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Pristine Perspectives on Logic, Language and Computation

Autor: Margot Colinet , Sophia Katrenko , Rasmus K. Rendsvig

Número de Páginas: 275

The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and advanced courses, as well as workshops, covering a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. The 16 papers presented in this volume have been selected among 44 papers presented by talks or posters at the Student Sessions of the 24th and 25th editions of ESSLLI, held in 2012 in Opole, Poland, and 2013 in Düsseldorf, Germany. The papers are extended versions of the versions presented, and have all been subjected to a second round of blind peer review.

International Political Economy

Autor: Nicola Phillips , Catherine Weaver

Número de Páginas: 368

The book gathers together a set of lively, provocative essays by leading voices in International Political Economy to debate the evolution of the field, its current state and its future directions. Prompted by recent commentaries on the existence of a ‘transatlantic divide’ in IPE between an ‘American school’ and a ‘British school’, the essays provide a wide-ranging discussion of whether it is useful to think of the field in these terms, what the ‘American’ and ‘British’ schools look like, what their achievements and shortcomings are, and what are the desirable future directions for IPE scholarship. The diverse responses to these questions reflect the ongoing vibrancy and diversity of the field of IPE, and open up an imaginative and engaging discussion about where we need to go from here. Featuring contributions from the most influential scholars in the field from North America, Canada and the UK, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the cutting edge debates in contemporary international political economy.

Études de linguistique néo-hellénique

Autor: Hubert Octave Pernot

Número de Páginas: 592

Applied Strength of Materials

Autor: Robert L. Mott , Joseph A. Untener

Número de Páginas: 1173

This text is an established bestseller in engineering technology programs, and the Seventh Edition of Applied Strength of Materials continues to provide comprehensive coverage of the mechanics of materials. Focusing on active learning and consistently reinforcing key concepts, the book is designed to aid students in their first course on the strength of materials. Introducing the theoretical background of the subject, with a strong visual component, the book equips readers with problem-solving techniques. The updated Seventh Edition incorporates new technologies with a strong pedagogical approach. Emphasizing realistic engineering applications for the analysis and design of structural members, mechanical devices, and systems, the book includes such topics as torsional deformation, shearing stresses in beams, pressure vessels, and design properties of materials. A "big picture" overview is included at the beginning of each chapter, and step-by-step problem-solving approaches are used throughout the book. FEATURES Includes "the big picture" introductions that map out chapter coverage and provide a clear context for readers Contains everyday examples to provide context for students...

Capitalism's Sexual History

Autor: Nicola J. Smith

Número de Páginas: 209

As ongoing controversies over commercial sex attest, the relationship between capitalism and sexuality is deeply contentious. Economic and sexual practices are assumed to be not only separable but antithetical, hence why paid sex is so often criminalized and morally condemned. Yet, while sexuality is highly politicized in moral terms, it has largely been overlooked in the discipline devoted to the study of global capitalism, international political economy (IPE). Likewise, the prevailing field in sexuality studies, queer theory, has frequently sidelined questions of political economy. This book calls for critical scholarship to challenge the economy/sexuality dichotomy as it not only structures disciplinary debates but is part and parcel of capitalism itself. Capitalism's Sexual History brings IPE and queer theory into close dialogue to explore how the division between economy and sexuality has been historically produced to appear both natural and moral. By examining sex work in Britain, Nicola J. Smith draws on in-depth archival research to chart a history of capitalism's sexual relations from medieval times to the present day. She shows how capitalist development was made...

EPAC 92

Autor: H. Henke , H. Homeyer

Número de Páginas: 942

Preparation of Industrial Plant Equipment for Storage Or Shipment

Número de Páginas: 140

Globalizing International Political Economy

Autor: Nicola Phillips

Número de Páginas: 328

Despite its claims to global scope and relevance, International Political Economy as a field of study remains entrenched in a narrow set of theoretical, conceptual and empirical foundations derived from the experiences of the advanced industrialized democracies. Bringing together specially commissioned chapters by leading authorities in each key area of debate, Globalizing International Political Economy provides a systematic examination and critique of contemporary IPE, and puts forward a new agenda for a truly 'global' political economy.

