The Map is a practical guidebook introducing the basics of research in translation studies for students doing their first major research project in the field. Depending on where they are studying, this may be at advanced undergraduate (BA) or at postgraduate (MA/PHD) level.

The book consists of ten chapters. Chapter 1 offers an overview of 12 research areas in translation studies in order to help students identify a topic and establish some of the current research questions relating to it. Chapter 2 is designed to assist students in planning their research project and covers topics such as refining the initial idea, determining the scope of the project, checking out resources, reading critically, keeping complete bibliographic records, and working with a supervisor. Chapters 3 to 7 provide some of the conceptual and methodological tools needed in this area of research, with detailed discussion of such topics as theoretical models of translation, types of research, asking questions, making claims, formulating hypotheses, establishing relations between variables, and selecting and analyzing data. Chapters 8 and 9 are about presenting one's research, in writing as well as orally. Finally, chapter 10 deals with some of the criteria commonly used in research assessment, especially in the assessment of theses. The authors provide detailed guidance on further reading throughout.

This is an essential reference work for research students and lecturers involved in supervising research projects and degrees.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Areas in Translation Research Areas in Translation Research

Chapter 2: From the Initial Idea to the Plan

Chapter 3:Theoretical Models of Translation

Chapter 4: Kinds of Research

Chapter 5: Questions, Claims, Hypotheses

Chapter 6: Relations between Variables

Chapter 7: Selecting and Analyzing Data

Chapter 8: Writing Your Research Report

Chapter 9: Presenting Your Research Orally

Chapter 10: Assessing Your Research

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This new edition of a classic work offers a concise introduction to the sociology of fashion, and demystifies the workings of the fashion system. From the origins of fashion studies and the difference between clothing and fashion, through to an examination of 21st century subcultures, and the impact of the digital age on designers, Fashion-ology explores fashion as a global, institutionalized system. With accessible overviews of key debates, issues and perspectives, Yuniya Kawamura provides a complete exploration of the field. Two two new chapters have been added for this third edition, covering ‘The Diversification and Changing Landscapes of Fashion Systems’ and ‘Ecological and Social Sustainability in Fashion’ respectively. There's also more on: - the metaverse as the latest fashion system - the de-Westernization of fashion - postmodern discourse on fashion's relationship to race, gender and class - social media as consumption, production, evaluation, and marketing - fashion weeks, including Modest Fashion Week, Black Fashion Week, the Global Sustainability Fashion Week, and Queer Fashion Week There's also a guide to sociological research in fashion, making this essential reading for anyone studying fashion, sociology, anthropology, or cultural studies.

On Learning from the Patient is concerned with the potential for psychoanalytic thinking to become self-perpetuating. Patrick Casement explores the dynamics of the helping relationship - learning to recognize how patients offer cues to the therapeutic experience that they are unconsciously in search of. Using many telling clinical examples, he illustrates how, through trial identification, he has learned to monitor the implications of his own contributions to a session from the viewpoint of the patient. He shows how, with the aid of this internal supervision, many initial failures to respond appropriately can be remedied and even used to the benefit of the therapeutic work. By learning to better distinguish what helps the therapeutic process from what hinders it, ways are discovered to avoid the circularity of pre-conception by analysts who aim to understand the unconscious of others. From this lively examination of key clinical issues, the author comes to see psychoanalytic therapy as a process of re-discovering theory - and developing a technique that is more specifically related to the individual patient.

The dynamics illustrated here, particularly the processes of interactive communication and containment, occur in any helping relationship and are applicable throughout the caring professions. Patrick Casement's unusually frank presentation of his own work, aided by his lucid and non-technical language, allows wide scope for readers to form their own ideas about the approach to technique he describes.

This Classic Edition includes a new introduction to the work by Andrew Samuels and together with its sequel Further Learning from the Patient, will be an invaluable training resource for trainee and practising analysts or therapists, and those teaching in related professions.

Table of Contents

Samuels, Introduction. Williams, Foreword. Casement, Introduction. Preliminary Thoughts on Learning From the Patient. The Internal Supervisor. Internal Supervision: A Lapse and Recovery. Forms of Interactive Communication. Listening From an Interactional Viewpoint: A Clinical Presentation. Key Dynamics of Containment. Analytic Holding Under Pressure. Processes of Search and Discovery in the Therapeutic Experience. The Search for Space: An Issue of Boundaries. Theory Re-discovered. Appendix I Knowing and Not-knowing: Winnicott and Bion.Appendix II The Issues of Confidentiality and of Exposure by the Therapist.

This book explores, at a time when several powers have become serious players on the continent, aspects of African agency, past and present, by African writers on foreign policy, representative of geography, language and state size.

In the past, African foreign policy has largely been considered within the context of reactions to the international or global “external factor”. This groundbreaking book, however, looks at how foreign policy has been crafted and used in response not just to external, but also, mainly, domestic imperatives or (theoretical) signifiers. As such, it narrates individual and changing foreign policy orientations over time—and as far back as independence—with mainly African-based scholars who present their own constructs of what is a useful theoretical narrative regarding foreign policy on the continent—how theory is adapted to local circumstance or substituted for continentally based ontologies. The book therefore contends that the African experience carries valuable import for expanding general understandings of foreign policy in general.

This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of Foreign Policy Analysis, Foreign Policy Studies, African International Relations/Politics/Studies, Diplomacy and more broadly to International Relations.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Paul-Henri Bischoff

2. What Next? Past and present African foreign policy concepts and practices

Paul-Henri Bischoff

3. The African Union as a Foreign Policy Player: African Agency in International Cooperation

Tshepo Gwatiwa

4. Unprincipled Pragmatism and Anti-Imperialist Impulses in an Interconnected World: The Zuma Presidency, 2009-2017

Mzukisi Qobo

5. Towards A Strategic Culture Approach to Understanding and Conceptualising Ethiopia’s Foreign Policy Towards Israel and the Middle Eastern Arab Countries

Makonnen Tesfaye

6.Nigeria’s Foreign Policy and Intervention Behaviour in Africa: What Role for Agency?

