Feedback Toolkit 16 Tools for Better Communication in the Workplace Second Edition

This book provides expert guidance on using feedback as a performance improvement tool. It includes many simple tools readers can use to improve feedback in their work unit. The book suggests that feedback works best when the giver and receiver realize that they are in a dance together. | Feedback Toolkit 16 Tools for Better Communication in the Workplace Second Edition

Windows Assembly Language and Systems Programming 16- and 32-Bit Low-Level Programming for the PC and Windows

-Access Real mode from Protected mode; Protected mode from Real mode Apply OOP concepts to assembly language programs Interface assembly language programs with high-level languages Achieve direct hardware manipulation and memory access Explore the archite | Windows Assembly Language and Systems Programming 16- and 32-Bit Low-Level Programming for the PC and Windows

A Practical Guide to Subcontracting

Concise review of the rules and regulations for employing labour directly labour-only subcontractors or supply and fix-sub-contractors. Also offers practical advice on the tax deduction scheme and how to avoid falling foul of the Inland Revenue. | A Practical Guide to Subcontracting

Technology’s Challenges and Solutions in K-16 Education during a Worldwide Pandemic

The book not only provides empirical evidence of challenges faced by educators and learners during COVID-19 but also gives fresh insights on how educators and education administrators may act proactively to prepare for an emergency situation. The school year of 2020 was unlike any other. Globally the outbreak of COVID-19 impacted leaners and educators in all levels. Many learners were forced to rapidly transit from face-to-face to online learning while educators were required to hastily convert in-person to online delivery mode. What challenges did the educators and learners face and what were the possible solutions? How can technology as a tool be used to enhance teaching and maximize student learning when an emergency occurs? This book addresses these two questions. With contributions from international scholars the book begins by providing the context of COVID-19 and a brief introduction of five empirical studies included in the book as well as suggesting directions for future research. Subsequent chapters represent a variety of research approaches and perspectives from learners educators and parents of learners but all share a common focus on challenges faced by educators and learners as well as opportunities to use technology as a tool to maximize student learning during a worldwide pandemic. Technology’s Challenges and Solutions in K-16 Education during a Worldwide Pandemic will be a key resource for educators academics researchers and students of Education Instructional Design and Technology Educational Leadership and Policy Educational Research Educational Technology Research Methods and Sociology STEM Education and Curriculum and Instruction. The chapters included in this book were originally published as a special issue of Computers in the Schools.

Crossing Design Boundaries Proceedings of the 3rd Engineering & Product Design Education International Conference 15-16 September 2005 Edinburgh

This book presents over 100 papers from the 3rd Engineering and Product Design Education International Conference dedicated to the subject of exploring novel approaches in product design education. The theme of the book is Crossing Design Boundaries which reflects the editors wish to incorporate many of the disciplines associated with and integral to modern product design and development pursuits. Crossing Design Boundaries covers for example the conjunction of anthropology and design the psychology of design products the application of soft computing in wearable products and the utilisation of new media and design and how these can be best exploited within the current product design arena. The book includes discussions concerning product design education and the cross-over into other well established design disciplines such as interaction design jewellery design furniture design and exhibition design which have been somewhat under represented in recent years. The book comprises a number of sections containing papers which cover highly topical and relevant issues including Design Curriculum Development Interdisciplinarity Design Collaboration and Team Working Philosophies of Design Education Design Knowledge New Materials and New Technologies in Design Design Communication Industrial Collaborations and Working with Industry Teaching and Learning Tools and Design Theory. | Crossing Design Boundaries Proceedings of the 3rd Engineering & Product Design Education International Conference 15-16 September 2005 Edinburgh

Readings in the Political Economy of Aging

Includes 16 essays which address many issues from a different perspective suggested by the experience of aging in America. This study explores the political social and economic realities which have an impact on Americans as they grow older. | Readings in the Political Economy of Aging