Foundations of International Political Economy

Autor: Matthew Watson

Número de Páginas: 278

Despite a burgeoning debate on substantive issues in IPE, little attention has been devoted to its theoretical foundations. In this important new text, Matthew Watson reviews the main current theoretical approaches to IPE and highlights the problems that arise from treating 'states' and 'markets' as separate and contesting units of analysis. Foremost among these problems is the lack of attention given to theorizing the constitution of the individual as both an economic agent and a moral being.

Globalisation contested

Autor: Louise Amoore

Número de Páginas: 282

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This exciting book provides an illuminating account of contemporary globalisation that is grounded in actual transformations in the areas of production and the workplace. It reveals the social and political contests that give 'global' its meaning, by examining the contested nature of globalisation as it is expressed in the restructuring of work. Rejecting conventional explanations of globalisation as a process that automatically leads to transformations in working lives, or as a project that is strategically designed to bring about lean and flexible forms of production, this book advances an understanding of the social practices that constitute global change. Through case studies that span from the labour flexibility debates in Britain and Germany, to the strategies and tactics of corporations and workers, the author examines how globalisation is interpreted and experienced in everyday life. Contestation, she argues, is about more than just direct protests and resistances. It has become a central feature of the practices that enable or confound global restructuring. This book...

Leading Research and Evaluation in Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice

Autor: Dawn Forman , Marion Jones , Jill Thistlethwaite

Número de Páginas: 400

Expanding upon Leadership Development for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice and Leadership and Collaboration, the third installment to this original and innovative collection of books considers a variety of research models and theories. Emphasizing research and evaluation in leadership aspects, Leading Research and Evaluation in Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice showcases examples from around the globe in various multicultural contexts. Crucial for academics and researchers in this field, the book includes studies on traditionally under-represented countries and aims to prompt new ideas for future research and policy structures in Interprofessional education and practice.

Constructing European Union Trade Policy

Autor: Gabriel Siles-brügge

Número de Páginas: 270

With the stagnation of the Doha Round of multilateral talks, trade liberalisation is increasingly undertaken through free trade agreements. Gabriel Siles-Brügge examines the EU's decision following the 2006 'Global Europe' strategy to negotiate such agreements with emerging economies. Eschewing the purely materialist explanations prominent in the field, he develops a novel constructivist argument to highlight the role of language and ideas in shaping EU trade policy. Drawing on extensive interviews and documentary analysis, Siles-Brügge shows how EU trade policymakers have privileged the interests of exporters to the detriment of import-competing groups, creating an ideational imperative for market-opening. Even during the on-going economic crisis the overriding mantra has been that the EU's future well-being depends on its ability to compete in global markets. The increasingly neoliberal orientation of EU trade policy has also had important consequences for its economic diplomacy with the developing economies of the African, Caribbean and Pacific group of states.

Mise en oeuvre et emploi des matériaux de construction

Autor: Christian Lemaitre

Número de Páginas: 288

Voici un panorama des principaux types de matériaux, depuis la caractérisation et l'adaptation des sols jusqu'aux vitrages, en passant par les matériaux de structure, d'isolation et d'enveloppe. Ce manuel enseigne comment il convient de les employer dans le domaine de la construction, tant pour la structure que pour le second oeuvre. Pour chacun de ces matériaux, l'auteur décrit son mode d'élaboration, ses propriétés fonctionnelles, les usages qui en découlent, ainsi que le mode de mise en oeuvre de ses produits dérivés. En étudiant de surcroît l'usure et la durée des matériaux ainsi que les méthodes qui permettent de prolonger la vie des ouvrages, l'auteur évoque les questions soulevées par les conséquences sociétales de leur usage dans la perspective du développement durable. Enfin, à la description de chacun des matériaux sont associées les normes et la règlementation dont, naturellement, la règlementation thermique. Dans une pagination moderne à l'indispensable connaissance des matériaux de construction et de leurs fonctionnalités s'adresse en priorité aux élèves et aux étudiants en génie civil abordant pour la première fois les matériaux de ...

