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Conspiracy Theories The Philosophical Debate

Conspiracy Theories The Philosophical Debate

Conspiracy theories have a bad reputation. In the past most philosophers have ignored the topic vaguely supposing that conspiracy theories are obviously irrational and that they can be easily dismissed. The current philosophical interest in the subject results from a realisation that this is not so. Some philosophers have taken up the challenge of identifying and explaining the flaws of conspiracy theories. Other philosophers have argued that conspiracy theories do not deserve their bad reputation and that conspiracy theorists do not deserve their reputation for irrationality. This book represents both sides of this important debate. Aimed at a broad philosophical community including epistemologists political philosophers and philosophers of history. It represents a significant contribution to the growing interdisciplinary debate about conspiracy theories. | Conspiracy Theories The Philosophical Debate

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Working Class Youth Culture

Working Class Youth Culture

First published in 1976 Working Class Youth Culture offers a much-needed alternative viewpoint to the law-and-order lobby which treats the youth question as a dreadful pest to be exterminated or caged in. The contributors describe the real conditions of life for working-class youth; how they make sense of the world; and how we can understand their perspective. The subjects discussed include Teddy Boys Mods Skinheads and the Glamrock Cult; dance-hall fights; picking up girls and going steady; how schools manufacture delinquency truancy and vandalism; how working-class kids slide from bad schools to bad jobs or to no jobs at all; Paki-bashing racism and the competition over jobs and houses; how social change in post-war Britain has influenced youth culture; and how social scientists have hidden the real character of youth troubles behind the myth of a classless society. This book will be of interest to students of sociology and anthropology.

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Protocols for Multislice Helical Computed Tomography The Fundamentals

Protocols for Multislice Helical Computed Tomography The Fundamentals

Despite the expected decline in the mid-1970s in the use of computed tomography (CT) following the excitement of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) CT has confounded its detractors and remains the imaging modality of choice particularly for the chest and abdomen. Spiral/helical CT with the development of 64-multislice variant has revolutionized diagnostic imaging: image acquistion of large body volumes are obtained in short times during a single-breath hold. Scanning protocols without contrast enhancement are not a challenge; however with intravenous contrast agents critical choices are made and bad choices inevitably produce bad scans. This handy guide provides the reader with a simple introduction to the essential ideas involved and a practical guide to the implementation of rational scanning protocols for multislice spiral instruments. Written by Peter Dawson a well-respected figure in computed tomography and radiology and a world expert on contrast agents Scanning Protocols for Multislice Helical Computed Tomography is an essential guide for all those working with CT as well as those in training. | Protocols for Multislice Helical Computed Tomography The Fundamentals

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Safety Accidents in Risky Industries Black Swans Gray Rhinos and Other Adverse Events

Safety Accidents in Risky Industries Black Swans Gray Rhinos and Other Adverse Events

This text introduces bad events (incidents and accidents) named as metaphors. The metaphors called as safety animals are named as black swan gray rhino gray swans and invisible gorilla. The book analyzes incidents and accidents from the context of the safety management system in the risky industries including aviation nuclear chemical oil and petroleum. It further uses mathematical analysis of these events (through statistics and probabilities) and presents preventive and corrective measures in dealing with the same. It comprehensively covers important topics including real-time monitoring reverse stress testing change management predictive maintenance management system contingency plans human factors behavioral safety anticipatory failure determination resilience engineering (RE) resilience management (RM) Swiss cheese model and probability distribution. Aimed at professionals working in the fields of health and safety quality engineering compliance engineering aerospace engineering occupational health and safety and industrial engineering this text: Provides an insight to safety managers in analyzing bad events and the ways to deal with them Covers randomness uncertainty and predictability in detail Explains concepts including reverse stress testing real-time monitoring and predictive maintenance in a comprehensive manner Presents mathematical analysis of incidents and accidents using statistics and probability theories | Safety Accidents in Risky Industries Black Swans Gray Rhinos and Other Adverse Events

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Systems Engineering A Systemic and Systematic Methodology for Solving Complex Problems

Systems Engineering A Systemic and Systematic Methodology for Solving Complex Problems

