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How to Manage Student Consulting Projects describes the key
principles and tools needed by project advisors to manage student
consulting projects in an academic setting. The authors highlight
different approaches for managing student consulting teams,
including an innovative model in which graduate students manage
undergraduates. This model of experiential learning suggests that
project advisors should include reflection of learning as a key
outcome for any student consulting project. The book also
emphasizes the importance of evaluating both team and individual
performance in a project's overall success, and data are shown on
the positive impact that student teams have had on clients. In
addition to offering strategies that project advisors can use to
improve project performance, the book provides information for
program administrators and deans, as well as project managers in
non-academic settings, to help in the development and running of
project-based learning.
How to Manage Student Consulting Projects describes the key
principles and tools needed by project advisors to manage student
consulting projects in an academic setting. The authors highlight
different approaches for managing student consulting teams,
including an innovative model in which graduate students manage
undergraduates. This model of experiential learning suggests that
project advisors should include reflection of learning as a key
outcome for any student consulting project. The book also
emphasizes the importance of evaluating both team and individual
performance in a project's overall success, and data are shown on
the positive impact that student teams have had on clients. In
addition to offering strategies that project advisors can use to
improve project performance, the book provides information for
program administrators and deans, as well as project managers in
non-academic settings, to help in the development and running of
project-based learning.
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The Living Dead (Paperback)
George A. Romero, Daniel Kraus
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Reflecting the expertise and perspective of five leading
mammalogists, the fourth edition of Mammalogy: Adaptation,
Diversity, Ecology significantly updates taxonomy, includes a new
chapter on mammalian molecular phylogenetics, and highlights
several recently described species. There are close to 5,500
species in the class Mammalia, including the blue whale-the largest
animal that has ever lived-and the pygmy shrew, which weighs little
more than a penny. The functional diversity of mammals has allowed
them to play critical roles in every ecosystem, whether marine,
freshwater, alpine, tundra, forest, or desert. Many mammal species
are critically endangered and present complex conservation and
management challenges. This book touches on those challenges, which
are often precipitated by overharvesting and habitat loss, as well
as emerging threats, such as the impact of wind turbines and white
nose syndrome on bats and chronic wasting disease on deer. Among
the updates and additions to the fourth edition of Mammalogy are
numerous new photos, figures, and cladograms, over 4,200
references, as well as: a completely new chapter on mammalian
phylogeny and genomics; current taxonomy - including major changes
to orders, suborders, and superfamilies of bats and rodents; an
explanation of the recent inclusion of whales with terrestrial
even-toed ungulates; updates on mammalian structural, functional
adaptations, and fossil history; and, recent advances in our
understanding of phylogeny, biogeography, social behavior, and
ecology; a discussion of two new orders and thirteen newly
recognized extant families It also includes: reflections on the
implications of climate change for mammals; thorough examinations
of several recently described species, including Durrell's vontsira
( Salanoia durrelli) and the Laotian rock rat ( Laonastes
aenigmamus); an explanation of mammalian biomechanics, such as that
seen in lunge feeding of baleen whales; Breakout boxes on unique
aspects of mammals, including the syntax of bat songs, singing
mice, and why there are no green mammals (unless we count
algae-covered sloths). Maintaining the accessible, readable style
for which Feldhamer and his coauthors are well known, this new
edition of Mammalogy is the authoritative textbook on this
amazingly diverse class of vertebrates.
Eighty brave men made a near-suicidal first attack on Japan about
four months after Pearl Harbor. President Franklin Roosevelt wanted
a quick response to the Japanese ambush on Hawaii to demonstrate to
the Japanese that they were not invulnerable to attack, and to give
a much-needed boost to American morale. Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle
was selected to plan and lead the Raid from the USS Hornet. Much
has been written about the daring raid and the frightening escape
through China, but little has been written about these brave men's
lives before and after the Raid. This collection of biographical
sketches tells us much about who these men were. Much of the
biographical material was obtained from a private collection of
Raider information and memorabilia that Ellen Lawson collected over
a fifty-year period. Ellen was the widow of Maj. Ted Lawson-a
Raider and author of Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.
Comprehensive coverage of ancient Israelite society, history and
culture, offering the latest research on the region. Synthesises
and integrates archaeological material with discussions of ancient
Near Eastern and Biblical texts. Highlights present and future
avenues for studying the ancient Israelite world.
