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This volume establishes the conceptual foundation for sustained
investigation into tool development in neuroscience. Neuroscience
relies on diverse and sophisticated experimental tools, and its
ultimate explanatory target-our brains and hence the organ driving
our behaviors-catapults the investigation of these research tools
into a philosophical spotlight. The chapters in this volume
integrate the currently scattered work on tool development in
neuroscience into the broader philosophy of science community. They
also present an accessible compendium for neuroscientists
interested in the broader theoretical dimensions of their
experimental practices. The chapters are divided into five thematic
sections. Section 1 discusses the development of revolutionary
research tools across neuroscience's history and argues to various
conclusions concerning the relationship between new research tools
and theory progress in neuroscience. Section 2 shows how a focus on
research tools and their development in neuroscience transforms
some traditional epistemological issues and questions about
knowledge production in philosophy of science. Section 3 speaks to
the most general questions about the way we characterize the nature
of the portion of the world that this science addresses. Section 4
discusses hybrid research tools that integrate laboratory and
computational methods in exciting new ways. Finally, Section 5
extends research on tool development to the related science of
genetics. The Tools of Neuroscience Experiment will be of interest
to philosophers and philosophically minded scientists working at
the intersection of philosophy and neuroscience.
Physical and spectroscopic methods have been used jointly for
characterization of polymers for at least four decades. Yet, new
techniques permit increasingly refined determination of polymer
chemistry and morphol ogy_ The correlation of this knowledge with
physical properties of polymers is helpful to planned synthesis of
new products. The most prominent spectroscopic techniques through
the forties and fifties were infrared and ultraviolet spectroscopy.
Nuclear magnetic resonance, electron spin resonance and MOssbauer
spectroscopy started making sig nificant contributions to polymer
chemistry in the early sixties. Still more recently fluorescence
spectroscopy and laser Raman spectroscopy have become readily appli
cable to polymers and are contributing significantly to the
understanding of the relationship between polymer structure and
properties. Determination of the distribution of monomer se quences
by molecular size has become possible through combined gel
permeation chromatography and spectroscopic analysis. Fragments of
polymers from chemical break down or from pyrolysis are further
fractionated and structurally analyzed. The relationship between
the chemistry of polymers and performance can be determined from
changes in chemical structure and orientation after curing,
degradation, or physical or thermal manipulation of the polymers."
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Information Hiding - 13th International Conference, IH 2011, Prague, Czech Republic, May 18-20, 2011, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
Tomas Filler, Tomas Pevny, Scott Craver, Andrew Ker
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This book contains the thoroughly refereed post-conferernce
proceedings of the 13th Information Hiding Conference, IH 2011,
held in Prague, Czech Republic, in May 2011. Included in this
volume are 23 carefully reviewed papers that were selected out of
69 submissions. The contributions are organized in topical sections
on: fingerprinting, anonymity and privacy, steganography and
steganalysis, watermarking, digital rights management and digital
forensics, and digital hiding in unusual context. Also included are
the papers that were presented as part of the special session
dedicated to the BOSS (Break Our Steganographic System) contest.
It's October 1945, and the gospel-singing Sanders Family is back
together again. The war is over, and America's years of prosperity
are just beginning. But there's another kind of rite of passage at
Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, where Reverend Mervin Oglethorpe is
giving his last service. He's been called to preach in Texas, and
he's already bought a ten-gallon hat and is preparing to ride into
the sunset with his wife, June, who is eight months pregnant.
Tomorrow morning, young Dennis Sanders
Smoke on the Mountain tells the story of a Saturday Night Gospel
Sing at a country church in North Carolina's Smoky Mountains in
1938. The show features two dozen rousing bluegrass songs played
and sung by the Sanders Family, a traveling group making its return
to performing after a five-year hiatus. Pastor Oglethorpe, the
young and enthusiastic minister of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church,
has enlisted the Sanders Family in his efforts to bring his tiny
congregation into "the modern world." Betwee
The 75th Anniversary Celebration of the "Division of Polymeric
Materials: Science and Engineering" of the "American Chemical
Society," in 1999 sparked this third edition of "Applied Polymer
Science" with emphasis on the developments of the last few years
and a serious look at the challenges and expectations of the 21st
Century.
This book is divided into six sections, each with an Associate
Editor responsible for the contents with the group of Associate
Editors acting as a board to interweave and interconnect various
topics and to insure complete coverage. These areas represent both
traditional areas and emerging areas, but always with coverage that
is timely. The areas and associated chapters represent vistas where
PMSE and its members have made and are continuing to make vital
contributions. The authors are leaders in their fields and have
graciously donated their efforts to encourage the scientists of the
next 75 years to further contribute to the well being of the
society in which we all live.
Synthesis, characterization, and application are three of the legs
that hold up a steady table. The fourth is creativity. Each of the
three strong legs are present in this book with creativity present
as the authors were asked to look forward in predicting areas in
need of work and potential applications. The book begins with an
introductory history chapter introducing readers to PMSE. The
second chapter introduces the very basic science, terms and
concepts critical to polymer science and technology. Sections two,
three and four focus on application areas emphasizing emerging
trends and applications. Section five emphasizes the essential
areas of characterization. Section six contains chapters focusing
of the synthesis of the materials.
