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Faces from the Past: Forgotten People of North America
by James M. DeemWhen skeletons from centuries ago are discovered, scientists want to study them to discover information about the lives , deaths , time and place in history of these people so that the nameless, unknown people can be brought back to life, remembered, and honoured.
Facet Theory and the Mapping Sentence: Evolving Philosophy, Use and Declarative Applications
by Paul M.W. HackettThis book is the second edition of Facet Theory and the Mapping Sentence: Evolving Philosophy, Use and Application (2014). It consolidates the qualitative and quantitative research positions of facet theory and delves deeper into their qualitative application in psychology, social and the behavioural sciences and in the humanities. In their traditional quantitative guise, facet theory and its mapping sentence incorporate multi-dimensional statistics. They are also a way of thinking systematically and thoroughly about the world. The book is particularly concerned with the development of the declarative mapping sentence as a tool and an approach to qualitative research. The evolution of the facet theory approach is presented along with many examples of its use in a wide variety of research domains. Since the first edition, the major advance in facet theory has been the formalization of the use of the declarative mapping sentence and this is given a prominent position in the new edition. The book will be compelling reading for students at all levels and for academics and research professionals from the humanities, social sciences and behavioural sciences.
Facets of Noise: Effects in Classical and Quantum Systems (Fundamental Theories of Physics #214)
by Shamik Gupta Debraj DasThis book provides a captivating journey through the realms of classical and quantum systems as it unravels the profound influence that noise may have on their static and dynamic properties. The first part of the book offers succinct yet enlightening discussions on foundational topics related to noise. The second part focuses on a variety of applications, where a diverse spectrum of noise effects in physical systems comes to life, meticulously presented and thoughtfully analyzed. Whether you are a curious student or a dedicated researcher, this book is your key to gaining invaluable insights into noise effects in physical systems. “The book has the merit of presenting several topics scattered in the literature and could become a very useful reference.” Giovanni Jona-Lasinio, Sapienza – Università di Roma, Italy
Facettenreiche Technik: Anfänge und Höhepunkte genialer Erfindungen
by Leopold Mathelitsch Christian B. LangEntdecken Sie die faszinierende Welt der Technik mit dem vorliegenden Sachbuch! Es bietet Ihnen tiefgehende Einblicke in 50 facettenreiche Themen, die unser modernes Leben prägen. Von Informationstechnologie bis Umweltschutz erfahren Sie, wie Innovationen unseren Alltag transformieren und die Grenzen des Möglichen neu definieren. Welche genialen Ideen standen am Beginn einer neuen Technologie und zu welchen hochspezialisierten Produkten führte die Entwicklung? Erleben Sie, wie Energiequellen genutzt und gespeichert werden, wie medizinische Fortschritte unser Wohlbefinden verbessern und wie künstliche Intelligenz und Robotik die Zukunft gestalten. Tauchen Sie ein in die Welt der Genetik, des World Wide Web und der Umweltvermessung und sehen Sie, wie diese Technologien unser Verständnis der Welt erweitern. Lassen Sie sich von den spannenden Geschichten und Personen hinter den Technologien inspirieren.
