This book is both a set of procedures for the therapist and a philosophy– one that is shared with clients and one that guides the work of the therapist. This second edition continues its excellence in offering clinicians a guide to doing what works in brief therapy- for whom, and when and how to use it. Psychotherapy that follows these guidelines validates the client’s most important concerns – and it often turns out to be surprisingly brief. Author, Ellen Quick integrates strategic and solution focused therapy and includes guidelines for tailoring technique and interventions to client characteristics and preferences. With clinically rich examples throughout, this book offers applications for couples, including indications for individual or conjoint sessions.NEW TO THIS EDITION:* Chapter summaries highlighting key points* Presents ways of eliciting what clients most want to remember* Describes the "Doing What Works Group," including outcome research findings and all materials needed to run the group* Addresses the relationship among the positive psychology movement and this approach and the potential for collaboration* Emphasizes an acceptance-based stance and how acceptance commonly leads to change* Proposes that "doing what works and changing what doesn't" can provide a transtheoretical perspective for therapists of any orientation..

This book is both a set of procedures for the therapist and a philosophy– one that is shared with clients and one that guides the work of the therapist. This second edition continues its excellence in offering clinicians a guide to doing what works in brief therapy- for whom, and when and how to use it. Psychotherapy that follows these guidelines validates the client’s most important concerns – and it often turns out to be surprisingly brief. Author, Ellen Quick integrates strategic and solution focused therapy and includes guidelines for tailoring technique and interventions to client characteristics and preferences. With clinically rich examples throughout, this book offers applications for couples, including indications for individual or conjoint sessions.NEW TO THIS EDITION:* Chapter summaries highlighting key points* Presents ways of eliciting what clients most want to remember* Describes the "Doing What Works Group," including outcome research findings and all materials needed to run the group* Addresses the relationship among the positive psychology movement and this approach and the potential for collaboration* Emphasizes an acceptance-based stance and how acceptance commonly leads to change* Proposes that "doing what works and changing what doesn't" can provide a transtheoretical perspective for therapists of any orientation..

This book is both a set of procedures for the therapist and a philosophy– one that is shared with clients and one that guides the work of the therapist. This second edition continues its excellence in offering clinicians a guide to doing what works in brief therapy- for whom, and when and how to use it. Psychotherapy that follows these guidelines validates the client’s most important concerns – and it often turns out to be surprisingly brief. Author, Ellen Quick integrates strategic and solution focused therapy and includes guidelines for tailoring technique and interventions to client characteristics and preferences. With clinically rich examples throughout, this book offers applications for couples, including indications for individual or conjoint sessions.NEW TO THIS EDITION:* Chapter summaries highlighting key points* Presents ways of eliciting what clients most want to remember* Describes the "Doing What Works Group," including outcome research findings and all materials needed to run the group* Addresses the relationship among the positive psychology movement and this approach and the potential for collaboration* Emphasizes an acceptance-based stance and how acceptance commonly leads to change* Proposes that "doing what works and changing what doesn't" can provide a transtheoretical perspective for therapists of any orientation..

Foundations of Engineering Acoustics takes the reader on a journey from a qualitative introduction to the physical nature of sound, explained in terms of common experience, to mathematical models and analytical results which underlie the techniques applied by the engineering industry to improve the acoustic performance of their products. The book is distinguished by extensive descriptions and explanations of audio-frequency acoustic phenomena and their relevance to engineering, supported by a wealth of diagrams, and by a guide for teachers of tried and tested class demonstrations and laboratory-based experiments.Foundations of Engineering Acoustics is a textbook suitable for both senior undergraduate and postgraduate courses in mechanical, aerospace, marine, and possibly electrical and civil engineering schools at universities. It will be a valuable reference for academic teachers and researchers and will also assist Industrial Acoustic Group staff and Consultants.Comprehensive and up-to-date: broad coverage, many illustrations, questions, elaborated answers, references and a bibliographyIntroductory chapter on the importance of sound in technology and the role of the engineering acousticianDeals with the fundamental concepts, principles, theories and forms of mathematical representation, rather than methodologyFrequent reference to practical applications and contemporary technologyEmphasizes qualitative, physical introductions to each principal as an entrée to mathematical analysis for the less theoretically oriented readers and coursesProvides a 'cook book' of demonstrations and laboratory-based experiments for teachersUseful for discussing acoustical problems with non-expert clients/managers because the descriptive sections are couched in largely non-technical language and any jargon is explainedDraws on the vast pedagogic experience of the writer..

