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3A739175106.jsonld | Transformers and inductors for power electronics : theory, design and applications | Based on the fundamentals of electromagnetics, this clear and concise text explains basic and applied principles of transformer and inductor design for power electronic applications. It details both the theory and practice of inductors and transformers employed to filter currents, store electromagnetic energy, provide physical isolation between circuits, and perform stepping up and down of DC and AC voltages. The authors present a broad range of applications from modern power conversion systems. They provide rigorous design guidelines based on a robust methodology for inductor and transformer design. They offer real design examples, informed by proven and working field examples. Key features include: -emphasis on high frequency design, including optimisation of the winding layout and treatment of non-sinusoidal waveforms -a chapter on planar magnetic with analytical models and descriptions of the processing technologies -analysis of the role of variable inductors, and their applications for power factor correction and solar power -unique coverage on the measurements of inductance and transformer capacitance, as well as tests for core losses at high frequency -worked examples in MATLAB, end-of-chapter problems, and an accompanying website containing solutions, a full set of instructors' presentations, and copies of all the figures. Covering the basics of the magnetic components of power electronic converters, this book is a comprehensive reference for students and professional engineers dealing with specialised inductor and transformer design. It is especially useful for senior undergraduate and graduate students in electrical engineering and electrical energy systems, and engineers working with power supplies and energy conversion systems who want to update their knowledge on a field that has progressed considerably in recent years Based on the fundamentals of electromagnetics, this clear and concise text explains basic and applied principles of transformer and inductor design for power electronic applications. It details both the theory and practice of inductors and transformers employed to filter currents, store electromagnetic energy, provide physical isolation between circuits, and perform stepping up and down of DC and AC voltages. The authors present a broad range of applications from modern power conversion systems. They provide rigorous design guidelines based on a robust methodology for inductor and transforme |
3A1653371560.jsonld | Cycling and sustainability | The book explores the reasons for difficulties in making cycling mainstream in many cultures, despite its claims for being one of the most sustainable forms of transport. The topic is looked at from the varying perspectives of people, the environment and the economy with multi-disciplinary contributions from the UK, Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Gemany, Australia, China and USA. Initially it examines the cultural development of cycling in countries with high use and the differences in use between different sub-groups of the population. It then explores issues of urban form, and the attributes of the network and the system for appropriately accommodating cycle users. Cross-cultural issues are once again investigated through an exposition of research in developing countries and the environment in which scheme promoters and users operate. The book draws to a close with an exploration of state-of-the-art thinking on demand model. |
3A1700283421.jsonld | Engineering and technology for healthcare | "Innovation in healthcare is currently a "hot" topic. Innovation allows us to think differently, to take risks and to develop ideas that are far better than existing solutions. Currently, there is no single book that covers all topics related to microelectronics, sensors, data, system integration and healthcare technology assessment in one reference. This book aims to critically evaluate current state-of-the-art technologies and provide readers with insights into developing new solutions. With contributions from a fully international team of experts across electrical engineering and biomedical fields, the book discusses how advances in sensing technology, computer science, communications systems and proteomics/genomics are influencing healthcare technology today"-- |
3A610171372.jsonld | Frühe Reisende in Phokis und Lokris : Berichte aus Zentralgriechenland vom 12. bis 19. Jahrhundert | Today, detailed reports of travellers, traders and diplomats are interesting and often pleasurable sources for the conditions in Central Greece. This book shows how the landscapes of Phokis and Lokris changed in the medieval age and during the Ottoman regency. It also pictures how Greece changed from the time of the Kingdom to the present-days. Alte Reiseberichte vermitteln dem Leser häufig einen völlig neuen Blick auf wohlbekannte Gegenden. Gerade in Griechenland verlief die Wiederentdeckung der klassischen Landschaften im Zuge der Renaissance sehr langsam und zögerlich, denn das Land war als Teil des Osmanischen Reiches recht schwer zugänglich. Selbst in das berühmte Delphi wagten sich nur relativ wenige Reisende, und die Rahmenbedingungen,unter denen diese Reisen dann stattfanden, waren sehr bemerkenswert. Ausführliche Berichte von bildungsbewußten Reisenden, abenteuerlustigen Händlern und unter anderem militärisch interessierten Diplomaten sind daher auch heute noch eine interessante und häufig sehr vergnügliche Quelle für die regionalen Zustände in Mittelgriechenland. Diese Zusammenstellung zeigt einerseits, wie sehr sich die beiden Landschaften Phokis und Lokris im Mittelalter und während der Zugehörigkeit zum Osmanischen Reich verändert haben, andererseits aber auch, wie groß der Schritt vom Königreich Griechenland bis in die heutige Zeit ist. |
3A1697306721.jsonld | The Bitter gourd genome | Introduction -- Botanical descriptions -- Medicinal properties: bioactives and their actions -- Genetic resources and genetic diversity -- Cytogenetical analysis of bitter gourd genome -- Sex determination -- Tissue culture, genetic engineering & nanotechnology -- Classical genetics and traditional breeding -- Molecular linkage mapping: Map construction and mapping of genes/QTLs -- Genome sequence and its comparative study with other Cucurbitaceae genome -- Functional genomics: metabolomics, transcriptomics (including biochemical study of interaction with parasite) -- Future Prospects. This book focusing on the bitter gourd genome is the first comprehensive compilation of knowledge on the botany, cytogenetical analysis, genetic resources and diversity, traditional breeding, tissue culture and genetic transformation, whole genome sequencing and comparative genomics in the Cucurbitaceae family. It discusses the biochemical profile of the bioactives present in this horticultural crop, used both as a vegetable and as a medicine, and also addresses sex determination in bitter gourd. Written by respected international experts, the book is useful to students, teachers and scientists in academia, as well as seed companies and pharmaceutical industries. |
3A624220206.jsonld | Carbon management in tourism : mitigating the impacts on climate change | Climate change is one of the single most important global environmental issues facing the world today and is emerging as a major topic in tourism studies. This book is devoted to carbon emission reductions and to showcase a wide range of practical mitigation measures |
3A1692218352.jsonld | Buffalo at the crossroads : the past, present, and future of American urbanism | "Buffalo at the Crossroads is a scholarly edited volume comprising essays by twelve authors that investigate the built environment of Buffalo, NY. It provides a new way of looking at the buildings and landscapes in this important American city and beyond, examining the local and global and "high" and "low" contexts of Buffalo's architectural heritage"-- |
3A1767480873.jsonld | Handbook on HR process research | Contents: 1 Introduction to human resource management process / Charmi Patel, Huadong Yang and Karin Sanders -- Part I: The state of hr process research -- 2. Hr attributions: A critical review and research agenda / Rebecca Hewett -- 3. Hr strength: Past, current and future research / Karin Sanders, Timothy C. Bednall and Huadong Yang -- 4. Perceptions of hrm: When do we differ in perceptions? When is it meaningful to assess such differences? / Yvonne G.T. van Rossenberg -- Part II: New applications -- 5. Team leaders' hr attributions and their implications on teams and employee-level outcomes / Yucheng Zhang, Zhiling Wang and Xin Wei -- 6. Putting perceived hr credibility into the hrm process picture: Insights from the elaboration likelihood model / Xiaobei Li -- 7. Hrm system strength implementation: A multi-actor process perspective / Anna Bos-Nehles, Jordi Trullen and Mireia Valverde -- 8. The hard problem: Human resource management and performance / Keith Townsend, Kenneth Cafferkey, Tony Dundon and Safa Riaz -- 9. Employee attributions of talent management / Adelle Bish, Helen Shipton and Frances Jorgensen -- 10. Change within organizations: An attributional lens / Karin Sanders and Alannah Rafferty -- Part III: Strengths, weaknesses and future directions -- 11. Reflections on the hr landscape / Cheri Ostroff -- 12. The role of line managers in the hrm process / David E. Guest -- Index. "This forward-thinking Handbook explores cutting-edge research on how employees within firms should be managed in order to increase their wellbeing and performance. Expert contributors explore an emerging stream of research in human resource management (HRM) which suggests that attention should be paid to how line managers implement HR practices and how employees perceive, understand and attribute these HR practices. Chapters consider the implications of employees' and leaders' HR attributions and their performance, HRM system strength, change, talent management and the role of line managers in the HRM process. Providing an overview of the current knowledge in the HR process research, the Handbook also discusses future avenues and directions for the field. Demonstrating the dynamics of how HR practices impact organisational and individual outcomes, this Handbook will be critical reading for scholars and students of human resource management, organisational behaviour and research methods in business and management. It will also be beneficial for HR professionals seeking to understand how they can increase the effectiveness of their HR management"-- |
3A086755757.jsonld | Handbook of public finance | The Handbook of Public Finance provides a definitive source, reference, and text for the field of public finance. In 18 chapters it surveys the state of the art - the tradition and breadth of the field but also its current status and recent developments. The Handbook's intellectual foundation and orientation is truly multidisciplinary. Throughout its examination of the standard material of public finance, it explores the connections between that material and such neighboring fields as political science, sociology, law, and public administration. The editors and contributors to the Handbook ar |
3A592550699.jsonld | Harmonic analysis of mean periodic functions on symmetric spaces and the Heisenberg group | Mean periodic functions on homogeneous spaces is a very active research area, having close connections to harmonic analysis, complex analysis, integral geometry, and analysis on symmetric spaces. This book presents systematic and unified treatment of the theory of mean periodic functions on homogeneous spaces |
3A102344030X.jsonld | Wealth, welfare and sustainability : advances in measuring sustainable development | This important book presents fresh thinking and new results on the measurement of sustainable development. Economic theory suggests that there should be a link between future wellbeing and current wealth. This book explores this linkage under a variety of headings: population growth, technological change, deforestation and natural resource trade. While the relevant theory is presented briefly, the chief emphasis is on empirical measurement of the change in real wealth: this measure of net or "genuine" saving is a key indicator of sustainable development. The methodological and empirical work is bolstered by tests of the predictive power of genuine saving in explaining future consumption and economic growth. Just as importantly, the authors show that many resource-abundant countries would be considerably wealthier today had they managed to save and invest the profits from natural resource exploitation in the past 1. Introduction -- 2. Wealth and social welfare -- 3. Population growth and sustainability -- 4. Testing genuine saving -- 5. Resources, growth and the "paradox of plenty" -- 6. A Hartwick Rule counterfactual -- 7. Deforestation : accounting for a multiple-use resource -- 8. Accounting for technological change -- 9. Resource price trends and prospects for development -- 10. International flows of resource rents -- 11. Summary and conclusions |
3A1761535277.jsonld | The original survey : recognition and significance | "This book is intended for the practicing surveyor and will be useful to the legal profession, historical researchers, Federal lands departments, and others interested in surveys"-- |
3A1657462463.jsonld | The challenge of Eurocentrism : global perspectives, policy, and prospects | Eurocentrism is the current object of a global critique, which has the potential to be as significant as Marxist and Feminist critiques have been. This critique focuses on and dissects the paradigms that have emanated from the European Enlightenment |
3A086159410.jsonld | Strategies of political theatre : post-War British playwrights | This volume provides a theoretical framework for some of the most important play writing in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century. Examining representative plays by Arnold Wesker, John Arden, Trevor Griffiths, Howard Barker, Howard Brenton, Edward Bond, David Hare, John McGrath and Caryl Churchill, the author analyses their respective strategies for persuading audiences of the need for a radical restructuring of society. The book begins with a discussion of the way that theatre has been used to convey a political message. Each chapter is then devoted to an exploration of the engagement of individual playwrights with left-wing political theatre, including a detailed analysis of one of their major plays. Despite political change since the 1980s, political playwriting continues to be a significant element in contemporary playwriting, but in a very changed form.--Publisher description; 1900 - 1999 Strategies of political theatre : a theoretical overview -- 'Reflectionist' strategy : 'kitchen sink' realism in Arnold Wesker's Roots (1959) -- 'Interventionist' strategy : poetic politics in John Arden's Serjeant Musgrave's Dance (1959) -- Dialectics of comedgy : Trevor Griffith's Comedians (1975) -- Appropriating middle-class comedy : Howard Barker's Stripwell -- Staging the future : Howard Breton's The Churchill Play (1974) -- Agit-prop revisited : John McGrath's The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black, Black Oil (1973) -- Brecht revisited : David Hare's Fanshen (1975) -- Rewriting Shakespeare : Edward Bond's Lear (1971) -- Stragegy of play : Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine (1979) |
