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As the saying goes, "dead men tell no tales." Or do they? From its
humble beginnings as a Spanish settlement in 1691 to the bloody
battle at the Alamo, San Antonio's history is rich in haunting
tales. Discover Old San Antonio's most haunted places and uncover
the history that lies waiting for those who dare to enter their
doorways. Take a peek inside the Menger Hotel, the "Most Haunted
Hotel in Texas," and just a block away, peer into the Emily Morgan
Hotel, one of the city's first hospitals and where many men and
women lost their lives. Explore the San Fernando Cathedral, where
people are buried within the walls and visitors claim to see faces
mysteriously appear. Uncover the legends behind Bexar County Jail.
Join authors James and Lauren Swartz and decide for yourself what
truly lurks behind the Alamo City's fabled past.
Effective Communication N6 - empowering the workforce aims to help
develop a solid strategy to keep employees informed and engaged; to
avoid communication silos and overload; to build interpersonal
relations, and to encourage a productive and conducive work
environment. Tips are provided on how to promote an open
organisational culture of trust and satisfaction, where knowledge
sharing and healthy relations are prevalent and the use of various
media is facilitated. There are ample timely, concrete and
real-life exercises and applications, and examples and
illustrations of communication in action. Effective Communication
N6 - empowering the workforce is designed to take workplace
communication to the next level and can be used by students,
employees and those at executive management level.
The ability to communicate effectively is one of the most important
life skills a person can possess. It can pave the way to success,
not only in terms of career but also in every other aspect of life
where communication plays a role.
Advanced communication skills focuses on essential
communication skills and competencies for all aspects of the world
of work. Advanced communication skills takes an integrated
theory and practical approach to learning. It is designed to foster
workplace communication in order to benefit interpersonal
relationships, which in turn leads to personal enrichment, greater
job satisfaction and increased productivity. The final chapter
contains a selection of case studies with questions to assist in
the evaluation of communication skills.
Advanced communication skills is aimed at managers, personal
assistants, professional secretaries and all those studying towards
certificates, diplomas or degrees in colleges and
universities. It fully covers the syllabus for Communication
N5/N6 at technical and vocational education and training colleges,
and will prepare students for the national examinations in these
subjects.
This book contains the refereed contributions from the 41st annual
meeting of ISOTT. The annual meetings of ISOTT bring together
scientists from various fields (medicine, physiology, mathematics,
biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, etc.) in a unique
international forum. Traditionally, ISOTT conferences are a place,
where an atmosphere of interaction is created, where many questions
are asked after each presentation and lively discussions occur at a
high scientific level. This vivid interaction is the main
motivation for members to participate and gain new ideas and
knowledge in the broad field of oxygen transport to tissue. The
papers in this volume summarize some of the outstanding
contributions from the 41st annual meeting. Special features in
this volume include invited presentations from senior members of
ISOTT for the theme "the wisdom of ISOTT" in which founders, past
presidents and prize winners from previous meetings provided both
cutting edge new knowledge and integrated overviews of critical
aspects of the field. The presentations and manuscripts also
include those provided by the special opportunity provided by
having part of the ISOTT meeting overlap with the EPR-2013 meeting
where both focused on preclinical and clinical measurements of
oxygen, with a particular emphasis on cancer. Chapters 22, 24, 25
and 26 are open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via
link.springer.com.
This volume contains refereed manuscripts prepared from
presentations made at the 2ih annual meeting of the International
Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue (ISOTT). The meeting was held
in Hanover, NH, USA, at Dartmouth Medical School, the 3rd oldest
medical school in the USA. ISOTT attempts to produce high quality
pUblications on cutting edge topics relating to oxygen in living
systerns. The goal is to allow contributors to contribute original
data, as with a main-stream journal article, but also to voice
individual opinions and ideas in a more relaxed scientific forum.