This book will change the way you think about problems. It focuses on creating solutions to all sorts of complex problems by taking a practical problem-solving approach. It discusses not only what needs to be done but it also provides guidance and examples of how to do it. The book applies systems thinking to systems engineering and introduces several innovative concepts such as direct and indirect stakeholders and the Nine-System Model which provides the context for the activities performed in the project along with a framework for successful stakeholder management. A list of the figures and tables in this book is available at https://www. crcpress. com/9781138387935. FEATURES• Treats systems engineering as a problem-solving methodology• Describes what tools systems engineers use and how they use them in each state of the system lifecycle• Discusses the perennial problem of poor requirements defines the grammar and structure of a requirement and provides a template for a good imperative construction statement and the requirements for writing requirements• Provides examples of bad and questionable requirements and explains the reasons why they are bad and questionable• Introduces new concepts such as direct and indirect stakeholders and the Shmemp!• Includes the Nine-System Model and other unique tools for systems engineering | Systems Engineering A Systemic and Systematic Methodology for Solving Complex Problems

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Statistical Process Control For Quality Improvement- Hardcover Version

Statistical Process Control For Quality Improvement- Hardcover Version

While the common practice of Quality Assurance aims to prevent bad units from being shipped beyond some allowable proportion statistical process control (SPC) ensures that bad units are not created in the first place. Its philosophy of continuous quality improvement to a great extent responsible for the success of Japanese manufacturing is rooted in a paradigm as process-oriented as physics yet produces a friendly and fulfilling work environment. The first edition of this groundbreaking text showed that the SPC paradigm of W. Edwards Deming was not at all the same as the Quality Control paradigm that has dominated American manufacturing since World War II. Statistical Process Control: The Deming Paradigm and Beyond Second Edition reveals even more of Deming's philosophy and provides more techniques for use at the managerial level. Explaining that CEOs and service industries need SPC at least as much as production managers it offers precise methods and guidelines for their use. Using the practical experience of the authors working both in America and Europe this book shows how SPC can be implemented in a variety of settings from health care to manufacturing. It also provides you with the necessary technical background through mathematical and statistical appendices. According to the authors companies with managers who have adopted the philosophy of statistical process control tend to survive. Those with managers who do not are likely to fail. In which group will your company be? | Statistical Process Control For Quality Improvement- Hardcover Version

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Quality and GMP Auditing Clear and Simple

Quality and GMP Auditing Clear and Simple

This guidebook provides proven methods and techniques for performing effective audits that serve your department your company and you. Topics covered relate to the four key competencies essential for successful GMP audits. Includes the rationale for auditing as an important quality tool along with the audit cycle broken into five distinct phases. To focus the power of auditing on a particular situation several different types of audits are presented as are more than a dozen audit approaches with general questions to answer and specific items to examine. These tools will help you prepare checklists and standards so audits become more effective consistent and standardized. The book includes profiles of seasoned professionals in drug and device auditing who share their experiences (the good and the bad)! | Quality and GMP Auditing Clear and Simple

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GPU Parallel Program Development Using CUDA

GPU Parallel Program Development Using CUDA

GPU Parallel Program Development using CUDA teaches GPU programming by showing the differences among different families of GPUs. This approach prepares the reader for the next generation and future generations of GPUs. The book emphasizes concepts that will remain relevant for a long time rather than concepts that are platform-specific. At the same time the book also provides platform-dependent explanations that are as valuable as generalized GPU concepts. The book consists of three separate parts; it starts by explaining parallelism using CPU multi-threading in Part I. A few simple programs are used to demonstrate the concept of dividing a large task into multiple parallel sub-tasks and mapping them to CPU threads. Multiple ways of parallelizing the same task are analyzed and their pros/cons are studied in terms of both core and memory operation. Part II of the book introduces GPU massive parallelism. The same programs are parallelized on multiple Nvidia GPU platforms and the same performance analysis is repeated. Because the core and memory structures of CPUs and GPUs are different the results differ in interesting ways. The end goal is to make programmers aware of all the good ideas as well as the bad ideas so readers can apply the good ideas and avoid the bad ideas in their own programs. Part III of the book provides pointer for readers who want to expand their horizons. It provides a brief introduction to popular CUDA libraries (such as cuBLAS cuFFT NPP and Thrust) the OpenCL programming language an overview of GPU programming using other programming languages and API libraries (such as Python OpenCV OpenGL and Apple’s Swift and Metal ) and the deep learning library cuDNN.

