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International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 2011

The twenty-sixth volume in the most prestigious series of annual volumes in the field of industrial and organizational psychology, providing authoritative and integrative reviews of the key literature in the field All chapters written by established experts and all topics carefully chosen to reflect the major concerns in both the research literature and in current practice Presents developments in such established areas as stress and well-being, consumer behavior, employee trust, deception and applicant faking, the assessment of job performance and work attitudes, and the employment interview Newer topics explored include methodological issues in the development and evaluation of multiple regression models, and the psychological impact of the physical office environment Each chapter offers a comprehensive and critical survey of the chosen topic, and each is supported by a valuable bibliography

Model Organisms in Drug Discovery

Fruit flies are "little people with wings" goes the saying in the scientific community, ever since the completion of the Human Genome Project and its revelations about the similarity amongst the genomes of different organisms. It is humbling that most signalling pathways which "define" humans are conserved in Drosophila, the common fruit fly. Feed a fruit fly caffeine and it has trouble falling asleep; feed it antihistamines and it cannot stay awake. A C. elegans worm placed on the antidepressant flouxetine has increased serotonin levels in its tiny brain. Yeast treated with chemotherapeutics stop their cell division. Removal of a single gene from a mouse or zebrafish can cause the animals to develop Alzheimer’s disease or heart disease. These organisms are utilized as surrogates to investigate the function and design of complex human biological systems. Advances in bioinformatics, proteomics, automation technologies and their application to model organism systems now occur on an industrial scale. The integration of model systems into the drug discovery process, the speed of the tools, and the in vivo validation data that these models can provide, will clearly help definition of disease biology and high-quality target validation. Enhanced target selection will lead to the more efficacious and less toxic therapeutic compounds of the future. Leading experts in the field provide detailed accounts of model organism research that have impacted on specific therapeutic areas and they examine state-of-the-art applications of model systems, describing real life applications and their possible impact in the future. This book will be of interest to geneticists, bioinformaticians, pharmacologists, molecular biologists and people working in the pharmaceutical industry, particularly genomics.

NET for Visual FoxPro Developers

Designed to introduce Visual FoxPro programmers to the software development tools of .NET, this informative handbook provides a detailed overview of the .NET framework and the C# and Visual Basic .NET languages and covers such tpics as .NET business objectives, building Web applications with ASP .NET, .NET XML, and troubleshooting and debugging in .NET. Original. (Advanced)

One-Minute Aquinas

Pope St. Pius said that "in one year, a man can derive more profit from the works of St. Thomas Aquinas than from a lifetime studying the works of others." If you don’t have a year to study the more than 3,000 pages St. Thomas wrote, then turn to The One-Minute Aquinas, the fast-paced book that provides busy readers with simple, readable explanations of the truths that, for 750 years now, have caused the works of St. Thomas to be sought out by kings and popes, scholars and saints, as well as by ordinary souls like you — hungry to know God and to love him more and more. In this book’s lucid pages, author Kevin Vost gives you small, digestible portions of St. Thomas’s life-giving wisdom that you can enjoy one minute at a time. Tables and graphics will help you grasp and remember St. Thomas’s key ideas with a minimum of time and effort. Best of all, in The One-Minute Aquinas you’ll find quick, sure refutations of the countless relativistic, secular, and pseudoscientific ideas that are so influential in our culture today — and so shallow, contradictory, and wrong! Pope John Paul II declared that “the Church has been justified in consistently proposing St. Thomas as a master of thought and a model of the right way to do theology.” Now The One-Minute Aquinas enables even those with limited time and only a modest education to benefit from the wisdom of this great saint. Here, with minimal effort and among scores of other things, you’ll finally come to know and understand: Why God permits evil Heaven: what it is (and is not) Five simple proofs that God exists Why God became man Why Jesus let himself be tempted How you can grow quickly in virtue Why all souls need the sacraments Why Jesus let himself be crucified The causes of lust The natural law and the Commandments The soul, free will, sin, and damnation The angels, their ranks, and their powers How God governs (and refrains from governing) God’s power and its limits The Bible: why didn’t Jesus just write it himself? The surprising qualities of our resurrected bodies

