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This book argues that the satire of the late Elizabethan period
goes far beyond generic rhetorical persuasion, but is instead
intentionally engaged in a literary mission of transideological
"perceptual translation." This reshaping of cultural orthodoxies is
interpreted in this study as both authentic and "activistic" in the
sense that satire represents a purpose-driven attempt to build a
consensual community devoted to genuine socio-cultural change. The
book includes explorations of specific ideologically stabilizing
satires produced before the Bishops' Ban of 1599, as well as the
attempt to return nihilistic English satire to a stabilizing
theatrical form during the tumultuous end of the reign of Elizabeth
I. Dr. Jones infuses carefully chosen, modern-day examples of
satire alongside those of the Elizabethan Era, making it a
thoughtful, vigorous read.
"Oulines an array of recent work on the analytic theory and
potential applications of continued fractions, linear functionals,
orthogonal functions, moment theory, and integral transforms.
Describes links between continued fractions. Pade approximation,
special functions, and Gaussian quadrature."
"Oulines an array of recent work on the analytic theory and
potential applications of continued fractions, linear functionals,
orthogonal functions, moment theory, and integral transforms.
Describes links between continued fractions. Pade approximation,
special functions, and Gaussian quadrature."
Modern plasma physics, encompassing wave-particle interactions and
collec tive phenomena characteristic of the collision-free nature
of hot plasmas, was founded in 1946 when 1. D. Landau published his
analysis of linear (small amplitude) waves in such plasmas. It was
not until some ten to twenty years later, however, with impetus
from the then rapidly developing controlled fusion field, that
sufficient attention was devoted, in both theoretical and
experimental research, to elucidate the importance and
ramifications of Landau's original work. Since then, with advances
in laboratory, fusion, space, and astrophysical plasma research, we
have witnessed important devel opments toward the understanding of
a variety of linear as well as nonlinear plasma phenomena,
including plasma turbulence. Today, plasma physics stands as a
well-developed discipline containing a unified body of powerful
theoretical and experimental techniques and including a wide range
of appli cations. As such, it is now frequently introduced in
university physics and engineering curricula at the senior and
first-year-graduate levels. A necessary prerequisite for all of
modern plasma studies is the under standing oflinear waves in a
temporally and spatially dispersive medium such as a plasma,
including the kinetic (Landau) theory description of such waves.
Teaching experience has usually shown that students (seniors and
first-year graduates), when first exposed to the kinetic theory of
plasma waves, have difficulties in dealing with the required
sophistication in multidimensional complex variable (singular)
integrals and transforms."
We are well into a second age of digital information. Our
information is moving from the desktop to the laptop to the
"palmtop" and up into an amorphous cloud on the Web. How can one
manage both the challenges and opportunities of this new world of
digital information? What does the future hold? This book provides
an important update on the rapidly expanding field of personal
information management (PIM). Part I (Always and Forever)
introduces the essentials of PIM. Information is personal for many
reasons. It's the information on our hard drives we couldn't bear
to lose. It's the information about us that we don't want to share.
It's the distracting information demanding our attention even as we
try to do something else. It's the information we don't know about
but need to. Through PIM, we control personal information. We
integrate information into our lives in useful ways. We make it
"ours." With basics established, Part I proceeds to explore a
critical interplay between personal information "always" at hand
through mobile devices and "forever" on the Web. How does
information stay "ours" in such a world? Part II (Building Places
of Our Own for Digital Information) will be available in the Summer
of 2012, and will consist of the following chapters: Chapter 5.
Technologies to eliminate PIM?: We have seen astonishing advances
in the technologies of information management -- in particular, to
aid in the storing, structuring and searching of information. These
technologies will certainly change the way we do PIM; will they
eliminate the need for PIM altogether? Chapter 6. GIM and the
social fabric of PIM: We don't (and shouldn't) manage our
information in isolation. Group information management (GIM) --
especially the kind practiced more informally in households and
smaller project teams -- goes hand in glove with good PIM. Chapter
7. PIM by design: Methodologies, principles, questions and
considerations as we seek to understand PIM better and to build PIM
into our tools, techniques and training. Chapter 8. To each of us,
our own.: Just as we must each be a student of our own practice of
PIM, we must also be a designer of this practice. This concluding
chapter looks at tips, traps and tradeoffs as we work to build a
practice of PIM and "places" of our own for personal information.
