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Mapping the Travel Behavior Genome covers the latest research on
the biological, motivational, cognitive, situational, and
dispositional factors that drive activity-travel behavior.
Organized into three sections, Retrospective and Prospective Survey
of Travel Behavior Research, New Research Methods and Findings, and
Future Research, the chapters of this book provide evidence of
progress made in the most recent years in four dimensions of the
travel behavior genome. These dimensions are Substantive Problems,
Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks, Behavioral Measurement, and
Behavioral Analysis. Including the movement of goods as well as the
movement of people, the book shows how traveler values, norms,
attitudes, perceptions, emotions, feelings, and constraints lead to
observed behavior; how to design efficient infrastructure and
services to meet tomorrow's needs for accessibility and mobility;
how to assess equity and distributional justice; and how to assess
and implement policies for improving sustainability and quality of
life. Mapping the Travel Behavior Genome examines the paradigm
shift toward more dynamic, user-centric, demand-responsive
transport services, including the "sharing economy," mobility as a
service, automation, and robotics. This volume provides research
directions to answer behavioral questions emerging from these
upheavals.
This volume collects papers based on lectures given at the XXXIX
Workshop on Geometric Methods in Physics, held in Białystok,
Poland in June 2022. These chapters provide readers an overview of
cutting-edge research in geometry, analysis, and a wide variety of
other areas. Specific topics include: Classical and quantum field
theories Infinite-dimensional groups Integrable systems Lie
groupoids and Lie algebroids Representation theory Geometric
Methods in Physics XXXIX will be a valuable resource for
mathematicians and physicists interested in recent developments at
the intersection of these areas.
The book will offer a representative sample of the best papers
presented at the Transport Science and Technology Congress
(TRANSTEC) Athens 2004. It will also serve as the peer reviewed
conference proceedings.
As in the congress writing this book our aim is to demonstrate the
most recent developments in merging scientific and technological
discoveries to solve important transportation problems and to cover
a wide variety of transportation issues in passenger and freight
transportation but also a variety of modes. A parallel aim is to
have papers that are representative of the research and development
around the world. The chapters will be from the Americas (North and
South), Asia, and Europe.
The draft outline is organized into four parts. The first part will
contain an overview and review papers from the keynote speakers and
most likely one additional paper in the new area of human attention
and microsleeps from a special paper session organized the Czech
Technical University.
The second part of the book will contain contributions from policy
and planning and will span all modes of transportation and include
both passenger transport and freight.
In the third part a selection of papers from traffic engineering
and management will contain papers on new measurement techniques,
traffic engineering parameters that can be measured more precisely
with technology, and applications of information and communication
technologies.
The fourth part of the book will contain a series of papers
illustrating the preparation of Athens for the Olympics and will
contain papers that span from the preliminary planning to the
operations of information and communication systems as well asthe
management of the public transportation system and its components.
All papers will be peer-reviewed following the guidelines of the
journal Transportation Research to assure innovation in methods but
also relevance to the subject matter.
*Demonstrates the most recent developments in solving
transportation problems
*Adopts a global perspective with papers from the Americas, Asia
and Europe
*Organized into four parts; all articles are peer-reviewed
It has taken platforms only twenty years to become digital economy
hubs. They have changed markets, enterprises, and society. They
have expedited communication, collaboration, and trade for
consumers, winning their attention and collecting their data. In
doing so, they have made processes, products, and industries
obsolete, and disrupted the expectations and behaviours of market
players. This raises the question, are digital platforms global
innovators or disruptive monopolists? Are they a solution to
problems of the past or emissaries of a problematic future? This
book provides a multi-faceted approach to platforms and their
profound impact on markets and ecosystems. Economic, managerial,
social, and political aspects are analysed, and the differentiation
of platforms and their disruptive potential is reviewed. The book
also examines the mechanism of achieving a monopolistic position,
including in the international supply chain, and the greater
influence of platforms on political activity and contemporary
democracy. With examples from Poland, USA, and China, the
contributions offer an international evaluation of disruptive
platforms across a multitude of industries. The edited collection,
prepared by scholars from the SGH Warsaw School of Economics, will
be valuable to researchers and academics across the fields of
strategic management, marketing, innovations, international
business, and the digital economy.
