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Eccentric Personages - Memoirs of the Lives and Actions of remarkable Characters: Including Beau Brummell, Beau Nash, Daniel Defoe, Dean Swift, Captain Morris, J. M. W. Turner, Chevalier Deon, etc., etc. (Hardcover)
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Mechatronics in Action s case-study approach provides the most
effective means of illustrating how mechatronics can make products
and systems more flexible, more responsive and possess higher
levels of functionality than would otherwise be possible. The
series of case studies serves to illustrate how a mechatronic
approach has been used to achieve enhanced performance through the
transfer of functionality from the mechanical domain to electronics
and software.
Mechatronics in Action not only provides readers with access to
a range of case studies, and the experts view of these, but also
offers case studies in course design and development to support
tutors in making the best and most effective use of the technical
coverage provided. It provides, in an easily accessible form, a
means of increasing the understanding of the mechatronic concept,
while giving both students and tutors substantial technical insight
into how this concept has been developed and used.
How America's professional politicians have destroyed its greatest
asset in national security and defense in the age of nuclear
weapons.
Get inside Japan's invisible behemoth to see the future of global
business Good Risks is a fascinating insight into ORIX, a global
giant whose business empire straddles the world, but which has
managed to remain out of the media spotlight for half a century.
Award winning author David Russell explains how this Japanese
company has transcended its national identity to become a global
player, and what that means for everyone else. In a series of
one-on-one interviews with senior executives at ORIX companies
around the world, readers gain a firsthand glimpse of the inner
workings of this "invisible" corporate group that controls hundreds
of billions of dollars. Interviews with the company President and
Chairman in Tokyo provide rare insight into the thought leaders at
the highest levels, and a contribution by the Chairman himself
discusses the hard realities of globalization and the keys to
success in the coming decade. The key concept that is lost in the
Japan vs. China vs. US vs. EU battle is that the business landscape
has changed drastically, making national boundaries anachronistic.
Companies such as IBM, Disney, Apple, and Microsoft long ago
stopped being "American" firms; they are global competitors that
take advantage of their deep knowledge of the US markets, but have
no special allegiance to the United States. This book argues that
this is the future of all large-scale business, as already
exemplified by ORIX. * Learn how one executive steered ORIX's
meteoric rise from an unknown start-up to an unseen global giant *
Explore the coming realities of the global business scene *
Discover why HQ location will be little more than historical
accident * See how ORIX impacts the Chinese, Indian, and American
firms that follow its lead The business scene unfolding today is
not "international" or "multinational", but an increasingly
unified, global battleground. The rise of ORIX charts the future of
business, and Good Risks provides the details and insights business
leaders need to anticipate tomorrow's changes.
This book focuses on how the BOXES Methodology, which is based on
the work of Donald Michie, is applied to ill-defined real-time
control systems with minimal a priori knowledge of the system. The
method is applied to a variety of systems including the familiar
pole and cart. This second edition includes a new section that
covers some further observations and thoughts, problems, and
evolutionary extensions that the reader will find useful in their
own implementation of the method. This second edition includes a
new section on how to handle jittering about a system boundary
which in turn causes replicated run times to become part of the
learning mechanism. It also addresses the aging of data values
using a forgetfulness factor that causes wrong values of merit to
be calculated. Another question that is addressed is "Should a
BOXES cell ever be considered fully trained and, if so, excluded
from further dynamic updates". Finally, it expands on how system
boundaries may be shifted using data from many runs using an
evolutionary paradigm.
Excerpts from texts (with translation) from the French of medieval
England offer a guide to medieval literary theory. From the twelfth
to the fifteenth centuries, French was one of England's main
languages of literature, record, diplomacy and commerce and also
its only supra-national vernacular. As is now recognised, the large
corpus of England'sFrench texts and records is indispensable to
understanding England's literary and cultural history, the
multilingualism of early England, and European medieval
French-language culture in general. This volume presents a full,
representative collection of texts and facing translations from
England's medieval French. Through its selection of prologues and
other excerpts from works composed or circulating in England, the
volume presents a body of vernacular literary theory, in which some
fifty-five highly various texts, from a range of genres, discuss
their own origins, circumstances, strategies, source materials,
purposes and audiences. Each entry, newly edited from a single
manuscript, is accompanied by a headnote, annotation, and narrative
bibliography, while a general introduction and section
introductions provide further context and information. Also
included are essays on French in England and onthe prosody and
prose of insular French; Middle English versions of some of the
edited French texts; and a glossary of literary terms. By giving
access to a literate culture hitherto available primarily only to
Anglo-Norman specialists, this book opens up new possibilities for
taking English francophony into account in research and teaching.