3A1848677588.jsonld | What AI can do : strenghs and limitations of artificial intelligence | "The book seeks to contribute to the social and cultural comprehension of AI, and how it is being assimilated by different disciplines, as well as some of its ethical controversies. The first section will analyse the philosophical and anthropological dimensions of AI, including the foundations of algorithms, social and cultural implications of algorithmic implementations, different social and cultural assumptions of algorithms and AI, AI from an anthropological point of view, and general and philosophical frameworks for AI ethics. The second section considers the point of view of disciplines such as education, medicine, business, and art. It discusses AI as an element of disruption and innovation in particular disciplines. Section three will analyze possible future scenarios for the application of AI, such as Singularity, Industry 4.0 and labor challenges, AI changing lifestyle and wellness, biometrics and Sentiment analysis on AI, psychological implications of AI and robotics, cybersecurity, and AI political threats."-- |
3A1750895730.jsonld | Historical dictionary of Haiti | "Historical Dictionary of Haiti, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 600 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country's politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture"-- |
3A1604104570.jsonld | Music and media in the Arab world | Frishkopf, Michael: Introduction: Music and media in the Arab world and music and media in the Arab world as music and media in the Arab world : a metadiscourse. - S. 1-64 Nassar, Zein: A history of music and singing on Egyptian radio and television. - S. 67-76 Abdel-Aziz, Moataz: Arabic music videos and their implications for Arab music and media. - S. 77-89 Wassimi, Mounir al-: Arab music and changes in the Arab media. - S. 91-96 Cestor, Elisabeth: Music and television in Lebanon. - S. 97-110 Ulaby, Laith: Mass media and music in the Arab Persian Gulf. - S. 111-126 Abdel-Latif, Yasser: Music of the streets : the story of a television program. - S. 129-136 Grippo, James R.: What's not on Egyptian television and radio! : locating the 'popular' in Egyptian Sha'bi . - S. 137-162 Elmessiri, Abdel-Wahab: Ruby and the checkered heart. - S. 163-172 Kubala, Patricia: The controversy over satellite : music television in contemporary Egypt. - S. 173-224 Barghouti, Tamim al-: Caliphs and clips. - S. 225-230 Armbrust, Walter: What would Sayyid Qutb say? : some reflections on video clips. - S. 231-254 Darwish, Hany: Images of women in advertisements and video clips : a case study of Sherif Sabri. - S. 255-263 Khachab, Walid El-: Arab video music : imagined territories and the liberation of desire (or sex lives in video (clip)). - S. 265-275 Abdel-Fattah, Wael: The biographies of Stalets today : revolutions in sound and images. - S. 277-290 Meizel, Katherine: Real-politics : televised talent competitions and democracy promotion in the Middle East. - S. 291-308 |
3A885589726.jsonld | What is rhetoric? | This book offers a new approach to the principles and functioning of rhetoric. In everyday life, we often debate issues or simply discuss questions. Rhetoric is the way in which we answer questions in an interpersonal context, when we want to have an effect on those with whom we are communicating. They can be convinced or charmed, persuaded or influenced, and the language used can range from reasoning to the sharing of narratives, literary or otherwise. 'What is Rhetoric?' provides a breakthrough in the field, offering a systematic and unified view of the topic. The book combines the social aspects of rhetoric, such as the negotiation of distance between speakers, with the theory of emotions. All the principal authors from Plato and Aristotle to contemporary theorists are integrated into Michel Meyer's "problematological" conception of rhetoric, based on the primacy of questioning and answering in language and thought |
3A543568261.jsonld | Out of the East : spices and the medieval imagination | Spices and medieval cuisine -- Medicine : spices as drugs -- The odors of paradise -- Trade and prices -- Scarcity, abundance, and profit -- "That damned pepper" : spices and moral danger -- Searching for the realms of spices -- Finding the realms of spices : Portugal and Spain |
3A385016107.jsonld | No bond but the law : punishment, race, and gender in Jamaican State formation, 1780 - 1870 | Prison and plantation -- Planters, magistrates, and apprentices -- The treadmill and the whip -- Penality and politics in a "free" society -- Justice and the Jamaican people. |
3A1115931938.jsonld | The strength and stiffness of polymers | Solid-state extrusion of thermoplastics / Anagnostis E. Zachariades and Roger S. Porter -- Polyethylene and poly(ethylene terephthalate) fibers prepared by flow crystallization in convergent die geometry / John A. Cuculo and John L. Crouse -- Mechanical and transport properties of drawn semicrystalline polymers / Anton Peterlin -- Ultradrawing of semicrystalline polymers / Shoji Ichihara and Shozo Iida -- Rheo-optical studies on alpha and beta mechanical dispersions of high-density polyethelene / Hiromichi Kawai, et al. -- The strophon theory of deformation of glassy amorphous polymers / I.V. Yannas and Robert R. Luise -- Structure and properties of aromatic polyesters of P-hydroxybenzoic acid / James Economy and Willi Volksen -- Aramid fobers / John R. Schaefgen -- Structure-property relations in poly(P-phenylene:benzobisthiazole) fibers / Steven R. Allen, et al |
3A1653775114.jsonld | Extraction of Quantifiable Information from Complex Systems | In April 2007, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) approved the Priority Program 1324 “Mathematical Methods for Extracting Quantifiable Information from Complex Systems.” This volume presents a comprehensive overview of the most important results obtained over the course of the program. Mathematical models of complex systems provide the foundation for further technological developments in science, engineering and computational finance. Motivated by the trend toward steadily increasing computer power, ever more realistic models have been developed in recent years. These models have also become increasingly complex, and their numerical treatment poses serious challenges. Recent developments in mathematics suggest that, in the long run, much more powerful numerical solution strategies could be derived if the interconnections between the different fields of research were systematically exploited at a conceptual level. Accordingly, a deeper understanding of the mathematical foundations as well as the development of new and efficient numerical algorithms were among the main goals of this Priority Program. The treatment of high-dimensional systems is clearly one of the most challenging tasks in applied mathematics today. Since the problem of high-dimensionality appears in many fields of application, the above-mentioned synergy and cross-fertilization effects were expected to make a great impact. To be truly successful, the following issues had to be kept in mind: theoretical research and practical applications had to be developed hand in hand; moreover, it has proven necessary to combine different fields of mathematics, such as numerical analysis and computational stochastics. To keep the whole program sufficiently focused, we concentrated on specific but related fields of application that share common characteristics and, as such, they allowed us to use closely related approaches. D. Belomestny, C. Bender, F. Dickmann, and N. Schweizer: Solving Stochastic Dynamic Programs by Convex Optimization and Simulation -- W. Dahmen, C. Huang, G. Kutyniok, W -- Q Lim, C. Schwab, and G. Welper: Efficient Resolution of Anisotropic Structures -- R. Ressel, P. Dülk, S. Dahlke, K. S. Kazimierski, and P. Maass: Regularity of the Parameter-to-state Map of a Parabolic Partial Differential Equation -- N. Chegini, S. Dahlke, U. Friedrich, and R. Stevenson: Piecewise Tensor Product Wavelet Bases by Extensions and Approximation Rates -- P. A. Cioica, S. Dahlke, N. Döhring, S. Kinzel, F. Lindner, T. Raasch, K. Ritter, and R. Schilling: Adaptive Wavelet Methods for SPDEs -- M. Altmayer, S. Dereich, S. Li, T. Müller-Gronbach, A. Neuenkirch, K. Ritter and L. Yaroslavtseva: Constructive Quantization and Multilevel Algorithms for Quadrature of Stochastic Differential Equations -- O. G. Ernst, B. Sprungk, and H -- J. Starkloff: Bayesian Inverse Problems and Kalman Filters -- J. Diehl, P. Friz, H. Mai, H. Oberhauser, S. Riedel, and W. Stannat: Robustness in Stochastic Filtering and Maximum Likelihood Estimation for SDEs -- J. Garcke and I. Klompmaker: Adaptive Sparse Grids in Reinforcement Learning -- J. Ballani, L. Grasedyck, and M. Kluge: A Review on Adaptive Low-Rank Approximation Techniques in the Hierarchical Tensor Format -- M. Griebel, J. Hamaekers, and F. Heber: A Bond Order Dissection ANOVA Approach for Efficient Electronic Structure Calculations -- W. Hackbusch and R. Schneider: Tensor Spaces and Hierarchical Tensor Representations -- L. Jost, S. Setzer, and M. Hein: Nonlinear Eigenproblems in Data Analysis - Balanced Graph Cuts and the Ratio DCA-Prox -- M. Guillemard, D. Heinen, A. Iske, S. Krause-Solberg, and G. Plonka: Adaptive Approximation Algorithms for Sparse Data Representation -- T. Jahnke and V. Sunkara: Error Bound for Hybrid Models of Two-scaled Stochastic Reaction Systems -- R. Kiesel, A. Rupp, and K. Urban: Valuation of Structured Financial Products by Adaptive Multi wavelet Methods in High Dimensions -- L Kämmerer, S. Kunis, I. Melzer, D. Potts, and T. Volkmer: Computational Methods for the Fourier Analysis of Sparse High-Dimensional Functions -- E. Herrholz, D. Lorenz, G. Teschke, and D. Trede: Sparsity and Compressed Sensing in Inverse Problems -- C. Lubich: Low-Rank Dynamics -- E. Novak and D. Rudolf: Computation of Expectations by Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods -- H. Yserentant: Regularity, Complexity, and Approximability of Electronic Wave functions -- Index |
3A855333634.jsonld | Revisiting Delphi : religion and storytelling in ancient Greece | Revisiting Delphi -- Herodotus: Delphi, oracles, and storytelling in the histories -- Euripides: ironic readings of Apollo and his prophecies -- Plato: Socrates, or invoking the oracle as a witness -- Pausanias: what's the stuff of divinity? -- Athenaeus: encountering the divine in word and wood -- Religion and storytelling in ancient Greece -- Plutarch, a philosophical enquiry into an enigmatic sign |
3A269226044.jsonld | Critical comparisons in politics and culture | Introduction : critical comparisons / John R. Bowen and Roger Petersen -- National revivals and violence / David D. Laitin -- Mechanisms and structures in comparisons / Roger Petersen -- Comparative methodologies in the analysis of anthropological data / Fredrik Barth -- The role of comparison in the light of the theory of culture / Greg Urban -- Case studies of contemporary job loss / Miriam A. Golden -- Defining the contours of an Islamic reform movement : an essay in successive contrasts / John R. Bowen -- Producing an analytic narrative / Margaret Levi -- Political consciousness on Boa Ventura : 1967 and 1989 compared / Allen Johnson -- Comparisons in the context of a game theoretic argument / Barbara Geddes -- The role of microhistories in comparative studies / John R. Bowen |
3A1645855813.jsonld | Handbook of geometric topology | Topics in transformation groups / A. Adem and J.F Davis -- R-trees in topology, geometry, and group theory / M. Bestvina -- Geometric structures on 3-manifolds / E Bonahon -- Dehn surgery on knots / S. Boyer -- Piecewise linear topology / J.L. Bryant -- Geometric group theory / J.W. Cannon -- Infinite dimensional topology and shape theory / A. Chigogidze -- Nonpositive curvature and reflection groups / M.W Davis -- Cohomological dimension theory / J. Dydak -- Flows with knotted closed orbits / J. Franks and M.C. Sullivan -- Nielsen fixed point theory / R. Geoghegan -- Mapping class groups / N.V. Ivanov -- Seifert manifolds / K.B. Lee and E Raymond -- Quantum invariants of 3-manifolds / W.B.R. Lickorish -- L2-invariants of regular coverings of compact manifolds and CW-complexes / W. Lack -- Metric spaces of curvature> k / C. Plaut -- Hyperbolic manifolds / J.G. Ratcliffe -- Heegaard splittings of compact 3-manifolds / M. Scharlemann -- Representations of 3-manifold groups / P.B. Shalen -- Topological rigidity theorems / C.W. Stark -- Homology manifolds / S. Weinberger Geometric Topology is a foundational component of modern mathematics, involving the study of spacial properties and invariants of familiar objects such as manifolds and complexes. This volume, which is intended both as an introduction to the subject and as a wide ranging resouce for those already grounded in it, consists of 21 expository surveys written by leading experts and covering active areas of current research. They provide the reader with an up-to-date overview of this flourishing branch of mathematics |
3A1697920020.jsonld | Advanced computing in electron microscopy | This updated and revised edition of a classic work provides a summary of methods for numerical computation of high resolution conventional and scanning transmission electron microscope images. At the limits of resolution, image artifacts due to the instrument and the specimen interaction can complicate image interpretation. Image calculations can help the user to interpret and understand high resolution information in recorded electron micrographs. The book contains expanded sections on aberration correction, including a detailed discussion of higher order (multipole) aberrations and their effect on high resolution imaging, new imaging modes such as ABF (annular bright field), and the latest developments in parallel processing using GPUs (graphic processing units), as well as updated references. Beginning and experienced users at the advanced undergraduate or graduate level will find the book to be a unique and essential guide to the theory and methods of computation in electron microscopy |
