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This book sheds new light on the dynamical behaviour of electron
spins in molecules containing two unpaired electrons (i.e. a
radical pair). The quantum dynamics of these spins are made
complicated by the interaction between the electrons and the many
nuclear spins of the molecule; they are intractable using
analytical techniques, and a naive numerical diagonalization is not
remotely possible using current computational resources. Hence,
this book presents a new method for obtaining the exact
quantum-mechanical dynamics of radical pairs with a modest number
of nuclear spins. Readers will learn how a calculation that would
take 13 years using conventional wavepacket propagation can now be
done in 1 day, and will also discover a new semiclassical method
for approximating the dynamics in the presence of many nuclear
spins. The new methods covered in this book are shown to provide
significant insights into three topical and diverse areas: charge
recombination in molecular wires (which can be used in artificially
mimicking photosynthesis), magnetoelectroluminescence in organic
light-emitting diodes, and avian magnetoreception (how birds sense
the Earth's magnetic field in order to navigate).
Comprising a selection of contemporary state of the art research
that focuses on psychological type, religion, and culture, this
book can be divided into two particular areas of research. The
first section focuses on the religion and psychological type of
Church leaders, while the second section reports on Church members,
their religion, and their psychological type. The book attests to
the importance of Jungian Psychological Type theory in
understanding individual differences in religiosity within a
variety of samples. Authored by a wide range of international
scholars, employing a wide range of measures, among diverse samples
and in a variety of different cultures, this research provides an
important contribution to current and future research. It
facilitates future research work in the area outside of the white,
Anglo-Saxon, Anglophone, Christian context on which it has
traditionally been focused. This book was originally published as a
double special issue of the Mental Health, Religion & Culture
journal.
Assessment of mental health, religion and culture: The development
and examination of psychometric measures focuses on questionnaires
that are of practical value for researchers interested in examining
the relationship between the constructs of mental health, religion,
and culture. Three particular areas of development and evaluation
are represented within this volume: firstly, the psychometric
properties of recently developed new questionnaires; secondly, the
psychometric properties of established questionnaires that have
been translated into other languages; and thirdly, the psychometric
properties of questionnaires employed in various cultural contexts
and religious samples. The research in this book is authored by a
wide range of international scholars working on diverse samples and
in a variety of different cultures. In doing so, the book
facilitates future research in the area of mental health, religion,
and culture. This book was originally published as two special
issues of Mental Health, Religion & Culture.
There has recently been an escalated interest in the interface
between psychology and economics. The Cambridge Handbook of
Psychology and Economic Behaviour is a valuable reference dedicated
to improving our understanding of the economic mind and economic
behaviour. Employing empirical methods - including laboratory and
field experiments, observations, questionnaires and interviews -
the Handbook provides comprehensive coverage of theory and method,
financial and consumer behaviour, the environment and biological
perspectives. This second edition also includes new chapters on
topics such as neuroeconomics, unemployment, debt, behavioural
public finance, and cutting-edge work on fuzzy trace theory and
robots, cyborgs and consumption. With distinguished contributors
from a variety of countries and theoretical backgrounds, the
Handbook is an important step forward in the improvement of
communications between the disciplines of psychology and economics
that will appeal to academic researchers and graduates in economic
psychology and behavioral economics.
There has been a remarkable growth of interest in the ethical
dimension of economic affairs. Whilst the interest in business
ethics has been long-standing, it has been given renewed emphasis
by high profile scandals in the world of business and finance. At
the same time many economists, dissatisfied with the discipline's
emphasis on self-interest and individualism, and by the asocial
nature of much economic theory, have sought to enlarge the scope of
economics by looking at ethical questions. In this volume a group
of interdisciplinary scholars provide contributions which include
evaluations of work in business ethics, empirical studies of such
issues as social and ethical investing, the place of ethics in the
new economics and perspectives from other disciplines.
There has been a remarkable growth of interest in the ethical
dimension of economic affairs. Whilst the interest in business
ethics has been long-standing, it has been given renewed emphasis
by high profile scandals in the world of business and finance. At
the same time many economists, dissatisfied with the discipline's
emphasis on self-interest and individualism, and by the asocial
nature of much economic theory, have sought to enlarge the scope of
economics by looking at ethical questions.