Olumuyiwa Amao

7. Zimbabwe and New Signifiers: Towards a cultural political economy of Foreign Policy Making

Mike Mavura

8. Realist Conceptions of Kenya’s Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Behaviour: A Theoretical and Contextual Disposition

Korwa Gombe Adar and Mercy Kathambi Kaburu

9. Addressing the Conceptual Void of African Small State Foreign Policy in Orthodox Theory: A Case Study of Botswana's Principled Pragmatism

Kabelo M. Mahupela

10. Tunisia’s Foreign Policy Towards France Before and After an Undemanding ‘Revolution’: A Theoretical Explanation of the An-Nahdha-led Interim Governments’ Soft Policy

Ahmed Ali Salem

11. Straddling Between Convergence and Divergence: A Constructivist’s View of Malawi’s Foreign Policy in Post-independence Africa

Eugenio Njoloma

12. Strategies of a Small State Between Realism and Liberalism: Sixty Years of Guinea’s Diplomacy and Foreign Policy (1958-2018)

Issaka K. Souaré

13. Rethinking SADC: A mixed actor approach to collective policymaking on external relations

Cecilia Lwiindi Nedziwe

14. Towards an Understanding of the Interplay Between Ghana’s Foreign and Defence Policies

Kwesi Aning and Kwaku Danso

15. Conclusion

Paul-Henri Bischoff/

This new edition builds on the success of the first edition. It has been enhanced to embrace new topics including Due Dilgence, EHS Auditing, Process Safety, Auditing, and a chapter summarizing auditing with the relevant ISO standards. The rest of the book has been updated to fit with the guidance and requirements set out with the changes in the ISO standards. The goal of this book remains the same, to provide a "down to earth" guidance for managers and specialists in organizations who are committed to improving their safety, health and environmental performance, but are not sure where to start or do not wish to employ consultants to do this for them. They do it themselves using this book.

Electronic software and additional materials available upon request.

Features

Integrates the concepts of safety health and environmental auditing into a common approach of "loss prevention"

Provides an audit protocol for 60 aspects of safety, health, and environmental management

Presents a summary of the requirements of ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 to auditing

Introduces the novel and unique concept of Auditing Convergence

Offers a simple auditing software (The Plaudit II audit process) in an electronic program which no other book on this topic can offer

Table of Contents

Preface

About the Author

Chapter 1 Elements of a Good Safety, Health and Environmental System

Chapter 2 Management Systems

Chapter 3 Auditing: The Principles

Chapter 4 What Makes a Good Auditor?

Chapter 5 The Standard or Requirement

Chapter 6 Preparation

Chapter 7 Protocols and Checklists

Chapter 8 The Entry Meeting

Chapter 9 Area Familiarisation

Chapter 10 Audit Observation Skills

Chapter 11 The Formal Discussion

Chapter 12 The Informal Discussion

Chapter 13 Statistical Significance

Chapter 14 The Importance of Verification and the Audit Trail

Chapter 15 Conformity

Chapter 16 Documentary Review

Chapter 17 Convergence

Chapter 18 The Exit Meeting

Chapter 19 Audit Uniformity and Credibility

Chapter 20 Auditor Training

Chapter 21 Managing Auditee Expectations

Chapter 22 Auditing and Its Relevance to Regulatory Compliance

Chapter 23 Reporting: Quantitative Assessment

Chapter 24 Reporting: Qualitative Assessment

Chapter 25 Follow-Up

Chapter 26 Choosing the Audit Process

Chapter 27 Audit Team Composition

Chapter 28 Using the Plaudit 2 Process

Chapter 29 Using the Plaudit 2 Protocol Software

Chapter 30 Process Safety Audits

Chapter 31 EHS Aspects of Due Diligence Audits

Chapter 32 International EHS Auditing Standards

Glossary

Appendix 1: Auditor Guidance

Appendix 2: Plaudit 2 Audit Protocol

Index/

Bringing together industry experts from across platforms and journalism specialisms, Convergent Journalism: An Introduction is the pioneering textbook on practicing journalism in today’s multimedia landscape.

Convergent Journalism combines practical skills with a solid ethical framework. Each chapter is written by an expert in the field and features lively examples, exercises and breakout boxes to aid learning and retention. Written from the perspective of a responsible and audience-centric form of journalism and demonstrating ways journalists can use new media tools as both senders and receivers, this fourth edition features:

Completely revised chapters on social media, digital journalism, and law

Additional discussion questions and exercises in every chapter

Updated examples throughout

This book is an invaluable resource for students enrolled in courses such as Convergent Journalism, Digital Media, Online Journalism, and Multimedia Journalism.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 The Current Journalism Landscape

Vincent F. Filak

Chapter 2 Writing across Platforms

Glenn Hubbard

Chapter 3 Finding Stories

Brian R. Sheridan

Chapter 4 Reporting beyond the Basics

Scott Reinardy

Chapter 5 Structure and Storytelling

Vincent F. Filak

Chapter 6 Photography

Timothy R. Gleason

Chapter 7 Information Graphics

Jennifer George-Palilonis

Chapter 8 Audio and Video Journalism

Erika Engstrom and David Stephenson

Chapter 9 Data Journalism

Peter Bobkowski

Chapter 10 Social Media

Kristine M. Nicolini

Chapter 11 Multimedia Journalism

Steven Chappell

Chapter 12 The Law and Convergent Journalism

Daxton R. “Chip” Stewart

Chapter 13 Ethics in the Digital Age

Tracy Everbach

About the Authors

Index

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Nowadays, genetics focuses on DNA. Just like the first edition, the theme of this new edition, Introduction to Genetics: A Molecular Approach, is therefore the progression from molecules (DNA and genes) to processes (gene expression and DNA replication) to systems (cells, organisms and populations). This progression reflects both the basic logic of life and the way in which modern biological research is structured. The molecular approach is particularly suitable for students for whom genetics is part of a broader program in biology, biochemistry, the biomedical sciences or biotechnology. This book presents the basic facts and concepts with enough depth of knowledge to stimulate students to move on to more advanced aspects of the subject.

This second edition has been thoroughly updated to cover new discoveries and developments in genetics from the last ten years. There are new chapters that introduce important techniques such as DNA sequencing and gene editing, and the applications of genetics in our modern world are covered in chapters describing topics as diverse as gene therapy and the use of ancient DNA to study prehistoric ecosystems.

