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Designed to serve as a basic text for an introductory course in
Public Administration, this innovative work provides students with
an understanding of the basic management functions that are covered
in all standard textbooks with two important differences.First, it
is written to address the needs of both the experienced
practitioner and the entry-level public servant. Case examples
bridge the content-rich environment of practitioners with the basic
principles of public administration sought by pre-service
students.Second, the discussion of basic management practices is
grounded in the political and ethical tensions inherent in the
American constitutional form of governance. This reflects the
author's belief that public administration operates as an integral
part of the country's political traditions, and thereby helps
define the political culture. The book provides a framework for
understanding American political traditions and how they inform
public administration as a political practice.The book includes
tables and charts to summarize and distill the main features of
each chapter. Each section includes a master case that is
integrated into the discussion of topics and principles covered in
subsequent chapters. The book provides students with a
chronological development of four governing legacies that have
remained at the center of public administration since the nation's
founding. Each chapter includes practical study questions, and the
book includes a comprehensive bibliography.
Kinetics, Transport, and Structure in Hard and Soft Materials is
the only single reference that discusses the connection between
structure and mechanisms of atomic or molecular transport in
different classes of materials, from metals and semiconductors to
network glasses, polymers and supercooled liquids. Divided into
four parts, Part I begins with a discussion the fundamentals of
transport, wherein transport properties of a system of
non-interacting particles are calculated and the phenomenon of
Brownian motion introduced. The phenomenology of diffusion is also
discussed wherein Fick's laws are introduced and solved for a range
of practical cases involving mass transport. Elementary Statistical
mechanics, involving Partition functions, probability distribution
functions and correlation functions, is discussed to lay the
foundation for the subsequent discussion of mechanisms of transport
in different materials. Parts II and III focus on mechanisms of
transport in crystalline materials and in structurally disordered
materials. Chapters explain how the mechanism of diffusional
transport of an atom or molecule is intimately connected to the
spatial organization of neighboring structural elements and to its
interactions with them. The book reviews factors that control
temperature dependent long-range dynamics of glass-forming systems.
Diffusion and viscoelasticity of polymer melts, transport (viscous
flow and ionic diffusion) in inorganic network glasses, and dynamic
heterogeneity in super cooled liquids are described. Part IV
analyzes the development of instabilities, such as spinodal
decomposition and Mullins-Sekerka instabilities, which lead to the
morphological evolution of materials. Kinetics, Transport, and
Structure in Hard and Soft Materials emphasizes interdisciplinary
nature of transport in materials, presenting its material in a
user-friendly format for students from any discipline with a
foundation in elementary
This celebrated primer presents an introduction to all of the key
ingredients in understanding computerized adaptive testing
technology, test development, statistics, and mental test theory.
Based on years of research, this accessible book educates the
novice and serves as a compendium of state-of-the-art information
for professionals interested in computerized testing in the areas
of education, psychology, and other related social sciences. A
hypothetical test taken as a prelude to employment is used as a
common example throughout to highlight this book's most important
features and problems. Changes in the new edition include: *a
completely rewritten chapter 2 on the system considerations needed
for modern computerized adaptive testing; *a revised chapter 4 to
include the latest in methodology surrounding online calibration
and in the modeling of testlets; and *a new chapter 10 with helpful
information on how test items are really selected, usage patterns,
how usage patterns influence the number of new items required, and
tools for managing item pools.
Erythrocytes of the Rhesus and Cynomolgus Monkeys addresses the
morphologic, quantitative, and generative aspects of the
erythrocytes of the rhesus monkey Macaca mulatta and the cynomolgus
monkey Macaca fascicularis (long-tailed macaque, crab-eating
monkey). These two species are the most commonly selected nonhuman
primates for basic science and clinical medical investigations. The
hemopoietic cells of man and the rhesus monkey display an intimate
homogeneity. Their functional activities are close and at times
identical. The cynomolgus monkey was enlisted in biomedical studies
at a time when rhesus monkeys were not available in sufficient
quantities. It has gained increased use in the Far East and in the
Western world. It is, for example, employed in the current
development of a vaccine against the deadly Ebola virus. The
authors of the book discuss the erythropoietic profiles of normal
and abnormal macaques of both sexes and of all age groups as
investigated with contemporary electronic methodologies. They cover
the role of stress as it is perceived by the monkey and how it
impacts erythrocellular values, and how to train the monkey to be a
cooperative, unperturbed subject for hematologic study. Additional
topics include the role of medication in deriving normal
physiologic erythrocellular data, the development of the precursors
of the erythrocyte (normoblasts), the morphologic analysis of the
megaloblastic series of abnormal erythroid cells, the analysis of
erythropoiesis in bone marrow, the relationship of the simian
immunodeficiency virus and erythropoiesis, erythrocyte life span,
and parasitic invasion of the red cell.