3A1689100044.jsonld | Programming persistent memory : a comprehensive guide for developers | Chapter 1: Introduction to Persistent Memory Programming -- Chapter 2: Persistent Memory Architecture -- Chapter 3: Operating System Support for Persistent Memory -- Chapter 4: Fundamental Concepts of Persistent Memory Programming -- Chapter 5: Introducing the Persistent Memory Development Kit -- Chapter 6: libpmem: Low-Level Persistent Memory Support -- Chapter 7: libpmemobj - A Native Transactional Object Store -- Chapter 8: libpmemobj-cpp: The adaptable language C++ and Persistent Memory -- Chapter 9: pmemkv - A Persistent In-Memory Key-Value Store -- Chapter 10: Volatile Use of Persistent Memory -- Chapter 11: Designing Data Structures for Persistent Memory -- Chapter 12: Debugging Persistent Memory Applications -- Chapter 13: Enabling Persistence in a Real World Application -- Chapter 14: Concurrency and Persistent Memory -- Chapter 15: Profiling and Performance -- Chapter 16: PMDK Internals - Important Algorithms and Data Structures -- Chapter 17: Reliability, Availability and Serviceability -- Chapter 18: Remote Persistent Memory -- Chapter 19: Advanced Topics -- Appendix A: Installing NDCTL and DAXCTL on Linux -- Appendix B: Installing PMDK on Linux & Windows -- Appendix C: Installing IPMCTL on Linux and Windows -- Appendix D: Java for Persistent Memory -- Appendix E: The Future of Remote Persistent Memory Replocation. Beginning and experienced programmers will use this comprehensive guide to persistent memory programming. You will understand how persistent memory brings together several new software/hardware requirements, and offers great promise for better performance and faster application startup times—a huge leap forward in byte-addressable capacity compared with current DRAM offerings. This revolutionary new technology gives applications significant performance and capacity improvements over existing technologies. It requires a new way of thinking and developing, which makes this highly disruptive to the IT/computing industry. The full spectrum of industry sectors that will benefit from this technology include, but are not limited to, in-memory and traditional databases, AI, analytics, HPC, virtualization, and big data. Programming Persistent Memory describes the technology and why it is exciting the industry. It covers the operating system and hardware requirements as well as how to create development environments using emulated or real persistent memory hardware. The book explains fundamental concepts; provides an introduction to persistent memory programming APIs for C, C++, JavaScript, and other languages; discusses RMDA with persistent memory; reviews security features; and presents many examples. Source code and examples that you can run on your own systems are included. You will: Understand what persistent memory is, what it does, and the value it brings to the industry Become familiar with the operating system and hardware requirements to use persistent memory Know the fundamentals of persistent memory programming: why it is different from current programming methods, and what developers need to keep in mind when programming for persistence Look at persistent memory application development by example using the Persistent Memory Development Kit (PMDK) Design and optimize data structures for persistent memory Study how real-world applications are modified to leverage persistent memory Utilize the tools available for persistent memory programming, application performance profiling, and debugging. |
3A1023432277.jsonld | Towards a cultural political economy : putting culture in its place in political economy | This fascinating volume offers a critique of recent institutional and cultural turns in heterodox economics and political economy. Using seven case studies as examples, the authors explore how research on sense- and meaning-making can deepen critical studies in political economy, illuminating its role in critiquing the specific categories, contradictions and crisis-tendencies of capitalism. Parts I and II provide a foundation in institutionalism, international political economy and historical semantics, before introducing an original account of sense- and meaning-making and its role in remaking social relations. This account connects the evolution of both economic and extra-economic concepts to dispositives (problem-oriented social fixes), institutions, and capitalist restructuring. In Parts III and IV, specific case studies demonstrate how this new research program can be applied to issues such as competitiveness, the knowledge-based economy, governmental technologies, institutional and spatio-temporal fixes and crisis management. Scholars and students of heterodox, cultural, political and institutional economics will find this book a comprehensive and illuminating addition to their libraries. |
3A729972259.jsonld | Learning for Jobs | Learning for Jobs is an OECD study of vocational education and training designed to help countries make their Vocational Education and Training (VET) Systems more responsive to labour market needs. It expands the evidence base, identifies a set of policy options and develops tools to appraise VET policy initiatives. |
3A1763809609.jsonld | Handbook on networked multipoint multimedia conferencing and multistream immersive telepresence using SIP : scalable distributed applications and media control over Internet | "Handbook on Networked Multipoint Multimedia Conferencing and Multistream Immsersive Telepresence using SIP: Scalable Distributed Applications and Media Control over Internet is the first book to put together all IETF request for comments (RFCs), and the internet drafts standards related to the multipoint conferencing and immersive telepresence. This book includes mandatory and optional texts of all standards in a chronological and systematic way almost with one-to-one integrity from the beginning to end, allowing the reader to understand all aspects of the highly complex real-time applications. It is a book that network designers, software developers, product manufacturers, implementers, interoperability testers, professionals, professors, and researchers will find to be immensely useful. Practitioners and engineers in all spectrums who are concentrating on building the real-time, scalable, interoperable multipoint applications, can use this book to make informed choices based on technical standards in the market place, on all proprietary non-scalable and non-interposable products. This book will provide focus and foundation for these decision makers"-- |
3A655744703.jsonld | Social Network Data Analytics | Social network analysis applications have experienced tremendous advances within the last few years due in part to increasing trends towards users interacting with each other on the internet. Social networks are organized as graphs, and the data on social networks takes on the form of massive streams, which are mined for a variety of purposes. Social Network Data Analytics covers an important niche in the social network analytics field. This edited volume, contributed by prominent researchers in this field, presents a wide selection of topics on social network data mining such as Structural Properties of Social Networks, Algorithms for Structural Discovery of Social Networks and Content Analysis in Social Networks. This book is also unique in focussing on the data analytical aspects of social networks in the internet scenario, rather than the traditional sociology-driven emphasis prevalent in the existing books, which do not focus on the unique data-intensive characteristics of online social networks. Emphasis is placed on simplifying the content so that students and practitioners benefit from this book. This book targets advanced level students and researchers concentrating on computer science as a secondary text or reference book. Data mining, database, information security, electronic commerce and machine learning professionals will find this book a valuable asset, as well as primary associations such as ACM, IEEE and Management Science. |
3A08650326X.jsonld | The Puritan tradition in America, 1620-1730 | VII. Attitudes toward the natural and supernatural -- 31. Remarkable salvations / Cotton Mather -- 32. Wonders of the invisible world -- Trial of a witch / The Essex County Court -- Retraction / The General Court of Massachusetts -- 33. Wonders of the human body -- In defense of inoculation / Increase Mather -- "The angel of Bethesda" / Cotton Mather -- 34. Wonders of the celestial world / Thomas Robie. VI. Propagating the heritage -- 2. Schools in the wilderness -- Schools ordered / The General Court of Massachusetts -- Schools established / The Town of Dorchester, Massachusetts -- Schoolbooks / The New England Primer -- 28. Collegiate education -- Founding of Harvard / Anonymous -- Laws, liberties, and orders of Harvard / The Board of Overseers -- A second Puritan college / The Trustees of the Collegiate School -- 29. Uses of history and biography -- An elegy on John Cotton / John Norton -- Life of Theophilus Eaton / Cotton Mather -- 30. Attempts to Puritanize the heathen -- Eliot among the Indians / Anonymous -- "The Negro Christianized" / Cotton Mather. VIII. The erosion of Puritan hegemony -- 35. Growth of factionalism / John Woodbridge, Jr -- 36. God's controversy with New England / The Synod of 1679-1680 -- 37. Encroachments from England -- Report on Massachusetts / Edward Randolph -- The dominion of New England / Anonymous -- A new constitution / The Charter of 1691 -- 38. New direction sin Puritanism -- New definitions / Solomon Stoddard -- New congregations / The Brattle Street Church -- New organizations / The Saybrook Platform -- 39. Retrospect / Thomas Prince. II. First footholds in New England -- 6. Plymouth Plantation -- Pilgrim exodus / William Bradford -- Survival and success / Edward Winslow -- 7. Genesis of the Bay Colony -- Creation of the Massachusetts Bay Company / The Charter of 1629 -- Transfer of the charter / The Cambridge Agreement -- Problems of settlement / Thomas Dudley -- 8. Puritanism and the great migration / Thomas Tillam -- 9. God's favors to New England / Anonymous. I. Uprooting -- 1. Emergence of a Puritan faction -- Puritans and parliament / John Field and Thomas Wilcox -- Puritans and the king / Anonymous -- 2. Emergence of Puritan theology / William Ames -- 3. Puritanism curbed / The Court of High Commission -- 4. Reasons for forsaking England -- General considerations / John Winthrop -- Particular considerations / John Winthrop -- 5. Harried out of the land / Thomas Shepard. III. The New England way -- 10. Setting up the Churches of Christ / Edward Johnson -- 11. Forms of public worship -- Church services / Thomas Lechford -- Puritan preaching / Thomas Hooker and Henry Wolcott -- 12. Conversion experience / Thomas Shepard -- 13. Church polity -- Principles of Congregationalism / The Cambridge Platform -- Problems of baptism and membership / The Synod of 1662 -- 14. Faith of the Puritan / The Synod of 1670-1680. IV. The proper ordering of society -- 15. Theoretical foundations -- General and particular callings / William Perkins -- "A Modell of Christian Charity" / John Winthrop -- 16. Political order -- Boundaries of church and state / John Cotton -- Evolution of government / Israel Stoughton -- Format of a new colony / The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut -- Fundamentals of law / Laws and liberties of Massachusetts -- 17. Economic order -- A breach of economic ethics / John Winthrop -- Apologia / Robert Keayne -- 18. Social order -- Social restrictions / The Governments of New England -- "The well-ordered family? / Benjamin Wadsworth -- 19. Microcosm: The Puritan village / William Pynchon, et al. V. Troublers in Zion -- 20. Puritan theory of exclusion / John Cotton v. Richard Saltonstall -- 21. Morton of Merrymount / William Bradford, et al -- 22. Defection in the clergy / John Winthrop -- 23. Defection in the laity / Thomas Welde -- 24. A challenge to Puritan political control / Robert Child et al -- 25. Baptists / John Clarke -- 26. Quakers / The General Court of New Haven. |
3A1671753798.jsonld | Gordon Walker : a poetic architecture | Gordon Walker has designed an extraordinary number of architectural projects, several of them at a very large scale, encompasing the entire American coastal west. His work includes commercial and mid-rise residential buildings in California, Oregon, and the Puget Sound region. He has designed over thirty residences in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and the San Juan Islands. From back cover |
3A1032145463.jsonld | Math adventures with Python : an illustrated guide to exploring math with code | "Teaches math concepts through programming. Begins with a crash course in basic programming concepts and how to use Python's built-in Turtle module, and then explores topics like writing programs to solve equations and matrices, drawing polygons and fractals, and using the Processing graphics library to create interactive 2D and 3D models"-- |
3A1645967662.jsonld | Physics of Negative Refraction and Negative Index Materials : Optical and Electronic Aspects and Diversified Approaches | This book deals with the subject of optical and electronic negative refraction (NR) and negative index materials NIM). Diverse approaches for achieving NR and NIM are covered, such as using photonic crystals, phononic crystals, split-ring resonators (SRRs) and continuous media, focusing of waves, guided-wave behavior, and nonlinear effects. Specific topics treated are polariton theory for LHMs (left handed materials), focusing of waves, guided-wave behavior, nonlinear optical effects, magnetic LHM composites, SRR-rod realizations, low-loss guided-wave bands using SRR-rods unit cells as LHMs, N This book deals with the subject of optical and electronic negative refraction (NR) and negative index materials NIM). Diverse approaches for achieving NR and NIM are covered, such as using photonic crystals, phononic crystals, split-ring resonators (SRRs) and continuous media, focusing of waves, guided-wave behavior, and nonlinear effects. It is perhaps the most comprehensive book on the new class of negative refraction materials, covering all aspects of negative refraction and negative index materials. |
3A1650614713.jsonld | Measure-Valued Branching Markov Processes | Measure-valued branching processes arise as high density limits of branching particle systems. The Dawson-Watanabe superprocess is a special class of those. The author constructs superprocesses with Borel right underlying motions and general branching mechanisms and shows the existence of their Borel right realizations. He then uses transformations to derive the existence and regularity of several different forms of the superprocesses. This treatment simplifies the constructions and gives useful perspectives. Martingale problems of superprocesses are discussed under Feller type assumptions. The most important feature of the book is the systematic treatment of immigration superprocesses and generalized Ornstein--Uhlenbeck processes based on skew convolution semigroups. The volume addresses researchers in measure-valued processes, branching processes, stochastic analysis, biological and genetic models, and graduate students in probability theory and stochastic processes. Preface -- 1. Random Measures on Metric Spaces -- 2. Measure-valued Branching Processes -- 3. One-dimensional Branching Processes -- 4. Branching Particle Systems -- 5. Basic Regularities of Superprocesses -- 6. Constructions by Transformations -- 7. Martingale Problems of Superprocesses -- 8. Entrance Laws and Excursion Laws -- 9. Structures of Independent Immigration -- 10. State-dependent Immigration Structures -- 11. Generalized Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Processes -- 12. Small Branching Fluctuation Limits -- 13. Appendix: Markov Processes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
