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This book provides a broad overview of the benefits from a Systems
Engineering design philosophy in architecting complex systems
composed of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and
humans situated in chaotic environments. The major topics include
emergence, verification and validation of systems using AI/ML and
human systems integration to develop robust and effective
human-machine teams-where the machines may have varying degrees of
autonomy due to the sophistication of their embedded AI/ML. The
chapters not only describe what has been learned, but also raise
questions that must be answered to further advance the general
Science of Autonomy. The science of how humans and machines operate
as a team requires insights from, among others, disciplines such as
the social sciences, national and international jurisprudence,
ethics and policy, and sociology and psychology. The social
sciences inform how context is constructed, how trust is affected
when humans and machines depend upon each other and how
human-machine teams need a shared language of explanation. National
and international jurisprudence determine legal responsibilities of
non-trivial human-machine failures, ethical standards shape global
policy, and sociology provides a basis for understanding team norms
across cultures. Insights from psychology may help us to understand
the negative impact on humans if AI/ML based machines begin to
outperform their human teammates and consequently diminish their
value or importance. This book invites professionals and the
curious alike to witness a new frontier open as the Science of
Autonomy emerges.
There are four core themes developed in this book which deal with
critical issues, models, theories and frameworks. These expound
understandings of patient centred care and the processes, practices
and behaviours supporting its attainment: conceptions and cultures
of patient-centred care, coordination, communication, innovation.
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Rudolf Steiner; Introduction by Robert A. McDermott; Revised by Frederick Amrine; Translated by Maud B. Monges
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There are four core themes developed in Patient-Centred Health Care
which deal with critical issues, models, theories and frameworks
(both theoretical and empirical) that expound understandings of
patient centred care and the processes, practices and behaviours
supporting its attainment: 1. Conceptions and cultures of
patient-centred care2. Coordinating for care 3. Communicating for
care4. Innovations in patient centred care and the patient
experienceSection 1 of this book sets out the origins of the
approach of patient centredness, allowing the reader to recognise
what this means and looks like, institutionally and educationally,
as well as recognising the implications of its absence. Section 2
concentrates on the process of team working itself which may be
patient centred but is also involved with co-operation and
co-ordination across professional and organisational boundaries.
Section 3 focuses on communication within, between and across
patients and teams, and Section 4 highlights the innovations in
patient centred care that will enable further progress in the
field. In each section, the editors illuminate key issues through a
case-study of a relevant intervention to support patient-centred
care.
Today's economy is fueled by knowledge. Every leader knows this to
be true, yet few have systematic methods for converting
organizational knowledge into economic value. This book argues that
communities of practice--groups of individuals formed around common
interests and expertise--provide the ideal vehicle for driving
knowledge-management strategies and building lasting competitive
advantage. Written by leading experts in the field, Cultivating
Communities of Practice is the first book to outline models and
methods for systematically developing these essential groups.
Through compelling research and company examples, including
DaimlerChrysler, McKinsey & Company, Shell, and the World Bank,
authors Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, and William M. Snyder
show how world-class organizations have leveraged communities of
practice to drive strategy, generate new business opportunities,
solve problems, transfer best practices, develop employees'
professional skills, and recruit and retain top talent.
Underscoring the new central role communities of practice are
playing in today's knowledge economy, Cultivating Communities of
Practice is the definitive guide to fostering, designing, and
developing these powerful groups within and across organizations.
This book provides a broad overview of the benefits from a Systems
Engineering design philosophy in architecting complex systems
composed of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and
humans situated in chaotic environments. The major topics include
emergence, verification and validation of systems using AI/ML and
human systems integration to develop robust and effective
human-machine teams-where the machines may have varying degrees of
autonomy due to the sophistication of their embedded AI/ML. The
chapters not only describe what has been learned, but also raise
questions that must be answered to further advance the general
Science of Autonomy. The science of how humans and machines operate
as a team requires insights from, among others, disciplines such as
the social sciences, national and international jurisprudence,
ethics and policy, and sociology and psychology. The social
sciences inform how context is constructed, how trust is affected
when humans and machines depend upon each other and how
human-machine teams need a shared language of explanation. National
and international jurisprudence determine legal responsibilities of
non-trivial human-machine failures, ethical standards shape global
policy, and sociology provides a basis for understanding team norms
across cultures. Insights from psychology may help us to understand
the negative impact on humans if AI/ML based machines begin to
outperform their human teammates and consequently diminish their
value or importance. This book invites professionals and the
curious alike to witness a new frontier open as the Science of
Autonomy emerges.