Patterns and universals of adult romantic attachment across 62 cultural regions

UML 2 Semantics and Applications

A coherent and integrated account of the leading UML 2 semantics work and the practical applications of UML semantics development With contributions from leading experts in the field, the book begins with an introduction to UML and goes on to offer in-depth and up-to-date coverage of: The role of semantics Considerations and rationale for a UML system model Definition of the UML system model UML descriptive semantics Axiomatic semantics of UML class diagrams The object constraint language Axiomatic semantics of state machines A coalgebraic semantic framework for reasoning about interaction designs Semantics of activity diagrams Verification of UML models State invariants Model transformation specification and verification Additionally, readers are provided with expert guidance on how to resolve semantic problems and a section on applications of UML semantics with model analysis. UML 2 Semantics and Applications is an ideal resource for researchers and tool-builders working in UML, among others. It is also an excellent textbook for postgraduate teaching and research.

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Framework for Marketing Management

This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. Framework for Marketing Management is a concise adaptation of the gold standard marketing management textbook for professors who want authoritative coverage of current marketing management practice and theory, but the want the flexibility to add outside cases, simulations, or projects.

Marketing Management in China

Marketing Management in China, 1st Edition, brings the landmark work of marketing gurus Philip Kotler and Kevin Lane Keller to China. This edition, adapted by Professor Lu Tai Hong of Zhongshan University, takes a journey into a truly Chinese vista of marketing management. With content shaped to reflect the world`s fastest burgeoning economy, this is one textbook the marketing student seeking to understand China cannot do without This adaptation provides hard-to-find and well-researched China cases that offer insights into the local marketing situation. These cases cover a wide variety of contexts, spanning international companies operating in China to Chinese companies that are beginning to venture overseas; to provide readers with a well-balanced understanding At the same time, the text and language has been made more concise and accessible without losing the original Kotler`s and Keller`s depth and insight to the subject. This offers busy executives and students alike, an opportunity to grasp key marketing concepts quickly and effortlessly

Marketing Management

Parenting Adolescents

The years between 12 and 20 offer parents staggering opportunities to shape their children's spiritual growth and character development. To answer the challenge, parents require strength, hope, confidence, and courage. Huggins offers this support and help to parents who appreciate the complexities of raising teenagers.

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Successful Strategies for Twice-Exceptional Students

Some kids, including gifted students, have difficulties in school. Gifted students with learning disabilities may continuously struggle with certain areas of instruction, but never receive identification of or accommodation for their difficulties, because their gifts mask their disabilities. Gifted students with learning disabilities need unique instruction and a practical use of accommodations to succeed in school. It is important for educators to familiarize themselves with the definitions and characteristics of various learning disabilities and learn the strategies they can use in the classroom to help gifted/learning-disabled students succeed. In this book, Kevin Besnoy takes an in-depth look at the various learning disabilities and difficulties some gifted students face, provides practical tips for accommodating and planning instruction for those students, and gives an overview of federal law related to this population. This is one of the books in Prufrock Press' popular Practical Strategies Series in Gifted Education. This series offers a unique collection of tightly focused books that provide a concise, practical introduction to important topics concerning the education of gifted children. The guides offer a perfect beginner's introduction to key information about gifted and talented education.

Effect of Clarifying Students' Misperceptions Associated with Alcohol Consumption at a Connecticut Public University

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of clarifying students' misperceptions regarding their peers' consumption of alcohol and feelings of comfort in drinking situations. Quantitative and qualitative approaches were used to determine if providing students with information would impact on their perceptions. A posttest-only control-group experimental design was employed to investigate the efficacy of clarifying students' misperceptions. The experimental group was provided with information gleaned from the literature regarding students' misperceptions. Participants were administered a questionnaire developed for this study to determine: (a) their drinking habits (i. e., frequency and quantity), (b) how comfortable they feel in drinking situations, (c) their perceptions regarding their peers' drinking habits, and (d) their perceptions regarding how comfortable their peers feel in drinking situations. The findings included: (a) students overestimated the alcohol consumed by their peers; (b) students inaccurately believed that their peers are more comfortable in drinking situations than they are themselves; and (c) information appears to have clarified female students' misperceptions associated with feelings of comfort in drinking situations. A theory grounded in reality (Corbin

Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development

The refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, ICCBR 2003, held in Trondheim, Norway, in June 2003. The 51 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 92 submissions. All current aspects of CBR are addressed including case representation, similarity retrieval, adaptation, case library maintenance, multi-agent collaborative systems, data mining, soft computing, recommender systems, knowledge management, legal reasoning, software reuse, and music.

