If you love to read about real people and real situations, then you will enjoy Looking for Lucius. One of the strongest relationships within a family is between siblings. This is a story about a brother and a sister that will capture your imagination and leave you anxious for a sequel.

ABOUT THIS BOOK This book is intended for researchers who want to keep abreast of cur rent developments in corpus-based natural language processing. It is not meant as an introduction to this field; for readers who need one, several entry-level texts are available, including those of (Church and Mercer, 1993; Charniak, 1993; Jelinek, 1997). This book captures the essence of a series of highly successful work shops held in the last few years. The response in 1993 to the initial Workshop on Very Large Corpora (Columbus, Ohio) was so enthusias tic that we were encouraged to make it an annual event. The following year, we staged the Second Workshop on Very Large Corpora in Ky oto. As a way of managing these annual workshops, we then decided to register a special interest group called SIGDAT with the Association for Computational Linguistics. The demand for international forums on corpus-based NLP has been expanding so rapidly that in 1995 SIGDAT was led to organize not only the Third Workshop on Very Large Corpora (Cambridge, Mass. ) but also a complementary workshop entitled From Texts to Tags (Dublin). Obviously, the success of these workshops was in some measure a re flection of the growing popularity of corpus-based methods in the NLP community. But first and foremost, it was due to the fact that the work shops attracted so many high-quality papers."

This book highlights various aspects of geochemical and geological processes. In brief, it facilitates to understand the geochemical behavior of major, trace and rare earth elements in rocks to identify the magmatic processes involved in present-day magma generation and their relation to global tectonic regimes as well as geothermal studies. Therefore, the book provides a comprehensive view of the generation of magma types (mafic to felsic in composition) and their role in the petrogenesis. The book also covers the development of new geosoftware to effectively process the geochemical data before its interpretation.

The first session of psychotherapy is critical in determining the course of successful treatment because the possibility of engaging a patient is at its height during the initial contact. This book offers guidelines to enhance the clinician's ability to conduct an effective first session. The therapist's stance and its implications for first session technique are discussed (e.g., first words, therapist anxiety, and subtle directives) as well as issues of scheduling, fees, and cancellations. Armstrong identifies eight essential tasks of the first session (including, for example, an atmosphere of safety, patient assessment, the contract, and transition), and demonstrates with rich clinical detail the steps he takes to accomplish them. Specific attention is given to patients with previous therapy, returning patients, compliant and meek patients, and those in need of medication or hospitalization. Well considered and thought-provoking, this book introduces beginning therapists to the complexity and range of first session concerns, and challenges experienced therapists to rethink the techniques and personal mannerisms that may have become automatic in meeting a patient for the first time.

Boot camps have developed over the past two decades into a program that incorporates a military regimen to create a structured environment. While some critics of this method of corrections suggest that the confrontational nature of the program is antithetical to treatment, authors Doris Layton MacKenzie and Gaylene Styve Armstrong present research knowledge and personal discussions with community leaders that offer insight into both the strengths and weaknesses of this controversial form of corrections. Correctional Boot Camps: Military Basic Training or a Model for Corrections? provides the most up-to-date assessment of the major perspectives and issues related to the current state of boot camps. The book goes beyond cursory examinations of the effectiveness of boot camps, presenting an in-depth view of a greater variety of issues. Correctional Boot Camps examines empirical evidence on boot camps drawn from diverse sources including male, female, juvenile, and adult programs from across the nation. The book explores empirical research on both the punitive and rehabilitative components of the boot camp model and the effectiveness of the "tough on crime" aspects of the programs that are often thought of as punishment or retribution, in lieu of a longer sentence in a traditional facility. Thus, offenders earn their way back to the general public more quickly because they have paid their debt to society by being punished in a short-term, but strict, boot camp. Correctional Boot Camps is a comprehensive textbook for undergraduate and graduate students studying corrections and juvenile justice. The book is also a valuable resource for correctional professionals interacting with offenders.

This book describes a computational system for designing linear feedback control laws and filters for linear time-variant multivariable differential or difference equation state vector models. It presents numerical examples to illustrate the use of ORACLS to solve selected design problems.

Contemporary Issues in Victimology: Identifying Patterns and Trends examines current topics in victimology and explores the main issues surrounding them. Key topics include: intimate partner violence and dating violence, rape and sexual assault on the college campus, Internet victimization, elder abuse, victimization of inmates, repeat and poly-victimization, fear of crime and perceived risk of crime, human trafficking, mass shootings, and child-to-parent violence. Each chapter includes information about the specific topic, including the nature of the issues, trends, current research, policy, current issues, and future challenges.

