used profitably in an actuarial context. The authors' engaging and pragmatic approach, balancing rigour and intuition and developed over many years of teaching the subject, makes this book ideal for self-study or for students taking courses in risk modelling.

The aim of this volume is to present developments in semantics and logics of computation in a way that is accessible to graduate students. The book is based on a summer school at the Isaac Newton Institute and consists of a sequence of linked lecture courses by international authorities in the area. The whole set has been edited to form a coherent introduction to these topics, most of which have not been presented pedagogically before.

Most object-oriented or functional languages are higher order languages, i.e. ones in which the means of manipulation (e.g. object or function) can itself be manipulated. This 1998 book contains a collection of original articles about recent developments in operational semantics for higher order programming languages by some of the leading researchers in the field. Operational techniques are important because they are closer to implementations and language definitions than more abstract mathematical techniques such as denotational semantics. One of the exciting developments reflected by the book is that mathematical structures and techniques used in denotational semantics (such as fixpoint induction) may be recovered from a purely operational starting point. The book surveys and introduces techniques such as contextual equivalence, applicative bisimulation, logical relations, improvement relations, explicit models of memory management, and labelling techniques for confluence properties. It treats a variety of higher order languages, based on functions, processes and objects, with and without side effects, typed and untyped.

The aim of this volume is to present modern developments in semantics and logics of computation in a way that is accessible to graduate students. The book is based on a summer school at the Isaac Newton Institute and consists of a sequence of linked lecture courses by international authorities in the area. The whole set have been edited to form a coherent introduction to these topics, most of which have not been presented pedagogically before.

Social researchers are increasingly aware of their obligations to the 'hard to reach' communities they research. This book identifies the issues associated with researching these communities and offers both conceptual analyses and practical suggestions. The contributors are members of ARCSHS staff or drawn from the affected communities themselves.

Roughly two thirds of all deaths resulting from enclosure fires can be attributed to the presence of carbon monoxide which is known to be the dominate toxicant in fire deaths. The mechanisms responsible for the generation of high concentrations of CO in fires are poorly understood. This work summarizes the result thus far of a long-term program which is seeking to develop an understanding of and predictive capability for the generation of CO in fires.

This paper informs "western" military forces about the Islamic environment in the Middle East. It articulates similarities and differences between the Western and the Islamic perspectives of war and peace. It defines to what degree Shiite leaders reflect these religious perspectives and then makes recommendations for strategic decision makers regarding the same. Probing into the intent behind the Western and Shiite war and peace traditions, presents more similarities than differences. Neither is universally held yet both traditions agree on a strong presumption against violence. Points of divergence appear regarding the justification of war for solely religious purposes and the treatment of noncombatants. Evaluation of Shiite cleric statements and written works demonstrate a wide variance in advocacy for the traditional Islamic rules of war. The majority of statements made by the clerics pertained to religious vice state matters, however, all the clerics referred to western military forces as occupiers. The variances and agreement points among the clerics lead to three recommendation for US leaders. First, each cleric wields influence and act as instruments of power. Second, to understand the cultural environment, these war and peace traditions and regional religious views should be taught to Department of Defense members. Third, to promote success in the Middle East, strategic communication should change to express a respect for both Islamic laws and practices.

Daphne Pitts, a native of Nashville TN was raised in a Christian home and herself accepted Christ while a student at Meharry Medical College. She has had a life-long desire to be an author was told by her 10th grade English teacher that she should write books. Several years later (after medical school, marriage, and raising 6 children) she wrote this book based on the questions her youngest child asked her when he was small. She is a graduate of St. Cecilia Academy in Nashville, TN. She holds a B.A degree from Tennessee State University and received her M.D degree from Meharry Medical College. After completing her residency in Emergency Medicine at Howard University Hospital in Washington D.C., she served as a physician for the US Air Force for several years. She currently resides in the southern United States with her husband Greg and is a member of Bible Home Church. Daphne Pitts loves to use her interaction with people who come to her for illnesses as a way to introduce them to the healing power and love of Jesus Christ. She is a member of the AMA, past member of the CMDS, Americal College of Emergency Physicians and numerous other organizations. This book follows the innocent conversation between a naturally inquisitive son and his mother about the nature of God.

The International Consortium for Fire Safety, Health, and the Environment (ICFSHE), with funding provided by the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute, awarded a contract to the SP Swedish National Testing and Research Institute (SP) for a "Scientific Evaluation of the Risk Associated with Heightened Environmental Requirements on Outdoor Power Equipment." As part of this study ICFSHE requested that the Building and Fire Research Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (BFRL/NIST) provide experimental support to SP. A work statement was adopted that involved characterizing the ignition of typical outdoor fuels by ignition sources representative of those expected for outdoor power equipment exhaust systems. This report summarizes the findings of the BFRL/NIST investigation. One series of experiments was designed to simulate the ignition behaviors of fuels that come into direct contact with a heated surface.