Seamlessly combining the wisdom of seasoned leaders in psychiatry
residency and fellowship training with the perspective of current
residents-in-training, The Psychiatry Resident Handbook offers
insights and guidance readers will not easily find in any other
resource. An opening description of the state of mental health care
in the United States serves as a foundation from which the guide
proceeds to address topics in five key areas: • Identity,
including trainees' gender and sexual identities, as well as the
experience of individuals from underrepresented communities in
medicine and international medical graduates • Clinical practice,
from working with historically oppressed patient populations to
telehealth and legal and ethical issues • Skill-building,
including working with technology and social media, developing as a
leader, publishing research, and engaging in advocacy • Career
development, with discussions of mentorship and sponsorship,
finding a first job, and board certification • Managing both a
career and personal life, including recognizing and mitigating
burnout, addressing mistreatment and discrimination, and navigating
personal finances Chapters feature key points that preview the
content; specific challenges and strategies in which content is
applied to real-life scenarios; self-directed questions that spur
reflection and professional identity development; and recommended
resources that include psychiatric, medical, business, and other
literature, as well as relevant websites and online materials. For
guidance on how to successfully navigate training and pursue a
fulfilling personal life, medical students, psychiatry residents,
fellows and psychiatry educators will not find a more comprehensive
resource than The Psychiatry Resident Handbook.
What can century-old advice columns tell us about the Internet
today? This book reveals the little-known history of advice columns
in American newspapers and the virtual communities they created
among their readers. Imagine a community of people who had never
met writing into a media outlet, day after day, to reveal intimate
details about their lives, anxieties, and hopes. The original
"virtual communities" were born not on the Internet in chat rooms
but a century earlier in one of America's most ubiquitous news
features: the advice column. Newspaper Confessions is the first
history of the newspaper advice column, a genre that has shaped
Americans' relationships with media, their experiences with popular
therapy, and their virtual interactions across generations.
Emerging in the 1890s, advice columns became unprecedented virtual
forums where readers could debate the most resonant cultural crises
of the day with strangers in an anonymous, yet strikingly public,
forum. Early advice columns are essential-and overlooked-precursors
to today's digital culture: forums, social media groups, chat
rooms, and other online communities that define how present-day
American communicate with each other. By charting the economic and
cultural motivations behind the rise of this influential genre,
Julie Golia offers a nuanced analysis of the advice given by a
diverse sample of columns across several decades, emphasizing the
ways that advice columnists framed their counsel as modern, yet
upheld the racial and gendered status quo of the day. She offers
lively, surprising, and poignant case studies, demonstrating how
columnists and everyday newspaper readers transformed advice
columns into active and participatory virtual communities of
confession, advice, debate, and empathy.
Transportation engineering and transportation planning are two sides of the same coin aiming at the design of an efficient infrastructure and service to meet the growing needs for accessibility and mobility. Many well-designed transport systems that meet these needs are based on a solid understanding of human behavior. Since transportation systems are the backbone connecting the vital parts of a city, in-depth understanding of human nature is essential to the planning, design, and operational analysis of transportation systems.
With contributions by transportation experts from around the world, Transportation Systems Planning: Methods and Applications compiles engineering data and methods for solving problems in the planning, design, construction, and operation of various transportation modes into one source. It is the first methodological transportation planning reference that illustrates analytical simulation methods that depict human behavior in a realistic way, and many of its chapters emphasize newly developed and previously unpublished simulation methods. The handbook demonstrates how urban and regional planning, geography, demography, economics, sociology, ecology, psychology, business, operations management, and engineering come together to help us plan for better futures that are human-centered.
The text reviews projects from an initial problem statement to final policy action and associated decision-making and examines policies at all levels of government, from the city to the national levels. Unlike many other handbooks which are encyclopedic reviews, Transportation Systems Planning extends far beyond modeling in engineering and economics to present a truly transdisciplinary approach to transportation systems planning.
Despite the importance of supervision to the field of mental
health-it is a building block of learning and a fundamental
stepping-stone to unsupervised practice-most mental health
supervisors receive little to no training in how to supervise.