Traité de plâtrerie du bâtiment

Autor: Louis-eric Salembier

Número de Páginas: 460

Le plâtre, matériau géosourcé utilisé depuis des millénaires dans la construction, est apprécié pour ses qualités hygrothermiques, acoustiques et son incombustibilité ; il est employé tant à l’intérieur (cloison, plafond, chape, décor) qu’à l’extérieur (enduit, sous-face et contreventement de façade). Sous la forme de staff ou de stuc, il participe également à la mise en oeuvre de nombreux éléments décoratifs tels que moulures, parements, corniches. Aujourd’hui, la filière du plâtre, soucieuse des enjeux de transition environnementale, met en avant les principaux atouts du matériau – une fabrication locale et une recyclabilité à l’infini – pour continuer de développer de nouveaux produits plus performants, légers, économes en énergie, et en proposer de nouvelles applications. De la fabrication du produit jusqu’à sa mise en oeuvre sous toutes ses formes, cet ouvrage, richement illustré, rassemble l’ensemble des connaissances relatives à l’utilisation du plâtre dans le bâtiment, en traitant aussi bien des techniques traditionnelles que modernes, et répond aux nombreuses situations rencontrées sur les chantiers. Il détaille...

Annales des sciences naturelles

Número de Páginas: 358

Annales des sciences naturelles : zoologie

Proceedings of the First US/Japan Conference on the Frontiers of Statistical Modeling: An Informational Approach

Autor: H. Bozdogan

Número de Páginas: 421

Often a statistical analysis involves use of a set of alternative models for the data. A "model-selection criterion" is a formula which provides a figure-of merit for the alternative models. Generally the alternative models will involve different numhers of parameters. Model-selection criteria take into account hoth the goodness-or-fit of a model and the numher of parameters used to achieve that fit. 1.1. SETS OF ALTERNATIVE MODELS Thus the focus in this paper is on data-analytic situations ill which there is consideration of a set of alternative models. Choice of a suhset of explanatory variahles in regression, the degree of a polynomial regression, the number of factors in factor analysis, or the numher of dusters in duster analysis are examples of such situations. 1.2. MODEL SELECTION VERSUS HYPOTHESIS TESTING In exploratory data analysis or in a preliminary phase of inference an approach hased on model-selection criteria can offer advantages over tests of hypotheses. The model-selection approach avoids the prohlem of specifying error rates for the tests. With model selection the focus can he on simultaneous competition between a hroad dass of competing models rather than on...

Narratives of Learning Through International Professional Experience

Autor: Ange Fitzgerald , Graham Parr , Judy Williams

Número de Páginas: 190

This book presents a collection of research-based narratives exploring the learning of pre-service teachers and teacher educators in a range of international professional experience (IPE) settings. The narratives, based on over 20 years of IPE managed by an Australian faculty of education, capture the lessons learnt from the IPE program from a variety of perspectives, including academic staff, pre-service teachers and in-country partners. Four key themes emerge from the narratives: identity, learning through discomfort, collaboration and relationships. At a time when critics of teacher education are arguing for more predictable, standardised programs and practices, this book advocates for richly diverse, innovative programs that better prepare the next generation of educators for teaching in a multicultural, uncertain future.

Generic EIS for Nuclear Power Plant Operating Licenses Renewal

Número de Páginas: 382

Talking to Adults

Autor: Shoshana Blum-kulka , Catherine E. Snow

Número de Páginas: 387

This volume provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the contribution of multiparty intergenerational talk in a variety of cultures to the development of children's communicative capacities. The book focuses on the complexity of the cultural and interactional contexts in which pragmatic learning occurs and re-examines certain assumptions implicit in research on language socialization to date, such as primacy of dyadic interactions in the early ages and the presupposition of a monolingual social matrix. One of the aims of the book is to demonstrate the degree of cultural diversity in paths of pragmatic development. Individual chapters present empirically grounded analyses of talk with children of all ages, in different participation structures and in a variety of cultures. In pursuing this theme the volume is meant to further enrich cross-cultural perspectives on language socialization by providing in each of its chapters an empirically grounded analysis of the development of one specific dimension of discursive skill. The nine invited chapters comprise new empirical work on the development of specific discourse dimensions. Authors have been asked also to adopt a reflexive ...

Governing Financial Globalization

Autor: Andrew Baker , David Hudson , Richard Woodward

Número de Páginas: 259

This volume provides a wide-ranging discussion of both the potential and the problems arising from the application of multi-level governance literature to the monetary and financial domain.