Kinetics, Transport, and Structure in Hard and Soft Materials is
the only single reference that discusses the connection between
structure and mechanisms of atomic or molecular transport in
different classes of materials, from metals and semiconductors to
network glasses, polymers and supercooled liquids. Divided into
four parts, Part I begins with a discussion the fundamentals of
transport, wherein transport properties of a system of
non-interacting particles are calculated and the phenomenon of
Brownian motion introduced. The phenomenology of diffusion is also
discussed wherein Fick's laws are introduced and solved for a range
of practical cases involving mass transport. Elementary Statistical
mechanics, involving Partition functions, probability distribution
functions and correlation functions, is discussed to lay the
foundation for the subsequent discussion of mechanisms of transport
in different materials. Parts II and III focus on mechanisms of
transport in crystalline materials and in structurally disordered
materials. Chapters explain how the mechanism of diffusional
transport of an atom or molecule is intimately connected to the
spatial organization of neighboring structural elements and to its
interactions with them. The book reviews factors that control
temperature dependent long-range dynamics of glass-forming systems.
Diffusion and viscoelasticity of polymer melts, transport (viscous
flow and ionic diffusion) in inorganic network glasses, and dynamic
heterogeneity in super cooled liquids are described. Part IV
analyzes the development of instabilities, such as spinodal
decomposition and Mullins-Sekerka instabilities, which lead to the
morphological evolution of materials. Kinetics, Transport, and
Structure in Hard and Soft Materials emphasizes interdisciplinary
nature of transport in materials, presenting its material in a
user-friendly format for students from any discipline with a
foundation in elementary
This book provides a unique portrait of the changing nature of
entrepreneurship over a thirty year period in a 'low' enterprise
area. Using data from interviews with over 900 entrepreneurs, it
also compares and contracts new businesses in a 'low' enterprise
area, with areas with medium and high entrepreneurship rates.
Erythrocytes of the Rhesus and Cynomolgus Monkeys addresses the
morphologic, quantitative, and generative aspects of the
erythrocytes of the rhesus monkey Macaca mulatta and the cynomolgus
monkey Macaca fascicularis (long-tailed macaque, crab-eating
monkey). These two species are the most commonly selected nonhuman
primates for basic science and clinical medical investigations. The
hemopoietic cells of man and the rhesus monkey display an intimate
homogeneity. Their functional activities are close and at times
identical. The cynomolgus monkey was enlisted in biomedical studies
at a time when rhesus monkeys were not available in sufficient
quantities. It has gained increased use in the Far East and in the
Western world. It is, for example, employed in the current
development of a vaccine against the deadly Ebola virus. The
authors of the book discuss the erythropoietic profiles of normal
and abnormal macaques of both sexes and of all age groups as
investigated with contemporary electronic methodologies. They cover
the role of stress as it is perceived by the monkey and how it
impacts erythrocellular values, and how to train the monkey to be a
cooperative, unperturbed subject for hematologic study. Additional
topics include the role of medication in deriving normal
physiologic erythrocellular data, the development of the precursors
of the erythrocyte (normoblasts), the morphologic analysis of the
megaloblastic series of abnormal erythroid cells, the analysis of
erythropoiesis in bone marrow, the relationship of the simian
immunodeficiency virus and erythropoiesis, erythrocyte life span,
and parasitic invasion of the red cell.
Searching for Structure in Pottery Analysis addresses the
theoretical and methodological imperatives involved in
(re)integrating descriptive, structural, and compositional
analytical methods in a series of contributions from a diverse
group of experts in archaeological pottery. Drawing on the life's
work of materials scientist Cyril Stanley Smith (The Search For
Structure, MIT Press, 1981), a pioneering materials scientist who
brought an important focus on structure to studies of a variety of
archaeological materials, the contributors focus on those forms of
analysis which investigate structural characteristics of ceramics
and the methodologies that link such structural characteristics
with the typological and compositional data that compose the
majority of evidence in contemporary ceramic analyses. The chapters
include essays organized into two sections: the first focuses on
how the practices of ceramic production and the structures they
generate enable inferences about the social relations between
producers and consumers of pottery; and the second focuses on the
role structure plays in the refraction and maintenance of different
forms of social grouping and identity. These two themes serve as
orienting foci for a broad set of heuristic and technical tools
that have the potential to alter how archaeologists extract and
identify the social information captured in the multifarious
properties of pottery and transform contemporary understandings of
the different roles ceramics played in past societies.
