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What should you do when results don't match your expectations? How
is it possible to make the best of existing evidence? Is it
acceptable to adapt your research question in the middle of a
project? This book examines how experienced researchers have
tackled these questions in their own projects. Moving beyond
abstract discussions of method, it explores how social scientists
collect and construct evidence in real-life practice. Looking
critically at nine examples of recent research, Doing Social
Science gives a thorough yet accessible examination of how research
is planned, carried out, recorded and analysed in real-life
situations. The book covers core and new areas of social science,
with each chapter looking at a different contemporary study that
taps into a key aspect of modern everyday life. Diverse and
globally relevant, these studies include themes from online gaming
and news interviews to post-colonial life and Goth subculture. The
book relates the theory behind such social issues to the methods
being used, as it gives critical evaluation alongside careful
explanation and invaluable advice. Showing how the choice and use
of particular methods and techniques can critically shape the
findings of social science research, the authors also explain how
to deal with complex research issues. Written and edited by experts
in the field, this innovative book highlights the excitement as
well as the challenge of conducting real-life research. After
reading this, students throughout the social sciences will have the
confidence and skills to evaluate the research of others and carry
out their own research projects.
This book is concerned with the significance of time in work and everyday life. The contributors are among the foremost authorities in the field, and their up-to-date contributions consider the changing social meanings that time has in work, leisure and everyday routines. Together they provide a combination of theoretical and empirically-based approaches that reveal the social significance of time in all aspects of everyday lives.
Bioinformatics is growing by leaps and bounds;
theories/algorithms/statistical techniques are constantly evolving.
Nevertheless, a core body of algorithmic ideas have emerged and
researchers are beginning to adopt a "problem solving" approach to
bioinformatics, wherein they use solutions to well-abstracted
problems as building blocks to solve larger scope problems.
"Problem Solving Handbook for Computational Biology" and
Bioinformatics is an edited volume contributed by world renowned
leaders in this field. This comprehensive handbook with problem
solving emphasis, covers all relevant areas of computational
biology and bioinformatics. Web resources and related themes are
highlighted at every opportunity in this central easy-to-read
reference.
Designed for advanced-level students, researchers and professors
in computer science and bioengineering as a reference or secondary
text, this handbook is also suitable for professionals working in
this industry.
For the last twenty-five years, "Language, Discourse, Society" has
been the most intellectually challenging series in English. Its
titles range across the disciplines from linguistics to biology,
from literary criticism to law, combining vigorous scholarship and
theoretical analysis at the service of a broad political
engagement. This anniversary reader brings together a fascinating
group of thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic with an
introductory overview from the editors which considers the
development of theory and scholarship over the past two
decades.
This text explores and celebrates imaginative and creative
approaches to youth research, showcasing a wide range of innovative
methods including music elicitation, mental mapping, blog analysis
and mobile methods.
Graph Separators with Applications is devoted to techniques for
obtaining upper and lower bounds on the sizes of graph separators -
upper bounds being obtained via decomposition algorithms. The book
surveys the main approaches to obtaining good graph separations,
while the main focus of the book is on techniques for deriving
lower bounds on the sizes of graph separators. This asymmetry in
focus reflects our perception that the work on upper bounds, or
algorithms, for graph separation is much better represented in the
standard theory literature than is the work on lower bounds, which
we perceive as being much more scattered throughout the literature
on application areas. Given the multitude of notions of graph
separator that have been developed and studied over the past
(roughly) three decades, there is a need for a central,
theory-oriented repository for the mass of results. The need is
absolutely critical in the area of lower-bound techniques for graph
separators, since these techniques have virtually never appeared in
articles having the word separator' or any of its near-synonyms in
the title. Graph Separators with Applications fills this need.
In the U.S., when a patient is in need of intensive psychiatric
care, the first step is hospitalization. However, elsewhere in the
world, psychiatric home treatment is proposed as an alternative.
Model programs in Canada and the United Kingdom are publicly
administered by community health agencies or teaching hospitals.
"Psychiatric Home Treatment" provides a review of the literature on
home care and describes working programs around the world. This
timely volume reviews treatment plans for different disorders with
case illustrations, explains the administration of a PHC program
and offers guidelines to case workers. It will be of interest to
mental health professionals and policy makers working on the issue
of patient hospitalization.
In the context of the ongoing de-standardization of young people's lives, this book explores changing patterns of household formation amongst contemporary 20-somethings and the implications of these changes for the ways in which they relate to friends, parents and partners. The book points to the growing polarization between the experiences of graduates and non-graduates, and highlights changing expectations and attitudes towards intimacy and "settling down" amongst these groups.
Computation theory is a discipline that uses mathematical concepts
and tools to expose the nature of "computation" and to explain a
broad range of computational phenomena: Why is it harder to perform
some computations than others? Are the differences in difficulty
that we observe inherent, or are they artifacts of the way we try
to perform the computations? How does one reason about such
questions? This unique textbook strives to endow students with
conceptual and manipulative tools necessary to make computation
theory part of their professional lives. The work achieves this
goal by means of three stratagems that set its approach apart from
most other texts on the subject. For starters, it develops the
necessary mathematical concepts and tools from the concepts'
simplest instances, thereby helping students gain operational
control over the required mathematics. Secondly, it organizes
development of theory around four "pillars," enabling students to
see computational topics that have the same intellectual origins in
physical proximity to one another. Finally, the text illustrates
the "big ideas" that computation theory is built upon with
applications of these ideas within "practical" domains in
mathematics, computer science, computer engineering, and even
further afield. Suitable for advanced undergraduate students and
beginning graduates, this textbook augments the "classical" models
that traditionally support courses on computation theory with novel
models inspired by "real, modern" computational topics,such as
crowd-sourced computing, mobile computing, robotic path planning,
and volunteer computing. Arnold L. Rosenberg is Distinguished Univ.
