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Recent events have vividly underscored the societal importance of
science, yet the majority of the public are unaware that a large
proportion of published scientific results are simply wrong. The
Problem with Science is an exploration of the manifestations and
causes of this scientific crisis, accompanied by a description of
the very promising corrective initiatives largely developed over
the past decade to stem the spate of irreproducible results that
have come to characterize many of our sciences. More importantly,
Dr. R. Barker Bausell has designed it to provide guidance to
practicing and aspiring scientists regarding how (a) to change the
way in which science has come to be both conducted and reported in
order to avoid producing false positive, irreproducible results in
their own work and (b) to change those institutional practices
(primarily but not exclusively involving the traditional journal
publishing process and the academic reward system) that have
unwittingly contributed to the present crisis. There is a need for
change in the scientific culture itself. A culture which
prioritizes conducting research correctly in order to get things
right rather than simply getting it published.
A new playbook for effective crisis management in higher education.
Unlike other industries, in higher education an institution's most
important asset is its reputation. Yet as fundamental as it is,
many leaders continue to view managing reputation as dishonest and
counterproductive, a suspect process that undermines the very idea
of reputation as an organic outcome of reality. When leadership
credibility is on the line, though, and an institution's reputation
is facing potentially irreparable damage, the concept of
reputational risk moves from being nebulous to all too tangible. In
Preventing Crises at Your University, Simon Barker demonstrates how
critical it is for colleges and universities to align strategy and
values with decision-making during times of crisis. Arguing that
leaders must stop considering the discussion of reputational risk
as unseemly, he demonstrates that this discussion is in fact a
strategic imperative for every leader. Significant reputational
damage, Barker asserts, is not the inevitable outcome of a crisis
but of a poor response. Defining a new crisis leadership playbook
to deal with self-inflicted crises, he also * explains what
typically goes wrong in a crisis; * describes how to prevent crises
from escalating; * demonstrates how a stakeholder-centric model of
communications can help mitigate reputational damage; and *
introduces a number of original concepts, including a Reputational
Risk Management Framework, a Reputational Risk Maturity Model, and
a Culture and Capability matrix. Moving beyond the theoretical by
presenting case studies of real crises involving sexual assault,
freedom of speech, student protests, faculty misconduct, and a
broad range of financial, social, and ethical issues, the book
highlights and underscore key concepts around effective management
of reputational risk. Ultimately, Preventing Crises at Your
University serves as a wake-up call for all higher education
leaders and board members.
Published in 1998. This collection of papers, written by leading
lawyers and sociologists in the UK, focuses on the relationships
between gender and the law in the context of three areas of law:
family law, criminal law and equal rights. The papers argue that
gender roles within society affect the legal rights of individuals
and impact on procedures they go through to enforce their rights or
to gain redress for wrongs done to them. By failing to recognize
the social and economic situations in which men and women are
placed, the law perpetuates inequalities in their positions. Where
attempts are made to ensure equality between the sexes, the result
is often the exact opposite, because the legal system treats
individuals as equals operating in a vacuum, ignoring the argument
that equal treatment does not necessarily mean the same treatment,
but can mean different treatment to ensure equality of result.
Topics include: c Disputes in the area of parental child custody
rights c The rights of surviving spouses to their deceased
partner's estate c Theories for violent behaviour in women as
contrasted with men c Gender bias in criminal sentencing c The role
of European law in promoting sex equality in the work place c
Pornography and free speech c Homosexuality as a civil right of
citizenship
Published in 1998. This collection of papers, written by leading
lawyers and sociologists in the UK, focuses on the relationships
between gender and the law in the context of three areas of law:
family law, criminal law and equal rights. The papers argue that
gender roles within society affect the legal rights of individuals
and impact on procedures they go through to enforce their rights or
to gain redress for wrongs done to them. By failing to recognize
the social and economic situations in which men and women are
placed, the law perpetuates inequalities in their positions. Where
attempts are made to ensure equality between the sexes, the result
is often the exact opposite, because the legal system treats
individuals as equals operating in a vacuum, ignoring the argument
that equal treatment does not necessarily mean the same treatment,
but can mean different treatment to ensure equality of result.