Fachdidaktik Chemie in Theorie und Praxis
by Bernhard F. Sieve Jürgen Paul Sascha SchanzeSind Sie angehende Chemielehrkraft im Studium, im Referendariat oder haben Sie den Weg des Quereinstiegs gewählt und suchen nach einem Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch, das Ihnen einen fundierten Einblick in die aktuelle forschungsbasierte und praxiserprobte Chemiedidaktik liefert? Dann halten Sie mit der Fachdidaktik Chemie in Theorie und Praxis genau das passende Buch in den Händen. Auf der Basis aktueller Forschungsergebnisse aus nationalen und internationalen Studien werden wesentliche Aspekte zum Lehren und Lernen von Chemie vermittelt und daraus konkrete, evidenzbasierte Folgerungen für die Planung, Durchführung und Reflexion von Chemieunterricht abgeleitet. Jedes Kapitel wurde im Tandem aus Fachdidaktiker:innen und Chemielehrkräften entwickelt, um die chemiedidaktische Theorie eng mit der realen Unterrichtpraxis zu verschränken. Die Fachdidaktik Chemie in Theorie und Praxis ist ein Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch: Eine authentische Lehr-Lernsituation aus dem Chemieunterricht oder der Lehrkräftebildung holt Sie als Leser:innen ab und macht die Relevanz des jeweiligen Kapitelthemas für den Chemieunterricht und die Lehrkräftebildung deutlich. Gleichzeitig ergeben sich aus den Situationen Leitfragen, die die Kernaspekte des jeweiligen Themas umspannen. Übungs- und Reflexionsaufgaben regen in jedem Kapitel zur individuellen inhaltlichen Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema an und unterstützen Ihre Selbstreflexion. Lösungshinweise zu den Aufgaben finden sich im Onlinematerial. Erprobte Praxisbeispiele und Praxistipps konkretisieren theoretische Ausführungen und unterstützen Sie bei der Gestaltung und Reflexion Ihres eigenen Chemieunterrichts. Ein großer Fundus an erprobten und evaluierten Onlinematerialien ergänzt die Praxisbeispiele. Fachdidaktik Chemie in Theorie und Praxis – ein Muss in der fachdidaktischen Ausbildung und für jede Chemielehrkraft.
Fachenglisch für Laborberufe
by Steven L. HanftMit fortschreitender Globalisierung von Waren und Dienstleistungen hält an immer mehr Arbeitsplätzen in Chemie-, Pharma- und Biotech-Branche die englische Sprache Einzug. In der Schule hat man zwar gelernt, sich über Alltagsthemen zu unterhalten, aber wenn es darum geht, dem Kundendienst am Telefon die Fehlfunktion des teuersten Geräts im Labor zu beschreiben, kommt doch so mancher ins Schwitzen. Nach einer Einführung, in der die wichtigsten Besonderheiten der englischen Sprache aus Sicht eines deutschen Sprechers rekapituliert werden, behandelt der Autor in 12 Lektionen Schritt für Schritt den Spezialwortschatz und fachspezifische Sprach- und Schreibformen. Die Themen reichen von mathematischen Ausdrücken über chemische Nomenklatur, Biomoleküle, Versuchstiere und Prozesstechnik bis hin zum Umgang mit Regulierungsbehörden und Audits. Gesprächssituationen wie der Anruf beim Kundendienst, die Vorstellung beim neuen Chef oder das Kundengespräch am Messestand werden analysiert und eingeübt. Mit direktem Bezug zur Berufspraxis geht dieser Sprachführer über herkömmliche Englischkurse weit hinaus und bietet wertvolle Hilfe für alle, die im Beruf besser Englisch sprechen wollen. Auch für den fachbezogenen Sprachunterricht an Fachschulen und Hochschulen ist dieses Buch bestens geeignet. Komplett mit Übungen, Tests und Rezepten, wie man die häufigsten Fehler vermeidet.
Fachwissen MTRA: Für Ausbildung, Studium und Beruf (Springer-Lehrbuch)
by Tina Hartmann, Martina Kahl-Scholz and Christel VockelmannFachwissen MTRA – interdisziplinär und praxisnah!Die Entwicklungen im Gesundheitswesen verändern auch das Berufsbild der MTRA nachhaltig. Die Anforderungen und Erwartungen steigen insbesondere in den Bereichen Digitalisierung, Qualitätsmanagement und wissenschaftliches Arbeiten im interdisziplinären Kontext. Hier knüpft dieses Buch an und gibt erstmals verständlich und anschaulich einen Gesamtüberblick über alle ausbildungsrelevanten Inhalte der MTRA-Ausbildung und Berufspraxis in einem Werk.Das Buch ist praxisorientiert und interdisziplinär angelegt und vermittelt die Inhalte anhand von Fallbeispielen aus dem Klinikalltag.Alles in einem Buch:Berufsgeschichte, Berufsbild und Berufspolitik, Berufspraxis, Detektion von Strahlung, Digitale Bildverarbeitung, Konventionelle Röntgendiagnostik, Computertomographie, Kernspintomographie, Angiographie, Sonographie, Strahlentherapie, Nuklearmedizin, Entstehung von Gesundheit und Krankheit, Interdisziplinäre Therapie und Diagnostik aller Körperregionen und Organe, Qualitätssicherung und –Management, Hygiene, Pharmakologie, Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten und lebenslanges Lernen.Für alle MTRA/ Radiologie-Technologen unverzichtbar als Begleiter für Ausbildung, Lehre und Beruf.