Professor Emeritus at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA.
Lenwood S. Heath is Professor at Virgina Tech, Blacksburg, USA.
This book seeks to introduce students to the challenges of 'real
life' social research through a detailed consideration of eight
recent empirical studies. Designed to complement existing
introductory methods texts, it emphasises the importance of context
in understanding and interpreting both the practice and 'product'
of empirical research. The book focuses on research from eight key
sub-areas of sociology, making it a useful secondary text for
introductory courses on contemporary British society.
Much attention has been given to above ground biomass and its
potential as a carbon sink, but in a mature forest ecosystem 40 to
60 percent of the stored carbon is below ground. As increasing
numbers of forests are managed in a wide diversity of climates and
soils, the importance of forest soils as a potential carbon sink
grows. The Potential of U.S. Forest Soils to Sequester Carbon and
Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect provides researchers and policy
makers with an understanding of soil processes and their relation
to carbon dynamics, as well as strategies to monitor and techniques
to measure forest soil carbon. It covers the effects of management
on soils in a wide range of forest ecosystems together with policy
options that are effective and benefit both the forest community
and the over all environment. This valuable reference provides
forest managers, urban planners, land owners, policy makers, and
the general public with guidance that will allow for a holistic
approach to land management, environmental quality, and improved
forest productivity.
Computation theory is a discipline that uses mathematical concepts
and tools to expose the nature of "computation" and to explain a
broad range of computational phenomena: Why is it harder to perform
some computations than others? Are the differences in
difficulty that we observe inherent, or are they artifacts of the
way we try to perform the computations? How does one reason
about such questions? This unique textbook strives to endow
students with conceptual and manipulative tools necessary to make
computation theory part of their professional lives. The work
achieves this goal by means of three stratagems that set its
approach apart from most other texts on the subject. For starters,
it develops the necessary mathematical concepts and tools from the
concepts' simplest instances, thereby helping students gain
operational control over the required mathematics. Secondly, it
organizes development of theory around four "pillars," enabling
students to see computational topics that have the same
intellectual origins in physical proximity to one another. Finally,
the text illustrates the "big ideas" that computation theory is
built upon with applications of these ideas within "practical"
domains in mathematics, computer science, computer engineering, and
even further afield. Suitable for advanced undergraduate students
and beginning graduates, this textbook augments the "classical"
models that traditionally support courses on computation theory
with novel models inspired by "real, modern" computational
topics,such as crowd-sourced computing, mobile computing,
robotic path planning, and volunteer computing. Arnold L. Rosenberg
is Distinguished Univ. Professor Emeritus at University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. Lenwood S. Heath is Professor at
Virgina Tech, Blacksburg, USA.   Â
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Bioinformatics is growing by leaps and bounds;
theories/algorithms/statistical techniques are constantly evolving.
Nevertheless, a core body of algorithmic ideas have emerged and
researchers are beginning to adopt a "problem solving" approach to
bioinformatics, wherein they use solutions to well-abstracted
problems as building blocks to solve larger scope problems. Problem
Solving Handbook for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics is an
edited volume contributed by world renowned leaders in this field.
This comprehensive handbook with problem solving emphasis, covers
all relevant areas of computational biology and bioinformatics. Web
resources and related themes are highlighted at every opportunity
in this central easy-to-read reference. Designed for advanced-level
students, researchers and professors in computer science and
bioengineering as a reference or secondary text, this handbook is
also suitable for professionals working in this industry.
Graph Separators with Applications is devoted to techniques for
obtaining upper and lower bounds on the sizes of graph separators -
upper bounds being obtained via decomposition algorithms. The book
surveys the main approaches to obtaining good graph separations,
while the main focus of the book is on techniques for deriving
lower bounds on the sizes of graph separators. This asymmetry in
focus reflects our perception that the work on upper bounds, or
algorithms, for graph separation is much better represented in the
standard theory literature than is the work on lower bounds, which
we perceive as being much more scattered throughout the literature
on application areas. Given the multitude of notions of graph
separator that have been developed and studied over the past
(roughly) three decades, there is a need for a central,
theory-oriented repository for the mass of results. The need is
absolutely critical in the area of lower-bound techniques for graph
separators, since these techniques have virtually never appeared in
articles having the word 'separator' or any of its near-synonyms in
the title. Graph Separators with Applications fills this need.
This book explores and celebrates imaginative and creative
approaches to youth research, showcasing a wide range of innovative
methods including music elicitation, mental mapping, blog analysis
and mobile methods.
For the last twenty-five years, "Language, Discourse, Society" has
been the most intellectually challenging series in English. Its
titles range across the disciplines from linguistics to biology,
from literary criticism to law, combining vigorous scholarship and
theoretical analysis at the service of a broad political
engagement. This anniversary reader brings together a fascinating
group of thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic with an
introductory overview from the editors which considers the
development of theory and scholarship over the past two
decades.
This book is concerned with the significance of time in work and
everyday life. The contributors are among the foremost authorities
in the field, and their up-to-date contributions consider the
changing social meanings that time has in work, leisure and
everyday routines. Together they provide a combination of
theoretical and empirically-based approaches that reveal the social
significance of time in all aspects of everyday lives.
This short book is intended to help those struggling with basic
pre-algebra and beginning algebra skills. Written by a former high
school math teacher, it simplifies topics such as fractions and
exponents by using a mechanic's toolbox approach to problem
solving.
Title: Oration delivered before the Washington Society of Maryland
on the twenty-second February, 1812.Author: Upton S HeathPublisher:
Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed
bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926
contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works
about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early
1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery
and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil
War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an
up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP04807500CollectionID:
CTRG04-B493PublicationDate: 18120101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Collation: 23 p
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
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