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3A797332332.jsonld | Remembering the South African War : Britain and the memory of the Anglo-Boer war, from 1899 to the present | The first comprehensive survey of the memorialisation process in Britain in the aftermath of the South African War, uncovering the themes and myths that underpinned the interpretations of the war as well as shifting patterns in how the war was represented and conceived |
3A788163922.jsonld | Selected letters of Norman Mailer | "Mailer wrote almost 50,000 letters over the course of his life, keeping a copy of almost every one of them. He corresponded with presidents and politicians, artists and athletes, writers and editors, students, antagonists, fans, friends, his children, his loves, including his beloved sixth wife, Norris Church Mailer. Here are the letters of a precocious sixteen-year-old arriving from Brooklyn at Harvard. Here are the letters depicting the horrors of the war in the Pacific from a soldier's point of view. Here are the letters describing a young writer's struggle with his first novel, a manuscript that would become The Naked and the Dead. And here are the many, many letters of a man who spent sixty years in the spotlight. Read together, they form an autobiographical portrait of Norman Mailer"-- |
3A1615607587.jsonld | Inventory management : advanced methods for managing inventory within business systems | "Effective inventory management can increase revenue, reduce costs, and improve cash flows. Endorsed by Institute of Operations Management and CILT, Inventory Management shows managers how to take control of their inventory system and ensure operations run smoothly. Looking beyond the complexity and theory of inventory management, Geoff Relph and Catherine Milner focus on the most important decisions managers need to make when managing inventory. They examine how inventory management should work, how to control it, and how to balance it, through their use of revolutionary k-curve methodology. They include case studies from various industries, looking at inventory management in diverse areas such as supermarkets and aerospace. The book also includes numerous figures and diagrams as well as valuable online material"-- "An organization's inventory budget is a financial amount set by the group's board members. The decisions of what inventory to have in stock, how much, where, and when, are details handled by the manager. This book, aimed at practitioners, supply chain managers, and operations and manufacturing professionals, provides a step-by-step approach on how to achieve the crucial link between the budget's decisions and the detail level. The authors look beyond the theory and focus on the most important decisions managers need to make when managing inventories. Using case studies from various diverse industries, they examine how inventory management should work, how to control it, and how to balance it"-- |
3A1617781479.jsonld | The Go programming language | Tutorial -- Program structure -- Basic data types -- Composite types -- Functions -- Methods -- Interfaces -- Goroutines and channels -- Concurrency with shared variables -- Packages and the Go tool -- Testing -- Reflection -- Low-level programming Go may be our generation's most important new programming language. It is exceptionally expressive, highly efficient in both compilation and execution, and enables the development of extremely reliable and robust programs. It shares the same spirit programmers once found in C: it helps serious professional programmers achieve maximum effect with minimum means. Now, Go shares something else with C, too. Brian Kernighan, who wrote the world's most respected and useful C primer for working programmers, has just done the same for Go. Together with Google Go insider Alan Donovan, Kernighan explains what Go does and doesn't borrow from C ... the great ideas it borrows from other modern languages ... and how it avoids features that lead to unnecessary complexity and unreliable code. Throughout, their short, carefully-crafted code examples demonstrate today's most effective Go idioms, so you can start using Go effectively right from the beginning, and quickly take advantage of its full power. All code has been extensively reviewed by Go's creators at Google for both completeness and accuracy |
3A1695012925.jsonld | Integrated management : how sustainability creates value for any business | Integration has been a key theme across the general management, organizational behaviour, supply chain management, strategy, information systems and the environmental management literature for decades. Sustainability continues to be, at the "top of the agenda" in the C-suite. Despite this, specialists in academia and organizations lack the peripheral vision to understand the power of a more integrated approach that will empower functional groups to become best-in-class without forcing trade-offs that pull down other groups connected to overall operations. Integrated Management is the key driver of innovation and profitability in progressive companies. It reduces risks while pursuing new opportunities, and the checks and balances for prudent management are baked in the strategy for modern go-to-market synergy and growth. What can be done, then, by individuals, functions, organizations, value chains, and even whole cities to integrate and align sustainability? To answer this and other questions, the information in this book finds enterprises already on the path toward integrated management and strategic sustainable development. It considers the opportunity we have to enable an enterprise value proposition that includes environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance. Integrated management applies a proven strategic planning approach to uncover the tools and actions available for change management and performance measured with an Integrated Bottom Line (IBL). Using evidence based examples from best-in-practice enterprises, proven management tenets, models and tools alongside emerging technologies, we can develop integrated solutions aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It's easy to say sustainability is important, yet not so easy to understand how it is part of the decisions that are made every day and how it cuts across business functions, systems, and supply chains. The information within this book, the application of systems thinking to complex problems, development of a vision and action plan, your own research, and action learning activities are all designed to accelerate management action, value creation, and the goal of a sustainable future. |
3A1018090703.jsonld | Leading procurement strategy : driving value through the supply chain | Procurement strategy -- Introduction: the strategic role of procurement -- Procurement and the organization: organizing for the future -- The strategic procurement cycle -- Procurement and the supply network -- Supplier relationship management -- Global sourcing -- Delivering performance in procurement -- The impact of procurement on financial results -- Strategic cost management -- From cost to value in procurement -- Supply chain risk management -- Information technology in procurement -- Sustaining procurement performance -- Sustainable procurement -- The future of procurement: pitfalls and pathways to progress -- Epilogue: procurement should "shoot like a girl" -- Index |
3A1649028067.jsonld | Bisphosphonates in Medical Practice : Actions - Side Effects - Indications - Strategies | Bones are everybody's business. This means that clinical osteology, now an independent specialty, nevertheless encompasses all branches of medicine and affects each and every one of us. Intended for doctors who seek precise information on bisphosphonates in medical practice, this book has been designed as an up-to-date manual to deal with the currently recognized indications for bisphosphonates, to outline situations and conditions for prevention of skeletal disorders, and to provide practical guidelines for treatment. "Clinical osteology is now an independent specialty which nevertheless encompasses all branches of medicine and effects each and every one of us: Bone is Every Body s Business: This book has been designed as an up to date manual to deal with the currently recognized indications for bisphosphonates, to outline situations and conditions for prevention of skeletal disorders, and to provide practical guidelines for treatment. It is intended for doctors who seek precise information on bisphosphonates in medical practice to enable them to treat patients with disorders of bone or better still to avoid their occurrence as the age-old saying has it ""prevention is better than cure ! Significant advances have already been made in the first 6 years of the ""Bone and Joint Decade of the new century, it is our hope that this book will contribute to more progress in the same direction." |
3A1698073232.jsonld | Mining and Green Growth in the EECCA Region | For most countries in the Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) region, mining is an important economic sector that contributes to employment and public revenue. Despite mining’s potential to cause long-term negative environmental impacts, governments in the region have a vital role to play in supporting better environmental performance in the sector and ensuring the industry can be a progressive part of a greener economy. This report examines the environmental impacts of mining in the EECCA and provides policy makers with guidance to reconcile environmental and competitiveness objectives in the mining sector. |
3A1012119378.jsonld | Asian century… on a knife-edge : a 360 degree analysis of Asia's recent economic development | This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book delves into the widely held belief that the 21st century will be the "Asian Century" by examining the Asia's rapid economic development in the post-war era and the challenges it faces in forging ahead of world leaders in the West. The impact of the current turbulent global political climate on Asia is critically analyzed, employing a holistic and multidisciplinary approach, combining economic, social, political and geopolitical perspectives. Written in an accessible style, the book offers students, business, government, and civil society players powerful insights on Asia Introduction -- 1. Asia’s Stunted Economic Development -- 2. Asia’s Mythical Middle Class Society -- 3. Getting Better Value Out of Global Value Chains -- 4. Making the Most of Urbanisation’s Potential -- 5. Giving All Asians a Chance -- 6. Solving Asia’s Demographic Dilemmas -- 7. Fixing Asia’s Flawed Politics -- 8. Combating Asia’s Economic Crime -- 9. Can Asian Countries Live Together in Peace and Harmony? -- 10. What Next for the Asian Century? |
3A858714051.jsonld | The Edinburgh companion to nineteenth-century American letters and letter-writing | Prologue : networks of nineteenth-century letter-writing / Elizabeth Hewitt -- Introduction : epistolary studies and nineteenth-century American letters and letter-writing / Celeste-Marie Bernier, Judie Newman, and Matthew Pethers -- Material, social, and institutional contexts. From mind to hand : paper, pens, and the materiality of letter-writing / Graham Thompson -- The business of letter-writing / Michael Zakim -- Name and address : letters and mass mailing in nineteenth-century America / David M. Henkin -- Paper evidence : handwriting, print, letters, and the law / Christopher A. Hunter -- Nineteenth-century American science and the decline of letters / Robin Vandome -- The means and the end : letters and the work of history / Alea Henle -- Letters, telegrams, news / Richard R. John -- Dead letters and the secret life of the state in nineteenth-century America / Matthew Pethers -- The spider and the dumpling : threatening letters in nineteenth-century America / Leon Jackson -- Travel, migration, and dislocation. Longing in long-distance letters : the nineteenth century and now / William Merrill Decker -- Working away, writing home / David M. Stewart -- Letters from America : themes and methods in the study of Irish emigrant correspondence / Emma Moreton -- The usual problems : sickness, distance, and failure to acculturate in mid-nineteenth-century emigrant letters / Janet Floyd -- Indigenous epistolarity in the nineteenth century / Phillip H. Round -- Dueling epistles : enslaved letter-writers and the discourse of (dis)honor / Ben Schiller -- Home and belonging in the letters of Sarah Hicks Williams / Rebecca J. Fraser -- 'An oblique place' : letters in the Civil War / Rebecca Weir -- Social action in cross-regional letter-writing : Ednah Cheney's correspondence with postbellum teachers in the U.S. South / Sarah R. Robbins -- Politics, reform, and intellectual life. Founding friendship : John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the American experiment in republican government, 1812-26 / Peters S. Onuf -- Corresponding natures : Ralph Waldo Emerson's letters / David Greenham -- 'This epistolary medium' : friendship and civil society in Margaret Fuller's private letters / Magdalena Nerio -- 'Will you live'? : Thoreau's philosophical letters / Michael Jonik -- 'Frederick Douglass, the freeman' and 'Frederick Bailey, the slave' : private versus public acts and arts of letter-writing in Frederick Douglass's pre-Civil-War correspondence / Celeste-Marie Bernier -- Old master letters and Letters from the old world : Julia Griffiths and the uses of correspondence in Frederick Douglass's newspapers / Sarah Meer -- Letters from 'Linda Brent' : Harriet Jacobs and the work of emancipation / Fionnghuala Sweeney -- Abraham Lincoln : the man through the letters / Robert Bray -- Between science and aesthetics : the letters of William James / Martin Halliwell -- 'My dear Dr.' : American women and nineteenth-century scientific correspondence / Tina Gianquitto -- 'A chain of correspondence' : social activism and civic vales in the letters of Lydia Sigourney / Elizabeth A. Petrino -- A fighting platform : Charlotte Perkins Gilman's epistles / Judith A. Allen -- 'The stamp of truth' : historiographical dissent and its limits in the letters of Jared Sparks / Eileen Ka-May Cheng -- Defenses and masks and poses in Henry Adams' letters / John C. Orr -- Literary culture. The letters of Charles Brockden Brown : epistolary performance and new paths for scholarship / Philip Barnard -- Publishing and public affairs in the correspondence of James Fenimore Cooper / Lance Schachterle -- The transatlantic village : the rise and fall of the epistolary friendship of Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Mary Russell Mitford / Melissa J. Homestead -- The literary professional and the country gentleman : the letters of Edgar Allan Poe and Philip Pendleton Cooke / Kevin J. Hayes -- Melville's flummery / Wyn Kelley -- The epistolary romance and rivalry of Sophia and Nathaniel Hawthorne / Patricia Dunlavy Valenti -- Co-responding with Walt Whitman / Ed Folsom -- 'Rare sparkles of light' : intimacy and distance in Emily Dickinson's letters to Thomas Wentworth Higginson / Linda Freedman -- 'Soul friends' : Harriet Beecher Stowe and Lady Byron in correspondence / Beth L. Lueck -- Louisa May Alcott's family post box / Judie Newman -- Profanities, indecencies, and theologies : Mark Twain's letters to Joseph Twichell, William Dean Howells, and Henry Rogers / Peter Messent -- Charles W. Chestnutt's letters : 'the vaguely defined line where races meet' / Maria Orban -- Sarah Orne Jewett's foreign correspondence / Mark Storey -- 'Too intimate to publish, too rare to suppress' : Henry James in his letters / Michael Anesko -- 'Ill correspondent' : Stephen Crane's trouble with letters / John Fagg |