3A606178066.jsonld | Beginning Java and Flex : migrating Java, Spring, Hibernate and Maven developers to Adobe Flex ; [learn to build powerful enterprise Java applications using Adobe Flash as the presentation layer] | "Learn to build powerful enterprise Java applications using Adobe Flash as the presentation layer"--Cover |
3A688229441.jsonld | A cultural history of the Atlantic world, 1250 - 1820 | "A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820 explores the idea that strong links exist in the histories of Africa, Europe and North and South America. John K. Thornton provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the Atlantic Basin before 1830 by describing political, social and cultural interactions between the continents' inhabitants. He traces the backgrounds of the populations on these three continental landmasses brought into contact by European navigation. Thornton then examines the political and social implications of the encounters, tracing the origins of a variety of Atlantic societies and showing how new ways of eating, drinking, speaking and worshipping developed in the newly created Atlantic World. This book uses close readings of original sources to produce new interpretations of its subject"-- |
3A1655160516.jsonld | Classifying Immersions into ℝ4 over Stable Maps of 3-Manifolds into ℝ2 | The singularities of stable maps of three manifolds into the plane -- Canonical coordinatized product neighborhoods (C2PN) -- Lifting stable maps of three manifolds into the plane to immersions in ?4. |
3A1652375996.jsonld | International banking in the new era : post-crisis challenges and opportunities | The latest volume of the IFR series is titled International banking in the new era: Post-crisis challenges and opportunities. The volume includes original papers that examine various issues concerning challenges and opportunities for international banks in the rapidly changing global environment. The deregulation of developed countries financial markets over the past two decades has seen an evolution of the roles performed by banks. This reshaping of the traditional boundaries of commercial and investment banking activities has served to blur the distinction between domestic and international banking activities and to some extent contributed to the current international financial crisis. In addition, the development of banking systems in emerging markets have added to the opportunities and challenges faced by multinational banks. The current financial crisis has only served to accelerate this process of change as the roles of banks are once again being redefined with the possibility of a return to a more controlled environment. Theoretical, empirical, and policy-oriented contributions address issues that are relevant to international banking in this new and rapidly changing environment. |
3A265319781.jsonld | The women's suffrage movement : a reference guide 1866 - 1928 | The Women's Suffrage Movement is the first comprehensive reference work to bring together in one volume the wealth of information available on the individuals and organizations involved in the women's suffrage movement from the 1860s to the 1920s. This widely acclaimed book has been described by History Today as a 'landmark in the study of the women's movement'. It is the only comprehensive reference work to bring together in one volume the wealth of information available on the women's movement. Drawing on national and local archival sources, the book contains over 400 biographical entries and more than 800 entries on societies in England, Scotland and Wales. Easily accessible and rigorously cross-referenced, this invaluable resource covers not only the political developments of the campaign but provides insight into its cultural context, listing novels, plays and films. Review: 'A landmark in the study of the women's movement. The book is at once an invaluable research tool and a source of fascinating information on its subject. Author and publisher are to be congratulated on its publication. - History Today 'A wonderful source for researchers and general readers alike. This is a book that you can consult with a purpose or browse through at random. It informs, but it also diverts.' - Financial Times. |
3A1023440296.jsonld | The political economy of taxation : lessons from developing countries | This unique book in a relatively under-researched subject area will prove essential reading for academics, researchers and practitioners focusing on political economy, public finance and the economics of taxation 1. Introduction -- 2. The political economy of democracies : a review of the literature -- 3. Data, approach and overview -- 4. Asia -- 5. Latin America -- 6. Asia, Latin America and new EU members countries -- 7. Data appendix : list of all variables and their sources |
3A602566738.jsonld | Computational inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry | "Over the past several decades there have been major advances in our ability to evaluate computationally the electronic structure of inorganic molecules, particularly transition metal systems. This advancement is due to the Moore's Law increase in computing power as well as the impact of density functional theory (DFT) and its implementation in commercial and freeware programs for quantum chemical calculations. Improved pure and hybrid density functionals are allowing DFT calculations with accuracy comparable to high-level Hartree-Fock treatments, and the results of these calculations can now be evaluated based on experiment. When calculations are correlated to and supported by experimental data they can provide fundamental insight into electronic structure and its contributions to physical properties and chemical reactivity. This interplay continues to expand and contributes to both improved value of experimental results and improved accuracy of computational predictions. The purpose of this EIC Book is to provide state-of-the-art presentations of quantum mechanical and related methods and their applications by many of the leaders in the field. Part One of this volume focuses on methods, their background and implementation, and their use in describing bonding properties, energies, transition states and spectroscopic features. Part Two focuses on applications in bioinorganic chemistry and Part Three discusses inorganic chemistry, where electronic structure calculations have already had a major impact. This addition to the EIC Book series is of significant value to both experimentalists and theoreticians, and we anticipate that it will stimulate both further development of the methodology and its applications in the many interdisciplinary fields that comprise modern inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry. Have the content of this Volume and the complete content of the Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry at your fingertips! Visit: www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/EIC/"--Provided by publisher |
3A584298463.jsonld | An introduction to visual culture | Tracing the history and theory of visual culture, from painting to the World Wide Web, this book asks how and why visual media have become so central to everyday life. It explores a wide range of visual forms, including painting, sculpture, photography, television, cinema, Virtual Reality, and the internet. |
3A1659219779.jsonld | Measuring innovation in education : a new perspective | Do teachers innovate? Do they try different pedagogical approaches? Are practices within classrooms and educational organisations changing? And to what extent can change be linked to improvements? A measurement agenda is essential to an innovation and improvement strategy in education. Measuring Innovation in Educationoffers new perspectives on addressing the need for such measurement. This book’s first objective is informative: it gives readers new international comparative information about innovation in education compared to other sectors. And it documents change in a variety of dimensions of school practices between 1999 and 2011. Its second objective is methodological: it assesses two approaches to capturing the extent and type of innovation occurring within and across education systems. The third objective is exploratory: this book showcases a large-scale pilot that presents over 200 measures of innovation in education using existing international data. Last but not least, the fourth objective is prospective: this report proposes new approaches to measuring innovation in education in the future. This book is the beginning of a new journey: it calls for innovations in the field of measurement – and not just of education. |
3A855331925.jsonld | Religious activism in the global economy : promoting, reforming, or resisting neoliberal globalization? | Protests of neoliberal globalization have proliferated in recent years, not least in response to the financial crisis, austerity and increasing inequality. But how do religious groups organize themselves in response to these issues? This book systematically studies the relationship of religious activism towards neoliberal globalization. It considers how religious organizations often play a central role in the resistance against global capitalism, endeavouring to offer alternatives and developments for reform. But it also examines the other side of the coin, showing how many religious groups help to diffuse neoliberal values, promote and reinforce practices of capitalism. Drawing on a unique set of case studies from around the world, the chapters examine a range of groups and their practices in order to provide a thorough examination of the relationship between religion and the global political economy. -- Provided by publisher |
3A1646626478.jsonld | Catheter Ablation of Cardiac Arrhythmias : A Practical Approach | Catheter ablation of cardiac arrhythmias is an important field of interventional cardiology. This comprehensive overview is a practical guide for: exact diagnosis of cardiac arrhythmias; mapping of cardiac arrhythmias with newest 3D technology; and catheter ablation of various arrhythmias from WPW syndrome to atrial fibrillation |
3A1773853686.jsonld | The many facets of complexity science : in memory of Professor Valentin Afraimovich | This book explores recent developments in theoretical research and data analysis of real-world complex systems, organized in three parts, namely Entropy, information, and complexity functions Multistability, oscillations, and rhythmic synchronization Diffusions, rotation, and convection in fluids The collection of works devoted to the memory of Professor Valentin Afraimovich provides a deep insight into the recent developments in complexity science by introducing new concepts, methods, and applications in nonlinear dynamical systems covering physical problems and mathematical modelling relevant to economics, genetics, engineering vibrations, as well as classic problems in physics, fluid and climate dynamics, and urban dynamics. The book facilitates a better understanding of the mechanisms and phenomena in nonlinear dynamics and develops the corresponding mathematical theory to apply nonlinear design to practical engineering. It can be read by mathematicians, physicists, complex systems scientists, IT specialists, civil engineers, data scientists, and urban planners. |
3A626000459.jsonld | The Environmental Goods and Services Industry : Manual for Data Collection and Analysis | Globally, the environmental goods and services industry is growing rapidly in response to environmental pressures and the shift towards business and government strategies that are more sustainable over the long term. However, the industry which supplies the goods and services that enable businesses and nations to meet environmental challenges is poorly identified, measured and understood. This manual, which has been jointly developed by the OECD and Eurostat, aims to provide a firm basis for constructing comparable statistics of the environmental industry. It is based on recent experience in OECD countries in building up a quantitative statistical picture of this crosscutting industry that is not well identified in traditional statistical systems. |
3A1758683643.jsonld | Linguistic landscaping and the Pacific Region : colonization, indigenous identities, and critical discourse theory | "In Linguistic Landscaping and the Pacific Region: Colonization, Indigenous Identities, and Critical Discourse Theory, Diane Elizabeth Johnson provides four case studies, each exploring the use of language in public spaces in an area of the Pacific in which colonization has played a major role: Hawai'i, Aotearoa/ New Zealand, New Caledonia, and Tahiti. Each of these studies is informed by critical discourse theory, a theory which highlights the ways in which hegemonic structures may be established, reinforced, and- particularly in times of crisis-contested and overturned. The book introduces the case studies in the context of a parallel introduction to the Pacific region, critical discourse theory, and research on linguistic landscapes. The critical discussion is accessible to students and others who are approaching these contexts and theories for the first time, while also providing locating the author's work in relation to existing scholarship. Johnson urges readers to listen carefully to the voices of indigenous peoples at a time when the danger of Western certainties has been fully exposed"-- |
3A355788489.jsonld | Cognitive linguistics, second language acquisition, and foreign language teaching | This collection of twelve papers demonstrates that the concepts developed within the Cognitive Linguistics movement afford an insightful perspective on several important areas of second language acquisition and pedagogy. In the first part of the book, three papers show how three Cognitive Linguistics constructs provide a useful theoretical frame within which second language acquisition data can be analyzed. First, Talmy's typology of motion events is argued to constitute the base relative to which acquisition discrepancies in motion events are most valuably investigated. Secondly, the notion of "construction" is invoked in order to account for systematic differences between the native and non-native speakers' use of the English verb get. Finally, frequency and similarity effects are shown to play a crucial part in the learning of prepositions in a second language. The second part of the book shows that the key concepts commonly invoked in Cognitive Linguistics analyses allow language teachers to insightfully structure the presentation of problematic material in the foreign language classroom. These concepts include among others polysemy, the figure/ground gestalt, the usage-based conception of grammar, the radial organization of categories, metaphors, and cultural scripts. The Cognitive Linguistics paradigm has already shown its viability to analyze a wide array of linguistic phenomena. This book establishes its relevance in the areas of second language acquisition and language pedagogy. Its intended public is composed of Cognitive Linguists, Second Language Acquisition specialists, as well as foreign language pedagogy researchers, instructors, and students. |
