The class homework assignment is to write a story, and everyone seems to be writing about something interesting...except Arthur. Will he find something he "cares to write about or will his story be a big mess?

Recent books in the Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics Editors Vic Barnett J. Stuart Hunter David W. Scott Geoffrey S. Watson Ralph A. Bradley Joseph B. Kadane Adrian F.M. Smith Nicholas I. Fisher David G. Kendall Jozef L. Teugels Stochastic Geometry and Its Applications Second Edition Dietrich Stoyan, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany Wilfrid S. Kendall, University of Warwick, UK Joseph Mecke, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena, Germany This standard text makes the results and methods of stochastic geometry and spatial statistics accessible to practitioners and non-theoreticians....

There are pronounced differences in the play of boys and girls. Why do boys prefer war toys, and girls Barbie dolls? Are video games addictive? What, if anything, do children learn while playing? Toys, Play and Child Development explores these and other questions. Parental attitudes and reactions toward war toys are described, as are the children's views themselves. The book examines how toys and play contribute to the development of language, imagination, and intellectual achievement and how they can effectively be used in child psychotherapy.

Suitable as a textbook for a graduate seminar in mathematical modelling, and as a resource for scientists in a wide range of disciplines. Presents 22 lectures from an international conference in Leibnitz, Austria (no date mentioned), explaining recent developments and results in differential equatio

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This book brings together research findings from I/O psychology and related disciplines to identify new approaches and strategies for making training more effective. They also provide models for measuring the benefits of training in terms of increased output, payroll savings, and more. You'll discover how better to evaluate training needs, how to design better training methods, and how to structure questionnaires to get the information you want. Includes...

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is now a recognized major and international medical concern. Neglected for many years because of its puzzling wide range of symptoms and inability to be "slotted" into any single mainstream medical discipline, CFS has gained government, academic, and public attention.

In this innovative book, Dr. Jay Goldstein provides a medical narrative of an "evolving theory" of how the symptoms of CFS may develop through dysfunction of numerous physiological pathways. He describes the biologic basis of these assumptions, and, based on an analysis of basic medical...

This book covers the principles of cryopreservation as they relate the preservation of viable cells and cell materials being developed for biopharmaceutical applications. Topics include: the principles of freezing and thawing cells, physiochemical phenomena, process and system design options, method selection considerations, preservation procedures, cryoprotectant additives, freeze-drying human live virus vaccines, and transport system selection criteria. Contributions from well-known experts such as Steven S. Lee, Thomas C. Pringle, William H. Siegel, Richard Wisniewski, and Fangdong Yin...

Written by the founders of the Institute of Validation, this practical introduction to validation cuts through all the jargon and focuses on the essentials. Whether you are a novice or an experienced validator, this book will help you understand validation fundamentals and ways in which these principles can be bonded with quality assurance, enabling you to build the highest quality into your products. Beginning with definitions of validation, the authors guide you through all the basics, associated costs, responsibilities, policies, strategies, support activities, SOPs, Master Plans, and...

Sustained-Release Injectable Products focuses on the development process for sustained-release versions of drugs and delivery systems and administration routes. From the rationale and basic product development principles to regulatory issues and the approval process, expert contributions address virtually every aspect. They bring together common threads that apply to any sustained-release formulation, such as scale-up, safety, biocompatibility, analytical challenges, and quality assurance.

Much has happened in the area of bulk pharmaceutical good manufacturing practice (GMP) and validation since the first publication of Validation of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients. The second edition is fully revised, updated, and expanded to include new chapters addressing postapproval changes, technology transfer, international cGMP guidelines/FDA guidance progress, and facility inspection issues. New terminology has been introduced and the old terminology has been better defined to improve the understanding of related concepts and principles. With this book, readers gain a working...