3A53172106X.jsonld | Basic Lie theory | Preface and acknowledgments -- Notations -- Lie groups and lie algebras -- Lie groups -- Haar measure and its applications -- Elements of the theory connected lie groups -- The structure of comparc connected lie groups -- Representations of compact lie groups -- Symmetric spaces of non-compact type -- Semisimple lie algebras and lie groups -- Lattices in lie groups -- Density results for cofinite volume subgroups -- Appendices |
3A81622692X.jsonld | The chronicle of Seert : Christian historical imagination in late antique Iraq | This book is a study of the cultural and political history of Christian Iraq, the Church of the East, the so–called ‘Nestorians’. This history is seen through the Chronicle of Seert, a medieval Arabic Chronicle that reuses sources written several centuries earlier. This monograph aims to isolate different layers of composition and looks for trends in the choice of material and the agenda of their historians. Each layer of the text provides insight into the social construction of ‘orthodox belief’ in Iraq and the church as an institution. A central narrative is the growing power of the bishops (catholicoi) of the Sasanian capital of Ctesiphon, their apostolic heritage, and their alliance with the Persian shahs. The monograph also considers the relationship of the catholicoi with monastic and scholarly centres and with Christian communities of the West. In each of these cases, the material that the Chronicle includes shows us how independent historical traditions were annexed by a narrative focused on Ctesiphon and its bishops. The monograph begins in the fifth century, when a series of abortive alliances between church and shah generated small-scale persecutions. It continues this story into the sixth and early seventh, when the church witnessed considerable growth in numbers and prestige. At each stage, we can see Christians rewriting the past to accommodate a new political and social situation, turning a murky past into a glorious golden age. The book concludes with a final chapter on the church under Muslim rule, when the Chronicle was compiled |
3A1657456633.jsonld | The Management of Consumer Credit : Theory and Practice | Consumer credit is an integral part of many western societies. This book provides a comprehensive view of how credit-granting institutions operate and discusses the relationship between the strategic objectives set by senior management and the operational strategies employed by credit professionals working at the coal face of credit provision |
3A1656983737.jsonld | Giovanni Domenico Cassini : A Modern Astronomer in the 17th Century | This book offers a fascinating account of the life and scientific achievements of Giovanni Domenico Cassini, or Cassini I, the most famous astronomer of his time, who is remembered today especially for his observations of the rings and satellites of Saturn and his earlier construction of the great meridian line in the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna. The various stages of his life are recounted in an engaging style, from his early childhood in Perinaldo and his time at the famous Jesuit College in Genoa, to his later experiences in Bologna and Paris. The emphasis, however, is on the scientific side of his life. The book explores his impressive body of work in diverse fields while also drawing attention to the international character of his endeavors, the rigor of his research, and his outstanding management skills, which combined to make him an early embodiment of the “European scientist.” It was also these abilities that gained him the attention of the most powerfu l king in Europe, Louis XIV of France (the “Sun King”), under the auspices of whom he set up the Paris Observatory in 1671. He would go on to serve as Director of the Observatory, where he would make the majority of his scientific discoveries, for the rest of his life. Preface -- 1. Introduction -- Part I: Liguria -- 2. Perinaldo, Land of Astronomers -- 3. Genoa and the College of the Jesuits -- Part II: Bologna -- 4. Castle of Panzano -- 5. Archiginnasio -- 6. Comet 1652, the First -- 7. The Meridian Line or Heliometer in the Church Basilica of San Petronio -- 8. Superintendent of Public Waters -- 9. Queen and the Comet -- 10. And the Winner is… -- 11. Jupiter et al -- 12. Ephemerides Bonomienses Mediceorum Syderum -- Part III: Paris -- 13. Louis XIV -- 14. The New Observatory -- 15. Sunspots -- 16. Saturn -- 17. Jean Dominique Cassini -- 18. Cassini Maps -- 19. Journey to Italy -- 20. Cassini Dynasty -- 21. Nephews Maraldi -- 22. Cassini Curiosity -- 23. Conclusion -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Appendix D -- Appendix E -- Bibliography. |
3A178215146X.jsonld | Environmental chemistry | "With clear explanations, real-world examples and updated ancillary material, the 11th edition of Environmental Chemistry emphasizes the concepts essential to the practice of environmental science, technology and chemistry. The format and organization popular in preceding editions is used, including an approach based upon the five environmental spheres and the relationship of environmental chemistry to the key concepts of sustainability, industrial ecology and green chemistry. The new edition provides a comprehensive view of key environmental issues, and significantly looks at diseases and pandemics as an environmental problem influenced by other environmental concerns like climate change"-- |
3A1696160545.jsonld | Avatar-based control, estimation, communications, and development of neuron multi-functional technology platforms | "This book presents techniques, case studies, and methodologies that combine the use of intelligent artificial and natural approaches with optimization techniques for facing problems and combines many types of hardware and software with a variety of communication technologies to enable the development of innovative applications"-- |
3A822032511.jsonld | Learn JavaFX 8 : building user experience and interfaces with Java 8 | Learn JavaFX 8 shows you how to start developing rich-client desktop applications using your Java skills and provides comprehensive coverage of JavaFX 8's features. Each chapter starts with an introduction to the topic at hand, followed by a step-by-step discussion of the topic with small snippets of code. The book contains numerous figures aiding readers in visualizing the GUI that is built at every step in the discussion. The book starts with an introduction to JavaFX and its history. It lists the system requirements and the steps to start developing JavaFX applications. It shows you how to create a Hello World application in JavaFX, explaining every line of code in the process. Later in the book, author Kishori Sharan discusses advanced topics such as 2D and 3D graphics, charts, FXML, advanced controls, and printing. Some of the advanced controls such as TableView, TreeTableView and WebView are covered at length in separate chapters. This book provides complete and comprehensive coverage of JavaFX 8 features; uses an incremental approach to teach JavaFX, assuming no prior GUI knowledge; includes code snippets, complete programs, and pictures; covers MVC patterns using JavaFX; and covers advanced topics such as FXML, effects, transformations, charts, images, canvas, audio and video, DnD, and more. So, after reading and using this book, you'll come away with a comprehensive introduction to the JavaFX APIs as found in the new Java 8 platform |
3A862688906.jsonld | Home dialysis in Japan : contemporary Status | Despite the various advantages of home dialysis compared to in-center hemodialysis, only a fraction of patients in Japan currently opt for peritoneal dialysis or home hemodialysis. However, considerable advances in research and technical improvements have been made lately, advancing the practice of home dialysis therapy in Japan.Japanese research is well-known for its ingenuity and creative energy with regard to the development of new machines and systems for dialysis. New insights regarding peritoneal dialysis and home hemodialysis are presented in the publication at hand: Contributions by leading Japanese experts discuss topics such as educational methods, techniques, tools, novel systems and organization of patients. The book will be of great interest to clinical physicians involved in dialysis care; Moreover, the expertise collected in this volume may contribute to the advancement of home dialysis therapy in a global context |
3A1885777507.jsonld | Poetry and Contemporary Visual Culture / Lyrik und zeitgenössische Visuelle Kultur | Klappentext: This book’s goal is to determine the significance of visual culture in the production of contemporary poetry and to sound out the insights poetry might generate into contemporary visual culture. Its main hypothesis is that poetry holds considerable potential for (post-)digital language, image, and media criticism. The visual dimensions of recent poetry encompass, for instance, kinetic writing in digital poetry, visual elements in social media poems, and (spoken and written) text-image interactions in poetry films as well as in book poetry. The articles examine these medial correlations and their political implications by asking how visual culture is applied, exposed, and debated in poetry. This volume brings together contributions by authors from various countries working in disciplines such as literary, media, and film studies, linguistics, cultural and visual culture studies, and in poetic practice. It covers poetry in English, German, Norwegian, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Serbian, and also multilingual works. The book thus aims to promote international exchange between poetry researchers and stimulate further investigation into current relations between poetry and visuality from additional research perspectives and languages. ; This book’s goal is to determine the significance of visual culture in the production of contemporary poetry and to sound out the insights poetry might generate into contemporary visual culture. Its main hypothesis is that poetry holds considerable potential for (post-)digital language, image, and media criticism. The visual dimensions of recent poetry encompass, for instance, kinetic writing in digital poetry, visual elements in social media poems, and (spoken and written) text-image interactions in poetry films as well as in book poetry. The articles examine these medial correlations and their political implications by asking how visual culture is applied, exposed, and debated in poetry. This volume brings together contributions by authors from various countries working in disciplines such as literary, media, and film studies, linguistics, cultural and visual culture studies, and in poetic practice. It covers poetry in English, German, Norwegian, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Serbian, and also multilingual works. The book thus aims to promote international exchange between poetry researchers and stimulate further investigation into current relations between poetry and visuality from additional research perspectives and languages. |
3A848276752.jsonld | Intelligent techniques for data analysis in diverse settings | "This book addresses the specialized requirements of data analysis in a comprehensive way, giving a comprehensive overview of the most innovative recent approaches borne from intelligent techniques such as neural networks, rough sets, fuzzy sets, and metaheuristics"-- |
3A1805220756.jsonld | Unsilencing Slavery : Telling Truths about Rose Hall Plantation, Jamaica | Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Initiation to Rose Hall Great House -- Chapter 1: In the Wake of the Archive -- Chapter 2: Bondage, Birthing, and Belonging at Rose Hall Plantation -- Chapter 3: "Till Shell Blow" Labor and Fugitivity at Rose Hall Plantation -- Chapter 4: The Fictional Fabrication of the Myth of the White Witch in Herbert G. de Lisser's The White Witch of Rosehall -- Chapter 5: The White Witch and Enslaved Ghosts Reinscribing Silences of Slavery in the Contemporary Tours at Rose Hall Great House -- Epilogue -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
3A1023432978.jsonld | Handbook of Islamic banking | The handbook of Islamic banking comprises 25 studies by leading international experts on Islamic banking and finance specially commissioned to analyse the various debates and the current state of play in the field. This comprehensive handbook provides a succinct analysis of the workings of Islamic banking and finance, accessible to a wide range of readers. At the same time, it seeks to bring the current research agenda and the main issues on Islamic banking before a wider audience pt. 1. Foundations of Islamic financing -- pt. 2. Operations of Islamic banks -- pt. 3. Instruments and markets -- pt. 4. Islamic systems -- pt. 5. Globalization of Islamic banking |
3A736038531.jsonld | Coherence in three-dimensional category theory | "Dimension three is an important test-bed for hypotheses in higher category theory and occupies something of a unique position in the categorical landscape. At the heart of matters is the coherence theorem, of which this book provides a definitive treatment, as well as covering related results. Along the way the author treats such material as the Gray tensor product and gives a construction of the fundamental 3-groupoid of a space. The book serves as a comprehensive introduction, covering essential material for any student of coherence and assuming only a basic understanding of higher category theory. It is also a reference point for many key concepts in the field and therefore a vital resource for researchers wishing to apply higher categories or coherence results in fields such as algebraic topology or theoretical computer science"-- "In the study of higher categories, dimension three occupies an interesting position on the landscape of higher dimensional category theory. From the perspective of a "hands-on" approach to defining weak n-categories, tricategories represent the most complicated kind of higher category that the community at large seems comfortable working with. "-- |
3A745289878.jsonld | Designing organizations : strategy, structure, and process at the business unit and enterprise levels | This Third Edition of the bestselling book on organization design adds 50% new content to result in the most complete book on organization design currently available. Additions and updates encompass business unit organization, enterprise organization design, standard portfolio strategy, standard functional, divisional, and holding company structures, value-adding conglomerates, and designing global organizations. This new coverage makes this reference, a mainstay both for business education and working professionals, better than ever. |
3A626004632.jsonld | Hard Core Cartels : Recent progress and challenges ahead | This book reviews progress in the fight against hard core cartels. The OECD has been leading an international effort to halt cartel conduct since adopting its 1998 Recommendation concerning effective action against hard core cartels. This report quantifies the harm caused by cartels and identifies improved methods of investigation |