JOCELYN WOGAN-BROWNE is Thomas F.X. and Theresa Mullarkey Chair in
Literature, English Department, Fordham University, New York, and
formerly Professor of Medieval Literature, University of York;
THELMA FENSTER is Professor Emerita of French and Medieval Studies,
Fordham University; DELBERT RUSSELL is Distinguished Professor
Emeritus of French, University of Waterloo.
Originally published in 1992 this book charts the global
restructuring of telecommunications industries away from the
monopoly structures of the past towards increased competition,
deregulation and privatization. The book's authors are
international policy-makers and scholars, who examine the
regulatory environment within a theoretical and historical context.
The book looks at the roots of regulatory and legislative changes
by discussing individually the countries at the forefront of the
revolution: the UK, France, Germany, Japan and the United States.
It examines the impact of new technology for consequences of change
in trade and government policies.
In Double Standard, James W. Russell shows how and why different
models of social and welfare policy developed in the United States
and Europe. The fourth edition has been revised and updated
throughout to reflect recent political developments that are having
significant policy consequences, including the Brexit vote in the
UK and the election of Donald Trump in the U.S. The fourth edition
also features additional material on Karl Polanyi, European party
politics, disability policy, and more. Part One, "The Development
of Social Policy," discusses the factors that contributed to the
different shapes of social policy in the U.S. and Europe. Part Two,
"Key Social Policies," considers how different counties have
handled commons social problems including poverty, unemployment,
child and family support, retirement and disability, health care,
race and immigration, and incarceration. These different social
policy orientations have produced disparate social ways of
life-ways of life that are now in contention for the future of
Western societies. A complimentary test bank including
discussion/essay questions and multiple choice questions is
available. Please email [email protected] for more information.
For the customer who equates reading the Bible to watching grass grow, Playing With Fire shows them how powerful and exciting scripture can be. Walt Russell teaches us how to study different sections of the Bible in ways that change reader's perception of God's word and transforms their lives. This material has been used in Russell's college courses with life-changing results. He gives detailed examples for studying each section of the Bible and helps readers refine their ability to read and interpret it, providing the essential tools for unlocking the meaning of God's Word. This is part of the NavPress Spiritual Formation Line which focuses on bringing radical soul transformation -- rather than outward conformity -- to the ordinary Christian.
The Future of the Mass Audience focuses on how the changing
technology and economics of the mass media in postindustrial
society will influence public communication. It summarizes the
results of a five-year study conducted in cooperation with the
senior corporate planners at ABC, CBS, NBC, Time Warner, The New
York Times, and the Washington Post. The central question is
whether the new electronic media and the use of personal computers
in the communication process will lead to a fragmentation or
"demassification" of the mass audience. This study demonstrates,
contrary to the opinion of some analysts, that the movement toward
fragmentation and specialization will be modest and that the
national media and common political culture will remain robust. W.
Russell Neuman, directs the Communications Research Group of MIT's
Media Laboratory. He has published widely and among his recent
books are The Paradox of Mass Politics (1986) and the The
Telecommunications Revolution (1991). Prior to teaching at MIT he
held posts at Yale University and University of California,
Berkeley.
Barking Abbey (founded c. 666) is hugely significant for those
studying the literary production by and patronage of medieval
women. It had one of the largest libraries of any English nunnery,
and a history of women's education from the Anglo-Saxon period to
the Dissolution; it was also the home of women writers of Latin and
Anglo-Norman works, as well as of many Middle English manuscript
books.BR> The essays in this volume map its literary history,
offering a wide-ranging examination of its liturgical,
historio-hagiographical, devotional, doctrinal, and administrative
texts, with a particular focus on the important hagiographies
produced there during the twelfth century. It thus makes a major
contribution to the literary and cultural history of medieval
England and a rich resource for the teaching of women's texts.