3A678212139.jsonld | Cognition and acquired language disorders : an information processing approach | This new graduate level textbook, Cognition and Acquired Language Disorders: An Information Processing Approach, addresses the cognitive aspects of language and communication. It assembles the most recent information on this topic, addressing normal cognitive processing for language in adults, the cognitive impairments underlying language disorders arising from a variety of neurologic conditions, and current assessment and treatment strategies for the management of these disorders. The text is organized using an information processing approach to acquired language disorders, and thus can be set apart from texts that rely upon a more traditional, syndrome-based approach (e.g., stroke, dementia, and traumatic brain injury). This approach facilitates the description and treatment of acquired language disorders across many neurologic groups when particular cognitive deficits are identified. Other useful features of the text include assessment and treatment protocols that are based on current evidence. These protocols provide students and clinicians a ready clinical resource for managing language disorders due to deficits in attention, memory, linguistic operations, and executive functions. Unique process-oriented approach organizes content by cognitive processes instead of by syndromes so you can apply the information and treatment approaches to any one of many neurologic groups with the same cognitive deficit. Cognitive domains are described as they relate to communication rather than separated as they are in many other publications where they are treated as independent behaviors. A separate section on normal processing includes five chapters providing a strong foundation for understanding the factors that contribute to disordered communication and its management. The evidence-based approach promotes best practices for the most effective management of patients with cognitive-communication disorders. Coverage of the cognitive aspects of communication helps you meet the standards for certification in speech-language pathology. A strong author team includes two lead authors who are well known and highly respected in the academic community, along with expert contributors, ensuring a comprehensive, advanced clinical text/reference |
3A173462616X.jsonld | Topics in Galois Fields | This monograph provides a self-contained presentation of the foundations of finite fields, including a detailed treatment of their algebraic closures. It also covers important advanced topics which are not yet found in textbooks: the primitive normal basis theorem, the existence of primitive elements in affine hyperplanes, and the Niederreiter method for factoring polynomials over finite fields. We give streamlined and/or clearer proofs for many fundamental results and treat some classical material in an innovative manner. In particular, we emphasize the interplay between arithmetical and structural results, and we introduce Berlekamp algebras in a novel way which provides a deeper understanding of Berlekamp's celebrated factorization algorithm. The book provides a thorough grounding in finite field theory for graduate students and researchers in mathematics. In view of its emphasis on applicable and computational aspects, it is also useful for readers working in information and communication engineering, for instance, in signal processing, coding theory, cryptography or computer science. Basic Algebraic Structures and Elementary Number Theory -- Basics on Polynomials- Field Extensions and the Basic Theory of Galois Fields -- The Algebraic Closure of a Galois Field -- Irreducible Polynomials over Finite Fields -- Factorization of Univariate Polynomials over Finite Fields -- Matrices over Finite Fields -- Basis Representations and Arithmetics -- Shift Register Sequences -- Characters, Gauss Sums, and the DFT -- Normal Bases and Cyclotomic Modules -- Complete Normal Bases and Generalized Cyclotomic Modules -- Primitive Normal Bases -- Primitive Elements in Affin Hyperplanes -- List of Symbols -- References -- Index. |
3A742030016.jsonld | Applications of group theory to atoms, molecules, and solids | "The majority of all knowledge concerning atoms, molecules, and solids has been derived from applications of group theory. Taking a unique, applications-oriented approach, this book gives readers the tools needed to analyze any atomic, molecular, or crystalline solid system"-- |
3A896613704.jsonld | Australia : a cultural history | Australia: A Cultural History, first published in 1988, is still the only short history of Australia from a cultural perspective. It has acquired a unique reputation as an introduction to the development of Australian society and was listed by the historian and public intellectual John Hirst in his ‘First XI: The best Australian history books'. The book focuses on the transmission of values, beliefs and customs amongst the diverse mix of peoples who are today's Australians. The story begins with the 60,000 years of the Aboriginal presence and their continuing material and spiritual relationship with the land, and takes readers through the turbulent years of British colonisation and the emergence, through prosperity, war and depression, of the cultural accommodations which have been distinctively Australian. This 3rd Edition concludes with a critical review of the challenges facing contemporary Australia and warns that we may get the future we deserve. |
3A77733920X.jsonld | The Oxford handbook of childhood and education in the classical world | PART I. GESTATION, BIRTH, DISEASE, AND DEATH -- Becoming Human: from the Embryo to the Newborn Child / Véronique Dasen, Université de Fribourg -- The Demography of Infancy and Early Childhood in the Ancient World / Tim Parkin, University of Manchester -- Babies in the Well: Archaeological Evidence for Newborn Disposal in Hellenistic Greece / Maria Liston and Susan Rotroff, University of Waterloo/Washington University in St. Louis -- (Not) Bringing up Baby: Infant Exposure and Infanticide / Judith Evans Grubbs, Emory University -- The child patient of the Hippocratics: early Pediatrics? / Lesley Dean-Jones, University of Texas at Austin -- Raising a Disabled Child / Christian Laes, University of Antwerp/Free University of Brussels -- PART II. CHILDREN AND CHILDHOOD IN ANCIENT GREECE -- Children in Archaic and Classical Greek art: A Survey / John Oakley, College of William and Mary -- Children as Learners and Producers in Early Greece / Susan Langdon, University of Missouri at Columbia -- Shifting Gender: Age and Social Status as Modifiers of Childhood Gender in Ancient Athens / Lesley Beaumont, University of Sydney -- Children in Athenian Religion / Robert Garland, Colgate University -- Play, Pathos and Precocity: The Three 'P's of Greek Literary Childhood / Louise Pratt, Emory University -- PART III. CHILDREN AND CHILDHOOD IN ANCIENT ROME -- Children in Latin Epic / Mark Golden, University of Winnipeg -- The Socialization of Roman Children / Janette McWilliam, University of Queensland -- Slave and Lower-class Roman Children / Hanne Sigismund Nielsen, University of Calgary -- Children and Childhood in Roman Commemorative Art / Lena Larsson Lovén, Gøteburg University -- Toys, Dolls and the Material Culture of Childhood / Mary Harlow, University of Birmingham -- Roman Children and the Law / Thomas A.J. McGinn, Vanderbilt University -- PART IV. EDUCATION AND EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD -- Education in Plato's Laws / Cynthia Patterson, Emory University -- Boys, Girls, Family, and the State at Sparta / Nigel Kennell, American School of Classical Studies at Athens -- Engendering the Scroll: Girls' and Women's Literacy in Classical Greece / Matthew Dillon, University of New England -- Educating the Youth: the Athenian ephebeia in the Early Hellenistic Era / Eric Casey, Sweet Briar College -- The Ancient Child in School / Martin Bloomer, University of Notre Dame -- PART V. CHILDREN IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN -- Children in Hellenistic Egypt: What the Papyri Say / Maryline Parca, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign -- Children in Roman Egypt / April Pudsey, Birkbeck College -- Adoption and Fosterage in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean / Sabine Huebner, Max-Planck Institut, Rostock -- Pictorial paideia: Children in the Synagogue / Hagith Sivan, University of Kansas -- PART VI. LATE ANTIQUITY AND EARLY CHRISTIANITY -- Children and 'the Child' in early Christianity / Blake Leyerle, University of Notre Dame -- Elite Children, Socialization and Agency in the Late Roman world / Ville Vuolanto, University of Tampere -- Remembering Children in the Roman Catacombs / Jenny Kreiger, University of Michigan -- Stages of Infancy in Roman Amphora Burial / Susan Stevens, Randolph College -- ENVOI / Keith Bradley, University of Notre Dame |
3A516461028.jsonld | Socrates Sculpture Park | Inner-vision / Mark di Suvero -- Introduction / Alyson Baker and Stuart Match Suna -- Urban space as work of art / Thomas Hanrahan -- Let's go! / John Morse -- Art for the people : the first decade of Socrates Sculpture Park / Irving Sandler -- A mirage upriver / Eve Sussman -- 'Round art / Kate D. Levin -- The Socrates years / Kathleen Gilrain -- Being there / Jeffrey Kastner -- The landscape that could / Diana Balmori -- Open studio / Alyson Baker -- Vanishing points / Sara Reisman -- What if-- / Ivana Mestrovic -- Exhibition history -- List of artists |
3A1650835221.jsonld | X-Ray Diffraction Crystallography : Introduction, Examples and Solved Problems | X-ray diffraction crystallography for powder samples is a well-established and widely used method. It is applied to materials characterization to reveal the atomic scale structure of various substances in a variety of states. The book deals with fundamental properties of X-rays, geometry analysis of crystals, X-ray scattering and diffraction in polycrystalline samples and its application to the determination of the crystal structure. The reciprocal lattice and integrated diffraction intensity from crystals and symmetry analysis of crystals are explained. To learn the method of X-ray diffraction crystallography well and to be able to cope with the given subject, a certain number of exercises is presented in the book to calculate specific values for typical examples. This is particularly important for beginners in X-ray diffraction crystallography. One aim of this book is to offer guidance to solving the problems of 90 typical substances. For further convenience, 90 supplementary exercises are also provided with solutions. Some essential points with basic equations are summarized in each chapter, together with some relevant physical constants and the atomic scattering factors of the elements. |
3A77306365X.jsonld | Brain, stroke and kidney | Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an established risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. Stroke, on the other hand, is not only a major player in cardiovascular disease, but it also has strong two-way relationships with CKD. Moreover, subclinical cerebral abnormalities are also associated with CKD. But despite all these connections, the cerebro-renal interaction has so far not received much attention. This book includes easily understandable reviews on brain, stroke and kidney by both experts in nephrology and neurology. Examined are underlying concepts for cerebro-renal interaction, risk of clinical and subclinical brain damage in CKD patients, primary prevention and acute/chronic management for stroke patients with CKD and end-stage kidney disease.This book promotes not only further understanding and a multidisciplinary collaboration between nephrologists and neurologists, but it is also of interest for neurosurgeons and cardiologists |
3A1654718564.jsonld | Common Lisp Recipes : A Problem-Solution Approach | Find solutions to problems and answers to questions you are likely to encounter when writing real-world applications in Common Lisp. This book covers areas as diverse as web programming, databases, graphical user interfaces, integration with other programming languages, multi-threading, and mobile devices as well as debugging techniques and optimization, to name just a few. Written by an author who has used Common Lisp in many successful commercial projects over more than a decade, Common Lisp Recipes is also the first Common Lisp book to tackle such advanced topics as environment access, logical pathnames, Gray streams, delivery of executables, pretty printing, setf expansions, or changing the syntax of Common Lisp. The book is organized around specific problems or questions each followed by ready-to-use example solutions and clear explanations of the concepts involved, plus pointers to alternatives and more information. Each recipe can be read independently of the others and thus the book will earn a special place on your bookshelf as a reference work you always want to have within reach. Common Lisp Recipes is aimed at programmers who are already familiar with Common Lisp to a certain extent but do not yet have the experience you typically only get from years of hacking in a specific computer language. It is written in a style that mixes hands-on no-frills pragmatism with precise information and prudent mentorship. If you feel attracted to Common Lisp's mix of breathtaking features and down-to-earth utilitarianism, you'll also like this book. |
3A164662730X.jsonld | Electrodiagnosis of Retinal Diseases | Provides explanations for performing electrodiagnosis on retinal diseases. Written by a leading expert in the field of visual electrophysiology, this book aims to help the reader understand the principles and methods of visual electrophysiology as well as the pathophysiology of several retinal diseases |
3A570543649.jsonld | Gregory Ain : the modern home as social commentary | The education of Gregory Ain -- Politics, common problems, and the small house -- The problem of prefabrication -- From houses to housing -- Flexible plans for common people -- "Conquering reality" for uncommon people -- In search of theory: Ain and the academy -- Epilogue |
