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Twenty-eight nationally recognized authorities on various
aspects of fair employment laws and practices provide sound,
innovative, state-of-the art procedures to select job applicants
and predict their success. Written by personnel psychologists,
attorneys, and human resource specialists, the book helps
executives reduce adverse impacts on minorities, women, and older
and disabled workers while providing them with the means to
develop, evaluate, and if necessary participate in the litigation
of employee selection procedures. It will also provide
understanding of the ways that personnel psychologists construct
and validate tests and how adverse impact is evaluated and
interpreted by the Supreme Court. This is an accessible, hands-on
resource for executives in various capacities, students in fields
related to employee selection, and attorneys concerned with fair
employment litigation.
Dr. Barrett points out that human resource people need to learn
more about the selection procedures that fairly and accurately
identify the most talented members of the applicant pool. Baffled
by the way personnel psychologists do their testing, they need ways
to evaluate for themselves what the psychologists are telling them.
Those who are already familiar with the tools of testing, such as
psychometrics, statistics, and test construction, need
understanding for how these tests are related to fair employment.
Lawyers involved in fair employment litigation need information on
how these tools and tactics can be used in the preparation of
cases. Dr. Barrett's book provides this information in chapters
devoted to the development of fair employment law, ethical
standards relating to fair employment testing, standards for job
relatedness of selection procedures and the variety of selection
procedures available. The book also covers gender issues, the role
of the EEOC and other government agencies, the Americans with
Disabilities Act, and of special value to HR professionals and
executives in other capacities, a checklist to help evaluate the
fairness and validity of tests.
This volume focuses specifically on narrative inquiry as a means
to interrogate research questions in music education, offering
music education researchers indispensible information on the use of
qualitative research methods, particularly narrative, as
appropriate and acceptable means of conducting and reporting
research.
This anthology of narrative research work in the fields of music
and education builds on and supports the work presented in the
editors' first volume in "Narrative Inquiry in Music Education:
Troubling Certainty" (Barrett & Stauffer, 2009, Springer). The
first volume provides a context for undertaking narrative inquiry
in music education, as well as exemplars of narrative inquiry in
music education and commentary from key international voices in the
fields of narrative inquiry and music education respectively.
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Structure of Metals GRYSTALLOGRAPHIG METHODS, PRINCIPLES, AND -
DATA BY CHARLES H. BARRETT, PH. D. Associate Professor of
Metallurgical Engineering and Member of Staff of the Metals
Research Laboratory Carnegie Institute of Technology FIRST EDITION
F 1 FT 1 1 I M PRESS ION MoGBAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, INC. NEW YORK
AND LONDON 1943 STRUCTURE OF MKTALS COPYRIGHT. 1943, BY THE
MrGRAW-HiLL BOOK COMPANY, INC. PRINTED IK THB UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not
be reproduced in any form without permission of the publishers.