Foundations of Engineering Acoustics takes the reader on a journey from a qualitative introduction to the physical nature of sound, explained in terms of common experience, to mathematical models and analytical results which underlie the techniques applied by the engineering industry to improve the acoustic performance of their products. The book is distinguished by extensive descriptions and explanations of audio-frequency acoustic phenomena and their relevance to engineering, supported by a wealth of diagrams, and by a guide for teachers of tried and tested class demonstrations and laboratory-based experiments.Foundations of Engineering Acoustics is a textbook suitable for both senior undergraduate and postgraduate courses in mechanical, aerospace, marine, and possibly electrical and civil engineering schools at universities. It will be a valuable reference for academic teachers and researchers and will also assist Industrial Acoustic Group staff and Consultants.Comprehensive and up-to-date: broad coverage, many illustrations, questions, elaborated answers, references and a bibliographyIntroductory chapter on the importance of sound in technology and the role of the engineering acousticianDeals with the fundamental concepts, principles, theories and forms of mathematical representation, rather than methodologyFrequent reference to practical applications and contemporary technologyEmphasizes qualitative, physical introductions to each principal as an entrée to mathematical analysis for the less theoretically oriented readers and coursesProvides a 'cook book' of demonstrations and laboratory-based experiments for teachersUseful for discussing acoustical problems with non-expert clients/managers because the descriptive sections are couched in largely non-technical language and any jargon is explainedDraws on the vast pedagogic experience of the writer..

Foundations of Engineering Acoustics takes the reader on a journey from a qualitative introduction to the physical nature of sound, explained in terms of common experience, to mathematical models and analytical results which underlie the techniques applied by the engineering industry to improve the acoustic performance of their products. The book is distinguished by extensive descriptions and explanations of audio-frequency acoustic phenomena and their relevance to engineering, supported by a wealth of diagrams, and by a guide for teachers of tried and tested class demonstrations and laboratory-based experiments.Foundations of Engineering Acoustics is a textbook suitable for both senior undergraduate and postgraduate courses in mechanical, aerospace, marine, and possibly electrical and civil engineering schools at universities. It will be a valuable reference for academic teachers and researchers and will also assist Industrial Acoustic Group staff and Consultants.Comprehensive and up-to-date: broad coverage, many illustrations, questions, elaborated answers, references and a bibliographyIntroductory chapter on the importance of sound in technology and the role of the engineering acousticianDeals with the fundamental concepts, principles, theories and forms of mathematical representation, rather than methodologyFrequent reference to practical applications and contemporary technologyEmphasizes qualitative, physical introductions to each principal as an entrée to mathematical analysis for the less theoretically oriented readers and coursesProvides a 'cook book' of demonstrations and laboratory-based experiments for teachersUseful for discussing acoustical problems with non-expert clients/managers because the descriptive sections are couched in largely non-technical language and any jargon is explainedDraws on the vast pedagogic experience of the writer..

Foundations of Engineering Acoustics takes the reader on a journey from a qualitative introduction to the physical nature of sound, explained in terms of common experience, to mathematical models and analytical results which underlie the techniques applied by the engineering industry to improve the acoustic performance of their products. The book is distinguished by extensive descriptions and explanations of audio-frequency acoustic phenomena and their relevance to engineering, supported by a wealth of diagrams, and by a guide for teachers of tried and tested class demonstrations and laboratory-based experiments.Foundations of Engineering Acoustics is a textbook suitable for both senior undergraduate and postgraduate courses in mechanical, aerospace, marine, and possibly electrical and civil engineering schools at universities. It will be a valuable reference for academic teachers and researchers and will also assist Industrial Acoustic Group staff and Consultants.Comprehensive and up-to-date: broad coverage, many illustrations, questions, elaborated answers, references and a bibliographyIntroductory chapter on the importance of sound in technology and the role of the engineering acousticianDeals with the fundamental concepts, principles, theories and forms of mathematical representation, rather than methodologyFrequent reference to practical applications and contemporary technologyEmphasizes qualitative, physical introductions to each principal as an entrée to mathematical analysis for the less theoretically oriented readers and coursesProvides a 'cook book' of demonstrations and laboratory-based experiments for teachersUseful for discussing acoustical problems with non-expert clients/managers because the descriptive sections are couched in largely non-technical language and any jargon is explainedDraws on the vast pedagogic experience of the writer..

