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Emotions and Risky Technologies
by Sabine RoeserBy offering an original and challenging approach to the topic of risk and emotion, this book covers new territory. It focuses on risk and emotion from the perspective of moral philosophy and emphasizes that emotions are an important source of moral knowledge.
Emotions, Metacognition, and the Intuition of Language Normativity: Theoretical, Epistemological, and Historical Perspectives on Linguistic Feeling
by David Romand Michel Le DuThis book proposes a comprehensive discussion of the issue of linguistic feeling, the subject’s metalinguistic capacity to intuitively apprehend the normative – lexical, syntactic, morphological, phonological… – dimensions of a definite language he or she is acquainted with. The volume’s twelve contributions aim to revisit a concept that, through a fluctuating terminology (“Sprachgefühl,” “sentiment de la langue,” “linguistic intuitions,” etc.), had developed, since the late 18th century, within a variety of cultural contexts and research traditions, and whose theoretical, epistemological, and historical ins and outs had not been systematically explored so far. Beginning with a long opening chapter, the book consists of two parts, one tracing the multifaceted approaches to linguistic feeling from Herder to Wittgenstein, and one offering a representative overview of the debates about the issue at stake in current linguistics and philosophy, while addressing the question of the place of metacognition, normativity, and affectivity in language processes.
Empedocles: An Interpretation (Studies in Classics)
by Simon TrepanierOffers the first complete reinterpretation of Empedocles – one of the founding figures of Western philosophy – since the publication of the Strasbourg papyrus in 1999 brought new fragments of his lost work to light.
Empire, Humanism and Rights: Collected Essays on Francisco de Vitoria (Studies in the History of Law and Justice #21)
by José María BeneytoThis book deals with Vitoria, Charles V and Erasmus. Vitoria’s ideas had a major influence on Charles V and his European and American policy. In turn, Erasmus’ humanism was decisive in the formation of a new international order intellectually discussed by Vitoria and put into practice by the Emperor.Shedding new light on the influence of Francisco de Vitoria and Erasmus on Charles V’s imperial policy, the book’s goal is to explore the impact of Vitoria’s thought with regard to the history of, and contemporary issues in, international law, while also comparing his thinking with that of the well-known humanist Erasmus and assessing their respective influences on the imperial policy of Charles V.
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
by Nicholas OstlerNicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word is the first history of the world's great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that binds communities together and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. From the uncanny resilience of Chinese through twenty centuries of invasions to the engaging self-regard of Greek and to the struggles that gave birth to the languages of modern Europe, these epic achievements and more are brilliantly explored, as are the fascinating failures of once "universal" languages. A splendid, authoritative, and remarkable work, it demonstrates how the language history of the world eloquently reveals the real character of our planet's diverse peoples and prepares us for a linguistic future full of surprises.
Empirical Legal Analysis: Assessing the performance of legal institutions (The Economics of Legal Relationships)
by Yun-Chien ChangThis innovative volume explores empirical legal issues around the world. While legal studies have traditionally been worked on and of letters and with a normative bent, in recent years quantitative methods have gained traction by offering a brand new perspective of understanding law. That is, legal scholars have started to crunch numbers, not letters, to tease out the effects of law on the regulated industries, citizens, or judges in reality. In this edited book, authors from leading institutions in the U.S., Europe, and Asia investigate legal issues in South Africa, Argentina, the U.S., Israel, Taiwan, and other countries. Using original data in a variety of statistical tools (from the most basic chi-square analysis to sophisticated two-stage least square regression models), contributors to this book look into the judicial behaviours in Taiwan and Israel, the determinants of constitutional judicial systems in 100 countries, and the effect of appellate court decisions on media competition. In addition, this book breaks new ground in informing important policy debates. Specifically, how long should we incarcerate criminals? Should the medical malpractice liability system be reformed? Do police reduce crime? Why is South Africa’s democratic transition viable? With solid data as evidence, this volume sheds new light on these issues from a road more and more frequently taken—what is known as "empirical legal studies/analysis." This book should be useful to students, practitioners and professors of law, economics and public policy in many countries who seek to understand their legal system from a different, and arguably more scientific, perspective.