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Impact of Standalone Personal Health Record Use on Clinical Outcomes of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of using an online personal health record (PHR) on clinical outcomes of patients with type 2 diabetes. This study used an intervention mixed methods approach with a quantitative randomized, controlled trial combined with a qualitative exploration of how patients used the PHR. A total of 140 participants with type 2 diabetes were randomized to either receive a PHR and training to use the PHR, or to a control group who received usual care. Both clinical and social cognitive outcomes were measured and compared at baseline and follow-up, three to six months after baseline. A linear regression was also used to model the relationship between PHR use, social cognitive factors, and hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c). The quantitative analysis revealed no differences in diabetes clinical outcomes (HbA1c or blood glucose) from baseline to follow-up between either the control and intervention groups, or within the intervention group, between individuals who continued to use the PHR after baseline (PHR users) and individuals who ceased use after baseline (PHR non-users). Additionally, the linear regression revealed no significant relationships between PHR use, social cognitive factors, and HbA1c. In-depth interviews were conducted with all members of the intervention group to explore how patients used the PHR in their diabetes self-management. Themes that emerged from the qualitative analysis were used to explain quantitative findings and identify continued research gaps that must be addressed in future research. Nine themes emerged from the qualitative analysis, seven of which expressed barriers that helped to explain the lack of quantitative difference between the groups. The additional two themes identified positive outcomes from PHR use that support hypothesized benefits from PHR use. Future research should focus on the integration of the PHR into patients’ regular diabetes self-care routine and identifying which features of the PHR have the potential to lead to clinical improvement.

Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation for Active Older Adults

With the rise in active participation in sports and exercise by older people, Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation for Active Older Adultsis both timely and instructive. It explores the issues involved in working with active older adults, providing a valuable resource to help sports medicine professionals prevent, diagnose, and treat injuries for this growing population. Geared toward those working with active seniors—from competitive and recreational athletes to fitness enthusiasts—Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation for Active Older Adults contains the information to help practitioners -strengthen their understanding of general issues in sports medicine for active seniors; -explore prevention of, and determine treatment for, specific injuries; -apply to their own practice the knowledge of specialists experienced in working with older populations; and -implement and supervise appropriate conservative therapies. Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation for Active Older Adultswas written by a team of specialists with extensive experience in treating active seniors. While it emphasizes conservative treatment over surgery, it also guides readers in knowing when to refer a client to a surgeon, how to prepare a client for what might happen when referred, and what type of surgery might be indicated. Therapists and trainers will strengthen their ability to explain their basis for both treatment and referral. Part Ifocuses on a variety of issues in sports medicine for active seniors, including senescent changes in the musculoskeletal system, exercise testing and prescription, and factoring the kinetic chain into prevention and therapy. Flexibility, stretching, and massage for older people are also covered, as are nutrition, nutritional supplements, and pharmacology. Part II, organized by anatomical areas, delves into specific injuries and conditions in active seniors. This approach helps readers easily locate regional musculoskeletal problems and identify appropriate rehabilitation procedures. These regions include the shoulder, elbow, hand and wrist, spine, hip, knee, and foot and ankle. Common injuries, conditions, and treatments are explored in each area. Accompanying photos and illustrations supplement the text, showing stretches for all parts of the body, exercises for both injury prevention and rehabilitation, diagnostic techniques (including special tests and best X-ray positions) and various treatment options. The result is a reference that facilitates understanding of the issues involved in preventing and treating injuries in active older people and in helping them recover and return to full activity as soon as possible.

Web 2. 0 Fundamentals: with AJAX, Development Tools, and Mobile Platforms

Designed for a broad spectrum of people with technically diverse backgrounds, this book covers the most recent developments in Web 2.0 programming topics and applications, including up-to-date material on cloud computing, Google AppEngine, Social Networks, Comet, HTML5, semantic technology, and a chapter on the future of the Web. This book prepares readers for more advanced technical topics in Web 2.0. The accompanying CD-ROM and companion website provide code samples from the book and appendices with an extensive set of links (over 1,000) for supplemental material and links for the Twitter and Facebook pages. (Please note, eBook version does not include CD-ROM).