New Releases by Steven Scott

This new edition covers issues of privacy and confidentiality protection, informed consent in public health research, the ethics of randomized trials, vulnerable populations, genetic discrimination, AIDS prevention and treatment, health care reform, scientific misconduct, conflicts of interest, intellectual property, and more.

A bank''s asset and liability management committee or risk management committee is responsible for the overall financial planning and management of the bank''s profitability and risk profile. This book emphasizes how managers can develop strategies to maximize stockholders wealth by balancing the trade-off between banking risks and returns.

In a world ruled by money comes a book that will take you back to the days when you couldn''t sue over hot coffee. Legends of Twilight is an exotic collection of poetry dedicated to revealing the three sides of life--the smart, the dumb, and the rest of us. It strives towards answering the important questions in life and the not so important ones through the unique mind of Steven Scott. From tales of the ocean to the mocking of politics Legends of Twilight reveals the issues that we all deal with but are afraid to face. It is a complete mixture of awareness and humour with a bit of sensitivity thrown in. "The more we think, the less we want to do." www.mind-set.net

This practical, in-depth reference offers an exhaustive body of knowledge about every element that form and work with optical transport networks, including network applications, protocols, software and hardware technologies. The book paints a cohesive picture of transport network technologies for effective and thorough engineering and management. Specifically, it focuses on TDM technologies since IP, ATM, FR, and Ethernet traffic is transported by core TDM optical transport networks. presenting a comprehensive overview of three up and coming SONET technologies: Generic Framing Procedure (GFP), Virtual Concatenation (VCAT) and Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme (LCAS). Management technologies and protocols, including SNMP, CORBA, HTTP, XML, and CMIP/CMISE, are presented in a unified manner that illustrates how these protocols all use request/response and notification paradigm. Service provision and monitoring for ensuring network survivability, as well as the key role of OSSs play in customer satisfaction, complete this exhaustive treatment of optical transport network engineering and management.

This book covers some recent advances in string theory and extra dimensions. Intended mainly for advanced graduate students in theoretical physics, it presents a rare combination of formal and phenomenological topics, based on the annual lectures given at the School of the Theoretical Advanced Study Institute (2001) OCo a traditional event that brings together graduate students in high energy physics for an intensive course of advanced learning. The lecturers in the School are leaders in their fields. The first lecture, by E DOCOHoker and D Freedman, is a systematic introduction to the gaugeOCogravity correspondence, focusing in particular on correlation functions in the conformal case. The second, by L Dolan, provides an introduction to perturbative string theory, including recent advances on backgrounds involving Ramond-Ramond fluxes. The third, by S Gubser, explains some of the basic facts about special holonomy and its uses in string theory and M-theory. The fourth, by J Hewett, surveys the TeV phenomenology of theories with large extra dimensions. The fifth, by G Kane, presents the case for supersymmetry at the weak scale and some of its likely experimental consequences. The sixth, by A Liddle, surveys recent developments in cosmology, particularly with regard to recent measurements of the CMB and constraints on inflation. The seventh, by B Ovrut, presents the basic features of heterotic M-theory, including constructions that contain the Standard Model. The eighth, by K Rajagopal, explains the recent advances in understanding QCD at low temperatures and high densities in terms of color superconductivity. The ninth, by M Sher, summarizes grand unified theories and baryogenesis, including discussions of supersymmetry breaking and the Standard Model Higgs mechanism. The tenth, by M Spiropulu, describes collider physics, from a survey of current and future machines to examples of data analyses relevant to theories beyond the Standard Model. The eleventh, by M Strassler, is an introduction to supersymmetric gauge theory, focusing on Wilsonian renormalization and analogies between three- and four-dimensional theories. The twelfth, by W Taylor and B Zwiebach, introduces string field theory and discusses recent advances in understanding open string tachyon condensation. The thirteenth, by D Waldram, discusses explicit model building in heterotic M-theory, emphasizing the role of the E8 gauge fields. The written presentation of these lectures is detailed yet straightforward, and they will be of use to both students and experienced researchers in high-energy theoretical physics for years to come. The proceedings have been selected for coverage in: . OCo Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings). OCo CC Proceedings OCo Engineering & Physical Sciences."

