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Hadron Form Factors From Basic Phenomenology to QCD Sum Rules

Hadron Form Factors From Basic Phenomenology to QCD Sum Rules

This book introduces the phenomenology and theory of hadron form factors in a consistent manner deriving step-by-step the key equations defining the form factors from the matrix elements of hadronic transitions and deriving their symmetry relations. Explained are several general concepts of particle theory and phenomenology exemplified by hadron form factors. The main emphasis here is on learning the analytical methods in particle phenomenology. Many examples of hadronic processes involving form factors are considered from the pion electromagnetic scattering to heavy B-meson decays. In the second part of the book modern techniques of the form factor calculation based on the method of sum rules in the theory of strong interactions quantum chromodynamics are introduced in an accessible manner. This book will be a useful guide for graduate students and early-career researchers working in the field of particle phenomenology and experiments. Features:• The first book to address the phenomenology of hadron form factors at a pedagogical level in one coherent volume• Contains up-to-date descriptions of the most important form factors of the electroweak transitions investigated in particle physics experiments | Hadron Form Factors From Basic Phenomenology to QCD Sum Rules

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Anthology for Hearing Form Musical Analysis With and Without the Score

Anthology for Hearing Form Musical Analysis With and Without the Score

Hearing Form: Musical Analysis With and Without the Score Third Edition is a complete course package for undergraduate courses on musical forms with comprehensive coverage from the Baroque to the Romantic. Placing emphasis on listening it teaches students to analyze music both with and without the use of a score covering phrase endings and cadences harmonic sequence types modulations formal sections and musical forms. Hearing Form is supported by an integrated workbook section its own full-score anthology and a companion website containing an instructor’s manual test bank and audio streaming and downloads of recordings for the pieces in the anthology. Key updates in the third edition include: Treatment of phrases and cadences now allows the book to be used by both instructors who teach that all phrases end with cadences and those teach that some phrases do not New pieces added to the anthology widen the range of composers represented With an engaging and practical approach informed by recent scholarship Hearing Form enables students to recognize musical elements both by sight and by ear. This is the Hearing Form anthology only. For the Hearing Form textbook see ISBN 978-0-367-70380-6. For the textbook and anthology package see ISBN 978-0-367-70391-2. | Anthology for Hearing Form Musical Analysis With and Without the Score

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Matrix Theory From Generalized Inverses to Jordan Form

Matrix Theory From Generalized Inverses to Jordan Form

In 1990 the National Science Foundation recommended that every college mathematics curriculum should include a second course in linear algebra. In answer to this recommendation Matrix Theory: From Generalized Inverses to Jordan Form provides the material for a second semester of linear algebra that probes introductory linear algebra concepts while also exploring topics not typically covered in a sophomore-level class. Tailoring the material to advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students the authors offer instructors flexibility in choosing topics from the book. The text first focuses on the central problem of linear algebra: solving systems of linear equations. It then discusses LU factorization derives Sylvester's rank formula introduces full-rank factorization and describes generalized inverses. After discussions on norms QR factorization and orthogonality the authors prove the important spectral theorem. They also highlight the primary decomposition theorem Schur's triangularization theorem singular value decomposition and the Jordan canonical form theorem. The book concludes with a chapter on multilinear algebra. With this classroom-tested text students can delve into elementary linear algebra ideas at a deeper level and prepare for further study in matrix theory and abstract algebra. | Matrix Theory From Generalized Inverses to Jordan Form

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Hearing Form - Textbook and Anthology Set Musical Analysis With and Without the Score

Hearing Form - Textbook and Anthology Set Musical Analysis With and Without the Score

Hearing Form: Musical Analysis With and Without the Score Third Edition is a complete course package for undergraduate courses on musical forms with comprehensive coverage from the Baroque to the Romantic. Placing emphasis on listening it teaches students to analyze music both with and without the use of a score covering phrase endings and cadences harmonic sequence types modulations formal sections and musical forms. Hearing Form is supported by an integrated workbook section its own full-score anthology and a companion website containing an instructor’s manual test bank and audio streaming and downloads of recordings for the pieces in the anthology. Key updates in the third edition include: Treatment of phrases and cadences now allows the book to be used by both instructors who teach that all phrases end with cadences and those teach that some phrases do not New pieces added to the anthology widen the range of composers represented With an engaging and practical approach informed by recent scholarship Hearing Form enables students to recognize musical elements both by sight and by ear. This two-book package contains both the Hearing Form paperback textbook and the accompanying paperback anthology. | Hearing Form - Textbook and Anthology Set Musical Analysis With and Without the Score

