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With rising financial difficulties and declining enrollments, many
colleges and universities are finding that they need new and better
ways to present and promote themselves to potential students and
the general public. New Strategies in Higher Education Marketing
contains practical, "how-to" applications of marketing thought and
theory for the higher education environment. Written by
practitioners for practitioners, this valuable book offers new
viewpoints, tools, and creative ways to solve potentially
devastating problems through the implementation of marketing. Each
chapter is application oriented and cases and situations common to
most universities and colleges are discussed to illustrate
marketing strategies and techniques to make them more easily
understood and readily usable.New Strategies in Higher Education
Marketing is divided into four sections: Strategy Research and
Promotion Enrollment Services Development. It includes informative
chapters on topics including perceptions and proper application of
marketing in higher education; fund raising; public relations;
coordination of intra-organizational efforts; techniques and
methods of gathering information and data; and the challenge and
management of student enrollment. Directors, presidents,
vice-presidents, and others responsible for or interested in the
marketing of a college or university will find a wealth of highly
practical information in this book.
With rising financial difficulties and declining enrollments, many
colleges and universities are finding that they need new and better
ways to present and promote themselves to potential students and
the general public. New Strategies in Higher Education Marketing
contains practical, "how-to" applications of marketing thought and
theory for the higher education environment. Written by
practitioners for practitioners, this valuable book offers new
viewpoints, tools, and creative ways to solve potentially
devastating problems through the implementation of marketing. Each
chapter is application oriented and cases and situations common to
most universities and colleges are discussed to illustrate
marketing strategies and techniques to make them more easily
understood and readily usable.New Strategies in Higher Education
Marketing is divided into four sections: Strategy Research and
Promotion Enrollment Services Development. It includes informative
chapters on topics including perceptions and proper application of
marketing in higher education; fund raising; public relations;
coordination of intra-organizational efforts; techniques and
methods of gathering information and data; and the challenge and
management of student enrollment. Directors, presidents,
vice-presidents, and others responsible for or interested in the
marketing of a college or university will find a wealth of highly
practical information in this book.
Rapid, inexpensive, and easy-to-deploy, near-infrared (NIR)
spectroscopy can be used to analyze samples of virtually any
composition, origin, and condition. The Handbook of Near Infrared
Analysis, Fourth Edition, explores the factors necessary to perform
accurate and time- and cost-effective analyses across a growing
spectrum of disciplines. This updated and expanded edition
incorporates the latest advances in instrumentation,
computerization, chemometrics applied to NIR spectroscopy, and
method development in NIR spectroscopy, and underscores current
trends in sample preparation, calibration transfer, process
control, data analysis, instrument performance testing, and
commercial NIR instrumentation. This work offers readers an
unparalleled combination of theoretical foundations, cutting-edge
applications, and practical experience. Additional features include
the following: Explains how to perform accurate as well as time-
and cost-effective analyses. Reviews software-enabled chemometric
methods and other trends in data analysis. Highlights novel
applications in pharmaceuticals, polymers, plastics,
petrochemicals, textiles, foods and beverages, baked products,
agricultural products, biomedicine, nutraceuticals, and counterfeit
detection. Underscores current trends in sample preparation,
calibration transfer, process control, data analysis, and multiple
aspects of commercial NIR instrumentation. Offering the most
complete single-source guide of its kind, the Handbook of Near
Infrared Analysis, Fourth Edition, continues to offer practicing
chemists and spectroscopists an unparalleled combination of
theoretical foundations, cutting-edge applications, and detailed
practical experience provided firsthand by more than 50 experts in
the field.
Introduction to the Calculus of Variations and Control with Modern
Applications provides the fundamental background required to
develop rigorous necessary conditions that are the starting points
for theoretical and numerical approaches to modern variational
calculus and control problems. The book also presents some
classical sufficient conditions and discusses the importance of
distinguishing between the necessary and sufficient conditions. In
the first part of the text, the author develops the calculus of
variations and provides complete proofs of the main results. He
explains how the ideas behind the proofs are essential to the
development of modern optimization and control theory. Focusing on
optimal control problems, the second part shows how optimal control
is a natural extension of the classical calculus of variations to
more complex problems. By emphasizing the basic ideas and their
mathematical development, this book gives you the foundation to use
these mathematical tools to then tackle new problems. The text
moves from simple to more complex problems, allowing you to see how
the fundamental theory can be modified to address more difficult
and advanced challenges. This approach helps you understand how to
deal with future problems and applications in a realistic work
environment.