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Whiteman Air Force Base (Paperback)
George A. Larson USAF, (Ret); Foreword by General Paul Tibbets IV
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During the height of the Cold War, the United States started to
develop and expand its air defense capabilities to knock down
Russian Air Force nuclear-armed bombers flying over the North Pole,
across Canada, and into the northern United States to attack US
military targets and major cities. The Air Defense Command created
air command centers, radar stations, ground observer corps, and
fighter-interceptor squadrons. The 54th Fighter-Interceptor
Squadron (54th FIS), based at Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota,
protected the Strategic Air Command's assets at Ellsworth AFB
(nuclear alert bombers and tankers and intercontinental ballistic
missiles). From 1951 to 1960, the men of the 54th FIS protected
North America from possible air attack by long-range Russian Air
Force bombers. The threat was deemed real at the time, only later
shown to be less serious as the CIA overflew the Soviet Union with
high-flying Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft.
Risk model validation is an emerging and important area of
research, and has arisen because of Basel I and II. These
regulatory initiatives require trading institutions and lending
institutions to compute their reserve capital in a highly analytic
way, based on the use of internal risk models. It is part of the
regulatory structure that these risk models be validated both
internally and externally, and there is a great shortage of
information as to best practise. Editors Christodoulakis and
Satchell collect papers that are beginning to appear by regulators,
consultants, and academics, to provide the first collection that
focuses on the quantitative side of model validation. The book
covers the three main areas of risk: Credit Risk and Market and
Operational Risk.
*Risk model validation is a requirement of Basel I and II
*The first collection of papers in this new and developing area of
research
*International authors cover model validation in credit, market,
and operational risk
English-speaking Christians owe Paulist Press an enormous debt of
gratitude for their continuing efforts to help us gain a deeper
appreciation of our spiritual heritage. Spiritual Life
Pseudo-Macarius: The Fifty Spiritual Homilies and The Great Letter
translated and edited with an introduction by George A. Maloney,
S.J., preface by Kallistos Ware If the love of God dwells within
you, it is necessary that such love bring forth other fruit, such
as fraternal love, meekness, sincerity, perseverance in prayer, and
zeal and all virtues. But since the treasure is precious, so also
great are the labors, necessary to obtain it. From the Great Letter
George A. Maloney, S.J., provides a great service by bringing to
the public the first modern English translation of the spiritual
homilies and Great Letter of Pseudo- Macarius, a Syrian monk of the
fourth century whose identity is still the subject of scholarly
investigation. The Fifty Homilies, in the form of a practical,
monastic pedagogy, reveal the typical traits of Eastern Christian
asceticism, with particular emphasis on the spiritual combat, the
action of the Holy Spirit, and the importance of interior prayer.
The Great Letter discusses the purging of the passions to bring the
Christian into a state of tranquility and integration, and
addresses the monastic community with instructions regarding
organization, humility, and prayer.
This book covers the history of Dyess Air Force Base from 1941 to
the present. The reader is led from the construction and World War
II training operations through the Cold War with the Soviet Union,
to bomber and missile nuclear alert, and to the transition of a
world-wide conventional weapons response capability with the B-1B
and air mobility options provided by the C-130 Hercules transport.
The book includes a photo tour of the base as well as information
on topics such as: Abilene Air Force Base, 96th Bombardment Wing
and the Boeing B-47E Stratojet, Boeing KC-97G Stratofreighter and
the 11th Aerial Refueling Squadron, 578th Strategic Missile
Squadron and the Atlas F Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, 4th
Strategic Support Squadron and the Douglas C-124C Globemaster II,
the Nike-Hercules Surface-to-Air Missile, 96th Bombardment Wing and
the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, and the Special Weapons Storage
Area.
Some of Bill Clinton's most basic foreign policy elements -
democratic peace, the post-Cold War peace dividend, geopolitics and
state-society relations - are epitomized in the US-Russian Highly
Enriched Uranium (HEU) Purchase Agreement. It was one of the most
remarkable initiatives of Clinton's presidency, but oddly one of
the most obscure that still continues under George W. Bush. This
agreement illustrates how successfully the US and Russia could work
together to reduce global nuclear fears but also how a series of
decisions pitted global designs over American domestic interests.
Illustrating one of the most compelling decisions Clinton made as
President, this remarkable book elucidates the theory of democratic
peace and demonstrates a new and more advanced nuclear restraint
regime, from reduction to elimination. The story behind Clinton's
decision has repercussions for our understanding of arms control,
foreign policy decision making and US-Russian relations. This is a
book about the intersection of levels of analysis, international
security concerns and domestic political economy, and as such is
ideal as a supplementary text for advanced courses in security and
foreign policy.