3A1657723410.jsonld | Numerical Approximation of Partial Differential Equations | Finite element methods for approximating partial differential equations have reached a high degree of maturity, and are an indispensible tool in science and technology. This textbook aims at providing a thorough introduction to the construction, analysis, and implementation of finite element methods for model problems arising in continuum mechanics. The first part of the book discusses elementary properties of linear partial differential equations along with their basic numerical approximation, the functional-analytical framework for rigorously establishing existence of solutions, and the construction and analysis of basic finite element methods. The second part is devoted to the optimal adaptive approximation of singularities and the fast iterative solution of linear systems of equations arising from finite element discretizations. In the third part, the mathematical framework for analyzing and discretizing saddle-point problems is formulated, corresponding finte element methods are analyzed, and particular applications including incompressible elasticity, thin elastic objects, electromagnetism, and fluid mechanics are addressed. The book includes theoretical problems and practical projects for all chapters, and an introduction to the implementation of finite element methods. Preface -- Part I Finite differences and finite elements -- Elliptic partial differential equations -- Finite Element Method -- Part II Local resolution and iterative solution -- Local Resolution Techniques -- Iterative Solution Methods -- Part III Constrained and singularly perturbed problems -- Saddled-point Problems -- Mixed and Nonstandard methods -- Applications -- Problems and Projects -- Implementation aspects -- Notations, inequalities, guidelines -- Index . |
3A194247988.jsonld | Inequality by design : cracking the bell curve myth | As debate rages over the widening and destructive gap between the rich and the rest of Americans, Claude Fischer and his colleagues present a comprehensive new treatment of inequality in America. They challenge arguments that expanding inequality is the natural, perhaps necessary, accompaniment of economic growth. They refute the claims of the incendiary bestseller The Bell Curve (1994) through a clear, rigorous re-analysis of the very data its authors, Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, used to contend that inherited differences in intelligence explain inequality. Inequality by Design offers a powerful alternative explanation, stressing that economic fortune depends more on social circumstances than on IQ, which is itself a product of society. More critical yet, patterns of inequality must be explained by looking beyond the attributes of individuals to the structure of society. Social policies set the "rules of the game" within which individual abilities and efforts matter By refusing to blame inequality on an unchangeable human nature and an inexorable market - an excuse that leads to resignation and passivity - Inequality by Design shows how we can advance policies that widen opportunity for all Not only does the wealth of individuals' parents shape their chances for a good life, so do national policies ranging from labor laws to investments in education to tax deductions. The authors explore the ways that America - the most economically unequal society in the industrialized world - unevenly distributes rewards through regulation of the market, taxes, and government spending. It attacks the myth that inequality fosters economic growth, that reducing economic inequality requires enormous welfare expenditures, and that there is little we can do to alter the extent of inequality. It also attacks the injurious myth of innate racial inequality, presenting powerful evidence that racial differences in achievement are the consequences, not the causes, of social inequality And recent policies have, on the whole, widened the gap between the rich and the rest of Americans since the 1970s |
3A626327717.jsonld | Writing the Stalin era : Sheila Fitzpatrick and Soviet historiography | "This book weaves together elements of biography, historiography, and historical writing to explore the writings and legacy of Sheila Fitzpatrick, the University of Chicago's eminent scholar of Soviet history. It begins with essays that examine Fitzpatrick's contribution to her field and concludes with reminiscences about her life and career so far written by friends, family members, colleagues, and students. The heart of the book is a collection of original articles written by some of Fitzpatrick's students. These articles address subjects ranging from Kazakh resettlement under Stalin to the self-fashioning of scientists under Khrushchev, from state practices of terror to cultural and gender politics, showcasing both diverse and shared elements in the work of this scholar's protégés"--Provided by publisher |
3A1652235051.jsonld | The role of the economic crisis on occupational stress and well being | The recent economic recession has changed the nature of employment. Workers experience an increasingly uncertain future and many have been forced to search for jobs in a highly competitive market. In this volume, we call upon the fields leading researchers to examine how economic conditions relate to occupational stress and well being. |
3A1672335159.jsonld | Clinical chest ultrasound : from the ICU to the Bronchoscopy Suite | Pleural effusions, left and right heart dysfunction, mediastinal nodal pathology, and pulmonary embolism are just a few of the many thoracic diseases which can be diagnosed with the help of ultrasound techniques! Chest sonography has become an established procedure in the stepwise imaging diagnosis of pulmonary, cardiac, and pleural disease. It is the method of choice for many diseases and allows the investigator to make an unequivocal diagnosis without exposing the patient to costly and stressful procedures. This book, volume 37 in the well-known Progress in Respiratory Research series, presents the state of the art in clinical chest ultrasonography. As implied by its title, it covers all aspects of ultrasound involving the chest, at the same time differentiating between routine and emergency procedures. Basic elements such as indications, investigational techniques and imaging artifacts are detailed in separate chapters. The large number of excellent illustrations and the compact text provide concise and easy-to-assimilate information about the diagnostic procedure. Apart from the printed still pictures, the book comes with a complimentary online repository containing a variety of key videos. Each chapter presents an autonomous concise overview of indications, methods, diagnoses and pitfalls and can be used as a systematic review. It is written by leading experts as a guide by clinicians for clinicians and is a must for physicians, pulmonologists, intensivists, as well as all doctors with an interest in chest medicine |
3A1655167987.jsonld | Analytic Arithmetic in Algebraic Number Fields | Classical background -- Scalar product of L-functions -- Ideals with equal norms and integral points on non-form varieties -- Remarks and comments -- Analytical arithmetic in algebraic number fields. |
3A306817144.jsonld | The Oxford companion to fairy tales | "Researchers from scholars to the general public will find this reference source an excellent starting place to find definitions, summaries, authors, artists, and regional and historical overviews of fairy tales, past and present."--"Outstanding Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2001 |
3A1023434210.jsonld | Economic development as a learning process : variation across sectoral systems | Until recently, economists studying economic development have tended to consider it a universal process, or focussed their attention on common aspects. This book originates from the growing recognition of significant sectoral differences in economic development and examines the catching-up process in five different economic sectors: pharmaceuticals, telecommunications equipment, semiconductors, software, and agro-food industries. Each of these sector studies explore the learning and catch-up processes in various developing countries, in order to identify both the common features, and those which differ significantly across sectors and nations. The authors pay particular attention to China, India, Brazil, Korea and Taiwan. |
3A1654461296.jsonld | Smart technologies for emergency response and disaster management | Disaster management is an imperative area of concern for society on a global scale. Understanding how to best utilize information and communication technology to help manage emergency and disaster situations will lead to more effective advances and innovations in this important field. Smart technologies for emergency response and disaster management is a pivotal reference source that overviews current difficulties, challenges, and solutions that technology must adapt to in crisis situations. Highlighting pertinent topics such as network recovery, evacuation design, sensing technologies, and video technology, this publication is ideal for engineers, professionals, academicians, and researchers interested in discovering more about emerging technologies in crisis management.. |
3A1767214677.jsonld | Haiti's literary legacies : Romanticism and the unthinkable revolution | "Haiti's Literary Legacies unpacks the theoretical, historical, and political resonance of the Haitian revolution across a multiplicity of European and American Romanticisms, including Haitian, British, French, and German traditions. Often referred to as the only successful slave uprising in history, the Haitian revolution at once fulfilled and surpassed Enlightenment conceptions of freedom and universality in ways that were crucial to global Romanticism, and yet these effects are only beginning to be studied by scholars and historians of Romanticism. This volume works at the intersection of Romantic and Caribbean studies to outline the myriad ways that the politicized literature of Romantic period engages the revolution in Haiti. Demonstrating the centrality of the Haitian revolution to the larger configuration of transnational Romantic writing, this collection articulates a literary legacy that speaks to our contemporary moment and our ongoing attempts to come to terms with the political, historical, and ecological genealogies of the present"-- Introduction / Kir Kuiken and Deborah Elise White -- The shadow of Voltaire : early Haitian literature and the claims of intertextuality / Chris Bongie -- Romantic fevers : calenture and calenda in the Americas / Mary Grace Albanese -- Toussaint Louverture : creating a public Romantic subject / Theresa M. Kelley -- Seeing into the very bones : C. L. R. James and William Wordsworth on figure, personhood, and revolutionary discourse / Brian McGrath -- Unavowed community in Kleist's Betrothal in San Domingo / Kir Kuiken -- "Despair begins with stupefaction" : unthinkable agencies in Hugo's Bug Jargal / Deborah Elise White -- Revolutionary resonances in Frances Watkins Harper's "Triumph of freedom" / Brigitte Fielder -- Revolutionary shattering : Emerson on the Haitian Revolution / Branka Arsić. |
3A1014813557.jsonld | Environmental politics and policy | This book provides systematic coverage of the key concepts in the study of environmental politics; the evolution of environmental thinking; the national and international actors involved in environmental policy; and a selection of specific environmental problems including their causes, the challenges and results of addressing them to date. |
3A165304750X.jsonld | Theory of Third-Order Differential Equations | Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Behaviour of Solutions of Linear Homogeneous Differential Equations of Third Order -- Chapter 3: Oscillation of Solutions of Linear Nonhomogeneous Differential Equations of Third Order -- Chapter 4: Oscillation and Nonoscillation of Homogeneous Third-order Nonlinear Differential Equations -- Chapter 5: Oscillation and Nonoscillation of Nonlinear Nonhomogeneous Differential Equations of Third Order -- Chapter 6: Oscillatory and Asymptotic Behavior of Solutions of Third Order Delay Differential Equations -- Chapter 7: Stability of Third Order Differential Equations -- References This book discusses the theory of third-order differential equations. Most of the results are derived from the results obtained for third-order linear homogeneous differential equations with constant coefficients. M. Gregus, in his book written in 1987, only deals with third-order linear differential equations. These findings are old, and new techniques have since been developed and new results obtained. Chapter 1 introduces the results for oscillation and non-oscillation of solutions of third-order linear differential equations with constant coefficients, and a brief introduction to delay differential equations is given. The oscillation and asymptotic behavior of non-oscillatory solutions of homogeneous third-order linear differential equations with variable coefficients are discussed in Ch. 2. The results are extended to third-order linear non-homogeneous equations in Ch. 3, while Ch. 4 explains the oscillation and non-oscillation results for homogeneous third-order nonlinear differential equations. Chapter 5 deals with the z-type oscillation and non-oscillation of third-order nonlinear and non-homogeneous differential equations. Chapter 6 is devoted to the study of third-order delay differential equations. Chapter 7 explains the stability of solutions of third-order equations. Some knowledge of differential equations, analysis and algebra is desirable, but not essential, in order to study the topic |
3A1725626527.jsonld | The Routledge handbook of corpus approaches to discourse analysis | "The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Approaches to Discourse Analysis highlights the diversity, breadth, and depth of corpus approaches to discourse analysis, compiling new and original research from notable scholars across the globe. Chapters showcase recent developments influenced by the exponential growth in linguistic computing, advances in corpus design and compilation, and the applications of sound qualitative and interpretive techniques in analyzing text and discourse patterns. Key discourse domains covered by 34 empirical chapters include: Research Contexts and Methodological Considerations; Naturally-occurring spoken, professional and academic discourse; Corpus approaches to conversational discourse, media discourse, and professional and academic writing;. The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Approaches to Discourse Analysis is key reading for both experienced and novice researchers working at the intersection of corpus linguistics and discourse analysis, as well as anyone undertaking study in these areas"-- |
3A1816332399.jsonld | Processing-in-memory for AI : from circuits to systems | This book provides a comprehensive introduction to processing-in-memory (PIM) technology, from its architectures to circuits implementations on multiple memory types and describes how it can be a viable computer architecture in the era of AI and big data. The authors summarize the challenges of AI hardware systems, processing-in-memory (PIM) constraints and approaches to derive system-level requirements for a practical and feasible PIM solution. The presentation focuses on feasible PIM solutions that can be implemented and used in real systems, including architectures, circuits, and implementation cases for each major memory type (SRAM, DRAM, and ReRAM). Provides first book that describes the processing-in-memory (PIM) technology thoroughly from architectures to circuits; Describes architectures, circuits, and implementation cases for each major memory type (SRAM, DRAM, and ReRAM); Focuses on feasible PIM solutions that can be implemented and used in real systems. |
