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First Published in 1985, Examinations presents a balanced overview
and commentary on all the main aspects of public examinations. The
key themes are examinations and their context (historical,
political, social, and educational); functions of examination (how
they work); equity and fairness of the process; and future of
public examinations. Recurring issues in the book are the tension
between the need for common national standards and the need for
diverse individuality and the conflict between competitive
functions of examinations as instruments of selection and their
descriptive function as reports on standards of performance. The
author argues that the main aspects of examinations are not given a
prominent place in the training of teachers though public
examinations have widespread impact on society. This book will be
an essential read for scholars and researchers of education, higher
education and also for administrators and policy makers.
Emergency operations centers (EOCs) are a key component of
coordination efforts during incident planning as well as reaction
to natural and human-made events. Managers and their staff
coordinate incoming information from the field, and the public, to
support pre-planned events and field operations as they occur. This
book looks at the function and role of EOCs and their
organizations. The highly anticipated second edition of Principles
of Emergency Management and Emergency Operations Centers (EOC)
provides an updated understanding of the coordination, operation of
EOCs at local, regional, state, and federal operations.
Contributions from leading experts provide contemporary knowledge
and best practice learned through lived experience. The chapters
collectively act as a vital training guide, at both a theoretical
and practical level, providing detailed guidance on handling each
phase and type of emergency. Readers will emerge with a blueprint
of how to create effective training and exercise programs, and
thereby develop the skills required for successful emergency
management. Along with thoroughly updated and expanded chapters
from the first edition, this second edition contains new chapters
on: The past and future of emergency management, detailing the
evolution of emergency management at the federal level, and
potential future paths. Communicating with the public and media,
including establishing relations with, and navigating, the media,
and the benefits this can provide if successfully managed.
In-crisis communications. Leadership and decision-making during
disaster events. Facilitating and managing interagency
collaboration, including analysis of joint communications, and
effective resource management and deployment when working with
multiple agencies. Developing and deploying key skills of
management, communication, mental resilience. Planning for
terrorism and responding to complex coordinated terrorist attacks.
Developing exercises and after-action reports (AARs) for emergency
management.
How can religion help to understand and contend with the challenges
of climate change? Understanding Climate Change through Religious
Lifeworld, edited by David Haberman, presents a unique collection
of essays that detail how the effects of human-related climate
change are actively reshaping religious ideas and practices, even
as religious groups and communities endeavor to bring their
traditions to bear on mounting climate challenges. People of faith
from the low-lying islands of the South Pacific to the glacial
regions of the Himalayas are influencing how their communities
understand earthly problems and develop meaningful responses to
them. This collection focuses on a variety of different aspects of
this critical interaction, including the role of religion in
ongoing debates about climate change, religious sources of
environmental knowledge and how this knowledge informs community
responses to climate change, and the ways that climate change is in
turn driving religious change. Understanding Climate Change through
Religious Lifeworlds offers a transnational view of how religion
reconciles the concepts of the global and the local and influences
the challenges of climate change.
This accessible introduction to religious ethics focuses on the
major forms of moral reasoning encompassing the three 'Abrahamic'
religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Draws on a range of moral issues, such as examples arising from
friendship, marriage, homosexuality, lying, forgiveness and its
limits, the death penalty, the environment, warfare, and the
meaning of work, career, and vocationLooks at both ethical
reasoning and importantly, "how" that reasoning reveals insights
into a religious traditionInvestigates the resources available to
address common problems confronting Abrahamic faiths, and how each
faith explains and defends its moral viewpointsOffering concrete
topics for interfaith discussions, this is a timely and insightful
introduction to a fast-growing field of interest
This book discusses the invertibility of fuzzy topological spaces
and related topics. Certain types of fuzzy topological spaces are
introduced, and interrelations between them are brought forth.
Various properties of invertible fuzzy topological spaces are
presented, and characterizations for completely invertible fuzzy
topological spaces are discussed. The relationship between
homogeneity and invertibility is examined, and, subsequently, the
orbits in an invertible fuzzy topological space are studied. The
structure of invertible fuzzy topological spaces is investigated,
and a clear picture of the inverting pairs in an invertible fuzzy
topological space is introduced. Further, the related spaces such
as sums, subspaces, simple extensions, quotient spaces, and product
spaces of invertible fuzzy topological spaces are examined. In
addition, the effect of invertibility on fuzzy topological
properties like separation axioms, axioms of countability,
compactness, and fuzzy connectedness in invertible fuzzy
topological spaces is established. The book sketches ideas extended
to the bigger canvas of L-topology in a very interesting manner.
How can religion help to understand and contend with the challenges
of climate change? Understanding Climate Change through Religious
Lifeworld, edited by David Haberman, presents a unique collection
of essays that detail how the effects of human-related climate
change are actively reshaping religious ideas and practices, even
as religious groups and communities endeavor to bring their
traditions to bear on mounting climate challenges. People of faith
from the low-lying islands of the South Pacific to the glacial
regions of the Himalayas are influencing how their communities
understand earthly problems and develop meaningful responses to
them. This collection focuses on a variety of different aspects of
this critical interaction, including the role of religion in
ongoing debates about climate change, religious sources of
environmental knowledge and how this knowledge informs community
responses to climate change, and the ways that climate change is in
turn driving religious change. Understanding Climate Change through
Religious Lifeworlds offers a transnational view of how religion
reconciles the concepts of the global and the local and influences
the challenges of climate change.
This accessible introduction to religious ethics focuses on the
major forms of moral reasoning encompassing the three 'Abrahamic'
religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Draws on a range of moral issues, such as examples arising from
friendship, marriage, homosexuality, lying, forgiveness and its
limits, the death penalty, the environment, warfare, and the
meaning of work, career, and vocationLooks at both ethical
reasoning and importantly, "how" that reasoning reveals insights
into a religious traditionInvestigates the resources available to
address common problems confronting Abrahamic faiths, and how each
faith explains and defends its moral viewpointsOffering concrete
topics for interfaith discussions, this is a timely and insightful
introduction to a fast-growing field of interest
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Hurricane America (Paperback)
Marrio C Mathews, Dolores Mathews-Albert
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Friction, lubrication, adhesion, and wear are prevalent physical
phenomena in everyday life and in many key technologies. This book
incorporates a bottom-up approach to friction, lubrication, and
wear into a versatile textbook on tribology. This is done by
focusing on how these tribological phenomena occur on the small
scale - the atomic to the micrometer scale - a field often called
nanotribology. The book covers the microscopic origins of the
common tribological concepts of roughness, elasticity, plasticity,
friction coefficients, and wear coefficients. Some macroscale
concepts (like elasticity) scale down well to the micro- and
atomic-scale, while other macroscale concepts (like hydrodynamic
lubrication) do not. In addition, this book also has chapters on
topics not typically found in tribology texts: surface energy,
surface forces, lubrication in confined spaces, and the atomistic
origins of friction and wear. These chapters cover tribological
concepts that become increasingly important at the small scale:
capillary condensation, disjoining pressure, contact
electrification, molecular slippage at interfaces, atomic scale
stick-slip, and atomic bond breaking. Throughout the book, numerous
examples are provided that show how a nanoscale understanding of
tribological phenomena is essential to the proper engineering of
important modern technologies such as MEMS, disk drives, and
nanoimprinting. For the second edition, all the chapters have been
revised and updated to incorporate the most recent advancements in
nanoscale tribology. Another important enhancement to the second
edition is the addition of problem sets at the end of each chapter.
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