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Schenkerian Analysis Perspectives on Phrase Rhythm Motive and Form

Schenkerian Analysis Perspectives on Phrase Rhythm Motive and Form

Schenkerian Analysis: Perspectives on Phrase Rhythm Motive and Form Second Edition is a textbook directed at all those—whether beginners or more advanced students—interested in gaining understanding of and facility at applying Schenker’s ideas on musical structure. It begins with an overview of Schenker’s approach to music and then progresses systematically from the phrase and its various combinations to longer and more complex works. Unlike other texts on this subject Schenkerian Analysis combines the study of multi-level pitch organization with that of phrase rhythm (the interaction of phrase and hypermeter) motivic repetition at different structural levels and form. It also contains analytic graphs of several extended movements separate works and songs. A separate instructor’s manual provides additional advice and solutions (graphs) of all recommended assignments. This second edition has been revised to make the early chapters more accessible and to improve the pedagogical effectiveness of the book as a whole. Changes in musical examples have been carefully made to ensure that each example fully supports student learning. Informed by decades of teaching experience this book provides a clear and comprehensive guide to Schenker’s theories and their applications. | Schenkerian Analysis Perspectives on Phrase Rhythm Motive and Form

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The Institutional Transition of China's Township and Village Enterprises Market Liberalization Contractual Form Innovation and Privatization

The Institutional Transition of China's Township and Village Enterprises Market Liberalization Contractual Form Innovation and Privatization

This title was first published in 2000: This work provides a new insight into china's township and village enterprises (TVEs). It views the governance structure of TVEs as effectively combining the comparative advantage of local government officials in external management and of dual firm managers in internal management to overcome imperfections in both market and government during the transitional period. Through extensive field investigation analysis and case studies this work shows that the governance structure of TVEs has been evolving during the past fifteen years. To adapt to the changing environment TVEs have continuously innovated firm contractual form from a government official dominant fixed-wage form to a partnership style profit-sharing form then to a privatization oriented fixed-rent form. This work develops a complete model to explain how the central government’s partial reform efforts in market liberalization have become the driving force to induce the contractual form innovation and to explicate how heterogeneity in firms’ technical structures and in local economic settings may affect local government’s decisions regarding contractual form innovation. Using the author’s unique data set the model simulations predict that the development in the whole market system will result in the diffusion of contractual form innovation and lead to an 'induced privatization’ in this sector. The following empirical studies show this to be a powerful prediction and the progress toward such ’induced privatization' can be expected in China in near future. This research work provides a rich empirical study on China’s institutional transition towards a market system. It explains how a bottom-up endogenous instead of top-down exogenous property rights reform can be realized in transitional economies. This work will serve as a valuable reference for researchers and students in economics economic development and institutional economics - and especially for those interested in researc | The Institutional Transition of China's Township and Village Enterprises Market Liberalization Contractual Form Innovation and Privatization

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The Routledge Handbook of Magazine Research The Future of the Magazine Form

The Routledge Handbook of Magazine Research The Future of the Magazine Form

Scholarly engagement with the magazine form has in the last two decades produced a substantial amount of valuable research. Authored by leading academic authorities in the study of magazines the chapters in The Routledge Handbook of Magazine Research not only create an architecture to organize and archive the developing field of magazine research but also suggest new avenues of future investigation. Each of 33 chapters surveys the last 20 years of scholarship in its subject area identifying the major research themes theoretical developments and interpretive breakthroughs. Exploration of the digital challenges and opportunities which currently face the magazine world are woven throughout offering readers a deeper understanding of the magazine form as well as of the sociocultural realities it both mirrors and influences. The book includes six sections: -Methodologies and structures presents theories and models for magazine research in an evolving global context. Magazine publishing: the people and the work introduces the roles and practices of those involved in the editorial and business sides of magazine publishing. Magazines as textual communication surveys the field of contemporary magazines across a range of theoretical perspectives subjects genre and format questions. Magazines as visual communication explores cover design photography illustrations and interactivity. Pedagogical and curricular perspectives offers insights on undergraduate and graduate teaching topics in magazine research. The future of the magazine form speculates on the changing nature of magazine research via its environmental effects audience and transforming platforms. | The Routledge Handbook of Magazine Research The Future of the Magazine Form