Professor Jennifer N. Brown teaches at Marymount Manhattan College;
Professor Donna Alfano Bussell teaches at University of
Illinois-Springfield. Contributors: Diane Auslander, Alexandra
Barratt, Emma Berat, Jennifer N. Brown, Donna A. Bussell, Thelma
Fenster, Stephanie Hollis, Thomas O'Donnell, Delbert Russell, Jill
Stevenson, Kay Slocum, Lisa Weston, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Anne B.
Yardley
A range of approaches (literary, historical, art-historical,
codicological) to this mysterious but hugely significant
manuscript. Extravagantly heterogeneous in its contents, Oxford,
Bodleian Library, MS Digby 86 is an utterly singular production. On
its last folio, the scribe signs off with a self-portrait - a
cartoonishly-drawn male head wearing a close-fitted hood - and an
inscription: "scripsi librum in anno et iii mensibus" (I wrote the
book in a year and three months). His fifteen months' labour
resulted in one of the most important miscellanies to survive from
medieval England: a trilingual marvel of a compilation, with quirky
combinations of content that range from religion, to science, to
literature of a decidedly secular cast. It holds medical recipes,
charms, prayers, prognostications, magic tricks, pious doctrine, a
liturgical calendar, religious songs, lively debates, poetry on
love and death, proverbs, fables, fabliaux, scurrilous games, and
gender-based diatribes. That Digby is from the thirteenth century
adds to its appeal, for English literary remnants from before 1300
are all too rare. Scholars on both sides of the vernacular divide,
French and English, are deeply intrigued by it. Many of its texts
are found nowhere else: for example, the French Arthurian Lay of
the Horn, the English fabliau Dame Sirith and the beast fable Fox
and Wolf, and the French Strife between Two Ladies (a candid debate
on feminine politics). The interpretationsoffered in this volume of
its contents, presentation, and ownership, show that there is much
to discover in Digby's lively record of the social and spiritual
pastimes of a book-owning gentry family. SUSANNA FEIN is Professor
of English at Kent State University. CONTRIBUTORS: Maureen Boulton,
Neil Cartlidge, Marilyn Corrie, Susanna Fein, Marjorie Harrington,
John Hines, Jennifer Jahner, Melissa Julian-Jones, Jenni Nuttall,
David Raybin, Delbert Russell, J.D. Sargan, Sheri Smith
Although the rational choice approach toward political behavior has
been severely criticized, its adherents claim that competing models
have failed to offer a more scientific model of political
decisionmaking. This measured but provocative book offers precisely
that: an alternative way of understanding political behavior based
on cognitive research.
The authors draw on research in neuroscience, physiology, and
experimental psychology to conceptualize habit and reason as two
mental states that interact in a delicate, highly functional
balance controlled by emotion. Applying this approach to more than
fifteen years of election results, they shed light on a wide range
of political behavior, including party identification, symbolic
politics, and negative campaigning.
Remarkably accessible, "Affective Intelligence and Political
Judgment" urges social scientists to move beyond the idealistic
notion of the purely rational citizen to form a more complete,
realistic model that includes the emotional side of human judgment.
Excerpts from texts (with translation) from the French of medieval
England offer a guide to medieval literary theory. From the twelfth
to the fifteenth centuries, French was one of England's main
languages of literature, record, diplomacy and commerce and also
its only supra-national vernacular. As is now recognised, the large
corpus of England'sFrench texts and records is indispensable to
understanding England's literary and cultural history, the
multilingualism of early England, and European medieval
French-language culture in general. This volume presents a full,
representative collection of texts and facing translations from
England's medieval French. Through its selection of prologues and
other excerpts from works composed or circulating in England, the
volume presents a body of vernacular literary theory, in which some
fifty-five highly various texts, from a range of genres, discuss
their own origins, circumstances, strategies, source materials,
purposes and audiences. Each entry, newly edited from a single
manuscript, is accompanied by a headnote, annotation, and narrative
bibliography, while a general introduction and section
introductions provide further context and information. Also
included are essays on French in England and onthe prosody and
prose of insular French; Middle English versions of some of the
edited French texts; and a glossary of literary terms. By giving
access to a literate culture hitherto available primarily only to
Anglo-Norman specialists, this book opens up new possibilities for
taking English francophony into account in research and teaching.
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne is Thomas F.X. and Theresa Mullarkey Chair in
Literature, Fordham University, New York, and formerly Professor of
Medieval Literature, University of York; Thelma Fenster is
Professor Emerita of French and Medieval Studies, Fordham
University; Delbert Russell is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of
French, University of Waterloo.