Fachwörterbuch Feuerwehr und Brandschutz: Deutsch-Englisch/Englisch-Deutsch
by Torsten SchmiermundDieses Fachwörterbuch wurde speziell für die Feuerwehr zusammengestellt. Es kann jedoch auch von Brandschutzingenieuren und Angehörigen der Rettungsdienste und des Katastrophenschutzes gut genutzt werden. In diesem Wörterbuch sind mehr als 14 000 Begriffe aus den Bereichen Bauwesen, Bergsteigen/Höhenrettung, Biologie, Brandschutz, Chemie, Erster Hilfe, Explosionsschutz, Fahrzeugtechnik, Feuerwehr, Funktechnik, Ingenieurwissenschaften, Industrie, Katastrophenschutz, Materialkunde, Medizin, Notfallmedizin, Nukleartechnik, Physik, Technik, Werkzeuge und Wissenschaft erfasst. Ein Anhang mit den über 500 enthaltenen Abkürzungen, dem Buchstabieralphabet und Umrechnungen amerikanisch-britischer Größen und Einheiten runden das Buch ab. This technical dictionary was compiled especially for the fire brigade. However, it can also be put to good use by fire protection experts and members of the emergency services and civil protection. This dictionary covers more than 14 000 terms from the fields of construction, mountaineering/altitude rescue, biology, fire protection, chemistry, first aid, explosion protection, vehicle technology, fire brigade, radio technology, engineering, industry, disaster control, material science, medicine, emergency medicine, nuclear technology, physics, technology, tools and science. An appendix with more than 500 abbreviations, the spelling alphabet and conversions of American-British quantities and units are completing this book.
Facies Analysis and Interpretation in Southeastern Nigeria's Inland Basins (SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences)
by Chidozie Izuchukwu DimThis book broadens the reader's knowledge base on lithofacies distribution, facies succession and association, and interpretation of paleo-depositional environments using outcrop-based and measured se¬dimentologic section data integrated with facies and petrographic analyses. Besides, the author also provides step-by¬step workflow that could guide detailed geological field mapping and improve outcrop studies across Middle-Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian–Campanian) successions of Southern Benue Trough and the lower stratigraphic interval of Anambra Basin, outcropping in Afikpo area of Southeastern Nigeria.
Facies Models 4
by Noel P. James Robert Walker DalrympleThe Geological Association of Canada's Facies Models 4 is the essential volume on sedimentary succession interpretation. Presented in full color, this updated edition of the original, highly popular textbook Facies Models incorporates the enormous advances in our understanding of depositional environments since the last edition was issued in 1992. Coverage of this topic is at the advanced undergraduate- to graduate-student level, making this book accessible to anyone with an interest in sedimentary environments.
Facilitated Transport Membranes (Green Energy and Technology)
by Takeshi Matsuura Sarah Farrukh Xianfeng Fan Syed Shujaat KarimThis book highlights the importance of Facilitated Transport Membranes (FTMs) for the application of carbon capture, covering its introduction, gas transport phenomena and models, reaction mechanisms, industrial applications such as bio-gas upgradation, flue gas separation, hydrogen gas and natural gas purification, fabrication methods of both FTMs and their carrier mediums, testing/characterization techniques, techno-analysis with up-to-date trends and the future outlooks. Climate change and environmental impacts are resulted due to greenhouse gases, particularly CO2. The industrial revolution is currently causing the augmented emission of greenhouse gases. Therefore, various technologies are being looked at to overcome these problems. In which, membrane technology is key among them and is envisaged for many industrial applications, especially for gas separations and carbon capture. Considering this, FTMs are being actively investigated due to their remarkable gas separation performance.This book describes the working principle of FTMs and includes case studies to explore their impact on different industrial applications. Also, the book highlights how FTMs are reshaping science to capture CO2 for reducing climate and environmental impacts.