Table of Contents: A New Age of Information / The Basics of PIM /
Our Information, Always at Hand / Our Information, Forever on the
Web
This book argues that the satire of the late Elizabethan period
goes far beyond generic rhetorical persuasion, but is instead
intentionally engaged in a literary mission of transideological
"perceptual translation." This reshaping of cultural orthodoxies is
interpreted in this study as both authentic and "activistic" in the
sense that satire represents a purpose-driven attempt to build a
consensual community devoted to genuine socio-cultural change. The
book includes explorations of specific ideologically stabilizing
satires produced before the Bishops' Ban of 1599, as well as the
attempt to return nihilistic English satire to a stabilizing
theatrical form during the tumultuous end of the reign of Elizabeth
I. Dr. Jones infuses carefully chosen, modern-day examples of
satire alongside those of the Elizabethan Era, making it a
thoughtful, vigorous read.
The student of biological science in his final years as an
undergraduate and his first years as a graduate is expected to gain
some familiarity with current research at the frontiers of his
discipline. New research work is published in a perplexing
diversity of publications and is inevitably concerned with the
minutiae of the subject. The sheer number of research journals and
papers also causes confusion and difficulties of assimilation.
Review articles usually presuppose a background know ledge of the
field and are inevitably rather restricted in scope. There is thus
a need for short but authoritative introductions to those areas of
modern biological research which are either not dealt with in
standard introductory textbooks or are not dealt with in sufficient
detail to enable the student to go on from them to read scholarly
reviews with profit. This series of books is designed to satisfy
this need. The authors have been asked to produce a brief outline
of their subject assuming that their readers will have read and
remembered much of a standard introductory textbook on biology.
This outline then sets out to provide by building on this basis,
the conceptual framework within which modern research work is
progressing and aims to give the reader an indication of the
problems, both conceptual and practical, which must be overcome if
progress is to be maintained."
WE ARE ADRIFT IN A SEA OF INFORMATION. We need information to make
good decisions, to get things done, to learn, and to gain better
mastery of the world around us. But we do not always have good
control of our information - not even in the "home waters" of an
office or on the hard drive of a computer. Instead, information may
be controlling us - keeping us from doing the things we need to do,
getting us to waste money and precious time. The growth of
available information, plus the technologies for its creation,
storage, retrieval, distribution and use, is astonishing and
sometimes bewildering. Can there be a similar growth in our
understanding for how best to manage information and informational
tools?
This book provides a comprehensive overview of personal information
management (PIM) as both a study and a practice of the activities
people do and need to be doing so that information can work for
them in their daily lives.
Introductory chapters of "Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and
Practice of Personal Information Management" provide an overview of
PIM and a sense for its many facets. The next chapters look more
closely at the essential challenges of PIM, including finding,
keeping, organizing, maintaining, managing privacy, and managing
information flow. The book also contains chapters on search, email,
mobile PIM, web-based support, and other technologies relevant to
PIM.
*For more information and author blog visit http:
//www.keepingthingsfound.com/.
* Focuses exclusively on one of the most interesting and
challenging problems in today's world
* Explores what good and better PIM looks like, and how to measure
improvements
* Presents key questions to consider when evaluating any new PIM
informational tools or systems
"Panoramic Ophthalmoscopy: Optomap(R) Images and Interpretation"
comprehensively covers the state-of-the-art technology and the
high-resolution digital images taken with the Panoramic200 Scanning
Laser Ophthalmoscope. The optomap(R) Retinal Exam images provide
ophthalmologists and optometrists with an extended view and
photo-documentation of almost the entire retina.
Inside "Panoramic Ophthalmoscopy," Jerome Sherman, Gulshan
Karamchandani, William Jones, Sanjeev Nath, and Lawrence A.