Key Features:

This book provides a molecular approach to the study of genetics.

It is a highly accessible and well-structured book with chapters organized into four parts to aid navigation.

It presents high-quality illustrations to elucidate the various concepts and mechanisms.

Each chapter ends with a Key Concepts section, which serves to summarize the most essential points.

Self-study questions enable the reader to assess their comprehension of chapter content, and discussion topics facilitate a deeper understanding of the material by encouraging conversation and critical evaluation.

Key terms are emboldened throughout the text and are listed at the end of each chapter, and definitions can be found in the Glossary.

For instructors who adopt the book, an affiliated question bank is free to download.

Table of Contents

1. What is Genetics and Why is it So Important?

PART 1. GENES AS UNITS OF BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION

2. DNA

3. Genes

4. Transcription of DNA to RNA

5. Types of RNA Molecule: Messenger RNA

6. Types of RNA Molecule: Ribosomal and Transfer RNA

7. The Genetic Code

8. Protein Synthesis

9. Control of Gene Expression

10. DNA Replication

11. Mutation and DNA Repair

PART 2. GENES AS UNITS OF INHERITANCE

12. Inheritance of Genes during Virus Infection Cycles

13. Inheritance of Genes in Bacteria

14. Inheritance of Genes during Eukaryotic Cell Division

15. Inheritance of Genes during Eukaryotic Sexual Reproduction

16. Inheritance of Genes in Populations

PART 3. HOW GENES ARE STUDIED

17 Mapping the Positions of Genes in Chromosomes

18 Sequencing Genes and Genomes

PART 4. GENETICS IN OUR MODERN WORLD

19. Genes in Differentiation and Development

20. The Human Genome

21. Genes and Medicine

22. DNA in Forensic Genetics and Technology

23. Genes in Industry and Agriculture

24. The Ethical Issues Raised by Modern Genetics

Globally, environmental impact assessment (EIA) is one of the most enduring and influential environmental management tools. This handbook provides readers with a strong foundation for understanding the practice of EIA, by outlining the different types of assessment while also providing a guide to best practice.

This collection deploys a research and practice-based approach to the subject, delivering an overview of EIA as an essential and practical tool of environmental protection, planning, and policy. To best understand the most pertinent issues and challenges surrounding EIA today, this volume draws together prominent researchers, practitioners, and young scholars who share their work and knowledge to cover two key parts. The first part introduces EIA processes and best practices through analytical and critical chapters on the stages/elements of the EIA process and different components and forms of assessment. These provide examples that cover a wide range of assessment methods and cross-cutting issues, including cumulative effects assessment, social impact assessment, Indigenous-led assessment, risk assessment, climate change, and gender-based assessment. The second part provides jurisdictional reviews of the European Union, the US National Environmental Policy Act, recent assessment reforms in Canada, EIA in developing economies, and the EIA context in England.

By providing a concise outline of the process followed by in-depth illustrations of approaches, methods and tools, and case studies, this book will be essential for students, scholars, and practitioners of environmental impact assessment.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Types of Assessment, Issues, and Practices

A brief introduction to environmental impact assessment

Kevin Hanna and Lauren Arnold

Strategic environmental assessment: one name multiple concepts

Maria Partidario

Cumulative effects assessment

Bram Noble

Social impact assessment

Anne Merrild Hansen

Risk assessment and risk management

Ayla De Grandpre and Karaline Reimer

Sustainability assessment principles and practices

Angus Morrison Saunders, Jenny Pope, Alan Bond, and Francois Retief

Climate change in environmental assessment

Alexandra Jiricka-Pürrer and Thomas B Fischer

Health impact assessment

Chris Buse

Environmental Impact Assessment and Disaster Risk Management

Troy McMillan

Regional assessment

Lauren Arnold, Chris Buse, Rob Friberg, Bram Noble, and Kevin Hanna

Gender-based analysis and environmental impact assessments: Challenges and opportunities for transformative approaches

Priya Bala-Miller, Nicole Peletz, and Kevin Hanna

Geographic information sciences in environmental impact Assessment: applications and opportunities

Mathieu Bourbonnais

Indigenous impact assessment

Alistair Macdonald and Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh

Innovative approaches to achieving meaningful public participation in next generation impact assessment

John Sinclair, Alan P. Diduck, and John R. Parkins

Part 2. Jurisdictional Profiles

EIA best practice for the developing world: What does it mean?

Francois Retief, Reece C Alberts, Claudine Roos, and Dirk P Cilliers

The European Union Environmental Impact Assessment Directive: current practice and challenges for the future

Gesa Geißler, Johann Köppel, and Marie Grimm

The US National Environmental Policy Act

Matt Lindstrom and Ben West

Environmental assessment in England

Josh Fothergill and Thomas B Fischer

Environmental assessment reform in Canada

Jeffrey Nishima-Miller/

This book covers the application of psychological principles and techniques to situations and problems of aviation. It offers an overview of the role psychology plays in aviation, system design, selection and training of pilots, characteristics of pilots, safety, and passenger behavior. It covers concepts of psychological research and data analysis and shows how these tools are used in the development of new psychological knowledge. The new edition offers material on physiological effects on pilot performance, a new chapter on aviation physiology, more material on fatigue, safety culture, mental health and safety, as well as practical examples and exercises after each chapter.

Table of Contents

Introduction. Research Methods and Statistics. Aviation Physiology. Abilities and Personality Traits. Personnel Selection. Training. Human Factors and the Design of Aviation Systems. Stress and Human Reactions. Culture, Organizations and Leadership. Aeronautical Decision-Making. Aviation Safety. Concluding Remarks.

Corporate Finance: The Basics is a concise introduction to the inner workings of finance at the company level. It aims to take the fear out of corporate finance and add the fun in, presenting the subject in a way that is simple to grasp and easy to digest. Its aim is to explain – and demystify – the essential ideas of corporate finance, avoiding the heavy use of maths and formulae. The calculations and figures in the book are purely to illustrate fundamental concepts, appealing to readers’ common sense, rather than stretching their ability to do "number-crunching".

