Author: Jeanne Gang
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984018307
Category : Carp
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
The title word 'effect' is presented reversed, as in a mirror image.
Reverse Effect
Author: Jeanne Gang
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984018307
Category : Carp
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
The title word 'effect' is presented reversed, as in a mirror image.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984018307
Category : Carp
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
The title word 'effect' is presented reversed, as in a mirror image.
Rational Readings on Environmental Concerns
Author: Jay H. Lehr
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780471284857
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
"...the 'proof' of man's destruction of the environment isconsistently flawed.... the scientific method is being abused andignored. The errors are not random, however, but are systematicallybiased toward attempting to prove the guilt of man in the allegeddestruction of the planet. Objective science is disappearing and isbeing replaced by the pursuit of a philosophical agenda." --Richard F. Sanford in Environmentalism and theAssault on Reason Chapter 1 "The public has numerous misconceptions about the relationshipbetween environmental pollution and human cancer. Underlying thesemisconceptions is an erroneous belief that nature is benign." --Bruce N. Ames, Ph.D. and Lois Swirsky Gold, Ph.D inEnvironmental Pollution and Cancer: Some Misconceptions Chapter7 "Greenhouse gases have been increasing in the atmosphere,largely as a result of human activities. However, the climaterecord does not show the temperature increase and other telltalesigns of the expected greenhouse effect. The mathematical modelsused for predicting such effects are evidently not complete enoughto encompass all of the relevant physical processes in theatmosphere, thus throwing grave doubt on the drastic warminghypothesized for the next century." --S. Fred Singer in Global Climate Change: Facts andFiction Chapter 13 "...There is now no prima-facie case for any expensive policy ofsafeguarding species without more extensive analysis than has sofar been done." --Julian L. Simon in Disappearing Species,Deforestation and Data Chapter 26
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780471284857
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
"...the 'proof' of man's destruction of the environment isconsistently flawed.... the scientific method is being abused andignored. The errors are not random, however, but are systematicallybiased toward attempting to prove the guilt of man in the allegeddestruction of the planet. Objective science is disappearing and isbeing replaced by the pursuit of a philosophical agenda." --Richard F. Sanford in Environmentalism and theAssault on Reason Chapter 1 "The public has numerous misconceptions about the relationshipbetween environmental pollution and human cancer. Underlying thesemisconceptions is an erroneous belief that nature is benign." --Bruce N. Ames, Ph.D. and Lois Swirsky Gold, Ph.D inEnvironmental Pollution and Cancer: Some Misconceptions Chapter7 "Greenhouse gases have been increasing in the atmosphere,largely as a result of human activities. However, the climaterecord does not show the temperature increase and other telltalesigns of the expected greenhouse effect. The mathematical modelsused for predicting such effects are evidently not complete enoughto encompass all of the relevant physical processes in theatmosphere, thus throwing grave doubt on the drastic warminghypothesized for the next century." --S. Fred Singer in Global Climate Change: Facts andFiction Chapter 13 "...There is now no prima-facie case for any expensive policy ofsafeguarding species without more extensive analysis than has sofar been done." --Julian L. Simon in Disappearing Species,Deforestation and Data Chapter 26
The Grace Effect
Author: Larry Alex Taunton
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN: 1595554408
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
"Simply defined, the 'grace effect' is an observable phenomenon-that life is demonstrably better where authentic Christianity flourishes." What does Christianity give us beyond televangelists, potlucks, and bad basketball leagues? Not much, according to the secular Left. The world, they say, would be a better place without it. Historian and Christian apologist Larry Taunton has spent much of his career refuting just this sort of thinking, but when he encounters Sasha, a golden-haired Ukranian orphan girl whose life has been shaped by atheistic theorists, he discovers an unlikely champion for the transforming power of grace. Through the narrative of Sasha's redemption, we see the false promises of socialism; the soul-destroying influence of unbelief; and how a society cultivates its own demise when it rejects the ultimate source of grace. We see, in short, the kind of world the atheists would give us: a world without Christianity-cold, pitiless, and graceless. And yet, as Sasha shows us, it is a world that is not beyond the healing power of "the grace effect." Occasionally infuriating, often amusing, but always inspiring, The Grace Effect will have you cheering for the courageous little girl who shamed the academic elitists of our day. "This highly readable book is a collection of powerful insights into the long-term consequences of spiritual indifference and, above all, a remarkable example of how to conquer it." - Dr. Olivera Petrovich, research psychologist, University of Oxford "What would a world without Christianity look like? We don't have to guess because such a world does exist: it exists in the current and former Communist bloc. Through the inspiring story of a little girl born in Eastern Europe and now living in America, Larry Taunton draws a sharp contrast between the life-giving influence of Christianity and the worn out theories of atheism and radical secularism. The effect--The Grace Effect--is nothing less than powerful and moving." -- Dinesh D'Souza, former White House policy analyst, fellow of the Hoover Institute at Stanford University, and current president of Kings College
