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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Arthur's greatest success was in cutting the surplus, although it was a modest reduction, maintaining the protectionist tariff system, achieving civil service reform, and rebuilding the navy. Like every president he did disappoint and he carefully crafted his politics to achieve his ends. The years of Arthur's administration were ones of great changes. Industrial growth and consolidation led to massive economic changes. Companies were no longer local entities, but now competed in the international marketplace. Single companies took over entire industries. John Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and John P. Morgan ushered in the era of the trust. In North Carolina, James Duke began mass producing cigarettes, the first significant step on the way to a national economy based on consumption.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is written to educate people who have developed diabetes, who have concern that they may develop diabetes because of family history of diabetes, and those who are curious to know about diabetes. Diabetes is so prevalent that it has become a universal topic for gossip, super-ceding the gossip for heart disease or cancer. Diabetes is a disease associated with abnormally high sugar in the blood. By definition, high sugar in the blood is due to lack of a hormone called insulin produced from pancreas. Some are born with low insulin level, giving rise to diabetes in childhood; whereas others decrease insulin production over the years and develop overt diabetes. Notwithstanding a variety of insulin preparations, plethora of oral antidiabetic agents, and enormous funding for research, diabetes care is at a stake.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book reviews the most relevant academic literature on political leadership in order to analyse a variety of diverse issues in this subject. Political leadership has already achieved remarkable contributions from researchers. Moreover, this area of research is expanding clearly and that raises interest inside and outside the academic world. Nevertheless, there is still a lot of work to be done so that the literature on political leadership reaches its critical mass.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The past two decades alone have witnessed four major shocks to the global financial system: the collapse of the European exchange rate mechanism in 1992-1993, the peso crisis in 1994-1995 and the Asian turmoil in 1997-1998. The last, and most current, is the sub-prime bubble, which started in the summer of 2007 in the United States, intensified in 2008 and 2009, and has since changed the face of global finance and economics. This book examines the aspects of the financial crisis which have had the most prominent impacts on African countries.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book explores the history of the Senate's role in choosing members of the cabinet in a new presidential administration. While some drafters of the Constitution believed the Senate's role would be minimal, others said the Senate would play a large role. The role the Senate has played in the nomination process has depended, in part, upon the relationship between the President and the Senate. Nonetheless, while there have been many controversies over nominations, the vast majority of nominees eventually make it through the process and are confirmed. The Senate has also developed or adapted practices to deal with the confirmation process, none of which are explicitly contain in the Senate rules, but all of which have been adhered to and recognised by the chamber at one time or another. This book consists of public domain documents which have been located, gathered, combined, reformatted, and enhanced with a subject index, selectively edited and bound to provide easy access.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Over the past several years, gasoline prices have risen well above their historic average. In many parts of the United States, gasoline prices were above $3 per gallon for much of 2007. Although consumers in the past did not respond very much to small fluctuations in the price of gasoline, the recent large increases have led many people to make adjustments, for example, in the way they drive and in the kinds of vehicles they buy. This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) study, prepared at the request of the Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, relates rising gasoline prices to changes in how fast people drive, the volume of highway traffic, and rail transit ridership. It also examines the effects on market shares, fuel economy, and pricing of cars and light trucks purchased over the past several years. With the world-wide price of oil continuing to rise, this book provides an indication of the kinds of adjustments consumers would make if gasoline prices continue to rise, and of the implications of rising gasoline prices for policies that would discourage gasoline consumption and thus limit the growth in carbon dioxide emissions. This book consists of public documents which have been located, gathered, combined, reformatted, and enhanced with a subject index, selectively edited and bound to provide easy access.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book summarises recent progress of a newly developed novel bioengineering technology, namely low-energy ion beam bioengineering (IBB). Low-energy IBB has demonstrated powerful impacts and highly potential applications on biology, agriculture, horticulture and life science owing to multiple-factor interaction between energetic ions and biological organisms, as well as low-cost and convenience in operation.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The U.S. Secret Service has two missions: criminal investigations and protection. Criminal investigation activities, which have expanded since its inception as a small anti-counterfeiting operation at the end of the Civil War, now encompass financial crimes, identity theft, counterfeiting, computer fraud, and computer-based attacks on the nation's financial, banking, and telecommunications infrastructure. Protection activities, which have expanded and evolved since the 1890s, include the safety and security of the President, Vice President, their families, and other identified individuals and locations. This book frames potential policy questions concerning the Service's mission and organisation through an examination of the U.S. Secret Service history and its statutory authorities, mission, and present activities within the Department of Homeland Security.