Foundations of Engineering Acoustics takes the reader on a journey from a qualitative introduction to the physical nature of sound, explained in terms of common experience, to mathematical models and analytical results which underlie the techniques applied by the engineering industry to improve the acoustic performance of their products. The book is distinguished by extensive descriptions and explanations of audio-frequency acoustic phenomena and their relevance to engineering, supported by a wealth of diagrams, and by a guide for teachers of tried and tested class demonstrations and laboratory-based experiments.Foundations of Engineering Acoustics is a textbook suitable for both senior undergraduate and postgraduate courses in mechanical, aerospace, marine, and possibly electrical and civil engineering schools at universities. It will be a valuable reference for academic teachers and researchers and will also assist Industrial Acoustic Group staff and Consultants.Comprehensive and up-to-date: broad coverage, many illustrations, questions, elaborated answers, references and a bibliographyIntroductory chapter on the importance of sound in technology and the role of the engineering acousticianDeals with the fundamental concepts, principles, theories and forms of mathematical representation, rather than methodologyFrequent reference to practical applications and contemporary technologyEmphasizes qualitative, physical introductions to each principal as an entrée to mathematical analysis for the less theoretically oriented readers and coursesProvides a 'cook book' of demonstrations and laboratory-based experiments for teachersUseful for discussing acoustical problems with non-expert clients/managers because the descriptive sections are couched in largely non-technical language and any jargon is explainedDraws on the vast pedagogic experience of the writer..

Foundations of Engineering Acoustics takes the reader on a journey from a qualitative introduction to the physical nature of sound, explained in terms of common experience, to mathematical models and analytical results which underlie the techniques applied by the engineering industry to improve the acoustic performance of their products. The book is distinguished by extensive descriptions and explanations of audio-frequency acoustic phenomena and their relevance to engineering, supported by a wealth of diagrams, and by a guide for teachers of tried and tested class demonstrations and laboratory-based experiments.Foundations of Engineering Acoustics is a textbook suitable for both senior undergraduate and postgraduate courses in mechanical, aerospace, marine, and possibly electrical and civil engineering schools at universities. It will be a valuable reference for academic teachers and researchers and will also assist Industrial Acoustic Group staff and Consultants.Comprehensive and up-to-date: broad coverage, many illustrations, questions, elaborated answers, references and a bibliographyIntroductory chapter on the importance of sound in technology and the role of the engineering acousticianDeals with the fundamental concepts, principles, theories and forms of mathematical representation, rather than methodologyFrequent reference to practical applications and contemporary technologyEmphasizes qualitative, physical introductions to each principal as an entrée to mathematical analysis for the less theoretically oriented readers and coursesProvides a 'cook book' of demonstrations and laboratory-based experiments for teachersUseful for discussing acoustical problems with non-expert clients/managers because the descriptive sections are couched in largely non-technical language and any jargon is explainedDraws on the vast pedagogic experience of the writer..

Vitamin K, one of the group of fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E and K), has come into prominence lately because its activity as a blood coagulation factor impinges on the widespread occurrence of deep vein thrombosis in the human population especially in the older age group. This volume focuses, not only on the problem of blood coagulation and hypercoagulability, but upon the individual status of vitamin K in the human. First published in 1943, Vitamins and Hormones is the longest-running serial published by Academic Press. Under the capable and qualified editorial leadership of Dr. Gerald Litwack, Vitamins and Hormones continues to publish cutting-edge reviews of interest to endocrinologists, biochemists, nutritionists, pharmacologists, cell biologists, and molecular biologists.*Focuses on the problem of blood coagulation and hypercoagulability as well as bone metabolism and vascular biology*In the category of basic science, contributions cover: VKOR1, the quinone reductases including structure, function and mechanism, vitamin K-dependent carboxylation, the actions of Gas6, vitamin K2-mediated apoptosis and other topics*In the category of disease-related subjects, contributions cover warfarin therapy, diabetic nephropathy, bone health, including osteoporosis and tumor cell suppression, as well as other topics..

The presence of modified nucleotides in cellular RNAs has been known for decades and over 100 distinct RNA modifications have been characterized to date. While the exact role of many of these modifications is still unclear, many are highly conserved across evolution and most contribute to the overall fitness of the organism. In recent years, new methods and bioinformatics approaches have been developed for the dissection of modification pathways and functions. These methods intersect a number of related fields, ranging from RNA processing to comparative genomics and systems biology. In addition, many of the techniques described in this volume have broad applicability, particularly in regards to the isolation, characterization, and reconstitution of ribonucleoprotein complexes, expanding the experimental repertoire available to all RNA researchers...