In this volume a group of interdisciplinary scholars provide
contributions which include evaluations of work in business ethics,
empirical studies of such issues as social and ethical investing,
the place of ethics in the new economics and perspectives from
other disciplines.
This book sheds new light on the dynamical behaviour of electron
spins in molecules containing two unpaired electrons (i.e. a
radical pair). The quantum dynamics of these spins are made
complicated by the interaction between the electrons and the many
nuclear spins of the molecule; they are intractable using
analytical techniques, and a naive numerical diagonalization is not
remotely possible using current computational resources. Hence,
this book presents a new method for obtaining the exact
quantum-mechanical dynamics of radical pairs with a modest number
of nuclear spins. Readers will learn how a calculation that would
take 13 years using conventional wavepacket propagation can now be
done in 1 day, and will also discover a new semiclassical method
for approximating the dynamics in the presence of many nuclear
spins. The new methods covered in this book are shown to provide
significant insights into three topical and diverse areas: charge
recombination in molecular wires (which can be used in artificially
mimicking photosynthesis), magnetoelectroluminescence in organic
light-emitting diodes, and avian magnetoreception (how birds sense
the Earth's magnetic field in order to navigate).
This text is a vital resource for those with little or no prior
knowledge of computing or statistics to aid in the development of
reliable and valid tests and scales for assessment or research
purposes. It serves as a clear, concise and jargon-free primer for
all those embarking in fieldwork or research analysis. The book
contains detailed guidelines for locating and constructing
psychological measures, including descriptions of popular
psychological measures and step-by-step instructions for composing
a measure, entering data, and computing reliability and validity of
test results. Advanced techniques such as factor analysis, analysis
of covariance, and multiple regression analysis are presented for
the beginner. This new edition has been revised throughout and
includes updated statistical test procedures in line with the new
version of SPSS and the inclusion of current academic articles. It
serves as an invaluable resource for undergraduates and
postgraduates across the behavioral and social sciences, as well as
professionals in related disciplines, including those working in
management and medical sciences.
Contemporary agriculture is a wide-ranging field with its own unique language. As an aid for improving scientific communication for everyone from students to public decision-makers, the CRC Dictionary of Agricultural Sciences provides a comprehensive guide to the terminology of agriculture. It includes every area of agriculture, from traditional farming to environmental sciences to the latest developments in biotechnology and genetics.
The dictionary provides: · Approximately 15,000 terms · Extensive cross-referencing of closely related entries · Definitions include often-used variants of the principal meaning
More than just a compendium of terms, this dictionary presents clear, concise definitions in traditional dictionary entry format. From agroecology to wildlife biology, the CRC Dictionary of Agricultural Sciences establishes common ground between the various practitioners involved in agriculture, making interdisciplinary communications easier and more precise.
About the author: Dr. Lewis is a world-class scientist and renowned author and editor of numerous scientific papers and books written in English and German. His contributions include research and applications in ecology and agro-ecology; environmental science; environmental and agricultural technology; endocrinology; air pollution sciences; and environmental monitoring and specimen banking. Dr. Lewis has been an academic and government administrator in the United States and Germany and has developed and coordinated several programs of research that were national or international in scope.
Assessment of mental health, religion and culture: The development
and examination of psychometric measures focuses on questionnaires
that are of practical value for researchers interested in examining
the relationship between the constructs of mental health, religion,
and culture. Three particular areas of development and evaluation
are represented within this volume: firstly, the psychometric
properties of recently developed new questionnaires; secondly, the
psychometric properties of established questionnaires that have
been translated into other languages; and thirdly, the psychometric
properties of questionnaires employed in various cultural contexts
and religious samples. The research in this book is authored by a
wide range of international scholars working on diverse samples and
in a variety of different cultures. In doing so, the book
facilitates future research in the area of mental health, religion,
and culture. This book was originally published as two special
issues of Mental Health, Religion & Culture.