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The Complete Family Guide to Addiction Everything You Need to Know Now to Help Your Loved One and Yourself

The Complete Family Guide to Addiction Everything You Need to Know Now to Help Your Loved One and Yourself

If you are struggling to help a loved one recover from addiction-and to cope with the devastating impact on the whole family-you are not alone. But until now there has been no single book that gives the millions of families like yours the comprehensive unbiased information you need. This expertly written guide addresses the painful questions that spouses parents and grown children face every day. Why do addicts make such bad choices? How can you find (and afford) treatment that works-and convince your loved one to try it? Can relapse be prevented? When does being supportive cross the line to enabling? Providing science-based answers and resources the authors cover crucial emotional financial and legal issues that simply aren't discussed in other books. The more your family knows about the myths and realities of addiction the better equipped you will be to overcome it. | The Complete Family Guide to Addiction Everything You Need to Know Now to Help Your Loved One and Yourself

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Personality Appearance and Speech

Personality Appearance and Speech

First published in 1957 Personality. Appearance and Speech is an intensive analysis of personality reflected by appearance and speech. It is a most fascinating study of the innumerable outward signs by which the man in the street judges personality. The author considers the effects this has on daily life; for example can a person’s real character be assessed by a short interview in which personality counting for so much can be altered deliberately to no little extent? He describes many investigations which have attempted to discover experimentally the nature and accuracy of personality and character assessments and includes personality sketches of F. D. Roosevelt W. E. Gladstone and of other prominent figures. He discusses the social results of the microphone and the effect on good and bad taste of opinions widely expressed by listeners and viewers. The nature and function of the intellectuals who have increasing opportunities of affecting appearance and speech are examined from the psychologist’s standpoint. This book will be of interest to students of psychology sociology and social behaviour. | Personality Appearance and Speech

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Scientific Method How Science Works Fails to Work and Pretends to Work

Scientific Method How Science Works Fails to Work and Pretends to Work

This book shows how science works fails to work or pretends to work by looking at examples from such diverse fields as physics biomedicine psychology and economics. Social science affects our lives every day through the predictions of experts and the rules and regulations they devise. Sciences like economics sociology and health are subject to more ‘operating limitations’ than classical fields like physics or chemistry or biology. Yet their methods and results must also be judged according to the same scientific standards. Every literate citizen should understand these standards and be able to tell the difference between good science and bad. Scientific Method enables readers to develop a critical informed view of scientific practice by discussing concrete examples of how real scientists have approached the problems of their fields. It is ideal for students and professionals trying to make sense of the role of science in society and of the meaning value and limitations of scientific methodology in the social sciences. | Scientific Method How Science Works Fails to Work and Pretends to Work

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Are you an inclusive designer?

Are you an inclusive designer?

Despite improvements in the last 20 years we still have a long way to go before all of our buildings places and spaces are easy and comfortable for all of us to use. This book puts forward a powerful case for a totally new attitude towards inclusivity and accessibility. Exploring both the social and the business cases for striving for better this book will empower architects to have more enlightened discussions with their clients about why we should be striving for better than the bare minimum and challenging the notion that inclusive design should be thought of reductively as simply a list of “special features” to be added to a final design or that inclusivity is only about wheelchair access. This book will be to help make inclusive design business as usual rather than something that is added on to address legislation at the end of the development process. Accessible and engaging this book will be an invaluable resource for students as well as practicing architects richly illustrated with case studies showing both good and bad examples of inclusive design and celebrating inclusion. | Are you an inclusive designer?

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Water Agriculture and the Environment in Spain: can we square the circle?

Water Agriculture and the Environment in Spain: can we square the circle?

The world water problems are a due to bad governance not to physical water scarcity. This book is inspired by this statement and explores whether it holds in a specific country Spain where climatic conditions – Spain is one of the most arid countries of the European Union - would fully justify saying that water problems are due to physical water scarcity. The metrification of water uses and their monetary value is a first important step in understanding how reallocation of water among users could help mitigating many of current water problems in Spain. However water reallocation among users or from users to nature is far from simple. Initiatives portrayed as the solution to the water governance ‘jigsaw’ – e. g. water trade improved water use efficiency users collective action public participation – are not free of difficulties and shortcomings. The book explores the growing need for maintaining Spain’s natural capital and the human component of water governance – people’s needs wishes (vested) interests aspirations – that often determine the result of decisions and sometimes lead water management to a deadlock. This book takes a step forward in showing a more complex - and also closer to reality - picture of water governance in Spain. | Water Agriculture and the Environment in Spain: can we square the circle?

