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Kinds of Publishers Terms modified by Publishers Selected AbstractsLETTER FROM THE PUBLISHERJOURNAL OF FOOD SAFETY, Issue 4 2003JOHN J. O'NEIL No abstract is available for this article. [source] ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE PUBLISHERORAL DISEASES, Issue 3 2005Anthony Watkinson Publisher [source] News from the PublisherEXPERIMENTAL DERMATOLOGY, Issue 1 2010Article first published online: 15 DEC 200 No abstract is available for this article. [source] Modelling and design considerations on CML gates under high-current effectsINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CIRCUIT THEORY AND APPLICATIONS, Issue 6 2005M. Alioto Abstract In this paper, the effect of the transit time degradation of bipolar transistors on the power-delay trade-off in CML gates and their design is dealt with. A delay model which accounts for the transit time increase due to the high bias current values used in high-speed applications is derived by generalizing an approach previously proposed by the same authors (IEEE Trans. CAD 1999; 18(9):1369,1375; Model and Design of Bipolar and MOS Current,Mode Logic (CML, ECL and SCL Digital Circuits), Kluwer Academic Publisher: Dordrecht, 2005). The resulting closed-form delay expression is achieved by properly simplifying the SPICE model, and has an explicit dependence on the bias current which determines the power consumption of CML gates. Accordingly, the delay model is used to gain insight into the power-delay trade-off by considering the effect of the transit time degradation in high-speed designs. In particular, the cases where such effects can be neglected are identified, to better understand how the transit time degradation affects the performance of CML gates for current bipolar technologies. The proposed model has a simple and compact expression, thus it turns out to be suitable for pencil-and-paper evaluations, as well as fast timing analysis. Simulations of CML circuits with a 20-GHz bipolar process show that the model has a very good accuracy in a wide range of current and loading conditions. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] From the Publisher: Introducing Laser & Photonics ReviewsLASER & PHOTONICS REVIEWS, Issue 4 2007A. Grossmann No abstract is available for this article. [source] From the Publisher: Introducing Laser & Photonics ReviewsLASER & PHOTONICS REVIEWS, Issue 3 2007A. Grossmann [source] From the Publisher: Introducing Laser & Photonics ReviewsLASER & PHOTONICS REVIEWS, Issue 2 2007A. Grossmann No abstract is available for this article. [source] From the Publisher: Introducing Laser & Photonics ReviewsLASER & PHOTONICS REVIEWS, Issue 1 2007A. Grossmann [source] Tyler's Herbs of Choice the therapeutic use of phytomedicinals, Dennis V.C. Awang, Publisher: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Florida USA, 3rd edn, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7890-2809-9PHYTOTHERAPY RESEARCH, Issue 9 2010Eileen Smith No abstract is available for this article. [source] BAMBED Changes Publisher: Farewell, ASBMB; welcome, John WileyBIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY EDUCATION, Issue 6 2006Judith G. Voet No abstract is available for this article. [source] The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland and America By Richard B. SherHISTORY, Issue 311 2008RAYMOND BIRN No abstract is available for this article. [source] Experimental and theoretical investigation of the high-pressure behavior of concreteINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL METHODS IN GEOMECHANICS, Issue 1 2009Martin J. Schmidt Abstract The results of an experimental study aimed at characterizing the behavior of concrete for high confining pressures (up to 500,MPa) are reported. The main characteristics of the response under deviatoric conditions are quasi-linearity in the elastic regime, stress-path dependency, and gradual change from compressibility to dilatancy under increasing deviatoric stress. By performing the cyclic triaxial compression tests with several load,creep,unload and reload cycles, the time influence on the overall behavior was detected. Further, whether the main features of the observed behavior can be described within the framework of elastic/viscoplasticity theory was investigated. For this purpose, Cristescu's (Rock Rheology. Kluwer Academic Publishers: The Netherlands, 1989) approach was used. It was shown that the proposed elastic/viscoplastic model captures the main features of concrete behavior at high pressures. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Avoiding the "G" Word in International GovernanceINTERNATIONAL STUDIES REVIEW, Issue 1 2003Leila Simona Talani Common Goods: Reinventing European and International Governance. Edited by Adrienne Heritier. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002. 353 pp., $74.00 cloth (ISBN: 0-7425-1700-4), $29.95 paper (ISBN: 0-7425-1701-2) [source] Sample geometry effects on incoherent small-angle scattering of light waterJOURNAL OF APPLIED CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, Issue 1 2000F. Carsughi Light water is frequently used as a standard for calibrating small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) data. The intensities collected for 1 and 2,mm of light water in standard quartz cells may differ by up to about 50% due to the presence of multiple and inelastic scattering [Rennie & Heenan (1993). Proceedings of ISSI Meeting, Dubna, pp. 254,260, Report E3-93-65; Teixeira (1992). Structure and Dynamics of Strongly Interacting Colloids and Supramolecular Aggregates in Solution, edited by S. H. Chen, pp. 625,658. