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Pennsylvania, first home of the Declaration of Independence and the
Constitution, has a tradition of political progress. However, along
with the good, the political playground of Pennsylvania has also
seen the brazenly bad behavior of its political leaders. For over
twenty-five years, political columnist John Baer has had a
front-row seat to the foibles and follies of the Keystone State's
political system. Baer takes readers through his memories of
covering state politics for the last quarter century, from
Democratic governor Milton Shapp's short-lived run for
president--in which he finished behind "no preference" in the
Florida primary--to highlights of some of the game-changing
campaign missteps and maneuvers that moved administrations in and
out of the capital. With a delightfully gruff wit, Baer gives
readers a behind-the-scenes view of the politics and personalities
that have passed through Harrisburg.
Originally published in 1977, these examples of research and
scholarly argument were collected in honor of Professor Sidney W.
Bijou. In the language of academics, they constitute a Festschrift:
a festival of scholarly writing, performed to celebrate the career
of a person who produced, and stimulated others to produce, exactly
such contributions throughout a long, valuable, and productive
professional history. Since 1955, Dr Bijou had worked almost
exclusively within the approach variously labelled as the
functional analysis of behavior, the experimental analysis of
behavior, operant conditioning, or Skinnerian psychology. From his
point of view, it seems clear, the first of these labels was the
correct one. It was the principle of objective, direct, observable
analysis that attracted him.
This book is organized around the clusters of details about how
behavior is controlled by its environmental antecedents and about
how behavior can control its antecedents. It illustrates how to
integrate environmental awareness into professional practice and
design.
Originally published in 1977, these examples of research and
scholarly argument were collected in honor of Professor Sidney W.
Bijou. In the language of academics, they constitute a Festschrift:
a festival of scholarly writing, performed to celebrate the career
of a person who produced, and stimulated others to produce, exactly
such contributions throughout a long, valuable, and productive
professional history. Since 1955, Dr Bijou had worked almost
exclusively within the approach variously labelled as the
functional analysis of behavior, the experimental analysis of
behavior, operant conditioning, or Skinnerian psychology. From his
point of view, it seems clear, the first of these labels was the
correct one. It was the principle of objective, direct, observable
analysis that attracted him.
We propose this book as a celebration of the outstanding research
and teaching career of Professor Barbara Coleman Etzel. The editors
and authors are her students and her worldwide colleagues. She
directed us toward the issues of antecedent control at a time when
we thought altering consequences could solve all problems. She
developed a model of how a preschool teaching and research
laboratory should be run by creating the very environmental
controls evident in her work. This book is testimony to her
influence on our professional careers and to our affection for her.
Analysis of the way the environment influences behavior is
essential to our understanding of human development. This volume
collects original, never-published work that describes how people
conceptualize, think, and behave. Environment and Behavior presents
empirical studies that test theoretical assumptions and illustrate
how to integrate environmental awareness into professional practice
and design. The ability to categorize-to think in larger and more
inclusive classifications and, at the same time, in smaller and
more exclusive subdivisions-is a hallmark of conceptual
development, It is the kind of development that makes humans
distinctly rational, symbolic, and logical. This book presents a
new way of viewing the conceptual development of normal and
developmentally disabled children and the conceptual reorganization
of adults. Individual conceptual ability is demonstrated across an
impressive range of issues: private events, language development
and function, child abuse, sexual abuse, drug abuse, autism, aging,
professional practice, and environmental and cultural design.
Additional commentary for each section is provided by the editors.
Those working or studying in the areas of psychology, education,
human development, social work, and disability will find this book
to be a current and thorough introduction to the subject.
Professionals and researchers also will find much of interest in
this coll
This volume provides an overview of the state of the art in
computational accelerator physics, based on papers presented at the
seventh international conference at Michigan State University in
October 2002. The major topics covered in this volume include
particle tracking and ray tracing, transfer map methods, field
computation for time dependent Maxwell's equations and static
magnetic problems, as well as space charge and beam-beam effects.
The book also discusses modern computational environments,
including parallel clusters, visualization, and new programming
paradigms. It is ideal for scientists and engineers working in beam
or accelerator physics and related areas of applied math and
computer science.
This book provides essential worldwide reference information
regarding rabies for public health officials, veterinarians,
physicians, virologists, epidemiologists, infectious disease
specialists, laboratory diagnosticians, and wildlife biologists.