Applied Strength of Materials SI Units Version

Autor: Robert L. Mott , Joseph A. Untener

Número de Páginas: 839

APPLIED STRENGTH OF MATERIALS 6/e, SI Units Version provides coverage of basic strength of materials for students in Engineering Technology (4-yr and 2-yr) and uses only SI units. Emphasizing applications, problem solving, design of structural members, mechanical devices and systems, the book has been updated to include coverage of the latest tools, trends, and techniques. Color graphics support visual learning, and illustrate concepts and applications. Numerous instructor resources are offered, including a Solutions Manual, PowerPoint slides, Figure Slides of book figures, and extra problems. With SI units used exclusively, this text is ideal for all Technology programs outside the USA.

Exemplary Economists: North America

Autor: Roger Backhouse , Roger Middleton

Número de Páginas: 488

Focuses on leading economists who were born, or have spent the greater part of their lives, in America.

Bulletin annuel d'épigraphie grecque

Autor: Adolphe Reinach

Número de Páginas: 420

Revue épigraphique

Número de Páginas: 446

Leadership and Collaboration

Autor: D. Forman , M. Jones , J. Thistlethwaite

Número de Páginas: 449

Leadership and Collaboration provides international examples of how leadership of interprofessional education and practice has developed in various countries and examines how interprofessional education and collaborative practice can make a difference to the care of the patient, client and community.

The Contested World Economy

Autor: Eric Helleiner

Número de Páginas: 319

A pioneering global history of the pre-1945 debates that forged the field of international political economy.

Being a Teacher Educator in Challenging Times

Autor: Mike Hayler , Judy Williams

Número de Páginas: 194

This book presents a duoethnographic exploration and narrative account of what it means to be a teacher educator today. Adopting a narrative approach, the book presents different personal, political and institutional perspectives to interrogate common challenges facing teacher education and teacher educators today. In addition, the book compares and contrasts the teacher education landscapes in Australia and the UK and addresses a broad range of topics, including the autobiographical nature of teacher educators’ work, the value of learning from experience, the importance of collegiality and collaboration in learning to become a teacher educator, and the intersection of the personal, professional and political in the development of teacher educator pedagogies and research agendas. Each chapter combines personal narratives and research-based perspectives on the key dimensions of teacher educators’ work that can be found in the literature, including self-study research. Readers will gain a better understanding of the processes, influences and relationships that make being a teacher educator both a challenging and rewarding career. Accordingly, the book offers a valuable asset for ...

The Federal Conference on Intelligent Processing Equipment

Autor: Federal Conference On Intelligent Processing Equipment , United States. National Aeronautics And Space Administration

Número de Páginas: 232

Climate Change, Ozone Depletion And Air Pollution

Autor: Alexander Gillespie

Número de Páginas: 430

The mountain of information coming out of the respective regimes on climate change, ozone depletion and air pollution is monumental

Fire Design of Steel Structures

Autor: Jean-marc Franssen , Paulo Vila Real

Número de Páginas: 509

This book explains and illustrates the rules that are given in the Eurocodes for designing steel structures subjected to fire. After the first introductory chapter, Chapter 2 explains how to calculate the mechanical actions (loads) in the fire situation based on the information given in EN 1990 and EN 1991. Chapter 3 is dedicated to the models which represent the thermal actions created by the fire. Chapter 4 describes the procedures to be used to calculate the temperature of the steelwork from the temperature of the compartment and Chapter 5 shows how the information given in EN 1993-1-2 is used to determine the load bearing capacity of the steel structure. Chapter 6 presents the essential features that characterize the advanced calculation models, for thermal and mechanical response. The methods used to evaluate the fire resistance of bolted and welded connections are described in Chapter 7. Chapter 8 describes a computer program called 'Elefir-EN,' which is based on the simple calculation model given in the Eurocode and allows designers to quickly and accurately calculate the performance of steel components in the fire situation. Chapter 9 looks at the issues that a designer...

Code of Federal Regulations

Número de Páginas: 574

Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: InterProfessional Team Training and Simulation

Autor: John T. Paige , Shirley C. Sonesh , Deborah D. Garbee , Laura S. Bonanno

Número de Páginas: 320

This book focuses on InterProfessional (IP) Team Training and Simulation, from basic concepts to the practical application of IP in different healthcare settings. It thoroughly and comprehensively covers the role of simulation in healthcare, human factors in healthcare, challenges to conducting simulation-based IP, logistics, and applications of simulation-based IP in clinical practice. Supplemented by high-quality figures and tables, readers are introduced to the different simulation modalities and technologies employed in IP team training and are guided on the use of simulation within IP teams. Part of the authoritative Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation Series, InterProfessional Team Training and Simulation can be used in training for a variety of learners, including medical students, residents, practicing physicians, nurses, and health-related professionals.