The meeting brought together an international group of scientists
who share a common interest in the measurement and role of oxygen
in living systems. The organizers of ISOTT99 made a special effort
to bring together people from industry, medicine, and basic
sciences in order to improve the links in the chain of discovery
through to application. As a result, this volume contains
publications on a range of subjects. There are contributions from
companies on modifiers of oxygen carrying capacity (allosteric
modifiers of hemoglobin and infusible oxygen carriers or blood
substitutes); technical reports on oxygen measurement devices
including advances in near-infrared spectroscopy and imaging,
oxygen electrodes, magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging, and
fluorescence based measurements. There are medically related
sections on modifying and measuring tumor oxygenation in order to
improve therapy, assessment and interpretation of oxygenation in
the central nervous system, and general issues relating oxygen to
pathological conditions.
Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874-1925) was one of the most important
Jewish artists of modern times. As a successful illustrator,
photographer, painter and printer, he became the first major
Zionist artist. Surprisingly there has been little in-depth
scholarly research and analysis of Lilien’s work available in
English, making this book an important contribution to historical
and art-historical scholarship. Concentrating mainly on his
illustrations for journals and books, Lynne Swarts acknowledges the
importance of Lilien’s groundbreaking male iconography in Zionist
art, but is the first to examine Lilien’s complex and nuanced
depiction of women, which comprised a major dimension of his work.
Lilien’s female images offer a compelling glimpse of an
alternate, independent and often sexually liberated modern Jewish
woman, a portrayal that often eluded the Zionist imagination. Using
an interdisciplinary approach to integrate intellectual and
cultural history with issues of gender, Jewish history and visual
culture, Swarts also explores the important fin de siècle tensions
between European and Oriental expressions of Jewish femininity. The
work demonstrates that Lilien was not a minor figure in the
European art scene, but a major figure whose work needs re-reading
in light of his cosmopolitan and national artistic genius.
U.S. Naval Strategy in the 1980s: Selected Documents is the
thirty-third in the Naval War College Press's Newport Papers
monograph series, and the third in a projected four volume set of
authoritative documents relating to U.S. Navy strategy and
strategic planning during and after the Cold War. Edited by John B.
Hattendorf, a distinguished naval historian and chairman of the
Maritime History Department at the Naval War College, this volume
is an indispensable supplement to Professor Hattendorf 's uniquely
informed narrative of the genesis and development of the Navy's
strategy for global war with the Soviet Union, The Evolution of the
U.S. Navy's Maritime Strategy, 1977-1986, Newport Paper 19 (2004).
It continues the story of the Navy's reaction to the growing Soviet
naval and strategic threats over the decade of the 1970s, as
documented in U.S. Naval Strategy in the 1970s: Selected Documents,
Newport Paper 30 (2007), and sets the stage for the rethinking of
the Navy's role following the demise of the Soviet Union at the end
of the 1980s, as presented in U.S. Naval Strategy in the 1990s:
Selected Documents, Newport Paper 27 (2006). Both of these volumes
were also edited by John Hattendorf. A fourth volume, of documents
on naval strategy from the 1950s and 1960s, will eventually round
out this important and hitherto very imperfectly known history.
This project will make a major contribution not just to the history
of the United States Navy since World War II but also to that of
American military institutions, strategy, and planning more
generally. Including as it does both originally classified
documents and statements crafted for public release, it shows how
the Navy's leadership not only grappled with fundamental questions
of strategy and force structure but sought as well to translate the
strategic insights resulting from this process into a rhetorical
form suited to the public and political arenas. Finally, it should
be noted that all of this is of more than merely historical
interest. In October 2007, the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral
Gary Roughead, unveiled (in a presentation to the International
Seapower Symposium at the Naval War College) "A Cooperative
Strategy for 21st Century Seapower," the first attempt by the sea
services of this country to articulate a strategy or vision for
maritime power in the contemporary security environment-a new era
of protracted low-intensity warfare and growing global economic
interdependence. It is too early to tell what impact this document
will have on the Navy, its sister services, allies and others
abroad, or the good order of the global commons. To understand its
meaning and significance, however, there is no better place to
begin than with the material collected in this volume and its
forthcoming successor.
U.S. Naval Strategy in the 1980s: Selected Documents is the
thirty-third in the Naval War College Press's Newport Papers
monograph series, and the third in a projected fourvolume set of
authoritative documents relating to U.S. Navy strategy and
strategic planning during and after the Cold War. Edited by John B.