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers]. Multiple scattering increases with the thickness of the sample. The use of only elastically scattered neutrons may lead to an absolute intensity of the SANS data of about a factor of 2 higher than that obtained by taking into account all of the neutrons on the detector [Ghosh & Rennie (1990). Inst. Phys. Conf. Ser.107, 233,244]. However, it is shown here that the scattering intensities collected with different ratios of sample-to-beam dimension do present large differences as a function of sample thickness. In particular, ratios smaller and larger than unity are considered and the results are discussed and compared with Monte Carlo simulations. [source] Zoogeography of the southern African ascidian faunaJOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY, Issue 12 2004Carmen Primo Abstract Aim, To describe the biogeography of the ascidian fauna of southern Africa, to compare the results obtained with those reported for other fauna and flora of the same region, and to speculate about the origin of ascidians in the region. Location, Southern Africa extending over 4000 km from Mossāmedes (15° S,12° E) to Inhaca Island (26°30, S,33° E), including Vema Seamount (31°40, S,8 °20, E), Amsterdam-Saint Paul Islands (38° S,77°30, E) and the Tristan-Gough Islands (38° S,12°20, W). Methods, We constructed a presence/absence matrix of 168 species for 26 biogeographical divisions, 21 classical biogeographical regions described by Briggs (Marine zoogeography, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1974) and five provinces within the southern African region. We considered the following limits and divisions into provinces for the southern African region: Namibia, Namaqua, Agulhas and Natal as proposed by Branch et al. (Two oceans. A guide to the marine life of southern Africa, David Philip Publishers, 1994), and the West Wind Drift Islands province (WWD) according to Briggs (Global biogeography, Elsevier Health Sciences, Amsterdam, 1995). To examine the biogeographical structure, species and divisions were classified using cluster analysis (based on UPGMA as the aggregation algorithm) with the Bray,Curtis index of similarity. This classification was combined with MDS ordination. Main conclusions, Four main groups were obtained from the analysis of affinities among species: (1) species present in the WWD, separated by a high percentage of endemisms and a low number of species with a southern African distribution. Moreover, in the light of the species distribution and the results of further analysis, which revealed that they are completely separated and not at all related to the southern African region, it appears that there are no close relationships among the different islands and seamounts of the West Wind Drift Island province. This province was therefore removed from the remaining analyses; (2) species with a wide distribution; (3) species of colder waters present in Namaqua and Agulhas provinces, a transitional temperate area in which gradual mixing and replacement of species negate previous hypotheses on the existence of a marked distributional break at Cape of Good Hope; (4) species of warmer waters related to Natal province. The classification into biogeographical components was dominated by the endemic (47%), Indo-Pacific (25%) and cosmopolitan (13%) components. The analysis of affinities among biogeographical areas separated Namibia from the rest of the southern African provinces and showed that it was related to some extent to the Antarctic region because of the cold-temperate character of the province and the low sampling effort; Namaqua, Agulhas and Natal were grouped together and found to be closely related to the Indo-West Pacific region. In general, our results were consistent with those obtained for other southern African marine invertebrates. The frequency distribution of solitary/colonial strategies among provinces confirmed the domination of colonial organisms in tropical regions and solitary organisms in colder regions. Finally, we speculate that the southern African ascidian fauna mainly comprises Indo-Pacific, Antarctic and eastern Atlantic ascidians. [source] The validation of a rating scale to assess dietitians' use of behaviour change skillsJOURNAL OF HUMAN NUTRITION & DIETETICS, Issue 4 2008G. Bonner Background:, Evidence suggests that education alone is unlikely to elicit dietary-behavioural change (Contento, 1995). Consequently, many dietitians are moving from a traditional advice-giving role to one which utilises ,behaviour change skills' (BCS) in dietary counselling. BCS is an umbrella term used to cover a wide range of skills and techniques drawn from the fields of counselling, motivational interviewing (MI) and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). In order to assess the efficacy of this approach, a means of quantifying BCS-use is required. This two-stage study aimed to validate a newly-devised scale to assess dietitians' BCS-use in one-to-one dietary counselling. Methods:, Items for the scale were generated by drawing on the literature, syllabi for training in BCS and its parent disciplines (counselling, MI