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This collection describes the changing structure of jobs during the
period of robust employment expansion that preceded the 2008
financial crisis. It also provides an analysis of labour market
developments in the EU and the US in terms of gender, international
mobility and debates over the quality of work.
D-differentiation is a unified operation that enables aspects of differential geometry to be developed and presented from a new perspective. This book is the first comprehensive and self-contained treatment of this new method. It demonstrates, concisely but without sacrificing rigour or intelligibility, how even elementary concepts in differential geometry can be reformulated to obtain new and valuable insights. In addition, D-differentiation has applications in several areas of physics, such as classical mechanics, solid-state physics and general relativity.This book will prove useful to all users of D-differentiation - from advanced graduate students onwards - and to those researching into new approaches to some branches of physics and mathematics.
This book deals with the role of the organization in scientific
research. It examines organizational influences such as leadership,
group dynamics, resources and technology, and their importance in
relation to scientific performance. It also deals with issues of
scientific research policy, the measurement of scientific
productivity, and the wider social and personal influences
affecting scientific performance.
Twenty-one-year-old Ava Sonders is independent and slightly
cynical, and she has never been in love. She doesn't know if she
believes in the concept of a soul mate, let alone the "until death
do you part" stuff! But no one is more surprised than Ava when she
becomes attracted to bad boy and struggling musician Braden
O'Neil.
After one romantic evening, Braden steals Ava's heart. Mortified
when her behavior is reduced to that of a smitten sixteen-year-old
girl, Ava is further distressed when she begins to fantasize about
spending the rest of her life with him in the happily-ever-after
sense. Unfortunately, Braden focuses on his career instead of his
girlfriend, making music his mistress.
The relationship gets out of control when Braden's band makes it
to the big time, and Ava finds that their love life is splashed on
the covers of all the tabloids. Now, Ava must figure out what she
wants, leading her to discover that sometimes life has a different
plan than what one expects.
Master an Approach Based on Fire Safety Goals, Fire Scenarios, and
the Assessment of Design Alternatives Performance-Based Fire Safety
Design demonstrates how fire science can be used to solve fire
protection problems in the built environment. It also provides an
understanding of the performance-based design process,
deterministic and risk-based analysis techniques, development of
design fire scenarios, trial design development and analysis, and
building lifecycle management. Develop a Strategy That Meets the
Fire Safety Goals for a Building Topics addressed include designing
to protect people from fire, design of detection systems, smoke
control systems and structural fire resistance, addressing
computational and design uncertainty, and fire testing to support
design development or evaluation. Identifies key attributes of
performance-based design Reviews the advantages and disadvantages
of performance-based design over specification-based prescriptive
design Provides a series of steps offering a framework/process for
performance-based design Performance-Based Fire Safety Design
focuses on the development and application of performance-based
fire safety design approaches. Written by leading experts in the
field, this text addresses the unique features and uses of a
building and helps you gain a better understanding of how a
building will perform in the event of a fire.
Master an Approach Based on Fire Safety Goals, Fire Scenarios, and
the Assessment of Design Alternatives Performance-Based Fire Safety
Design demonstrates how fire science can be used to solve fire
protection problems in the built environment. It also provides an
understanding of the performance-based design process,
deterministic and risk-based analysis techniques, development of
design fire scenarios, trial design development and analysis, and
building lifecycle management. Develop a Strategy That Meets the
Fire Safety Goals for a Building Topics addressed include designing
to protect people from fire, design of detection systems, smoke
control systems and structural fire resistance, addressing
computational and design uncertainty, and fire testing to support
design development or evaluation. Identifies key attributes of
performance-based design Reviews the advantages and disadvantages
of performance-based design over specification-based prescriptive
design Provides a series of steps offering a framework/process for
performance-based design Performance-Based Fire Safety Design
focuses on the development and application of performance-based
fire safety design approaches. Written by leading experts in the
field, this text addresses the unique features and uses of a
building and helps you gain a better understanding of how a
building will perform in the event of a fire.
The Six Virtues of the Educated Person discusses two ways of trying
to improve American education - how we do it now, and how we ought
to do it. This book offers an alternative schooling model - one
that builds on the positive aspects of our current model and
provides hope for public school improvement. It will not be easy,
but we can move from our current model to the alternative and this
book provides a clear outline of how this can be done by
challenging the most fundamental aspects of American public schools
and educating audiences in the 6 virtues of understanding,
imagination, strength, courage, humility and generosity.
The Six Virtues of the Educated Person discusses two ways of trying
to improve American education - how we do it now, and how we ought
to do it. This book offers an alternative schooling model - one
that builds on the positive aspects of our current model and
provides hope for public school improvement. It will not be easy,
but we can move from our current model to the alternative and this
book provides a clear outline of how this can be done by
challenging the most fundamental aspects of American public schools
and educating audiences in the 6 virtues of understanding,
imagination, strength, courage, humility and generosity.
According to anthropologists, religion arose in the Neolithic
period, a time that began 12 thousand years ago when people
abandoned the hunter-gatherer lifestyle and started settling down
in communities. By the time of the ancient Egyptians, religion had
reached a significant level of development. The spirits of the
seeds and the weather had evolved into gods. In the end, the gods
numbered more than a thousand; every god required a temple, and
every temple needed a priest, or several of them. For the Christian
god to reach its final form took an additional three hundred years.