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Curating Interpretation and Museums When Attitude Becomes Form

Curating Interpretation and Museums When Attitude Becomes Form

Following a period of strategic and ideological change in museums this book outlines new attitudes in curating and display education and learning text and interpretation access inclusion participation space and the issues around the sustainability of the encyclopaedic collection. Focused on the contemporary period the author questions the extent to which the museum visitor has become reliant on interpretative text and examines the development of new museum spaces where visitor interaction and engagement is welcomed. Changes of attitude have transformed our museums into modern spaces that reflect current needs and modern expectations and yet our permanent collections remain relatively unchanged sometimes an uncomfortable reminder of a time when values ethics and attitudes were very different. The author will discuss these conflicts of ideology. Written by a researcher with expertise in museum practice this shortform book offers a new approach that will be valuable reading for students and scholars of cultural management and policy as well as providing insights for reflective museum practitioners. | Curating Interpretation and Museums When Attitude Becomes Form

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Change and Stability in Urban Europe Form Quality and Governance

Change and Stability in Urban Europe Form Quality and Governance

This title was first published in 2001. Significant transformations in the spatial organization of European cities have taken place over the past two decades. Social fragmentation increasingly complex systems of governance the transformation of relations to public space and the shift of work from the industrial to the communications sectors have placed increasing importance on a city’s position in terms of the global network. This book brings together an interdisciplinary team of European experts to discuss how these transformations have forced a radical reconsideration of the traditional definitions of the city. Comparing a wide range of European cities the book highlights the diversity of urban forms and tackles the questions regarding the quality of life in new urban spaces. The result is a comprehensive and incisive examination of the capacity of urban policies to evoke real changes in the city and to regenerate the systems of urban governance. | Change and Stability in Urban Europe Form Quality and Governance

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The Phytopathogen Evolution and Adaptation

The Phytopathogen Evolution and Adaptation

So often new phytopathogens emerge and appear primarily in acute form and then take a chronic form; such populations however in general have a limited appearance because of the lack of suitable environmental conditions. The emergence of new pathogens needs to be explored in the light of their evolutionary adaptation. This new volume focuses on the study of quantitative aspects of host-phytopathogen linkages that result in the emergence of aggressive phytopathogens. The book examines the evolution and adaptation of phytopathogens from several cropping systems. | The Phytopathogen Evolution and Adaptation

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Serialization in Popular Culture

Serialization in Popular Culture

From prime-time television shows and graphic novels to the development of computer game expansion packs the recent explosion of popular serials has provoked renewed interest in the history and economics of serialization as well as the impact of this cultural form on readers viewers and gamers. In this volume contributors—literary scholars media theorists and specialists in comics graphic novels and digital culture—examine the economic narratological and social effects of serials from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century and offer some predictions of where the form will go from here. | Serialization in Popular Culture

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Principles of Air Quality Management

Principles of Air Quality Management

Blending information from popular mainstream articles highly technical publications and research journals the second edition of Principles of Air Quality Management features new sections on air toxics new information on chronic and acute health effects and new approaches to the assessment of those impacts on sensitive populations. It emphasizes toxic air pollutants and alternative approaches to management of air quality in local environments. The book explains how primary pollutants form in industrial and mobile combustion processes and the latest on how they are controlled. It also presents in-depth information on the meteorology of atmospheric transport and explains how secondary photochemical pollutants form in ambient air.