PREFACE This book is intended to serve both as a text and as a
reference book. The portions intended for classroom use have been
written for courses in crystallography, particularly the courses
offered to students of metallurgy. It is primarily intended for
graduate courses, but a number of chapters are at a level
appropriate for advanced undergraduate courses in applied x-rays,
crystallography, and physical metallurgy Chaps. I to IV, IX to XI,
XIII. In an effort to make the book more readable, certain advanced
topics on x-ray diffraction and various tables of data have been
placed in appendixes, and laboratory manipulations that would not
interest the general reader have been printed in smaller type. The
first four chapters of this book explain the fundamentals of
crystal lattices and projections, and the general principles of the
diffrac tion of x-rays from Crystals. Chapters V to VII cover the
technique of x-ray diffraction, presenting the operating details of
the methods that are in common use. Several chapters are included
on the applica tions of x-ray diffraction in the field of physical
metallurgy, covering techniques fordetermining constitution
diagrams, identifying unknown materials, determining crystal
structures, determining the orientation of single crystals,
detecting and analyzing preferred orientations, and measuring
stresses. One chapter is devoted to electron diffraction, its
metallurgical uses, and the precautions to be observed in
interpreting electron diffrac tion data. The electron microscope
receives only a brief mention because at the time the manuscript
was written the metallographic technique for this instrument was
still being rapidly developed and, except for particle-size
determinations, the instrument had not yet achieved the status of a
widely accepted tool in metallographic or crystallographic
research. The last half of the book is devoted to the results of
research and contains extensive reviews of fields that are of
current interest. In assembling these summaries, an effort has been
made to include an ade quate number of references to the
literature, to cover thoroughly the subjects that have not been
extensively reviewed in readily available publications, and to
maintain a critical but unbiased attitude toward the data and
conclusions that are reviewed. The subjects treated include the
following principles governing the crystal structure of metals and
vi PREPACK alloys supcrlattices and their effect on properties
imperfections in crystals the structure of liquid metals the
processes of slip, twinning, and fracture and modern theories of
these processes, including the cur rent dislocation theory the
effects of cold work and annealing on the structure of metals,
including the effects on diffraction patterns of static and fatigue
stressing, rolling, grinding, and polishing theresults of x-ray
studies of internal stresses preferred orientations resulting from
cold work, hot work, recrystallization, freezing,
electrodeposition, evapora tion, and sputtering directionality in
commercial products and in single crystals and its relation to
crystal orientation. The author is indebted to many colleagues and
graduate students who have assisted directly and indirectly in the
preparation of this book. He particularly wishes to thank Dr. R.
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Advances in X-Ray Analysis, v. 35 - Proceedings of Combined First Pacific-International Conference on X-Ray Analytical Methods and Fortieth Annual Conference on Applications of X-Ray Analysis Held in Hilo and Honolulu, Hawaii, August 7-16, 1991 (Hardcover)
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Whole Pattern Fitting, Rietveld Analysis, and Calculated
Diffraction Patterns. Quantitative Phase Analysis by XRay
Diffraction (XRD). Thin Film and Surface Characterization by XRD.
Lattice Defects and XRay Topography. Texture Analysis by XRD. XRD
Instrumentation, Techniques, and Reference Materials. Stress
Determination by Diffraction Methods. XRD Profile Fitting,
Crystallite Size and Strain Determination. XRD Applications:
Detection Limits, Superconductors, Organics, Minerals. Mathematical
Methods in XRay Spectrometry (XRS). Thin Film and Surface
Characterization by XRS and XPS. Total Reflection XRS. XRS
Techniques and Instrumentation. XRS Applications. XRay Imaging and
Tomography. 161 articles. Index.
Margaret S. Barrett and Sandra L. Stauffer We live in a "congenial
moment for stories" (Pinnegar & Daynes, 2007, p. 30), a time in
which narrative has taken up a place in the "landscape" of inquiry
in the social sciences. This renewed interest in storying and
stories as both process and product (as eld text and research text)
of inquiry may be attributed to various methodological and
conceptual "turns," including the linguistic and cultural, that
have taken place in the humanities and social sciences over the
past decades. The purpose of this book is to explore the "narrative
turn" in music education, to - amine the uses of narrative inquiry
for music education, and to cultivate ground for narrative inquiry
to seed and ourish alongside other methodological approaches in
music education. In a discipline whose early research strength was
founded on an alignment with thesocialsciences,
particularlythepsychometrictradition, oneofthekeychallenges for
those embarking on narrative inquiry in music education is to
ensure that its use is more than that of a "musical ornament," an
elaboration on the established themes of psychometric inquiry,
those of measurement and certainty. We suggest that narrative
inquiry is more than a "turn" (as noun), "a melodic embellishment
that is played around a given note" (Encarta World English
Dictionary, 2007, n. p. ); it is more than elaborationon a
position, the adding of extra notes to make a melody more beautiful
or interesting.