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN: 1595554408
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
"Simply defined, the 'grace effect' is an observable phenomenon-that life is demonstrably better where authentic Christianity flourishes." What does Christianity give us beyond televangelists, potlucks, and bad basketball leagues? Not much, according to the secular Left. The world, they say, would be a better place without it. Historian and Christian apologist Larry Taunton has spent much of his career refuting just this sort of thinking, but when he encounters Sasha, a golden-haired Ukranian orphan girl whose life has been shaped by atheistic theorists, he discovers an unlikely champion for the transforming power of grace. Through the narrative of Sasha's redemption, we see the false promises of socialism; the soul-destroying influence of unbelief; and how a society cultivates its own demise when it rejects the ultimate source of grace. We see, in short, the kind of world the atheists would give us: a world without Christianity-cold, pitiless, and graceless. And yet, as Sasha shows us, it is a world that is not beyond the healing power of "the grace effect." Occasionally infuriating, often amusing, but always inspiring, The Grace Effect will have you cheering for the courageous little girl who shamed the academic elitists of our day. "This highly readable book is a collection of powerful insights into the long-term consequences of spiritual indifference and, above all, a remarkable example of how to conquer it." - Dr. Olivera Petrovich, research psychologist, University of Oxford "What would a world without Christianity look like? We don't have to guess because such a world does exist: it exists in the current and former Communist bloc. Through the inspiring story of a little girl born in Eastern Europe and now living in America, Larry Taunton draws a sharp contrast between the life-giving influence of Christianity and the worn out theories of atheism and radical secularism. The effect--The Grace Effect--is nothing less than powerful and moving." -- Dinesh D'Souza, former White House policy analyst, fellow of the Hoover Institute at Stanford University, and current president of Kings College
Animacy in Cognition: Effects, Mechanisms, and Theories
Author: Michael J. Serra
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2832556965
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
People and animals – broadly, “animates” – are important, dynamic forces in the natural world. They represent social targets such as friends and enemies, economic and romantic partners, predators and prey, and companions. Most importantly, unlike inanimate objects, animate agents have internal goals and drives that cause them to act on the world, rather than simply be acted on. In short, animates fill our world with novel causes, and have been a consistent selection pressure over the course of evolution – human and nonhuman. Cognitive scientists have long acknowledged the importance of animacy, investigating it as a perceptual phenomenon, as a component of language, a natural category, a demand on attention, a dimension of neurological organization, and more recently as an important factor in memory. Although animacy has been a dimension of interest in cognitive science for quite some time, cognitive scientists from different subdisciplines interested in animacy (e.g., perception, attention, language, and memory) rarely talk with one another to synthesize findings across subfields. A major goal of this research topic is to solicit articles from across cognitive science (in a broad sense) that investigate the role that animacy plays in cognition, in the hopes that authors and readers may begin to see the “bigger picture” regarding how animacy influences the mind. We hope that by bringing together researchers from across cognitive science we will hear from a diverse set of perspectives regarding animacy, representing a variety of research questions and methodologies within this larger topic. Likewise, we hope that the finished research topic will lead to an increased and more varied exploration of the role of animacy in our thoughts and actions and will appeal to readers across fields.
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2832556965
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
People and animals – broadly, “animates” – are important, dynamic forces in the natural world. They represent social targets such as friends and enemies, economic and romantic partners, predators and prey, and companions. Most importantly, unlike inanimate objects, animate agents have internal goals and drives that cause them to act on the world, rather than simply be acted on. In short, animates fill our world with novel causes, and have been a consistent selection pressure over the course of evolution – human and nonhuman. Cognitive scientists have long acknowledged the importance of animacy, investigating it as a perceptual phenomenon, as a component of language, a natural category, a demand on attention, a dimension of neurological organization, and more recently as an important factor in memory. Although animacy has been a dimension of interest in cognitive science for quite some time, cognitive scientists from different subdisciplines interested in animacy (e.g., perception, attention, language, and memory) rarely talk with one another to synthesize findings across subfields. A major goal of this research topic is to solicit articles from across cognitive science (in a broad sense) that investigate the role that animacy plays in cognition, in the hopes that authors and readers may begin to see the “bigger picture” regarding how animacy influences the mind. We hope that by bringing together researchers from across cognitive science we will hear from a diverse set of perspectives regarding animacy, representing a variety of research questions and methodologies within this larger topic. Likewise, we hope that the finished research topic will lead to an increased and more varied exploration of the role of animacy in our thoughts and actions and will appeal to readers across fields.