Facilitating Conceptual Change in Students’ Understanding of the Periodic Table
by Mansoor Niaz Marniev LuiggiThis book is about how students are taught the periodic table. It reviews aspects of the periodic table's development, using the history and philosophy of science. The teaching method presented in this book is ideal for teaching the subject in high school and at introductory university level. Chemistry students taught in this new, experimental way are compared with those taught in the traditional way and the author describes how tests found more conceptual responses from the experimental group than the control group. The historical aspects of importance to this teaching method are: the role of the Karlsruhe Congress of 1860; the accommodation of the chemical elements in the periodic table; prediction of elements that were discovered later; corrections of atomic weights; periodicity in the periodic table as a function of the atomic theory; and the accommodation of argon. The experimental group of students participated in various activities, including: discussion of various aspects related to the history and philosophy of science; construction of concept maps and their evaluation by the students; PowerPoint presentations; and interviews with volunteer students.
Facilitating Innovation in the Federal Statistical System: Summary of a Workshop
by National Research Council of the National AcademiesOn May 8, 2009, the symposium, The Federal Statistical System: Recognizing Its Contributions, Moving It Forward was held in Washington, DC. One of the topics considered at that symposium was the health of innovation in the federal statistical system. A consequence of the symposium was an agreement by the Committee on National Statistics to hold a workshop on the future of innovation in the federal statistical system. This workshop was held on June 29, 2010. The original statement of task for the workshop focused on three challenges to the statistical system: (1) the obstacles to innovative, focused research and development initiatives that could make statistical programs more cost effective; (2) a gap between emerging data visualization and communications technologies and the ability of statistical agencies to understand and capitalize on these developments for their data dissemination programs; and (3) the maturation of the information technology (IT) discipline and the difficulties confronting individual agencies in keeping current with best practice in IT regarding data confidentiality. This report, Facilitating Innovation in the Federal Statistical System, is a descriptive summary of what transpired at the workshop. It is therefore limited to the views and opinions of the workshop participants. However, it does not strictly follow the agenda of the workshop, which had four sessions. Instead, it is organized around the themes of the discussions, which migrated across the four sessions.
Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research
by Committee on Facilitating Interdisciplinary ResearchFacilitating Interdisciplinary Research examines current interdisciplinary research efforts and recommends ways to stimulate and support such research. Advances in science and engineering increasingly require the collaboration of scholars from various fields. This shift is driven by the need to address complex problems that cut across traditional disciplines, and the capacity of new technologies to both transform existing disciplines and generate new ones. At the same time, however, interdisciplinary research can be impeded by policies on hiring, promotion, tenure, proposal review, and resource allocation that favor traditional disciplines. This report identifies steps that researchers, teachers, students, institutions, funding organizations, and disciplinary societies can take to more effectively conduct, facilitate, and evaluate interdisciplinary research programs and projects. Throughout the report key concepts are illustrated with case studies and results of the committee’s surveys of individual researchers and university provosts.
Facilitating Sustainable Innovation through Collaboration: A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective
by Diego Vazquez Brust James J. Cordeiro Joseph SarkisFacilitating Sustainable Innovation through Collaboration, takes an unusually international perspective of sustainable innovation with contributions from Australia, Europe, and North America. Prominent policy makers, scientific researchers and practitioners in this field provide various inputs and analyses relating to the development of sustainable innovations. It is expected that policy makers, organizations, individual researchers, students and even communities can further develop and implement concepts and practices by drawing on the variety of projects and theoretical foundations presented in this volume.
