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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
This invaluable book, based on the many years of teaching
experience of both authors, introduces the reader to the basic
ideas in differential topology. Among the topics covered are smooth
manifolds and maps, the structure of the tangent bundle and its
associates, the calculation of real cohomology groups using
differential forms (de Rham theory), and applications such as the
PoincariHopf theorem relating the Euler number of a manifold and
the index of a vector field. Each chapter contains exercises of
varying difficulty for which solutions are provided. Special
features include examples drawn from geometric manifolds in
dimension 3 and Brieskorn varieties in dimensions 5 and 7, as well
as detailed calculations for the cohomology groups of spheres and
tori.
This invaluable book, based on the many years of teaching
experience of both authors, introduces the reader to the basic
ideas in differential topology. Among the topics covered are smooth
manifolds and maps, the structure of the tangent bundle and its
associates, the calculation of real cohomology groups using
differential forms (de Rham theory), and applications such as the
PoincariHopf theorem relating the Euler number of a manifold and
the index of a vector field. Each chapter contains exercises of
varying difficulty for which solutions are provided. Special
features include examples drawn from geometric manifolds in
dimension 3 and Brieskorn varieties in dimensions 5 and 7, as well
as detailed calculations for the cohomology groups of spheres and
tori.
Contents: Chapter 1 - Controversies in Management Chapter 2 - What is Management? A Term in Search of a Meaning Chapter 3 - What is Management? Exploitation Politics and Magic Chapter 4 - The Social Sciences: Can they help managers? Chapter 5 - Principles of Management - Valid or Vacuous? Chapter 6 - Getting Ahead in Management: Meritocracy or Myth? Chapter 7 - Gender in Management - Must Men Manage? Chapter 8 - Organizational Leadership - Does it Make a Difference? Chapter 9 - Managing all over the World - One Way or Many? Chapter 10 - The Future of Management: Business as Unusual?
As the vast literature on management has grown over the years, so too has controversy and dispute. Modern managers cope not only with a complex and ever-changing world, but also with diverse ways of understanding and managing it. This second edition of the popular Controversies in Management sets out to explore some of these puzzles and provide a guide to the different key theories and approaches to management that have developed over the years, relating them to the context of modern business as well as tracing their roots in social science. Thoroughly revised and up-to-date, this is an excellent introductory guide for students, guiding them through the main areas of debate and giving them tools with which to structure their thinking and approach.
This book provides a variety of answers in its description and
discussion of new, sometimes radical approaches to usability
evaluation', now an increasingly common business tool. It contains
new thinking of the subject of usability evaluation in industry.
Contributions come from those involved in the practice of
industry-based usability evaluation as well as those involved in
related research activity. The chapters are derived from and
developed from presentations and discussions at the invited
international seminar Usability Evaluation in Industry', and give a
leading edge overview of current usability practice in industry -
identifying those issues of concern and approaches to tackling
these.
Key Features:
* Provides a comprehensive overview of current practice
* International examples
* Contains practical examples of ergonomics at work and gives clear
ideas of what does and doesn't work under industrial constraints
Elliptic cohomology is an extremely beautiful theory with both
geometric and arithmetic aspects. The former is explained by the
fact that the theory is a quotient of oriented cobordism localised
away from 2, the latter by the fact that the coefficients coincide
with a ring of modular forms. The aim of the book is to construct
this cohomology theory, and evaluate it on classifying spaces BG of
finite groups G. This class of spaces is important, since (using
ideas borrowed from 'Monstrous Moonshine') it is possible to give a
bundle-theoretic definition of EU-(BG). Concluding chapters also
discuss variants, generalisations and potential applications.
This book contains a unified treatment of a class of problems of
signal detection theory. This is the detection of signals in addi
tive noise which is not required to have Gaussian probability den
sity functions in its statistical description. For the most part
the material developed here can be classified as belonging to the
gen eral body of results of parametric theory. Thus the probability
density functions of the observations are assumed to be known, at
least to within a finite number of unknown parameters in a known
functional form. Of course the focus is on noise which is not
Gaussian; results for Gaussian noise in the problems treated here
become special cases. The contents also form a bridge between the
classical results of signal detection in Gaussian noise and those
of nonparametric and robust signal detection, which are not con
sidered in this book. Three canonical problems of signal detection
in additive noise are covered here. These allow between them
formulation of a range of specific detection problems arising in
applications such as radar and sonar, binary signaling, and pattern
recognition and classification. The simplest to state and perhaps
the most widely studied of all is the problem of detecting a
completely known deterministic signal in noise. Also considered
here is the detection random non-deterministic signal in noise.
Both of these situa of a tions may arise for observation processes
of the low-pass type and also for processes of the band-pass type."
Non-Gaussian Signal Processing is a child of a technological push.
It is evident that we are moving from an era of simple signal
processing with relatively primitive electronic cir cuits to one in
which digital processing systems, in a combined hardware-software
configura. tion, are quite capable of implementing advanced
mathematical and statistical procedures. Moreover, as these
processing techniques become more sophisticated and powerful, the
sharper resolution of the resulting system brings into question the
classic distributional assumptions of Gaussianity for both noise
and signal processes. This in turn opens the door to a fundamental
reexamination of structure and inference methods for non-Gaussian
sto chastic processes together with the application of such
processes as models in the context of filtering, estimation,
detection and signal extraction. Based on the premise that such a
fun damental reexamination was timely, in 1981 the Office of Naval
Research initiated a research effort in Non-Gaussian Signal
Processing under the Selected Research Opportunities Program."