Introduction to the Calculus of Variations and Control with Modern
Applications provides the fundamental background required to
develop rigorous necessary conditions that are the starting points
for theoretical and numerical approaches to modern variational
calculus and control problems. The book also presents some
classical sufficient conditions and discusses the importance of
distinguishing between the necessary and sufficient conditions. In
the first part of the text, the author develops the calculus of
variations and provides complete proofs of the main results. He
explains how the ideas behind the proofs are essential to the
development of modern optimization and control theory. Focusing on
optimal control problems, the second part shows how optimal control
is a natural extension of the classical calculus of variations to
more complex problems. By emphasizing the basic ideas and their
mathematical development, this book gives you the foundation to use
these mathematical tools to then tackle new problems. The text
moves from simple to more complex problems, allowing you to see how
the fundamental theory can be modified to address more difficult
and advanced challenges. This approach helps you understand how to
deal with future problems and applications in a realistic work
environment.
Today well over two hundred museums focusing on African American
history and culture can be found throughout the United States and
Canada. Many of these institutions trace their roots to the 1960s
and 1970s, when the struggle for racial equality inspired a
movement within the black community to make the history and culture
of African America more "public." This book tells the story of four
of these groundbreaking museums: the DuSable Museum of African
American History in Chicago (founded in 1961); the International
Afro-American Museum in Detroit (1965); the Anacostia Neighborhood
Museum in Washington, D.C. (1967); and the African American Museum
of Philadelphia (1976). Andrea A. Burns shows how the founders of
these institutions, many of whom had ties to the Black Power
movement, sought to provide African Americans with a meaningful
alternative to the misrepresentation or utter neglect of black
history found in standard textbooks and most public history sites.
Through the recovery and interpretation of artifacts, documents,
and stories drawn from African American experience, they encouraged
the embrace of a distinctly black identity and promoted new methods
of interaction between the museum and the local community.
Over time, the black museum movement induced mainstream
institutions to integrate African American history and culture into
their own exhibits and educational programs. This often
controversial process has culminated in the creation of a National
Museum of African American History and Culture, now scheduled to
open in the nation's capital in 2015.
David Hayman presents this documentary about Scottish poet Robert
Burns. Hayman explores Burns' life from his childhood to his rise
to fame throughout the nation while a team of experts use forensic
technology to create a model of the writer's head to show, with as
much accuracy as possible, what he would have really looked like.
Two issues have been central within political philosophy in the
last decade or so. The first is the debate over 'the politics of
distribution versus the politics of recognition, ' which is usually
associated with the work of Axel Honneth and Nancy Fraser. The
second is discussion of the phenomenon known as globalization,
focusing on the notions of cosmopolitanism and global justice. This
book explores the relationship between these two issues. It
considers not only the global dimension of the politics of
recognition, but also how recognition theory can provide new
insights into our understanding of problems of global justice,
especially those of a non-distributive nature. A number of the
contributors consider the relevance of Hegel's theory of
recognition for our understanding of these issues.
Global justice is of every increasing importance in the
contemporary political world. This volume brings a hitherto
overlooked perspective - the politics of recognition - to bear on
this idea. It considers how discussion of each of these illuminates
the problems posed by the other, thus addressing an issue of vital
concern for the years to come.
Drawing on ethnographic accounts of children's media-referenced
play, this book explores children's engagement with media cultures
and playground experiences, analyzing a range of issues such as
learning, fantasy, communication and identity.
The later stages of dementia are as important, if not more so, as
the earlier stages, since they harbour unique characteristics and
events, which profoundly affect the lives of patients and their
carers. Severe dementia has not had a high profile in the clinical
literature as until recently prognosis was poor and there were few
beneficial interventions. With the recent licensing of memantine,
clinicians finally have a drug option that will delay disease
progression.
"Severe Dementia" is the first book to focus exclusively on
severe dementia. It addresses both the clinical features of the
disease and the social aspects of care. Introductory chapters on
the differential diagnosis, neurochemistry and molecular pathology
of severe dementia set the scene for the clinical discussion.