The Seventh International Congress of Mucosal Immunology held in
Prague, the beautiful old capital of The Czech Republic, 16-20
August 1992, was the first to be sponsored by the Society for
Mucosal Immunology, and was the largest since their inception 20
years earlier in Birmingham, Alabama. It was attended by 624
participants who gave 538 presentations, more than 10 times the
numbers of the first meeting; these proceedings contain 354 papers
that were submitted for publication. The political events in Europe
that made it possible to hold this Congress in Prague also allowed
for the first time the participation of large numbers of scientists
from Eastern Europe, as weil as from Asia, and the organizers were
truly gratified by this happy circumstance. It is now clear not
only that mucosal immunityencompasses the huge area of mucosal
surfaces and most physiological organ systems, but also that
mucosal immunology extends over the whole global surface and all
continents! The sheer size of the Congress and number of
manuscripts unfortunately entailed some unexpected problems in
editing and assembling the proceedings, partly due to the diversity
of linguistic styles not represented at earlier meetings, and we
apologize to the authors who have patiently awaited the publication
of their contributions.
Essays on the complexity of multilingualism in medieval England.
Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Browne's scholarship on the French of
England - a term she indeed coined for the mix of linguistic,
cultural, and political elements unique to the pluri-lingual
situation of medieval England - is of immenseimportance to the
field. The essays in this volume extend, honour and complement her
path-breaking work. They consider exchanges between England and
other parts of Britain, analysing how communication was effected
where languagesdiffered, and probe cross-Channel relations from a
new perspective. They also examine the play of features within
single manuscripts, and with manuscripts in conversation with each
other. And they discuss the continuing reach ofthe French of
England beyond the Middle Ages: in particular, how it became newly
relevant to discussions of language and nationalism in later
centuries. Whether looking at primary sources such as letters and
official documents, orat creative literature, both religious and
secular, the contributions here offer fruitful and exciting
approaches to understanding what the French of England can tell us
about medieval Britain and the European world beyond. Thelma
Fenster is Professor Emerita of French and Medieval Studies,
Fordham University; Carolyn Collette is Professor of English
Language and Literature at Mount Holyoke College. Contributors:
Christopher Baswell,Emma Campbell, Paul Cohen, Carolyn Collette,
Thelma Fenster, Robert Hanning, Richard Ingham, Maryanne Kowaleski,
Serge Lusignan, Thomas O'Donnell, W. Mark Ormrod, Monika Otter,
Felicity Riddy, Delbert Russell, Fiona Somerset, +Robert M. Stein,
Andrew Taylor, Nicholas Watson, R.F. Yeager
The amazing world of the mononuclear phagocytes keeps expanding at
a truly awesome pace. As a result, maintaining currency with the
latest developments and controversies that pertain to this cell
type is increasingly difficult. The aspects covered in this volume
have been selected to provide an overview of subject areas that
either have recently become much better understood or hold the
promise of new levels of understanding as they are developed in the
future. The scope of topics ranges from how these cells develop,
through the means that are used to regulate them, to the roles that
they have in different tissues and in a variety of infectious
diseases.
Neuropsychology is a specialized branch of psychology which focuses
on the relationship between the brain and human functions including
cognition, behaviour, and emotion. With an emphasis on a scientific
approach which includes analysing quantitative data,
neuropsychology follows an information processing approach to brain
activity using standard assessments to evaluate various mental
functions. This book examines the standardized battery of tests in
neuropsychology, with a particular focus on forensic applications
of these tests, suggesting that a united theory of assessment needs
to be established. Bringing together multiple articles related to
forensic neuropsychology, this book offers an exploration of the
neurological and psychometric theoretical basis for standardized
batteries as well as a comparison between flexible and standardized
batteries. Ultimately, it is argued that a standardized battery of
tests need to be used and explains the justification for the
reliability of this approach, especially in relation to expert
witness testimony. While doing this, formal procedures, including
advanced mathematical procedures such as formulas and decision tree
algorithms, are presented to be utilized in assessments. With its
thorough examination of the theoretical and practical applications
of a standardized battery in neuropsychological assessment, this
book will prove helpful to clinical practitioners and attorneys
using assessment for their cases.
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