Learn IT - Books tags evidence

Manual of Temporomandibular Disorders

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Manual of Temporomandibular Disorders, Second Edition is a four-color, softcover handbook of information on temporomandibular disorders, an array of medical and dental conditions that affect the temporomandibular joint (TMJ), masticatory muscles, and contiguous structures. The book provides evidence-based, clinically...

miRNA Regulation of the Translational Machinery (Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology)

Springer, 2009

The silencing of gene expression by small interfering RNAs has been recognized for only a relatively short time, but this has transformed our understanding of both transcriptional and post-transcriptional gene regulatory mechanisms. Multiple pathways culminate in formation of an RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC) containing a member of the...

Lecturing Birds on Flying: Can Mathematical Theories Destroy the Financial Markets?

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Praise for Lecturing Birds On Flying

"Finally, a book taking a critical look at quantitative finance models, illuminating both their flawed fantasy assumptions as well as the uncritical use of such models on Wall Street, in many cases, leading to billion dollar losses. Pablo Triana knows both the financial...

Test-Driven Development: An Empirical Evaluation of Agile Practice

Springer, 2010

Agile methods are gaining more and more interest both in industry and in research. Many industries are transforming their way of working from traditional waterfall projects with long duration to more incremental, iterative and agile practices. At the same time, the need to evaluate and to obtain evidence for different processes, methods and...

The Cradle of Language (Studies in the Evolution of Language)

Oxford University Press, 2009

This book is the first to focus on the African origins of human language. It explores the origins of language and culture 250,000-150,000 years ago when modern humans evolved in Africa. Scholars from around the world address the fossil, genetic, and archaeological evidence and critically examine the ways it has been interpreted. The book also...

Social Mobility in Late Antique Gaul: Strategies and Opportunities for the Non-Elite

Cambridge University Press, 2009

In Social Mobility in Late Antique Gaul, Allen Jones explores the situation of the non-elite living in Gaul during the late fifth and sixth centuries. Drawing especially on evidence from Gregory of Tours's writings, he formulates a social model based on people of all ranks who were acting in ways that were socially advantageous to them, such as...

Milton and Maternal Mortality

Cambridge University Press, 2009

All too often, childbirth in early modern England was associated with fear, suffering and death, and this melancholy preoccupation weighed heavily on the seventeenth-century mind. This landmark study examines John Milton's life and work, uncovering evidence of the poet's engagement with maternal mortality and the dilemmas it presented. Drawing on...

Sport Management: Principles and Application

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005

Sport Management: principles and application provides a comprehensive introduction to the practical application of management principles within sport organisations operating at the community, state, national and professional levels in club based sporting systems. It presents an international balanced view between accepted practice...

Adjudicating Climate Change: State, National, and International Approaches

Cambridge University Press, 2009

The world’s political process has been slow to react to the serious, and potentially catastrophic, consequences for life on our planet that flow from the burning of fossil fuel. In one sense, this is understandable: turning around the global energy base is not a simple task. In another sense, it is inexcusable: a myopic failure to act in the...

New Frontiers in Integrated Solid Earth Sciences (International Year of Planet Earth)

Springer, 2010

Man’s intensifying use of the Earth’s habitat has led to an urgent need for scientifically advanced ‘geo-prediction systems’ that accurately locate subsurface resources and forecast the timing and magnitude of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and land subsidence.

As advances in the earth sciences lead to...

Historical Archaeology of Gendered Lives (Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology)

Springer, 2009

During the last half of the nineteenth century, a number of social and economic factors converged that resulted in the rural village of Deerfield, Massachusetts becoming almost entirely female. This drastic shift in population presents a unique lens through which to study gender roles and social relations in the late nineteenth and early...

Drug-related problems in the elderly

Springer, 2009

The number of elderly is increasing in the developed part of the world. With increasing age the prevalence of many diseases will increase. This promotes high use of drugs. For all health care professionals, it is essential to be aware of the possible risks and difficulties with drugs in the elderly. In this book, the authors describe these...

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