Authors:Lorne Mason, Lorne Mason, Tadeusz Drwiega, James Yan,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: networks, canada, ottawa, june, telecommunications, proceedings, itc20, teletraffic, performance, traffic, converged, international, managing, congress
Number of Pages: 1191
Published: 2007-07-20
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 3540729895
ISBN-13: 9783540729891

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Teletraffic Congress, ITC 2007, held in Ottawa, Canada in June 2007. The 93 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited talks and 3 contributed papers of a plenary session were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on IPTV planning and modeling, network performance, routing, server/switch performance, service overlay networks, traffic source and aggregate models, performance optimization in mesh networks, QoS in converge

Author: Lorne L. Dawso
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: religious, movements, new, sociology, cults, comprehending
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006-01-25
List price: $47.95
ISBN-10: 0195420098
ISBN-13: 9780195420098

Comprehending Cults, Second Edition, provides a sociological interpretation of the phenomenon of new religious movements. While the author does not offer an apologia for cults--in either a religious or a sociological sense--he does attempt to replace suspicion and misinformation with a greater knowledge of the facts (as best we know them) and a measure of sympathetic understanding. Completely revised and updated in this second edition, the book examines all aspects of cults, while striving to delineate the very real limits of our knowledge. In addition to dealing with the troublesome aspects

Author: Lorne L. Dawso
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: blackwell, readings, religion, reader, movements, new, religious, cults
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2003-06-09
List price: $45.95
ISBN-10: 1405101814
ISBN-13: 9781405101813

What is a cult? Why do they emerge? Who joins them? And why do tragedies such as Waco and Jonestown occur? This reader brings together the voices of historians, sociologists, and psychologists of religion to address these key questions about new religious movements. Looks at theoretical explanations for cults, why people join and what happens when they do. Brings together the best work on cults by sociologists, historians, and psychologists of religion. A broad-ranging, balanced and clearly organized collection of readings. Includes coverage of topical issues, such as the ’brainwashing&#

Author: Lorne H Blackbourne
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Keywords: recall, series, american, fifth, surgical, north
Number of Pages: 800
Published: 2008-04-01
List price: $46.95
ISBN-10: 0781770769
ISBN-13: 9780781770767

Thoroughly updated for its Fifth Edition, this reference for third and fourth year medical students on surgical clerkships enables quick study in a rapid-fire Q&A format. A perfect fit for a lab coat pocket, this book is commonly used as a quick review prior to surgical rounds as well as for board review. Purchasers of this edition will get both the print book and access to MP3 audio files of the entire text. All Q&A material will also be posted online in the form of electronic flashcards for self-quizzing.

Author: Lorne H Blackbourne
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Keywords: recall, series, surgical, advanced
Number of Pages: 900
Published: 2007-08-01
List price: $46.95
ISBN-10: 0781770688
ISBN-13: 9780781770682

Advanced Surgical Recall, Third Edition is a quick review for the ABSITE and oral board exams in surgery. The book is written in rapid-fire question-and-answer format and contains detailed illustrations of anatomic landmarks and surgical techniques. This edition has seven new Microvignettes chapters that test recall via sample cases. These Microvignettes chapters include Clinical, Surgical Pathognomonic, Complications, Blood, Surgical Laboratory, Medical Treatment of Surgical Diagnoses, and Eponyms. Other new chapters include Advanced Procedures, Cell Biology and Cytokines, Wounds, Drains and

Author: Lorne T. Kirby
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: molecular, biology, breakthroughs, introduction, fingerprinting, dna
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1993-09-23
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0195118677
ISBN-13: 9780195118674

DNA fingerprinting is a revolutionary technique that enables scientists to match minute tissue samples and facilitates scientific studies on the composition, reproduction, and evolution of animal and plant populations. As a tool for positive identification of criminals, it plays a particularly important role in forensic science. The first book to be published in the field, DNA Fingerprinting is a practical guide to basic principles and laboratory methods as applied to a variety of fields including forensic analysis, paternity testing, medical diagnostics, animal and plant sciences, and wildl

Author: Lorne Falkenstein
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Keywords: toronto, studies, philosophy, aesthetic, transcendental, intuitionism, commentary, kant
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2004-03-24
List price: $46.95
ISBN-10: 0802037747
ISBN-13: 9780802037749

Ever since the publication of his Critique of Pure Reason in 1781, Immanuel Kant has occupied a central position in the philosophical world. In Kant’s Intuitionism ? the most detailed study of Kant’s views on the opening sections of the Critique since Hans Vaihinger’s Commentar zur Kants Kritik der reinen Vernunft more than a century ago ? Lorne Falkenstein focuses on one aspect of Kant’s Transcendental Aesthetic, namely, his position on how we manage to intuit the properties and relations of objects as they exist in space and time.The question of how much structure sen