The more than fifty articles, essays, and reviews in this volume,
collected here for the first time, were published by William James
over a span of some twenty-five years. The record of a sustained
interest in phenomena of a highly controversial nature, they make
it amply clear that James's work in psychical research was not an
eccentric hobby but a serious and sympathetic concern. James was
broad-minded in his approach but tough-minded in his demand that
investigations be conducted in rigorous scientific terms. He hoped
his study of psychic phenomena would strengthen the philosophy of
an open-ended, pluralistic universe that he was formulating during
the same period, and he looked forward to the new horizons for
human experience that a successful outcome of his research would
create.
Robert A. McDermott, in his Introduction, discusses the relation
of these essays to James's other work in philosophy, psychology,
and religion.
'25 Years in the Desert' is a companion reader to use on the
journey to connect with the Divine. It guides the reader through a
process that begins with the initial commitment to change, followed
by preparing for meditation, why to make meditation a daily
practice, how to meditate correctly, and what can be expected from
a sincere and resolute meditation practice. '25 Years in the
Desert' is also a collection of quotes, stories, parables, koans,
haiku, personal drawings and a bit of advice to consider on the
search for an authentic spirituality in a secular world. The last
chapter is dedicated to creativity and includes exercises for
unleashing the artist and writer within. This volume includes a
writing and sketch journal for personal use.
"Embedded Politics" offers a unique framework for analyzing the
impact of past industrial networks on the way postcommunist
societies build new institutions to govern the restructuring of
their economies. Drawing on a detailed analysis of communist
Czechoslovakia and contemporary Czech industries and banks, Gerald
A. McDermott argues that restructuring is best advanced through the
creation of deliberative or participatory forms of governance that
encourages public and private actors to share information and take
risks. Further, he contends that institutional and organizational
changes are intertwined and that experimental processes are shaped
by how governments delegate power to local public and private
actors and monitor them.
Using comparative case analysis of several manufacturing sectors,
"Embedded Politics" accounts for change and continuity in the
formation of new economic governance institutions in the Czech
Republic. It analytically links the macropolitics of state policy
with the micropolitics of industrial restructuring. Thus the book
advances an alternative approach for the comparative study of
institutional change and industrial adjustment.
As a historical and contemporary analysis of Czech firms and public
institutions, this book will command the attention of students of
postcommunist reforms, privatization, and political-economic
transitions in general. But also given its interdisciplinary
approach and detailed empirical analysis of policy-making and firm
behavior, "Embedded Politics" is a must read for scholars of
politics, economics, sociology, political economy, business
organization, and public policy.
Gerald A. McDermott is Assistant Professor of Management in The
Wharton School of Management at The University of Pennsylvania. His
research applies recent advances in comparative political economy
and industrial organization, including theories of social networks,
historical institutionalism, and incomplete markets to analyze
issues of economic governance, firm creation, and industrial
restructuring in advanced and newly industrialized countries. As
evidenced by "Embedded Politics, " his current focus is on problems
of institutional and organizational learning in the formation of
meso-level governance institutions in emerging market and
postsocialist economies.
McDermott also works as Senior Research Fellow at the IAE Escuela
de Direccion y Negocios at Universidad Austral in Buenos Aires, and
he has served as Project Coordinator at the Inter-American
Development Bank. He has consulted for the Finance, Private Sector,
and Infrastructure Division at the World Bank and advised the
Deputy Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic. In addition he has
published many papers and book chapters on entrepreneurship,
privatization, institutions, and networks in Central Europe and
Latin America.
