Authors:Jean Little,  Renne Benoit,
Publisher: Orca Book Publisher
Keywords: readers, orca, birdie
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2002-09-01
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 155143203X
ISBN-13: 9781551432038

One minute she was not there and the next she had dashed in among them, her dangling leash sailing through the air after her. Her silky coat rippled in the breeze and she had incredible ears, black and tall, shaped like butterfly wings. Her feathery tail curled up over her back one minute, streamed out behind her the next and, a second later, tucked itself out of sight between her legs. To Dickon, that tail shouted, "I want to befriends ... I’m running away ... I’m afraid." He understood the little dog completely. He, too, had felt confused and desperate. Dickon wasn’t happy

Authors:Julia S. Higgins, Henry C. Benoît,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: scattering, neutron, matter, condensed, oxford, polymers, series
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 1997-03-27
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0198500637
ISBN-13: 9780198500636

The application of neutron scattering to polymers provides information which cannot be obtained by other techniques and has allowed progress in our understanding of polymer conformation in the bulk. This book presents examples which are needed to understand how these techniques can be applied. It is specifically written to introduce the newcomer and non-expert in physics or chemistry to the experimental techniques and the basic theory necessary to understand the results.

Authors:Dominique Ladiray, Benoit Quenneville,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: notes, statistics, lecture, method, adjustment, seasonal
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2001-01-10
List price: $124.00
ISBN-10: 0387951717
ISBN-13: 9780387951713

The most widely used statistical method in seasonal adjustment is without doubt that implemented in the X-11 Variant of the Census Method II Seasonal Adjustment Program. Developed at the US Bureau of the Census in the 1950’s and 1960’s, this computer program has undergone numerous modifications and improvements, leading especially to the X-11-ARIMA software packages in 1975 and 1988 and X-12-ARIMA, the first beta version of which is dated 1998. While these software packages integrate, to varying degrees, parametric methods, and especially the ARIMA models popularized by Box and J

Authors:Benoit B. Mandelbrot, P.H. Cootner, E.F. Fama, W.S. M
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: finance, scaling, fractals
Number of Pages: 551
Published: 1997-09-18
List price: $84.95
ISBN-10: 0387983635
ISBN-13: 9780387983639

BLECK: PHYSICS TODAY "At once a compendium of Mandelbrot’s pioneering work and a sampling of new results, the presentation seems modeled on the brilliant avant-garde film ’Last Year in Marienbad’, in which the usual flow of time is suspended, and the plot is gradually revealed by numerous but slightly different repetitions of a few repetitions of a few underlying events...Mandelbrot writes with economy and felicity, and he intersperses the more mathematical sections with frank historical anecdotes, such as the events that led up to his work on cotton pricing and the embar

Authors:Benoit Morel, Igor Linkov,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: environmental, risk, role, security, workhop, science, series, research, proceedings, management, assessment, nato, advanced
Number of Pages: 325
Published: 2005-12-15
List price: $159.00
ISBN-10: 1402038917
ISBN-13: 9781402038914

The concept of "Environmental security" has emerged as one basis for understanding international conflicts. This phrase can mean a variety of things. It can signify security issues stemming from environmental concerns or conflicting needs, or it can mean that the environment is treated as a resource for the long term, and the question is what should be done today to preserve the quality of the environment in the future. Over the last several years, the authors of this book and their colleagues have demonstrated the power and value of risk assessment and decision analysis as tools that decision

Authors:Dr. Benoît Rihoux, Dr. Charles C. Ragin,
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: comparative, methods, applied, social, research, techniques, qca, qualitative, analysis, configurational, related
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-08-14
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 1412942357
ISBN-13: 9781412942355

Configurational Comparative Methods paves the way for an innovative approach to empirical scientific work through a strategy that integrates key strengths of both qualitative (case-oriented) and quantitative (variable-oriented) approaches. This first-of-its-kind text is ideally suited for "small-N" or "intermediate-N" research situations, which both mainstream qualitative and quantitative methods find difficult to address. Benoît Rihoux and Charles C. Ragin, along with their contributing authors, offer both a basic, comparative research design overview and a technical and hands-on review of C

Authors:Donald P. Cushman,  Branislav Kovacic,
Publisher: State University of New York Pre
Keywords: communication, human, series, processes, theory, research, watershed, traditions
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1995-09-01
List price: $60.50
ISBN-10: 0791425975
ISBN-13: 9780791425978

This sampling of watershed research traditions in interpersonal, organizational, and mass communication manifests how communication theory is developed, defended and extended at a philosophical, theoretical and practical level of inquiry from a plurality of research perspectives. The book includes the foundational works of Pearce, Cronen, and Associates on the coordinated management of meaning; Berger, Gudykunst, and Associates on uncertainty and anxiety reduction theory; Cushman, Nicotera and Associates on the communication rules involved in establishing and maintaining interpersonal relation