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Gender in a Transitional Era addresses a range of issues relevant
in current gender and sexuality studies scholarship which span many
disciplines. The contributors prioritize the critical thinking that
continues to support the notion that we, as a society, still have a
ways to go toward full gender equality in all spheres of life. This
collection positions marginal voices at the center of complex
gender issues in today's society. Broad thematic topic areas
include parental identities, advice, and self-help; gender
performances and role expectations in media; interacting within
organizational and social spaces; and tensions and negotiations on
politics, health, and feminisms. Though there is still much work to
be done concerning an array of gender equality issues, scholars in
this collection interrogate a transitional era of gender in which
changes are evident, yet challenges persist.
By the time Martin Heidegger passed away on May 26th, 1976, he had
become the most important and controversial philosopher of his age.
While many of his former students had become important philosophers
and thinkers in their own right, Heidegger also inspired countless
others, like Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Jean-Paul
Sartre. The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of
Heidegger's Philosophy is an historical perspective on the
development of Heidegger's thought in all its nuances and facets.
Schalow and Denker cast light on the historical influences that
shaped the thinker and his time through a chronology; an
introductory essay; a bibliography; appendixes that include German
and Greek to English glossaries of terms and a complete listing of
Heidegger's writings, lectures, courses, and seminars; and a
cross-referenced dictionary section offering over 600 entries on
concepts, people, works, and technical terms. This volume is an
invaluable resource for student and scholar alike.
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Feminist Mentoring in Academia
Jessica A. Pauly, Stevie M. Munz, Leandra Hinojosa Hernández; Contributions by Jordan Allen, Jennifer Bender, …
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Feminist Mentoring in Academia offers a varied collection of
autoethnographic and research-based accounts of support, struggle,
and resilience from the ivory tower. Contributors write about the
moments in-between, where feminist mentoring initiates, renews,
thrives, and sometimes struggles. The work presented in this book
highlights how feminist mentoring happens between professor and
student; junior faculty and tenured; and occurs repeatedly.
Featuring contributions from scholars at varying points in their
academic careers, the chapters of this book propose best feminist
mentorship practices, disclose personal narratives, and critique
traditional forms of mentoring with visions for feminist mentorship
futures. Scholars of communication, feminist studies, higher
education, and sociology will find this book of particular
interest.
Popular culture helps construct, define, and impact our everyday
realities and must be taken seriously because popular culture is,
simply, popular. Communication Perspectives on Popular Culture
brings together communication experts with diverse backgrounds,
from interpersonal communication, business and organizational
communication, mass communication, media studies, narrative,
rhetoric, gender studies, autoethnography, popular culture studies,
and journalism. The contributors tackle such topics as music,
broadcast and Netflix television shows, movies, the Internet, video
games, and more, as they connect popular culture to personal
concerns as well as larger political and societal issues. The
variety of approaches in these chapters are simultaneously situated
in the present while building a foundation for the future, as
contributors explore new and emerging ways to approach popular
culture. From case studies to emerging theories, the contributors
examine how popular culture, media, and communication influence our
everyday lives.
Gender in a Transitional Era addresses a range of issues relevant
in current gender and sexuality studies scholarship which span many
disciplines. The contributors prioritize the critical thinking that
continues to support the notion that we, as a society, still have a
ways to go toward full gender equality in all spheres of life. This
collection positions marginal voices at the center of complex
gender issues in today's society. Broad thematic topic areas
include parental identities, advice, and self-help; gender
performances and role expectations in media; interacting within
organizational and social spaces; and tensions and negotiations on
politics, health, and feminisms. Though there is still much work to
be done concerning an array of gender equality issues, scholars in
this collection interrogate a transitional era of gender in which
changes are evident, yet challenges persist.
Beyond New Media: Discourse and Critique in a Polymediated Age
examines a host of differing positions on media in order to explore
how those positions can inform one another and build a basis for
future engagements with media theory, research, and practice.