Supervision also remains the least developed and researched aspect
of clinical training. This relative lack of attention to this
crucial element of training is what makes Supervision in
Psychiatric Practice such a necessary addition to the psychiatric
literature. More than two dozen experts bring their knowledge to
bear on establishing a practical framework for supervision grounded
in real-world experience. This guide explores techniques such as
role-playing, working with process notes, live supervision, and
co-therapy in a variety of clinical and nonclinical settings,
including: * Inpatient psychiatry* Hospital-based
consultation-liaison and emergency department psychiatry* Couples
and family therapy* Administrative training* Leadership
development* Quality improvement initiatives Key points provide a
context for each chapter and allow readers to easily reference the
book's major takeaways. All chapters address specific challenges
and strategies related to the topic and include questions for
supervisees and supervisors to facilitate discussion. Also included
is a listing of additional resources that can serve as a
springboard to further discovery and learning. Special attention is
given to unique issues in supervision, including selecting a
psychotherapy supervisor, supervising adverse outcomes, supervising
auxiliary health care providers, and terminating a supervisory
relationship. A discussion of the legal issues in supervision and
building a supervisor training program round out the most
comprehensive, up-to-date manual of its kind.
Innovative technologies provide opportunities for making
manufacturing and logistics operations cleaner and more
resource-efficient. New technologies focus on lifecycle engineering
and lifecycle management. This book will be valuable to both
academics and practitioners who wish to deepen their knowledge of
technology management. The book will cover technical,
organizational, financial and social issues connected to the
implementation of more sustainable technologies.
Civil Engineering and Urban Planning III addresses civil
engineering and urban planning issues associated with
transportation and the environment. The contributions not only
highlight current practices in these areas, but also pay attention
to future research and applications, and provide an overview of the
progress made in a wide variety of topics in the areas of: - Civil
Engineering - Architecture and Urban Planning - Transportation
Engineering Including a wealth of information, Civil Engineering
and Urban Planning III is of interest to academics and students in
civil engineering and urban planning.
To secure a comfortable afterlife, ancient Egyptians built
fortress-like tombs and filled them with precious goods, a practice
that generated staggering quantities of artefacts over the course
of many millennia, but one which has also drawn thieves and
tomb-raiders to Egypt since antiquity. Drawing on modern
scholarship, reportage and period sources, this book tracks the
history of treasure-seekers in Egypt and the social contexts in
which they operated, revealing striking continuities throughout
time. Readers will recognize the foibles of today’s politicians
and con artists, the perils of materialism, and the cycles of
public compliance and dissent in the face of injustice. In
describing an age-old pursuit and its timeless motivations, A Short
History of Tomb-Raiding shows how much we have in common with our
Bronze Age ancestors.
Ornette Coleman's career encompassed the glory years of jazz and
the American avant-garde. Born in segregated Fort Worth, Texas,
during the Great Depression, the African American composer and
musician was zeitgeist incarnate. Steeped in the Texas blues
tradition, Ornette and jazz grew up together, as the brassy blare
of big band swing gave way to bebop, a faster music for a faster,
post-war world. At the dawn of the Space Age and New York's 1960s
counterculture, his music gave voice to the moment. Lauded by some,
maligned by many, he forged a breakaway art sometimes called 'the
new thing' or 'free jazz'. Featuring previously unpublished
photographs of Ornette and his contemporaries, this is the
compelling story of one of America's most adventurous musicians and
the sound of a changing world.
Ornette Coleman's career encompassed the glory years of jazz and
the American avant-garde. Born in segregated Fort Worth, Texas,
during the Great Depression, the African American composer and
musician was the zeitgeist incarnate. Steeped in the Texas blues
tradition, Ornette and jazz grew up together, as the brassy blare
of big band swing gave way to bebop, a faster music for a faster,
post-war world. At the dawn of the Space Age and New York's 1960s
counterculture, his music gave voice to the moment. Lauded by some,
maligned by many, he forged a breakaway art sometimes called `the
new thing' or `free jazz'. Featuring previously unpublished
photographs of Ornette and his contemporaries, this is the
compelling story of one of America's most adventurous musicians and
the sound of a changing world.