This fully revised edition takes into account the most recent developments in the corporate financial landscape, including: the longer-term ramifications of the 2008 financial crisis, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, rising inflation and the current economic climate, and the effect of environmental, social and governance (ESG) on a company’s financial decisions. A brand-new chapter which seeks to answer the question of how to manage growing businesses from a finance perspective is also included.

Through the use of a subject map, this book explains how the key components of the subject are connected with each other, strengthening the reader’s understanding. This book is the ideal introduction for anyone looking for a short yet scholarly overview of corporate finance.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Financial Statements 2. Financial Decisions and Investment Criteria 3. Free Cash Flows 4. Net Working Capital Management 5. Debt 6. Equity 7. Mergers and Acquisitions (I) 8. Mergers and Acquisitions (II) 9. Corporate Finance for Growing Businesses 10. Corporate Finance: The Big Picture

Entrepreneurship and innovation play a vital role in fostering sustainable development. Advances in technology and communications have both transformed the process of business and strengthened the role of entrepreneurship in developed and developing countries. This new edition of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Sustainable Growth provides the fundamental concepts and applications for faculty and students in this field, and also serves as a professional reference for practicing entrepreneurs and policymakers.

Each chapter provides a clear guide to the conceptual and practical elements that characterize entrepreneurship and the process of new venture formation, including functional strategies in key areas such as marketing, information technology, human resources management, and accounting and finance. Updated throughout to take account of recent developments in topics such as environmental impacts, diversity and inclusion, and COVID-19, the book is a comprehensive and holistic approach to the theory, policy, and practice of entrepreneurship and innovation. Keeping practicality as the book’s core aim, all chapters include a long case study to set the scene and then draw upon shorter cases from both developing and developed countries to reinforce key learning objectives and the real-world application of the book’s core concepts.

With new questions and exercises presented throughout in order to encourage discussion and problem-solving, quick summaries of the important concepts and definitions, and extensive support for lecturers and students, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Sustainable Growth, Second Edition, is ideal for students at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Entrepreneurial discovery, creationary, and business model development; SECTION I The environment and entrepreneurship 1 Entrepreneurship and development in the era of globalization; 2 Culture, entrepreneurship, and development; 3 Technology, communications, and entrepreneurship; SECTION II Individual characteristics and training 4 Personality, experience, and training; 5 Creativity, innovation, and development; SECTION III The organization 6 Institutions, governance, and strategy; 7 Ethics and corporate social responsibility; SECTION IV Process 8 Sustainability as a strategy for business operation; 9 Marketing, technology, and entrepreneurship; 10 Financing opportunities and challenges; 11 Essentials of bookkeeping; 12 Cases

Integrated management systems (IMS) are an innovative way of handling the plethora of management functions and procedures that are applied throughout major construction projects. Contracting companies use management systems to shape and define the corporate arrangement of their business activities, translating these into operational procedures for application to the construction projects they undertake. The management of quality, environment, and safety are at the forefront of systems evolution where the integration of these traditionally independent and dedicated standards-based and process-orientated systems can provide the potential to deliver greater organisational efficiency and effectiveness.

This is the first textbook to cover each of the international standards for quality, safety and environment (ISO9000, ISO14001 and ISO18001) and to discuss integrating them.

This book provides a detailed yet accessible text to support the study of quality, environment, and safety management systems on professionally accredited undergraduate courses throughout the built environment and for advanced postgraduate courses in construction, project, and engineering management. It is also an indispensible reference for construction professionals working for principal contractors, subcontractors and construction industry supply chain organisations.

Table of Contents

1. Management Systems 2. Quality Management Systems 3. Environmental Management Systems 4. Safety Management Systems 5. Integrated Management Systems Appendix I: Management Systems Standards: Applicable Versions Appendix II: Statutory Instruments Regulations Appendix III: Contacts for Further Information Appendix IV: Integrated Management Systems for Construction: Web-Site

This practical ‘How To’ guide talks the reader step-by-step through designing, conducting and disseminating primary care research, a growing discipline internationally. The vast majority of health care issues are experienced by people in community settings, who are not adequately represented by hospital-based research. There is therefore a great need to upskill family physicians and other primary care workers and academics to conduct community-based research to inform best practice. Aimed at emerging researchers, including those in developing countries, this book also addresses cutting edge and newly developing research methods, which will be of equal interest to more experienced researchers.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Editors

Contributors

SECTION I: INTRODUCTION

1. What makes research primary care research?

Felicity Goodyear-Smith and Bob Mash

2. Ontology and epistemology, methodology and method, and research paradigms

Eric K. Shaw

3. How to choose your topic and define your research question

William R. Phillips

SECTION II: INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO PRIMARY CARE RESEARCH

4. Interdisciplinary research approaches in primary care

Trish Greenhalgh

5. Combining quantitative and qualitative methods

Elizabeth Halcomb

6. Authentic engagement, co-creation and action research

Vivian R. Ramsden, Jackie Crowe, Norma Rabbitskin, Danielle Rolfe and Ann C. Macaulay

7. Development and use of primary care research networks

Emma Wallace and Tom Fahey

8. Using big data in primary care research

Daniel J. Exeter and Katherine E. Walesby

9. Conducting primary care research using social media

Charilaos Lygidakis, Ana Luísa Neves, Liliana Laranjo and Luís Pinho-Costa

10. Quality improvement research in primary care

Andrew W. Knight and Paresh Dawda

11. Programme evaluation in primary care

Lauren Siegmann, Robyn Preston and Bunmi Malau-Aduli

SECTION III: PRELIMINARY STEPS TO DOING PRIMARY CARE RESEARCH

12. How to prepare your research proposal

Bob Mash

13. How to ensure your research follows ethical principles

Christopher Barton, Sally Hall, Penelope Abbott, Chun Wah Michael Tam, Amanda Lyons and Siaw-Teng Liaw