Facilities Planning and Design
by Alberto Garcia-Diaz J. MacGregor Smith(Deceased)This updated, expanded, second edition includes new software methodologies and algorithms providing students with a more comprehensive knowledge base in addition to facilitating and making the project component of the textbook more efficient and effective. It further increases emphasis on manufacturing. Retaining its class-tested pedagogy, the book is concerned with the principles of facilities planning and their application to service, business, and product manufacturing operations. Equipping undergraduate students with the fundamentals of facilities planning, design, location and material handling, especially as they apply to industrial manufacturing facilities, the book is ideal for a range of university settings offering courses on facilities planning.
Facility Validation: Theory, Practice, and Tools
by Graham C. WrigleyOften considered a necessary evil by the pharmaceutical industry, validation is still understood by many as unrestrained bureaucracy, paperwork, and procedures whose roots and logic are obscure and only serve to slow down progress. Thoroughly defining the philosophy, application, and processes, Facility Validation: Theory, Practice, and Tools explo
Facing Climate Change: An Integrated Path to the Future
by Jeffrey KiehlFacing Climate Change explains why people refuse to accept evidence of a warming planet and shows how to move past partisanship to reach a consensus for action. A climate scientist and licensed Jungian analyst, Jeffrey T. Kiehl examines the psychological phenomena that twist our relationship to the natural world and their role in shaping the cultural beliefs that distance us further from nature. He also accounts for the emotions triggered by the lived experience of climate change and the feelings of fear and loss they inspire, which lead us to deny the reality of our warming planet.But it is not too late. By evaluating our way of being, Kiehl unleashes a potential human emotional understanding that can reform our behavior and help protect the Earth. Kiehl dives deep into the human brain's psychological structures and human spirituality's imaginative power, mining promising resources for creating a healthier connection to the environment—and one another. Facing Climate Change is as concerned with repairing our social and political fractures as it is with reestablishing our ties to the world, teaching us to push past partisanship and unite around the shared attributes that are key to our survival. Kiehl encourages policy makers and activists to appeal to our interdependence as a global society, extracting politics from the process and making decisions about our climate future that are substantial and sustaining.
Facing Infinity: Black Holes and Our Place on Earth
by Jonas EnanderA fresh, fascinating, up-to-the-moment appraisal of black holes—the massive astronomical objects with a gravitational pull so strong nothing can escape them, not even light—that situates them at the center of our understanding of our place on Earth and of the universe Humanity’s relationship with black holes began in 1783 in a small English village, when clergyman John Michell posed a startling question: What if there are objects in space that are so large and heavy that not even light can escape them? Almost 250 years later, in April 2019, scientists presented the first picture of a black hole. Profoundly inspired by that image, physicist Jonas Enander has traveled the world to investigate how our understanding of these elusive celestial objects has evolved since the days of Michell. With the particular goal of discovering our human connection to black holes, Enander visits telescopes and observatories, delves deeply into archives, and interviews over 20 world-leading experts, including several Nobel laureates. With Facing Infinity, he takes us on a spellbinding journey into the universe’s greatest mystery, deciphers the most mind-bending science, and answers questions surrounding how black holes work, where they come from, and what role they play in the universe. Along the way Enander discovers how our desire to understand black holes inadvertently paved the way for the invention of Wi-Fi and the calibration of our global navigation satellites, how astronomical discovery became entangled with colonial conflicts, and how our looking outward gave us critical evidence of the impact of climate change. Facing Infinity helps us appreciate and understand as never before these mysterious celestial objects and our surprising connections to them.
Facing the Challenges of Water Governance (Palgrave Studies in Water Governance: Policy and Practice)
by Stéphane Saussier Simon PorcherAccess to water is one of the most pressing global issues of the twenty-first century, particularly when set against the background of a rapidly growing global population. This book provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of the challenges facing water governance and regulatory choices. The recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals set forward an ambitious agenda of providing universal access to good quality water supply and sanitation services within a financially constrained environment: however, the various peculiarities of each country regarding water governance makes it difficult to identify and implement the best practices and benchmarks. Drawing together empirical studies from countries around the world, the editors and contributors combine extensive data to review the individual challenges facing each country, from the supervision of autonomous regulatory bodies to the question of centralization and the influence of local utility companies. This pioneering and practical volume will be of interest and value not only to students and scholars of water governance, but also to practitioners and regulators.
Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD): Clinical Medicine and Molecular Cell Biology
by David Cooper Meena UpadhhyayaFacioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is a genetic disorder involving slowly progressive muscle degeneration in which the muscles of the face, shoulder blades and upper arms are among the most severely affected. It is the third most common inherited muscular dystrophy, affecting 1 in 20,000. The search for the molecular basis of the disease is of interest to all genetic researchers, involving a deletion outside a coding region resulting in over-expression of adjacent genes. This volume summarizes the current understanding of the disorder, including clinical, molecular and therapeutic aspects.
Fact, Fiction, and Forecast
by Nelson GoodmanHere, in a new edition, is Nelson Goodman’s provocative philosophical classic―a book that, according to Science, “raised a storm of controversy” when it was first published in 1954, and one that remains on the front lines of philosophical debate. <p><p> How is it that we feel confident in generalizing from experience in some ways but not in others? How are generalizations that are warranted to be distinguished from those that are not? Goodman shows that these questions resist formal solution and his demonstration has been taken by nativists like Chomsky and Fodor as proof that neither scientific induction nor ordinary learning can proceed without an a priori, or innate, ordering of hypotheses. <p> In his new foreword to this edition, Hilary Putnam forcefully rejects these nativist claims. The controversy surrounding these unsolved problems is as relevant to the psychology of cognitive development as it is to the philosophy of science. No serious student of either discipline can afford to misunderstand Goodman’s classic argument.
Factfulness Sustainability: What you should know about Ecological Crises and Resource Consumption
by Thomas UnnerstallHumans are overexploiting nature, consuming too much energy, too many raw materials, too much land. In short, the current economic and living conditions of mankind, especially here in the West, are not sustainable.Who would disagree with this verdict? The evidence seems overwhelming: species extinction, rainforest deforestation, scarcity of raw materials, soil erosion, plastic waste, ecological footprint and, of course, climate change. But how reliable are these indicators? Are there perhaps also other indications, positive developments? And are all these problems of equal urgency?This book gives you answers: well-founded, comprehensible, to the point. It proves that the reports and headlines on ecological issues in the mainstream media are often one-sided, exaggerated and thus misleading. The book does not trivialize, but it differentiates. Using the relevant international reports and databases, it presents overall contexts where otherwise usually only individual, striking figures are picked out.With over 70 graphic illustrations, the book thus paints a new picture of the state of the planet and of the effects of human economic activity and consumption. At the end is a clear list of priorities for the real sustainability challenges - for humanity as a whole, and also for the people living in the West.
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by Hans Rosling Anna Rosling Rönnlund Ola RoslingINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“One of the most important books I’ve ever read—an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.” – Bill Gates“Hans Rosling tells the story of ‘the secret silent miracle of human progress’ as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly.” —Melinda GatesFactfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends—what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school—we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective—from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse). Our problem is that we don’t know what we don’t know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases.It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. That doesn’t mean there aren’t real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most. Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future. ---“This book is my last battle in my life-long mission to fight devastating ignorance…Previously I armed myself with huge data sets, eye-opening software, an energetic learning style and a Swedish bayonet for sword-swallowing. It wasn’t enough. But I hope this book will be.” Hans Rosling, February 2017.
Factor X
by Harry Lehmann Andreas Burger Michael AngrickFactor X: Re-source--Designing the Recycling Society explores the role of recycling in efforts to achieve the sustainable world envisioned in the Federal Environment Ministry's Resource Efficiency Programme, known as ProgRess. The chapters build a roadmap to a Recycling Society in which the decoupling of resource consumption and economic growth is accomplished.