Study objectives: (1) To describe the union and life cycle of family rituals, such as specific habits of sharing daily meals, special events or other family activities, and (2) to analyse the relation between the practice of family rituals and…

This book presents an approach based on Linux operating system, including issues such as kernel per se, units use and construction, different types of them, debugging techniques, as well as time management, interruptions, DMA (direct memory access), different buses and…

This text introduces comprehensively the reader to the distance teaching/learning process.
With this purpose, it presents a model of the Distance Education System to be used for understanding its embedded elements: contents, instructional design, communications, interaction, learning environment, and administration.

The area of multi-objective optimization is receiving increasing attention by the comunity of evolutionary computation. In this book the authors present a complete state-of-the art in the field.

The two volumes attempt to render a self-contained idea of the state of the art of cluster computing by the year 1999. In the whole, thirty-six articles are presented in Vol. 1 and twenty-nine articles in Vol.2. In each volume,…

This paper assesses the extent to which the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) approach is currently adopted in England. Interviews based on the Supported Employment Fidelity Scale were conducted with staff from five of the leading providers of supported employment.…

The adult mammalian retina has been for long considered to lack neurogenerative capacity. However, retinal stem/progenitor cells which can originate retinal neurons in vitro have been recently reported in the ciliary body of adult mammals. Here we have explored the…

Tool path generation is one of the most complex problems in Computer Aided Manufacturing. Although some efficient strategies have been developed to solve it, most of them are only useful for 3 and 5 axis standard machining. The algorithm called…

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Recent books on ancient art are critically surveyed, organized according to topic.