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**The instant Sunday Times bestseller** What if you tried to stop
doing everything, so you could finally get round to what counts?
Rejecting the futile modern obsession with 'getting everything
done,' Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for
constructing a meaningful life by embracing rather than denying
their limitations. Drawing on the insights of both ancient and
contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers,
Oliver Burkeman sets out to realign our relationship with time -
and in doing so, to liberate us from its tyranny. Embrace your
limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.
'Life is finite. You don't have to fit everything in... Read this
book and wake up to a new way of thinking and living' Emma Gannon
'Every sentence is riven with gold' Chris Evans 'Comforting,
fascinating, engaging, inspiring and useful' Marian Keyes
Statistics and Probability in Forensic Anthropology provides a
practical guide for forensic scientists, primarily anthropologists
and pathologists, on how to design studies, how to choose and apply
statistical approaches, and how to interpret statistical outcomes
in the forensic practice. As with other forensic, medical and
biological disciplines, statistics have become increasingly
important in forensic anthropology and legal medicine, but there is
not a single book, which specifically addresses the needs of
forensic anthropologists in relation to the research undertaken in
the field and the interpretation of research outcomes and case
findings within the setting of legal proceedings. The book includes
the application of both frequentist and Bayesian statistics in
relation to topics relevant for the research and the interpretation
of findings in forensic anthropology, as well as general chapters
on study design and statistical approaches addressing measurement
errors and reliability. Scientific terminology understandable to
students and advanced practitioners of forensic anthropology,
pathology and related disciplines is used throughout. Additionally,
Statistics and Probability in Forensic Anthropology facilitates
sufficient understanding of the statistical procedures and data
interpretation based on statistical outcomes and models, which
helps the reader confidently present their work within the forensic
context, either in the form of case reports for legal purposes or
as research publications for the scientific community.
Blockchain has the potential to revolutionize how people and
organizations, who may not know or trust each other, share
information and carry out transactions online. Nearly every
institution on the planet wants to be a leader in blockchain
technology as well as a home to significant platforms,
applications, and companies. There is a need for a glocal policy to
meet and support these goals as blockchain technology must embrace
glocal values and ideals in its legal and regulatory frameworks.
Glocal Policy and Strategies for Blockchain: Building Ecosystems
and Sustainability discusses the features and advantages of
blockchain technology, the innovative applications of blockchain
technology, and the potent and limited aspects of blockchain
technology. Covering topics such as digital change, international
policy, and cyber security governance, this reference work is ideal
for industry professionals, researchers, academicians, scholars,
practitioners, instructors, and students.
Mapping the Travel Behavior Genome covers the latest research on
the biological, motivational, cognitive, situational, and
dispositional factors that drive activity-travel behavior.
Organized into three sections, Retrospective and Prospective Survey
of Travel Behavior Research, New Research Methods and Findings, and
Future Research, the chapters of this book provide evidence of
progress made in the most recent years in four dimensions of the
travel behavior genome. These dimensions are Substantive Problems,
Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks, Behavioral Measurement, and
Behavioral Analysis. Including the movement of goods as well as the
movement of people, the book shows how traveler values, norms,
attitudes, perceptions, emotions, feelings, and constraints lead to
observed behavior; how to design efficient infrastructure and
services to meet tomorrow's needs for accessibility and mobility;
how to assess equity and distributional justice; and how to assess
and implement policies for improving sustainability and quality of
life. Mapping the Travel Behavior Genome examines the paradigm
shift toward more dynamic, user-centric, demand-responsive
transport services, including the "sharing economy," mobility as a
service, automation, and robotics. This volume provides research
directions to answer behavioral questions emerging from these
upheavals.
The fundamental burden of a theory of inductive inference is to
determine which are the good inductive inferences or relations of
inductive support and why it is that they are so. The traditional
approach is modeled on that taken in accounts of deductive
inference. It seeks universally applicable schemas or rules or a
single formal device, such as the probability calculus. After
millennia of halting efforts, none of these approaches has been
unequivocally successful and debates between approaches persist.The
Material Theory of Induction identifies the source of these
enduring problems in the assumption taken at the outset: that
inductive inference can be accommodated by a single formal account
with universal applicability. Instead, it argues that that there is
no single, universally applicable formal account. Rather, each
domain has an inductive logic native to it. Which that is, and its
extent, is determined by the facts prevailing in that domain.
Paying close attention to how inductive inference is conducted in
science and copiously illustrated with real-world examples, The
Material Theory of Induction will initiate a new tradition in the
analysis of inductive inference.
Classical Mechanics teaches readers how to solve physics problems;
in other words, how to put math and physics together to obtain a
numerical or algebraic result and then interpret these results
physically. These skills are important and will be needed in more
advanced science and engineering courses. However, more important
than developing problem-solving skills and physical-interpretation
skills, the main purpose of this multi-volume series is to survey
the basic concepts of classical mechanics and to provide the reader
with a solid understanding of the foundational content knowledge of
classical mechanics. Classical Mechanics: Conservation Laws and
Rotational Motion covers the conservation of energy and the
conservation of momentum, which are crucial concepts in any physics
course. It also introduces the concepts of center-of-mass and
rotational motion.
Social Impacts of Smart Grids: The Future of Smart Grids and Energy
Market Design explores the significant, unexplored societal
consequences of our meteoric evolution towards intelligent,
responsive and sustainable power generation and distribution
systems-the so-called 'smart grid'. These consequences include new
patterns of consumption behavior, systems planning under increasing
uncertainty, and the ever- growing complexities involved. The work
covers the historical impact of the transformation, examines the
changing role of production and consumption behavior, articulates
the principles and options for socially responsible smart grid
power market design, and explores social acceptance of the smart
grid. Where relevant, it examines adjacent literatures from P2P
electricity markets, electric vehicles, smart homes and smart
cities, and related 'internet of energy' developments. Finally, it
provides insights into mitigating the likely social consequences of
our integrated low-carbon energy future.
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