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Prepare to Board Creating Story and Characters for Animated Features and Shorts

Prepare to Board Creating Story and Characters for Animated Features and Shorts

Successful storyboards and poignant characters have the power to make elusive thoughts and emotions tangible for audiences. Packed with illustrations that illuminate and a text that entertains and informs Prepare to Board 3rd edition presents the methods and techniques of animation master Nancy Beiman with a focus on pre-production story development and character design. As one of the only storyboard titles on the market that explores the intersection of creative character design and storyboard development the third edition is an invaluable resource for both beginner and intermediate artists. Key Features Adapt key techniques tips and tricks of experienced character designers and storyboard artists with 30 years of experience to your film television and animation projects. Save time and money with workflow solutions and avoid common mistakes and problems with troubleshooting tips. Implement creative solutions for your own projects with this invaluable resource for beginner and intermediate artists with examples of what a good storyboard and character design should look like and example of poorly designed storyboards. and tricks. Further your artistic skill development with an interactive companion website which will includes video tutorials examples of animatics and good and bad pitching techniques. | Prepare to Board Creating Story and Characters for Animated Features and Shorts

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Police Ethics The Corruption of Noble Cause

Police Ethics The Corruption of Noble Cause

Police Ethics Fourth Edition provides an analysis of corruption in law enforcement organizations. The authors argue that the noble cause—a commitment to “doing something about bad people”—is a central “ends-based” police ethic. This fundamental principle of police ethics can paradoxically open the way to community polarization and increased violence however when officers violate the law on behalf of personally held moral values. This book is about the power that police use to do their work and how it can lead police to abuse their positions at the individual and organizational levels. It provides students of policing with a realistic understanding of the kinds of problems they will confront in the practice of police work. This timely new edition offers police administrators direction for developing agency-wide corruption prevention strategies and a re-written chapter further expands our level of understanding of corruption by covering the Model of Circumstantial Corruptibility in detail. The fourth edition also discusses critical ethical issues relating to the relationship between police departments and minority communities including Black Lives Matter and other activist groups. In the post-Ferguson environment this is a crucial text for students academicians and law enforcement professionals alike. | Police Ethics The Corruption of Noble Cause

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Parking and the City

Parking and the City

Donald Shoup brilliantly overcame the challenge of writing about parking without being boring in his iconoclastic 800-page book The High Cost of Free Parking. Easy to read and often entertaining the book showed that city parking policies subsidize cars encourage sprawl degrade urban design prohibit walkability damage the economy raise housing costs and penalize people who cannot afford or choose not to own a car. Using careful analysis and creative thinking Shoup recommended three parking reforms: (1) remove off-street parking requirements (2) charge the right prices for on-street parking and (3) spend the meter revenue to improve public services on the metered streets. Parking and the City reports on the progress that cities have made in adopting these three reforms. The successful outcomes provide convincing evidence that Shoup’s policy proposals are not theoretical and idealistic but instead are practical and realistic. The good news about our decades of bad planning for parking is that the damage we have done will be far cheaper to repair than to ignore. The 51 chapters by 46 authors in Parking and the City show how reforming our misguided and wrongheaded parking policies can do a world of good. Read more about parking benefit districts with a free download of Chapter 51 by copying the link below into your browser. https://www. routledge. com/posts/13972

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Risk-Based Thinking Managing the Uncertainty of Human Error in Operations

Risk-Based Thinking Managing the Uncertainty of Human Error in Operations

Society at large tends to misunderstand what safety is all about. It is not just the absence of harm. When nothing bad happens over a period of time how do you know you are safe? In reality safety is what you and your people do moment by moment day by day to protect assets from harm and to control the hazards inherent in your operations. This is the purpose of risk-based thinking the key element of the six building blocks of Human and Organizational Performance (H&OP). Generally H&OP provides a risk-based approach to managing human performance in operations. But specifically risk-based thinking enables foresight and flexibility—even when surprised—to do what is necessary to protect assets from harm but also achieve mission success despite ongoing stresses or shocks to the operation. Although you cannot prepare for every adverse scenario you can be ready for almost anything. When risk-based thinking is integrated into the DNA of an organization’s way of doing business people will be ready for most unexpected situations. Eventually safety becomes a core value not a priority to be negotiated with others depending on circumstances. This book provides a coherent perspective on what executives and line managers within operational environments need to focus on to efficiently and effectively control learn and adapt. | Risk-Based Thinking Managing the Uncertainty of Human Error in Operations