Herbig, Herrmann, and Tyma have brought together a number of media
scholars with differing paradigmatic backgrounds to debate the
relative applicability of existing theories and in doing so develop
a new approach: polymediation. Each contributor's disciplinary
background is diverse, spanning interpersonal communication, media
studies, organizational communication, instructional design,
rhetoric, mass communication, gender studies, popular culture
studies, informatics, and persuasion. Although each of these
scholars brings with them a unique perspective on media's role in
people's lives, what binds them together is the belief that
meaningful discourse about media must be an ongoing conversation
that is open to critique and revision in a rapidly changing
mediated culture. By studying media in a polymediated way, Beyond
New Media addresses more completely our complex relationship to
media(tion) in our everyday lives.
This book provides a visual reconstruction of Palmyra, a World
Heritage Site situated in Syria, which flourished in Greco-Roman
times. Palmyra is situated in a desert oasis and served as a
vibrant caravan station on the Silk Road connecting the Roman world
with the East. It has been called 'the Queen of the Desert' and
'Venice of the Sands'.In 2015-2017 the city was conquered by ISIS
who destroyed its monuments and museum, also killing several of its
inhabitants. Their aim was to erase the memory and identity of the
place, its people and our common heritage. However, through the use
of modern technology including photogrammetry, digital imagery and
3D modelling, it has been possible to recreate the documented
monuments, thus overcoming to some extent the trauma, cultural
destruction and loss. The book unveils the rediscovery of the site
by the West and revives and reconstructs the ancient city through
images and history. The reader is taken through the spectacular
city and its past by providing the information to follow the roots
and development of the site, its monuments and its people through
the ages, including rulers such as Queen Zenobia. The combination
of visualization and written accounts interlink the environment and
its people, the monuments and archaeological small finds by using
ancient written sources, old photographs, new imagery, 3D models
and 3D printing. Thus this ancient site and its past is revived in
multiple dimensions. Monuments are visualized as digitally
reconstructed ruins or as complete virtual models. This text is
therefore the perfect guide for readers who wish to immerse
themselves visually in the history of the area and to discover more
about the archaeology and its preservation using diverse methods
employing modern technology.
Mastering Complexity is designed to help readers develop and
maintain logical, adaptable solutions to business problems. It
demonstrates how to visualize business dependency connections with
a square spreadsheet called a Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM).
Once the links representing dependencies are visualized in a DSM,
it can be used to improve the business. The book focuses on simple
practices that the reader can easily understand to solve business
problems on his or her own. The book begins by identifying how
logical elements are represented in a DSM spreadsheet. It shows
where the elements can run in parallel, where the elements must run
in sequence, and where the elements are tangled together. The book
shows how to untangle these elements so they can be understood. The
book then demonstrates how to build a dependency map in a DSM
spreadsheet. It defines the various types of dependencies and shows
how to order the spreadsheet elements to create a workflow. The
author shows how to assign risk levels to the spreadsheet elements
so a workflow can be optimized to manage risk. The book concludes
with a look at several software tools that can be used to create,
manipulate, and analyze DSM spreadsheets. It discusses how the
tools work and where they can be ordered.
This volume presents some of the most influential papers published
by Rabi N. Bhattacharya, along with commentaries from international
experts, demonstrating his knowledge, insight, and influence in the
field of probability and its applications. For more than three
decades, Bhattacharya has made significant contributions in areas
ranging from theoretical statistics via analytical probability
theory, Markov processes, and random dynamics to applied topics in
statistics, economics, and geophysics. Selected reprints of
Bhattacharya's papers are divided into three sections: Modes of
Approximation, Large Times for Markov Processes, and Stochastic
Foundations in Applied Sciences. The accompanying articles by the
contributing authors not only help to position his work in the
context of other achievements, but also provide a unique assessment
of the state of their individual fields, both historically and for
the next generation of researchers. Rabi N. Bhattacharya: Selected
Papers will be a valuable resource for young researchers entering
the diverse areas of study to which Bhattacharya has contributed.