Database Systems for Advanced Applications
Author: Hiroyuki Kitagawa
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642120253
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 667
Book Description
This two volume set LNCS 5981 and LNCS 5982 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2010, held in Tsukuba, Japan, in April 2010. The 39 revised full papers and 16 revised short papers presented together with 3 invited keynote papers, 22 demonstration papers, 6 industrial papers, and 2 keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 285 submissions. The papers of the first volume are organized in topical sections on P2P-based technologies, data mining technologies, XML search and matching, graphs, spatialdatabases, XML technologies, time series and streams, advanced data mining, query processing, Web, sensor networks and communications, information management, as well as communities and Web graphs. The second volume contains contributions related to trajectories and moving objects, skyline queries, privacy and security, data streams, similarity search and event processing, storage and advanced topics, industrial, demo papers, and tutorials and panels.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642120253
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 667
Book Description
This two volume set LNCS 5981 and LNCS 5982 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2010, held in Tsukuba, Japan, in April 2010. The 39 revised full papers and 16 revised short papers presented together with 3 invited keynote papers, 22 demonstration papers, 6 industrial papers, and 2 keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 285 submissions. The papers of the first volume are organized in topical sections on P2P-based technologies, data mining technologies, XML search and matching, graphs, spatialdatabases, XML technologies, time series and streams, advanced data mining, query processing, Web, sensor networks and communications, information management, as well as communities and Web graphs. The second volume contains contributions related to trajectories and moving objects, skyline queries, privacy and security, data streams, similarity search and event processing, storage and advanced topics, industrial, demo papers, and tutorials and panels.
Psychological Evolution
Author: Abhijeet Madhukar Deshpande ... 💪😎
Publisher: AbhijeetMD
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
Psychological Evolution ... The Evolutionary Pro (Re) ... (ag) ... gression This informational research documentation nook details the individuals, the society, the social environment as the psychological process of all aspects of a civilization, influencing its progression, adaptation, evolution and or regression, further influencing the behavioral patterns towards inter personal and societal interactions, influencing the psychological and physiological states of beings, as an evolutionary process. This is the Top Most Excellent Book, The Book of the Millennia... Which rightly and richly, deserves a mention by everyone on this planet, should get all the accolades and awards, especially the monetary ones, hopefully, The Bookie ...Prize.. 🏆 🥇 🏅 🎖 ... 💰 ... 😎 too... This book, details, how, you can make every one dance to your tunes ... 🕺 💃 , make others jealous, hateful, and vengeful ... 😠 of your abilities, makes them feel completely and utterly inferior to you..... 😥😓, and then, makes them and turns them, everyone and all, into ... Self Destructive Evil Personalities... 😡 👺 Grab your Popcorn's ... 🍿 ... Now... And in all seriousness and reality, this book details the factual state of interactive interactions, as towards the factors influencing behavior and as its heuristical learning, as applicational applicability, in factual real life.. I wanted to list many genres for this book. My motive behind listing many genres, was and is, the factual "Applicational Applicability" - as the term created, coined or phrased by me, which signifies, the applicability, of the work, concept, idea, the logic or the principle, towards specific applications, or as application of the subject matter, towards the contextual, situational or circumstantial - incidences or practicality toward its applicability...also towards the same... Is the... As such this and the work of mine of FADS, form the basis of creation of factual computational algorithms, which would entail the creation of artificial intelligence, having better cognitive and computational processes as heuristical machine learning, situational and contextual adaptability, applicational applicability, as being equal and superior to human, organic, inorganic, biological or not, organisms. This in effect. means the creation, of an computational system, as being highly advanced and superior, having all the processes of imagination, instinct, intelligence. ingenuity, intuition, common sense, and everything else, as a self evolving, self aware, interactive machinistic robotic system, capable of replacing human intervention, completely, in all walks of life. Which in effect also means that activity to humans, deemed as hazardous, will be completely replaced, by such machinistic self evolving self aware, robotic systems. There the fore... Every one.... Now becomes.... A Psycho Expert ... 👺 --- Note: Another thing to mention, is that this is a work in progress.. which in the coming future includes Behavior, Behavior mapping, Influence, Influence mapping and some others. So even if you buy the book once, you do not have to buy it again and again, as when I upload this book with new content, all you have to do is to simply re - download it again and again... And enjoy the content... 🙏 Is the.. 👍
Publisher: AbhijeetMD
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