This book is a practical guide to the development and use of
selection procedures for those who are concerned with human
resource management, but who are not necessarily specialists in
personnel testing. Dr. Barrett explains how to improve the quality
of the work force with the most modern techniques while avoiding
unfair discrimination against minorities, women, older workers, and
the disabled. He challenges myths that have grown up in the past 30
years which interfere with the use of valid and fair selection
procedures. Topics include: historical and legal background,
cognitive and non-cognitive selection procedures, validity, and
measuring and reducing adverse impact. Although he concentrates on
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, there is special treatment of
the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Age of Discrimination
in Employment Act.
Clearly written and informal, this book is every bit as
professionally sound as his earlier book, "Fair Employment
Strategies in Human Resource Management." It removes part of the
mystique about tests with many illustrations of good and bad
practice. Besides being useful to human resource executives, it is
a valuable supplementary text for graduate and undergraduate
courses in personnel management. Attorneys would also find it
especially valuable because the author documents its point with
citations to important cases and the the "Uniform Guidelines."
The 37th Annual Denver Conference on Applications of X-Ray Analysis
was held August 1-5, 1988, at the Sheraton Steamboat Resort and
Conference Center, Steamboat Springs, Colorado. As usual,
alternating with x-ray diffraction, the emphasis this year was
x-ray fluorescence, but as has been the pattern for several
occasions over the last few years, the Plenary Session did not deal
with that subject, specifically. In an attempt to introduce the
audience to one of the new developments in x-ray analysis, the
title of the session was "High Brilliance Sources/Applications,"
and dealt exclusively with synchrotron radiation, a topic which has
made a very large impact on the x-ray community over the last
decade. As the organizer and co-chairman of the Plenary Session
(with Paul Predecki), it is my responsibility to report on that
session here. The Conference had the privilege of obtaining the
services of some of the preeminent practitioners of research using
this remarkable x-ray source; they presented the audience with
unusually lucid descriptions of the work which has been
accomplished in the development and application of the continuous,
high intensity, tunable, polarized and collimated x-rays available
from no facility other than these specialized storage rings. The
opening lecture (and I use that term intentionally) was an
enthusiastic description of "What is Synchrotron Radiation?" by
Professor Boris Batterman of Cornell University and the Cornell
High Energy Synchrotron Sourc(! (CHESS).
The 37th Annual Denver Conference on Applications of X-Ray Analysis
was held August 1-5, 1988, at the Sheraton Steamboat Resort and
Conference Center, Steamboat Springs, Colorado. As usual,
alternating with x-ray diffraction, the emphasis this year was
x-ray fluorescence, but as has been the pattern for several
occasions over the last few years, the Plenary Session did not deal
with that subject, specifically. In an attempt to introduce the
audience to one of the new developments in x-ray analysis, the
title of the session was "High Brilliance Sources/Applications,"
and dealt exclusively with synchrotron radiation, a topic which has
made a very large impact on the x-ray community over the last
decade. As the organizer and co-chairman of the Plenary Session
(with Paul Predecki), it is my responsibility to report on that
session here. The Conference had the privilege of obtaining the
services of some of the preeminent practitioners of research using
this remarkable x-ray source; they presented the audience with
unusually lucid descriptions of the work which has been
accomplished in the development and application of the continuous,
high intensity, tunable, polarized and collimated x-rays available
from no facility other than these specialized storage rings. The
opening lecture (and I use that term intentionally) was an
enthusiastic description of "What is Synchrotron Radiation?" by
Professor Boris Batterman of Cornell University and the Cornell
High Energy Synchrotron Sourc(! (CHESS).
Psychedelic therapies are gaining traction as potential treatments
for a wide range of indications, but the structure and delivery of
psychedelic therapies are a sharp departure from more traditional
models of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy for psychiatric and
other medical disorders. This may be critical to their success. The
current volume provides a comprehensive review of the state of the
science of psychedelic therapies, including discussion of models
and approaches to psychedelic therapies as well as the current
status of safety and efficacy data for mood, substance use, trauma,
obsessive-compulsive, neurodevelopmental, neurodegenerative
disorders, neurological, and inflammatory disorders.
