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Contents: Part 1 The academic environment: the offer; the contract; lawsuits; leaving; training. Part 2 Subjective evaluation of the academic environment: US medical schools; alternatives. Part 3 Objective evaluation of the academic environment: productivity; productivity versus atmosphere; quality.
Let us start with a simple scenario: a man asks a woman "how high
is Mount Everest?" The woman replies "29,029 feet." Nothing could
be simpler. Now let us suppose that rather than standing in a room,
or sitting on a bus, the man is at his desk and the woman is 300
miles away with the conversation taking place using e-mail. Still
simple? Certainly--it happens every day. So why all the bother
about digital (virtual, electronic, chat, etc.) reference? If the
man is a pilot flying over Mount Everest, the answer matters. If
you are a lawyer going to court, the identity of the woman is very
important. Also, if you ever want to find the answer again, how
that transaction took place matters a lot. Digital reference is a
deceptively simple concept on its face: "the incorporation of human
expertise into the information system." This lecture seeks to
explore the question of how human expertise is incorporated into a
variety of information systems, from libraries, to digital
libraries, to information retrieval engines, to knowledge bases.
What we learn through this endeavor, begun primarily in the library
context, is that the models, methods, standards, and experiments in
digital reference have wide applicability. We also catch a glimpse
of an unfolding future in which ubiquitous computing makes the
identification, interaction, and capture of expertise increasingly
important. It is a future that is much more complex than we had
anticipated. It is a future in which documents and artifacts are
less important than the contexts of their creation and use. Table
of Contents: Defining Reference in a Digital Age / Conversations /
Digital Reference in Practice / Digital Reference an a New Future /
Conclusion
Collaboration across organizational boundaries is often critical to
achieve an objective, but difficult to achieve in practice. This
book explores the structures, processes, roles, skills, tools and
techniques that enable people in different places to achieve a
successful joint outcome and build advantage through collaboration.
Written by an experienced practitioner who has facilitated many
collaborative efforts, it includes practical case studies to
illustrate key points.
Collaboration across organizational boundaries is often critical to
achieve an objective, but difficult to achieve in practice. This
book explores the structures, processes, roles, skills, tools and
techniques that enable people in different places to achieve a
successful joint outcome and build advantage through collaboration.
Written by an experienced practitioner who has facilitated many
collaborative efforts, it includes practical case studies to
illustrate key points.
The family business has a far-reaching influence on economies
throughout the world, and in many countries they account for over
half of the Gross National Product. This text considers: how to
define a family-controlled business and the significance of this
form of privately-held enterprise; how a board of outsiders can add
value to a family business; how to handle intra-business tensions;
and how to gain control at the highest level.
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Architecture of Computing Systems - ARCS 2020 - 33rd International Conference, Aachen, Germany, May 25-28, 2020, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Andre Brinkmann, Wolfgang Karl, Stefan Lankes, Sven Tomforde, Thilo Pionteck, …
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 33rd International
Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS 2020, held in
Aachen, Germany, in May 2020.* The 12 full papers in this volume
were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. 6
workshop papers are also included. ARCS has always been a
conference attracting leading-edge research outcomes in Computer
Architecture and Operating Systems, including a wide spectrum of
topics ranging from embedded and real-time systems all the way to
large-scale and parallel systems. The selected papers focus on
concepts and tools for incorporating self-adaptation and
self-organization mechanisms in high-performance computing systems.
This includes upcoming approaches for runtime modifications at
various abstraction levels, ranging from hardware changes to goal
changes and their impact on architectures, technologies, and
languages. *The conference was canceled due to the COVID-19
pandemic.
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Euro-Par 2017: Parallel Processing Workshops - Euro-Par 2017 International Workshops, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, August 28-29, 2017, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018)
Dora B. Heras, Luc Bouge, Gabriele Mencagli, Emmanuel Jeannot, Rizos Sakellariou, …
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the workshops of the 23rd
International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing,
Euro-Par 2017, held in Santiago de Compostela. Spain in August
2017. The 59 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and
selected from 119 submissions. Euro-Par is an annual, international
conference in Europe, covering all aspects of parallel and
distributed processing. These range from theory to practice, from
small to the largest parallel and distributed systems and
infrastructures, from fundamental computational problems to
full-edged applications, from architecture, compiler, language and
interface design and implementation to tools, support
infrastructures, and application performance aspects.
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Euro-Par 2015: Parallel Processing Workshops - Euro-Par 2015 International Workshops, Vienna, Austria, August 24-25, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
Sascha Hunold, Alexandru Costan, Domingo Gimenez, Alexandru Iosup, Laura Ricci, …
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference
proceedings of 12 workshops held at the 21st International
Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Euro-Par 2015, in
Vienna, Austria, in August 2015. The 67 revised full papers
presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 121
submissions. The volume includes papers from the following
workshops: BigDataCloud: 4th Workshop on Big Data Management in
Clouds - Euro-EDUPAR: First European Workshop on Parallel and
Distributed Computing Education for Undergraduate Students - Hetero
Par: 13th International Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools
for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Platforms - LSDVE: Third
Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments - OMHI:
4th International Workshop on On-chip Memory Hierarchies and
Interconnects - PADAPS: Third Workshop on Parallel and Distributed
Agent-Based Simulations - PELGA: Workshop on Performance
Engineering for Large-Scale Graph Analytics - REPPAR: Second
International Workshop on Reproducibility in Parallel Computing -
Resilience: 8th Workshop on Resiliency in High Performance
Computing in Clusters, Clouds, and Grids - ROME: Third Workshop on
Runtime and Operating Systems for the Many Core Era - UCHPC: 8th
Workshop on UnConventional High Performance Computing - and VHPC:
10th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud
Computing.