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Behavioural Economics and Finance

Behavioural Economics and Finance

Behavioural economics and behavioural finance are rapidly expanding fields that are continually growing in prominence. While orthodox economic models are built upon restrictive and simplifying assumptions about rational choice and efficient markets behavioural economics offers a robust alternative using insights and evidence that rest more easily with our understanding of how real people think choose and decide. This insightful textbook introduces the key concepts from this rich interdisciplinary approach to real-world decision-making. This new edition of Behavioural Economics and Finance is a thorough extension of the first edition including updates to the key chapters on prospect theory; heuristics and bias; time and planning; sociality and identity; bad habits; personality moods and emotions; behavioural macroeconomics; and well-being and happiness. It also includes a number of new chapters dedicated to the themes of incentives and motivations behavioural public policy and emotional trading. Using pedagogical features such as chapter summaries and revision questions to enhance reader engagement this text successfully blends economic theories with cutting-edge multidisciplinary insights. This second edition will be indispensable to anyone interested in how behavioural economics and finance can inform our understanding of consumers’ and businesses’ decisions and choices. It will appeal especially to undergraduate and graduate students but also to academic researchers public policy-makers and anyone interested in deepening their understanding of how economics psychology and sociology interact in driving our everyday decision-making.

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CRC Handbook of Medicinal Spices

CRC Handbook of Medicinal Spices

Let food be your medicine medicine your food. Hippocrates 2400 B. C. When the Father of Medicine uttered those famous words spices were as important for medicine embalming preserving food and masking bad odors as they were for more mundane culinary matters. Author James A. Duke predicts that spices such as capsicum cinnamon garlic ginger onion and turmeric will assume relatively more medicinal importance again as the economic costs and knowledge of the side-effects of prescription pharmaceuticals increase. After all each spice contains thousands of useful phytochemicals. Pharmaceuticals usually contain only one or two. Discover the Science behind the FolkloreSpices are important medicines that have withstood the empirical tests of millennia. Nearly 5 000 years ago Charak the father of Ayurvedic medicine claimed that garlic lightens the blood reduces tumors and is an aphrodisiac tonic. Today scientists say it thins the blood prevents cancer and increases libido. For centuries people worldwide have used spices to cure a myriad of ailments and to preserve foods. Now science is proving that these spices may preserve us with their antioxidant and antiseptic activities. Organized by scientific name the CRC Handbook of Medicinal Spices provides the science behind the folklore of over 60 popular spices. For each spice it lists:Scientific nameCommon nameMedicinal activities and indicationsMultiple activitiesOther uses especially culinaryCultivationChemistryImportant phytochemical constituents and their activitiesThe handbook also includes market and import data culinary uses ecology and cultural information and discusses at length the use of spices as antiseptics and antioxidants.

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Molecular Interventions in Lifestyle-Related Diseases

Molecular Interventions in Lifestyle-Related Diseases

The Japanese Ministry of Health Labor and Welfare officially recognizing that various risk factors for disease are present in our environment has proposed the concept of lifestyle-related diseases. These include those diseases that are tied to such lifestyle choices as excessive alcohol consumption cigarette smoking exposure to stress and poor diet. Ongoing attention to this issue led to an International Symposium on Free Radicals and Health: Molecular Interventions and Protection of Lifestyle-Related Diseases bringing together the top experts in that area. With the belief that the recognition of the occurrence of risk factors and their identification are important to overcoming lifestyle-related diseases three of those experts invited prominent participants at the symposium to contribute to a book. Molecular Interventions in Lifestyle-Related Diseases is the result of that effort. This book is divided into three main sections:Free Radicals Lifestyle-Related Diseases and Their ProtectionFree Radicals Brain Diseases and Their ProtectionNutraceuticals Functional Foods Micronutrients and Pharmacological InterventionsWhen bad lifestyle choices cause oxidants and free radicals to have a negative influence on cell signaling and gene expression lifestyle-related diseases are set into motion which in turn lead to further oxidative stress. Molecular Interventions in Lifestyle-Related Diseases addresses the molecular basis of free radicals and lifestyle-related diseases and preventive/therapeutic approaches including the use of nutraceuticals functional foods and pharmacological interventions. Each section contains several chapters addressing critical molecular mechanisms therapeutic interventions and other issues of relevance to human health that will be of interest to students and researchers in the health professions including nutritional and environmental scientists molecular and cell biologi

