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Written by the renowned expert in the field, this textbook reviews the major new developments in envelope models and methods An Introduction to Envelopes: Dimension Reduction for Efficient Estimation in Multivariate Statistics (PDF) provides an outline of the theory and methods of envelopes, a class of procedures for increasing efficiency

Opioid analgesics are among the most beneficial medications for pain management but are associated with serious and increasing public health problems, including addiction, abuse, and death from overdose. Presently, there is an opioid epidemic in the United States with the rate of prescription opioid-related overdose deaths quadrupling in the last

Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis, (PDF) examines the representation of empathy in contemporary poetry after the crisis, particularly poetry after the Holocaust, the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and Hurricane Katrina. The ebook argues that, identifying both the possibilities and dangers of empathy, the poems under consideration variously invite

This newest updated and revised Underwater Acoustic Modeling and Simulation, 5th edition, (PDF) adds new material to all chapters, especially in mathematical propagation models and special applications and inverse techniques. It has updated environmental-acoustic data in core summary tables and companion tables with the latest underwater acoustic propagation, reverberation, noise,

Self-Regulation and Ego Control, (PDF) studies the physiological effects of depletion, the effects of psychological variables in self-control depletion effects, the part of motivational and goal states on self-control depletion effects, and numerous cognitive perspectives on self-control exertion. This insightful ebook starts with an introduction of ego depletion phenomena, self-control