Author: Nadia Solowij
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: functioning, cognitive, amp, cannabis
Number of Pages: 306
Published: 1998-06-15
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0521591147
ISBN-13: 9780521591140

Cannabis is the most widely used illicit substance in the world, but the question of whether its long term use can result in lasting and irreparable cognitive impairment remains controversial. This timely and well-argued volume provides an extensive and comprehensive critical review of the literature relevant to cannabis and cognitive functioning, examining the evidence in the light of important recent findings in the pharmacology and neuropsychology of cannabis. Original studies conducted by the author are presented, utilizing one of the most modern and sensitive techniques available to asses

Author: Gabriele Lakomski
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: organizational, functioning, theory, towards, leadership, managing
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2005-01-26
List price: $109.00
ISBN-10: 0080433529
ISBN-13: 9780080433523

A critical examination of leadership theories past and present, Managing without Leadership argues that leadership as traditionally understood does not explain organizational functioning. Bounded by empiricist assumptions and methodology, and including a narrow theory of mind as symbol processor, leadership theories are unable to support their claims about leaders and their actions. Drawing on coherentist epistemology, connectionism, and the theory of self-organizing dynamic systems, a naturalistic account of organizational functioning and organization design is explored that includes leaders

Authors:Paul W. Holland, Howard Wainer,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: functioning, item, differential
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 1993-01-01
List price: $145.00
ISBN-10: 0805809724
ISBN-13: 9780805809725

Test fairness is a moral imperative for both the makers and the users of tests. This book focuses on methods for detecting test items that function differently for different groups of examinees and on using this information to improve tests. Of interest to all testing and measurement specialists, it examines modern techniques used routinely to insure test fairness. Three of these relevant to the book’s contents are: * detailed reviews of test items by subject matter experts and members of the major subgroups in society (gender, ethnic, and linguistic) that will be represented in the ex

Author: Michael Allen
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: fungal, process, plant, integrative, functioning, mycorrhizal
Number of Pages: 534
Published: 1993-04-30
List price: $329.00
ISBN-10: 0412018918
ISBN-13: 9780412018916

It is now known that over 90 percent of all plants have established integrative plant-fungal processes in their root systems, and it may well turn out to be the case that virtually all plants have mycorrhizae. In this work, many of the best researchers in the field review the current status of research in plant-fungal communications, mycorrhizal organisms, applications, and biotechnology. The focus is a hierarchical one. This volume is comprehensive and covers both ectomycorrhizae and vesicular-arbuscular (VA) mycorrhizae, addressing concepts that are related to all the differe

Authors:Elena L. Grigorenko, Robert J. Sternberg,
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: span, perspective, life, functioning, environment, intellectual, family
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2001-04-01
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0805831843
ISBN-13: 9780805831849

What is the impact of the family environment on us, particularly with regard to our intellectual functioning? Does the role of early family environment wear off, as some researchers have suggested, or does it maintain or possibly even become more important as we grow older? This book examines the interrelationship between family environment and intellectual functioning in a lifespan perspective. Covering a wide range of topics, it provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date examination of life-span family influences on various aspects of intellectual function. For cognitive, development/l

Authors:Michel Loreau, Shahid Naeem, Pablo Inchausti,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: enviromental, science, perspectives, synthesis, ecosystem, functioning, biodiversity
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2002-11-28
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0198515715
ISBN-13: 9780198515715

The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning has emerged as one of the most exciting and dynamic areas in contemporary ecology. Increasing domination of ecosystems by humans is steadily transforming them into depauperate systems. How will this loss of biodiversity affect the functioning and stability of natural and managed ecosystems? This volume provides the first comprehensive and balanced coverage of recent empirical and theoretical research on this question. It reviews the evidence, provides bases for the resolution of the debate that has divided scientists on these issu

Authors:R. A. Perry, D. W. Goodall,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: biological, international, programme, synthesis, series, management, functioning, land, ecosystems, volume, structure, arid
Number of Pages: 923
Published: 1979-04-30
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 052121842X
ISBN-13: 9780521218429

The history of man’s use of arid lands is a sad record of deterioration of the natural resource base and of low and declining living standards for the 300 million people who live in them. One prerequisite to meeting the challenge of reversing the deterioration and of raising living standards is a sound knowledge of the natural ecosystems. It is to this end that the IBP and other relevant studies, reported in this and a succeeding volume, are addressed. The subject matter of the two volumes is organised into five major topics; two are dealt with in the first volume. The first section of v