The management and regulatory environment of commercial banks has seen rapid change in recent years. This modern introduction to commercial bank management is the most current in the market and reflects changes during the last year that competing books do not. Excellent and complete coverage focuses on bank management problems now and in the 21st Century in a way that helps students apply financial concepts to a variety of credit, investment, and funding decisions.

This dissertation examines sections of Richard Wagner''s final opera, Parsifal, using both Neo-Riemannian theory and Schenkerian analysis. The Neo-Riemannian discussion is primarily concerned with the creation of an inclusive model capable of analyzing any parsimonious connection between two common practice sonorities. The construction of this model is achieved in four phases. First, Riemann''s Tonnetz is expanded to include transformations involving both augmented and diminished triads. Second, Douthett and Steinbach''s Power Towers graph is expanded to include all seventh chords, and new functional designations are applied to these transformations. Third, connections between sonorities that involve a change in cardinality are examined and compared to triadic transformations. Finally, the results of all three of these analytical discussions are combined to produce an inclusive analytical model. Four short passages from Parsifal are analyzed using the inclusive model.

Experience the power and deep meaning inherent in the spiritual science of numbers. This breakthrough book will show you that numerology consists of more than just nine numbers. It involves our entire mathematical system--from arithmetic to modern physics--and is rich in psychological insight. Combining the mystery of the occult with the objectivity of science, this book expands numerology far beyond any current concept of it. It explains the little-known history of number symbolism and offers a step-by-step progression of spiritual development. ·For those interested in the scientific/mathematical basis for the occult and numerology ·Presents a deeper, more meaningful level of Pythagorean numerology than anything available elsewhere ·Teaches how to do numerology and, more importantly, how to make the interpretations ·Offers a numerical interpretation of the nature of time

Features: Written by two respected authorities in the field of aggression management, Steven S. Wilder and Chris Sorensen, the text applies their techniques to all areas of health care - pre-hospital, acute, and long-term care. Includes talk-down techniques, types and use of restraints, legal considerations, and risk management implications. Details the simple, yet effective aggression continuum with which one can judge the appropriate response to different aggression levels. Other titles of Interest: Hopson, Burnout to Balance (0-13-007806-9) Nixon, Communicable Diseases (0-13-084384-9) Beasley, Understanding 12-Lead EKGs (0-8359-8571-7).

If the outcome of a lawsuit depends solely on facts, law, and logic, a jury''s decision should be predictable before it is announced. This study, however, finds evidence that the results of lawsuits are not predictable, implying that the decision process is influenced by some other undetermined factors accompanying the processing of facts, law, and logic. While it is widely believed that lawsuit results are unpredictable, this is the first study to document the existence of financially meaningful uncertainty in litigation. It employs the event study methodology used in the econometrics of financial markets to determine whether events reveal new information, as contrasted with fully anticipated events. The markets react to filing of lawsuits in a generally negative way, but at filing time the reactions are no worse for firms that ultimately lose their suits than they are for those that eventually prevail. When court decision are announced, by contrast, there is a detectable positive reaction for winningfirms and a negative reaction for losing firms The implications for corporate finance are straightforward, as there is no evidence the expectations formed by markets are biased. Accordingly, the uncertainty inherent in lawsuits fits within existing models for decision making subject to uncertainty. There is no apparent reason why the risks inherent in litigation are systematic, so the financial impact of the risk can be eliminated by holding a diversified portfolio. The deeper implication is for the capital budgeting decision, and indeed for the notion of designing one''s activities within the framework of the law. By the time a jury verdict is announced, all the information on which it ostensibly is based has been publicly revealed in the course of the trial, and hence should be fully reflected in the prices of the litigating firms'' shares. Yet the prices change when the result is announced. This suggests that the decision is not the mere processing of information, but rather contains animmeasurable or stochastic component as well.