Presents 47 epidemiological studies in children regarding asthma.

Aims to help scientists dealing with numerical modelling of real-life problems in understanding and applying different splitting methods. This book is suitable for numerical modellers and engineers as well as to graduate students who would like to become familiar with a very efficient computational method, applicable to a wide class of problems.

Individual retirement accounts, or IRAs, hold more assets than any other type of retirement vehicle. In 2004, IRAs held about .5 trillion in assets compared to .6 trillion in defined contribution (DC) plans, including 401(k) plans, and .9 trillion in defined benefit (DB), or pension plans.

Research suggests that placement in kinship care is directly linked to a decrease in the total number of displacement disruptions for children in the child welfare system. However, Hispanic children appear at a higher risk for non-kinship care placement. This book addresses such problems and policies on kinship care.

Although there is widespread agreement that the United States is the world's most powerful country in military, economic, and diplomatic terms, and is likely to remain so for the foreseeable future, there is little agreement as to how the rest of the world will react to America's lead.

US food prices never seem to decline. Higher farm commodity prices and energy costs are the leading factors behind higher food prices. Higher energy costs increase transportation, processing, and retail costs.

Coronary bypass surgery is a procedure to allow blood to flow to the heart muscle despite blocked arteries. Coronary bypass surgery uses a healthy blood vessel taken from your leg, arm, chest or abdomen and connects it to the other arteries in the heart so that blood is bypassed around the blocked area. This book presents research in this field.

Presents a modelling framework in which epidemiological model results are integrated with an economic model of the US agricultural sector to enable estimation of the economic impacts of outbreaks of foreign-source livestock diseases.

Mathematics, Science and Technology Education (MSTE) emerged as a research discipline in the 1960s, and continues to reflect the distinctive flavour and character of its roots in Western societies, and science. This book arises from needs in the mathematics and science education research community in Southern Africa.

Deals with the issue of reforming risk in financial markets.

Investigates boundary properties of the differentiated Poisson integral. This book proves that the boundary properties of the differentiated Poisson integral for different types of domains (circle, sphere, half-plane, half-space, bicylinder) differ substantially from each other and depend on in what sense the integral density is differentiable.

Presents a unified description of the spontaneous symmetry breaking and its associated bosons in fermion field theory. This title discusses the exact spectrum of the Thirring model by the Bethe ansatz solutions. It examines the boson spectrum in QCD2, and shows that bosons always have a finite mass for SU(Nc) colours.

The field of robot vision guidance is developing rapidly. The benefits of sophisticated vision technology include savings, improved quality, reliability, safety and productivity. Robot vision is used for part identification and navigation. This book presents research in the field.

Nuclear chemistry is a subfield of chemistry dealing with radioactivity, nuclear processes and nuclear properties. It is the chemistry of radioactive elements such as the actinides, radium and radon together with the chemistry associated with equipment (such as nuclear reactors) which are designed to perform nuclear processes.

Virtually every crime gun in the United States starts off as a legal firearm, according to then - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) director Bradley Buckles. In some cases, that first retail purchaser is the link between the legal and illegal markets. This title analyses gun control legislation.

Clock synchronisation is the backbone of applications such as high-accuracy satellite navigation, geolocation, space-based interferometry, and cryptographic communication systems. This title discusses the role of geometrical optics and antenna phase centre approximations in high accuracy work. It explores the clock synchronisation problem.

Heart disease is an umbrella term for a number of different diseases affecting the heart. Among the many types of heart disease are, for example: angina; arrhythmia; congenital heart disease; coronary artery disease (CAD); dilated cardiomyopathy; and, heart attack. This book presents research on heart disease with a focus on men and heart disease.

Reviews research on coverage problem in sensor networks. This work focuses on two types of sensor coverage: area coverage and target coverage. It explores the degree to which the goals of pervasive Internet and network access have been realised with community wireless networks.

Describes how federal financial regulators oversee hedge fund-related activities under their existing authorities. This book examines what measures investors, creditors, and counterparties have taken to impose market discipline on hedge funds. It also explores the potential for systemic risk from hedge fund-related activities.

Computational biology involves the use of techniques including applied mathematics, informatics, statistics, computer science, artificial intelligence, chemistry, and biochemistry to solve biological problems usually on the molecular level.