For over 100 years, academic medical centers (AMCs) have been the bastion of medicine; providing outstanding care and training the next generation of doctors and scientists. Delineating the issues that have lead to the crisis in AMCs, this book provides a different model for achieving success.

Documents the knowledge base in the field of leadership preparation and identifies gaps and different directions for research.

Advances the theoretical bases of health communication in two key areas: communication, identity, and relationships; and health care provider patient interaction. This title aims to underscore the theory that communication processes are a link between personal, social, cultural, and institutional factors and various facets of health and illness.

Many modern theories hold that the function of grief and mourning is to cut bonds with the deceased, freeing the survivor to develop new relationships. This work, however, argues that proper resolution of grief should enable one to develop and maintain a continuing healthy bond with the deceased.

Gives a basis for improving psychotherapy practice, research, and training, offering therapists ways of improving their success rate by means of disciplined attention to and reflection upon therapeutic processes across all psychotherapy.

Recognizing music as a vital social and cultural force, this volume focuses on the region of East Asia looking at the role of music in the lives, arts and culture of its people.

Covers three generations of lesbian family across the life course.

Essays in Honor of Theresa Jarnagin Enos. .

Shows second language researchers how to use the statistical program SPSS to conduct statistical tests frequently done in SLA research. This book also shows newcomers to both statistics and SPSS how to generate descriptive statistics, how to choose a statistical test, and how to conduct and interpret a variety of basic statistical tests.

Suitable for libraries, laboratories, and researchers, this title offers an alternative to the student version by providing the complete text of Chapters 1-25 in printed format. It presents information on epigenetics; stem cells; RNAi; comparative genomics; the cancer therapies; apoptosis; and cell cycle control and the mechanics of M phase.

Presents material on epigenetics; stem cells; RNAi; comparative genomics; cancer therapies; apoptosis; and cell cycle control and the mechanics of M phase. This book tells the story of cell biology, and creates a framework through which readers may approach this subject that is so central to all of biology.

Presents nonlinear control algorithms for a benchmark mechanical system actuated by different types of electric machinery. This work emphasizes system stability and robustness - pivotal in the development of optimal position trajectory controllers for common motors.

Offers information on the structural, surface, mechanical, electronic, thermal, and magnetic properties of carbon fibers as well as their manufacture and industrial applications from various specialists in the field.

Presents the applications of tensors, Lie groups and algebra to Maxwell, Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations, making elementary theoretical physics comprehensible and high-level theoretical physics accessible. This work discusses covariant tensor calculus. It illustrates the use of Clifford algebra and tensor calculus in studying bosons and fermions.

Presents a number of fresh and helpful self-learning (adaptive) control algorithms and theoretical as well as practical results for both unconstrained and constrained finite Markov chains - processing fresh information by adjusting the control strategies directly or indirectly.

Covering important aspects of the theory of unitary representations of nuclear Lie groups, this reference presents the general theory of energy representations and addresses various extensions of path groups and algebras. It discusses representations of G-valued jet bundles when G is not necessarily compact.

Describes the structure and function of bacterial toxins. This title reviews virulence factors, providing information concerning cell physiology and biochemistry, as well as various toxin tools for experimental studies and clinical therapy. It discusses a wide variety of toxic proteins, including the toxins that cause diptheria and shigellosis.

Based on the Conference on Differential Equations, held in Bologna, this book provides information on research in parabolic and hyperbolic differential equations. It focuses on topics including: abstract parabolic and hyperbolic linear differential equations; nonlinear abstract parabolic equations; and, Volterra operator integral equations.

Covers the areas of modern analysis and probability theory. This title presents a collection of papers given at the Festschrift held in honor of the 65 birthday of M M Rao, whose prolific published research includes the well-received Theory of Orlicz Spaces and Conditional Measures and Applications .