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Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice

Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice

Books orient intrigue provoke and direct the reader while editing interpreting encapsulating constructing and revealing architectural representation. Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice explores the role of the book form within the realm of architectural representation. It proposes the book itself as another three-dimensional complementary architectural representation with a generational and propositional role within the design process. Artists’ books in particular – that is a book made as an original work of art with an artist designer or architect as author – have certain qualities and characteristics quite different from the conventional presentation and documentation of architecture. Paginal sequentiality the structure and objecthood of the book and the act of reading create possibilities for the book as a site for architectural imagining and discourse. In this way the form of the book affects how the architectural work is conceived constructed and read. In five main sections Binding Space examines the relationships between the drawing the building and the book. It proposes thinking through the book as a form of spatial practice one in which the book is cast as object outcome process and tool. Through the book we read spatial practice anew.

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Psychology of Early Childhood Up to the Sixth Year of Age

Psychology of Early Childhood Up to the Sixth Year of Age

Originally published in 1924 this sixth edition published in 1930 is thoroughly revised and updated to take account of the important advances in the field of child psychology at the time. In this new edition the personal standpoint is emphasized while at the same time other psychological theories such as mental psychology form psychology psychoanalysis and individual psychology have been exhaustively treated criticized and discussed in contradistinction to the theory of personality. Much fuller treatment has been given to the experimental examination of young children for purposes of research and tests since it is in this form of investigation that major advances had been made. Today it can be read and enjoyed in its historical context. | Psychology of Early Childhood Up to the Sixth Year of Age

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Handbook of Petrochemical Processes

Handbook of Petrochemical Processes

The petrochemical industry is a scientific and engineering field that encompasses the production of a wide range of chemicals and polymers. The purpose of this book is not only to provide a follow-on to form the later chapters of the highly successful Chemistry and Technology of Petroleum 5th Edition but also provides a simplified approach to a very diverse chemical subject dealing with the chemistry and technology of various petroleum and petrochemical process. Following from the introductory chapters this book provides the readers with a valuable source of information containing insights into petrochemical reactions and products process technology and polymer synthesis. Provides readers with a valuable source of information containing insights into petrochemical reactions and products process technology and polymer synthesisIntroduces the reader to the various petrochemical intermediates are generally produced by chemical conversion of primary petrochemicals to form more complicated derivative productsThe reactions and processes involved in transforming petroleum-based hydrocarbons into the chemicals that form the basis of the multi-billion dollar petrochemical industry are reviewed and describedThe book includes information on new process developments for the production of raw materials and intermediates for petrochemicals Includes a description of the origin of the raw materials for the petrochemicals industry – including an overview of the coal chemicals industry | Handbook of Petrochemical Processes

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Nonparametric Regression and Spline Smoothing

Nonparametric Regression and Spline Smoothing

Provides a unified account of the most popular approaches to nonparametric regression smoothing. This edition contains discussions of boundary corrections for trigonometric series estimators; detailed asymptotics for polynomial regression; testing goodness-of-fit; estimation in partially linear models; practical aspects problems and methods for confidence intervals and bands; local polynomial regression; and form and asymptotic properties of linear smoothing splines. | Nonparametric Regression and Spline Smoothing

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The Politics of Ponzi Schemes History Theory and Policy

The Politics of Ponzi Schemes History Theory and Policy

In the space of three years from 2009 to 2012 Bernie Madoff Tom Petters and R. Allen Stanford were all convicted for running multi-billion dollar Ponzi schemes. These three schemes alone have had the largest financial take in U. S. history. But what role does the economy and legislation play in the occurrences of Ponzi schemes? What is the nature of Ponzi schemes and what are their tools and mechanisms? What can we know about Ponzi perpetrators? Unraveling the answers to these questions (and many more) Marie Springer provides the first representative portrait of Ponzi schemes their perpetrators and their victims. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach she begins by presenting an overview of different types of Ponzi schemes. She later explores perpetrators and victims of Ponzi schemes followed by a close examination of economic trends regulatory changes and the financial relationship with Ponzi schemes. Other key features include: • A non-technical overview of both offender based and offense-based approaches of studying this form of fraud. • Examples of Ponzi schemes and Ponzi schemers. • A wealth of descriptive statistics on known federal cases from the 1960s until the present to quantify this specific form of fraud. Broadening our understanding of Ponzi schemes as a form of white-collar crime The Politics of Ponzi Schemes provides an excellent foundation for students and practitioners of public administration banking as well as investors finance and accounting law enforcement officers legislators and regulators. | The Politics of Ponzi Schemes History Theory and Policy