Topics include: c Disputes in the area of parental child custody
rights c The rights of surviving spouses to their deceased
partner's estate c Theories for violent behaviour in women as
contrasted with men c Gender bias in criminal sentencing c The role
of European law in promoting sex equality in the work place c
Pornography and free speech c Homosexuality as a civil right of
citizenship
The technological means now exists for approaching the
fundamentallimiting scales of solid state electronics in which a
single carrier can, in principle, represent a single bit in an
information flow. In this light, the prospect of chemically, or
biologically, engineered molccular-scale structures which might
support information processing functions has enticed workers for
many years. The one common factor in all suggested molecular
switches, ranging from the experimentally feasible proton-tunneling
structure, to natural systems such as the micro-tubule, is that
each proposed structure deals with individual information carrying
entities. Whereas this future molecular electronics faces enormous
technical challenges, the same Iimit is already appearing in
existing semiconducting quantum wires and small tunneling
structures, both superconducting and normal meta! devices, in which
the motion of a single eh arge through the tunneling barrier can
produce a sufficient voltage change to cut-off further tunneling
current. We may compare the above situation with today's Si
microelectronics, where each bit is encoded as a very !arge number,
not necessarily fixed, of electrons within acharge pulse. The
associated reservoirs and sinks of charge carriers may be
profitably tapped and manipulated to proviele macro-currents which
can be readily amplified or curtailed. On the other band, modern
semiconductor ULSI has progressed by adopting a linear scaling
principle to the down-sizing of individual semiconductor devices.
Whom a prime minister or president will not shake hands with is
still more noticed than with whom they will. Public identity can
afford to be ambiguous about friends, but not about enemies. Rodney
Barker examines the available accounts of how enmity functions in
the cultivation of identity, how essential or avoidable it is, and
what the consequences are for the contemporary world.
The technological means now exists for approaching the
fundamentallimiting scales of solid state electronics in which a
single carrier can, in principle, represent a single bit in an
information flow. In this light, the prospect of chemically, or
biologically, engineered molccular-scale structures which might
support information processing functions has enticed workers for
many years. The one common factor in all suggested molecular
switches, ranging from the experimentally feasible proton-tunneling
structure, to natural systems such as the micro-tubule, is that
each proposed structure deals with individual information carrying
entities. Whereas this future molecular electronics faces enormous
technical challenges, the same Iimit is already appearing in
existing semiconducting quantum wires and small tunneling
structures, both superconducting and normal meta! devices, in which
the motion of a single eh arge through the tunneling barrier can
produce a sufficient voltage change to cut-off further tunneling
current. We may compare the above situation with today's Si
microelectronics, where each bit is encoded as a very !arge number,
not necessarily fixed, of electrons within acharge pulse. The
associated reservoirs and sinks of charge carriers may be
profitably tapped and manipulated to proviele macro-currents which
can be readily amplified or curtailed. On the other band, modern
semiconductor ULSI has progressed by adopting a linear scaling
principle to the down-sizing of individual semiconductor devices.
Specialty metals are essential to the manufacture and performance
capabilities of certain Department of Defense (DOD) weapon system
parts, due to their unique properties, such as being highly
magnetic, lightweight, corrosion resistant, or having high
durability. Among these metals are samarium-cobalt alloy magnets
used to make radar systems, as well as titanium and certain steel
alloys used to make aircraft, submarines, and tactical ground
vehicles. There are few, if any, substitutes for some of these
metals. This book assesses how DOD meets its needs for specialty
metals parts and ensures compliance with restrictions; and DOD's
process for providing national security waivers for specialty metal
procurements and the extent to which it disseminates waiver
information throughout the department.
Since the 1980s, the language used around market-based government
has muddied its meaning and polarized its proponents and critics,
making the topic politicized and controversial. Competition,
Choice, and Incentives in Government Programs hopes to reframe
competing views of market-based government so it is seen not as an
ideology but rather as a fact-based set of approaches for managing
government services and programs more efficiently and effectively.
Published in cooperation with IBM.
Full indexes by topic, keyword and individual work\author form a
complete subject-index, based on the indexes in source
bibliographies. This is a complete bibliography of Arthurian
literature to 1978, the result of five years' work by Professor
Cedric Pickford and Dr Rex Last of the University of Hull. It
consists of a complete alphabetical author-listing, with key
numbers for each item, of all critical material recorded in the
standard Arthurian bibliographies (Bruce, Modern Languages
Quarterly, BBSIA and various other minor lists) with full indexes
by topic, keyword and individual work, /author. The total is over
10,000 main entries, with all recorded reviews listed after each
entry. Where summaries exist in BBSIA, this is indicated in the
main entries. The computer programs have been specially devised and
written for this bibliography by Dr Last, and programming and
editing of the material has taken more than two years. Updating
volumes are planned to appear at five-year intervals
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