3A187127561X.jsonld | Coherent sheaves, superconnections, and Riemann-Roch-Grothendieck | Publisher’s description: This monograph addresses two significant related questions in complex geometry: the construction of a Chern character on the Grothendieck group of coherent sheaves of a compact complex manifold with values in its Bott-Chern cohomology, and the proof of a corresponding Riemann-Roch-Grothendieck theorem. One main tool used is the equivalence of categories established by Block between the derived category of bounded complexes with coherent cohomology and the homotopy category of antiholomorphic superconnections. Chern-Weil theoretic techniques are then used to construct forms that represent the Chern character. The main theorem is then established using methods of analysis, by combining local index theory with the hypoelliptic Laplacian. Coherent Sheaves, Superconnections, and Riemann-Roch-Grothendieck is an important contribution to both the geometric and analytic study of complex manifolds and, as such, it will be a valuable resource for many researchers in geometry, analysis, and mathematical physics. |
3A1649000421.jsonld | Essential Practice Guidelines in Primary Care | This new volume in the Current Clinical Practice series puts the most important evidence-based, nationally recognized clinical guidelines together in one place. As a result, busy clinicians can go to one source when, in the care of a patient, a question arises that is best answered by an existing clinical guideline. Among the topics covered in this volume are hyperlipidemia, management of newly diagnosed atrial fibrillation, antithrombotic therapy for venous thromboembolic disease and atrial fibrillation, and prevention of bacterial endocarditis. The book details treatment for asthma and infectious diseases ranging from pneumonia to tuberculosis to diarrhea. The volume also contains chapters on endocrinology, gynecology, neurology, and psychiatry. With the busy clinician in mind, Essential Practice Guidelines in Primary Care has been constructed from its origin to have a companion PDA resource, with summaries of the guidelines in this book and additional summaries of guidelines not included in the book. (The PDA version of Essential Practice Guidelines in Primary Care is available from the publisher, ISBN 1-934115-47-9.) Together, these complimentary textbooks, in print and electronic format, should facilitate the implementation of nationally recognized clinical guidelines. This new volume in the Current Clinical Practice series puts the most important evidence-based, nationally recognized clinical guidelines together in one place. As a result, busy clinicians can go to one source when, in the care of a patient, a question arises that is best answered by an existing clinical guideline. The chapters are written by world leaders in their respective fields. This book has been constructed with the busy clinician in mind. |
3A1693064588.jsonld | Alternative globalizations : Eastern Europe and the postcolonial world | Globalization has become synonymous with the seemingly unfettered spread of capitalist multinationals, but this focus on the West and western economies ignores the wide variety of globalizing projects that sprang up in the socialist world as a consequence of the end of the European empires. This collection is the first to explore alternative forms of globalization across the socialist world during the Cold War. |
3A1605605107.jsonld | GNSS for vehicle control | "As global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) such as GPS have grown more pervasive, the use of GNSS to automatically control ground vehicles has drawn increasing interest. This cutting-edge resource offers you a thorough understanding of this emerging application area of GNSS. Written by highly-regarded authorities in the field, this unique reference covers a wide range of key topics, including ground vehicles models, psuedolites, highway vehicle control, unmanned ground vehicles, farm tractors, and construction equipment. The book is supported with over 150 illustrations and more than 180 equations."--Publisher's description |
3A1788566149.jsonld | Apocalyptic visions in the Anthropocene and the rise of climate fiction | With the increasing interest of pop culture and academia towards environmental issues, which has simultaneously given rise to fiction and artworks dealing with interdisciplinary issues, climate change is an undeniable reality of our time. In accordance with the severe environmental degradation and health crises today, including the COVID-19 pandemic, human beings are awakening to this reality through climate fiction (cli-fi), which depicts ways to deal with the anthropogenic transformations on Earth through apocalyptic worlds as displayed in works of literature, media and art. Appealing to a wide range of readers, from NGOs to students, this book fills a gap in the fields of literature, media and art, and sheds light on the inevitable interconnection of humankind with the nonhuman environment through effective descriptions of associable conditions in the works of climate fiction. |
3A877048347.jsonld | Futures of comparative literature : ACLA state of the discipline report | "Futures of comparative literatures" is a unique report on the state of the discipline in comparative literature. Offering a broad spectrum of viewpoints from all career stages, a variety of different institutions, and many language backgrounds, this collection is fully global and diverse. The book includes previously unpublished interviews with key figures in the discipline as well as a range of different essays such as short pieces on key topics (e.g human rights, fundamentalism) and longer, in-depth pieces (electronic literature, new orality, environmental humanities). Curated by an expert editorial team, this book captures what is at stake in the study of comparative literature today |
3A838377246.jsonld | Demand-driven inventory optimization and replenishment : creating a more efficient supply chain | "This new edition provides a focused message on how inventory optimization effects specific business verticals through improved metrics. It reviews the fundamentals of inventory optimization so that practitioners can attain a demand driven supply as well as provides a business perspective of why present inventory systems sub-optimize the supply chain and faulty replenishment processes lead to wasted time and effort. Readers come away with a good understanding of why optimized inventory and replenishment helps overcome in-system weaknesses and deliver results. The book lays out a historical view of the three major supply chain efforts of the last 30 years (i.e., Just in Time (JIT), Efficient Consumer Response (ECR), and Collaborative Forecasting, Planning and Replenishment (CPFR). It then discusses mathematical shortcuts set up in the transitional and supply chain management systems that make it very difficult for companies to attain "supply chain excellence". A discussion of how multi-echelon inventory optimization and replenishment enables the installed systems go from a sequential, "islands of efficiency" approach to a systematic distribution system working as a complete network is also given. Case studies are provided throughout the book. New topics covered include: inventory performance, scenario updates and replenishment; examples of why promotional product flow hurts supply chains; and discussion of industry verticals (What are the relevant issues in industry verticals that would prompt someone to look at inventory optimization?), business initiatives (what are today's initiatives that are relevant to inventory optimization?), and metrics (what are the underlying business KPI's that can be improved by using inventory optimization?). "-- "Remove built-in supply chain weak points to more effectively balance supply and demand Demand-Driven Inventory Optimization and Replenishment shows how companies can support supply chain metrics and business initiatives by removing the weak points built into their inventory systems. Beginning with a thorough examination of Just in Time, Efficient Consumer Response, and Collaborative Forecasting, Planning, and Replenishment, this book walks you through the mathematical shortcuts set up in your management system that prevent you from attaining supply chain excellence. This expanded second edition includes new coverage of inventory performance, business verticals, business initiatives, and metrics, alongside case studies that illustrate how optimized inventory and replenishment delivers results across retail, high-tech, men's clothing, and food sectors. Inventory optimization allows you to avoid out-of-stock situations without impacting the bottom line with excessive inventory maintenance. By keeping just the right amount of inventory on hand, your company is better able to meet demand without sacrificing the cost-effectiveness of other supply chain strategies. The trick, however, is determining "just the right amount"--and this book provides the background and practical guidance you need to do just that. Examine the major supply chain strategies of the last 30 years Remove the shortcuts that prohibit supply chain excellence Optimize your supply/demand balance in any vertical Overcome systemic weaknesses to strengthen the bottom line Inventory optimization is benefitting companies around the world, as exemplified here by case studies involving Matas, CV Voorfruit, Tesco, PWT, Wistron, and Amway. When inefficiencies are built into the system, it's only smart business to identify and remove them--and implement a new streamlined process that runs like a well-oiled machine. Demand-Driven Inventory Optimization and Replenishment is an essential resource for exceptional supply chain management"-- |
3A896613399.jsonld | Sponsored migration : the State and Puerto Rican postwar migration to the United States | Puerto Rican migration and the colonial state -- "Neither encouraging nor discouraging": the making of Puerto Rico's migration policy -- Puerto Ricans as domestic workers: the Farm Placement Program -- There ain't no buses from San Juan to the Bronx: postwar migration and air transportation -- "Every Puerto Rican a potential migrant": migrant education and the English language issue -- The beets of wrath: migration policy and migrant discontent in Michigan, 1950 -- Puerto Ricans as migratory labor, the state as labor contractor |
3A1677670681.jsonld | Compendium of bedding plant diseases and pests | Part I. Infectious diseases -- Diseases caused by bacteria -- Diseases caused by Xanthomonas campestris Pathovars -- Diseases caused by fungi -- Fusarium root, crown, and stem roots -- Vascular wilts caused by Fusarium oxysporum -- Powdery mildew diseases -- Rust diseases -- Diseases caused by Oomycetes -- Downy mildews -- Phytopthora diseases -- Diseases caused by nematodes -- Diseases caused by viroids -- Diseases caused by viruses -- Part II. Abiotic diseases and disorders -- Air pollution -- Excess of insufficient light -- Nutritional imbalances -- Pesticide toxicity (Phytotoxicity) -- Water imbalances -- Part III. Arthropod pests -- Overview -- Arthropod pests of bedding plants. |
3A1024181952.jsonld | Theory of flame retardation of polymeric materials | Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Authors -- 1. Polymer combustion -- 2. Flame retardation mechanism of halogenated flame retardants -- 3. The flame-retardation mechanism of organic phosphorus flame retardants -- 4. Flame retardation mechanism of intumescent flame retardant -- 5. Flame retardation mechanism of other flame retardants -- 6. Flame retardation mechanism of polymer, inorganic nanocomposite materials -- 7. The mechanism of smoke suppression -- 8. Technical means on flame retardation mechanism -- Appendix |
3A164663411X.jsonld | The Lacrimal System : Diagnosis, Management, and Surgery | Lacrimal system surgery is among the most common procedures performed by oculoplastic surgeons. Surgical intervention ranges from probing and intubation of blocked nasolacrimal ducts to endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy. There are few recently published textbooks dedicated to lacrimal surgery. The editors have chosen, in The Lacrimal System: Diagnosis, Management Surgery, to address the complete range of lacrimal disorders in one concise, practical volume. By broadening the scope of the subject, the editors hope to meet the needs of ophthalmologists, otolaryngologists, oral maxillofacial and plastic surgeons who perform lacrimal procedures, oculoplastic fellows who are mastering the nuances of these procedures, and experts interested in learning about the most recent modifications in techniques. |
3A1839800682.jsonld | Pandemic Communication | Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- 1 An Introduction to Pandemic Communication -- 2 Health Communication and Behaviors during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A 22-Nation Exploration of Mask-Wearing -- 3 Science Communication and Pandemics -- 4 Pandemic Communication: CDC and WHO Approaches to Emergency Risk Communication and Emerging Infectious Disease Crises -- 5 Public Relations and Pandemics -- 6 The New Normal: Pandemic Communication and Sustainable Organizations -- 7 Meme-ing Accountability: Visual Communication as Character Assassination of Austrian and Swedish Politicians and Government Agencies during the COVID-19 Pandemic -- 8 Applied Communication and Pandemics: Expanding the IDEA Model of Instructional Risk and Crisis Communication -- 9 Interpreting the Interpersonal: Crisis Communication Insights for Pandemics -- 10 Intergroup Communication during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A 20-Nation Analysis of Prejudice -- 11 Instructional Communication during Pandemics -- 12 International Communication -- 13 Pandemic Rhetoric -- 14 Language and Pandemic Communication -- 15 Political Communication and Pandemics -- 16 Reflecting on Theory and Research in Pandemic Communication -- Index. This book details how the processes of communication are affected by the presence of a pandemic and establishes a research agenda of those effects across the broad field of communication studies. |
3A1669254763.jsonld | Weltmacht im Abseits : Amerikanische Außenpolitik in der Ära Donald Trump | The election of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States surprised the world and aroused great anxiety. His ‘America First’ rhetoric had already fuelled concerns that his presidency would be radical during the presidential election campaign in 2016. Above all, it seemed to cast doubt on the US’ claim to global leadership, which was regarded as the foundation of the global order that the US had helped to form since the Second World War. From both an internal and external perspective, this book examines the social, institutional and international reasons for the USA’s foreign and security policy under Trump.With contributions byHakan Akbulut, Florian Böller, Andreas Falke, Gerlinde Groitl, Steffen Hagemann, Lukas D. Herr, Gerhard Mangott, Marcus Müller, Sonja Thielges, Charlotte Unger and Jürgen Wilzewski. Die Wahl Donald Trumps zum 45. Präsidenten der USA hat die Weltöffentlichkeit überrascht und Beunruhigung ausgelöst. Trumps America-First-Rhetorik hatte bereits im Präsidentschaftswahlkampf 2016 die Sorge vor einer radikalen Präsidentschaft genährt. Vor allem der politische und moralische Führungsanspruch der USA, der als Grundlage mit jener liberalen Weltordnung verbunden war, die die Weltmacht seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg mit aufgebaut hatte, scheint in Frage gestellt. Der Band untersucht, welche gesellschaftlichen, institutionellen und internationalen Faktoren für die Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik der USA in der Ära Trump verantwortlich gemacht werden können, nach innen wie nach außen.Mit Beiträgen von Hakan Akbulut, Florian Böller, Andreas Falke, Gerlinde Groitl, Steffen Hagemann, Lukas D. Herr, Gerhard Mangott, Marcus Müller, Sonja Thielges, Charlotte Unger und Jürgen Wilzewski |
3A1023446014.jsonld | Governance, regulation and innovation : theory and evidence from firms and nations | This book aims to disentangle the complex relationship between innovation and its potential determinants, paying special attention to the roles of governance and regulatory frameworks, and the ways in which the latter interact with other drivers of innovation such as competition and the innovator’s closeness to the technology frontier |