Perfectly intelligent programmers often struggle when forced to work with SQL. Why? Joe Celko believes the problem lies with their procedural programming mindset, which keeps them from taking full advantage of the power of declarative languages. The result is overly complex and inefficient code, not to mention lost productivity.This book will change the way you think about the problems you solve with SQL programs.. Focusing on three key table-based techniques, Celko reveals their power through detailed examples and clear explanations. As you master these techniques, you’ll find you are able to conceptualize problems as rooted in sets and solvable through declarative programming. Before long, you’ll be coding more quickly, writing more efficient code, and applying the full power of SQL• Filled with the insights of one of the world’s leading SQL authorities - noted for his knowledge and his ability to teach what he knows.• Focuses on auxiliary tables (for computing functions and other values by joins), temporal tables (for temporal queries, historical data, and audit information), and virtual tables (for improved performance).• Presents clear guidance for selecting and correctly applying the right table technique...

International Review of Cytology presents current advances and comprehensive reviews in cell biology – both plant and animal. Authored by some of the foremost scientists in the field, each volume provides up-to-date information and directions for future research. Articles in this volume include Cell Proliferation in pathogenesis of Oesophagogastric Lesions in Pigs; Molecular Mechanism of Phase-I and Phase-II Drug-Metabolizing Enzymes: Implications for Detoxification; Effects of Growth Factors on Testicular Morphogenesis; Flagellar Length Control in Chlamydomonas – a Paradigm for Organelle Size Regulation; and Molecular Mechanism and Evolutional Significance of Epithelial-mesenchymal Interactions in the Body- and Tail-Dependent Metamorphic Transformation of Anuran Larval Skin...

Garden pests plague everyone who has ever raised vegetables, from backyard gardener to professional horticulturists, farm managers, and agrobusiness professionals. The economic impacts of vegetable pests are enormous. To manage and minimize the adverse impacts of pests, it is important to identify exactly which pests are afflicting crops. The Handbook of Vegetable Pests is intended to assist anyone in need of an easy-to-use, and yet comprehensive, survey of all pests likely to be encountered in North America. This Handbook provides thorough identification guides, descriptions of pest life history, and pest management recommendations. The text is well illustrated with hundreds of easy-to-use line drawings, is cross-referenced to the professional and scientific literature, and includes color plates for ease of insect pest identification. Every gardener, horticulturalist, farm manager, and plant science professional should have this Handbook as a ready desk reference.Key Features* Identification guides list the major and minor pests of each crop family and provide distinguishing characteristics for each pest * Includes pest profiles that describe the appearance, life history, and management of various pests * Over 600 black and white line drawings and over 100 color images to further aid in identification* Detailed glossary provided to help with the definition of some of the less known terms..

Corporate Governance and regulatory presssures have been much in the news lately. How they affect the bottom line of corporations has been difficult to quantify, and research is just beginning to be published that addresses this crucial question. This book is the first collection for new research about the impact of takeover regulation and corporate governance on M&A financial results. It will be essential reading to any M&A specialist, an investment banker, a hedge fund manager, a private equity director, or a venture capitalist. Also a must read for financial analysts who follow M&A targets. The book presents research from around the world so it provides a global perspective on this important topic.*The first and only book of research on takeover regulation and corporate governance affecting M&A results*Stands out from all the "How to" books on M&A and M&A disaster books because it provides solid high-quality research on what works and how different decisions affect company and shareholder value*Research provides a guideline for decisionmakers in investment banks, private equity companies, and for financial analysts..

Post harvest biology and technology of citrus fruits is gaining importance as the therapeutic value of citrus fruits is realized and supported by the increase in health awareness among the general public.This book is the most comprehensive reference on citrus fruit biology, biotechnology and quality. Basic and applied scientific information is interwoven to serve the researcher, marketer, scientist, nutritionist, or dietician. With discussions of fruit morphology, anatomy, physiology and biochemistry and chapters on growth phases, maturity standards, grades and physical and mechanical characteristics of citrus trees, this book provides the foundation for understanding growth, harvest and post harvest aspects of these important plants. Insect-pests and diseases, irrigation, nutrition and rootstocks are also addressed.* Provides practical tips for post harvest management. * Includes all aspects of citrus fruit biology, technology and quality evaluation.* Discusses biotechnological applications and potential fresh citrus fruit quality improvement * Evaluates medicinal and therapeutic applications and recent clinical findings * Exhaustive glossary included..