3A1650217358.jsonld | Handbook of Metaheuristics | “… an excellent book if you want to learn about a number of individual metaheuristics." (U. Aickelin, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Issue 56, 2005, on the First Edition) The first edition of the Handbook of Metaheuristics was published in 2003 under the editorship of Fred Glover and Gary A. Kochenberger. Given the numerous developments observed in the field of metaheuristics in recent years, it appeared that the time was ripe for a second edition of the Handbook. When Glover and Kochenberger were unable to prepare this second edition, they suggested that Michel Gendreau and Jean-Yves Potvin should take over the editorship, and so this important new edition is now available. Through its 21 chapters, this second edition is designed to provide a broad coverage of the concepts, implementations and applications in this important field of optimization. Original contributors either revised or updated their work, or provided entirely new chapters. The Handbook now includes updated chapters on the best known metaheuristics, including simulated annealing, tabu search, variable neighborhood search, scatter search and path relinking, genetic algorithms, memetic algorithms, genetic programming, ant colony optimization, multi-start methods, greedy randomized adaptive search procedure, guided local search, hyper-heuristics and parallel metaheuristics. It also contains three new chapters on large neighborhood search, artificial immune systems and hybrid metaheuristics. The last four chapters are devoted to more general issues related to the field of metaheuristics, namely reactive search, stochastic search, fitness landscape analysis and performance comparison. Simulated Annealing -- Tabu Search -- Variable Neighborhood Search -- Scatter Search and Path-Relinking: Fundamentals, Advances, and Applications -- Genetic Algorithms -- A Modern Introduction to Memetic Algorithms -- Genetic Programming -- Ant Colony Optimization: Overview and Recent Advances -- Advanced Multi-start Methods -- Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures: Advances, Hybridizations, and Applications -- Guided Local Search -- Iterated Local Search: Framework and Applications -- Large Neighborhood Search -- Artificial Immune Systems -- A Classification of Hyper-heuristic Approaches -- Metaheuristic Hybrids -- Parallel Meta-heuristics -- Reactive Search Optimization: Learning While Optimizing -- Stochastic Search in Metaheuristics -- An Introduction to Fitness Landscape Analysis and Cost Models for Local Search -- Comparison of Metaheuristics. |
3A876675577.jsonld | Digital communication over fading channels | Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Fundamentals -- Ch. 1 Introduction -- Ch. 2 Fading channel characterization and modeling -- Ch. 3 Types of communication -- pt. 2 Mathematical tools -- Ch. 4 Alternative representations of classical functions -- Ch. 5 Useful expressions for evaluating average error probability performance -- Ch. 6 New representations of some probability density and cumulative distribution functions for correlative fading applications -- pt. 3 Optimum reception and performance evaluation -- Ch. 7 Optimum receivers for fading channels -- Ch. 8 Performance of single-channel receivers -- Ch. 9 Performance of multichannel receivers -- pt. 4 Multiuser communication systems -- Ch. 10 Outage performance of multiuser communication systems -- Ch. 11 Optimum combining -- a diversity technique for communication over fading channels in the presence of interference -- Ch. 12 Direct-sequence code-division multiple access (DS-CDMA) -- pt. 5 CODED communication systems -- Ch. 13 Coded communication over fading channels -- Ch. 14 Multichannel transmission -- transmit diversity and space-time coding "Digital Communication over Fading Channels, Second Edition is an indispensable resource for graduate students, researchers investigating these systems, and practicing engineers responsible for evaluating their performance."--Jacket |
3A726009652.jsonld | Theologischer Handkommentar zum Neuen Testament / in neuer Bearbeitung unter Mitwirkung von Reinhard von Bendemann [und 30 anderen] ; herausgegeben von Jens Herzer und Udo Schnelle ; 10/1: Der Brief des Paulus an die Kolosser | [Paul`s Letter to the Colossians] The letter to the Colossians belongs to the centre of Christianity. There is no other letter of Paul speaking so impressively of the importance of Jesus as Christ (Messiah) for mankind. But the present exegesis situates this high Christology also in the world of the common people of the local churches in Asia Minor taking in consideration epigraphical and numismatical sources which have not been evaluated so far by any other commentary. Furthermore the scriptures of ancient Judaism and the reception of the Hebraic and Greek Bible are taken into account. Thereby the Letter to the Colossians becomes comprehensible as a text having originated from the traditions of the whole bible, from Genesis to the Psalms to Angelology. Both the practical significance and the theological depth of Paul s statements are highlighted. In it we find also reflected the views of the inhabitants of the Lycus Valley, their everyday life and their worship. Der Brief an die Kolosser gehört in die Mitte des Christentums. Keine andere Schrift des Paulus spricht in so eindrucksvollen Worten von der Bedeutung, die Jesus als Christus (Messias) für alle Menschen hat. Diese Auslegung stellt die "hohe" Christologie aber auch in die Welt der einfachen Frauen und Männer der Gemeinden Kleinasiens und berücksichtigt dabei epigraphische und numismatische Quellen, die bisher noch in keinem anderen Kommentar ausgewertet worden sind. Es werden zudem die Schriften des antiken Judentums und die Rezeption der hebräischen und griechischen Bibel berücksichtigt. Dadurch wird der Kolosserbrief als ein Text verständlich, der aus den Überlieferungen der ganzen Bibel, von der Schöpfung über den Psalter bis zur Angelologie, erwachsen ist. Die Aussagen des Paulus werden in ihrer praktischen Bedeutung und in ihrer theologischen Tiefe nachvollziehbar. In ihnen spiegeln sich auch die Anschauungen der Menschen im Lykostal, ihr Alltag und ihr Gottesdienst. |
3A1655310321.jsonld | Quasi-Periodic Motions in Families of Dynamical Systems : Order amidst Chaos | This book is on Kolmogorov-Arnol'd-Moser theory for quasi-periodic tori in dynamical systems. It gives an up-to-date report on the role parameters play for persis- tence of such tori, typically occuring on Cantor sets of positive Hausdorff measure inside phase and parameter space. The cases with preservation of symplectic or volume forms or time-reversal symmetries are included. The concepts of Whitney-smoothness and Diophantine approximation of Cantor sets on submanifolds of Euclidean space are treated, as well as Bruno's theory on analytic continuation of tori. Partly this material is new to Western mathematicians. The reader should be familiar with dynamical systems theory, differen- tial equations and some analysis. The book is directed to researchers, but its entrance level is introductory |
3A1654695874.jsonld | Value, competition and exploitation : Marx's legacy revisited | The 2008 financial crisis presented the opportunity to overturn and rethink much of the stale or misguided parts of economic theory and, in so doing, build a rich and empirically meaningful social science. This never happened. By reconsidering the classical-Marxian tradition using modern tools of economic analysis, this book offers an alternative to the mainstream understanding of notions of value, price, and competition, concepts which serve as the foundation for a theoretically and empirically robust economic theory. Providing a unique synthesis of modern input-output analysis and classical political economics, this book combines current economic theory with historical economic thought. In this way, Value, Competition and Exploitation offers a deeper and more nuanced understanding of today's economic problems than can be gained through mainstream approaches. With a rigorous and empirically informed approach to classical theories of value and price, this book demonstrates that Marx's labor theory of value remains a valuable tool in understanding the structure and dynamics of capitalist economies. Written in an accessible style and presented with a clear structure, this book will be invaluable to economics students of all levels. The topics analyzed will also be of interest to scholars of classical and Marxian economics, as well as scholars of economics more widely Contents: Preface -- Part I Classical competition: theory, evidence, and criticism -- 1. François Quesnay: Circular flow and input-output -- 2. Adam Smith: The 'invisible hand' and accumulation -- 3. Adam Smith II: The 'invisible hand' and 'natural prices' -- 4. David Ricardo: Prices, accumulation, and value -- 5. The von Neumann-Sraffa model -- Part II Value and exploitation: Marx's legacy -- 6. Labor values: an axiomatic approach -- 7. Labor productivity and the law of decreasing labor content -- 8. The sources of aggregate profitability -- 9. Actual labor values with multiple activities -- 10. Joint production in a (Marxian) SNA -- 11. Actual labor values with joint production -- 12. Production prices and imperfect competition, Part I -- 13. Production prices and imperfect competition, Part II -- 14. Conclusions -- References -- Index. |
3A1696090911.jsonld | Architectonics of Game Spaces : The Spatial Logic of the Virtual and Its Meaning for the Real | What consequences does the design of the virtual yield for architecture and to what extent can the nature of architecture be used productively to turn game-worlds into sustainable places - over here, in »reality«?This pioneering collection gives an overview of contemporary developments in designing video games and of the relationships such practices have established with the design of architecture. Due to their often simulatory nature, games reveal constructions of reality while positively impacting spatial ability and allowing for alternative avenues to complex topics and processes of negotiation. Granting insight into the merging of the design of real and virtual environments, this volume offers an invaluable platform for further debate Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Taking Risks! -- Invisible (Game) Cities -- In-World Realism -- Video/Game -- Games as Provinces of Meaning -- Free your Imagination! -- A Fascination for Empty Rooms -- Towards an Architecture of Desire -- The Architectonics of Game Spaces -- Virtual World Weariness -- The Lived Space of Computer Games -- The Architectural Continuum -- From Asteroids to Architectoids -- Piercing all Layers of the Anthroposphere -- Creating Fascinating Spaces -- Augmented Play, Art, and Space -- Play the City -- Democracy, Video Games, and Urban Design -- Video Game Urbanism -- Bibliography/Ludography -- Image Copyrights -- Authors |
3A1650423470.jsonld | Learning Spaces : Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics | Overview and Mathematical Glossary -- Knowledge Structures and Learning Spaces -- Knowledge Spaces -- Well-Graded Families -- Surmise Systems -- Skill Maps, Labels and Filters -- Entailments and the Maximal Mesh -- Galois Connections -- Descriptive and Assessment Languages -- Greedoids, Learning Spaces, and Antimatroids -- Learning Spaces and Media -- Probabilistic Knowledge Structures -- Stochastic Learning Paths -- A Continuous Markov Procedure -- A Markov Chain Procedure -- Building a Knowledge Structure -- Building a Learning Space -- Applications -- Open Problems. Learning spaces offer a rigorous mathematical foundation for various practical systems of knowledge assessment. An example is offered by the ALEKS system (Assessment and LEarning in Knowledge Spaces), a software for the assessment of mathematical knowledge. From a mathematical standpoint, learning spaces as well as knowledge spaces (which made the title of the first edition) generalize partially ordered sets. They are investigated both from a combinatorial and a stochastic viewpoint. The results are applied to real and simulated data. The book gives a systematic presentation of research and extends the results to new situations. It is of interest to mathematically oriented readers in education, computer science and combinatorics at research and graduate levels. The text contains numerous examples and exercises, and an extensive bibliography. |
3A162508840X.jsonld | The world in conflict : understanding the world's troublespots | The reason why -- Middle East and north Africa : connected by Islam -- Africa : rich in resources, poor in governance -- The UK and Europe : bloodied past, complacent present, uncertain future -- The Americas : faith, drugs and revolution -- The United States : both superpower and vulnerable Goliath -- Asia : people and potential for both peace and war -- War without end? "A journalist who has written for the Economist for almost 30 years tackles head-on the reasons why global conflict is an ever-present in our lives by analyzing today's conflicts continent by continent, considering the causes, participants, impact and likely outcomes,"--NoveList |
3A663396611.jsonld | Retromania : pop culture's addiction to its own past | We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake-crammed box sets, remakes and sequels, tribute albums and mash-ups ... But what happens when we run out of past? Are we heading toward a sort of cultural-ecological catastrophe, where the archival stream of pop history has been exhausted? Retromania is the first book to examine the retro industry and ask the question: Is this retromania a death knell for any originality and distinctiveness of our own? |
3A1854418637.jsonld | SUEP : 10 stories of architecture on earth | Since its establishment in 2003, the architectural practice SUEP. has been engaged in design activities based on the theme of "symbiosis with nature". Led by Hirokazu Suemitsu and Yoko Suemitsu, the practice's focus lies in not only bringing happiness to people or to the Earth, but to both. This book presents ten architectural projects undertaken by the SUEP. team, introduced as a series of stories in order to highlight the trajectory of their thinking. In addition to these works, numerous investigations and studies conducted during the process of design and creation provide clues for thinking about the future of our planet |