ABOUT THIS BOOK This book is intended for researchers who want to keep abreast of cur rent developments in corpus-based natural language processing. It is not meant as an introduction to this field; for readers who need one, several entry-level texts are available, including those of (Church and Mercer, 1993; Charniak, 1993; Jelinek, 1997). This book captures the essence of a series of highly successful work shops held in the last few years. The response in 1993 to the initial Workshop on Very Large Corpora (Columbus, Ohio) was so enthusias tic that we were encouraged to make it an annual event. The following year, we staged the Second Workshop on Very Large Corpora in Ky oto. As a way of managing these annual workshops, we then decided to register a special interest group called SIGDAT with the Association for Computational Linguistics. The demand for international forums on corpus-based NLP has been expanding so rapidly that in 1995 SIGDAT was led to organize not only the Third Workshop on Very Large Corpora (Cambridge, Mass. ) but also a complementary workshop entitled From Texts to Tags (Dublin). Obviously, the success of these workshops was in some measure a re flection of the growing popularity of corpus-based methods in the NLP community. But first and foremost, it was due to the fact that the work shops attracted so many high-quality papers."

Contemporary Issues in Victimology: Identifying Patterns and Trends examines current topics in victimology and explores the main issues surrounding them. Key topics include: intimate partner violence and dating violence, rape and sexual assault on the college campus, Internet victimization, elder abuse, victimization of inmates, repeat and poly-victimization, fear of crime and perceived risk of crime, human trafficking, mass shootings, and child-to-parent violence. Each chapter includes information about the specific topic, including the nature of the issues, trends, current research, policy, current issues, and future challenges.

Back Cover Copy Boston Marathon or Bust ''In that gap between inspiration and action, read Boston Marathon or Bust and set yourself up for the realization of your wildest dreams. If you're not inspired read it anyway and you will be " Lorraine Moller 4 time Olympian and Bronze Medalist Boston Marathon Winner "I have attended over 500 motivational seminars around the United States. In one session with Scott Armstrong, I learned more than all the other 500 seminars combined Nobody can connect and deliver like Scott. He is simply the best there is." Orrin Hudson Author and Achievement Strategy Expert Reach your goals in record time-guaranteed In Boston Marathon or Bust, Scott Sharp Armstrong, success coach, entrepreneur and owner of Colorado's Boulder Coaching Academy (www.bouldercoachingacademy.com), shares his story of taking a big dream - qualifying for and running in the 100th Boston Marathon - and turning it into reality by showcasing his step-by-step plan for guaranteed success. Using the exact blueprint he developed for the Boston Marathon, he shows how anyone can manifest any dream simply by following his plan. Armstrong is emphatic that "there is no magic to achieving dreams." What it takes is a plan, personal commitment, perseverance and follow-through, belief in yourself, and the support of an experienced coach or mentor. He demonstrates all of this for us, making his system clear and totally repeatable. No theoretical mumbo-jumbo here, Boston Marathon or Bust offers Armstrong's working action plan plus motivational examples of how he's used it to achieve personal and professional success. For anyone who has contemplated tackling a dream and making it reality, then moaned, "But do I REALLY have what it takes to do this?" This book says, "Yes, you do-especially if you follow the plan "

Growing up in war-torn England, Livvy and her brother are separated from their parents and sent to live with strangers. At age nineteen, she immigrates to Canada, marries, and has a daughter, Natalie. After the failure of her marriage, she returns to England, but feeling a loss of independence, she decides that Canada is where she wants to be. In the ensuing years, Livvy experiences two long-term relationships, but in the end, she settles for living alone and has no regrets.

Charlotte Hamilton had always enjoyed being a wife and mother, with no real ambition to pursue a career until, one day, her life is turned upside down. When she is led to believe her husband, Adam, is cheating on her, she discovers things aren't always as they seem and soon finds herself in a situation both exciting and disturbing. Unable to resist temptation, she is drawn further and further into an affair that, from the beginning, is doomed to end in tragedy. Now she is forced to reexamine her life and plan for a future without her husband.

