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Language Learning and Concept Acquisition: Foundational Issues
This volume features work on learning by researchers in various disciplines who share an interest in the systematic study of cognition and in the study of the formal and semantic aspects of language acquisition. A recurring theme is that language …
Does the prospect of preparing your school district's budget seem daunting? Beginning school administrators, often having only one theoretical course on the subject under their belt, see the budget development process as a nightmare. New …
Computability, Complexity, and Languages: Fundamentals of Theoretical Computer Science
This introductory text covers the key areas of computer science, including recursive function theory, formal languages, and automata. It assumes very little background in formal mathematics. The book is divided into five parts: Computability, …
With People in Mind: Design and Management of Everyday Nature
"With People in Mind" explores how to design and manage areas of "everyday nature"—parks and open spaces, corporate grounds, vacant lots and backyard gardens, fields and forests—in ways that are beneficial to and appreciated by humans. The …
Handbook of Solid Waste Management and Waste Minimization Technologies
This Handbook is an essential tool for plant managers, process engineers, environmental consultants, and site remediation specialists that focuses on practices for handling a broad range of industrial solid waste problems. In addition to …
This text introduces engineering students to the principles and practice of engineering hydrology and shows, through examples, how to approach the apparently intractable problems which hydraulic engineers meet.;The last decade has been a time of …
Cavity-Enhanced Spectroscopies
"Cavity-Enhanced Spectroscopy" discusses the use of optical resonators and lasers to make sensitive spectroscopic measurements. This volume is written by the researcchers who pioneered these methods. The book reviews both the theory and practice …
Handbook of Air Pollution Prevention and Control
This Handbook provides a concise overview of the latest technologies for managing industrial air pollution in petrochemical, oil and gas, and allied industries. Detailed material on equipment selection, sizing, and troubleshooting operations is …
Optimizing Compilers for Modern Architectures: A Dependence-Based Approach
Modern computer architectures designed with high-performance microprocessors offer tremendous potential gains in performance over previous designs. Yet their very complexity makes it increasingly difficult to produce efficient code and to realize …
In The Corps and the Shore, Orrin H. Pilkey, the nation's most outspoken coastal geologist, and Katharine L. Dixon, an educator and activist for national coastal policy reform, provide a comprehensive examination of the impact of coastal …
Alternative Perspectives in Assessing Children's Language and Literacy
One of the realities of educational practice in the late 20th century is the increasing role of assessment, especially of children's oral and written language. While there are many issues and problems surrounding this assessment, one problem that …
Vigorous, colorful, bold and highly personal, "Breaking New Ground" is the autobiography of Gifford Pinchot, founder and first chief of the Forest Service. He tells a fascinating tale of his efforts, under President Theodore Roosevelt, to wrest …
Ecotoxicology: The Study of Pollutants in Ecosystems
Ecotoxicology, Third Edition discusses the ecological effects of pollutants: the ways in which ecosystems can be affected, and current attempts to predict and monitor such effects. The emphasis is on ecosystems; therefore toxicological approaches …
Whatever your programming language, whatever your platform, you probably tap into linker and loader functions all the time. But do you know how to use them to their greatest possible advantage? Only now, with the publication of Linkers & Loaders, …
Object-Oriented Neural Networks in C++
This book/disk package provides the reader with a foundation from which any neural network architecture can be constructed. The author has employed object-oriented design and object-oriented programming concepts to develop a set of foundation …
Planning for Biodiversity: Issues and Examples
"Planning for Biodiversity" provides an accessible introduction to ecological concepts for planning professionals and students. Sheila Peck explains why planners should be concerned with habitat preservation and presents practical approaches to …