Psychological Evolution ... The Evolutionary Pro (Re) ... (ag) ... gression This informational research documentation nook details the individuals, the society, the social environment as the psychological process of all aspects of a civilization, influencing its progression, adaptation, evolution and or regression, further influencing the behavioral patterns towards inter personal and societal interactions, influencing the psychological and physiological states of beings, as an evolutionary process. This is the Top Most Excellent Book, The Book of the Millennia... Which rightly and richly, deserves a mention by everyone on this planet, should get all the accolades and awards, especially the monetary ones, hopefully, The Bookie ...Prize.. 🏆 🥇 🏅 🎖 ... 💰 ... 😎 too... This book, details, how, you can make every one dance to your tunes ... 🕺 💃 , make others jealous, hateful, and vengeful ... 😠 of your abilities, makes them feel completely and utterly inferior to you..... 😥😓, and then, makes them and turns them, everyone and all, into ... Self Destructive Evil Personalities... 😡 👺 Grab your Popcorn's ... 🍿 ... Now... And in all seriousness and reality, this book details the factual state of interactive interactions, as towards the factors influencing behavior and as its heuristical learning, as applicational applicability, in factual real life.. I wanted to list many genres for this book. My motive behind listing many genres, was and is, the factual "Applicational Applicability" - as the term created, coined or phrased by me, which signifies, the applicability, of the work, concept, idea, the logic or the principle, towards specific applications, or as application of the subject matter, towards the contextual, situational or circumstantial - incidences or practicality toward its applicability...also towards the same... Is the... As such this and the work of mine of FADS, form the basis of creation of factual computational algorithms, which would entail the creation of artificial intelligence, having better cognitive and computational processes as heuristical machine learning, situational and contextual adaptability, applicational applicability, as being equal and superior to human, organic, inorganic, biological or not, organisms. This in effect. means the creation, of an computational system, as being highly advanced and superior, having all the processes of imagination, instinct, intelligence. ingenuity, intuition, common sense, and everything else, as a self evolving, self aware, interactive machinistic robotic system, capable of replacing human intervention, completely, in all walks of life. Which in effect also means that activity to humans, deemed as hazardous, will be completely replaced, by such machinistic self evolving self aware, robotic systems. There the fore... Every one.... Now becomes.... A Psycho Expert ... 👺 --- Note: Another thing to mention, is that this is a work in progress.. which in the coming future includes Behavior, Behavior mapping, Influence, Influence mapping and some others. So even if you buy the book once, you do not have to buy it again and again, as when I upload this book with new content, all you have to do is to simply re - download it again and again... And enjoy the content... 🙏 Is the.. 👍
Vibration Analysis of Functionally Graded Piezoelectric Actuators
Author: Pankaj Sharma
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811337179
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
This book presents a detailed study on the vibration analysis of functionally graded piezoelectric actuators excited under the shear effect. Two types of actuator geometries viz. beam and annular plate are considered, where the material properties are assumed to have a continuous variation in accordance with a power law distribution. The generalized differential quadrature method is used to obtain the solutions, and is compared to exact analytical results. The methodology reported and the numerical results presented will be useful for the design of devices utilizing functionally graded piezoelectric actuators under the influence of shear.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811337179
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
This book presents a detailed study on the vibration analysis of functionally graded piezoelectric actuators excited under the shear effect. Two types of actuator geometries viz. beam and annular plate are considered, where the material properties are assumed to have a continuous variation in accordance with a power law distribution. The generalized differential quadrature method is used to obtain the solutions, and is compared to exact analytical results. The methodology reported and the numerical results presented will be useful for the design of devices utilizing functionally graded piezoelectric actuators under the influence of shear.
A Nonlinear Theory for Predicting the Effects of Unsteady Laminar, Turbulent, Or Transitional Boundary Layers on the Attenuation of Shock Waves in a Shock Tube with Experimental Comparison
Author: Robert L. Trimpi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Attenuation (Physics)
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
The linearized attenuation theory of NACA Technical Note 3375 is modified in the following manner: (a) an unsteady compressible local skin-friction coefficient is employed rather than the equivalent steady-flow incompressible coefficient; (b) a nonlinear approach is used to permit application of the theory to large attenuations; and (c) transition effects are considered. Curves are presented for predicting attenuation for shock pressure ratios up to 20 and a range of shock-tube Reynolds numbers. Comparison of theory and experimental data for shock wave strengths between 1.5 and 10 over a wide range of Reynolds numbers shows good agreement with the nonlinear theory evaluated for a transition Reynolds nuniber of 2.5 million.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Attenuation (Physics)
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
The linearized attenuation theory of NACA Technical Note 3375 is modified in the following manner: (a) an unsteady compressible local skin-friction coefficient is employed rather than the equivalent steady-flow incompressible coefficient; (b) a nonlinear approach is used to permit application of the theory to large attenuations; and (c) transition effects are considered. Curves are presented for predicting attenuation for shock pressure ratios up to 20 and a range of shock-tube Reynolds numbers. Comparison of theory and experimental data for shock wave strengths between 1.5 and 10 over a wide range of Reynolds numbers shows good agreement with the nonlinear theory evaluated for a transition Reynolds nuniber of 2.5 million.