It was accomplished through the work of dozens of bishops who
wrestled with the problem of how a god consisting of three persons
could really be one entity. Religion, Power & Illusion: A
Genealogy of Religious Belief puts forth the idea that modern
concepts of God are inextricably tied to the generations of mortal
priests that shaped biblical and religious ideas. Religious
orthodoxy as we know it today is the result of the countless
solutions proposed by priests, not necessarily as the result of
so-called primary texts or teachings, with various bishops
condemning various proposals as heretical and blessing others as
conventional. But how were orthodoxy and heresy distinguished? Any
position that increased the power of the bishops was, by
definition, orthodox, and any position that undermined it was
heretical. Thus, the Christian god that we have today is a
construct assembled over many years, and for two thousand years it
has served to augment and solidify the power of the bishops who
created it and who sustain it. Religion, Power & Illusion
concludes that priestly power is so firmly rooted in the human
condition that religion is not likely to disappear any time soon.
It also explores the defective logic used by religious promoters,
and what is necessary for experiences to be non-illusory.
This book deals with the role of the organization in scientific
research. It examines organizational influences such as leadership,
group dynamics, resources and technology, and their importance in
relation to scientific performance. It also deals with issues of
scientific research policy, the measurement of scientific
productivity, and the wider social and personal influences
affecting scientific performance.
This collection describes the changing structure of employment
during the period of robust employment expansion that preceded the
credit crunch and features contributions from a team of leading
labour market researchers from Europe and the United States.
Organisation and Scientific Discovery John Hurley Professor of
Organisational Psychology at Dublin City University, Ireland What
factors other than creativity lead to discoveries in science? Of
the five million scientists worldwide, few are directly involved in
significant discovery. It is perhaps surprising that no models or
guidelines exist for people responsible for scientific research
projects that are directed towards discovery. They and their
colleagues would no doubt welcome help in structuring and managing
their exploration. This book seeks a way forward. Research into the
creative process has always far exceeded the attention given to
organisational factors. Yet resources such as money, colleagues,
technicians, library and equipment all have a major bearing on the
likelihood of discovery. In this revealing study, the author worked
with 16 Nobel laureates, each completing two interviews and four
questionnaires on the subject of organisation. Drawing on his
background in organisational psychology, the author here interprets
and explores the results. Professor Hurley shows how the chances of
discovery can be increased, contributing to the quality of future
scientific research. He proposes a model of the workings of
research organisations and groups - to guide experimental research,
to test the theory and to establish the parameters of organisation
in relation to discovery. A major theme of the book is that
organisations play a central role in facilitating or inhibiting
discovery in science. The contribution to discovery in science of
such organisational matters as the selection of scientists, their
development and training, scientific leadership, management and
supervision are allexplored in this book, and important questions
raised about the relationship between individual scientists and the
laboratories in which they work.
Omic Studies of Neurodegenerative Disease: Part B is part of a
well-established international series on neuroscience that examines
major areas of basic and clinical research, along with emerging and
promising subfields. The book informs the reader on the current
state of the studies used to evaluate the mechanisms, causes, and
treatment of neurodegeneration through a combination of literature
reviews and examples of current research.
Omic Studies of Neurodegenerative Disease: Part A is part of a
well-established international series on neuroscience that examines
major areas of basic and clinical research, along with emerging and
promising subfields. The book informs the reader on the current
state of the studies used to evaluate the mechanisms, causes, and
treatment of neurodegeneration through a combination of literature
reviews and examples of current research.
Revised and significantly expanded, the fifth edition of this
classic work offers both new and substantially updated information.
As the definitive reference on fire protection engineering, this
book provides thorough treatment of the current best practices in
fire protection engineering and performance-based fire safety. Over
130 eminent fire engineers and researchers contributed chapters to
the book, representing universities and professional organizations
around the world. It remains the indispensible source for reliable
coverage of fire safety engineering fundamentals, fire dynamics,
hazard calculations, fire risk analysis, modeling and more. With
seventeen new chapters and over 1,800 figures, the this new edition
contains: Step-by-step equations that explain engineering
calculations Comprehensive revision of the coverage of human
behavior in fire, including several new chapters on egress system
design, occupant evacuation scenarios, combustion toxicity and data
for human behavior analysis Revised fundamental chapters for a
stronger sense of context Added chapters on fire protection system
selection and design, including selection of fire safety systems,
system activation and controls and CO2 extinguishing systems Recent
advances in fire resistance design Addition of new chapters on
industrial fire protection, including vapor clouds, effects of
thermal radiation on people, BLEVEs, dust explosions and gas and
vapor explosions New chapters on fire load density, curtain walls,
wildland fires and vehicle tunnels Essential reference appendices
on conversion factors, thermophysical property data, fuel
properties and combustion data, configuration factors and piping
properties "Three-volume set; not available separately"
American Lectures In Dermatology. Additional Contributors Are
George B. Koelle, Anna C. Nichols, Fred D. Weidman, And Edward F.
Glifort, Jr.
American Lectures In Dermatology. Additional Contributors Are
George B. Koelle, Anna C. Nichols, Fred D. Weidman, And Edward F.
Glifort, Jr.
Predictions of fire plume and ceiling jet temperature and the
response of thermal detectors from NIST's Fire Dynamics
Simulator(FDS)were compared to data from a series of full-scale
tests conducted by Underwriters Laboratory. Findings and
conclusions are included.
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