Understanding GIS through Sustainable Development Goals Case Studies with QGIS

Understanding GIS through Sustainable Development Goals applies a pedagogical shift to learning GIS as the readers employ the concepts and methodologies on real-world problems. This book provides 16 case studies across most of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with step-by-step practical instructions using QGIS(Quantum Geographic Information System) an open-source software. It helps readers develop GIS skills on real-world data while learning the fundamentals including spatial data models projections and spatial databases different cartographic methods such as graduated symbology change maps and dynamic visualization as well as more intermediate and advanced spatial analysis such as geoprocessing multiple criteria analysis and spatial statistics. The topics chosen are taught in secondary and tertiary education institutions which make this a textbook for all students and educators. Features: Focuses on learning GIS through 16 real world case studies. Introduces an open-source software that can be used beyond the classroom. Analyzes Sustainable Development Goals in a global framework and provides an alternative approach to learning GIS. Supports both secondary and tertiary educators and improves GIS education at all levels. Contains a holistic range of case studies that extend across several disciplines from geography education environmental sciences geosciences natural sciences social sciences and digital humanities. This is a textbook for all students and educators providing 16 case studies across most of the SDGs with step-by-step practical instructions using QGIS an open-source software. | Understanding GIS through Sustainable Development Goals Case Studies with QGIS

Community Economic Development

This important book examines the ways in which community economic development can contribute to local and regional regeneration. It presents a unique overview of the state of contemporary British practice in this important policy area and provides a series of fresh theoretical methodological and empirical insights which help us to understand ways in which communities are facing up to the challenges of devising and bringing about their own revitalisation. Community Economic Development is underpinned by the argument that much conventional regeneration work represents at best a short-term fix rather than a long-term sustainable solution to the problems of socially excluded communities. The emphasis of the book is largely on the British experience with contributions from a rich mix of new and established academics and practitioners.

Rhyacophilidae of India

The order Trichoptera is one of the sixth largest insect orders with over 16 000 species known globally. In India this order is represented by about 1400 species only. The literature on the caddisflies of India so far has remained scattered and fragmented. This book documents all of the 184 species of one of the largest family of Trichoptera: Rhyacophilidae. It details the taxonomic description of each species along with good-quality figures. The book will be a useful resource for studying the systematics and ecological aspects of caddisflies. | Rhyacophilidae of India

A Practical Course in Advanced Structural Design

A Practical Course in Advanced Structural Design is written from the perspective of a practicing engineer one with over 35 years of experience now working in the academic world who wishes to pass on lessons learned over the course of a structural engineering career. The book covers essential topics that will enable beginning structural engineers to gain an advanced understanding prior to entering the workforce as well as topics which may receive little or no attention in a typical undergraduate curriculum. For example many new structural engineers are faced with issues regarding estimating collapse loadings during earthquakes and establishing fatigue requirements for cyclic loading – but are typically not taught the underlying methodologies for a full understanding. Features: Advanced practice-oriented guidance on structural building and bridge design in a single volume. Detailed treatment of earthquake ground motion from multiple specifications (ASCE 7-16 ASCE 4-16 ASCE 43-05 AASHTO). Details of calculations for the advanced student as well as the practicing structural engineer. Practical example problems and numerous photographs from the author’s projects throughout. A Practical Course in Advanced Structural Design will serve as a useful text for graduate and upper-level undergraduate civil engineering students as well as practicing structural engineers.

Racism in Contemporary Germany Islamophobia in East and West

This book presents a critical and empirically informed examination of Islamophobia and related issues of racism and nationalism in Germany today with particular attention to the East/West distinction. The authors representing several disciplines such as anthropology sociology and media and literary studies situate the topic in the global and German context of the 2015-16 migration crisis and its aftermath and of the ongoing transformations seen in the postsocialist regions of the European Union. Since the 2015-16 refugee crisis illiberal leaders and parties within Europe have instrumentalized Islamophobia in an attempt to dislodge the traditional political elites. Strikingly such illiberal movements have been most successful in the formerly socialist areas of the EU. This is mirrored within Germany itself where political formations with an Islamophobic agenda remain more popular in the East than in the West. This volume examines the reasons for this difference including not only the ideological heritage of Soviet-dominated socialism but also the effects of western interventions in the formerly socialist areas in and beyond Germany since the end of the Cold War. Some Islamophobic and other hateful tendencies were in fact introduced from and continue to prosper also in the West. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies. | Racism in Contemporary Germany Islamophobia in East and West