Yannuzzi document and expertly explain all there is to know about
this remarkable new technology. Over 500 images highlight the text,
many of which have never been seen before, and provide detailed
visual references for numerous eye disorders.
This colorful atlas is the ideal resource for interpreting these
images and diagnosing serious eye conditions that may have
otherwise gone undetected.
"Panoramic Ophthalmoscopy" contains an introductory chapter that
highlights and contrasts panoramic ophthalmoscopy and optomap(R)
images to all the traditional methods of fundus viewing. Inside you
will find over 100 exemplary case presentations covering common and
uncommon topics such as normal fundus, retinal tears, Coat's
disease, and diabetic retinopathy. Also included are cases of
retinal and choroidal diseases and how they were diagnosed and
managed using this technology. In the last chapter, the authors
peer into the next frontier of imaging by introducing Optos
fluorescein angiography and its myriad potential contributions to
patient care, research, and clinical teaching.
Each case presentation includes:
- History and chief compliant
- Clinical findings
- optomap(R) images
- Differential diagnosis
- Disposition and follow-up
Cases are arranged into 11 chapters covering:
- Optic Disc
- Macula
- Vascular
- Inflammatory
- Mass Lesions
- Retinal Degenerations
- Peripheral Lesions
With expert descriptions and hundreds of never before seen images,
the all encompassing "Panoramic Ophthalmoscopy: Optomap(R) Images
and Interpretation" is the perfect resource for optometrists,
ophthalmologists, ophthalmic technicians, residents, and students
who would like to learn more about and would like to benefit from
this revolutionary technology.
The rapid advances made in genetic research and technology over the
last few decades have led to a host of important discoveries that
have allowed for the detection (and hopefully soon the treatment)
of a number of genetic conditions and diseases. Not surprisingly,
these advances have also raised numerous ethical concerns about how
result ing technologies will be implemented, and the impact they
will have on different com munities. One particular concern is the
enormous costs involved in conducting genetic research and the fact
that the private sector has become heavily involved; the desire to
commercialize the results and technology derived from genetic
research is considered problematic. In September 1998, the Second
International Conference on DNA Sampling, titled "The
Commercialization of Genetic Research: Ethical, Legal and Policy
Issues," was held of the conference, and of this book, was to in
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The goal facilitate an interdisciplinary
discussion of the legal, ethical, and policy implications arising
from the commercialization of genetic research. We solicited
contributions for the book from authors in fields as diverse as
ethics, law, medicine, health policy, and the social sciences. The
papers included, while based on presentations given at the
conference, have been substantially expanded and enhanced by the
commentary received and discussions held at the conference."
The rapid advances made in genetic research and technology over the
last few decades have led to a host of important discoveries that
have allowed for the detection (and hopefully soon the treatment)
of a number of genetic conditions and diseases. Not surprisingly,
these advances have also raised numerous ethical concerns about how
result ing technologies will be implemented, and the impact they
will have on different com munities. One particular concern is the
enormous costs involved in conducting genetic research and the fact
that the private sector has become heavily involved; the desire to
commercialize the results and technology derived from genetic
research is considered problematic. In September 1998, the Second
International Conference on DNA Sampling, titled "The
Commercialization of Genetic Research: Ethical, Legal and Policy
Issues," was held of the conference, and of this book, was to in
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The goal facilitate an interdisciplinary
discussion of the legal, ethical, and policy implications arising
from the commercialization of genetic research. We solicited
contributions for the book from authors in fields as diverse as
ethics, law, medicine, health policy, and the social sciences. The
papers included, while based on presentations given at the
conference, have been substantially expanded and enhanced by the
commentary received and discussions held at the conference."
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Credulities Past and Present - Including the Sea and Seamen, Miners, Amulets and Talismans, Rings, Word and Letter Divination, Numbers, Trials, Exorcising and Blessing of Animals, Birds, Eggs, and Luck (Hardcover)
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Credulities Past and Present - Including the Sea and Seamen, Miners, Amulets and Talismans, Rings, Word and Letter Divination, Numbers, Trials, Exorcising and Blessing of Animals, Birds, Eggs, and Luck (Paperback)
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