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Centered around major topic areas of both theoretical and practical importance, the World Congress on Neural Networks provides its registrants -- from a diverse background encompassing industry, academia, and government -- with the latest research and applications in the neural network field.

The reform programme introduced by Peruvian President General Juan Velasco Alvarado in 1969 ushered in one of the most ambitious agrarian reforms in Latin America. This is a study of the effects on the lives and sense of identity of a Peruvian peasant community.

This book focuses on the centrality of illness-particularly psychosomatic illness-as an imaginative construct in Victorian culture. It shows how illness shaped the terms through which people perceived relationships between body and mind, self and other, private and public, and how Victorians tried to understand and control their world through a process of physiological and pathological definition.

Challenges for Russian Economic Reform contains papers published by the Post-Soviet Business Forum at the Royal Institute of International Affairs that have been revised for this volume. The contributors, specialists in Russian economic affairs, examine the principal economic and institutional factors that have hindered transformation in Russia. The sheer size of the country has complicated the problem of exposing domestic producers to foreign...

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In this provocative examination of the fall of the profession of social work from its original mission to aid and serve the underprivileged, Harry Specht and Mark Courtney show how America's excessive trust in individualistic solutions to social problems have led to the abandonment of the poor in this country. A large proportion of all certified social workers today have left the social services to enter private practice, thereby turning to th...

Acknowledgments1: Winning Glory for Beijing2: Historical Overview: Sports, the Body, and the Nation3: Public Culture: On Sports Clubs, Public Events, and Representation4: Body Culture and Consumer Culture in China's 1987 National Games5: Qing Dynasty Grand Sacrifice and Communist National Games: Rituals of the Chinese State?6: Training the Body for China: Civilization, Discipline, and Social Order7: "Those Who Work with Their Brains Rule, Thos...

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Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- I. Eröffnung -- II. Erster Beratungsgegenstand: Kabinettsfrage und Gesetzgebungsnotstand nach dem Bonner Grundgesetz -- III. Zweiter Beratungsgegenstand. Tragweite der Generalklausel im Art. 19 Abs. 4 des Bonner Grundgesetzes -- IV. Verzeichnis der Redner -- V. Verzeichnis der Mitglieder der Vereinigung der Deutschen Staatsrechtslehrer -- VI. Satzung

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- I. Eröffnungsansprache / Triepel, Geheimrat -- II. Erster Beratungsgegenstand: Der deutsche Föderalismus in Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft -- III. Zweiter Beratungsgegenstand: Die Diktatur des Reichspräsiden nach Art. 48 der Reichsverfassung -- IV. Verzeichnis der Mitglieder der Vereinigung der deutschen Staatsrechtslehrer -- V. Satzung

Focuses on the craft of the stonemason. This book covers the basic methods of working stone, the making of specialized tools, and, includes a full analysis of the procedures for setting-out for repairs. It also looks at the causes of decay in stone and outline methods for repair of both stone and mortar.

Schwingungsprobleme, insbesondere mechanische Schwingungen, spielen in vielen Industriezweigen, z.B. im Maschinen-Stahl-, Fahrzeug-oder Schiffbau, eine große Rolle. Zwischen den Anforderungen, die die Praxis zur Lösung solcher Probleme stellt und dem, was an den Hochschulen und Universitäten auf diesem Gebiet gelehrt wird, klaffi naturgemäß eine Lücke. In den Grundlagenfächern der Technischen Mechanik fur Maschinenbauer werden vor allem Schwin...

Angesichts der aktuellen Forderung nach einer Wertorientierung der Unternehmensführung, der zunehmenden Globalisierung der Unternehmen und der Rückbesinnung auf Kernkompetenzen gewinnt die Frage nach der Zentralisation und Dezentralisation von Entscheidungsaufgaben wieder besondere Bedeutung. Harald Hungenberg analysiert das Problem der Verteilung von strategischen Entscheidungen für den Unternehmenstyp des Konzerns aus einer neuartigen Perspe...

In this reappraisal of public health and health promotion in contemporary societies, Deborah Lupton explores public health and health promotion using contemporary sociocultural and political theory, particularly that building on Foucault's writings on subjectivity, embodiment and power relations. The author examines the implications of the new social theories for the study of health promotion and health communication to analyze the symbolic na...

During the past three decades, organization studies have witnessed a succession of theoretical perspectives - contingency theory, resource dependency and population ecology - that focus on one or other aspect of organizations. Only institutional theory highlights the importance of the wider social and cultural environment as the `ground' in which organizations are rooted. This book brings together original work from two different research tra...

From the creator of Father Dowling comes an addition to the Andrew Broom mystery series following the case of the death of a wealthy business man found dead on the green of the seventh hole of the Wyler Country Club, leaving Broom, the top lawyer in town, to solve to case. As the top lawyer in his hometown of Wyler, Indiana, Andrew Broom is living the best life he can with a flawless trial record in a town where everybody knows everybody and t...

This text combines stochastic modeling and statistical inference in a variety of standard and less common models, such as point processes, Markov random fields and hidden Markov models, in a clear, thoughtful and succinct manner. The main distinguishing feature of this work is that, in addition to probability theory, it contains statistical aspects of model fitting and a variety of data sets that are either analysed in the text or used as exer...