and CBT), and specialist dietitians. The resulting scale and manual were revised following assessment of content validity by expert panel and piloting. In stage one, 21 dietetic consultations were audiotaped and rated for BCS-use by three BCS-trained dietitians. Inter-rater agreement was calculated using the kappa statistic and intra-class correlation (ICC), to give a ,chance corrected' measure of agreement. Validity was tested using a psychologist's subjective assessment of BCS-use as a proxy ,gold-standard' compared with the dietitians' ratings, again using kappa and ICC. In stage two the scale was further revised before an additional 20 audiotaped consultations were analysed using the same procedure. Ethical approval for the study was given by the appropriate NHS and university research ethics committees. Results:, At stage one, although kappas were fairly poor for agreement on individual criteria, the ICC for overall scores indicated a ,fair' level of agreement, according to Shrout's (1998) classifications: ICC = 0.584 (CI 0.339,0.784). Results for validity were poor with the psychologist frequently rating higher than the dietitians. At stage two, following scale revision, results for inter-rater agreement improved with more criteria showing ,moderate' or ,substantial' agreement. Ten out of the 21 criteria achieved levels of agreement classified as ,fair' or higher for all three rater pairs. The ICC for overall scores improved to indicate ,moderate' agreement: ICC = 0.640 (CI 0.404,0.821). Validity results remained poor. Discussion:, The moderate level of overall inter-rater agreement observed in the revised scale is considered acceptable (Jones, 2006) and indicates this tool is useful. This measure is more relevant to the purpose of the tool than agreement on individual criteria given it is intended to classify consultations overall as low/medium/high use of BCS rather than to examine individual skills. However, in terms of validity, the discrepancy between dietitian and psychologist ratings requires further investigation. It is hypothesized that the dietitians had higher expectations of what a dietitian could achieve in terms of proficiency in BCS and, as such, rated more stringently than the psychologist. Achieving a clear picture of validity usually necessitates a series of assessments (Murphy & Davidshofer, 2005); the BCS rating scale is no exception with further testing required. Conclusions:, The revised scale shows acceptable inter-rater reliability and robust content validity in our study sample. However, quantitative examination of validity gave poor results and further assessment is required to provide a tool with which we can confidently assess dietitians' use of BCS. References, Contento, I., Balch, G.I., Bronner, Y.L. et al. (1995) The effectiveness of nutrition education and implications for nutrition education policy, programs, and research: a review of the research. J. Nutr. Educ.27, 355,364. Jones, J.M. (2006) Nutritional Screening and Assessment Tools. New York: Nova Science Publishers. Murphy, K.R. & Davidshofer, C.O. (2005) Psychological Testing , Principles and Applications, 6th edn. New Jersey: Pearson Education Inc. Shrout, P. (1998) Measurement reliability and agreement in psychiatry. Stat. Methods Med. Res. 7, 301,317. [source] Tourists, migrants and refugees: population movements in third world development by Milica Z. Bookman (Lynne Rienner Publishers: Boulder, London, 2006, pp.JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, Issue 2 2008No abstract is available for this article. [source] Words and Phrases: Corpus Studies of Lexical SemanticsJOURNAL OF LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 1 2006Cliff Goddard Words and Phrases: Corpus Studies of Lexical Semantics By Michael Stubbs. Massachusetts. Blackwell Publishers. 2001. [source] Turkey's Modernization: Refugees from Nazism and Ataturk's Vision , by Arnold Reisman (New Academia Publishers, LLC, ISBN: 0-9777908-8-6)JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH DENTISTRY, Issue 2 2007Article first published online: 9 MAY 200 No abstract is available for this article. [source] Modes of Religiosity: A Cognitive Theory of Religious TransmissionAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 1 2006MICHAEL WINKELMAN Modes of Religiosity:. Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission. Harvey Whitehouse. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004. 208 pp. [source] Violence in War and Peace: An AnthologyAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 4 2005ANDREW STRATHERN Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology. Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Philippe Bourgois, eds. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2004. 496 pp. [source] Waorani: The Contexts of Violence and WarAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 2 2000Klmberley Cook Waorani: The Contexts of Violence and War. Clayton Robarchek and Carole Robarchek. Fort Worth, TX: Harcouit Brace College Publishers, 1998. 202 pp. [source] Child's Play: Myth, Mimesis and Make-BelieveAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 1 2000Laura P. Appell Warren Child's Play: Myth, Mimesis and Make-Believe. L. R. Goldman. New York: Berg Publishers. 1998. 