The notion of the individual creator, a product in part of the
Western romantic ideal, is now troubled by accounts and
explanations of creativity as a social construct. While in
collectivist cultures the assimilation (but not the denial) of
individual authorship into the complexities of group production and
benefit has been a feature, the notion of the lone individual
creator has been persistent. Systems theories acknowledge the role
of others, yet at heart these are still individual views of
creativity - focusing on the creative individual drawing upon the
work of others rather than recognizing the mutually constitutive
elements of social interactions across time and space. Focusing on
the domain of music, the approach taken in this book falls into
three sections: investigations of the people, processes, products,
and places of collaborative creativity in compositional thought and
practice; explorations of the ways in which creative collaboration
provides a means of crossing boundaries between disciplines such as
music performance and musicology; and studies of the emergence of
creative thought and practice in educational contexts including
that of the composer and the classroom. The volume concludes with
an extended chapter that reflects on the ways in which the studies
reported advance understandings of creative thought and practice.
The book provides new perspectives to our understandings of the
role of collaborative thought and processes in creative work across
the domain of music including: composition, musicology,
performance, music education and music psychology.
The notion of the individual creator, a product in part of the
Western romantic ideal, is now troubled by accounts and
explanations of creativity as a social construct. While in
collectivist cultures the assimilation (but not the denial) of
individual authorship into the complexities of group production and
benefit has been a feature, the notion of the lone individual
creator has been persistent. Systems theories acknowledge the role
of others, yet at heart these are still individual views of
creativity - focusing on the creative individual drawing upon the
work of others rather than recognizing the mutually constitutive
elements of social interactions across time and space. Focusing on
the domain of music, the approach taken in this book falls into
three sections: investigations of the people, processes, products,
and places of collaborative creativity in compositional thought and
practice; explorations of the ways in which creative collaboration
provides a means of crossing boundaries between disciplines such as
music performance and musicology; and studies of the emergence of
creative thought and practice in educational contexts including
that of the composer and the classroom. The volume concludes with
an extended chapter that reflects on the ways in which the studies
reported advance understandings of creative thought and practice.
The book provides new perspectives to our understandings of the
role of collaborative thought and processes in creative work across
the domain of music including: composition, musicology,
performance, music education and music psychology.
Volumes have been written about the Academy Awards-that yearly
Hollywood bash that brings together the glamour, glitter and Oscar
gold of the international film industry-but few books have dealt
directly with specific categories beyond Best Picture. Foreign
Language Films and the Oscar does just that, and it's an eye-opener
for true cinephiles. Of course there's Italy's 8 1/2, Sweden's
Through a Glass Darkly and Mexico's Pan's Labyrinth, but also
Denmark's Harry and the Butler, Yugoslavia's I Even Met Happy
Gypsies and Nicaragua's Alsino and the Condor. Over the past seven
decades, two-thirds of the world's governments have submitted some
2,000 feature-length films for Oscar consideration, and 312 of them
received nominations to compete for the title of Best Foreign Film.
In this compendium, each of the nominees is catalogued
chronologically, replete with a brief and descriptive synopsis,
basic facts about its personnel and production qualities, and a
ranking among its annual opponents that does not always jibe with
that of the Academy. Michael S. Barrett has compiled an
entertaining, easy-to-read, and somewhat provocative guide, listing
the films from the first-honored Best Foreign-language Film in
1948, Shoeshine, through Iran's second Oscar winner in 2017, The
Salesman.