14. How to search and critically appraise the literature

Celeste Naude and Taryn Young

SECTION IV: METHODS AND TECHNIQUES FOR DOING PRIMARY CARE RESEARCH

15. Taking stock of existing research: Approach to conducting a systematic review

Taryn Young and Celeste Naude

16. Statistics in primary care research

Richard Stevens

17. How to conduct a survey in primary care

Lauren Ball and Katelyn Barnes

18. Validation studies: Validating new tools and adapting old ones to new contexts

Sherina Mohd Sidik

19. Clinical and other diagnostic tests: Understanding their predictive value

Sarah Price, Robert Price and Willie Hamilton

20. How to conduct observational studies

Tibor Schuster

21. Randomised trials in primary care

Gillian Bartlett-Esquilant, Miriam Dickinson and Tibor Schuster

22. Grounded theory

David R. Thomas

23. Doing interpretive phenomenological primary care research

Valerie A. Wright-St Clair

24. Why ethnography is an important part of primary care research and how it is done

Carissa van den Berk-Clark

25. Case study

Robin Ray, Judy Taylor and Robyn Preston

26. Interactional analysis of primary care consultations

Maria Stubbe, Anthony Dowell, Kevin Dew and Lindsay Macdonald

SECTION V: HOW TO DISSEMINATE YOUR RESEARCH

27. How to write and how to publish

Felicity Goodyear-Smith and Katharine A. Wallis

28. How to create an effective poster

Katharine A. Wallis

29. Using social media to disseminate primary care research

Charilaos Lygidakis and Raquel Gómez Bravo

30. Reaching decision-makers and achieving social impact with your research

Bob Mash, Nasreen Jessani and Liesl Nicol

SECTION VI: BUILDING RESEARCH CAPACITY

31. How to supervise and mentor a less-experienced or novice researcher

Elizabeth Sturgiss and Lena Sanci

32. Creating the right environment for mentoring to flourish

Amanda Howe

33. A systems approach to building research capacity: Individuals, networks and culture

Grant Russell

34. Including primary care research in clinical practice

Chris van Weel

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Agroecology is at the forefront of transforming our food systems. This bestselling textbook provides the essential foundation for understanding this transformation in all its components: agricultural, ecological, economic, social, cultural, and political. It presents a case for food system change, explains the principles and practices underlying the ecological approach to food production, and lays out a vision for a food system based on equity and greater compatibility with the planet’s life support systems. New to the fourth edition:

A chapter on Alternatives to Industrial Agriculture, covering the similarities and distinctions among different approaches to sustainable agriculture

A chapter on Ecological Pest, Weed, and Disease Management

A chapter on Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture

A chapter on Agriculture and the Climate Crisis

A revised analysis and critique of the food system’s embeddedness in the extractive capitalist world economy that reflects ideas in the emerging field of political agroecology

Streamlined treatment of agroecology’s foundations in ecological science, making the text more compatible with typical course curricula

A Companion Website at https://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9781032187105

incorporates the entire contents of the updated practical manual Field and Laboratory Investigations in Agroecology, split into student and lecturer resources. These 24 sample investigations facilitate hands-on learning that involves close observation, creative interpretation, and constant questioning of findings.

Groundbreaking in its first edition and established as the definitive text in its second and third, the fourth edition of Agroecology captures recent developments in the field and forcefully applies the idea that agroecology is a science, a movement, and a practice. Written by a team of experts, this book will encourage students and practitioners to consider the critical importance of transitioning to a new paradigm for food and agriculture.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface 1

Preface 2

Authors

Recommendations for Using this Textbook

Section I • Pathway to Agroecology

1 The Case for Fundamental Change in Agriculture

2 Alternatives to Industrial Agriculture

3 The Agroecosystem Concept

Section II • Agricultural Organisms and their Environment

4 The Plant: Nutrition, Growth, and Response to the Environment

5 Light

6 Climatic Factors Affecting Plants

7 Biotic Factors and Interactions among Organisms

8 The Soil Ecosystem

9 The Environmental Complex

Section III • System-Level Interactions

10 Population Ecology of Agroecosystems

11 Genetic Resources in Agroecosystems

12 Species Interactions in Crop Communities

13 Agroecosystem Diversity

14 Ecological Pest, Weed, and Disease Management

15 Successional Development and Agroforestry

16 Animals in Agroecosystems

17 Energetics of Agroecosystems

18 Landscape Diversity

Section IV • Agroecological Farms and Communities

19 Sustainability and Its Assessment

20 Converting Farms to Ecologically Based Management

21 Bringing Farmers and Consumers Closer Together

22 Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture

Section V • Transforming the Global Food System

23 Achieving a Just and Sustainable Food System

24 Economic Dynamics of the Food System

25 Agriculture and the Climate Crisis

26 Shaping the Future in the Present

Glossary

References

Index

The second edition ofConsumer Behaviour and Analytics provides a consumer behaviour textbook for the new marketing reality. In a world of Big Data, machine learning and artificial intelligence, this key text reviews the issues, research and concepts essential for navigating this new terrain. It demonstrates how we can use data-driven insight and merge this with insight from extant research to inform knowledge-driven decision-making.

Adopting a practical and managerial lens, while also exploring the rich lineage of academic consumer research, this textbook approaches its subject from a refreshing and original standpoint. It contains numerous accessible examples, scenarios and exhibits, and condenses the disparate array of relevant work into a workable, coherent, synthesized and readable whole. Providing an effective tour of the concepts and ideas most relevant in the age of analytics-driven marketing (from data visualization to semiotics), the book concludes with an adaptive structure to inform managerial decision-making.

Consumer Behaviour and Analytics provides a unique distillation from a vast array of social and behavioural research merged with the knowledge potential of digital insight. It offers an effective and efficient summary for undergraduate, postgraduate or executive courses in consumer behaviour and marketing analytics, and also functions as a supplementary text for other marketing modules. Online resources include PowerPoint slides.

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of tables

Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 An introduction to consumer analytics

Chapter 2 Purchase insight and the anatomy of transactions

Chapter 3 Web and social activity

Chapter 4 Extant research, decision-making and exogenous cognition

Chapter 5 Elemental features of consumer choice: needs, economics, deliberation and impulse.

Chapter 6 Perceptual and communicative features of consumer choice

Chapter 7 Individual and social features of consumption

Chapter 8 Knowledge-driven marketing and the Modular Adaptive Dynamic Schematic

Index

Langford's Advanced Photography is the only advanced photography guide a serious student or aspiring professional will ever need. In this eighth edition, Efthimia Bilissi continues in the footsteps of Michael Langford by combining an unrivalled level of technical detail with a straightforward writing style while simultaneously bringing the text firmly in to the digital era.