Comprising a selection of contemporary state of the art research
that focuses on psychological type, religion, and culture, this
book can be divided into two particular areas of research. The
first section focuses on the religion and psychological type of
Church leaders, while the second section reports on Church members,
their religion, and their psychological type. The book attests to
the importance of Jungian Psychological Type theory in
understanding individual differences in religiosity within a
variety of samples. Authored by a wide range of international
scholars, employing a wide range of measures, among diverse samples
and in a variety of different cultures, this research provides an
important contribution to current and future research. It
facilitates future research work in the area outside of the white,
Anglo-Saxon, Anglophone, Christian context on which it has
traditionally been focused. This book was originally published as a
double special issue of the Mental Health, Religion & Culture
journal.
This text is a vital resource for those with little or no prior
knowledge of computing or statistics to aid in the development of
reliable and valid tests and scales for assessment or research
purposes. It serves as a clear, concise and jargon-free primer for
all those embarking in fieldwork or research analysis. The book
contains detailed guidelines for locating and constructing
psychological measures, including descriptions of popular
psychological measures and step-by-step instructions for composing
a measure, entering data, and computing reliability and validity of
test results. Advanced techniques such as factor analysis, analysis
of covariance, and multiple regression analysis are presented for
the beginner. This new edition has been revised throughout and
includes updated statistical test procedures in line with the new
version of SPSS and the inclusion of current academic articles. It
serves as an invaluable resource for undergraduates and
postgraduates across the behavioral and social sciences, as well as
professionals in related disciplines, including those working in
management and medical sciences.
The Hebrew alphabet is composed of 22 letters. This book provides a
key to the many and very interesting facets of awareness pertaining
to them. The contents here have been thoroughly researched from
many sources. This key provides valuable insights about the Holy
Bible and its relationship and identity correlating to the Hebrew
letters. This book is knowledge for life. The Holy Bible is used as
support for these keys, relying on the King James Version
translation, and numerical values and word associations of each
Hebrew letter are provided on a reliable basis that can be tested
through the readers' own Bible studies and life experiences. Also
included are four of the not-so-well known but interesting and
relevant books of Jewish and Christian Apocrypha, not Scripture,
yet worth reading. These are The Wisdom of Solomon (The King James
Version), Psalms of Solomon, Odes of Solomon, and The Gospel of
Thomas. Please make up your own mind about what you believe, and
what you want to believe.
Alan Lewis Silva is a California author and folk singer,
independent publisher of over 400 songs in the vein of blues, fado,
folk-rock, and jazz. His songs are lyrically oriented, heavy in
imagery, and give a Californian, Millennial, cultural expression to
the plights and imaginations of the human soul submerged or
emerging from the effects of the Information Age. He is the voice
of a generation. Although his music has not been commercially
successful, it does have integrity and is original; Alan retains
ownership of all his songs, music and lyrics, and is currently
working on other projects. He lives in San Diego.
Claims of Identity is a book of essays discussing relationships
between archetypes and identities. Drawing on history, timeless
tropes, and comparative literature, this book explores the
activities of identification in a variety of ways, adding
significance to representations of outsiders and the marginalized
in order to appreciate authors and cultures with a view toward
philosophy. A thematic treatise included in this volume -- "Claims
of Identity in Bret Harte's Gabriel Conroy" -- argues that identity
is claimed rather than inherently bestowed, and that this is
contributive to California identity. The treatise also discusses
Bret Harte, the original California author. Gabriel Conroy, Bret
Harte's only long novel, published in 1875, tells a fiction of who
"owns" California, symbolized as a silver mine in the Sierras.
Various imposters are implicated. The result is a sweeping
adventure that typifies Californian identity to this day, and
compliments the understanding of additional topics.
This collection of poetry involves themes of contemporary life
experienced by a millennial. It conducts the reader in humor, wit,
and moments of growing up through the teenage years through the
early thirties, in the vein of an artist's imaginative, inquiring
search for truth. It is edgy and satirical, and in other ways
spiritual, sincere, and emotive. These verses appertain to a
bohemian mood throughout, containing filtered observations of sin
and virtue. Each poem finds terms to record the soul's journey in a
diverse array of situations. Challenging to classify stylistically,
this is a rare California vision on the effects of the Information
Age. Composed in three sections, this work poses questions one can
contemplate and relate to: What is the value of modern life? What
has altered our achievements, behavior, and values? Although
humanity continues to grow, what will be our lasting impressions?
Discover the complex and primitive motivations of the natural and
artificial ecosystems of the 21st century.
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