This new edition of a bestseller covers all phases of performing
sensory evaluation studies, from listing the steps involved in a
sensory evaluation project to presenting advanced statistical
methods. Like its predecessors, Sensory Evaluation Techniques,
Fifth Edition gives a clear and concise presentation of practical
solutions, accepted methods, standard practices, and some advanced
techniques. The fifth edition is comprehensively reorganized,
revised, and updated. Key highlights of this book include: A more
intuitive organization Statistical methods adapted to suit a more
basic consumer methodology Rearranged material to reflect advances
in Internet testing New time-intensity testing methods New chapters
on advanced sensory processes, quality control testing, advertising
claims, and business challenges New material on mapping and
sorting, graph theory, multidimensional scaling, and flash
profiling techniques Explanations of theories of integrity,
amplitude, and balance and blend Updated appendices for spectrum
method scales Updated references Sensory Evaluation Techniques
remains a relevant and flexible resource, providing how-to
information for a wide variety of users in industry, government,
and academia who need the most current information to conduct
effective sensory evaluation and interpretations of results. It
also supplies students with the necessary theoretical background in
sensory evaluation methods, applications, and interpretations.
Elliptic cohomology is an extremely beautiful theory with both
geometric and arithmetic aspects. The former is explained by the
fact that the theory is a quotient of oriented cobordism localised
away from 2, the latter by the fact that the coefficients coincide
with a ring of modular forms. The aim of the book is to construct
this cohomology theory, and evaluate it on classifying spaces BG of
finite groups G. This class of spaces is important, since (using
ideas borrowed from Monstrous Moonshine') it is possible to give a
bundle-theoretic definition of EU-(BG). Concluding chapters also
discuss variants, generalisations and potential applications.
This book was written as a first treatment of statistical com
munication theory and communication systems at a senior graduate
level. The only formal prerequisite is a knowledge of ele mentary
calculus; however, some familiarity with linear systems and
transform theory will be helpful. Chapter 1 is introductory and
contains no substantial techni cal material. Chapter 2 is an
elementary introduction to probability theory at a nonrigorous and
non abstract level. It is essential to the remainder of the book
but may be skipped (or reviewed has tily) by any student who has
taken a one-semester undergraduate course in probability. Chapter 3
is a brief treatment of random processes and spec tral analysis. It
includes an introduction to shot noise (Sections 3.14-3.17) which
is not subsequently used explicitly. Chapter 4 considers linear
systems with random inputs. It includes a considerable amount of
material on narrow-band sys tems and on the representation of
random processes. Chapter 5 treats the matched filter and the
linear least mean-squared-error filter at an elementary level but
in some detail. Numerous examples are provided throughout the book.
Many of these are of an elementary nature and are intended merely
to illustrate textual material. A reasonable number of problems of
varying difficulty are provided. Instructors who adopt the text for
classroom use may obtain a Solutions Manual for most of the
problems by writing to the author."
This book was written for an introductory one-term course in
probability. It is intended to provide the minimum background in
probability that is necessary for students interested in
applications to engineering and the sciences. Although it is aimed
primarily at upperclassmen and beginning graduate students, the
only prere quisite is the standard calculus course usually required
of under graduates in engineering and science. Most beginning
students will have some intuitive notions of the meaning of
probability based on experiences involving, for example, games of
chance. This book develops from these notions a set of precise and
ordered concepts comprising the elementary theory of probability.
An attempt has been made to state theorems carefully, but the level
of the proofs varies greatly from formal arguments to appeals to
intuition. The book is in no way intended as a substi tu te for a
rigorous mathematical treatment of probability. How ever, some
small amount of the language of formal mathematics is used, so that
the student may become better prepared (at least psychologically)
either for more formal courses or for study of the literature.
Numerous examples are provided throughout the book. Many of these
are of an elementary nature and are intended merely to illustrate
textual material. A reasonable number of problems of varying
difficulty are provided. Instructors who adopt the text for
classroom use may obtain a Solutions Manual for all of the problems
by writing to the author.
As a result of recent changes in health care, nurses, GPs and
health visitors find that they are required to take a major role in
nutrition education and dietary advice. Health promotion is now an
important aspect of general practice and community care. Shorter
periods of hospitalisation, increased care of the chronically ill
'in the community' and the management of disorders like diabetes
within general practice have meant that many more people now
require specialised nutritional care. At the same time, rapid
advances in nutrition have left some health professionals feeling
that their dietary knowledge is inadequate. This book updates the
reader on the relationships between diet and health and the use of
diet in the management of disease. Topical but less familiar
nutrients such as antioxidant vitamins or long-chain fatty acids
are explained in ways that are easily understood. Adviceis given on
the types on nutritional problems that can be successfully
identified and managed in the primary-care setting and those that
may require specialised dietetic help.
Common Medicinal Plants of Portland, Jamaica has been designed as a
field guide for the identification of some of the most common
medicinal plants encountered in Jamaica. It is based on the
traditional knowledge of collaborating Maroon herbalists who have
been cultural practitioners for more than 25 years. This guide
includes photos and illustrations of 47 common species along with
plant descriptions, medicinal uses and other pertinent information.
Most of the plants are widespread species that may be found
throughout many parts of the tropics, so this book ia useful
throughout the Caribbean region and other tropical landscapes. It
is hoped that this research can serve as a foundation for further
documentation and preservation of Maroon traditional botanical
knowledge. Proceeds from the sale of this publication will go
directly to the collaborating herbalists to assist them in the
perpetuation of the traditional cultural practices of the Windward
Maroons. Visit www.maroonmedicine.com
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