On-Wafer Calibration Techniques Enabling Accurate Characterization of High-Performance Silicon Devices at the mm-Wave Range and Beyond

California and Great Basin Olivella Shell Bead Guide

Olivella shell beads are ubiquitous at Central California Indian sites and were traded far inland by the local inhabitants. Their distinctive patterns of manufacture provide archaeologists with important chronological morphological and distributional information. This guide—authored by a professional artifact replicator and an archaeological expert on shell bead typology- offers a well developed 16-category typology including the descriptive temporal and metric characteristics of each style illustrated with almost 200 color photographs. Spiral bound to facilitate field and laboratory work it is an essential tool for conducting archaeology in the American west. Sponsored by the Society for California Archaeology and Pacific Legacy Inc. | California and Great Basin Olivella Shell Bead Guide

One-Track Mind Capitalism Technology and the Art of the Pop Song

The song remains the most basic unit of modern pop music. Shaped into being by historical forces—cultural aesthetic and technical—the song provides both performer and audience with a world marked off by a short discrete and temporally demarcated experience. One-Track Mind: Capitalism Technology and the Art of the Pop Song brings together 16 writers to weigh in on 16 iconic tracks from the history of modern popular music. Arranged chronologically in order of release of the tracks and spanning nearly five decades these essays zigzag across the cultural landscape to present one possible history of pop music. There are detours through psychedelic rock Afro-pop Latin pop glam rock heavy metal punk postpunk adult contemporary rock techno hip-hop and electro-pop here. More than just deep histories of individual songs these essays all expand far beyond the track itself to offer exciting and often counterintuitive histories of transformative moments in popular culture. Collectively they show the undiminished power of the individual pop song both as distillations of important flashpoints and in their afterlives as ghostly echoes that persist undiminished but transform for succeeding generations. Capitalism and its principal good capital help us frame these stories a fact that should surprise no one given the inextricable relationship between art and capitalism established in the twentieth century. At the root readers will find here a history of pop with unexpected plot twists colorful protagonists and fitting denouements. | One-Track Mind Capitalism Technology and the Art of the Pop Song

Structural Building Design Wind and Flood Loads

Structural Building Design: Wind and Flood Loads is based upon the author’s extensive experience in South Florida as a structural designer building code official and an expert witness. He has more than 30 years of engineering experience in the United States Dubai and India. The book illustrates the use of ASCE standards ASCE 7-16 and ASCE 24-14 in the calculations of wind and flood loads on building structures. Features: Discussions of the evolution of the ASCE 7 standards Includes discussion of wind load guidance in the International Building Code Examines the Building Envelope Product Approval System Includes numerous solved real-life examples of wind-related issues Presents numerous solved real-life examples demonstrating various flood load concepts | Structural Building Design Wind and Flood Loads

Brain Computer Interface EEG Signal Processing

Brain Computer Interface: EEG Signal Processing discusses electroencephalogram (EEG) signal processing using effective methodology and algorithms. This book provides a basic introduction to EEG and a classification of different components present in EEG. It also helps the reader to understand the scope of processing EEG signals and their associated applications. Further it covers specific aspects such as epilepsy detection; exploitation of P300 for various applications; design of an EEG acquisition system; and detection of saccade fix and blink from EEG and EOG data. Key Features: Explains the basis of brain computer interface and how it can be established using different EEG signal characteristics Covers the detailed classification of different types of EEG signals with respect to their physical characteristics Explains detection and diagnosis of epileptic seizures from the EEG data of a subject Reviews the design and development of a low-cost and robust EEG acquisition system Provides mathematical analysis of EEGs including MATLAB® codes for students to experiment with EEG data This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in biomedical electrical electronics communication engineering healthcare and cyber physical systems. | Brain Computer Interface EEG Signal Processing

Producing Great Sound for Film and Video Expert Tips from Preproduction to Final Mix

