This book offers a comprehensive overview of the intellectual developments in urban conservation. The authors offer unique insights from UNESCO's World Heritage Centre and the book is richly illustrated with colour photographs. Examples are drawn from urban heritage sites worldwide from Timbuktu to [...]
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In recent years the number of innovative medicinal products and devices submitted and approved by regulatory bodies has declined dramatically. The medical product development process is no longer able to keep pace with increasing technologies, science and innovations and the goal is to develop new s[...]
*Features state of the art technology such as semantic analysis, ontology engineering, data mining and statistical analysis.[...]
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) provides the guidelines for what school personnel must do, and are held accountable for, in their educational assessments and evaluations of children with disabilities.[...]
Construction documents consist of the blueprints and written specifications for a building project, and are used by the building professional as instructions. This comprehensive manual on interpresing construction documents covers both the graphic and written sets and demonstrates how they relate to[...]
Score your highest on the GRE with this updated and expanded premier guide with CD The Educational Testing Service reports that changes to the 2011 GRE test will be the most significant update the exam has received to date.[...]