Empirical Likelihood Methods in Biomedicine and Health
by Albert Vexler Jihnhee YuEmpirical Likelihood Methods in Biomedicine and Health provides a compendium of nonparametric likelihood statistical techniques in the perspective of health research applications. It includes detailed descriptions of the theoretical underpinnings of recently developed empirical likelihood-based methods. The emphasis throughout is on the application of the methods to the health sciences, with worked examples using real data. Provides a systematic overview of novel empirical likelihood techniques. Presents a good balance of theory, methods, and applications. Features detailed worked examples to illustrate the application of the methods. Includes R code for implementation. The book material is attractive and easily understandable to scientists who are new to the research area and may attract statisticians interested in learning more about advanced nonparametric topics including various modern empirical likelihood methods. The book can be used by graduate students majoring in biostatistics, or in a related field, particularly for those who are interested in nonparametric methods with direct applications in Biomedicine.
Empirical Methods for the Study of Labour Force Dynamics
by Kenneth WolpinIn the last twenty years there has been an explosion of economic research on labor force dynamics; the movement of individuals between labor force states. This book focuses on the methods by which behavioral theories of labor force dynamics have been empirically implemented. Most attention is paid to the partial equilibrium two-state transitional model of job search behavior. That model is the foundation for much of our thinking about the nature of unemployment at both the individual and aggregate levels. Although the basic formulation has remained the same, approaches to the empirical implementation of such models has changed dramatically.
Empirical Political Analysis: Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods (8th Edition)
by Craig Leonard Brians Lars B. Willnat Jarol B. Manheim Richard C. RichUpdated in a new 8th edition, Empirical Political Analysis introduces students to the full range of qualitative and quantitative methods used in political science research. Organized around all of the stages of the research process, this comprehensive text surveys designing experiments, conducting research, evaluating results, and presenting findings. With exercises in the text and in a companion lab manual, Empirical Political Analysis gives students applied insights on the scopes and methods of political science research.
Empirical Studies of Earnings Mobility
by A. Atkinson Bourguinon C. MorrisDo individuals keep the same place on the earnings scale, or is there a great deal of mobility? This volume discusses the empirical studies of this issue.
Empirically Engaged Evolutionary Ethics (Synthese Library #437)
by Johan De Smedt Helen De CruzA growing body of evidence from the sciences suggests that our moral beliefs have an evolutionary basis. To explain how human morality evolved, some philosophers have called for the study of morality to be naturalized, i.e., to explain it in terms of natural causes by looking at its historical and biological origins. The present literature has focused on the link between evolution and moral realism: if our moral beliefs enhance fitness, does this mean they track moral truths? In spite of the growing empirical evidence, these discussions tend to remain high-level: the mere fact that morality has evolved is often deemed enough to decide questions in normative and meta-ethics. This volume starts from the assumption that the details about the evolution of morality do make a difference, and asks how. It presents original essays by authors from various disciplines, including philosophy, anthropology, developmental psychology, and primatology, who write in conversation with neuroscience, sociology, and cognitive psychology.
Empiricism, Explanation and Rationality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science)
by Len & Doyal & HarrisOriginally published in 1986. All students of social science must confront a number of important philosophical issues. This introduction to the philosophy of the social sciences provides coherent answers to questions about empiricism, explanation and rationality. It evaluates contemporary writings on the subject which can be as difficult as they are important to understand. Each chapter has an annotated bibliography to enable students to pursue the issues raised and to assess for themselves the arguments of the authors.