In Producing Great Sound for Film and Video Fourth Edition audio guru Jay Rose revises his popular text for a new generation of filmmakers. You‘ll learn practical time-saving ways to get better recordings solve problems with existing audio create compelling tracks and boost your filmmaking to the next level! Here you‘ll find real-world advice and practical guidelines for every aspect of your soundtrack: planning and budgeting field and studio recording editing sound effects and music audio repair processing and mixing. Rose‘s combination of solid technical information and a clear step-by-step approach has made this the go-to book for producers and film students for over a decade. New in this edition: Insights and from-the-trenches tips from top professionals Instructions for getting the best results from new DSLRs and digital recorders What you need to know about new regulations for wireless mics and broadcast loudness An expanded How Do I Fix This? section to help you solve problems quickly Whether you‘re an aspiring filmmaker who wants better tracks or an experienced professional looking for a reference Producing Great Sound for Film and Video Fourth Edition has the information you need. | Producing Great Sound for Film and Video Expert Tips from Preproduction to Final Mix

Recent Trends in Computational Sciences Proceedings of the Fourth Annual International Conference on Data Science Machine Learning and Bloc

This book is a compilation of research papers and presentations from the Fourth Annual International Conference on Data Science Machine Learning and Blockchain Technology (AICDMB 2023 Mysuru India 16-17 March 2023). The book covers a wide range of topics including data mining natural language processing deep learning computer vision big data analytics cryptography smart contracts decentralized applications and blockchain-based solutions for various industries such as healthcare finance and supply chain management. The research papers presented in this book highlight the latest advancements and practical applications in data science machine learning and blockchain technology and provide insights into the future direction of these fields. The book serves as a valuable resource for researchers students and professionals in the areas of data science machine learning and blockchain technology. | Recent Trends in Computational Sciences Proceedings of the Fourth Annual International Conference on Data Science Machine Learning and Bloc

Handbook of Learning from Multiple Representations and Perspectives

In and out of formal schooling online and off today’s learners must consume and integrate a level of information that is exponentially larger and delivered through a wider range of formats and viewpoints than ever before. The Handbook of Learning from Multiple Representations and Perspectives provides a path for understanding the cognitive motivational and socioemotional processes and skills necessary for learners across educational contexts to make sense of and use information sourced from varying inputs. Uniting research and theory from education psychology literacy library sciences media and technology and more this forward-thinking volume explores the common concerns shared challenges and thematic patterns in our capacity to make meaning in an information-rich society. Chapter 16 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com/books/e/9780429443961.

Effective Teaching of Secondary Science The

The Effective Teaching of Secondary Science encourages the trainee teacher to develop effective skills for teaching science to secondary school pupils. The comprehensive coverage of topics and issues provides good foundations for trainee teachers who are encouraged to test and evaluate different techniques. Practical advice is offered in areas such as lesson planning the preparation of worksheets planning practical activities and safety in the laboratory. The book also discusses the use of information technology as well as multicultural and gender issues and the teaching of pupils with special needs. Much of the work covered is undepinned by areas of educational research such as educational theory and psychology and sociology of education. Information on the requirements of the national curriculum and on post-16 science courses is given and includes a number of assessment techniques for the problematic area of assessing science attainment target 1. | Effective Teaching of Secondary Science The

Economic and Business Management

With the rapid development and drastic change of the world economy Digital Finance Internet Finance Science and Technology Finance have become new hotspots which also represent the future trend of economy development in the era of big data. Enterprises are facing more uncertainty opportunities coexist with challenges. There are more possibilities for economic development and enterprise management to accelerate the integration of cutting-edge research results to deepen hot topics discussion and to promote opinion exchanges among academic and business circles. The Sixth International Conference on Economic and Business Management (FEBM2021) was successfully held online on October 16-17 2021 and aimed to provide a platform for researchers engineers academics as well as industry professionals from all over the world to present their latest research findings and development activities in economic and business management. These proceedings include 51 accepted articles selected from 94 submissions.