Itinerario Personal para la Empleabilidad I

Autor: GonzÁlez Acedo, JosÉ Carlos , PÉrez Aroca, Rosario

Número de Páginas: 368

Una guía para alcanzar tus metas profesionales. El nuevo módulo de Itinerario Personal para la Empleabilidad (IPE), establecido por la Ley Orgánica 3/2022, de 31 de marzo, de Formación Profesional, se configura como un único módulo que se extiende a lo largo de toda la duración del Ciclo Formativo (IPE I y II). Tiene como objetivo desarrollar un proceso de autoorientación en el alumnado que le lleve a desarrollar e implementar su propio plan de desarrollo profesional, y ofrecer la posibilidad de trabajar y mejorar las soft skills y la competencia emprendedora según el marco europeo EntreComp. Itinerario personal para la empleabilidad I dotará al alumnado de las herramientas necesarias para desarrollar las habilidades de comunicación, trabajo en equipo, resolución de problemas y aprendizaje continuo que le permitirán afrontar los retos del mercado laboral y de un entorno cada vez más competitivo. Esta edición totalmente puesta al día incluye las últimas actualizaciones en materia educativa, laboral y de Seguridad Social, entre las que destacan: la Ley 10/2021, de 9 de julio, de trabajo a distancia; el RD-Ley 32/2021, de 28 de diciembre, de medidas urgentes para la...

A Grammar of Kilmeri

Autor: Claudia Gerstner-link

Número de Páginas: 1010

This book is a description of Kilmeri, a language of Papua New Guinea, based on the author's fieldwork. The volume is dedicated to the detailed description of form and meaning and their interface, which is supported through extensive illustration by examples. The narrative structure of entire texts is accessible via a small collection of fully glossed personal and traditional stories included in the Online Supplement. The typological evaluation of selected properties of Kilmeri rounds out the description of the language.

Quantum Field Theory I

Autor: Edouard B. Manoukian

Número de Páginas: 599

This textbook covers a broad spectrum of developments in QFT, emphasizing those aspects that are now well consolidated and for which satisfactory theoretical descriptions have been provided. The book is unique in that it offers a new approach to the subject and explores many topics merely touched upon, if covered at all, in standard reference works. A detailed and largely non-technical introductory chapter traces the development of QFT from its inception in 1926. The elegant functional differential approach put forward by Schwinger, referred to as the quantum dynamical (action) principle, and its underlying theory are used systematically in order to generate the so-called vacuum-to-vacuum transition amplitude of both abelian and non-abelian gauge theories, in addition to Feynman’s well-known functional integral approach, referred to as the path-integral approach. Given the wealth of information also to be found in the abelian case, equal importance is put on both abelian and non-abelian gauge theories. Particular emphasis is placed on the concept of a quantum field and its particle content to provide an appropriate description of physical processes at high energies, where...

Assignment and Matching Problems: Solution Methods with FORTRAN-Programs

Autor: R. E. Burkard , U. Derigs

Número de Páginas: 154

Account of the Operations of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India

Autor: Survey Of India. Trigonometrical Branch

Número de Páginas: 654

Wild Abandon

Autor: Alexander Menrisky

Número de Páginas: 265

The American wilderness narrative, which divides nature from culture, has remained remarkably persistent despite the rise of ecological science, which emphasizes interconnection between these spheres. Wild Abandon considers how ecology's interaction with radical politics of authenticity in the twentieth century has kept that narrative alive in altered form. As ecology gained political momentum in the 1960s and 1970s, many environmentalists combined it with ideas borrowed from psychoanalysis and a variety of identity-based social movements. The result was an identity politics of ecology that framed ecology itself as an authentic identity position repressed by cultural forms, including social differences and even selfhood. Through readings of texts by Edward Abbey, Simon Ortiz, Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, and Jon Krakauer, among others, Alexander Menrisky argues that writers have both dramatized and critiqued this tendency, in the process undermining the concept of authenticity altogether and granting insight into alternative histories of identity and environment.