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This book gathers together research from three key application
themes of modelling in operational research - modelling to support
evaluation and change in organisations; modelling within the
development and use of organisational information systems; and the
use of modelling approaches to support, enable and enhance decision
support in organisational contexts. The issues raised provide
valuable insight into the range of ways in which operational
research techniques and practices are being successfully applied in
today's information-centred business world. Modelling for Added
Value provides a window onto current research and practise in
modelling techniques and highlights their rising importance across
the business, industrial and commercial sectors. The book contains
contributions from a mix of academics and practitioners and covers
a range of complex and diverse modelling issues, highlighting the
broad appeal of this increasingly important subject area.
The fungal kingdom consists of a wide variety of organisms with a
diverse range of forms and functions. Fungi have been utilized for
thousands of years and their importance in agriculture, medicine,
food production and the environmental sciences is well known. New
advances in genomic and metabolomic technologies have allowed
further developments in the use of fungi in industry and medicine,
increasing the need for a compilation of new applications,
developments and technologies across the mycological field."Applied
Mycology" brings together a range of contributions, highlighting
the diverse nature of current research. Chapters include
discussions of fungal associations in the environment, agriculture
and forestry, long established and novel applications of fungi in
fermentation, the use of fungi in the pharmaceutical industry, the
growing recognition of fungal infections, current interests in the
use fungal enzymes in biotechnology and the new and emerging field
of myconanotechnology. Demonstrating the broad coverage and
importance of mycological research, this book will be of interest
to researchers and students in all biological sciences.
Changes to the landscape of higher education in the United States
over the past decades have urged scholars grappling with issues of
privilege, inequality, and social immobility to think differently
about how we learn and deliberate. Thinking Together is a
multidisciplinary conversation about how people approached similar
questions of learning and difference in the nineteenth century. In
the open air, in homes, in public halls, and even in prisons,
people pondered recurring issues: justice, equality, careers,
entertainment, war and peace, life and death, heaven and hell, the
role of education, and the nature of humanity itself. Paying
special attention to the dynamics of race and gender in
intellectual settings, the contributors to this volume consider how
myriad groups and individuals—many of whom lived on the margins
of society and had limited access to formal education—developed
and deployed knowledge useful for public participation and public
advocacy around these concerns. Essays examine examples such as the
women and men who engaged lecture culture during the Civil War;
Irish immigrants who gathered to assess their relationship to the
politics and society of the New World; African American women and
men who used music and theater to challenge the white gaze; and
settler-colonists in Liberia who created forums for envisioning a
new existence in Africa and their relationship to a U.S. homeland.
Taken together, this interdisciplinary exploration shows how
learning functioned not only as an instrument for public action but
also as a way to forge meaningful ties with others and to affirm
the value of an intellectual life. By highlighting people, places,
and purposes that diversified public discourse, Thinking Together
offers scholars across the humanities new insights and perspectives
on how difference enhances the human project of thinking together.
Annabelle and the Sandhog is a heart-felt and thought-provoking
exploration of the complexities of family relationships as seen
through the eyes of three generations of O'Malley men. As the clan
patriarch, John O'Malley, recovers from a stroke-and with nothing
but time on his hands-he revisits his life as an unwanted child and
his ultimate decision to leave home at age sixteen. He becomes a
sandhog, that skilled but dangerous occupations of blasting into
bedrock to lay bridge and skyscraper foundations. His son Mike,
still harbors resentment for the constant relocations he endured in
his youth. Mike's son, Tim, deals with the loss of a child.
Communication is strained across the board. A simple tape recorder
provides the catalyst to healing as John records his life story and
both son and grandson begin their own introspective journeys. The
author offers to his readers not only a lesson on what it was like
to live and work in America in the early 1900's but one on life in
general-a lesson that transcends the years
Ray Paul hits a home run with his newest novel. The story
chronicles Todd Mueller's journey through the complexities of love,
the world of business and his ambition to parlay his hopping
fastball into a major league career. Unfortunately, life conspires
against the young man and Todd is beset with many problems, some of
his own making. Despite his weaknesses, Todd is a man we can cheer
for. The author's writing style is down to earth. He imparts life
lessons without a hint of preaching and displays a firm grasp of
human nature. Todd's triumphs and failures are cleverly woven into
a storyline that is not only entertaining, but a mosaic of
universal, recognizable and all-too-human traits. Ray Paul has
mastered the art of storytelling.
Life seldom turns out the way we design it. We can plan wisely and
sow with skill, but how we handle what comes up between the rows
defines our character and ultimately our lives. In Ray Paul's
sequel novel, Between the Rows, his protagonist, George Konert, has
settled into a peaceful co-existence with his new wife Catherine.
This afterglow lasts until life's inevitable nettles force him into
action. Between the Rows is yet another wonderful novel about
George Konert, who finds himself in endless trouble as usual. What
I love about Ray Paul's storytelling style is that he allows his
characters to be real in every way. They're well-drawn, faults and
all, and therefore it's easy to connect with them. George, his
family, and his neighbors and their children go through a lot in
this story, including grief when a shocking event occurs. This
author's books never fail to make me laugh and cry, and above all,
fall in love with the gentle wisdom George always finds by the end.
Christine DeSmet, a fiction teacher at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, is the author of the novel, Spirit Lake, and
novellas in the Tales from the Treasure Trove series by Jewels of
the Quill. She also directs writing retreats and conferences in
Madison.
Changes to the landscape of higher education in the United States
over the past decades have urged scholars grappling with issues of
privilege, inequality, and social immobility to think differently
about how we learn and deliberate. Thinking Together is a
multidisciplinary conversation about how people approached similar
questions of learning and difference in the nineteenth century. In
the open air, in homes, in public halls, and even in prisons,
people pondered recurring issues: justice, equality, careers,
entertainment, war and peace, life and death, heaven and hell, the
role of education, and the nature of humanity itself. Paying
special attention to the dynamics of race and gender in
intellectual settings, the contributors to this volume consider how
myriad groups and individuals-many of whom lived on the margins of
society and had limited access to formal education-developed and
deployed knowledge useful for public participation and public
advocacy around these concerns. Essays examine examples such as the
women and men who engaged lecture culture during the Civil War;
Irish immigrants who gathered to assess their relationship to the
politics and society of the New World; African American women and
men who used music and theater to challenge the white gaze; and
settler-colonists in Liberia who created forums for envisioning a
new existence in Africa and their relationship to a U.S. homeland.
Taken together, this interdisciplinary exploration shows how
learning functioned not only as an instrument for public action but
also as a way to forge meaningful ties with others and to affirm
the value of an intellectual life. By highlighting people, places,
and purposes that diversified public discourse, Thinking Together
offers scholars across the humanities new insights and perspectives
on how difference enhances the human project of thinking together.
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