Forensic Economics
Author: Frank D. Tinari
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137563923
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
This edited collection addresses the major issues encountered in the calculation of economic damages to individuals in civil litigation. In federal and state courts in the United States, as well as in other nations, when one party sues another, the suing party is required not only to prove that the harm was, indeed, caused by the other party, but also to claim and demonstrate that a specified dollar value represents just compensation for the harm. Forensic economists are often called upon to evaluate, measure, and opine on the degree of economic loss that is alleged to have occurred. Aimed at both practitioners and theorists, the original articles and essays in the edited collection are written by nationally recognized and widely published forensic experts. Its strength is in showcasing theories, methods, and measurements as they differ in a variety of cases, and in its review of the forensic economics literature developed over the past thirty years. Readers will find informative discussions of topics such as establishing earnings capacity for both adults and infants, worklife probability, personal consumption deductions, taxation as treated in federal and state courts, valuing fringe benefits, discounting theory and practice, the effects of the Affordable Care Act, the valuation of personal services, wrongful discharge, hedonics, effective communication by the expert witness, and ethical issues. The volume also covers surveys of the views of practicing forensic economists, the connection between law and forensic economics, alternatives to litigation in the form of VCF-like schedules, and key differences among nations in measuring economic damages.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137563923
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
This edited collection addresses the major issues encountered in the calculation of economic damages to individuals in civil litigation. In federal and state courts in the United States, as well as in other nations, when one party sues another, the suing party is required not only to prove that the harm was, indeed, caused by the other party, but also to claim and demonstrate that a specified dollar value represents just compensation for the harm. Forensic economists are often called upon to evaluate, measure, and opine on the degree of economic loss that is alleged to have occurred. Aimed at both practitioners and theorists, the original articles and essays in the edited collection are written by nationally recognized and widely published forensic experts. Its strength is in showcasing theories, methods, and measurements as they differ in a variety of cases, and in its review of the forensic economics literature developed over the past thirty years. Readers will find informative discussions of topics such as establishing earnings capacity for both adults and infants, worklife probability, personal consumption deductions, taxation as treated in federal and state courts, valuing fringe benefits, discounting theory and practice, the effects of the Affordable Care Act, the valuation of personal services, wrongful discharge, hedonics, effective communication by the expert witness, and ethical issues. The volume also covers surveys of the views of practicing forensic economists, the connection between law and forensic economics, alternatives to litigation in the form of VCF-like schedules, and key differences among nations in measuring economic damages.
Data Analysis for Business, Economics, and Policy
Author: Gábor Békés
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108582672
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
This textbook provides future data analysts with the tools, methods, and skills needed to answer data-focused, real-life questions; to carry out data analysis; and to visualize and interpret results to support better decisions in business, economics, and public policy. Data wrangling and exploration, regression analysis, machine learning, and causal analysis are comprehensively covered, as well as when, why, and how the methods work, and how they relate to each other. As the most effective way to communicate data analysis, running case studies play a central role in this textbook. Each case starts with an industry-relevant question and answers it by using real-world data and applying the tools and methods covered in the textbook. Learning is then consolidated by 360 practice questions and 120 data exercises. Extensive online resources, including raw and cleaned data and codes for all analysis in Stata, R, and Python, can be found at www.gabors-data-analysis.com.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108582672
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
This textbook provides future data analysts with the tools, methods, and skills needed to answer data-focused, real-life questions; to carry out data analysis; and to visualize and interpret results to support better decisions in business, economics, and public policy. Data wrangling and exploration, regression analysis, machine learning, and causal analysis are comprehensively covered, as well as when, why, and how the methods work, and how they relate to each other. As the most effective way to communicate data analysis, running case studies play a central role in this textbook. Each case starts with an industry-relevant question and answers it by using real-world data and applying the tools and methods covered in the textbook. Learning is then consolidated by 360 practice questions and 120 data exercises. Extensive online resources, including raw and cleaned data and codes for all analysis in Stata, R, and Python, can be found at www.gabors-data-analysis.com.