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Sport Culture and Society An introduction

Sport Culture and Society An introduction

What can sport do to produce social change in our world today? It is impossible to fully understand contemporary society and culture without acknowledging the importance of sport. Sport is part of our social and cultural fabric possessing a commercial power that makes it a potent force in the world for good and for bad. It has helped to start wars and promote international reconciliation and governments around the world commit public resources to sport. Sport matters but how should you make sense of what is going on in the world of sport today? Now in a fully revised updated and expanded third edition this critical challenging and comprehensive textbook introduces the study of sport culture and society. International in scope it challenges us to reactivate an audacious spirit of activism through sport. Full of contemporary examples it places sport at the heart of the analysis and introduces the reader to every core topic and emerging area in the study of sport and society including: the history and politics of sport; sport gender and sexuality; sport disability and advocacy; sport race and racism; sport violence and crime; sport and health; sport globalisation and democracy; sport media and cultural relations; sport and the environment; sporting cities and mega-events; sport poverty and development. Each chapter includes a wealth of useful features including Sport in Focus case studies chapter summaries guides to further reading revision questions practical projects definitions of key concepts and weblinks. Additional teaching and learning resources – including a testbank resource list and glossary – are available on a companion website. Sport Culture and Society is the most broad-ranging in-depth and thoughtful introduction to the sociocultural analysis of sport currently available and sets a new agenda for the discipline. It is essential reading for all students with an interest in sport. | Sport Culture and Society An introduction

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Visual and Non-Visual Effects of Light Working Environment and Well-Being

Visual and Non-Visual Effects of Light Working Environment and Well-Being

The introduction of artificial lighting extends the time of wakefulness after dark and enables work at night thus disturbing the human circadian rhythm. The understanding of the physiological mechanisms of visual and non-visual systems may be important for the development and use of proper light infrastructure and light interventions for different workplace settings especially for shift work conditions. Visual and Non-Visual Effects of Light: Working Environment and Well-Being presents the impact of lighting in the working environment on human health well-being and visual performance. The physiological explanation of the visual and non-visual effects of light on humans which discusses the biological bases of image and non-image forming vision at the cellular level may be of particular interest to any professional in the field of medicine physiology and biology. It is one of the intentions of this book to put forward some recommendations and examples of lighting design which take into account both the visual and non-visual effects of light on humans. These may be of particular interest to any professional in the field of lighting occupational safety and health and interior design. What effects on health can a light ‘overdose’ or light deficiency have? What is bad light? The authors of the monograph provide answers to these questions. Just as for a physicist the dual nature of light comprises an electromagnetic wave and a photon the duality of light for a physician comprises visual and non-visual effects. -Prof Jacek Przybylski Medical University of Warsaw This is a unique publication in the field of lighting technology. The authors have skillfully combined both the technical and biomedical aspects involved which is unprecedented in the literature available. As a result an important study has been created for many professional groups with a significant impact on the assessment of risks associated with LED sources. Prof Andrzej Zając Military University of Technology Warsaw | Visual and Non-Visual Effects of Light Working Environment and Well-Being

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Dicaearchus of Messana Text Translation and Discussion