Don Kendall is a successful advertising executive on Madison Avenue whose girlfriend, Marna Anderson is murdered for no apparent reason. He is determined to find her murderer and learns that Marna was a major player in a far-reaching Wall Street insider trading scheme involving millions. Soon, he finds himself being pursued and his life threatened. After a debilitating cab accident alters his life and its direction, he leaves his prestigious career to pursue his interest in spiritualism and to write a book about the Lincoln assassination. Mary Saratt, the woman hanged as a conspirator in the assassination appears to him. Is it a dream, a hallucination, or a visitation from the other side? To escape from New York and to find a serene place in which to write, Don travels across the country and disappears in Wyoming-his van mysteriously pulled off an exit with its door open and motor running. Don's devoted sister, Kathy and their mother go out to Wyoming in an effort to find him. After encountering an uncooperative local sheriff, they discover a series of fascinating clues. Tom Sanderson, an NYPD detective, joined by his new partner, expose the crimes of the security firm responsible for protecting the fund managers' secrets. In the dramatic conclusion of this gripping novel, the fate of Don Kendall and a myriad of unanswered questions are revealed.

If you love to read about real people and real situations, then you will enjoy Looking for Lucius. One of the strongest relationships within a family is between siblings. This is a story about a brother and a sister that will capture your imagination and leave you anxious for a sequel.

Retention is a primary concern for the U.S. Air Force today, and the Air Force needs to explore all avenues of retention for its officers. The Air Force should carefully evaluate the impact of changing demographics on its officer retention. A review of the demographic studies performed by the Air Force Chaplain Office in the early 1980s and the National Families and Work Institute in 1997 reflect the trend towards an increasing concern for a work/life balance among both military members and their civilian counterparts. As the labor shortage for professional skills continues, the Air Force must look for innovative ways to retain its officers. The private sector leads the way with creative programs that are diversified enough to attract both the career professionals who aspire to be a CEO one day, and the career-family professionals who more highly value the balance of a strong family and successful career. Many of the programs begun by private industry are viable options for the Air Force; it only depend son how high a priority the Air Force places on retaining its professional corps. The Air Force should also consider adopting family support programs implemented by other armed forces, such as the Royal Australian Air Force. Improving family support programs is an important step in modifying the current career progression plan for officers. Implementing a dual-track career progression program will allow officers to choose options that provide a better career/family balance without sacrificing certain career success. This career flexibility, which has already proven successful in the private sector, will be one more strong factor in retaining quality officers.

This monograph analyzes the effects of globalization on the international system as reflected in the changing nature of war. The difficulties that the United States leadership is having with creating and communicating a strategy for the Global War on Terror is indicative of inadequacies within the Westphalian Paradigm for conducting analysis and research of the international system. The driving force behind the shifting paradigm is globalization which is integrating and interconnecting people, thoughts, ideas, and technology around the world despite national boundaries. The United States Military's efforts to transform to meet emergent threats continues to use Westphalian Paradigm to conduct analysis and research despite indications that a paradigm shift, fueled by globalization, has occurred. While there are numerous similarities between the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor in 1941 and the attacks of 11 September 2001, the differences are more critical to understanding the drastic changes that have occurred over the past fifty years. An analysis of the differences between the two attacks highlights the differences between World War II and the Global War on Terror and the changes that globalization has caused on the international system in general. Analyzing the traditional American concept of war shows that three aspects of war have undergone significant changes within the past fifty years. State-on-state war has become the anomaly with United States military forces conducting operations other than war more frequently than they have in the past. Further the rise of non-state actors in the form of terrorists continues to pose an enormous threat to United States interests around the globe. The increase in technology in the form of the internet and satellite news has allowed individuals from all over the world to become more connected, sharing ideas and information at a pace that is unrivaled in history while being able to influence perception and policy of other stat

A Short Tale about a Long (Deaf and Blind) Dachshund. A true story about an 8 week old puppy adopted into a loving home. His new parents knew he was blind at the time of adoption and later found out he was also deaf. This story is about Casper's tales of growing from a helpless little baby dog into a smart and practically self sufficient fur boy.

In Toronto, after the accidental death of her son, Abby leaves an abusive marriage to build a new life with her daughter. She becomes the owner of a florist shop and, in a chance encounter in a bookstore, meets the love of her life.

After travelling to England and meeting Simon's family, Abby plans for their future together. Her happiness is short lived when Simon is killed while on consignment as a war correspondent in Angola. Abby had never fully understood what Simon did for a living and is both angry and devastated by her loss. Simon's closest fiend Jim, helps Abby to recover from Simon's death but soon realizes he is falling in love with her. Eventually they marry, forming a family of four with Abby's daughter, Kate and Jim's daughter, Kelly but the family is only complete when they welcome a son into the world and name him Simon.