This book covers the entire photographic process from a technical standpoint - not only detailing the 'how' but also explaining the 'why' that is so often missing from photography texts. From the workings of cameras, lenses, digital imaging sensors and software to new hot topics such as HDR imaging, digital asset management, and even running your own photography business, everything a serious photographer could need to extend their art into professional realms is covered.

The book also benefits from a full glossary, charts and inspirational full color images throughout, with summaries and projects at the end of each chapter to reinforce the theory.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Colour in photography; Chapter 2 Camera equipment; Chapter 3 Choosing lenses; Chapter 4 Lighting control; Chapter 5 Tone control; Chapter 6 Image sensors; Chapter 7 Digital imaging systems; Chapter 8 Digital image management and manipulation; Chapter 9 Films — types and technical data; Chapter 10 Film processing management and colour printing; Chapter 11 Extending photography; Chapter 12 Subjects; Chapter 13 Reproduction and archiving; Chapter 14 Professional photography; Chapter 15 Business practice; Appendices; Glossary; Index;

This book provides practising executives and academics with the theories and best practices to plan and implement the digital transformation successfully. Key benefits:

an overview on how leading companies plan and implement digital transformation

interviews with chief executive officers and chief digital officers of leading companies – Bulgari, Deutsche Bahn, Henkel, Lanxess, L’Oréal, Unilever, Thales and others – explore lessons learnt and roadmaps to successful implementation

research and case studies on the digitalization of small and medium-sized companies

cutting-edge academic research on business models, organizational capabilities and performance implications of the digital transformation

tools and insights into how to overcome internal resistance, build digital capabilities, align the organization, develop the ecosystem and create customer value to implement digital strategies that increase profits

Managing Digital Transformation is unique in its approach, combining rigorous academic theory with practical insights and contributions from companies that are, according to leading academic thinkers, at the forefront of global best practice in the digital transformation. It is a recommended reading both for practitioners looking to implement digital strategies within their own organisations, as well as for academics and postgraduate students studying digital transformation, strategy and marketing.

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Part 1: INTRODUCTION 1.Digital Transformation - An Overview Part 2: DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL CAPABILITIES 2.Understanding Digital Transformation: A Review and A Research Agenda 3.The Three Pillars of the Digital Transformation: Improving the Core, Building New Business Models, and Developing Digital Capabilities 4.Big Data and Analytics: Opportunities and Challenges for Firm Performance 5.Technology is Just an Enabler of Digital Transformation: An Interview with Gianfranco Chimirri, HR communication director of Unilever Italy Part 3: THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION AND BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION 6.Digital Transformation and Business Models 7.From Disruptively Digital to Proudly Analog: A Holistic Typology of Digital Transformation Strategies 8.Digital Transformation, the Holy Grail and the Disruption of Business Models: Interview with Michael Nilles, Chief Digital and Information Officer, Henkel 9.How Artificial Intelligence and the Digital Transformation Change Business and Society: An Interview with Venture Capitalist Vinod Khosla 10.The Digital Company Culture: Interview with Luca Ferrari, CEO, Bending Spoons 11.Consulting for Digital Transformation: Interview with Giuseppe Folonari, European Head of Business Strategy, AKQA 12.L’Oréal Digital Consumer Operating System 13.Internal Start-ups as a Driving Force in the Digitalization of Traditional Businesses: Interview with Jörg Hellwig, Chief Digital Officer, Lanxess Part 4: DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION AND CUSTOMER VALUE CREATION 14.Digital Transformation and Consumer Behaviour: How the Analysis of Consumer Data Reshapes the Marketing Approach 15.Digital Transformation and the Salesforce: Personal Observations, Warnings, and Recommendations 16.Digital Transformation and The Role of Customer-Centric Innovation: Interview with the Chief Value Officer, Thales 17.Digital Transformation in Luxury Industry: Interview with Jean-Christophe Babin, CEO Bulgari 18.The Importance of Data in Transforming a Traditional Company to a Digital Thinking Company: Interview with Fabrizio Viacava, chief digital officer of Etro Part 5: THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN SMEs: CHALLENGES AND BEST PRACTICES 19.Digital Transformation of Manufacturing Firms: Opportunities and Challenges for SMEs 20.Digital Transformation and Financial Performance: Do Digital Specialists Unlock the Profit Potential of New Digital Business Models for SMEs? 21.Supporting Pervasive Digitization in Italian SMEs Through an Open Innovation Process CONCLUSION 22.Our Roadmap to Digital Transformation

This fully revised seventh edition of Property Development has been completely updated to reflect ongoing changes in the property field and maintain the direct relevance of the text to all stakeholders involved in studying the property development process. This text has been in high demand since the first edition was published over 40 years ago.

The successful style and proven format of the highly popular text has been retained to assist the readership to understand this complex discipline. The readership typically includes anyone with an interest in property including aspiring property developers, established property developers, property stakeholders involved in the property development process, as well as any interested parties. In addition this new edition of the standard text is ideally suited for all property development and real estate students and will also be of interest to early career professionals and those pursuing similar professional degrees in the industry and in wider built environment courses.

This new edition includes new content discussing the rise and significance of PropTech with all chapters updated and enhanced to also assist lecturers and students in their teaching, reading and studying. The book focuses specifically on development and outlines the entire comprehensive process from inception, financing, planning and development stages within the context of sustainability and urban global challenges. The chapters include introductions with chapter objectives, discussion points, reflective summaries and case studies.

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1. Introduction 2. Land for Development 3. Development Appraisal and Risk 4. Development Finance 5. Property Cycles 6. Planning 7. Construction 8. Market Research 9. PropTech 10. Marketing and Sales 11. Sustainable Development 12. Emerging Markets

Fully revised and updated to reflect current trends and emerging topics, the fourth edition of Conferences and Conventions: A Global Industry provides an expert-led, comprehensive introduction to, and overview of, the key elements of the global conference, convention and meetings industry.

