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Describes and assesses the nature and consequences of the increasing number of mergers among corporations in control of media that deliver content to audiences worldwide. The author examines how they are organized, the nature of their goals, and the implications of their continued growth.

Provides a review of the climate change effects on lake hydrodynamics and water quality. This title provides case studies to illustrate the advancement in modeling research on lake hydrodynamics, thermal stratification, pollutant transport and water quality by highlighting the climate change aspects in the application of these techniques.

A guide to help professionals select the most advantageous applications of GIS modules and distributed models for watershed runoff. This work identifies state-of-the-art GIS hydrology analysis software and techniques, as well as, GIS types and map projections. It contains 7 chapters that cover data commonly required for hydrologic analysis.

Covers applications of modern structural safety and reliability concepts and methods to highway bridge engineering practice. This work contains topics like: Bridge Reliability Concepts and Methods, Modeling of Bridge Loads, Bridge Strength, Reliability of Bridge Components and Systems, Bridge Evaluation, and Nondestructive Bridge Testing.

Contains five papers from sessions of the Third National Conference of the Geo-Institute. These papers focus on the advances in field and laboratory characterization of transportation geo-materials. Topics include evaluation of in situ resilient modulus testing techniques, evaluation of geogrid-reinforced granular base, and more.

This text reflects improvements in democratic trends and the erosion of democratic advances in different countries. It regards political actors and institutions, and is concerned about the impact on democratic consolidation of economic constraints, weak states, judicial inefficacy and inequality.

Dealing with the instrumentation of embankment dams and levees, this manual includes the geotechnical concepts and the concerns of rehabilitation, replacement, and maintenance. The topics include: behavior of embankments and abutments, instrumentation concepts, objectives, and system design considerations, and summary of measurement methods.

Written for scientists and technologists in the flavor and food industries, this book provides a comprehensive review of the natural sources of flavor ingredients and the formulation, manufacture, and application of food flavorings. New to this edition are chapters on pharmaceutical and tobacco flavorings.

It is difficult for today's students of archaeology to imagine an era when chronometric dating methods were unavailable. However, even a casual perusal of the large body of literature that arose during the first half of the twentieth century reveals a battery of clever methods used to determine the relative ages of archaeological phenomena, often with considerable precision. Stratigraphic excavation is perhaps the best known of the various r...

How should universities balance the requirements of teaching with those of scholarship? The consensus that scholarship counts first and teaching comes second has lost its hold, for in an academic world in which few publish (95 percent of publications come from 5 percent of the professors), insisting on the priority of scholarship rings hollow

The nonlocality phenomena exhibited by entangled quantum systems are certainly one of the most extraordinary aspects of quantum theory. This book discusses this phe¿ nomenon according to several points of view, i.e., according to different interpretations of the mathematics of the quantum formalism. The several interpretations of the Copenhagen interpretation, the many worlds, the de Broglie-Bohm, quantum logics, the decohering by the environm...

Sara Haardt's character sketches, short stories, and essays appeared regularly in leading literary and popular magazines of the 1920s and 1930s. Southern Souvenirs brings together both prize-winning and previously unpublished work, reintroduces Haardt to scholar and general reader alike, and restores her place in the pantheon of southern letters.Although Haardt struggled with poor health throughout her life, she published widely in such magazi...

What's fair? It is an old question in journalism. In 1999, it seems more difficult to answer than ever. The cycle of story, spin, and counterspin that surrounds the White House is only the most obvious part of the problem. In the past 25 years, the practice of journalism has changed enormously -- particularly in the United States. The demarcation of public and private life that once ruled certain kinds of stories out-of-bounds has eroded, leav...

A moving and genre-defying text, written after a great loss, that blurs the boundaries between writing and performance

There is recurrent public concern with enhancing the quality of professional performance

It is certain that, over the next few years, data traffic will dwarf voice traffic on telecommunications networks. Growth in data-traffic volumes far exceeds that for voice, and is driven by increased use of applications such as e-mail attachments, remote printing and fileserver access, and the now omnipresent World Wide Web. The growth of data networking to connect computers with each other and with their peripheral devices began in earnest i...

Describes conflicts over land use on the Brazilian frontier and analyzes the evolution of property rights from an institutional perspective

The English civil wars loom large in 17th-century history and literature and the period was one of profound change. This work helps to provide an understanding of the English civil wars' manifold and sometimes indirect presence in the literature of the period.

Just suppose, for a moment, that all rings of integers in algebraic number fields were unique factorization domains, then it would be fairly easy to produce a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, fitting, say, in the margin of this page. Unfortunately however, rings of integers are not that nice in general, so that, for centuries, math­ ematicians had to search for alternative proofs, a quest which culminated finally in Wiles' marvelous results - b...

Who really pays for health benefits? An accessible explanation of the economic theory behind this question