"Rethinking Private Authority" examines the role of non-state
actors in global environmental politics, arguing that a fuller
understanding of their role requires a new way of conceptualizing
private authority. Jessica Green identifies two distinct forms of
private authority--one in which states delegate authority to
private actors, and another in which entrepreneurial actors
generate their own rules, persuading others to adopt them.
Drawing on a wealth of empirical evidence spanning a century of
environmental rule making, Green shows how the delegation of
authority to private actors has played a small but consistent role
in multilateral environmental agreements over the past fifty years,
largely in the area of treaty implementation. This contrasts with
entrepreneurial authority, where most private environmental rules
have been created in the past two decades. Green traces how this
dynamic and fast-growing form of private authority is becoming
increasingly common in areas ranging from organic food to green
building practices to sustainable tourism. She persuasively argues
that the configuration of state preferences and the existing
institutional landscape are paramount to explaining why private
authority emerges and assumes the form that it does. In-depth cases
on climate change provide evidence for her arguments.
Groundbreaking in scope, "Rethinking Private Authority"
demonstrates that authority in world politics is diffused across
multiple levels and diverse actors, and it offers a more complete
picture of how private actors are helping to shape our response to
today's most pressing environmental problems
Contents: Vortices in a Trapped Dilute Base Condensate; The
Composite Fermion State as a Paradigm for Emergent Behaviour;
Superfluid Phases of Triplet Pairing; Correlations and Quantum
Condensates in Dense Fermion Systems; Collective Modes of BCS and
BE Paired Systems with Non-S-Wave Symmetry; The Fractional Charge
in the Quantum Hall Effect; Electric-Field Induced Formation of
Superconducting Balls; Mesoscopic Transport as Many-Body Physics;
Mesoscopic Kondo Effect; Strongly Interacting Electric Bilayers;
Ferromagnetic Fixed Point of the Kondo Model in a Luttinger Liquid;
Diffusion Monte Carlo Study of Ground State Properties of Quantum
Rings; The Exchange-Correlation Hole and the Metal-Insulator
Transition in Two-Dimensional Systems; Quantum Phase Transitions in
Spin-Lattice Systems With and Without Frustration; The Doped t-j
ladder Via Series Expansions; A Fast Method for Solving Kohn-Sham
and Gross-Pitaevskii Equations in 3D; Microstructure of Liquid
Para-Hydrogen; Many-Body Effects in Spin Transport and Spin-Density
Functional Theory; Plaquette Expansion in Lattice Hamiltonian Field
Theory; Improved Variational Calculations in Hamiltonian Field
Theory; Multiscale Modelling of
"Rethinking Private Authority" examines the role of non-state
actors in global environmental politics, arguing that a fuller
understanding of their role requires a new way of conceptualizing
private authority. Jessica Green identifies two distinct forms of
private authority--one in which states delegate authority to
private actors, and another in which entrepreneurial actors
generate their own rules, persuading others to adopt them.
Drawing on a wealth of empirical evidence spanning a century of
environmental rule making, Green shows how the delegation of
authority to private actors has played a small but consistent role
in multilateral environmental agreements over the past fifty years,
largely in the area of treaty implementation. This contrasts with
entrepreneurial authority, where most private environmental rules
have been created in the past two decades. Green traces how this
dynamic and fast-growing form of private authority is becoming
increasingly common in areas ranging from organic food to green
building practices to sustainable tourism. She persuasively argues
that the configuration of state preferences and the existing
institutional landscape are paramount to explaining why private
authority emerges and assumes the form that it does. In-depth cases
on climate change provide evidence for her arguments.
Groundbreaking in scope, "Rethinking Private Authority"
demonstrates that authority in world politics is diffused across
multiple levels and diverse actors, and it offers a more complete
picture of how private actors are helping to shape our response to
today's most pressing environmental problems
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