Established researchers will also appreciate this work as an
account of both past and present developments and challenges for
the future.
Florian Denker explores the role of an individual's domain
knowledge for the proficient evaluation of early-stage new product
ideas in the front-end of innovation. The results of his study show
that in order to ensure an effective evaluation, evaluators of
early-stage new product ideas should have comprehensive knowledge
of consumers' needs and wants, as well as distinct knowledge about
the opportunities and limits of available technologies in the
respective domain. In this context, the results show that not only
firm-internal experts can have this knowledge. Users and, in
particular, so-called "lead users" (i.e. users who are ahead of the
majority on major market trends and innovations), could also be
suitable for effectively evaluating early-stage new product ideas.
This textbook integrates traditional statistical data analysis with
new computational experimentation capabilities and concepts of
algorithmic complexity and chaotic behavior in nonlinear dynamic
systems. This was the first advanced text/reference to bring
together such a comprehensive variety of tools for the study of
random phenomena occurring in engineering and the natural, life,
and social sciences. The crucial computer experiments are conducted
using the readily available computer program Mathematica (R)
Uncertain Virtual Worlds (TM) software packages which optimize and
facilitate the simulation environment. Brief tutorials are included
that explain how to use the Mathematica (R) programs for effective
simulation and computer experiments. Large and original real-life
data sets are introduced and analyzed as a model for independent
study. This is an excellent classroom tool and self-study guide.
The material is presented in a clear and accessible style providing
numerous exercises and bibliographical notes suggesting further
reading. Topics and Features Comprehensive and integrated treatment
of uncertainty arising in engineering and scientific phenomena -
algorithmic complexity, statistical independence, and nonlinear
chaotic behavior Extensive exercise sets, examples, and Mathematica
(R) computer experiments that reinforce concepts and algorithmic
methods Thorough presentation of methods of data compression and
representation Algorithmic approach to model selection and design
of experiments Large data sets and 13 Mathematica (R)-based
Uncertain Virtual Worlds (TM) programs and code This text is an
excellent resource for all applied statisticians, engineers, and
scientists who need to use modern statistical analysis methods to
investigate and model their data. The present, softcover reprint is
designed to make this classic textbook available to a wider
audience.
This volume presents some of the most influential papers published
by Rabi N. Bhattacharya, along with commentaries from international
experts, demonstrating his knowledge, insight, and influence in the
field of probability and its applications. For more than three
decades, Bhattacharya has made significant contributions in areas
ranging from theoretical statistics via analytical probability
theory, Markov processes, and random dynamics to applied topics in
statistics, economics, and geophysics. Selected reprints of
Bhattacharya's papers are divided into three sections: Modes of
Approximation, Large Times for Markov Processes, and Stochastic
Foundations in Applied Sciences. The accompanying articles by the
contributing authors not only help to position his work in the
context of other achievements, but also provide a unique assessment
of the state of their individual fields, both historically and for
the next generation of researchers. Rabi N. Bhattacharya: Selected
Papers will be a valuable resource for young researchers entering
the diverse areas of study to which Bhattacharya has contributed.
Established researchers will also appreciate this work as an
account of both past and present developments and challenges for
the future.
Beyond New Media: Discourse and Critique in a Polymediated Age
examines a host of differing positions on media in order to explore
how those positions can inform one another and build a basis for
future engagements with media theory, research, and practice.
Herbig, Herrmann, and Tyma have brought together a number of media
scholars with differing paradigmatic backgrounds to debate the
relative applicability of existing theories and in doing so develop
a new approach: polymediation. Each contributor's disciplinary
background is diverse, spanning interpersonal communication, media
studies, organizational communication, instructional design,
rhetoric, mass communication, gender studies, popular culture
studies, informatics, and persuasion. Although each of these
scholars brings with them a unique perspective on media's role in
people's lives, what binds them together is the belief that
meaningful discourse about media must be an ongoing conversation
that is open to critique and revision in a rapidly changing
mediated culture. By studying media in a polymediated way, Beyond
New Media addresses more completely our complex relationship to
media(tion) in our everyday lives.
