Whether you're a project manager, engineer, inventor, student, professional consultant, or executive, you need to know if structures are strong enough to do their jobs and maintain the safety of the public. He provides a comprehensive explanation of the four steps that must be undertaken to assess the structure safely: finding the loads and forces it must endure; applying some safety factors; finding the structural details and calculating the stresses; comparing the stresses to the material strengths. He does this all without requiring readers to do extensive mathematics, and he also outlines when it's time to seek help from a professional consultant to answer that critical question: Is it Strong Enough?"

Endocrine surgery - the subspecialty of general surgery involving diseases of the thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal glands as well as the endocrine pancreas - is a rapidly growing field of medicine that has a rich and fascinating history. As recently as the mid-19th Century, surgery for thyroid goiter was described as "horrid butchery" and believed by many to be too dangerous for any surgeon to attempt. Through the ingenuity and tireless efforts of surgeons in Europe and the U.S., thyroidectomy became a safe and even elegant operation, one that renowned Johns Hopkins surgeon William Halsted would describe in 1926 as representing "the supreme triumph of the surgeon's art." In this unique and captivating book, these and other seminal stories from the history of endocrine surgery are vividly retold by the current leaders in the field.

En este su primer libro, el Dr. Silverio Salinas nos ensena su metodo 100% natural para auto ayudarse a sanar practicamente casi cualquier tipo de dolor. Adios al dolor es un manual practico donde aprenderas a reconocer cuales son las causas primarias y secundarias de tus dolores y malestares. Aprenderas a eliminar dichas causas y a restaurar tu salud y bienestar en forma natural y sencilla. Adios al dolor te muestra la lista de alimentos que pudieran estar causando tus dolores y como los metales que usamos como joyas y trabajos dentales pudieran tambien ser la causa primaria de nuestros dolores. En "Adios al dolor" encontraras la lista blanca de alimentos naturales y nutritivos que te ayudaran en el proceso de eliminar tus dolores. Tambien encontraras una serie de ejercicios para promover la salud y eliminar el sedentarismo. Lo mas interesante y practico de este manual es la tecnica de auriculo masaje (auto-masaje) que hallaras casi al final del libro para que, practicandola, te ayudes tu mismo a aliviar tus dolores. Otra manera rapida de auto ayudarse a aliviar el dolor es la tecnica de magnetos con polaridad Norte que hallaras en el capitulo sobre magnetos contra el dolor. En esta tercera edicion, corregida, mejorada y aumentada, el Dr. Silverio Salinas comparte contigo su experiencia de 25 anos y mas de 50 mil consultas en diversos paises para ensenarte como liberarte definitivamente y para siempre de tus dolores. En 1997 y 1998 presento publicamente su tecnica de Auriculo Analgesia en los dos Networks de TV hispanos mas grandes del mundo, Telemundo y Univision donde el autor libero del dolor a un par de miles de personas con solo presionar puntos de analgesia en el oido. Si eres una persona que padece de cualquier condicion o problema de salud que curse con dolor de cualquier naturaleza, cronicidad o intensidad, entonces "Adios al dolor. Por fin, la solucion natural al dolor humano" es para ti. Para que aprendas a eliminar el dolor de una vez por todas y para siempre.

This book investigates the role of the Latin language as a vehicle for science and learning from several angles. First, the question what was understood as 'science' through time and how it is named in different languages, especially the Classical ones, is approached. Criteria for what did pass as scientific are found that point to 'science' as a kind of Greek Denkstil based on pattern-finding and their unbiased checking. In a second part, a brief diachronic panorama introduces schools of thought and authors who wrote in Latin from antiquity to the present. Latin's heydays in this function are clearly the time between the twelfth and eighteenth centuries. Some niches where it was used longer are examined and reasons sought why Latin finally lost this lead-role. A third part seeks to define the peculiar characteristics of scientific Latin using corpus linguistic approaches. As a result, several types of scientific writing can be identified. The question of how to transfer science from one linguistic medium to another is never far: Latin inherited this role from Greek and is in turn the ancestor of science done in the modern vernaculars. At the end of the study, the importance of Latin science for modern science in English becomes evident.

South Africa's recent higher education protests around fees and decolonizing institutions have shone a spotlight on important issues and inspired global discussion. The educational space was the most affected by clashes between languages and ideas, the prioritizing of English and Afrikaans over indigenous African languages, and the prioritizing of Western medicine, literature, arts, culture, and science over African ones. Ethical Research Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge Education is a cutting-edge scholarly resource that examines forthcoming methodologies and strategies on educational reform and the updating of curricula to accurately reflect cultural shifts. The book examines the bias and problems that bias creates in educational systems around the world that have been dominated by Western forms of knowledge and scientific processes. Featuring a range of topics such as andragogy, indigenous knowledge, and marginalized students, this book is ideal for education professionals, practitioners, curriculum designers, academicians, researchers, administrators, and students.

What does it mean to be a conservative in Republican China? Challenging the widely held view that Chinese conservatism set out to preserve traditional culture and was mainly a cultural movement, this book proposes a new framework with which to analyze modern Chinese conservatism. It identifies late Qing culturalist nationalism, which incorporates traditional culture into concrete political reforms inspired by modern Western politics, as the origin of conservatism in the Republican era. During the May Fourth period, New Culture activists belittled any attempts to reintegrate traditional culture with modern politics as conservative. What conservatives in Republican China stood for was essentially this late Qing culturalist nationalism that rejected squarely the museumification of traditional culture. Adopting a typological approach in order to distinguish different types of conservatism by differentiating various political implications of traditional culture, this book divides the Chinese conservatism of the Republican era into four typologies: liberal conservatism, antimodern conservatism, philosophical conservatism, and authoritarian conservatism. As such, this book captures - for the first time - how Chinese conservatism was in constant evolution, while also showing how its emblematic figures reacted differently to historical circumstances.

The research into how students' attitudes affect learning of science related subjects have been one of the core areas of interest by science educators. The development in science education records various attempts in measuring attitudes and determining the correlations between behaviour, achievements, career aspirations, gender identity and cultural inclination. Some researchers noted that attitudes can be learned and teachers can encourage students to like science subjects through persuasion. But some view that attitude is situated in context and it is much to do with upbringing and environment. The critical role of attitude is well recognized in advancing science education, in particular designing curriculum and choosing powerful pedagogies and nurturing students. Since Noll' (1935) seminal work on measuring the scientific attitudes, a steady stream of research papers that describe development and validation of scales appear in scholarly publications. Despite these efforts the progress in this area has been stagnated by limited understanding of the conception about attitude, dimensionality and inability to determine the multitude of variables that made up such concept. This book makes an attempt to take stock and critically examine the classical views on science attitudes and explore the contemporary attempts in measuring science related attitudes. The chapters in this book are reflection of researchers who work tirelessly in promoting science education and will illuminate the current trends and future scenarios in attitude measurement.

The effects of vortical mean flows on the propagation of acoustic waves are numerous, from simple convection effects to instabilities in the acoustic phenomena, including absorption, reflection and refraction effects. Therefore, the role of vorticity in acoustic propagation besides noise generation has been a subject of controversial discussions since the foundation of aeroacoustics. In this work, a theoretical study with subsequent industrial applications has been performed, concerning the derivation of a family of scalar operators for aeroacoustics based in total enthalpy terms and including mean vorticity effects in the propagation.