3A1644916983.jsonld | Symmetries in Science XI | This book is a collection of reviews and essays about the recent developments in the area of Symmetries and applications of Group Theory. Contributions have been written mostly at the graduate level but some are accessible to advanced undergraduates. The book is of interest to a wide audience and covers a broad range of topics with a strong degree of thematical unity. The book is part of a Series of books on Symmetries in Science and may be compared to the published Proceedings of the Colloquia on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics. Here, however, prevails a distinguished character for presenting extended reviews on present applications to Science, not restricted to Theoretical Physics. |
3A1818499207.jsonld | Managing plant stress using salicylic acid : physiological and molecular aspects | "Different forms of environmental stresses like salinity, drought, high or low temperature, heavy metal/metalloid, UV, high light intensity and nutrient deficiency inflict major damage to crop plants leading to a massive decrease in crop yield and productivity. This book will highlight the tremendous potential of treating plants with salicylic acid, either prior to or during stress, in lowering oxidative damages and causing enhanced tolerance during stress conditions. The latest research on the ability of salicylic acid in reducing the effects of abiotic stresses in different crop species, together with their mechanism of action at the biochemical and molecular level will be emphasized. Such documentation of salicylic acid roles will stimulate further research towards fully exposing their way of action, which, in turn, would be of great significance for plant stress physiology research. In addition, focusing on specific challenges and opportunities related to the exogenous application or priming technology, such as the mode of application, new methodologies and the potential impacts of salicylic acid on the environment, would result in the optimum and rapid establishment of this technology as a tool in crop stress management. This book will foster further interests for researchers, academicians and scientists worldwide, working in the field of salicylic acid mediated plant responses in plants under challenging environments and abiotic stress tolerance"-- |
3A664309011.jsonld | Beginning C# object-oriented programming : [design and develop cutting-edge applications in C# using proven object-oriented methodologies and best practices] | Design and develop cutting-edge applications in C# using proven object-oriented methodologies and best practices--Cover |
3A1725592150.jsonld | Measuring development : an inequality dominance approach | This book discusses how to measure the level of development of an economy, particularly, the task of ranking economies in terms of their development. In this context, development is defined as an increase in people's level of wellbeing. The book emphasises that wellbeing is a multidimensional concept, and that it is important to ask how equitably the fruits of development are distributed, and as such it focuses on multidimensional, inequality-sensitive development ranking. Rather than using various specific development indices, which would lead to different development rankings for a country, the book proposes a dominance approach, which formulates conditions under which two economies can be ranked unambiguously, making it valid for all reasonable development indices. With the help of illustrative examples using real-world data, it demonstrates that such unambiguous rankings are possible, and that the proposed approach can be used to complement traditional approaches. An invaluable resource for researchers working in the field of development, the book will also appeal to practitioners engaged in measuring development. Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Towards an Inequality-Sensitive Measure of Development: The Unidimensional Case -- Chapter 3: Unidimensional Development Ranking and Fuzzy Lorenz Dominance -- Chapter 4: Illustrative Applications of Unidimensional Development Indices -- Chapter 5: Multidimensional Lorenz dominance -- Chapter 6: Multidimensional Inequality-Sensitive Development Ranking -- Chapter 7: An Illustration: Multidimensional Development and Inter-State Inequality in India in the 2000s -- Chapter 8: Overview and Concluding Remarks. |
3A1848677634.jsonld | Deep learning-based forward modeling and inversion techniques for computational physics problems | "This book investigates in detail the emerging deep learning (DL) technique in computational physics, assessing its promising potential to substitute conventional numerical solvers for calculating the fields in real-time. After good training, the proposed architecture can resolve both the forward computing and the inverse retrieve problems. Pursuing a holistic perspective, the book includes the following areas. The first chapter discusses the basic DL frameworks. Then, the steady heat conduction problem is solved by the classical U-net in Chapter 2, involving both the passive and active cases. Afterwards, the sophisticated heat flux on a curved surface is reconstructed by the presented Conv-LSTM, exhibiting high accuracy and efficiency. Besides, the electromagnetic parameters of complex medium such as the permittivity and conductivity are retrieved by a cascaded framework in Chapter 4. Additionally, a physics-informed DL structure along with a nonlinear mapping module are employed to obtain the space/temperature/time-related thermal conductivity via the transient temperature in Chapter 5. Finally, in Chapter 6, a series of the latest advanced frameworks and the corresponding physics applications are introduced. As deep learning techniques are experiencing vigorous development in computational physics, more people desire related reading materials. This book is intended for graduate students, professional practitioners, and researchers who are interested in DL for computational physics"-- |
3A609430696.jsonld | Core Animation : simplified animation techniques for Mac and iPhone development | What is core animation? -- What can and should I animate? -- Basic animations -- Keyframe animation -- Layer transforms -- Layer filters -- QuickTime layers -- OpenGL Layer -- Quartz composer layer -- Other useful layers -- User interaction -- Performance -- Core animation on the iPhone |
3A1652023704.jsonld | Prokhorov and Contemporary Probability Theory : In Honor of Yuri V. Prokhorov | The role of Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov as a prominent mathematician and leading expert in the theory of probability is well known. Even early in his career he obtained substantial results on the validity of the strong law of large numbers and on the estimates (bounds) of the rates of convergence, some of which are the best possible. His findings on limit theorems in metric spaces and particularly functional limit theorems are of exceptional importance. Y.V. Prokhorov developed an original approach to the proof of functional limit theorems, based on the weak convergence of finite dimensional distributions and the condition of tightness of probability measures. The present volume commemorates the 80th birthday of Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov. It includes scientific contributions written by his colleagues, friends and pupils, who would like to express their deep respect and sincerest admiration for him and his scientific work. Part I Scientific Papers: David J. Aldous: When Knowing Early Matters: Gossip, Percolation and Nash Equilibria -- Vadim Arkin and Alexander Slastnikov: A Mathematical Model of Investment Incentives -- Guus Balkema, Paul Embrechts and Natalia Nolde: The Shape of Asymptotic Dependence -- Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen, Jose Manuel Corcuera and Mark Podolskij: Limit theorems for functionals of higher order differences of Brownian semi-stationary processes -- Jean Bertoin and Marc Yor: Retrieving Information from Subordination -- Algimantas Bikelis: Asymptotic Expansions for Distributions of Sums of Independent Random Vectors -- Alexandr A. Borovkov and Konstantin A. Borovkov: An Extension of the Concept of Slowly Varying Function with Applications to Large Deviation Limit Theorems -- Ekaterina Bulinskaya: Optimal and Asymptotically Optimal Control for Some Inventory Models -- Suzanne Cawston and Lioudmila Vostrikova: Levy Preservation and Associated Properties for f -divergence Minimal Equivalent Martingale Measures -- Francesco Cellarosi, Yakov G. Sinai: Non-Standard Limit Theorems in Number Theory.- Linan Chen and Daniel W. Stroock: Additive Functions and Gaussian Measures -- Gennadii Chistyakov and Friedrich Gotze: Free Infinitely Divisible Approximations of n-fold Free Convolutions -- Gerd Christoph, Vladimir V. Ulyanov and Yasunori Fujikoshi: Accurate Approximation of Correlation Coefficients by Short Edgeworth-Chebyshev Expansion and Its Statistical Applications -- Shakir K. Formanov and Tamara A. Formanova: The Stein-Tikhomirov Method and Berry-Esseen Inequality for Sampling Sums from a Finite Population of Independent Random Variables -- Nicko Gamkrelidze: On One Inequality for Characteristic Functions -- Bronius Grigelionis: On the Nonlinear Filtering Equations for Superprocesses in Random Environment -- Vijay Gupta and Tengiz Shervashidze: Upper Bounds for Bernstein Basis Functions -- Ildar Ibragimov and Dmitry Zaporozhets: On Distribution of Zeros of Random Polynomials in Complex Plane -- Peter Jagers and Fima C. Klebaner: Dependence and Interaction in Branching Processes -- Gyula O.H. Katona: Testing Functional Connection between Two Random Variables -- Kalyanapuram R.Parthasarathy: The Symmetry Group of Gaussian States in L2(Rn) -- Ernst Presman: Solution of the Optimal Stopping Problem for One-dimensional Diffusion Based on a Modification of the Payoff Function -- Part II Interviews: Friedrich Götze and Willem R. van Zwet: The times of Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov.- Larry Shepp: A Conversation with Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov. . |
3A81817501X.jsonld | Material alchemy : [redefining materiality within the 21st Century ; 11 crative workshops to facilitate material exploration] | "Material Alchemy presents the most innovative, thought-provoking design approaches to materials within the 21st century. Enlisting the help of luminaries from the world of science, technology, and design to showcase new responses to material innovation and providing key insights into how materials will be utilised to shape our future environments. Exploring key topics: such as synthetic biology, how designers and scientists are designing with living matter, utilising the laboratory as a means to cultivate and grow new materials, to technological innovations, new technologies, such as how 3D printing is revolutionising the manufacturing industry"--Back cover |
3A722439334.jsonld | Healthcare information technology innovation and sustainability : frontiers and adoption | "This book presents research in the emerging field on information systems and informatics in the healthcare industry, addressing innovative concepts and critical issues through case studies and experimental research"--Provided by publisher |
3A659404516.jsonld | Key concepts in crime fiction | "An insight into a popular yet complex genre that has developed over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The volume explores the contemporary anxieties to which crime fiction responds, along with society's changing conceptions of crime and criminality. The book covers texts, contexts and criticism in an accessible and user-friendly format"-- |
3A101467607X.jsonld | Tragedies of the English renaissance : an introduction | This book covers the development of tragedy as a dramatic genre from its earliest examples in the 1560's until the closure of the theatres in 1642. It traces the astonishingly diverse range of tragedies as they were influenced by the growth of public and private theatre venues in London. Tragedy was the most popular and the most diverse of theatrical genres during the English Renaissance; it was also the most disruptive and subversive. For Shakespeare and his contemporaries, tragedy reaches kings and queens and everyday person alike. Tragedy has rules, but these were rules that playwrights were ready to trouble and transform to meet changes in society and politics, in theatre venue, and in audience demand. |
3A1655569449.jsonld | Menschenwürde als heilige Ordnung : Eine Re-Konstruktion sozialer Exklusion im Lichte der Sakralität der personalen Würde | From a humanistic point of view and transcending theology and the Church, the dignity of humans as individuals is a sacred basis of the secular social constitutional state. Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar - dieses unbedingte Recht ist völker-, europa- und verfassungsrechtlich verbürgt.Dass die Würde des Menschen jedoch auch im säkularisierten sozialen Rechtsstaat letztendlich eine heilige Ordnung ist, kollektiv religiös geglaubt werden muss und sich nicht in einem rationalen Diskurs hinreichend wahrheitsfähig erweist, zeigt Frank Schulz-Nieswandt im Rekurs auf Böckenförde, Habermas, Joas und Agamben.Im Anschluss daran entfaltet er die Idee einer gottlosen Ontotheologie eines existenzialen personalistischen Humanismus, den er mit Verweis auf Paul Tillich und Romano Guardini zugleich gegen jeden Übergriff einer autoritären Theo-Dogmatik supranaturalistischer Art verteidigt. |
3A167940590X.jsonld | Memories of utopia : the revision of histories and landscapes in Late Antiquity | "These essays examine how various communities remembered and commemorated their shared past through the lens of utopia and its corollary, dystopia, providing a framework for the reinterpretation of rapidly changing religious, cultural and political realities of the turbulent period from 300 to 750 CE. The common theme of the chapters is the utopian ideals of religious groups, whether these are inscribed on the body, on the landscape, in texts or other cultural objects. The volume is the first to apply this conceptual framework to Late Antiquity, when historically significant conflicts arose between the adherents of four major religious identities: Greco-Roman "pagans", newly dominant Christians, diaspora Jews who were more or less persecuted, depending on the current regime, and the emerging religion and power of Islam. Late Antiquity was thus a period when dystopian realities competed with memories of a mythical Golden Age, variously conceived according to the religious identity of the group. The contributors come from a range of disciplines, including cultural studies, religious studies, ancient history and art history, and employ both theoretical and empirical approaches. This volume is unique in the range of evidence it draws upon, both visual and textual, to support the basic argument, that utopia in Late Antiquity, whether conceived spiritually, artistically or politically, was a place of the past but also of the future, even of the Afterlife. Memories of Utopia will be of interest to historians, archaeologists, and art historians of the later Roman empire, and those working on religion in Late Antiquity and Byzantium"-- |