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Rutherford B Hayes and Lucy Webb Hayes lived their lives as though they knew Rutherford would become President of the United States one day. They not only led exemplary lives from beginning to end, but saved an incredible amount of information for the future historian. Lucy saved almost all of her letters since girlhood. Rutherford did likewise, plus kept a regular diary from his youth to his death. This book recounts the story of Lucy Hayes through the words of Lucy herself and those who knew her instead of merely having the events filtered through a historian's paraphrase and summary. Accordingly, there is a fair amount of quotation from Lucy herself, from Rutherford, and from others, in the course of this book.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Judge Sonia Sotomayor was nominated by President Obama to the U.S. Supreme Court on May 26, 2009. This book explores and examines selected opinions written by Judge Sotomayor relating to the civil rights of individuals with disabilities and includes a discussion of cases relating to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and also reviews her opinions involving abortion and family planning practices. This book considers also Judge Sotomayor's extensive record, compiled from years as a lawyer, prosecutor, district court judge, and appellate court judge, to better understand her legal approaches and judicial philosophy. This book consists of public documents which have been located, gathered, combined, reformatted, and enhanced with a subject index, selectively edited and bound to provide easy access.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A permanent issue in compulsory education is how to promote students' active working in the classroom. Even if group work is used as one type of working method in compulsory education as a means for committed learning and for social development, there seems to be a trend towards less time spent on collaboration tasks in favour of individual assignments in the classroom. This book presents compiled knowledge, based on previous research concerning co-operation in groups among students, or more specific, how to create and maintain well functioning group work in an educational context.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book examines conceptions of learning, that is, systematic sets of beliefs concerning learning that people develop. Such beliefs encompass issues such as what learning means, where, when and how it occurs, what happens in our minds while we are learning, and so on. Conceptions of learning are not mere subjective representations, but they play a causal role in the learning/teaching processes. In fact, it has been shown that the quality of the learning outcomes and the approaches to the learning tasks, as well as the general level of school achievement, are related to the students' conceptions of learning.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Aging is a heterogeneous process with a progressive and general decrease of the organism functions that leads to a lower ability to adaptively react to changes and preserve homeostasis. Consequently, with ageing there is an increase in vulnerability to age-associated pathologies or simply the impairment of functions that leads to death. There are different rates of age-related physiological changes and the 'biological age' determines the level of ageing experienced by each individual and therefore his/her life expectancy. This book discusses research which suggests that the functional parameters studied in neutrophils may be useful markers of 'biological age' and predictors of longevity.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book examines research in the field of biotechnology, as well as very important problems for ecology in the big cities. The book also places special emphasis on certain problems such as the influence of humous components in the soil on the reaction kinetics of remediation, heavy metal analysis of soil based on fuzzy logic system, and bio-resistant building composites on the basis of glass wastes. Additional topics discussed include the simulation of a biological degradation, biological corrosion of pipe-line materials, the role of polymorphism of endothelial no-synthas in development of atopic dermatitis and formation of the 'atopic marsh' among children, and the transformation of nitrogen and phosphorus compounds during biological treatment at the Minsk treatment plant.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sixteen of the European Union's twenty-seven member states share an economic and monetary union (EMU) with the euro as a single currency. Based on a gross domestic product (GDP) and global trade and investment shares comparable to the United States, these countries (collectively referred to as the Eurozone) are a major player in the world economy and can affect U.S. economic and political interests in significant ways. This book provides background information and analysis on the future of the Eurozone and discusses its origins, rationale, economic significance, key provisions and design challenges.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book explores recent legislative activity which highlights the phenomenon of 'libel tourism,' whereby litigants bring libel suits in foreign jurisdictions in order to take advantage of plaintiff-friendly libel laws.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - There is far less empirical and statistical studies performed with regard to the service sector than the manufacturing sector. The productivity of the service sector has not been identified clearly in relation to the sectoral growth because the productivity of service sectors has not been improved for decades in major OECD countries. The growth of service sectors are important particularly from the viewpoint of small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which consist a large part of the service sector even more than that of manufacturing sector. This book examines the importance of service sectors in regard to the growth of the entire economy.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An area of continued study in ecology is the investigation of mechanisms that allow for many species of plants to coexist in contravention of a simple interpretation of the principle of competitive exclusion. This book reviews current research work implemented on the involvement of soil microbial community in regulating plant community composition and distribution. A particular focus is placed on the implication of mycorrhizal symbioses in promoting multi-species assemblages in plant communities.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Keeping the air clean is one of the most important aims in environmental protection. The fugitive emissions especially volatile organic compounds (VOC's) and the ozone-precursors nitrogen oxides (NOX) have a great impact on the quality of the atmospheric air. Fugitive emissions from leaking valves, pumps and flanges are one of the main problems in industrial applications. Elimination or reduction of fugitive emissions could potentially save the industry millions of dollars and prolong scarce resources. This book discusses fugitive emissions, their sources and their impact on the environment.