The book is divided into six main sections, covering topics such as
the rabies virus, including antigenic and biochemical
characteristics; pathogenesis, including the immune response to the
infection, pathology, and latency; diagnostic techniques; rabies
epidemiology in a variety of wild and domestic animals; rabies
control, including vaccination of wild and domestic animals, as
well as control on the international level; and finally a
discussion of rabies in humans, local wound and serum treatment,
and human post-exposure vaccination. Natural History of Rabies,
First Edition has been the principal worldwide reference since
1975. The new Second Edition has been completely updated, providing
current information on this historically deadly disease.
The Rise and Fall of Radical Westminster, 1780-1890 explores a
critical chapter in the story of Britain's transition to democracy.
Utilising the remarkably rich documentation generated by
Westminster elections, Baer reveals how the most radical political
space in the age of oligarchy became the most conservative and
tranquil in an age of democracy.
The Rise and Fall of Radical Westminster, 1780-1890 explores a
critical chapter in the story of Britain's transition to democracy.
Utilising the remarkably rich documentation generated by
Westminster elections, Baer reveals how the most radical political
space in the age of oligarchy became the most conservative and
tranquil in an age of democracy.
This monograph covers a broad spectrum of topics in the very broad
field of gas phase molecular collision dynamics. The Introduction
previews each of the four fol lowing topics and attempts to sew
them together with a common thread. In addition, a brief review of
quantum reactive scattering is given there along with some gen eral
remarks which highlight the difficulties in doing quantum reactive
scatter ing calculations. The chapters are all written by
theoreticians who are, of course, experts in the subjects they have
written about. Three chapters, the ones by Secrest, Schatz, and the
one by Schinke and Bowman deal with non-reactive atom-molecule
scattering. Col lectively, they describe nearly the full breadth of
scattering methods in use to day, from fully quantum mechanical to
semiclassical and quasiclassical. The chapter by Baer is the only
one dealing with quantum reactive scattering with the additional
complexity of the coupling of two potential energy surfaces. The
one simplifying feature of the treatment is that the reaction is
constrained to be collinear. Overall, this monograph is mainly a
review of the recent advances in the field of molecular collision
dynamics, with, however, a considerable amount of new material. It
is hoped that workers and students in the field will find reading
the mono graph both enlightening and enjoyable."
The Advances in Chemical Physics series provides the chemical
physics and physical chemistry fields with a forum for critical,
authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the
discipline. Filled with cutting-edge research reported in a
cohesive manner not found elsewhere in the literature, each volume
of the Advances in Chemical Physics series serves as the perfect
supplement to any advanced graduate class devoted to the study of
chemical physics.
INTRODUCING A POWERFUL APPROACH TO DEVELOPING RELIABLE QUANTUM
MECHANICAL TREATMENTS OF A LARGE VARIETY OF PROCESSES IN MOLECULAR
SYSTEMS.
The Born-Oppenheimer approximation has been fundamental to
calculation in molecular spectroscopy and molecular dynamics since
the early days of quantum mechanics. This is despite
well-established fact that it is often not valid due to conical
intersections that give rise to strong nonadiabatic effects caused
by singular nonadiabatic coupling terms (NACTs). In Beyond
Born-Oppenheimer, Michael Baer, a leading authority on molecular
scattering theory and electronic nonadiabatic processes, addresses
this deficiency and introduces a rigorous
approach--diabatization--for eliminating troublesome NACTs and
deriving well-converged equations to treat the interactions within
and between molecules.
Concentrating on both the practical and theoretical aspects of
electronic nonadiabatic transitions in molecules, Professor Baer
uses a simple mathematical language to rigorously eliminate the
singular NACTs and enable reliable calculations of spectroscopic
and dynamical cross sections. He presents models of varying
complexity to illustrate the validity of the theory and explores
the significance of the study of NACTs and the relationship between
molecular physics and other fields in physics, particularly
electrodynamics.
The first book of its king Beyond Born-Oppenheimer:
* Presents a detailed mathematical framework to treat electronic
NACTs and their conical intersections
* Describes the Born-Oppenheimer treatment, including the concepts
of adiabatic and diabatic frameworks
* Introduces a field-theoretical approach to calculating NACTs,
which offers an alternative to time-consuming ab initio
procedures
* Discusses various approximations for treating a large system of
diabatic Schr?dinger equations
* Presents numerous exercises with solutions to further clarify the
material being discussed
Beyond Born-Oppenheimer is required reading for physicists,
physical chemists, and all researchers involved in the quantum
mechanical study of molecular systems.
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