Hattendorf, a distinguished naval historian and chairman of the
Maritime History Department at the Naval War College, this volume
is an indispensable supplement to Professor Hattendorf 's uniquely
informed narrative of the genesis and development of the Navy's
strategy for global war with the Soviet Union, The Evolution of the
U.S. Navy's Maritime Strategy, 1977- 1986, Newport Paper 19 (2004).
It continues the story of the Navy's reaction to the growing Soviet
naval and strategic threats over the decade of the 1970s, as
documented in U.S. Naval Strategy in the 1970s: Selected Documents,
Newport Paper 30 (2007), and sets the stage for the rethinking of
the Navy's...
This volume contains refereed manuscripts prepared from
presentations made at the 27th annual meeting of the International
Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue (ISOTT). The meeting was held
in Hanover, NH, USA, at Dartmouth Medical School.
Interacting particle systems are Markov processes involving
infinitely many interacting components. Since their introduction in
the 1970s, researchers have found many applications in statistical
physics and population biology. Genealogies, which follow the
origin of the state of a site backwards in time, play an important
role in their studies, especially for the biologically motivated
systems.The program Genealogies of Interacting Particle Systems
held at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National
University of Singapore, from 17 July to 18 Aug 2017, brought
together experts and young researchers interested in this modern
topic. Central to the program were learning sessions where
lecturers presented work outside of their own research, as well as
a normal workshop. This is reflected in the present volume which
contains two types of articles:Written by respected researchers,
including experts in the field such as Steve Evans, member of the
US National Academy of Sciences, as well as Anton Wakolbinger,
Andreas Greven, and many others, this volume will no doubt be a
valuable contribution to the probability community.
Psychotic depression is a distinct and acute clinical condition
along the spectrum of depressive disorders. It can manifest itself
in many ways and often induces very violent and suicidal behavior.
This book aims to help clinical practitioners and trainees describe
their observations of psychotic depression, formulate treatment,
and express expectations of recovery from illness. It focuses on
all facets of the disorder, from clinical history to coverage of
diagnostic and treatment protocols. Medical readers of this book
will come away able to diagnose and readily treat psychotic
depression and thus will be able to serve their patients better.
Non-physician readers will come away with the message that this is
a terrible illness, but there is hope.
Psychotic depression is a distinct and acute clinical condition
along the spectrum of depressive disorders. It can manifest itself
in many ways and often induces very violent and suicidal behavior.
This book aims to help clinical practitioners and trainees describe
their observations of psychotic depression, formulate treatment,
and express expectations of recovery from illness. It focuses on
all facets of the disorder, from clinical history to coverage of
diagnostic and treatment protocols. Medical readers of this book
will come away able to diagnose and readily treat psychotic
depression and thus will be able to serve their patients better.
Non-physician readers will come away with the message that this is
a terrible illness, but there is hope.
It has long been recognized that metal spin states play a central
role in the reactivity of important biomolecules, in industrial
catalysis and in spin crossover compounds. As the fields of
inorganic chemistry and catalysis move towards the use of cheap,
non-toxic first row transition metals, it is essential to
understand the important role of spin states in influencing
molecular structure, bonding and reactivity. Spin States in
Biochemistry and Inorganic Chemistry provides a complete picture on
the importance of spin states for reactivity in biochemistry and
inorganic chemistry, presenting both theoretical and experimental
perspectives. The successes and pitfalls of theoretical methods
such as DFT, ligand-field theory and coupled cluster theory are
discussed, and these methods are applied in studies throughout the
book. Important spectroscopic techniques to determine spin states
in transition metal complexes and proteins are explained, and the
use of NMR for the analysis of spin densities is described. Topics
covered include: * DFT and ab initio wavefunction approaches to
spin states * Experimental techniques for determining spin states *
Molecular discovery in spin crossover * Multiple spin state
scenarios in organometallic reactivity and gas phase reactions *
Transition-metal complexes involving redox non-innocent ligands *
Polynuclear iron sulfur clusters * Molecular magnetism * NMR
analysis of spin densities This book is a valuable reference for
researchers working in bioinorganic and inorganic chemistry,
computational chemistry, organometallic chemistry, catalysis,
spin-crossover materials, materials science, biophysics and
pharmaceutical chemistry.
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