This book examines the conference industry’s origins, structure and future development, as well as its economic, social and environmental impacts. It provides an in-depth analysis of the strategies, practices, knowledge and skills required to organise memorable conferences and similar business events, with detailed descriptions of all the planning and operational processes. Following an international approach, this edition features additional sections on the increase in technological advancements and opportunities, as well as the rise of virtual and hybrid events in a post-pandemic era. Written in an accessible and engaging style, the book includes integrated case studies to highlight current issues and demonstrate theory in practice.

Structured logically with useful features throughout to aid learning and understanding, this book is an invaluable resource to students following events management, hospitality and tourism courses, as well as for event planners and practitioners already working in the conference industry.

The next two decades will see more waves of technological disruption than the previous fifty. Adaptability and understanding of technological changes are now mission-critical to every business. Disruptive Technologies offers a three-step framework that enables readers to choose how their business responds to technological upheaval rather than being led by changes forced upon them. Showing how to understand a new technology, evaluate the challenge it poses, and finally respond to it, readers will come away secure in the knowledge that they have a workable system with which they can navigate ongoing technological disruption. This second edition features new chapters on the Metaverse and Web 3.0, as well as case studies and discussions of emerging technologies such as NFTs, artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, graphene and 3D/4D printing. If companies do not grasp how developing technologies will impact their operations, supply chains, people and products, they have little hope of weathering the ongoing storm of digital disruption. Disruptive Technologies is your essential guide to creating a stable response to constant technological upheaval.

Sustainable Urban Futures in Africa provides a variety of conventional and emerging theoretical frameworks to inform understandings and responses to critical urban development issues such as urbanisation, climate change, housing/slum, informality, urban sprawl, urban ecosystem services and urban poverty, among others, within the context of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in Africa.

This book addresses topics including challenges to spatial urban development, how spatial planning is delivered, how different urbanisation variables influence the development of different forms of urban systems and settlements in Africa, how city authorities could use old and new methods of land administration to produce sustainable urban spaces in Africa, and the role of local activism is causing important changes in the built environment. Chapters are written by a diverse range of African scholars and practitioners in urban planning and policy design, environmental science and policy, sociology, agriculture, natural resources management, environmental law, and politics.

Urban Africa has huge resource potential – both human and natural resources – that can stimulate sustainable development when effectively harnessed. Sustainable Urban Futures in Africa provides support for the SDGs in urban Africa and will be of interest to students and researchers, professionals and policymakers, and readers of urban studies, spatial planning, geography, governance, and other social sciences.

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Part I: Conceptual and Theoretical Foundations

1. Sustainable Urban Futures in Africa: Concepts, Practices and Prospects (Patrick Brandful Cobbinah and Michael Addaney)

2. Deconstructing Africa’s Urban Space: Sustainable Development and Spatial Planning Challenge (Patrick Brandful Cobbinah, Michael Odei Erdiaw-Kwasie, and Marita Basson)

3. Tradition Meets Modernity: Creation of Sustainable Urban Spaces in Africa (Bernard Afiik Akanpabadai Akanbang, Millicent Awialie Akaateba, and Prosper Issahaku Korah)

4. Local Activism and Climate Action in Africa: Protecting the Environment as a Social Justice Imperative (Luckymore Matenga)

5. Memories of Futures–Past and Visions of Future–Futures: An Architecture-to-Backcasting Metaphor Approach Towards Sustainable City Transitioning in Africa (Vipua Rukambe And Daniel Irurah)

Part II: Land Use and Ecological Integrity

6. Towards Sustainable and Resilient Urban Development: Rethinking Stormwater Management in Sub-Saharan African Cities (Desmond Ofosu Anim, Eric Gaisie, and Abena Boatemaa Asare-Ansah)

7. Monitoring changing land use-land cover change to reflect the impact of urbanisation on environmental assets in Durban, South Africa (Bahle Mazeka, Kwanele Phinzi, and Catherine Sutherland)

8. Informal Greenspaces in Peripheral Luanda, Angola: Benefits and Challenges (Euridice Lurdes Jorge Pedrosa, Seth Asare Okyere, Stephen Kofi Diko, and Michihiro Kita)

9. Collaborative Spatial Expressions of Sustainability: River Rehabilitation Projects in Durban, South Africa (Patrick Martel, Catherine Sutherland, Sylvia Hannan, and Fanele Magwaza)

10. Regulation of Physical Development in Ghana: Systems and Practices (Michael Addaney, Seth Opoku Mensah, and Florence Abugtane Avogo)

11. Spatial Expression of Climate Change in Rapidly Urbanising City of Tamale, Ghana (Enoch Akwasi Kosoe, Patrick Brandful Cobbinah, and Joseph Nyaaba Akongbangre)

12. Planning for Sustainable Metro Express in Mauritius (Roopanand Mahadew, Michael Addaney, and Patrick Brandful Cobbinah)

Part III: Urban Informality, Regeneration and Tenure Security

13. Situating Everyday Urban Struggles within the Context of the SDGs in an Informal Settlement in Accra, Ghana (Seth Asare Okyere, Louis Kusi Frimpong, Stephen Kofi Diko, Matthew Abunyewah, and Michihiro Kita)

14. Connecting solid waste management to sustainable urban development in Africa (Enoch Akwasi Kosoe, Issaka Kanton Osumanu, and Francis Diawuo Darko)

15. Urban Informality and Flexible Land Tenure Arrangements in Namibia: Lessons and Insights (Kennedy Kariseb, and Ivone Tjilale)

16. The Shifting Sanitation Landscapes Through the Lens of Governmentality in Durban, South Africa (Anthony Odili, and Catherine Sutherland)

17. Transforming Urban Informal Settlements in Kenya through Adaptive Spatial Planning and Tenure Regularisation (Collins Odote, and Philip Olale)

In Psychology of Music: From Sound to Significance (2nd edition), the authors consider music on a broad scale, from its beginning as an acoustical signal to its different manifestations across cultures. In their second edition, the authors apply the same richness of depth and scope that was a hallmark of the first edition of this text. In addition, having laid out the topography of the field in the original book, the second edition puts greater emphasis on linking academic learning to real-world contexts, and on including compelling topics that appeal to students’ natural curiosity. Chapters have been updated with approximately 500 new citations to reflect advances in the field.