3A1023435209.jsonld | Economic futures of the West | This thought-provoking book considers the global challenges and challengers to the economic supremacy of the West. Jan Winiecki explores the various problems that the West must deal with in order to remain an efficient competitor in the world economy. These, he argues, are primarily consequences of the ever-expanding welfare state; consequences that are not only economic but also socio-psychological and, therefore, political. The author also considers the evolution of Western Europe and the USA from a new perspective, noting the Europeanization of US economic policies and regulation and the Americanization of polices and regulation in some European countries. The book concludes that the main challengers to the West Brazil, Russia, India and China (the so-called BRIC group of countries) are unlikely to gain economic supremacy over the West any time soon, given that they have to contend with their own difficulties.Economic Futures of the West will prove a stimulating and challenging read for academics, researchers and students in the fields of economics, heterodox economics and development. |
3A562205152.jsonld | China's power sector reforms : where to next? | In 2005, China added the equivalent of all the power plants in Norway and Sweden to its electricity generating capacity - and its remarkable demand growth shows no sign of abating. But how can the government best assure affordable and environmentally sustainable electricity supply in the future? Assessing the current state of electricity regulation in China, this report draws on experience elsewhere to explore how better to develop and communicate strategy, how to moderate growth in demand through increased efficiency, how to integrate environmental goals into planning and operation, how to ensure sufficient supply when and where it is needed, and how to handle institutional and governance challenges. |
3A1812505973.jsonld | Story machines : how computers have become creative writers | "This fascinating book explores machines as authors of fiction, past, present, and future. For centuries, writers have dreamed of mechanical storytellers. We can now build these devices. What will be the impact on society of AI programs that generate original stories to entertain and persuade? What can we learn about human creativity from probing how they work? In Story Machines, two pioneers of creative artificial intelligence explore the design and impact of AI story generators. The book covers three themes: language generators that compose coherent text, storyworlds with believable characters, and AI models of human storytellers. Providing examples of story machines through the ages, it covers the history, recent developments, and future implications of automated story generation. Anyone with an interest in story writing will gain a new perspective on what it means to be a creative writer, what parts of creativity can be mechanised and what is essentially human. Story Machines is for those who have ever wondered what makes a good story, why stories are important to us, and what the future holds for storytelling." |
3A1611924197.jsonld | The case of Mistress Mary Hampson : her story of marital abuse and defiance in seventeenth-century England | Introduction : early modern marriage and the case of Mrs. Mary Hampson -- A plain and compendious relation of the case of Mrs. Mary Hampson (London, 1684) -- The Hampson marriage : competing stories -- Afterlife of a marriage : accusations and recriminations -- The widow Hampson and her daughters -- Conclusions -- Appendix : letters from Mary Hampson to William Trumbull (1680-1681) |
3A1023435128.jsonld | Regional integration and economic development in South Asia | This book considers the leadership of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and the interaction with civil society in the process of South Asian regional cooperation and integration, and discusses how the emerging urgency in the provision of regional public goods provides an excellent opportunity to add to the successes in South Asian regional integration. |
3A1621166562.jsonld | Reparative aesthetics : witnessing in contemporary art photography | By offering a new way of thinking about the role of politically engaged art, Susan Best opens up a new aesthetic field: reparative aesthetics. The book identifies an innovative aesthetic on the part of women photographers from the southern hemisphere, who against the dominant modes of criticality in political art, look at how cultural production can be reparative. "Reparative Aesthetics" contributes an entirely new theory to the interdisciplinary fields of aesthetics, affect studies, feminist theory, politics and photography. Conceptually innovative and fiercely original this book will move us beyond old political and cultural stalemates and into new terrain for analysis and reflection Guilt and shame: current debates in affect studies -- Witnessing fever -- Shame and the convict stain: Anne Ferran's Lost to Worlds -- Fiona Pardington: Colonialism and repair in the Southern Seas -- Rosângela Rennó: "Little stories of the Downtrodden and the Vanquished' -- Our dark side: Milagros de la Torre's The Lost Steps |
3A1693565005.jsonld | Memory and utopian agency in utopian/dystopian literature : memory of the future | Introduction: Memory, Utopian Theory, Counter-Discourse -- A Brief History of Memory's Emergence in Utopian Narratives -- The Critical Utopia and Collective Memory -- Children's/Young Adult Dystopian Fiction and Cultural Amnesia -- Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy and the Dialectic of Trauma. "Memory and Utopian Agency in Utopian/Dystopian Literature: Memory of the Future examines modern and contemporary utopian/dystopian literature's preoccupation with memory, asserting that from the nineteenth century onward, memory and forgetting feature as key problematics in the genre as well as sources of the utopian impulse"-- |
3A1755513410.jsonld | Rethinking the education of multilingual learners : a critical analysis of theoretical concepts | "Over the past 40 years, Jim Cummins has originated theories which have had a profound effect on the education of multilingual learners across the world. In this book he traces the development of these theories, and addresses the critiques they have received and their subsequent impact on his thinking and the application of his theories in schools"-- |
3A102343329X.jsonld | Handbook on contemporary Austrian economics | This Handbook looks through the lens of the latest generation of scholars at the main propositions believed by so-called "Austrians". Each contributing author addresses key tenets of the school of thought, and outlines its ongoing contribution to economics and to the social sciences pt. 1. The science of economics -- pt. 2. Microeconomics -- pt. 3. Macroeconomics -- pt. 4. Conclusion. |
3A085994596.jsonld | The marketing book | This fifth edition of the best-selling Marketing Book has been extensively updated to reflect changes and trends in current marketing thinking and practice. Taking into account the emergence of new subjects and new authorities, Michael Baker has overhauled the contents and contributor lists of the previous edition to ensure this volume addresses all the necessary themes for the modern marketer. In particular, the 'Marketing Book' now broaches the following 'new' topics: * Channel management - management of the supply chain * Customer Relationship Management * Direct marketing * E-marketing * I Chapter 7. Business-to-business marketing: organizational buying behaviour, relationships and networksChapter 8. Marketing research; Chapter 9. Quantitative methods in marketing; Chapter 10. Market segmentation; Part Three: Managing the Marketing Function; Chapter 11. Managing the marketing mix; Chapter 12. New product development; Chapter 13. Pricing; Chapter 14. Selling and sales management; Chapter 15. Brand building; Chapter 16. The integration of marketing communicatio |
3A1643937839.jsonld | Religion and international security | Religious violence is on the rise globally. Hardly a day passes without news of a vicious attack being carried out in the name of religion. Religion can, of course, bring security to many but its perversion leads to insecurity for all. Why is this? How and why do so many claim to act on God’s behalf to inflict deliberate human suffering? In Religion and International Security Lee Marsden explores the return of religion as a major cause of insecurity in the contemporary world. He guides readers through the different theoretical perspectives surrounding the study of religion and security, arguing that the secular bias that marginalized the role played by religion in recent times must change to reflect the realities of the emerging post-secular international order. Packed with examples from around the world, the book offers a thoughtful and nuanced exploration of religion and security through key themes such as religiously motivated and inspired terrorism and warfare, the human security of women and gay people in religiously dominated communities, and the capacity for religious communities and leaders to heal conflict through peacebuilding. For those who would rather deny a role for religion when considering security, the genie is truly out of the bottle. This book seeks to understand this phenomenon and how to come to terms with it. |
3A1880655837.jsonld | Co-intelligence : living and working with AI | "From Wharton professor and author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AI. The release of generative AI--from LLMs like ChatGPT to image generators like DALL-E-marks a new era. We have invented technologies that boost our physical capabilities and others that automate complex tasks, but never, until now, have we created a technology that can boost our intelligence--with an impact on work and life that researchers project will be greater than that of steam power or the internet. Mollick urges us not to turn away from AI, and instead to invite AI tools to the table. He demonstrates how AI can amplify our own capacities, acting in roles from brainstorming partner to cowriter to tutor to coach, and assesses its surprising, positive impact on business and organizations. Marshalling original research from workers and teams who are leading the rest of us in embracing and leveraging AI, Mollick cuts through the hype to make a frank and eye-opening case for the real value of AI tools. Moreover, Mollick argues that the long-term impact of AI will be different from what we expect, advantaging English majors and art history experts more than coders, and impacting knowledge workers more than blue-collar workers. Co-Intelligence shows what it means for individuals and for society to think together with smart machines, and why it's imperative that we all master that skill. Co-Intelligence challenges us to utilize AI's power without losing our identity, learn from it without being misled, and harness its gifts to create a better human future. Thought-provoking, optimistic, and lucid, Co-Intelligence reveals the promise and power of generative AI"-- |
3A1675846332.jsonld | The new farm : contemporary rural architecture | ""The New Farm" delves into fourteen farms across America, Europe and Australia to portray the reinvention of traditions for today's contemporary design and organic farming"-- |
3A1670794563.jsonld | Heat stress tolerance in plants : physiological, molecular and genetic perspectives | "A world population is 7.3 billion and by 2050 it is expected to reach 9.7 billion while as at the same time agricultural productivity is poorly exaggerated due to the mounting environmental constraints as a result of climate change. One of prevalent environmental stress encountered by plants during their important growth stages is the heat stress. Heat stress is defined as a period in which temperatures are hot enough for a sufficient period of time to cause irreversible damage to plant function or development. Exposure to heat stress for prolonged periods can even result in plant death. Plants can be damaged by either high day or high night temperatures and by either high air or soil temperatures. Predictions indicate that temperatures will intensify by another 2-6°C by the climax of this century and likelihood to induce heat stress more frequently and severely, begetting to serious reduction of crops yield. The genetic basis of heat adaptation is poorly understood. Conventional breeding methods have met with limited success in improving the heat stress tolerance of important crop plants through inter-specific or inter-generic hybridization. Therefore, it is imperative to accelerate the efforts for unravelling the biochemical, physiological and molecular mechanisms underlying heat stress tolerance in plants"-- |
3A1655588680.jsonld | Mesoscopic Theories of Heat Transport in Nanosystems | 1 Nonequilibrium thermodynamics and heat transport at nanoscale -- 2 Linear and nonlinear heat-transport equations -- 3 Mesoscopic description of boundary effects and effective thermal conductivity in nanosystems: phonon hydrodynamics -- 4 Mesoscopic description of effective thermal conductivity in porous systems, nanocomposites and nanofluids -- 5 Weakly nonlocal and nonlinear heat transport -- 6 Heat transport with phonons and electrons and efficiency of thermoelectric generators -- 7 Perspectives. This book presents generalized heat-conduction laws which, from a mesoscopic perspective, are relevant to new applications (especially in nanoscale heat transfer, nanoscale thermoelectric phenomena, and in diffusive-to-ballistic regime) and at the same time keep up with the pace of current microscopic research. The equations presented in the book are compatible with generalized formulations of nonequilibrium thermodynamics, going beyond the local-equilibrium. The book includes six main chapters, together with a preface and a final section devoted to the future perspectives, as well as an extensive bibliography. |
3A1609447638.jsonld | A comet of the Enlightenment : Anders Johan Lexell's life and discoveries | The Finnish mathematician and astronomer Anders Johan Lexell (1740-1784) was a long-time close collaborator as well as the academic successor of Leonhard Euler at the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg. Lexell was initially invited by Euler from his native town of Abo (Turku) in Finland to Saint Petersburg to assist in the mathematical processing of the astronomical data of the forthcoming transit of Venus of 1769. A few years later he became an ordinary member of the Academy. This is the first-ever full-length biography devoted to Lexell and his prolific scientific output. His rich correspondence especially from his grand tour to Germany, France and England reveals him as a lucid observer of the intellectual landscape of enlightened Europe. In the skies, a comet, a minor planet and a crater on the Moon named after Lexell also perpetuate his memory. -- |