302 pp. [source] Effective condition number of Trefftz methods for biharmonic equations with crack singularitiesNUMERICAL LINEAR ALGEBRA WITH APPLICATIONS, Issue 2 2009Zi-Cai Li Abstract The paper presents the new stability analysis for the collocation Trefftz method (CTM) for biharmonic equations, based on the new effective condition number Cond_eff. The Trefftz method is a special spectral method with the particular solutions as admissible functions, and it has been widely used in engineering. Three crack models in Li et al. (Eng. Anal. Boundary Elements 2004; 28:79,96; Trefftz and Collocation Methods. WIT Publishers: Southampton, Boston, 2008) are considered, and the bounds of Cond_eff and the traditional condition number Cond are derived, to give the polynomial and the exponential growth rates, respectively. The stability analysis explains well the numerical experiments. Hence, the new Cond_eff is more advantageous than Cond. Besides since the bounds of Cond_eff and Cond involve the estimation of the minimal singular value ,min of the discrete matrix F, and since the estimation of ,min is challenging and difficult, the proof for lower bounds of ,min in this paper is important and intriguing. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] The Hard People: Rivalry, Sympathy and Social Structure in an Alpine ValleyAMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 2 2001Barbara Waldis The Hard People: Rivalry, Sympathy and Social Structure in an Alpine Valley. Patrick Heady. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1999. xi. 248 pp., maps, photographs, bibliography, index. [source] UnstructuringChinese Society: The Fictions of Colonial Practice and the Changing Realities of "Land" in the New Territories of Hong KongAMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 2 2001Eve Darian-Smith UnstructuringChinese Society: The Fictions of Colonial Practice and the Changing Realities of "Land" in the New Territories of Hong Kong. Allen Chun. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000. xi. 348 pp., tables, map, bibliography, appendix, index. [source] Parameterization of the CO2 and H2O gas exchange of several temperate deciduous broad-leaved trees at the leaf scale considering seasonal changesPLANT CELL & ENVIRONMENT, Issue 2 2003Y. KOSUGI ABSTRACT A combined model to simulate CO2 and H2O gas exchange at the leaf scale was parameterized using data obtained from in situ leaf-scale observations of diurnal and seasonal changes in the CO2 and H2O gas exchange of four temperate deciduous broad-leaved trees using a porometric method. The model consists of a Ball et al. type stomatal conductance submodel [Ball, Woodrow & Berry, pp. 221,224 in Progress in Photosynthesis Research (ed. I. Biggins), Martinus-Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1987] and a Farquhar et al. type biochemical submodel of photosynthesis (Farquhar, von Caemmerer & Berry, Planta 149, 78,90, 1980). In these submodels, several parameters were optimized for each tree species as representative of the quantitative characteristics related to gas exchange. The results show that the seasonal physiological changes of Vcmax25 in the biochemical model of photosynthesis should be used to estimate the long-term CO2 gas exchange. For Rd25 in the biochemical model of photosynthesis and m in the Ball et al. type stomatal conductance model, the difference should be counted during the leaf expansion period. [source] Form factors for core electrons useful for the application of quantum crystallography (QCr) to organic moleculesACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION A, Issue 4 2002Lulu Huang Form factors are calculated for the core electrons of the first-row atoms B, C, N, O and F. The form factors are presented in an analytical form, as appears in International Tables for X-ray Crystallography [Ibers & Hamilton (1974), Vol. IV, pp. 103,145. Birmingham: Kynoch Press; present distributor Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht]. Having such form factors for the core electrons reduces the number of parameters to be determined by the methods of quantum crystallography (QCr). It is shown that the form factors obtained are quite accurate. Thus, when they are used in QCr, they are expected to be consistent with accurate charge densities. [source] Scientific Style and Format: The CSE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers.ANZ JOURNAL OF SURGERY, Issue 1-2 2009Abbreviations: A Guide for Authors, Editors in Medicine, Related Sciences, Symbols, Units No abstract is available for this article. [source] Book reviews Comptes rendusCANADIAN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION/ADMINISTRATION PUBLIQUE DU CANADA, Issue 4 2004Article first published online: 9 JAN 200 Dream No Little Dreams: A Biography of the Douglas Government of Saskatchewan, 1944,1961. IPAC Series in Public Management and Governance By a.w. johnson, with the assistance of Rosemary Proctor. Federalism in the Forest: National Versus State Natural Resource Policy. American Governance & Public Policy Series By tomas m. koontz. Washington, D.C.: Georgetozorr University Press. Beyond Service: State Workers, Public Policy, and the Prospects for Democratic Administration. IPAC Series in Public Management and Governance By greg mcelligott. Toronto: University of Toronto Press The Regulators: Anonymous Power Brokers in American Politics By cindy skrzycki. New York and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. [source] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||