The organization of the book remains the same as the first edition, while chapters have been updated and often expanded with new topics. 'Part I: Foundations' explores the acoustics of sound, the auditory system, and responses to music in the brain. 'Part II: The Perception and Cognition of Music' focuses on how we process pitch, melody, meter, rhythm, and musical structure. 'Part III: Development, Learning, and Performance' describes how musical capacities and skills unfold, beginning before birth and extending to the advanced and expert musician. And finally, 'Part IV: The Meaning and Significance of Music' explores social, emotional, philosophical and cultural dimensions of music and meaning.

This book will be invaluable to undergraduates and postgraduate students in psychology and music, and will appeal to anyone who is interested in the vital and expanding field of psychology of music.

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About the authors Preface to the second edition Notes to instructors Acknowledgments 1. The scope of psychology of music Part I. Foundations 2. The acoustics of music 3. Auditory perception and the neurophysiology of hearing 4. Cognitive neuroscience and the music-language link Part II. The perception and cognition of music 5. Perception of musical pitch and melody 6. Perception of musical time 7. Analysis and cognition of musical structure Part III. Development, learning, and performance 8. Emergence of auditory and music perception 9. Early musical development 10. Practice and musical expertise 11. The psychology of music performance Part IV. The meaning and significance of music 12. The social psychology of music 13. The question of meaning in music 14. The emotional power of music 15. Culture and music. Appendix: The chapters in action. References. Name index. Subject index.

Business Process Management has helped thousands of leaders and BPM practitioners successfully implement BPM projects, enabling them to add impactful and measurable value to their organizations. The book covers all major frameworks, including LEAN and Six Sigma, and offers a unique emphasis on BPM’s interrelationship with organizational management, culture, and leadership. Its common-sense approach teaches how BPM must be well-integrated across an entire business if it is to be successful, augmented and aligned with other management disciplines.

This thoroughly revised and updated fifth edition includes:

• Discussion of the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on business operations, business transformation, remote working, and new processes.
• New and revised content on sustainable processes in BPM.
• Expanded material on process automation and new technologies, including AI.
• New and revised international case studies and practical examples.
• A streamlined layout, as well as new questions and thought-provoking comments to promote discussion and thinking.

Business Process Management is an accessible core text for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students studying Business Process Management, Operations, Production, and Strategic Management, as well as an indispensable guide to any senior business executive or chief financial officer.

The work is complemented by online resources to support instructors and learning, including PowerPoint slides for each chapter.

Construction Economics provides students with the principles underlying the relationship between economic theory and the construction industry. Its new approach specifically examines the problems of securing sustainable construction and this fifth edition broadens the message to address the immediacy of the problems relating to the carbon-based world that we have constructed.

Embracing the whole process of the construction life cycle, the new edition discusses the economic impact of the Covid pandemic on the industry and the broader implications of the promise to build back better. It also includes new coverage of the opportunities offered by technology, the establishment of higher standards to achieve greater energy efficiency and wellbeing, the adoption of the principles of a circular economy, the retrofit of existing buildings and the recycling of materials. New sections also highlight the methodology of the subject to identify the boundaries of construction economics and clarify what to expect and what can be achieved.

As with previous editions, it retains a tried and tested format including:

a clear and user-friendly style

use of colour for emphasis

regular summaries of key points

a glossary of key terms

extensive use of tables, figures and data

readings from Construction Management and Economics

tutorial questions to review each section

research guidance

reviews of useful websites.

This invaluable textbook is essential reading across a wide range of disciplines. It provides the economic context to the relevance of sustainability and debates about climate change, highlighting the vital contributions that surveyors, contractors, project managers, engineers, architects and developers can offer to take it forward.

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Introduction to the Fifth Edition

Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Basic Concepts

Reading 1

Research Guidance: Introduction

Part A Effective Use of Resources

Chapter 2: Economic Systems for Resource Allocation

Chapter 3: The Market Mechanism

Chapter 4: The Theory of Demand

Chapter 5: The Theory of Supply

Chapter 6: Clients and Contractors

Chapter 7: Costs of the Construction Firm

Chapter 8: Types of Market Structure in the Construction Industry

Reading 2

Reading 3

Research Guidance: Literature Review

Part B Protection and Enhancement of the Environment

Chapter 9: Markets for Green Buildings and Infrastructure

Chapter 10: Market Failure and Government Intervention

Chapter 11: Environmental Economics

Reading 4

Research Guidance: Data Collection

Part C Economic Growth that Meets the Needs of Everyone

Chapter 12: Managing the Macroeconomy

Chapter 13: The Economy and Construction: Measurement and Manipulation

Chapter 14: The Business Case: Inflation and Expectations

Reading 5

Research Guidance: Critical Thinking

Chapter 15: Sustainable Construction

Reading 6

Reading 7

Reading 8

Research Guidance: Triangulation

Glossary

References

Index

Planning is an important management function and its effective execution is crucial to ensure the success of any project. This second edition of Thomas Uher’s and Adam Zantis' textbook maintains its focus on operational rather than strategic aspects of programming and scheduling of projects, providing the reader with the practical planning skills needed to be successful.

Unlike most other textbooks that largely focus on the critical path method, Programming and Scheduling Techniques includes a comprehensive review of a range of practices used around the world. Topics covered in this thoroughly revised edition include:

deterministic scheduling techniques including the bar chart, the critical path method, the critical chain method, the multiple activity chart and the line of balance

a comparison of the critical path and critical chain scheduling techniques

options for computer-based scheduling

stochastic scheduling techniques including the critical path method based on Monte Carlo simulation and the Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)

risk in scheduling

work study.

By covering a broad range of scheduling techniques this book is suitable for those planning projects in any industry, particularly in interdisciplinary or international contexts.

Written for students studying undergraduate and postgraduate architecture, building, construction/project management, quantity surveying, property development and civil engineering programs.

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1.The Concept of Planning 2. Bar Charts 3. The Critical Path Method 4. Resource Management 5. Overlapping Network Models 6. Project Control 7. Critical Path Scheduling by Computer 8. Critical Chain Scheduling 9. Multiple Activity Charts 10. Line of Balance Technique 11. Work Study 12. Risk and Scheduling 13. The Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)