Until now, Army Air Force Bases in Nebraska during World War II had
never before been presented in a single book (most of the
photographed structures are no longer visible). These stories and
photographs mostly focus on America s Greatest Generation, which
fought and won World War II. Also included are information on and
images of the Martin B-26/Martin-Boeing B-29 Superfortress
production plant at Fort Crook. One section deals with the building
of modified B-29s for the 509th Composite Group, referred to after
the war as the Atomic Bomb Group, which dropped the two atomic
bombs on Japan, ending World War II. Also learn about German and
Italian Prisoner of War camps, where POWs contributed to
agricultural production in Nebraska, helping feed American troops,
Allied troops, and civilian populations around the world. Most
Americans are not aware of the huge numbers of Axis POWs held in
America during the war."
Polymers for Controlled Drug Delivery addresses the challenges of
designing macromolecules that deliver therapeutic agents that
function safely and in concert with living organisms. The book
primarily discusses classes of polymers and polymeric vehicles,
including particulates, such as latexes, coacervates, ion-exchange
resins, and liposomes, as well as non-particulate vehicles such as
enteric coatings, mediators, and bioadhesives. Other topics
discussed include diffusion; biodegradation-controlled delivery;
animal model studies for toxicity, metabolism, and elimination
testing; and FDA requirements for clinical studies. Drug delivery
researchers will find this book to be an invaluable reference tool.
A difficult and recalcitrant phenomenon, medical error causes
pervasive and expensive problems in terms of patient injury,
ineffective treatment, and rising healthcare costs. Simple
heightened awareness can help, but it requires organized, effective
remedies and countermeasures that are reasonable, acceptable, and
adaptable to see a truly significant drop in the intolerable rate
of medical mistakes. Only with better understanding, knowledge, and
directed techniques can there be rapid and marked improvement in
medical error management discipline. Since medical error is
situation specific and involves diverse variables in equipment,
environment, and human performance, the correct choice of
preventive and corrective techniques is critical. Providing a
wealth of useful ideas, concepts, and techniques, Medical Error and
Patient Safety: Human Factors in Medicine uses abroad perspective
to present more than 500 remedies that can be applied and tailored
to your unique circumstances. This detailed review of so many
measures enables you to correctly identify needs and undertake
appropriate actions to achieve a success that can be measured in
avoided injuries, improved healthcare, and reduced cost. Thought
provoking and useful, this book considers the potential for error
and the possibility for improvement in every aspect of healthcare.
After an introduction to general concepts and approaches, it
examines vulnerabilities in medical services, including emergency
services, healthcare facilities, and infection control. It covers
risks in medical devices and product design; human factors such as
fatigue and stress; management errors; errors in communication at
all levels of the healthcare hierarchy; as well as mistakes in drug
delivery including faulty labels and warnings. The authors also
compare and contrast several analytical methods, their
interpretation, and their translation into a plan of action.
Human error is regularly viewed as an inevitable part of everyday
life. In many cases the results of human error are harmless and
correctable, but in cases where injury and death can occur,
reduction of error is imperative. An integration of useful
how-to-do-it information, Human Error: Causes and Control covers
theories, methods, and specific techniques for controlling human
error. It provides ideas, concepts, and examples from which
selections can be made to fit the needs of a particular situation.
Detailed, practical, and broad in scope, the book explores the
field of human error, including its identification, its probable
cause, and how it can be reasonably controlled or prevented.
Experts in human factors, design engineering, and law, the authors
explore and apply known generic principles effective in the
prevention of consumer error, worker fault, managerial mistakes,
and organizational blunders. They discuss errors and their effects
in our increasingly complex technological society and delineate how
to devise a proper framework, select workable concepts and
techniques, and then implement them. Exploring widespread
applications of the techniques, the book illustrates how to achieve
a fully integrated, process-compatible, comprehensive,
user-effective, and methodologically sound model.
Houses and Domestic Space in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century
Hospitaller Malta is a study concerned with a wide spectrum of
early modern dwellings in Malta, ranging from palazzi and affluent
residences to peasant dwellings, troglodyte houses, and hovels. The
multifaceted approach adopted in this book allows houses and
domestic networks to be studied not only in terms of architecture
and construction materials, but also as places of human habitation
where house dwellers act, react and interact in different contexts
and circumstances. Dwellings are places that permit different
social and economic activities, whilst providing shelter and
security to the household members. Through the available sources,
the houses of Hospitaller Malta are analysed in terms of their
spatial properties and how they generate privacy, interaction and
communication, identity, accessibility, security, visibility,
movement and encounters, and, equally important, how domestic space
relates to gender roles, status, and class. This work, therefore,
seeks to reach a deep and nuanced understanding of domestic space
and how it relates to the islands' history and the development of
their society during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
January 1984 marked the 25th anniversary of Fidel Castro's
emergence to power. The Cuban Revolution: 25 Years Later is a
product of the CSIS Cuba Project, a long-term effort to focus
public as well as policymaker's attention on Cuba-related affairs.