Detailed clinical chapters on cognitive function, depression,
physical effects, staging and function follow. All therapeutic
interventions are then discussed, including memantine,
anticholinesterases, neuroleptics and non-pharmacological
treatment. The final chapters review the social and economic
aspects of dementia care, including family involvement,
person-centered care, palliative care, ethics and health
economics.
Written and edited by experts in geriatric psychiatry and
geriatrics, "Severe Dementia" is of value to all clinicians
involved in the management of this complex and vulnerable group of
patients. It is also of interest to general practitioners and
carers in nursing homes.
Major changes have recently taken place in the value attached to
components of milk. Although approximately half the energy in milk
is contained in fat, fat is rapidly decreasing in value relative to
protein. This has come about because of the increased availability
of competitively-priced, plant-derived edible oils and because of
the perceived health problems associated with animal fat in the
human diet. Such changes have major implications for the dairy
sector, particularly in developed countries. Against this
background, this book presents a timely review of developments in
milk production and consumption, of changes in milk component
values, and of the opportunities that biotechnology provides to
alter the composition of and add value to milk on the farm. The
subject coverage is very broad, ranging from nutritional aspects of
pastures and forages, to rumen microbiology, genetics and
reproductive technologies, milk biochemistry and environmental
implications. It is based on a conference held in Wellington, New
Zealand, in February 1996, and sponsored by the OECD and
AgResearch. Contributors include leading research workers from
North America, Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. It
provides an invaluable overview of the subject, suitable as a
reference book for advanced students, researchers and advisers in
dairy science as well as related disciplines such as grassland,
nutritional and food sciences.
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In the United States, against the background of secularization, the
religious atmospheres have changed radically in the past 40 years.
In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Immigration and
Naturalization Act, which opened America's doors to immigrants from
all over the world. As a result, approximately one million
immigrants legally enter the United States each year and bring with
them religions traditions such as Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism.
Catholic Spirituality and Prayer in the Secular City presents the
role of religion and spirituality in a rapidly changing religious
scenario. Author Robert A. Burns explores ways Catholics have been
called upon to develop their spiritual lives in the most religious
pluralistic society that has ever existed. Burns acknowledges the
struggle that many people face when seeking a deeper spirituality
and do not now where or how to begin, and seeks to guide readers
through the confusion and back to the meaning of spirituality. This
book leads readers through the various approaches taken to
achieving a deeper spiritual life by presenting and discussing the
religious philosophies of spiritual leaders throughout history.
Ultimately, Catholic Spirituality and Prayer in the Secular City
provides readers with the ability to see themselves in a proper
context by offering a new avenue for deeper spirituality.
We often see children engaging with media - playing videogames,
trading Pokemon cards, or acting out superhero fantasies. But what
do we know about children's self-directed play in the context of
their media cultures? This book provides in-depth analyses of
children's media-referenced play on two primary school playgrounds
in different cities in the UK. Drawing on ethnographic accounts of
children's media-referenced play in UK playgrounds, as well as
historical documents and contemporary media products, this book
sets out an in-depth analysis of the current state of children's
playground experiences. The aim of the book is to provide in-depth
case studies of several genres of children's play as well as making
connections to broader theories. The analyses consider a wide range
of concepts including learning, fantasy, communication and issues
relating to identities. As such the book appeals to a large
audience covering a variety of disciplines including folklore,
media and cultural studies, education, sociology, and childhood
studies.
Music videos promote popular artists in cultural forms that
circulate widely across social media networks. With the advent of
YouTube in 2005 and the proliferation of handheld technologies and
social networking sites, the music video has become available to
millions worldwide, and continues to serve as a fertile platform
for the debate of issues and themes in popular culture. This volume
of essays serves as a foundational handbook for the study and
interpretation of the popular music video, with the specific aim of
examining the industry contexts, cultural concepts, and aesthetic
materials that videos rely upon in order to be both intelligible
and meaningful. Easily accessible to viewers in everyday life,
music videos offer profound cultural interventions and negotiations
while traversing a range of media forms. From a variety of unique
perspectives, the contributors to this volume undertake discussions
that open up new avenues for exploring the creative changes and
developments in music video production. With chapters that address
music video authorship, distribution, cultural representations,
mediations, aesthetics, and discourses, this study signals a major
initiative to provide a deeper understanding of the intersecting
and interdisciplinary approaches that are invoked in the analysis
of this popular and influential musical form.
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