The family business has a far reaching influence on economies
throughout the world. No other type of business has driven economic
development in the same way and today, in almost all countries,
family businesses including such giants as Ford, Levi Strauss,
L'Oreal and Ferrero are the source of more than half of the Gross
National Product (GNP) and employment. As a result of their
prominence the question of how they are governed, controlled and
accounted for is crucial not only for the owning families, but also
for the societies in which these companies operate. The Family
Business considers: * How to define a family-controlled business
and the significance of this form of privately-held enterprise. *
Governance systems in the context of the family business. * How a
board of outsiders can add value to the typical family business. *
How to handle the classical tensions between family and board and
between family and management on the other. * How to gain effective
and efficient control at the highest level. The answer to these
questions and others is given by providing a large number of
examples of internationally active family businesses and from the
authors teaching and research into this area. Sustainability is the
key concern to the family business and this book breaks new ground
in showing how they can successfully live on to the next
generation.
Im Zuge schulischer Reformen wurden Aufgaben der
Personalentwicklung von der Schulaufsicht an Schulen delegiert. Fur
die Verankerung von Personalentwicklungsaufgaben an Einzelschulen
spielen rechtliche Regelungen eine entscheidende Rolle. Auf
Grundlage einer systematischen Auswertung der rechtlichen
Regelungen werden Aufgaben und Entscheidungskompetenzen der
(schulischen) Akteure in den 16 Landern dargestellt. Dabei stehen
Schulleitungen im Fokus, zu deren zentralen Fuhrungsaufgaben
Personalentwicklung zahlt. Damit wird erstmalig eine vergleichende
UEbersicht der bestehenden Regelungen und Massnahmen zur
Personalentwicklung in Open Access vorgelegt. Diese bietet
relevantes Steuerungswissen fur bildungspolitische sowie
-administrative Entscheidungen und Ansatzpunkte fur
Forschungsfragen und -felder fur kunftige Forschungsvorhaben der
Bildungsforschung.
How librarians can be radical positive change agents in their
communities, dedicated to learning and making a difference. This
book offers a guide for librarians who see their profession as a
chance to make a positive difference in their
communities-librarians who recognize that it is no longer enough to
stand behind a desk waiting to serve. R. David Lankes, author of
The Atlas of New Librarianship, reminds librarians of their
mission: to improve society by facilitating knowledge creation in
their communities. In this book, he provides tools, arguments,
resources, and ideas for fulfilling this mission. Librarians will
be prepared to become radical positive change agents in their
communities, and other readers will learn to understand libraries
in a new way. The librarians of Ferguson, Missouri, famously became
positive change agents in August 2014 when they opened library
doors when schools were closed because of civil unrest after the
shooting of an unarmed teen by police. Working with other local
organizations, they provided children and their parents a space for
learning, lunch, and peace. But other libraries serve other
communities-students, faculty, scholars, law firms-in other ways.
All libraries are about community, writes Lankes; that is just
librarianship. In concise chapters, Lankes addresses the mission of
libraries and explains what constitutes a library. He offers
practical advice for librarian training; provides teaching notes
for each chapter; and answers "Frequently Argued Questions" about
the new librarianship.
Metastatic is a word that describes cancer that's no longer
contained to a single site, and has spread elsewhere. Which is bad.
Metastatic is the kind of cancer Kevin Lankes was diagnosed with at
the age of 25. At only a quarter of a century long, Kevin's life
began spiraling out of control, ushering him helplessly toward the
unknown. This is a heart-wrenching tale of pain, loss of innocence,
and the will to go on. It's a candid recounting of the events
following the collapse of a life barely lived. By the time he was
25, Kevin had managed a city-wide project, hung with celebrities,
joined a secret society, and otherwise made his mother proud. He
was a New York City transplant with a powerfully bright future.
This is the story of his most challenging obstacle yet. In and out
of several appointments, whirring machines, and emotional states,
he describes just what it's like to be a young man whose world was
swept out from under him in the prime of life, and what it's like
to find the courage to press on.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the
1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable,
high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Isolated power systems are commonly found in rural and remote areas
of the world. These systems represent the alternative to grid
connection, where interconnection to a large grid is not viable due
to high cost and/or geographical obstacles. Furthermore, power
systems such as those onboard of ships, in oil exploration areas
and remote mining districts are characterized by limited generating
capacity, supplying loads which can consist of significant amount
of motor drives and power converters. The use of series
compensators (SCs) in improving voltage quality of isolated power
systems is to be considered.A control strategy for the SC is to be
developed to regulate power flow. This is achieved through phase
adjustment of load terminal voltage.Through a phase adjustment
technique, we can show that the voltage quality across the
terminals of the protected load can be controlled.
This second edition of the basic textbook in shipboard engineering
presents the latest information on steam, gas turbine, and nuclear
propulsion, as well as auxiliary systems, ship stability, and
damage control. New to this edition is a section on engineering
documentation.
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