The 37th Annual Denver Conference on Applications of X-Ray Analysis
was held August 1-5, 1988, at the Sheraton Steamboat Resort and
Conference Center, Steamboat Springs, Colorado. As usual,
alternating with x-ray diffraction, the emphasis this year was
x-ray fluorescence, but as has been the pattern for several
occasions over the last few years, the Plenary Session did not deal
with that subject, specifically. In an attempt to introduce the
audience to one of the new developments in x-ray analysis, the
title of the session was "High Brilliance Sources/Applications,"
and dealt exclusively with synchrotron radiation, a topic which has
made a very large impact on the x-ray community over the last
decade. As the organizer and co-chairman of the Plenary Session
(with Paul Predecki), it is my responsibility to report on that
session here. The Conference had the privilege of obtaining the
services of some of the preeminent practitioners of research using
this remarkable x-ray source; they presented the audience with
unusually lucid descriptions of the work which has been
accomplished in the development and application of the continuous,
high intensity, tunable, polarized and collimated x-rays available
from no facility other than these specialized storage rings. The
opening lecture (and I use that term intentionally) was an
enthusiastic description of "What is Synchrotron Radiation?" by
Professor Boris Batterman of Cornell University and the Cornell
High Energy Synchrotron Sourc(! (CHESS).
The University of Denver and its staff members deserve much credit
for organizing and operating this Denver X-ray Conference year
after year, for there seems to be no doubt that it and the yolumes
that result from it are filling a need. The interests covered by
the papers at one of these conferences vary from year to year and
as a whole cover a wide spread of topics. This is as it should be.
Old problems that have been with us for many years are being
attacked again with new and more effective tools, new problems are
continually arising, and new methods of great power are being
developed. These developments are occurring in each of the fields
covered, as may readily be seen by a glance at this twelfth volume
and other recent volumes of this series. It seems clear that the
policy of having these conferences and these volumes cover a wide
field rather than a single one such as, for example, structure
determination, or fluorescence analysis, is a policy that meets
with general approval and should be continued. I understand there
is every intention to do so. C. S. Barrett It is customary to
acknowledge in each volume the invited session chairmen of the
three-day meeting. They and the sessions at which they presided
(21-23 August 1968) were as follows: CRYSTALLOGRAPHY AND
DIFFRACTION. C. S. Barrett, University of Chicago, Chicago,
Illinois. METHODS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS. B. C. Giessen,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The 35th Annual Denver Conference on Applications of X-Ray Analysis
was held August 4-8, 1986, on the campus of the University of
Denver. Since the previous year's conference had emphasized x-ray
diffraction, this year the Plenary Session spotlighted x-ray
fluorescence, with the title "Trends in XRF: A World Perspective,"
featuring renowned speakers from three major areas. XRF IN NORTH
AMERICA, by Prof. D. E. Leydon, from Colorado State University,
dealt specifically with developments in the fields of
instrumentation, data treatment and applications in that part of
the world. Prof. H. Ebel, from the Technical University of Vienna,
discussed XRF IN EUROPE, concentrating on subjects including total
reflection, improved fundamental parameters, quantitation without
standards and imaging techniques. Tomoya Arai, of the Rigaku
Industrial Corporation in Japan, in considering XRF IN THE FAR
EAST, described the scientific activity in XRF and the applications
thereof, primarily in Japan and China. These plenary lectures were
interspersed with short discussions of PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS on the
subject by the co-chairmen of the SeSSion, Ron Jenkins and myself.
The intent of this session was to bring the audience up-to-date on
the status of the field in various parts of the world, and to give
some feeling concerning where it is likely to go in the immediate
future. Hopefully, the publication of the written versions of those
presentations in this volume will make the authors' thoughts
available to many who could not be present at the conference.
The continuing success of the Denver X-Ray Conference is, it seems
to me, the consequence of three equally important facets of each
meeting. These are: 1) the collegial atmosphere and workshops at
which experts and novices mix, talk, and informally share
information at many levels; 2) the plenary session at which
information is presented that intentionally brings new ideas to
attendees to broaden the scope of the field; and 3) the traditional
sessions in which interesting reports on current research and
applications are presented in a timely and professional way. The
first and last of these are discussed separately by Paul Predecki
and are organized (no small task ) by the entire advisory board.