The present book is based on a course developed as partofthe large
NSF-funded
GatewayCoalitionInitiativeinEngineeringEducationwhichincludedCaseWest
ern Reserve University, Columbia University, Cooper Union, Drexel
University, Florida International University, New Jersey Institute
ofTechnology, Ohio State University, University ofPennsylvania,
Polytechnic University, and Universityof South Carolina. The
Coalition aimed to restructure the engineering curriculum by
incorporating the latest technological innovations and tried to
attract more and betterstudents to engineering and science.
Draftsofthis textbookhave been used since
1992instatisticscoursestaughtatCWRU, IndianaUniversity,
Bloomington, and at the universities in Gottingen, Germany, and
Grenoble, France. Another purpose of this project was to develop a
courseware that would take advantage ofthe Electronic Learning
Environment created by CWRUnet-the all fiber-optic Case Western
Reserve University computer network, and its ability to let
students run Mathematica experiments and projects in their
dormitory rooms, and interactpaperlessly with the instructor.
Theoretically, onecould try togothroughthisbook withoutdoing
Mathematica experimentsonthecomputer,
butitwouldbelikeplayingChopin's Piano Concerto in E-minor, or Pink
Floyd's The Wall, on an accordion. One would get an idea ofwhatthe
tune was without everexperiencing the full richness andpowerofthe
entire composition, and the whole ambience would be miscued."
Interest in mechanisms of embryo implantation is increasing,
particularly with the realization that failure of implantation
after in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer places significant
limits on the success of treatment. In addition, there is a need to
provide hypotheses, and ultimately mechanisms, for the high rates
of embryonic loss in women in the population at large.
Traditionally, implantation research has concentrated on genetics
and endocrinology without providing many therapeutic benefits. A
new era is now beginning with the application of modem cellular and
molecular approaches to the investigation of the relationship
between trophoblast and endometrium. At the same time, older data
can be reevaluated in the light of current research into cell cell
and cell-matrix interactions. The feeling that new avenues of
research are open was apparent when an international group of
scientists came together at a workshop on "The Cell Biology of
Trophoblast Invasion In Vivo and In Vitro" held during the XXIV
Annual Meeting of the Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture Study Group
(C.T.O.C.) at Heidelberg in 1986. What was unusual about this
Conference was the interdisciplinary dialogue between implantation
researchers and tumor biologists, highlighting aspects common to
invasion of trophoblast and tumor cells."
These notes are based on lectures presented during the seminar on "
Asymptotic Statistics" held at SchloB Reisensburg, Gunzburg, May
29-June 5, 1988. They consist of two parts, the theory of
asymptotic expansions in statistics and probabilistic aspects of
the asymptotic distribution theory in nonparametric statistics. Our
intention is to provide a comprehensive presentation of these two
subjects, leading from elementary facts to the advanced theory and
recent results. Prospects for further research are also included.
We would like to thank all participants for their stimulating
discussions and their interest in the subjects, which made
lecturing very pleasant. Special thanks are due H. Zimmer for her
excellent typing. We would also like to take this opportunity to to
express our thanks to the Gesellschaft fur mathematische Forschung
and to the Deutsche Mathematiker Vereinigung, especially to
Professor G. Fischer, for the opportunity to present these lectures
and to the Birkhauser Verlag for the publication of these lecture
notes. R. Bhattacharya, M. Denker Part I: Asymptotic Expansions in
Statistics Rabi Bhattacharya 11 1. CRAMER-EDGEWORTH EXPANSIONS Let
Q be a probability measure on (IRk, B"), B" denoting the Borel
sigmafield on IR". Assume that the s - th absolute moment of Q is
finite, (1.1) P. := J II x lis Q(dx) < 00, for some integer
s;::: 3, and that Q is normalized, (1.2) J x(i)Q(dx) = 0 (1 ~ i ~
k), J x(i)x(j)Q(dx) = Dij (1 ~ i,j ~ k).