Dicaearchus of Messana Text Translation and Discussion

Dicaearchus of Messana (fl. c. 320 b. c. ) was a peripatetic philosopher. Like Theophrastus of Eresus he was a pupil of Aristotle. Dicaearchus's life is not well documented. There is no biography by Diogenes Laertius and what the Suda offers is meager. However it can be ascertained that a close friendship existed between Aristoxenus and Dicaearchus as both are mentioned as personal students of Aristotle. Dicaearchus lived for a time in the Peleponnesus and in his pursuit of geographical studies and measuring mountains he is said to have enjoyed the patronage of kings. Dicaearchus's interests were in certain respects narrower than Aristotle's. There is no evidence that Dicaearchus worked in logic physics or metaphysics. To the contrary his work On the Soul recalls the Aristotelian treatise of the same title but Dicaearchus's work was not an esoteric treatise. Instead it was a dialogue in two parts. His interest in good and bad lifestyles also found expression in works such as On the Sacrifice at Ilium and On the Destruction of Human Beings in which he presented man himself as the greatest threat to mankind. In On Lives a work of at least two books he considered philosophers and others noted for their wisdom with his main thesis being the superiority of the active life over that of quiet contemplation. Cicero speaks of controversy between Dicaearchus and Theophrastus the former championing the active life and the latter that of contemplation. Circuit of the Earth was a work of descriptive geography in which Dicaearchus said that the earth has the shape of a globe. This interest in earth's sphericity led him to make maps and discuss other phenomena like the cause of ebb- and flood-tides and the source of the Nile River. The largest number of texts in the collection deal with cultural history most of which stem or appear to stem from his Life of Greece while the smallest section deals with politics. This tenth volume in the series Rutgers Studies in Classical Humanities includes a facing translation of the Greek and Latin texts making the material accessible to readers who lack the ancient languages and the accompanying essays introduce important issues beyond the scope of the text. | Dicaearchus of Messana Text Translation and Discussion

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Process Redesign for Health Care Using Lean Thinking A Guide for Improving Patient Flow and the Quality and Safety of Care

Process Redesign for Health Care Using Lean Thinking A Guide for Improving Patient Flow and the Quality and Safety of Care

Process Redesign for Health Care Using Lean Thinking is a response to a simple but hard to answer question and is the result of the experiences of a working doctor who was also the chief safety and quality officer of an Australian teaching hospital. At this hospital he observed that the Emergency Department was staff by talented well-trained and respected doctors and nurses. The facilities were modern and the work load unexceptional but the department was close to melt down. Bad things were happening to patients everyone was blaming each other lots of things had been tried but nothing was getting better and no one could explain why. The problem was not a lack of technical knowledge or expertise the problem was that no one stood back and said what’s the best way to move 200 or 300 patients a day through the complicated and varying sequence of steps needed to sort out the many different problems that bring patients to our department? These challenges are faced by hospitals and health services all over the world. There are difficulties with patient flow congestion queues inefficient utilization of resources problems engaging clinical staff in improvement programs adverse incidents and budget constraints. Lean thinking and value stream analysis gives hospitals and health services struggling with these issues the insights they need to help themselves. This book provides a method that systematically turns those insights into working programs of service and system redesign. The book is divided into two sections. The first section gives the background to the approach and systematically works through the Process Redesign methodology step-by-step. The second section is a series of case studies that show the methodology in action what worked and what didn’t work. The goal of any process redesign is simple: the right care for the right person at the right time in the right place and right the first time. This book helps the people who work in hospitals and health services realize these goals by working together. | Process Redesign for Health Care Using Lean Thinking A Guide for Improving Patient Flow and the Quality and Safety of Care

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Exploratory Data Analysis Using R

Exploratory Data Analysis Using R

Exploratory Data Analysis Using R provides a classroom-tested introduction to exploratory data analysis (EDA) and introduces the range of interesting – good bad and ugly – features that can be found in data and why it is important to find them. It also introduces the mechanics of using R to explore and explain data. The book begins with a detailed overview of data exploratory analysis and R as well as graphics in R. It then explores working with external data linear regression models and crafting data stories. The second part of the book focuses on developing R programs including good programming practices and examples working with text data and general predictive models. The book ends with a chapter on keeping it all together that includes managing the R installation managing files documenting and an introduction to reproducible computing. The book is designed for both advanced undergraduate entry-level graduate students and working professionals with little to no prior exposure to data analysis modeling statistics or programming. it keeps the treatment relatively non-mathematical even though data analysis is an inherently mathematical subject. Exercises are included at the end of most chapters and an instructor's solution manual is available. About the Author:Ronald K. Pearson holds the position of Senior Data Scientist with GeoVera a property insurance company in Fairfield California and he has previously held similar positions in a variety of application areas including software development drug safety data analysis and the analysis of industrial process data. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has published conference and journal papers on topics ranging from nonlinear dynamic model structure selection to the problems of disguised missing data in predictive modeling. Dr. Pearson has authored or co-authored books including Exploring Data in Engineering the Sciences and Medicine (Oxford University Press 2011) and Nonlinear Digital Filtering with Python. He is also the developer of the DataCamp course on base R graphics and is an author of the datarobot and GoodmanKruskal R packages available from CRAN (the Comprehensive R Archive Network).

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