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The book discusses reforms that must be instituted to control police use of deadly force, and to establish an equitable balance of risk to protect police officers (from being hurt by armed citizens) and citizens (from being erroneously shot by police). It begins with an examination of the effects of social forces on the police, psychological characteristics of individual officers, and the problems of management and control on decision-making by individual officers, all illustrated by examples of deadly-force encounters from investigations in Newark, Miami, Birmingham and Oakland. There is a discussion of the various purposes guns serve in police activities, the cultural marriage of guns with...
This new textbook provides a linguistic introduction to Sanskrit for university students and adult scholars. While it assumes no prior knowledge of the language, linguistics, or Indian culture, yet it provides thorough sophisticated introductions to each aspect of the language including its linguistic relation to Indo-European, Sanskrit literature, phonetics and phonology, Devan?gar? script, grammar and morphology, syntax, and discourse structures. The material is appropriate for a thorough first-year university course at either the undergraduate or graduate level, or for independent study of educated adult scholars.The product of the author's thirty years of experience in teaching Sanskrit ...
Among crop nutrients, nitrogen has the most complex chemistry and behavior in soil, gives the largest yield responses, and is the most difficult to manage. Managing Nitrogen in Crop Production condenses the latest research and thinking from leading experts in nitrogen. The result will increase your understanding of nitrogen and your odds of managing it successfully.
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Second edition in Devanagari. Volume 1: the introduction and first half. Volume 2: the second half, appendices, and index.
The 7th International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2004, was held in Saint-Malo, Brittany, France at the “Palais du Grand Large” conference center, September 26–29, 2004. The p- posaltohostMICCAI2004wasstronglyencouragedandsupportedbyIRISA, Rennes. IRISA is a publicly funded national research laboratory with a sta? of 370,including150full-timeresearchscientistsorteachingresearchscientistsand 115 postgraduate students. INRIA, the CNRS, and the University of Rennes 1 are all partners in this mixed research unit, and all three organizations were helpful in supporting MICCAI. MICCAI has become a premier international conference with in-depth - pe...
Consisting of about 25,000 verses in Vālmīki's Rāmāyaṇa, the story of Rāma was summarized in 704 verses in eighteen chapters in the Rāmopākhyāna, which comprises chapters 258-275 of the Āraṇyaka Parvan of the great epic Mahābhārata. The story is introduced in chapter 257 and given an afterword in chapter 276 which bring the number of verses in this book to 728. The book includes a thorough introduction to the various dimensions of the story, a descriptive glossary of proper names with references to where they are used in the text, and genealogical trees of Rāma and Rāvaṇa. The present English translation of the Rāmopākhyāna is suitable for secondary school and university students, and adults.