Designed for use with any casebook, the Sixth Edition has been
expanded and updated, including such new topics as whether
just-in-time workers (e.g., Uber drivers) are employees or
independent contractors, along with expert coverage of
anti-discrimination laws, wage and hour law, ERISA, privacy in
employment, OSHA, workers' compensation, restrictive covenants,
wrongful discharge, unemployment compensation, and pensions.
The journalist and critic Siegfried Kracauer is best remembered
today for his investigations of film and other popular media, and
for his seminal influence on Frankfurt School thinkers like Theodor
Adorno. Less well known is his earlier work, which offered a
seismographic reading of cultural fault lines in Weimar-era
Germany, with an eye to the confrontation between religious revival
and secular modernity. In this discerning study, historian Harry T.
Craver reconstructs and richly contextualizes Kracauer's early
output, showing how he embodied the contradictions of modernity and
identified the quasi-theological impulses underlying the cultural
ferment of the 1920s.
History and social sciences educators have been charged with
ensuring that our students are quantitatively literate. Being able
to integrate research data in the form of graphs, charts, and
tables and deconstruct quantitative evidence to address questions
and solve problems is no longer the domain of mathematicians. Being
quantitatively literate is considered an educational imperative in
a data-drenched world that holds so many employment challenges. The
internet contains a treasure trove of valid and reliable sources of
quantitative data that history and social sciences teachers can
easily use to satisfy the quantitative literacy requirements of the
National Common Core Standards. This book features 85 interesting
and exciting multi-century and multicultural web sites that are
accompanied by numerical critical thinking questions and
activities. Teachers can pose the questions to their entire class
or individually assign them. It also contains lists of best
practices and examples for interpreting, visualizing, and
displaying quantitative data. History and social sciences educators
will find this book an indispensable tool for incorporating
numerical literacy skills into their class activities and
assignments.
"Defines the challenges facing the movement and offers
comprehensive prescriptions for its successful
transformation."
--"The George Washington Law Review"
A valuable analysis of the rise, fall, and--hopefully--the
revival of unionism in America. The book] distills into readable
form a mass of legal and empirical analysis of what has been
happening in the workplaces of the United States and other
industrial democracies. Most important, Craver has drawn a
blueprint of what must be done to save collective bargaining in
this century--must reading for scholars, lawmakers, and,
especially, union leaders themselves.
--"Paul C. Weiler, Harvard Law SchoolAuthor of Governing the
Workplace: The Future of Labor and Employment Law"
"A thoroughly researched, insightful, and readable look at why
American unions have declined. . . . This is a very informative
analyis of a vital topic, and it will have a multidisciplinary
appeal to anyone interested in union- management relations.
--Peter Feuille, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations,
University of Illinois"
When employees at firms like Greyhound and Eastern Airlines walk
out to protest wage and benefit reductions, they are permanently
replaced and their representative labor unions destroyed. Every
year, the threat or drama of a high-profile strike--in air traffic
control towers, at Amtrak, or at Caterpillar--makes national
headlines and, every year, several hundred thousand unrepresented
American employees are discharged without good cause.
During the past decade, employer opposition to unions has
increased. Industrial and demographic changes have eroded
traditional blue-collar labor support, and class-based myths have
discouraged organization among white-collar workers. As the
American labor movement begins its second century, it is confronted
by challenges that threaten its very existence. Is the decline of
the American labor movement symptomatic of a terminal
condition?
In this work, Charles Craver presents an incisive analysis of
the current state of the American labor movement and a manifesto
for how this crucial institution can be revitalized. Journeying
with the reader from the inception of labor unions through their
heyday and to the present, Craver examines the roots of their
decline, the current factors which contribute to their dismal
condition, and the actions that are needed--such as the recruitment
of female and minority employees and appeals to white-collar
personnel--that are necessary to ensure union viability in the 21st
century.
Craver thoughtfully discusses what labor organizations must do
to organize new workers, to enhance their economic and political
power, and to adapt to modern-day advances and to an increasingly
global economy. He also suggests changes that must be made in the
National Labor Relations Act. This book is essential reading for
lawyers, scholars, and policy-makers, as well as all those
concerned with the future of the labor movement.
The journalist and critic Siegfried Kracauer is best remembered
today for his investigations of film and other popular media, and
for his seminal influence on Frankfurt School thinkers like Theodor
Adorno. Less well known is his earlier work, which offered a
seismographic reading of cultural fault lines in Weimar-era
Germany, with an eye to the confrontation between religious revival
and secular modernity. In this discerning study, historian Harry T.
Craver reconstructs and richly contextualizes Kracauer's early
output, showing how he embodied the contradictions of modernity and
identified the quasi-theological impulses underlying the cultural
ferment of the 1920s.
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