The lead author, Lord Thomas of Swynnerton, is the dean of
political-historical studies on Cuba, and author of the
encyclopedic Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom. A great deal of myth
surrounds the evolution of Cuba since Castro's emergence to power
over 25 years ago. Some of this myth is the product of official
Cuban propaganda; some of it is also due to a generally misinformed
American public. Sifting through available data to distinguish
between fact and fiction, this book evaluates broadly the impact of
Castro's regime on Cuba itself. Based on the findings of the CSIS
Cuba Project, the book draws on the assessments of 18 top Cuban
specialists on the political, economic, cuiturai, and social
development of Cuba since 1959. In contrast to democracies such as
Costa Rica, the equalization of society that has taken place under
Castro's leadership has been accomplished by redistributing
existing resources, not by creating new wealth. Moreover, the
authors conclude that in politics, culture, and the economy, Cuba
under Castro has become and remains rigid, stagnant, enormously
militarized, and ideologically absolutist.
Integrating Psychological and Pharmacological Treatments for
Addictive Disorders distills the complex literature on addiction,
offering a curated toolbox of integrated pharmacological and
psychotherapeutic treatments in chapters authored by leading
experts. Introductory chapters on the epidemiology, etiology, and
fundamentals of addiction treatment provide a concise overview of
the state of the field. Subsequent chapters then focus on the
treatment of specific substance use disorders and on gambling
disorder. Finally, a chapter on the treatment of addiction in
primary care addresses the opportunities for clinical care in
non-specialist outpatient settings. Physicians, psychologists,
social workers, and other mental health professionals will come
away from the book with an essential understanding of
evidence-based practice in treating addiction and the scientific
foundations of those approaches. .
This volume constitutes the first solidly research-grounded guide
for practitioners wending their way through the new maze of
self-help approaches. The Handbook of Self-Help Therapies
summarizes the current state of our knowledge about what works and
what does not, disorder by disorder and modality by modality. Among
the covered topics are: self-regulation theory; anxiety disorders;
depression; childhood disorders; eating disorders; sexual
dysfunctions; insomnia; problem drinking; smoking cessation;
dieting and weight loss. Comprehensive in its scope, this
systematic, objective assessment of self-help treatments will be
invaluable for practitioners, researchers and students in
counseling psychology, psychiatry and social work, health
psychology, and behavioral medicine.
This book is one of a set of eight innovative yet practical
resource books for teachers, focussing on the classroom and
covering vital skills for primary and secondary teachers. The books
are strongly influenced by the findings of numerous research
projects during which hundreds of teachers were observed at work.
The first editions of the series were bestsellers, and these
revised second editions will be equally welcomed by teachers eager
to improve their teaching skills. The ability to ask intelligent
and searching questions, to use questioning for different purposes
and to know what to do with the answers is crucial to teachers of
all subjects and age groups. Sometimes a whole lesson can be built
around one or two key questions. In Questioning in the Primary
School, esteemed authors Ted Wragg and George Brown explore the
wide range of questions that teachers can ask, from those requiring
simple recall of information right up to those that stimulate
complex reasoning, imagination and speculation. The book explores
the various strategies open to teachers and, through a combination
of activities and discussion points, helps pupils to: *reflect upon
their use of questions *develop their approaches to preparing,
using and evaluating questions *explore ways to encourage pupils to
ask questions.
Presenting the proceedings of a conference held at Syracuse
University in honor of S.S. Stevens, a pioneer in the scaling of
sensory magnitudes and the originator of the method of magnitude
estimation, this volume brings together the work of 20 authorities
on the procedures of ratio scaling. These
experts--psychophysicists, physiologists, and theoreticians--offer
their views on whether or not psychological magnitudes can be
measured and whether the judgments of psychological magnitudes
constitute the basis for the construction of a ratio scale. Also
discussed is the question of whether any single method could stand
out as a potential standard technique for measuring psychological
magnitudes.
Information-Processing Channels in the Tactile Sensory System
addresses the fundamental question of whether sensory channels,
similar to those known to operate in vision and audition, also
operate in the sense of touch. Based on the results of
psychophysical and neurophysiological experimentation the authors
make a powerful case that channels operate in the processing of
mechanical stimulation of the highly sensitive glabrous skin of the
hand. According to the multichannel model presented in this
monograph, each channel, with its specific type of mechanoreceptor
and afferent nerve fiber, responds optiimally to particular aspects
of the tactile stimulus. It is further proposed that the tactile
perception of objects results from the combined activity of the
individual tactile channels. This work is important because it
provides researchers and students in the field of sensory
neuroscience with a comprehensive model that enhances our
understanding of tactile perception.
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