Securing the Nation’s Critical Infrastructures A Guide for the 2021-2025 Administration

Securing the Nation’s Critical Infrastructures: A Guide for the 2021–2025 Administration is intended to help the United States Executive administration legislators and critical infrastructure decision-makers prioritize cybersecurity combat emerging threats craft meaningful policy embrace modernization and critically evaluate nascent technologies. The book is divided into 18 chapters that are focused on the critical infrastructure sectors identified in the 2013 National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) election security and the security of local and state government. Each chapter features viewpoints from an assortment of former government leaders C-level executives academics and other cybersecurity thought leaders. Major cybersecurity incidents involving public sector systems occur with jarringly frequency; however instead of rising in vigilant alarm against the threats posed to our vital systems the nation has become desensitized and demoralized. This publication was developed to deconstruct the normalization of cybersecurity inadequacies in our critical infrastructures and to make the challenge of improving our national security posture less daunting and more manageable. To capture a holistic and comprehensive outlook on each critical infrastructure each chapter includes a foreword that introduces the sector and perspective essays from one or more reputable thought-leaders in that space on topics such as: The State of the Sector (challenges threats etc. ) Emerging Areas for Innovation Recommendations for the Future (2021–2025) Cybersecurity Landscape ABOUT ICIT The Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT) is the nation’s leading 501(c)3 cybersecurity think tank providing objective nonpartisan research advisory and education to legislative commercial and public-sector stakeholders. Its mission is to cultivate a cybersecurity renaissance that will improve the resiliency of our Nation’s 16 critical infrastructure sectors defend our democratic institutions and empower generations of cybersecurity leaders. ICIT programs research and initiatives support cybersecurity leaders and practitioners across all 16 critical infrastructure sectors and can be leveraged by anyone seeking to better understand cyber risk including policymakers academia and businesses of all sizes that are impacted by digital threats. | Securing the Nation’s Critical Infrastructures A Guide for the 2021-2025 Administration

The War on Terrorism 21st-century Perspectives

On September 11 2001 a small number of desperate men hoping to earn paradise attacked New York and Washington D. C. Their spectacular acts of destruction concluded America's nearly decade-long vacation from insecurity known as the post-Cold War era. As eras go this one was short and it certainly ended with a bang not a whimper. The United States still sole superpower was now challenged by a bleak new world. Americans do not care for the bleak and do not tolerate it for long. Predictably national shock soon became righteous anger coupled to international campaigns against groups and states held responsible for the scourge of terrorism. These were short-term measures that hurt our enemies but did not fix the problem. Not long after these events the Foreign Policy Research Institute organized a new Center on Terrorism Counterterrorism and Homeland Security. Its purpose was to take a longer term view of the terrorism problem and what might be done about it-not only academic research but also policy suggestions. This book contains a broad selection of the Center's output including essays on American strategy homeland security knowing the enemy and the military dimension. A notable feature is the discussion of the educational issue: what and how to teach our children about terrorism. | The War on Terrorism 21st-century Perspectives

The Venice Biennale and the Asia-Pacific in the Global Art World

This monograph uses the national pavilions of the Venice Biennale as a vehicle to examine the development of international contemporary art trends within the Asia-Pacific region including Australia Japan and Korea and 16 additional national entities who have had less continuous participation in this global art event. Analysing both the spatial and visual representation of contemporary art presented at the Venice Biennale and incorporating the politics behind national selections this monograph provides insights into a range of important elements of the global art industry. Areas analysed include national cultural trends and strategies the inversion of the peripheral to the centre stage of the Biennale geopolitics in gaining exhibition space at the Venice Biennale curatorial practices for contemporary art presentation and artistic trends that seek to deal with major economic cultural religious and environmental issues emerging from non-European art centres. This monograph will be of interest to scholars in art history museum studies and Asia-Pacific cultural history. | The Venice Biennale and the Asia-Pacific in the Global Art World

Law Culture and Identity in Central and Eastern Europe A Comparative Engagement

Combining insights from comparative legal theory jurisprudence and legal history this collection examines the legal and constitutional identity of Central and Eastern Europe. Although the various countries of Central and Eastern Europe have often compared themselves to the West the failure of these countries to engage with one another has resulted in a whole spectrum of legal identities remaining hidden. This book takes up a comparison of such identities within the region of Central and Eastern Europe and following from the prima facie similarity between the region’s countries given the experience of communism and legal transfers. The book thereby illuminates through comparisons the distinct legal identities of the 16 Central and Eastern European states; whilst at the same time arguing for a shared Central and Eastern European legal identity. This book will appeal to scholars and students in the area of comparative law as well as lawyers political scientists sociologists and historians with particular interests in Central and Eastern Europe. | Law Culture and Identity in Central and Eastern Europe A Comparative Engagement