3A877729719.jsonld | Gestaltung des Sozial- und Gesundheitswesens im Zeitalter von Digitalisierung und technischer Assistenz : Veröffentlichung zum zehnjährigen Bestehen der FH der Diakonie | The terms digitistion and work 4.0 are what everyone is talking about. In the social services and health care sectors one can also sense how different fields of work and social relations will change in a universal way. Digital technologies and robots will define our daily lives. They will interlink people, machines and objects with each other and will create new forms of interaction and communication. Such systems are becoming more and more autonomous at astonishing speed and can operate independent of any human control. And they are increasingly able to make complex decisions autonomously. Due to this, a multitude of possibilities are being created regarding support as well as control and a fundamental reorganisation of numerous social services. In this publication, the articles present and discuss what effects this all has for social spaces, health care, for counselling and therapy, for continuous education and vocational training as well as for the management of social enterprises.With contributions by:Hilke Bertelsmann, Frank Dieckbreder , Anke Fesenfeld, Tim Hagemann, Annett Herrmann, Heidrun Kiessl, Alla Koval, Michael Löhr, Jörg Martens, Anne Meissner, Rüdiger Nölle, Michael Schulz, Doris Tacke, Susanne Vaudt, Pascal Wabnitz, Peter Weber, Thomas Zippert and much more Die Begriffe Digitalisierung und Arbeit 4.0 sind in aller Munde. Auch im Sozial- und Gesundheitswesen lässt sich erahnen, wie allumfassend Arbeitsfelder und gesellschaftliche Verhältnisse sich ändern werden. Digitale Technologien und Roboter werden unseren Alltag prägen. Sie vernetzen Menschen, Geräte und Gegenstände miteinander und schaffen neue Formen der Interaktion und Kommunikation. Solche Systeme werden in atemberaubendem Tempo autonomer und können unabhängig von menschlicher Steuerung agieren. Und sie sind zunehmend in der Lage, komplexe Entscheidungen selbst zu treffen. Dadurch entstehen vielerlei Möglichkeiten – der Unterstützung, aber auch der Kontrolle und einer grundlegenden Reorganisation zahlreicher sozialer Dienstleistungen.In der Publikation wird in Beiträgen dargestellt und diskutiert, welche Auswirkungen dies für soziale Räume, die Gesundheitsversorgung, für Beratung und Therapie, für die berufliche Bildung und für die Leitung von Sozialunternehmen hat.Mit Beiträgen von:Hilke Bertelsmann, Frank Dieckbreder , Anke Fesenfeld, Tim Hagemann, Annett Herrmann, Heidrun Kiessl, Alla Koval, Michael Löhr, Jörg Martens, Anne Meissner, Rüdiger Nölle, Michael Schulz, Doris Tacke, Susanne Vaudt, Pascal Wabnitz, Peter Weber, Thomas Zippert und vielen mehr |
3A1067369279.jsonld | Child Maltreatment Research, Policy, and Practice : Contributions of Penelope K. Trickett | Chapter 1. Introduction: The Contribution of Penelope K. Trickett to the Study of Child Maltreatment -- Chapter 2. Childhood Sexual Abuse Increases Risks for Eating Disorder Symptoms and Associated Health Problems in Females -- Chapter 3. Perception of Maltreatment: Sex-Specific Mental Health Outcomes Associated with Maltreatment as Most Upsetting Experience -- Chapter 4. Community Violence Exposure and Aggressive Behavior Problems among Adolescents: Does Child Maltreatment Moderate the Longitudinal Associations? -- Chapter 5. Profile Analysis of Child Sexual Abuse Experiences in Korea: An Exploratory Study -- Chapter 6. The Policy and Practice Implications of Child Maltreatment Research: The Legacy of Penelope K. Trickett The brief provides an overview of Dr. Penelope K. Trickett’s work and explores her innovations in the areas of theory, measurement, and methodology in the study of child maltreatment. It offers a summary of Dr. Trickett’s seminal longitudinal studies on child maltreatment, including their influence on understanding the impact of sexual abuse and child maltreatment on female and adolescent development. Chapters examine the impact of her work on policy and practice and offer present four new empirical studies that have been directly influenced by Dr. Trickett’s contributions. The brief concludes with further research recommendations to bridge the current policy and practice gaps. Topics featured in this brief include: Childhood sexual abuse and its effect on eating disorder development in females. The traumatic nature of reporting maltreatment in adolescents. Associations between adolescents’ community violence exposure (CVE) and the development of aggressive behavior problems. Child sexual abuse experiences in Korea. Child Maltreatment Research, Policy, and Practice is a must-have resource for policy makers and related professionals, graduate students, and researchers in child and school psychology, family studies, public health, social work, law/criminal justice, and sociology |
3A716053381.jsonld | Damage to concrete structures | "Unlike the more specialist books which deal with diagnosis techniques or non-destructive testing, with repair and strengthening of concrete structures or with specific degradation mechanisms such as sulfate attack or alkali-silica reaction, this book describes and explains the different types of damage to concrete structures comprehensively. It is written as a textbook for undergraduate and masters students, and is also helpful to practitioners such as design engineers, architects or consultants"-- |
3A1657486915.jsonld | Economists in Discussion : The Correspondence Between G.L.S. Shackle and Stephen F. Frowen, 1951–1992 | This volume contains the correspondence between G.L.S. Shackle and S.F. Frowen from the time Shackle took up his first post-war academic appointment until his death in 1992. The correspondence, partly personal and partly professional, reveals a vital insight into Shackle both as a man and as an outstanding economist. His letters illuminate his thoughts on issues occupying his mind but also show the warmth and tremendous generosity he felt towards his friends. The centenary of Shackle's birth in 2003 seems an appropriate time for the publication of his letters |
3A657855820.jsonld | Mercury pollution : a transdisciplinary treatment | "Mercury is the gravest chemical pollutant problem of our time, and this is the first publication that has undertaken holistic coverage of this truly global issue. This book is an outstanding product of the innovative Global Inquiry Groups (GIG) process of interdisciplinary collaboration, which brings together the physical sciences, social sciences, and the humanities including the study of media, visual, and literary arts, uniquely enabling us to look at and understand mercury from the many perspectives needed in order to grasp the problem in its totality. This book clarifies how we are all connected to mercury, how we take it in through the food we eat and the air we breathe, and how we release it as a consequence of our lifestyle. It tells us about the relationship people have had with mercury from ancient to modern times. It tells us how people have given artistic expression to the ravages of mercury, touching our emotions and changing us. It refers to the social injustice of mercury pollution. This book is an attempt to communicate beyond the walls of academia to a larger audience. Therefore, on behalf of the authors of chapters within this book and the mercury group, I invite you to explore metal mercury from the varied perspectives of history, science, sociology, government, writing, and art. Each chapter represents a disciplinary thread from the GIG. Our goal was to weave these interdisciplinary threads into a tapestry that presents a more complete picture of the effects of mercury pollution and to provide new ways to think about the environment and our individual responsibility toward each other and our earth"-- "Using mercury pollution as an example, this book illustrates the interdisciplinary approach required for solving environmental problems. It explains the details of the natural cycling of mercury in and on the earth and discusses how humans have dramatically disrupted its exchange among the earths soil, air, and water. The chapters discuss history, media, and politics in relation to mercury and contain links to established websites with specific resources for readers. Also included are smaller case studies, such as the Minamata tragedy, fish consumption, and international treaties"-- |
3A1833724038.jsonld | The Bloomsbury handbook to Edith Wharton | Bringing together leading voices from across the globe, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton represents state-of-the-art scholarship on the American writer Edith Wharton, once primarily known as a New York novelist. Book-ended by Dale Bauer and Elaine Showalter, and with a foreword by the Director and senior staff at The Mount, Wharton's historic Massachusetts home, the Handbook underscores Wharton's lasting impact for our new Gilded Age. It is an indispensable resource for readers interested in Wharton and 19th- and 20th-century literature and culture |
3A1688720456.jsonld | Einstein on Einstein : autobiographical and scientific reflections | "Einstein begins his Autobiographical Notes with one problem he never quite solved: "What, precisely, is thinking?" To answer, he turns inward to the very shape of his thoughts, the ongoing struggle to connect local observation, or what he calls the "momentary and personal," to the larger "mental grasp of things." Einstein situates his greatest discoveries amongst the other twentieth-century breakthroughs in the field and closely examines how these discoveries punctuated and propelled his own intellectual development. The autobiography expands what we know about Einstein's childhood education, readings in philosophy, and journey to the theory of general relativity. In this book, Autobiographical Notes is accompanied by introductions, essays, and commentary by Hanoch Gutfreud and Jürgen Renn, who draw on biographical information, written correspondence, and their knowledge of Einstein scholarship to render these difficult texts accessible to readers. They have also collected critical writings by Einstein's contemporaries alongside Einstein's own responses to these interlocutors, as well as Einstein's Autobiographical Sketch, composed just before his death in 1955, which is published for the first time in English"-- Complete with evocative drawings by artist Laurent Taudin, Einstein on Einstein illuminates the iconic physicist’s journey to general relativity while situating his revolutionary ideas alongside other astonishing scientific breakthroughs of the twentieth century -- |
3A1820357805.jsonld | Feminist philosophy of mind | As the first collection of its kind, 'Feminist Philosophy of Mind' defines the content, scope, and methods of this emerging field. Each of its 20 chapters enlarges our understanding of the mind by considering the social contexts of minds. Topics pursued include personal identity, mental content, other minds, artificial intelligence, gender, race, sexual orientation, emotion, memory, perception, empathy, agency, trauma, embodiment, and others. Readers will discover new and expanded responses to timeless questions about the mind. |
3A838487920.jsonld | A history of Colombian literature | In recent decades, the international recognition of Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez has placed Colombian writing on the global literary map. A History of Colombian Literature explores the genealogy of Colombian poetry and prose from the colonial period to the present day. Beginning with a comprehensive introduction that charts the development of a national literary tradition, this History includes extensive essays that illuminate the cultural and political intricacies of Colombian literature. Organized thematically, these essays survey the multilayered verse and fiction of such diverse writers as José Eustacio Rivera, Tomás Carrasquilla, Alvaro Mutis, and Darío Jaramillo Agudelo. Written by a host of leading scholars, this History also devotes special attention to the lasting significance of colonialism and multiculturalism in Colombian literature. This book is of pivotal importance to the development of Colombian writing and will serve as an invaluable reference for specialists and students alike. |
3A1698056621.jsonld | The United States in the Indo-Pacific : Obama's legacy and the Trump transition | This edited collection examines the political, economic and security legacies of former US President Barack Obama in Asia and the Pacific, following two terms in office between 2009 and 2017. In a region that has only become more vivid in the American political imagination since Obama left office, this volume interrogates the endurance of Obama's legacies in what is increasingly reimagined in Washington as the Indo-Pacific. Advancing our understanding of Obama's style, influence and impact throughout the region, this volume explores dimensions of US relations and interactions with key Indo-Pacific states including China, India, Japan, North Korea and Australia; multilateral institutions and organisations such the East Asia Summit and ASEAN; and salient issue areas such as regional security, politics and diplomacy, and the economy. How far has the Trump administration progressed in challenging or disrupting Obama's Pivot to Asia? What differences can we discern in the declared or effective US strategy towards Asia and to what extent has it radically shifted or displaced Obama-era legacies? Including contributions from high-profile scholars and policy practitioners such as Michael Mastanduno, Bruce Cumings, Maryanne Kelton, Robert Sutter and Sumit Ganguly, contributors examine these questions at the halfway point of the 2017-21 Presidency of Donald Trump, as his administration opens a new and potentially divergent chapter of American internationalism |
3A1023209179.jsonld | Unrequited toil : a history of United States slavery | "The essence of United States slavery was forced labor. Enslaved people's unrequited toil built a significant portion of the nation's wealth. They labored in many farming, mining, construction, transport, and factory settings. But by the 1830s most worked in cotton fields in the Deep South in the most important sector of the American economy. The cotton bales they made streamed into factories in New and old England, spun into yarn and woven into fabric clothing people across the globe. Cotton shipped abroad each year increased from just a few thousand bales in 1790 to four million by 1860."--Provided by publisher |
3A654173591.jsonld | Explaining political judgement | "What is political judgement? Why do politicians exhibit such contrasting thought styles in making decisions, even when they agree ideologically? What happens when governments with contrasting thought styles have to deal with each other? In this book Perri 6 presents a fresh, rigorous explanatory theory of judgment, its varieties and its consequences, drawing upon Durkheim and Douglas. He argues that policy makers will understand - and misunderstand - their problems and choices in ways that reproduce their own social organisation. This theory is developed by using the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 as an extended case study, examining the decision-making of the Kennedy, Castro and Khrushchev regimes. Explaining political judgment is the first comprehensive study to show what a neo-Durkheimian institutional approach can offer to political science and to the social sciences generally"-- |
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