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The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study
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My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965 (Historical Studies of Urban America)
In the 1920s, thousands of white migrants settled in the Los Angeles suburb of South Gate. Six miles from downtown and adjacent to Watts, South Gate and its neighboring communities served as L.A.'s Detroit, an industrial belt for mass production of cars, tires, steel, and other durable goods. Blue-collar workers built the suburb literally from the ground up, using sweat equity rather than cash to construct their own homes. As Becky M. Nicolaides shows in My Blue Heaven, this ethic of self-reliance and homeownership formed the core of South Gate's identity. With post-World War II economic prosperity, the community's emphasis shifted from building homes to protecting them as residents tried to maintain their standard of living against outside threats—including the growing civil rights movement—through grassroots conservative politics based on an ideal of white homeowner rights. As the citizens of South Gate struggled to defend their segregated American Dream of suburban community, they fanned the flames of racial inequality that erupted in the 1965 Watts riots. .
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State Aid Policy in the European Community: A Guide for Practitioners (International Competition Law)
As full market integration in the EC comes into clearer perspective, the danger of distortions of competition become more evident Although state aid may be provided to undertakings for a variety of reasons that may be considered to be beneficial to the economy, effective liberalisation may be undermined by state interventions, which weaken competition and prevent the achievement of market integration. State aid is thus considered to be in principle incompatible with the common market, although the well-known qualifications in Article 87 EC imply that certain exceptions are possible. This guide, which has grown out of seminars conducted by the European Institute of Public Administration in Maastricht, provides a concise overview of the state aid policy of the European Community. It explains the principles on which this policy is based, and how it is applied in practice. It also identifies the primary and secondary sources of EC law on state aid and makes references to landmark Commission decisions and Court cases, both of which sources it cites extensively. Among the many important issues the book addresses in depth are the following: what constitutes effective competition; effect on trade of aid incompatible with the common market; evaluating necessity, proportionality, and other criteria for providing aid; agriculture, transport, and other exceptions; services of general economic interest (SGIE); new aid versus existing aid; formal investigation procedure; and recovery of unnotified aid. The presentation focuses on those issues that are of practical relevance to policymakers and practitioners managing state aid in the public administrations of the EC Member States and its partner countries. It offers the quickest and most reliable guide to applying Commission decisions and Court rulings on state aid, as well as to practice in the various Member States..
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Compatible Spatial Discretizations (The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications)
The IMA Hot Topics workshop on compatible spatialdiscretizations was held May 11-15, 2004 at the University of Minnesota The purpose of the workshop was to bring together scientists at the forefront of the research in the numerical solution of PDEs to discuss recent advances and novel applications of geometrical and homological approaches to discretization. This volume contains original contributions based on the material presented at the workshop. A unique feature of the collection is the inclusion of work that is representative of the recent developments in compatible discretizations across a wide spectrum of disciplines in computational science. Compatible spatial discretizations are those that inherit or mimic fundamental properties of the PDE such as topology, conservation, symmetries, and positivity structures and maximum principles. The papers in the volume offer a snapshot of the current trends and developments in compatible spatial discretizations. The reader will find valuable insights on spatial compatibility from several different perspectives and important examples of applications compatible discretizations in computational electromagnetics, geosciences, linear elasticity, eigenvalue approximations and MHD. The contributions collected in this volume will help to elucidate relations between different methods and concepts and to generally advance our understanding of compatible spatial discretizations for PDEs. Abstracts and presentation slides from the workshop can be accessed at http://www.ima.umn.edu/talks/workshops/5-11-15.2004/. .
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Diagnosis of Fetal Abnormalities: The 18-23-Week Scan
Ultrasound is the main diagnostic tool in the prenatal detection of congenital abnormalities. The Fetal Medicine Foundation has recognized the importance of this tool by setting up a program of training and certification to help establish high standards of scanning on an international scale. Diagnosis of Fetal Abnormalities: The 18-23-Week Scan provides the basis of learning for the theoretical component of this program. The book is a complete, authoritative clinician's textbook on using ultrasound in the prenatal detection of congenital abnormalities. It summarizes the prevalence, etiology, prenatal sonographic features and prognosis for both common and rare fetal abnormalities..
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Placental and Fetal Doppler
This comprehensive clinical textbook on Doppler assessment of placental and fetal circulation provides the foundation needed for the theoretical component of the Certificate of Competence in placental and fetal Doppler awarded by the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology and the International Society of Perinatal Medicine. Following introductory chapters on Doppler ultrasound principles, practice, safety and methodology, the book covers Doppler studies in the full range of areas relevant to placental and fetal circulation, including color Doppler sonography for fetal heart assessment and for diagnosis of fetal abnormalities..
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