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Generalized Sylvester Equations Unified Parametric Solutions

Generalized Sylvester Equations Unified Parametric Solutions

Provides One Unified Formula That Gives Solutions to Several Types of GSEsGeneralized Sylvester equations (GSEs) are applied in many fields including applied mathematics systems and control and signal processing. Generalized Sylvester Equations: Unified Parametric Solutions presents a unified parametric approach for solving various types of GSEs. In an extremely neat and elegant matrix form the book provides a single unified parametric solution formula for all the types of GSEs which further reduces to a specific clear vector form when the parameter matrix F in the equations is a Jordan matrix. Particularly when the parameter matrix F is diagonal the reduced vector form becomes extremely simple. The first chapter introduces several types of GSEs and gives a brief overview of solutions to GSEs. The two subsequent chapters then show the importance of GSEs using four typical control design applications and discuss the F‐coprimeness of a pair of polynomial matrices. The next several chapters deal with parametric solutions to GSEs. The final two chapters present analytical solutions to normal Sylvester equations (NSEs) including the well‐known continuous‐ and discrete‐time Lyapunov equations. An appendix provides the proofs of some theorems. The book can be used as a reference for graduate and senior undergraduate courses in applied mathematics and control systems analysis and design. It will also be useful to readers interested in research and applications based on Sylvester equations. | Generalized Sylvester Equations Unified Parametric Solutions

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Revival: The Conduct of War (1908) A Short Treatise on its Most Importsant Branches and Guiding Rules

Revival: The Conduct of War (1908) A Short Treatise on its Most Importsant Branches and Guiding Rules

This book contains in a brief form author’s views a to the conduct of the principal strategical and tactical operations of war and will be found to be a short and convenient introduction to a deeper study of the rules which should underlie the direction of the ever-varying incidents of modern fighting. | Revival: The Conduct of War (1908) A Short Treatise on its Most Importsant Branches and Guiding Rules

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Thresholds in Geomorphology Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium 9

Thresholds in Geomorphology Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium 9

This book first published in 1980 is a timely and comprehensive appraisal of thresholds in geomorphology. The papers arising from the 9th Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium form the cornerstone of a subject that is increasingly important in geomorphology. This book analyses the historical background to thresholds and geomorphology as well as fluvial landforms hydrogeologic regimes and other processes and the impact of man. | Thresholds in Geomorphology Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium 9

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Lectures on Perception An Ecological Perspective

Lectures on Perception An Ecological Perspective

Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective addresses the generic principles by which each and every kind of life form—from single celled organisms (e. g. difflugia) to multi-celled organisms (e. g. primates)—perceives the circumstances of their living so that they can behave adaptively. It focuses on the fundamental ability that relates each and every organism to its surroundings namely the ability to perceive things in the sense of how to get about among them and what to do or not to do with them. The book’s core thesis breaks from the conventional interpretation of perception as a form of abduction based on innate hypotheses and acquired knowledge and from the historical scientific focus on the perceptual abilities of animals most especially those abilities ascribed to humankind. Specifically it advances the thesis of perception as a matter of laws and principles at nature’s ecological scale and gives equal theoretical consideration to the perceptual achievements of all of the classically defined ‘kingdoms’ of organisms—Archaea Bacteria Protoctista Fungi Plantae and Animalia. | Lectures on Perception An Ecological Perspective

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On Shell Structure

On Shell Structure

This volume collects together core papers by Richard K. Larson developing what has since come to be known as the VP Shell or Split VP analysis of sentential structure. The volume includes five previously published papers together with two major unpublished works from the same period: Light Predicate Raising (1989) which explores the interesting consequences of a leftward raising analysis of NP Shift phenomena and The Projection of DP (and DegP) (1991) which extends the shell approach to the projection of nominal and adjectival structure showing how projection can be handled in a uniform way. In addition to published unpublished and limited distribution work the volume includes extensive new introductory material. The general introduction traces the conceptual roots of VP Shells and its problems in the face of subsequent developments in theory and offers an updated form compatible with modern Minimalist syntactic analysis. The section introductions to the material on datives complex predicates and nominals show how the updated form of shell theory applies in the empirical domains where it was originally developed. | On Shell Structure

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