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This innovative handbook is for young practitioners in psychiatry and primary care, as well as psychiatric and non-psychiatric residents. The focus of this book is on practical clinical psychopharmacology that would fit best an outpatient clinical setting (non-emergency). Besides reviewing psychotropic drugs, it takes a practical approach, making...

The main goal of the book is to provide a comprehensive and self-contained proof of the, relatively recent, theorem of characterization of the strong maximum principle due to Molina-Meyer and the author, published in Diff. Int. Eqns. in 1994, which was later refined by Amann and the author in a paper published in J. of Diff. Eqns. in 1998. Besides...

This book, written entirely by faculty at the Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, provides a variety of practical and implementable perspectives on innovation for managers. In addition, the book contains chapters that provide reviews of the academic research on innovation in the faculty members' specific areas of expertise....

Reliability modeling has been a major concern for engineers and managers engaged in high quality system designs. This book presents the recent advancement in reliability theory and reliability engineering. Starting from maintenance policies, the book introduces reliability analysis to systems using stochastic processes to study their optimization...

This book mainly uses the New Institutional Economics Approach (NIE) to examine the formation and development of industrial clusters in China through multiple case studies of textile and clothing clusters in the Zhejiang province. The micro case studies illustrate the interaction between institutional change and the industrial development of China...

This book deals with important theories of international competitiveness and their strategic implications and practical applications. The theories range from classical theories such as Adam Smith's absolute advantage to new theories such as Michael Porter's diamond model. It also incorporates the latest theoretical advances, including the...