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Quick ViewSweet potato is a short-cycle, dicotyledonous plant in the morning glory family Convolvulaceae. It is a vegetable crop with roots that are sweet-tasting, starchy and tuberous. It is native to the tropical regions in America, from where it spread to other parts of the world. Chapter One of this book focuses on the production, nutritional…
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Quick ViewThis book reviews selected analyses of accounting methods and standard and bonus depreciation. Chapter One of this book briefly explains the different accounting standards and U.S. capital markets. It examines several IFRS policy options Congress might consider and the benefits and challenges of each of those options. Chapter Two introduces the difference between cash and…
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Quick ViewThe potential harm to public health and the environment from a large release of hazardous chemicals has long concerned congressional policymakers. Since 2006, Congress has authorized the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to regulate chemical facilities for security purposes. To this end, the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) regulates security at high-risk facilities possessing more…
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Quick ViewThe financing of the federal government depends largely upon Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) ability to collect taxes, including providing taxpayer services that make voluntary compliance easier and enforcing tax laws to ensure compliance with tax responsibilities. This book analyzes select IRS business units’ budget and staffing; describes how IRS is managing in a constrained budget…
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Quick ViewThe Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) collection program largely uses automated processes to categorize and route unpaid tax or unfiled tax return cases for potential selection. The automated Inventory Delivery System (IDS) categorizes and routes cases based on many factors, such as type of tax and amount owed. Outside of IDS, collection managers set goals for…
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Quick ViewThe Exempt Organizations (EO) unit within the Tax Exempt and Government Entities (TE/GE) division at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) reviews organizations’ applications for tax-exempt status to determine whether to grant status and oversees existing exempt organizations’ compliance with the tax code. To identify exempt organizations for possible examination, EO uses a variety of information…
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Quick ViewAdvanced materials and composites, including piezoelectrics, nanomaterials, nanostructures, functional materials, polymeric composites and so on, are very important for modern sciences, technologies and techniques. This book presents processing techniques, physics, mechanics, chemistry and applications of advanced materials. It covers broad classes of modern materials, structures and composites with specific properties. Nanotechnology approaches, modern piezoelectric techniques,…
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Quick ViewIn this yearbook for 2015 we present you with the latest research on pain management. We start out with chapters on cancer, intellectual disability and pain. Then we move into the field of palliative care, quality of life and cancer. Post-traumatic stress disorder in cancer patients is discussed from experiences in Canada and you will…
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Quick ViewIn this Public Health Yearbook 2015 we will touch upon several public health topics having in mind the fight against Ebola in West Africa. Public health efforts can only be successful if attention is paid to the interconnectedness between the population’s perception of the disease, their cultural practices relating to death, dying, and the treatment…
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Quick ViewIn the past there has been much emphasis on child and adolescent developmental problems and while it is perfectly legitimate to look at child and adolescent problems, there are two problems with this approach. First, over-emphasis on problems can reinforce a pathological orientation. As such, children and adolescents may be seen as “problems” or “issues”…
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Quick ViewAdolescence identifies a critical period of human life that allows sufficient maturity for the human being to leave childhood dependency and pass through a dramatic period of immense physiological, psychological, and sociological consequences. The adolescent must accept the failures and successes of childhood with the initiation of puberty and in the end, starts his or…
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Quick ViewIn this yearbook we have many interesting chapters and topics. We start out with chapters on psychocutaneous disorders from different points of view. Then we move to the newborn period with chapters on evaluation and screening of the newborn, prematurity, circumcision and environment. Then we move into specific health issues in the new born period…
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Quick ViewHigh Value Processing is concerned with all the processes and activities of converting raw materials and commodity materials into valuable products required by manufacturers or the end consumer. Efficient processing of raw materials and commodity goods is of great significance for continuing economic welfare. There is a need to develop products that have high value…
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Quick ViewThis book focuses on hierarchical organizational structures. Secondly, the authors perform modeling in the context of solving control problems. Next, the conditions of corrupting a major task of control consisting of ensuring sustainable development of modeled hierarchical organizations are reviewed. Here, the authors proceed from the original concept of sustainable management (Ougolnitsky, 2002, 2005, 2010,…
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Quick ViewThe Department of Energy (DOE) has adhered to its practice of using only unobligated low-enriched uranium (LEU) to meet national security needs for tritium—a radioactive isotope of hydrogen used to enhance the power of U.S. nuclear weapons. LEU is considered unobligated when neither the uranium nor the technology used to enrich it carries an “obligation”…
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Quick ViewThe physical and social fabric of the United States is sustained by a system of systems; a complex and dynamic network of interlocking and interdependent infrastructures (“critical national infrastructures”) whose harmonious functioning enables the myriad actions, transactions, and information flow that undergird the orderly conduct of civil society in this country. The vulnerability of these…
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Quick ViewControlled Environment Agriculture – Production of Specialty Crops Providing Human Health Benefits through Hydroponics provides useful information on agricultural technology management that enables the grower to manipulate a crop’s environment to the desired conditions. Specialty/functional foods can be produced through simple modification of nutritional composition and environmental controls. Management of chemical composition of hydroponic culture…
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Quick ViewEpigenetics is a relatively new field of science explaining heritable changes that are not caused by alterations in DNA sequences. Epigenetic modifications are acquired throughout life, and depend on environmental clues such as diet, lifestyle and toxin exposure. It is possible to pass down epigenetic modifications to the next generation of offspring if the modifications…
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Quick ViewMusic has been used as a mood altering intervention for thousands of years. There are numerous examples of the healing powers of music in the historical records of different cultures. In the last few decades, investigators have developed a more scientific approach to exploring the mechanisms by which music exerts its effects on the brain…
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Quick ViewThis monograph analyzes the results of theoretical investigations of exciton states in quantum dot molecules under conditions of dominating polarization interactions. The authors show that the absorption and emission edge of quantum dots is formed by two transitions of comparable intensity from different hole sizes. In this monograph, the experimental and theoretical studies of physical…
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Quick ViewNatural medicines are derived from natural sources such as plants, animals and/or mineral origins. The use of traditional natural products is an empirical healthcare system based on thousands of years of human experience. Over the past few decades, quality control and safety evaluation methods for natural products, though sophisticated and technologically advanced, still lack comprehensiveness…
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Quick ViewCrop Rotations: Farming Practices, Monitoring and Environmental Benefits, edited by Dr. Bao-Luo Ma, a senior research scientist from Agriculture and Agri-Food in Canada, includes contributions from more than twenty-eight scientists in this dynamic field from around the world. This book synthesizes the latest innovations and integrated knowledge from science disciplines as diverse as agronomy, soil…
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Quick ViewCirculating tumor cells (CTCs) are the seeds for cancer metastases development, which is responsible for >90% of cancer-related deaths. Accurate quantification of CTCs in human fluids could be an invaluable tool for understanding cancer prognosis, delivering personalized medicine to prevent metastasis and finding cancer therapy effectiveness. Although CTCs were first discovered more than 200 years…
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Quick ViewLight-based technologies have revolutionized medicine and opened up international communication via the Internet, and will continue to underpin the future development of human society. The science of light is applied in a technological field known as photonics, and this theme addresses the important ways that photonic devices impact areas such as medicine, communications and energy.…
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