3A1655044796.jsonld | Integration II : Chapters 7–9 | Integration is the sixth and last of the books that form the core of the Bourbaki series; it draws abundantly on the preceding five Books, especially General Topology and Topological Vector Spaces, making it a culmination of the core six. The power of the tool thus fashioned is strikingly displayed in Chapter II of the author's Théories Spectrales, an exposition, in a mere 38 pages, of abstract harmonic analysis and the structure of locally compact abelian groups. The first volume of the English translation comprises Chapters 1-6; the present volume completes the translation with the remaining Chapters 7-9. Chapters 1-5 received very substantial revisions in a second edition, including changes to some fundamental definitions. Chapters 6-8 are based on the first editions of Chapters 1-5. The English edition has given the author the opportunity to correct misprints, update references, clarify the concordance of Chapter 6 with the second editions of Chapters 1-5, and revise the definition of a key concept in Chapter 6 (measurable equivalence relations) |
3A1696528062.jsonld | Language Development across Childhood and Adolescence. | Language Development across Childhood and Adolescence -- Editorial page -- Titled page -- LCC page -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- Series editors' preface -- Preface -- Research on later language development -- 1. What is the nature and substance of language growth beyond the preschool years? -- 1.1. The literate lexicon and figurative language -- 1.2. Syntactic attainments -- 1.3. Spelling -- 2. How can growth in later language development be revealed? -- 3. What factors drive these later linguistic attainments? -- 3.1. Education, literacy, and metalinguistic competence -- 3.2. Cognition -- 3.3. Socialization -- Conclusions -- Between emergence and mastery -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A phase-based model of language development -- 3. Examples from acquisition of Hebrew -- 3.1. Classes of adjectives -- 3.2. Adjectival versus syntactic passives -- 3.3. Nonfinite forms and nominalizations -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- Lexical acquisition in the early school years* -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. What needs to be acquired? -- 1.2. `Fast mapping' and constraints in early lexical acquisition -- 1.3. Beyond fast mapping and constraints -- 2. The assessment of vocabulary -- 2.1. Comprehension and production in assessment -- 2.2. Alternative methods of investigating word knowledge -- 3. School-based lexical development -- 3.1. Oral language input -- 3.2. Written language input -- 4. The challenges of later vocabulary learning -- 4.1. Phonological processes in lexical acquisition -- 4.2. Semantic factors in lexical acquisition -- 4.3. Morphological factors in lexical acquisition -- 5. Difficulties in vocabulary learning -- 5.1. Children with language difficulties -- 5.2. Lexical acquisition and phonological representations -- 5.3. Lexical acquisition and semantic representations -- 5.4. Summary -- 6. Conclusions -- Note -- Derivational morphology revisited. This volume brings together work by scholars with backgrounds in linguistics, psycholinguistics, developmental psychology, education, and language pathology. As such, the book adds psycholinguistic and crosslinguistic perspectives to the clinical and classroom approaches that have dominated the study of "later language development". Incorporating insights from prior language acquisition research, it goes beyond preschool age to consider both isolated utterances and extended discourse, conversational interactions and monologic text construction, and both written and spoken language use from early school-age across adolescence. Data from French, Hebrew, Spanish, and Swedish as well as English cover varied domains: morphology and lexicon, syntax and verb-argument structure, as well as peer interaction, spelling, processing of on-line writing, and reading poetry. The epilogue suggests explanations for the findings documented. Across the book, the authors show how cognitive and social maturation combines with increased literacy in the path taken by schoolchildren and adolescents towards the flexible deployment of a growing repertoire of lexical elements in varied morpho-syntactic constructions and different discourse contexts that constitutes the hallmark of maturely proficient language use. |
3A679651799.jsonld | Research methodologies, innovations, and philosophies in software systems engineering and information systems | "This book aims to advance scientific knowledge on research approaches used in systems engineering, software engineering, and information systems and to update,integrate, disperse and valuable knowledge on research approaches"-- |
3A374369127.jsonld | The paradox of American unionism : why Americans like unions more than Canadians do, but join much less | Paradoxes, anomalies and hypotheses -- Union density in a cross-national context -- The evolution of trade unions in the United States and Canada: the emergence of "the gap" in union density -- Social democratic Canada/free market United States -- Attitudes and values: an inverted relationship -- Frustrated demand: more Americans want to join unions -- The contribution of states and provinces to the unionization gap -- Unions among professionals and other white-collar workers in the United States -- Unions among professionals and other white-collar workers in Canada -- Estimates of non-union employee representation: how different are the two countries? -- The effects of differing cultural and political legacies on unionization -- Appendix I. Union membership and union density estimates: methodology and comparability -- Appendix II. summary of the survey methodology |
3A1652246703.jsonld | Political correctness : a history of semantics and culture | Defining political correctness -- The origins and the debate -- Words and authorities : dictionaries and lexicographers -- The evolution of the word field -- Issues of race, nationality, gender, and difference -- Agendas old and new -- Political correctness in the past -- Culture -- Conclusion : The right thing to do? Progressive orthodoxy, empty convention or double standard? |
3A89775249X.jsonld | Handbook of research on effective communication in culturally diverse classrooms | "This book focuses on the significance of cultural sensitivity toward diverse students and the importance of communication to increase the overall educational experience, highlighting key concepts relating to curriculum design, teaching models, and critical pedagogies in transcultural classrooms"--Provided by publisher. |
3A1647292190.jsonld | Updates in Diagnostic Pathology | by CDs, but we continue to utilize the same general format of morning didactics and afternoon glass slide review and small group interactions. One of our biggest successes was in the ever-expanding set of didactic lecture notes and radiologic, gross, microscopic, ultrastructural, and other images that course participants received, so it wasn't much of a surprise when we were approached by the publisher to consider creating an updated compilation of some of the best talks and packaging them in a monograph available to a broader population of physicians and scientists. With the extraordinary attention to detail that he is known for, my co-editor David Chhieng has been both the brains and the brawn of this project, resulting in the bringing together of such a collection while trying to be sensitive and representative of the various branches of pathology reflected in the actual course. From surgical pathology, chapters cover select topics in endocrine, gynecologic, GU, and GI pathology with contributions from Walter Bell, Michael Conner, Katrin Klemm, and Audrey Lazenby, respectively. Tom Winokur has begun to prepare us for the near future with a treatise on molecular markers in breast cancer. The interactive nature of cytopathology and surgical pathology are brought together by Claudia Castro [now at the U. T. Medical Branch at Galveston] and David Chhieng in three chapters covering mediastinal, pleural, and pulmonary pathology. Updates in Pathology provides pathologists, immunologists and pathologists/immunologists-in-training with a current view of basic pathology and immunology and its subdivisions, as well as topics in basic science, research and technology associated with pathology and immunology on all levels. Also discussed are the most recent advances in mechanisms of disease, new procedures and techniques of diagnostic pathology and immunology, and advancements and changes that have occurred in the last decade. |
3A1785851977.jsonld | Surveying the COVID-19 pandemic and its implications : urban health, data technology and political economy | Surveying the Covid-19 Pandemic and Its Implications: Urban Health, Data Technology and Political Economy explores social, economic, and policy impacts of COVID-19 that will persist for some time. This timely book surveys the COVID-19 from a holistic, high level perspective, examining such topics as Urban health policy responses impact on cities economies, Urban economic impacts of supply chain disruption, The need for coherent short term urban policies that aligns with long term goals, The rise to citizen science initiatives, The role of open data, The need for protocols to support research collaborations, Building larger infectious disease modelling datasets, NS Advanced computing tools for health policy. |
3A1685817742.jsonld | Learning and teaching in higher education : perspectives from a business school | "There is often little guidance available on how to teach in universities, despite there being increasing pressure to raise teaching standards, as well as no official requirement for academics to have any specific teaching qualification in many countries. This invaluable book comprehensively addresses this issue, providing an overview of teaching in a business school that covers all stages of student learning. This book demonstrates various ways to engage students and offers techniques to enhance teaching practice, focusing on particular challenges such as large group teaching, increasing attendance and engagement, and successful professional development. All the contributors have current experience of teaching in a business school, allowing them to offer honest, personal assessments of what is effective in practice. Chapters address specific topics such as technology enhanced learning, while useful 'thoughts' provide creative and innovative suggestions on improving participation and outcomes. Learning and Teaching in Higher Education will be an important resource for those teaching in a business school setting, as well as having significant value to anyone teaching in higher education more generally"-- Contents: Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Theorising about learning and knowing / Keith Schofield -- Engaging students -- 2. How to engage students / Alison Lindon and Michael Butler -- 3. Icebreakers for business school students / Ilias Basioudis -- Thought 1 / Alison Lindon and Michael Butler -- 4. Trumping truancy: maintaining student attendance and engagement / Gayatri Patel -- Thought 2 / Kathy Daniels -- 5. Helping our students to think critically / Elaine Clarke -- Thought 3 / Daniel Cash -- 6. How to introduce and integrate creativity / Bimal Arora -- 7. How to invigorate group presentations / Matthew Olczak -- Thought 4 / Gayatri Patel -- 8. Bridging the gap: writing in higher education / Daniel Cash -- Enhancing teaching practice -- 9. Getting the most out of large group teaching / Caroline Elliott and Jon Guest -- 10. Storytelling as a technique for teaching / Sudeshna Bhattacharya -- Thought 5 / Geetha Ravishankar -- 11. Experiential learning: use of business simulations / Clive Kerridge -- Thought 6 / Kris Lines -- 12. How to do a confident presentation / Chris Jones -- Thought 7 / Caroline Elliott and Jon Guest -- 13. Making teaching relevant for the business student / Kathy Daniels -- 14. Problem based learning / Chris Owen -- Thought 8 / Alison McPherson -- 15. Teaching students struggling because English is not their first language / Pieter Koornhof -- 16. How to teach students from a range of different countries / Uche Ogwude -- Thought 9 / Matthew Olczak -- 17. Teaching small groups / Alison McPherson -- Technology enhanced learning -- 18. Technology enhanced learning activities and student participation / Bahar Kazmi and Umair Riaz -- Thought 10 / Elaine Clarke -- 19. Cultivating students' digital literacy / Soumyadeb Chowdhury, Oscar Rodríguez-Espindola, Ahmad Beltagui and Pavel Albores-Barajas -- Thought 11 / Uche Ogwude -- 20. Designing and teaching an online module / Jon Taylor, Richard Terry and Matt Davies -- Thought 12 / Soumyadeb Chowdhury, Oscar Rodríguez-Espindola, Ahmad Beltagui and Pavel Albores-Barajas -- 21. Successful teaching in virtual classrooms / Richard Terry, Jon Taylor and Matt Davies -- Thought 13 / Soumyadeb Chowdhury, Oscar Rodríguez-Espindola, Ahmad Beltagui and Pavel Albores-Barajas -- 22. Managing online learning / Nicholas Theodorakopoulos -- Teaching content 23. The use of short in-class games / Jon Guest, Maria Kozlovskaya and Matthew Olczak -- 24. Teaching maths to non-mathematical standards / Geetha Ravishankar -- Thought 14 / Pieter Koornhof -- 25. How to embed CSR in teaching / Muhammed Al Mahameed and Umair Riaz -- 26. Teaching law to business students / Adam Shaw-Mellors and Pieter Koornhof -- Thought 15 / Adam Shaw-Mellors -- 27. Practitioner module partnership and sponsorship / Keith Glanfield -- Assessment 28. Demystifying the assessment criteria / Gayatri Patel -- Thought 16 / Bimal Arora -- 29. Using posters in academic assessments / Kris Lines -- 30. Writing effective multiple choice questions / Simon Finley -- Thought 17 / Kathy Daniels -- 31. Peer assessment / Elaine Clarke -- 32. Providing effective feedback / Jon Guest -- Index. |
3A1654355895.jsonld | MATLAB Mathematical Analysis | MATLAB Mathematical Analysis is a reference book that presents the techniques of mathematical analysis through examples and exercises resolved with MATLAB software. The purpose is to give you examples of the mathematical analysis functions offered by MATLAB so that you can use them in your daily work regardless of the application. The book supposes proper training in the mathematics and so presents the basic knowledge required to be able to use MATLAB for calculational or symbolic solutions to your problems for a vast amount of MATLAB functions. The book begins by introducing the reader to the use of numbers, operators, variables and functions in the MATLAB environment. Then it delves into working with complex variables. A large section is devoted to working with and developing graphical representations of curves, surfaces and volumes. MATLAB functions allow working with two-dimensional and three-dimensional graphics, statistical graphs, curves and surfaces in explicit, implicit, parametric and polar coordinates. Additional work implements twisted curves, surfaces, meshes, contours, volumes and graphical interpolation. The following part covers limits, functions, continuity and numerical and power series. Then differentiation is addressed in one and several variables including differential theorems for vector fields. Thereafter the topic of integration is handled including improper integrals, definite and indefinite integration, integration in multiple variables and multiple integrals and their applications. Differential equations are exemplified in detail, Laplace transforms, Tayor series, and the Runga-Kutta method and partial differential equations |