Cairo is a 1,400-year-old metropolis whose streets are inscribed
with sagas, a place where the pressures of life test people's
equanimity to the very limit. Virtually surrounded by desert,
sixteen million Cairenes cling to the Nile and each other,
proximities that color and shape lives. Packed with incident and
anecdote "Cairo: City of Sand" describes the city's given
circumstances and people's attitudes of response. Apart from a
brisk historical overview, this book focuses on the present moment
of one of the world's most illustrious and irreducible cities.
"Cairo" steps inside the interactions between Cairenes, examining
the roles of family, tradition and bureaucracy in everyday life.
The book explores Cairo's relationship with its "others," from the
French and British occupations to modern influences like tourism
and consumerism. "Cairo" also discusses characteristic styles of
communication, and linguistic "memes," including slang,
grandiloquence, curses and jokes.
Cairo exists by virtue of these interactions, synergies of
necessity, creativity and the presence or absence of power. "Cairo:
City of Sand" reveals a peerless balancing act, and transmits the
city's overriding message: the breadth of the human capacity for
loss, astonishment and delight.
Meteorites are among the rarest objects on Earth, yet they have
left a pervasive mark on our planet and civilization. Arriving
amidst thunderous blasts and flame-streaked skies, meteorites were
once thought to be messengers from the gods, embodiments of the
divine. Prized for their outlandish qualities, meteorites are a
collectible, a commodity, objects of art and artists' desires and a
literary muse. 'Meteorite hunting' is an adventurous, lucrative
profession for some, and an addictive hobby for thousands of
others. Meteorite: Nature and Culture is a unique, richly
illustrated cultural history of these ancient and mysterious
phenomena. Taking in a wide range of sources Maria Golia pays
homage to the scientists, scholars and aficionados who have scoured
the skies and combed the Earth's most unforgiving reaches for
meteorites, contributing to a body of work that situates our planet
and ourselves within the vastness of the Universe.Appealing to
collectors and hobbyists alike, as well as any lovers of nature,
marvel and paradox, this book offers an accessible overview of what
science has learned from meteorites, beginning with the scientific
community's reluctant embrace of their interplanetary origins, and
explores their power to reawaken that precious, yet near-forgotten
human trait - the capacity for awe.
Trenchant and witty critiques of life in Cairo under British rule
What 'Isa ibn Hisham Told Us is a masterpiece of early
twentieth-century Arabic prose. Penned by the Egyptian journalist
Muhammad al-Muwaylihi, this highly original work was first
introduced in serialized form in his family's pioneering newspaper
Misbah al-Sharq (Light of the East) and later published in book
form in 1907. Widely hailed for its erudition and mordant wit, What
'Isa ibn Hisham Told Us was embraced by Egypt's burgeoning reading
public and soon became required reading for generations of school
students. Bridging classical genres and modern Arabic fiction, What
'Isa ibn Hisham Told Us is divided into two parts. Sarcastic in
tone and critical in outlook, the first part of the book relates
the excursions of its narrator, 'Isa ibn Hisham, and his companion,
the Pasha, through a rapidly westernizing Cairo and provides vivid
commentary on a society negotiating-however imperfectly-the clash
between traditional norms and imported cultural values. The second
half takes the narrator to Paris to visit the Exposition
Universelle of 1900, where al-Muwaylihi casts a critical eye on
European society, modernity, and the role of Western imperialism as
it ripples across the globe. Paving the way for the modern Arabic
novel, What 'Isa ibn Hisham Told Us is invaluable both for its
insight into colonial Egypt and its pioneering role in Arabic
literary history. An English-only edition.
She's At Your Door is written to entertain and enlighten all those
who are curious about the escort industry. Having driven over a
hundred call girls for six agencies, I am inspired to share my
insider knowledge which up until now has remained relatively
concealed from the general public. This comprehensive, easy-to-read
book contains realistic, straightforward advice and captivating
confessions. The five-page acronym and terminology guide will
benefit even the most accomplished whoremaster. If you are
contemplating calling an agency let this book guide you to a
reputable nationwide website which will save you money and prepare
you for a pleasurable experience.
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