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Artificial neural networks (ANN) are widely used in diverse fields of science and industry. Though there have been numerous techniques used for their implementations, the choice of a specific implementation is subjected to different factors including cost, accuracy, processing speed and overall performance. Featured with synaptic plasticity, the process of training is concerned with adjusting the individual weights between each of the individual ANN neurons until we can achieve close to the desired output. This book introduces the common trajectory-driven and evolutionary-based ANN training algorithms.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A multi-regime fluid flow model for internal flows has been applied to several pipe and duct problems. The investigated flow regimes and inter-regime transformations include fully laminar and fully turbulent, laminarisation, and turbulentisation. The model auto-selects both the flow regimes and the inter-regime transformations. This book studies both steady and unsteady flows, as well as flows in pipes and ducts of both axially unchanging cross section and axially enlarging cross section.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book analyses different aspects of molecular orbital pap studies in tunnelling single molecular devices. The topics of tunnelling crossover regime and electrical probing of gap between molecular orbitals are highlighted in this book. In the first section, the analysis of direct (low bias regime that corresponds to Simmons model) and field emission, Fowler-Nordheim (FN) tunnelling, and a crossover between these regimes in molecular nanojunction are presented. In the second section, an introduction to electrical and optical molecular gap-probed measurements is presented.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The cluster model, also called the logarithmically periodic solid or LPS, can be used to represent a supercluster and is infinitely extensive, uniquely aligned and uniquely icosahedral. This book presents a review of logarithmically periodic solids with important new properties for ready access.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Fibre-reinforced composites have been used for more than 50 years and are still evolving in terms of material integrity, manufacturing process and its performance under adverse conditions. The advent of graphite fibres from polyacrylonitrile organic polymer has resulted in a high performance material, namely carbon based composites, performing better in every respect than glass fibre-reinforced plastic (GFRP). However, glass fibres are still in high demand in wide applications, where the cost takes precedence over performance. This book examines the complex issues surrounding the fatigue, fracture and durability of GFRP-CSM.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this book the complex impact of colour action on the organism is discussed. It is shown that the perception of colour depends on the action of irritants on other sensor systems and, vice versa, the action of colour may exert exciting or inhibiting influence on the perception of sounds or smells. The facts of mutual influence of the sensor systems force us to consider not only a single observation but the entire experience as a continuous flow of sensations which is formulated as the empirical monism principle. This book proposes the solutions of these problems from the point of view of perception's activity and continuity.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Lung development is a methodical and co-ordinated process that culminates in the creation of an organ that contains airways, alveoli, blood vessels, multiple innate and acquired host defence systems, and processes to weaken the harmful effects of oxygen in the environment. By regulating cellular differentiation and branching morphogenesis, vitamin A plays an essential role during lung development. Retinoic acid is required for normal alveolar development and vitamin A administration increases lung's elastic fibre contents at birth. Additionally, several experiments showed that retinoic acid restores alveolar architecture to dexamethasone-treated lungs and maintains alveolar development in lungs treated with an angiogenic inhibitor. This book discusses and presents data on vitamin A and its role in lung development.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The short-range-order structure of lead borate glasses is rather complex and depends on the relative ratios of boron to lead atoms in chemical composition. Different structural groups like penta- and diborates containing three and four coordinated boron, ring- and chain-type metaborate units containing non-bridging oxygens, and boroxol ring can be found in lead borate glasses. Borate glasses with PbO and/or PbX2 content doped with Ln3+ have been investigated using spectroscopic methods in relation to practical applications as solid-state laser active media, NIR tuneable lasers, NIR-to-visible up-conversion systems and broadband optical amplifiers. This new book presents aspects concerning the excited state relaxation of Ln3+ ions in lead borate glasses and glass-ceramics are discussed, as well as optical properties of lanthanide-doped lead borate glasses.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Molecular biological techniques enable rapid detection of pathogenic micro-organisms in water by providing levels of sensitivity and specificity difficult to accomplish with traditional culture-based assays which take days to achieve. Our understanding of the composition, phylogeny, physiology and functional of microbial communities in the environment have been updated by molecular techniques. This book describes the direct detection of pathogens by molecular biologic techniques (ie: techniques based on the analysis of the nucleic acid content (DNA and RNA) of pathogens).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Geospatial information is data referenced to a place (a set of geographic co-ordinates) which can often be gathered, manipulated, and displayed in real time. A Geographic Information System (GIS) is a computer system capable of capturing, storing, analysing, and displaying geographically referenced information. In recent years consumer demands have skyrocketed for geospatial information tools like GIS to manipulate and display geospatial information. The federal government and policy makers increasingly use geospatial information and tools like GIS for producing floodplain maps, conducting Census, mapping foreclosures, and responding to natural hazards such as wildfires and hurricanes. This book provides an overview on geospatial data and GIS and discusses issues that may be of interest to Congress.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book discusses phase selective and morphology controllable processing of titania (TiO2) nanocrystals and their enhanced functionality via doping for photo-catalytic, luminescent, and magnetic applications. Materials synthesis has been achieved by two 'extreme' techniques: low temperature soft-chemical processing (typically.