This requires much more than deciding whether yet another workshop
on specimen preparation is needed and whom to prevail upon to
organize and present it. In fact, few attendees at these workshops
ever appreciate the level of effort that Paul and his staff expend
to make sure everything comes off smoothly, even when hundreds of
copies of handouts need to be whipped off at the last moment,
travel problems arise, or unusual audio visual aids are suddenly
needed. But my topic here is the second of the three facets listed
above - the plenary session. Organizing this falls to a single
individual, on the theory that one person can then approach enough
others as speakers to put together a unified and yet diverse
program of related and interesting review papers."
The 33rd Annual Denver Conference on Applications of X-Ray Analysis
was held July 30-August 3. 1984. on the campus of the University of
Denver. Following the recent tradition of alternating plenary
lecture topics between X-ray diffraction and X-ray fluorescence at
the confer ence. the plenary sessions dealt with topics of X-ray
fluorescence. Prof. H. Aiginger presented a plenary lect re on
TOTAL REFLECTANCE X-RAY SPECTROMETRY which admirably described this
relatively new technique. J. C. Russ discussed XRF AND OTHER
SURFACE ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES which gave an excellent overview of
the role XRF plays in a modern analytical laboratory. J. E.
Taggart. Jr. described THE ROLE OF XRF IN A MODERN GEOCHEMICAL
LABORATORY and presented many case histories of the configura tion
of analytical equipment in several geochemical laboratories. The
plenary lectures demonstrated both the dynamic nature of research
in X-ray fluorescence. and the important role X-ray spectrom etry
plays in the arsenal of analytical methods found in modern labora
tories. Total reflectance X-ray spectrometry takes advantage of con
sideration of the geometry of the X-ray optics. Potentially. new
sample types may be considered as X-ray fluorescence specimens
using this technique."
Margaret S. Barrett and Sandra L. Stauffer We live in a "congenial
moment for stories" (Pinnegar & Daynes, 2007, p. 30), a time in
which narrative has taken up a place in the "landscape" of inquiry
in the social sciences. This renewed interest in storying and
stories as both process and product (as eld text and research text)
of inquiry may be attributed to various methodological and
conceptual "turns," including the linguistic and cultural, that
have taken place in the humanities and social sciences over the
past decades. The purpose of this book is to explore the "narrative
turn" in music education, to - amine the uses of narrative inquiry
for music education, and to cultivate ground for narrative inquiry
to seed and ourish alongside other methodological approaches in
music education. In a discipline whose early research strength was
founded on an alignment with thesocialsciences,
particularlythepsychometrictradition, oneofthekeychallenges for
those embarking on narrative inquiry in music education is to
ensure that its use is more than that of a "musical ornament," an
elaboration on the established themes of psychometric inquiry,
those of measurement and certainty. We suggest that narrative
inquiry is more than a "turn" (as noun), "a melodic embellishment
that is played around a given note" (Encarta World English
Dictionary, 2007, n. p. ); it is more than elaborationon a
position, the adding of extra notes to make a melody more beautiful
or interesting.
Households in Context shifts the focus from monumental temples,
tombs, and elite material and visual culture to households and
domestic life, to provide a crucial new perspective on everyday
dwelling practices and the interactions of families and individuals
with larger social and cultural structures. A focus on households
reveals the power of the everyday: the critical role of quotidian
experiences, objects, and images in creating the worlds of the
people who live with them. The contributors to this book share
contemporary research on houses and households in both Ptolemaic
and Roman Egypt to reshape the ways we think about ancient people's
lived experiences of family, community, and society. Households in
Context places the archaeology and history of Greco-Roman Egypt in
dialogue with research on dwelling, daily practice, and materiality
to reveal how ancient households functioned as laboratories for
social, political, economic, and religious change. Contributors:
Youssri Abdelwahed, Richard Alston, Anna Lucille Boozer, Paola
Davoli, David Frankfurter, Jennifer Gates-Foster, Melanie Godsey,
Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom, Sabine R. Huebner, Gregory Marouard,
Miriam Müller, Lisa Nevett, Bérangère Redon, Bethany Simpson,
Ross I. Thomas, Dorothy J. Thompson
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