The Problem with Parenting serves as an essential guide to the
recent origins and current excesses of American parenting for
students, parents, and policy makers interested in the changing
role of the family in childrearing. Family scholarship focuses
predominately on the evolution of family structure and function,
with only passing references to parenting. Researchers who study
parenting, however, invariably regard it as a sociological
phenomenon with complex motivations rooted in such factors as
class, economic instability, and new technologies. This book
examines the relationship between changes to the family and the
emergence of parenting, defined here as a specific mode of
childrearing. It shows how, beginning in the 1970s, the family was
transformed from a social unit that functioned as the primary
institution for raising children into a vehicle for the nurturing
and fulfillment of the self. The book pays special attention to
socialization and describes how the change in our understanding of
parenthood-from a state of being into the distinct activity of
"parenting"-is indicative of a disruption of our ability to
transfer key cultural values and norms from one generation to the
next. Suggests that families are no longer able to reliably
socialize children Proposes that the reason the family has ceased
to function as a socializing institution has less to do with
changes in structure than with the replacement of a child-centered
ideal with a therapeutic imperative Suggests that parenting is a
new mode of childrearing that arose in the absence of a reliable
institution for childrearing Argues that parenting culture itself
is a response to the experience of the breakdown in socialization
that occurred that began in the 1970s Makes the case for a renewal
of a societal commitment to children and the rising generation
In the second edition of this groundbreaking text in non-Western
philosophy, fifteen experts introduce some of the great
philosophical traditions in the world. The dozen essays collected
here unveil exciting, sophisticated philosophical traditions that
are too often neglected in the western world. The contributors
include the leading scholars in their fields, but they write for
students coming to these concepts for the first time. Building on
revisions and updates to the original essays on China, India,
Japan, and the Americas, this new edition also considers three
philosophical traditions for the first time Jewish, Buddhist, and
South Pacific (Maori) philosophy."
Embedded Politics offers a unique framework for analyzing the
impact of past industrial networks on the way postcommunist
societies build new institutions to govern the restructuring of
their economies. Drawing on a detailed analysis of communist
Czechoslovakia and contemporary Czech industries and banks, Gerald
A. McDermott argues that restructuring is best advanced through the
creation of deliberative or participatory forms of governance that
encourages public and private actors to share information and take
risks. Further, he contends that institutional and organizational
changes are intertwined and that experimental processes are shaped
by how governments delegate power to local public and private
actors and monitor them. Using comparative case analysis of several
manufacturing sectors, Embedded Politics accounts for change and
continuity in the formation of new economic governance institutions
in the Czech Republic. It analytically links the macropolitics of
state policy with the micropolitics of industrial restructuring.
Thus the book advances an alternative approach for the comparative
study of institutional change and industrial adjustment. As a
historical and contemporary analysis of Czech firms and public
institutions, this book will command the attention of students of
postcommunist reforms, privatization, and political-economic
transitions in general. But also given its interdisciplinary
approach and detailed empirical analysis of policy-making and firm
behavior, Embedded Politics is a must read for scholars of
politics, economics, sociology, political economy, business
organization, and public policy. Gerald A. McDermott is Assistant
Professor of Management in The Wharton School of Management at The
University of Pennsylvania. His research applies recent advances in
comparative political economy and industrial organization,
including theories of social networks, historical institutionalism,
and incomplete markets to analyze issues of economic governance,
firm creation, and industrial restructuring in advanced and newly
industrialized countries. As evidenced by Embedded Politics, his
current focus is on problems of institutional and organizational
learning in the formation of meso-level governance institutions in
emerging market and postsocialist economies. McDermott also works
as Senior Research Fellow at the IAE Escuela de Direccion y
Negocios at Universidad Austral in Buenos Aires, and he has served
as Project Coordinator at the Inter-American Development Bank. He
has consulted for the Finance, Private Sector, and Infrastructure
Division at the World Bank and advised the Deputy Foreign Minister
of the Czech Republic. In addition he has published many papers and
book chapters on entrepreneurship, privatization, institutions, and
networks in Central Europe and Latin America.
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