Change is an inevitable part of any correctional institution, as new trends and initiatives constantly bombard the system. Introducing the concept of organizational capacity, this volume examines leadership, management, and organizational culture and how they apply to correctional agencies, enabling administrators to identify the changes that can be successfully implemented within the organizational context. Topics discussed include management theory, the importance of effective communication, information capital, the human element of change, the concept of evidence-based practice, and the role of evaluation and outcome assessment in the process of improving correctional practice.
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Forensic Science - Law
Public Administration & Management
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Completely revised, this second edition of a bestseller includes a general treatment of multi-terminal transformers and a unified discussion of oil electrical breakdown in various geometries. It also covers the use of 3D finite element calculations in design. This book presents the theory of transformers, beginning with first principles. This way, readers can understand the fundamentals of the formulas and procedures that are later developed for use in the design process, and then adapt the results to new developments as they occur. The book also emphasizes transformer model development to aid in determining performance under a variety of conditions.
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Power Electronics
Power Engineering
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Bringing together techniques from various areas of mathematics, this book presents an introduction to the basic concepts, methods, and results of invariant descriptive set theory. It reviews classical and effective descriptive set theory; studies Polish groups and their actions; and covers Borel reducibility results on Borel, orbit, and general definable equivalence relations. The author also describes infinitary logic, Scott analysis, and the isomorphism relation on natural classes of countable models. The book concludes with applications to classification problems and many benchmark equivalence relations. It also contains a large number of exercises at the end of most sections.
• Pure and Applied Mathematics
Set Theory
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Exploring how to extract knowledge structures from evolving and time-changing data, this book presents a coherent overview of state-of-the-art research in learning from data streams. It covers the fundamentals that are imperative to understanding data streams and describes important applications, such as TCP/IP traffic, GPS data, sensor networks, and customer click streams. It also explores advanced areas, such as ubiquitous data stream mining; addresses several challenges of data mining in the future, when stream mining will be at the core of many applications; and includes pseudo-code of more than 30 streaming-like algorithms.
• Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series
Algorithms & Complexity
Data Preparation & Mining
Machine Learning
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Describing efficient transmission schemes for broadband wireless systems, this book examines advances in transmission techniques and receiver designs capable of supporting the emergent wireless needs for multimedia broadcast and multicast service (MBMS) requirements. It summarizes the R&D taking place in wireless communications for multimedia MBMS and addresses the means to improved spectral efficiency to allow for increased user bit rate, as well as increased capacity of the digital cellular radio network. The text highlights essential requirements for new services and supplies the understanding of the corresponding fundamentals and theory needed to fulfill such requirements.
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Communications System Design
Digital & Wireless Communication
Telecommunications
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This volume discusses the physical and mathematical analysis of transport phenomena associated with food processing. The models presented describe many of the important physical and biological transformations that occur in food during processing. After introducing the fundamentals of heat, mass, and momentum transfer as well as computational fluid dynamics, the book focuses on specialized topics in food processing. It covers thermal, low temperature, non-thermal, and non-conventional thermal processing, along with the analysis of biological and enzyme reactors. The book also explores the use of artificial neural networks, exergy analysis, process control, and cleaning-in-place systems in industry.
• Contemporary Food Engineering
Industrial Chemistry
Product Development
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Reflecting a rich technical and interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, this collection focuses on the properties of water and its interaction with life. The book examines the arguments of Lawrence J. Henderson and other scholars on the "fitness" of water for life as part of the physical and chemical properties of nature considered as a foundational environment within which life has emerged and evolved. Highly esteemed researchers from multidisciplinary fields develop a variety of approaches that help to illuminate ways in which to address deeper questions with respect to the nature of the universe and our place within it.
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Biochemistry
Water Engineering
Physical Chemistry
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A companion to Volume V: Applications of Ion Trapping Devices , this volume explores the latest advances in this expanding field. It covers new methods for trapping ions, such as the Orbitrap™, the digital ion trap, the rectilinear ion trap, and the toroidal ion trap; the development and application of the quadrupole ion trap and the quadrupole linear ion trap; and the introduction of high-field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry. The book explains all terms, acronyms, procedures, and equations in a style readily accessible at the graduate level and presents a common writing style that enables readers to appreciate the commonalities of topics.
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Chemical Spectroscopy
Analytical Chemistry
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Rapid advancements in the application of soft computing tools and techniques have proven valuable in the development of highly scalable systems. Although many resources on the subject adequately cover the theoretic concepts, few provide clear insight into their practical application. Filling this need, this book explains such applications, including the underlying technology and its implementation. It covers the theoretical foundations of soft computing and supply a concise explanation of various models, principles, algorithms, tools, and techniques, including artificial neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary algorithms, and hybrid algorithms.
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Software Engineering & Systems Development
Intelligent Systems
Intelligent Systems
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Offering a review of the systematic progress of this emerging class, this work provides a broad overview of shape-memory polymers (SMP) and their composites. This text presents detailed information on the wide range of SMP applications, including aeronautics, astronautics, biomedicine, and the automobile industry. Industry experts use each chapter to discuss an important aspect of these novel smart materials, from their properties and fabrication to the actuation approaches that can be used to trigger shape recovery. This comprehensive book also covers topics such as multifunctional SMPs and their composites as well as SMP-based composite materials.
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Polymers & Plastics
Composites
Polymer Science
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