In the 1880s, James McNeil Whistler revolutionized the way artists
represented the city of Venice by producing images that moved away
from the major tourist monuments to depict the squares, back
alleys, and isolated canals that only residents knew. His novel
approach inspired generations of printmakers who worked in Venice,
and this book celebrates their work.
Ernest David Roth (1879-1964) was one of the most significant
American etchers of the first half of the 20th century, and his
most important achievements are the views he did of Venice between
1905 and 1941. Roth and his friends John Taylor Arms and Louis
Rosenberg formed the nucleus of a circle of American etchers that
created a timeless vision of European and American cityscapes and
landscapes in the 1920s and 1930s, and their Venetian views are at
the center of their accomplishment.
Eric Denker is a senior lecturer at the National Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C.
The present book is based on a course developed as partofthe large
NSF-funded
GatewayCoalitionInitiativeinEngineeringEducationwhichincludedCaseWest
ern Reserve University, Columbia University, Cooper Union, Drexel
University, Florida International University, New Jersey Institute
ofTechnology, Ohio State University, University ofPennsylvania,
Polytechnic University, and Universityof South Carolina. The
Coalition aimed to restructure the engineering curriculum by
incorporating the latest technological innovations and tried to
attract more and betterstudents to engineering and science.
Draftsofthis textbookhave been used since
1992instatisticscoursestaughtatCWRU, IndianaUniversity,
Bloomington, and at the universities in Gottingen, Germany, and
Grenoble, France. Another purpose of this project was to develop a
courseware that would take advantage ofthe Electronic Learning
Environment created by CWRUnet-the all fiber-optic Case Western
Reserve University computer network, and its ability to let
students run Mathematica experiments and projects in their
dormitory rooms, and interactpaperlessly with the instructor.
Theoretically, onecould try togothroughthisbook withoutdoing
Mathematica experimentsonthecomputer,
butitwouldbelikeplayingChopin's Piano Concerto in E-minor, or Pink
Floyd's The Wall, on an accordion. One would get an idea ofwhatthe
tune was without everexperiencing the full richness andpowerofthe
entire composition, and the whole ambience would be miscued."
These notes are based on lectures presented during the seminar on "
Asymptotic Statistics" held at SchloB Reisensburg, Gunzburg, May
29-June 5, 1988. They consist of two parts, the theory of
asymptotic expansions in statistics and probabilistic aspects of
the asymptotic distribution theory in nonparametric statistics. Our
intention is to provide a comprehensive presentation of these two
subjects, leading from elementary facts to the advanced theory and
recent results. Prospects for further research are also included.
We would like to thank all participants for their stimulating
discussions and their interest in the subjects, which made
lecturing very pleasant. Special thanks are due H. Zimmer for her
excellent typing. We would also like to take this opportunity to to
express our thanks to the Gesellschaft fur mathematische Forschung
and to the Deutsche Mathematiker Vereinigung, especially to
Professor G. Fischer, for the opportunity to present these lectures
and to the Birkhauser Verlag for the publication of these lecture
notes. R. Bhattacharya, M. Denker Part I: Asymptotic Expansions in
Statistics Rabi Bhattacharya 11 1. CRAMER-EDGEWORTH EXPANSIONS Let
Q be a probability measure on (IRk, B"), B" denoting the Borel
sigmafield on IR". Assume that the s - th absolute moment of Q is
finite, (1.1) P. := J II x lis Q(dx) < 00, for some integer
s;::: 3, and that Q is normalized, (1.2) J x(i)Q(dx) = 0 (1 ~ i ~
k), J x(i)x(j)Q(dx) = Dij (1 ~ i,j ~ k).
Dedicated to the Memory of Rufus Bowen (1947-1978)
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