3A1655798731.jsonld | Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes Peer Reviews: Russian Federation 2012 : Phase 1: Legal and Regulatory Framework | The Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes is the multilateral framework within which work in the area of tax transparency and exchange of information is carried out by over 100 jurisdictions which participate in the work of the Global Forum on an equal footing. The Global Forum is charged with in-depth monitoring and peer review of the implementation of the standards of transparency and exchange of information for tax purposes. These standards are primarily reflected in the 2002 OECD Model Agreement on Exchange of Information on Tax Matters and its commentary, and in Article 26 of the OECD Model Tax Convention on Income and on Capital and its commentary as updated in 2004, which has been incorporated in the UN Model Tax Convention. The standards provide for international exchange on request of foreseeably relevant information for the administration or enforcement of the domestic tax laws of a requesting party. “Fishing expeditions” are not authorised, but all foreseeably relevant information must be provided, including bank information and information held by fiduciaries, regardless of the existence of a domestic tax interest or the application of a dual criminality standard. All members of the Global Forum, as well as jurisdictions identified by the Global Forum as relevant to its work, are being reviewed. This process is undertaken in two phases. Phase 1 reviews assess the quality of a jurisdiction’s legal and regulatory framework for the exchange of information, while Phase 2 reviews look at the practical implementation of that framework. Some Global Forum members are undergoing combined – Phase 1 plus Phase 2 – reviews. The ultimate goal is to help jurisdictions to effectively implement the international standards of transparency and exchange of information for tax purposes. All review reports are published once approved by the Global Forum and they thus represent agreed Global Forum reports. |
3A1652047697.jsonld | Salivary Glands : Development, Adaptations and Disease | Salivary glands are of utmost importance for several physiological functions ranging from the protection of teeth and surrounding soft tissues to the lubrication of the oral cavity, which is crucial for speech and perception of food taste. This publication highlights specific aspects of salivary gland development, investigating the mechanisms involved in embryonic development, the current research in stem cells, the ability of adult glands to regenerate and the signalling pathways involved in this process. Key stages of salivary gland development, moving from initiation to differentiation of the glands, are discussed, as well as unusual adaptations, ranging from making silk to making venom. The book finally provides new data on surgical techniques and diagnostic tools for clinicians involved in salivary gland disorders. Researchers and students with an interest in craniofacial sciences as well as clinicians dealing with salivary gland disorders will find this publication an excellent source of up-to-date information |
3A729985091.jsonld | Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes Peer Reviews: Germany 2011 : Combined: Phase 1 + Phase 2 | The Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes is the multilateral framework within which work in the area of tax transparency and exchange of information is carried out by over 90 jurisdictions which participate in the work of the Global Forum on an equal footing. The Global Forum is charged with in-depth monitoring and peer review of the implementation of the standards of transparency and exchange of information for tax purposes. These standards are primarily reflected in the 2002 OECD Model Agreement on Exchange of Information on Tax Matters and its commentary, and in Article 26 of the OECD Model Tax Convention on Income and on Capital and its commentary as updated in 2004, which has been incorporated in the UN Model Tax Convention. The standards provide for international exchange on request of foreseeably relevant information for the administration or enforcement of the domestic tax laws of a requesting party. “Fishing expeditions” are not authorised, but all foreseeably relevant information must be provided, including bank information and information held by fiduciaries, regardless of the existence of a domestic tax interest or the application of a dual criminality standard. All members of the Global Forum, as well as jurisdictions identified by the Global Forum as relevant to its work, are being reviewed. This process is undertaken in two phases. Phase 1 reviews assess the quality of a jurisdiction’s legal and regulatory framework for the exchange of information, while Phase 2 reviews look at the practical implementation of that framework. Some Global Forum members are undergoing combined – Phase 1 plus Phase 2 – reviews. The ultimate goal is to help jurisdictions to effectively implement the international standards of transparency and exchange of information for tax purposes. All review reports are published once approved by the Global Forum and they thus represent agreed Global Forum reports. |
3A524932883.jsonld | Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, an Empiricist Approach | Old and new problems of the foundations of quantum mechanics are viewed from the new perspective provided by a generalization of the mathematical formalism encompassing positive operator-valued measures. One objective is to demonstrate the crucial role the generalized formalism plays in fundamental issues as well as in practical applications, and to contribute to the development of the operational approach. A second objective is the development of an empiricist interpretation of this approach, duly taking into account the role played by the measuring instrument in quantum mechanical measurements. Copenhagen and anti-Copenhagen interpretations are critically assessed, and found to be wanting due to insufficiently taking into account the measurement interaction. The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen problem and the problem of the Bell inequalities are discussed, starting from this new perspective. An explanation of violation of the Bell inequalities is developed, providing an alternative to the usual explanation on the basis of non-locality. This treatise is based on lecture notes of an advanced course on the foundations of quantum mechanics. Standard and generalized formalisms of quantum mechanics -- Empiricist and realist interpretations of quantum mechanics -- Quantum mechanical description of measurement, and the “measurement problem” -- The Copenhagen interpretation -- The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen problem -- Individual-particle and ensemble interpretations of quantum mechanics -- Generalized quantum mechanics -- Applications of generalized quantum mechanics -- The Bell inequality in quantum mechanics -- Subquantum or hidden-variables theories. |
3A1699178127.jsonld | Particle Physics Reference Library : Volume 3: Accelerators and Colliders | Accelerators, Colliders and Their Application -- Beam Dynamics -- Non-linear Dynamics in Accelerators -- Impedance and Collective Effects -- Interactions of Beams With Surroundings -- Design Principles for Synchrotrons and Circular Colliders -- Design Principles for Linear Accelerators and Linear Colliders -- Accelerator Engineering and Technology -- Accelerator Operations -- The Largest Accelerators and Colliders of Their Time -- Applications of Accelerators and Storage Rings -- Outlook for the Future -- Cosmic Particle Accelerators. This third open access volume of the handbook series deals with accelerator physics, design, technology and operations, as well as with beam optics, dynamics and diagnostics. A joint CERN-Springer initiative, the “Particle Physics Reference Library” provides revised and updated contributions based on previously published material in the well-known Landolt-Boernstein series on particle physics, accelerators and detectors (volumes 21A,B1,B2,C), which took stock of the field approximately one decade ago. Central to this new initiative is publication under full open access. |
3A485615207.jsonld | Eye on Israel : how America came to view the Jewish state as an ally | Images of the "new Jew" in postwar culture : building on the legacies of antisemitism and the Holocaust -- United States and the founding of Israel : a particularist state with a universal mission -- Views of the new Jewish state : the "Americanization" of Israel -- The 1950s religious revival and "Christianizing" the image of Israel and Jews -- Acceptance and assimilation : Jews in 1950s American culture and politics -- The cold war, Suez, and beyond : cultural images and changing American-Israeli relations in the late 1950s. |
3A644241713.jsonld | Representations of Elizabeth I in early modern culture | Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: 'A monarch in writing'; A.Petrina -- Prologue: 'I am Richard the Second'; S.Orgel -- PART I: THE WORD OF A PRINCE: ELIZABETH WRITING -- The Queen's two hands; J.Gibson -- Mary Stuart's Execution and Queen Elizabeth's Divided Self; P.Baseotto -- 'Ma plume vous pourra exprimer': Elizabeth's French Correspondance ; G.Coatalen -- 'Most peereles Poëtresse': The Manuscript Circulation of Elizabeth's Poems; C.Bajetta -- PART II: WE PRINCES ARE SET ON STAGES: MASQUES AND CEREMONIES OF ROYAL SELF-DISPLAY -- The Monarch as Represented in the Ceremony of Coronation; J.Dillon -- Elizabeth's Presence in the Jacobean Masque; E.Botonaki -- Lady of the Lake or Queen of the Ocean? The Representation of Female Power in Prince Henry's Barriers and Tethys' Festival; S.Trevisan -- PART III: IN MIRRORS MORE THAN ONE: ELIZABETH AND REPRESENTATIONS OF FEMALE SOVEREIGNTY -- Performing the Apocalypse: Sibylline Prophecy and Elizabeth I; J.L.Malay -- Under Italian eyes: Petruccio Ubaldini's Verbal Portraits of Queen Elizabeth; G.Iamartino -- Never a Merry World: The Rhetoric of Nostalgia in Elizabethan England; K.Johanson -- No Country for Old Women?; Y.Oram -- 'A queen in jest': Queenship and Historical Subversion in Shakespeare's 3 Henry VI and Richard III; K.Mudan -- Mirrors for Female Rulers: Elizabeth I and the Duchess of Malfi; L.Tosi -- Index |
3A52668125X.jsonld | Races on display : French representations of colonized peoples 1886 - 1940 | Part 1. On the path to civilization, 1886-1913 -- Overseas empire and race during the Third Republic -- Sub-Saharan Africans: "uncivilized types" -- North Africans: mysterious peoples -- Indochinese: gentle subjects -- Children of France, 1914-1940 -- Introduction to Part 2. -- Sub-Saharan Africans: la force noire -- North Africans: fils aîné -- Indochinese: fils doué -- La mère-patrie and her colonial children: France on display |
3A1667263501.jsonld | The environmental imagination : technics and poetics of the architectural environment | "The Environmental Imagination explores the relationship between tectonics and poetics in environmental design in architecture. Working thematically and chronologically from the eighteenth century to the present day, this book redefines the historiography of environmental design by looking beyond conventional histories to argue that the environments within buildings are a collaboration between poetic intentions and technical means. In a sequence of essays, the book traces a line through works by leading architects of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that illustrate the impact of new technologies on the conception and realisation of environments in buildings. In this, a consideration of the qualitative dimension of environment is added to the primarily technological narratives of other accounts. In this second edition, the book has been substantially rewritten and restructured to include further research conducted in the decade since the first edition. A number of important buildings have been revisited, in order to extend the descriptions of their environments, and studies have been made of a number of newly studied, significant buildings. A completely new essay offers an environmental interpretation of Luis Barrágan's magical own house in Mexico City and the earlier studies of buildings by Peter Zumthor have been gathered into a single, extended essay that includes a body of new research. On the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Reyner Banham's, The Architecture of the Well-tempered Environment, the book concludes with a critical tribute to that seminal text. The Environmental Imagination will appeal to academics and practitioners with interests in the history, theory and technology of architecture"-- |
3A1652232141.jsonld | Economics of war and peace : economic, legal and political perspectives | Economies of War and Peace: Economic, Legal, and Political Perspectives brings together recent, cutting-edge research on economic factors affecting peace and war. This important area of continuing research was the focus of an international conference held at the University of Sydney in June 2009 and these chapters are partly drawn from among the best contributions to that meeting. The book weaves together threads from a number of themes in current research including new theoretical perspectives on the economic foundations of peace, violence and war within countries, connections between international trade and inter-state conflict, and the role of legal/institutional factors in international and internal conflict. Through a focused exploration of these related topics emerge areas of scholarly consensus as well as areas of continued debate. International in scope, it is the only book to explicitly bring together economic, legal and political scholarship to focus on the problem of conflict. It employs a range of modern social science analytical methods, including qualitative cases, econometrics, and game-theoretic models, to rigorously advance understanding of conflict within and between countries. |
3A086331779.jsonld | Rorty & pragmatism : the philosopher responds to his critics | Richard Rorty is a philosopher who has been taken seriously in fields and disciplines far beyond his own. He challenges established forms of philosophical inquiry, particularly epistemology and metaphysics, jettisoning philosophical claims to unchanging truth and to scientific accuracy. His view that philosophy is pragmatic, interpretive, and historicist has brought him both accolades and criticism. In Rorty and Pragmatism, this highly influential and sometimes controversial philosopher responds to several of his most prominent critics, representing a wide range of backgrounds and concerns. Each of these critical challenges raises significant questions about Rorty's philosophical outlook. Whether or not one agrees with all of his positions, his replies are consequential. They provide insight into Rorty's thought, its development, and his sense of the future of philosophy. They further the discussion of the role of philosophy and of its contributions to society |
3A1650435495.jsonld | Beyond Einstein Gravity : A Survey of Gravitational Theories for Cosmology and Astrophysics | Beyond Einstein's Gravity is a graduate level introduction to extended theories of gravity and cosmology, including variational principles, the weak-field limit, gravitational waves, mathematical tools, exact solutions, as well as cosmological and astrophysical applications. The book provides a critical overview of the research in this area and unifies the existing literature using a consistent notation. Although the results apply in principle to all alternative gravities, a special emphasis is on scalar-tensor and f(R) theories. They were studied by theoretical physicists from early on, and in the 1980s they appeared in attempts to renormalize General Relativity and in models of the early universe. Recently, these theories have seen a new lease of life, in both their metric and metric-affine versions, as models of the present acceleration of the universe without introducing the mysterious and exotic dark energy. The dark matter problem can also be addressed in extended gravity. These applications are contributing to a deeper understanding of the gravitational interaction from both the theoretical and the experimental point of view. An extensive bibliography guides the reader into more detailed literature on particular topics. |
3A1651757569.jsonld | Tax Effects on Foreign Direct Investment : Recent Evidence and Policy Analysis | Reports the results of a project examining taxation and foreign direct investment (FDI), with a focus on three areas. Recent empirical studies and models are first reviewed, with the aim of better understanding what factors explain differences in the responsiveness of FDI to taxation, in different country and industry contexts. Second, the publication reports an exchange of views on considerations that are balanced by tax policy makers in the design of rules governing the taxation of inbound and outbound FDI, including increasing pressure to provide “internationally competitive” tax treatment. Third, the publication presents findings from a new framework developed for the project to analyse the implications of tax-planning by multinationals in reducing effective tax rates on cross-border investment. The findings highlight the need to address tax-planning when attempting to measure the “true” tax burden on FDI. |
3A1742257763.jsonld | Macroeconomics | For courses in intermediate macroeconomics. A unified approach to economic theoryDemonstrating a balanced treatment of both classical and Keynesian economics, Macroecomomics presents macroeconomic theory in a big-picture way. Comprehensive coverage makes it easy for instructors to align chapters to fit their own syllabi, and the text helps students analyze real macroeconomic data used by policy makers and researchers. This text takes a unified approach based on a single economics model that provides students with a clear understanding of macroeconomics and its classical and Keynesian assumptions. The 10th Edition features new applications, boxes, and problems throughout. It also reflects recent events and developments in the field, such as the recent crisis in the US and Europe and the many new tools used by the Federal Reserve in response. Pearson MyLab Economics is not included |
3A644810335.jsonld | The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the origins of international criminal law | "This book provides the first comprehensive legal analysis of the twelve war-crimes trials held in the American zone of occupation between 1946 and 1949, collectively known as the Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT). The judgments these Tribunals produced have played a critical role in the development of international criminal law, particularly in terms of how courts currently understand genocide, crimes against humanity, and the crime of aggression. The trials are of tremendous historical importance, because they provide a far more comprehensive picture of Nazi atrocities than the main Nuremberg Trial (IMT). The IMT focused exclusively on the 'major war criminals'-the Goerings, the Hesses, the Speers. The NMT, by contrast, prosecuted doctors, lawyers, judges, industrialists, bankers-the private citizens and lower-level functionaries whose willingness to take part in the destruction of millions of innocents manifested what Hannah Arendt famously called 'the banality of evil'. This book starts by tracing the history of the NMT. It then discusses the law and procedure applied by the NMT, with a focus on the important differences between Control Council Law No. 10 and the Nuremberg Charter and on the protection of the defendants' right to a fair trial. The third section, the heart of the book, provides a systematic analysis of the NMT's jurisprudence. It covers Law No. 10's core crimes, crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, as well as the crimes of conspiracy and membership of a criminal organization. This section also analyzes the general principles of liability that the Tribunals applied and on the defenses they did -and did not- recognize. The final section of the book deals with the aftermath of the trials and their historical legacy"-- |
3A1018479775.jsonld | Leben erzählen - Leben verstehen : Dimensionen der Biografieforschung und Narrativer Interviews für die Erwachsenenbildung | "Over the past few years, narrative research as central method for empirical social research has broadened the view of interdisciplinary approaches. This also benefits the adult education research, as for example within the areas of literacy and basic education.The exploration of (auto)biographical narrative styles and structures contributes greatly to the understanding of learning biographies. In this book the author combines several international studies and links them to issues from within adult education research. The studies thereby capture neurobiological, philosophical and pedagogical perspectives of narrative structures. They reveal links between biographies and educational processes and allow for the initiation of new teaching/learning settings |
3A1011743612.jsonld | Economics of happiness | This book focuses on what makes people happy. The author explains methods for measuring subjective life satisfaction and well-being by discussing economic and sociodemographic factors, as well as the psychological, cultural and political dimensions of personal happiness. Does higher income increase happiness? Are people in rich countries, such as the United States, the United Kingdom and Scandinavian countries, happier than those living elsewhere? Does losing one’s job make one unhappy? What is the role of genetic endowments inherited from our parents? How important are physical and emotional health to subjective life satisfaction? Do older people tend to be happier, or younger people? Are close social relationships necessary for happiness? Do political conditions, such as respect for human rights, democracy and autonomy, play a part? How can governments contribute to the population’s happiness? This book answers these questions on the basis of extensive interdisciplinary research reflecting the current state of knowledge. The book will appeal to anyone interested in learning more about the various dimensions of personal well-being beyond the happiness-prosperity connection, as well as to policymakers looking for guidance on how to improve happiness in societies. |
3A1042461082.jsonld | Aufbruch in die Öffentlichkeit? : Reflexionen zum 'public turn' in der Religionspädagogik | The public religious education is lacking critique of the term »the public«. This book analytically disposes this desideratum, processing it constructively Die Religionspädagogik wird in zunehmendem Maße öffentlich. Damit reiht sie sich in den 'public turn' der Wissenschaften ein, wie er derzeit in der Soziologie, der Theologie oder den Erziehungswissenschaften zu beobachten ist. Bernhard Grümme zeigt: Was in den verheißungsvollen Aufbrüchen der öffentlichen Religionspädagogik unterbleibt, ist das Bedenken des Öffentlichkeitsbegriffs selbst. Es fehlt vor allem eine Kritik seiner Konstruktionsmechanismen, was dazu führt, dass die Religionspädagogik weder ihr kritisch-konstruktives Potenzial ausloten noch ihre eigenen Verwicklungen in hegemoniale Strukturen von Macht und Exklusion selbstkritisch reflektieren kann |
3A616586574.jsonld | Global conservation of forest biodiversity : options for a forest protected area network under the CBD | "Deforestation and forest degradation are two of the main causes of the progressing loss of terrestrial biodiversity and are continuing at an alarming rate worldwide, especially in tropical countries. The underlying drivers of forest destruction vary from region to region, but can be linked mainly to human activities such as land use pressure and related policies. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) considers protected areas (PA) as a cornerstone in its strategy for reducing the current loss of species and habitats in all types of ecosystems and therefore calls for a global PA network. Recognising the unsatisfactory spatial coverage and degree of effectiveness of existing PA in forests (FPA), the 9th Conference of the Parties to the CBD (COP9) reconfirmed the importance of national and regional FPA networks and the sustainable financing of FPA. Forests require particular attention regarding conservation due to their exceptional biodiversity, large cover area and their role in the adaptation and mitigation of global climate change. The present report has the objective of supporting the implementation of the recent COP9 decision on FPA through scientific analyses and practical policy-advice. Based on the evaluation of existing concepts for the selection, management and financing of FPA, it develops recommendations for the creation of a global FPA network. The character of the proposed network is discussed and suggestions are made for its realisation under the CBD, in particular concerning FPA selection, financing mechanisms and implementation."--Publisher's description |
3A1742258107.jsonld | Research methods for business students | This accessible and clearly written textbook provides a comprehensive and in-depth treatment of philosophical, methodological and ethical aspects of conducting business and management research. Illustrative case studies drawing on published research studies are used throughout and readers are given multiple opportunities to consolidate their learning through review and discussion questions, quizzes, and other exercises. At the end of each chapter a case study takes the reader through the realities and practicalities of applying the knowledge to a specific student research project. This will be an invaluable guide for all students seeking to understand and undertake business and management research. Professor Natasha Mauthner, Newcastle University With over 400,000 copies sold, Research Methods for Business Students, is the definitive and market-leading textbook for Business and Management students conducting a research-led project or dissertation. The fully revised 8th edition answers key questions such as: How do I choose my topic and design the research Why is research philosophy relevant to my research How do I collect and analyse my data When and what do I need to write With the 8th edition you will discover: ü Fully updated chapters incorporating visual methods throughout, detailed insights on drafting the critical literature review, the latest EU data protection regulations, using audio recordings and visual images in observation research, collecting data using diaries, the use of online survey tools, and preparing and presenting an academic poster ü New cases using up-to-date scenarios at the end of each chapter ü Boxed examples throughout of research methods in the news, from student research and in published management research ü A glossary of clear definitions of over 700 research-related terms ü Practical guidance and opportunities for checking your learning and self-reflection to enable you to progress your own research ü Detailed chapters on choosing your topic, critically reviewing the literature, understanding philosophies, research design, access and ethics, secondary data, data collection methods and analysis techniques and writing about and presenting your research ü Teach yourself guides to research software available at www.pearsoned.co.uk/saunders with practice data sets About the authors Mark NK Saunders is Professor of Business Research Methods and Director of Postgraduate Research Programmes at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham. Philip Lewis was a Principal Lecturer and Adrian Thornhill was a Head of Department, both at the University of Gloucestershire |
3A1663175535.jsonld | The pragmatics of executive coaching | The Pragmatics of Executive Coaching' is the first linguistic monograph on executive coaching, a recent, not fully professionalized, yet booming helping professional format in the organizational realm. The book is positioned at the interface between applied linguistic analysis and the activity of coaching, coupled with its structuring professional theory. It presents the Basic Activity Model of coaching, a model for the qualitative analysis and description of the discursive co-construction of coaching by coach and client within and across individual coaching sessions and whole processes. The analysis is based on 150 hours of authentic data from the coaching approach Emotionally Intelligent Coaching and presents coaching as hybrid and interdiscursive helping professional format. The gained insights into the discursive layout of coaching interactions advance our linguistic understanding of helping professions as such, contribute to the theoretical and methodological underpinning of coaching and help promote the coaching practice Acknowledgements -- Transcription conventions -- 1. Coaching and linguistics: an introduction -- 2. Executive coaching -- 3. Emotions and emotionally intelligent coaching -- 4. The basic activity model of executive coaching -- 5. Defining the situation -- 6. Building the relationship -- 7. Co-constructing change -- 8. Evaluating the coaching -- 9. Executive coaching: a hybrid and interdiscursive professional format -- References -- Index |
3A525106189.jsonld | Information systems and technology education : from the university to the workplace | "This book presents a multifaceted, global view of the human dynamics of education, supply, demand, and career development in the information systems and technology industry. It provides a tool to meet the challenges of providing improved education and employing an optimal supply of information systems and technology graduates in the decades to come"--Provided by publisher |
3A1879354829.jsonld | Chemistry's metaphysics | The place of chemistry in the metaphysics of science may be viewed as peripheral compared to physics and biology. However, a metaphysics of science that disregards chemistry would be incomplete and ill-informed. This Element establishes this claim by showing how key metaphysical issues are informed by drawing on chemistry. Five metaphysical topics are investigated: natural kinds, scientific realism, reduction, laws and causation. These topics are spelled out from the perspective of ten chemical case studies, each of which illuminates the novel ways that metaphysics of science can be informed by chemistry. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. -- Provided by publisher |
3A1779890486.jsonld | UX research methods for media and communication studies : an introduction to contemporary qualitative methods | "A comprehensive guide to qualitative research methods in user experience (UX), the interaction between humans and digital products, designed for media and communication students. Angela M. Cirucci and Urszula M. Pruchniewska provide an accessible introduction to the field (including the history of UX and common UX design terminology). Readers are taken through the entire research design process, with an outline for preparing a study (including a planning template), a discussion of recruitment techniques, an exploration of ethics considerations, and a detailed breakdown of 12 essential UX research methods. The 12 methods covered include emotional journeys, screenshot diaries, walkthroughs, contextual inquiry, card sorting, and usability testing, and each methods chapter includes a step-by-step breakdown, discussions of in-person vs. virtual procedures, and a "What You Need" section. Throughout the book, useful parallels are drawn between traditional academic research methods and UX methods, and special attention is paid to diversity and inclusivity. This is an essential text for media and communications students wishing to become familiar with UX research methods, a rapidly growing field that will open numerous exciting career paths for graduates"-- |
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