Employee Benefits: A Primer for Human Resource Professionals (4th Edition)
by Joseph J. MartocchioJoseph Martocchio's Employee Benefits: A Primer for Human Resource Professionals was written to promote a fuller understanding of employee benefits programs among students enrolled in college-level compensation and benefits courses. It's relevant to students who plan to be general managers, who deal with a variety of human resource issues in their day-to-day jobs, as well as to those who expect to be human resource practitioners. The real-world focus of Martocchio's text is evident on every page, as the author seeks to balance current academic thought with brief examples of contemporary benefits practices in business. Martocchio's Employee Benefits is forward-thinking and seeks to bring the topic into the mainstream of compensation understanding. The Fourth Edition continues to be concisely written, highlighting key issues in order to provide the reader with a solid foundation for discussing benefits issues with employee benefits professionals. As practices and laws affecting benefits change frequently, Martocchio stays on the cusp of recent developments, capturing all recent changes with his Fourth Edition.
Employment Law (In Plain English)
by Leonard D. DuBoff Christopher Perea Kenneth A. Perea Lauren BarnesEmployment Law (in Plain English)®provides both employers and employees the information they need in order to understand the law as it relates to their working relationship. This helpful guide will enable readers to identify and prevent many of the issues which can and do occur in the employment context, thus saving everyone valuable time and money and establishing a stronger workforce. While this book is not intended to replace the reader&’s employment lawyer, it will provide the ability to assist one&’s lawyer in litigation should the need arise. Chapters discuss a variety of topics including: Advertising for new positions and vacanciesInterviewing, hiring, and other pre-employment considerationsEmployment contractsUnion shopsCollective bargaining agreementsEmployee handbooksFirst day on the jobWages hours and other terms and conditions of employmentOn-the-job rights and responsibilitiesEmployee dignity, privacy, and reputationOwnership of work created by employeesPrivate employment versus public employmentInternet concernsVirtual officesEmployees versus independent contractor statutesDiscipline and termination of the employment relationshipDispute resolutionFringe benefitsHow to find a lawyer In easy-to-understand terms and with plenty of examples, this essential handbook supplies readers with invaluable insights on the legal nature of their working relationships.
Empty Moments: Cinema, Modernity, and Drift
by Leo CharneyIn Empty Moments, Leo Charney describes the defining quality of modernity as "drift"--the experience of being unable to locate a stable sense of the present. Through an exploration of artistic, philosophical, and scientific interrogations of the experience of time, Charney presents cinema as the emblem of modern culture's preoccupation with the reproduction of the present. Empty Moments creates a catalytic dialogue among those who, at the time of the invention of film, attempted to define the experience of the fleeting present. Interspersing philosophical discussions with stylistically innovative prose, Charney mingles Proust's conception of time/memory with Cubism's attempt to interpret time through perspective and Surrealism's exploration of subliminal representations of the present. Other topics include Husserl's insistence that the present can only be fantasy or fabrication and the focus on impossibility, imperfection, and loss in Kelvin's laws of thermodynamics. Ultimately, Charney's work hints at parallels among such examples, the advent and popularity of cinema, and early film theory. A book with a structural modernity of its own, Empty Moments will appeal to those interested in cinema and its history, as well as to other historians, philosophers, literary, and cultural scholars of modernity.
En Cyclo Pedia: Everything you need to know about cycling, from the essential to the obscure
by Johan TellIn En Cyclo Pedia Johan Tell - award-winning Swedish writer and cycling obsessive - uncovers the very soul of cycling, exploring and explaining the many and varied stories that form the basis of cycling culture. Beautifully illustrated, with hundreds of entries ranging from Tour de France stages to illegal Alley Cat races, and cult heroes to cycling slang, Tell provides a personal insight into this complex world that only a cycling junkie can. From a pilgrimage to the Bianchi factory in Milan to scouring the streets of New York for the origins of the fixie, via the bicycle cafés of Barcelona and the cobblestones of Flanders, En Cyclo Pedia is a complete A to Z guide to the unique, indescribable character of global bike culture.Entries include:- Alley Cat Race- Bianchi- BMX- Brooks- Cafés- Campagnolo- Carbon Fibre- Drag- Environment- Films- Fixie- Grand Tours- Hand-built- Hipster- Lycra- Mountains- Nutrition- Oudenaarde- Paris-Roubaix- Quicksilver- Rouleur- Scalatore- Shaved Legs- Style- Tattoos- Ultracycling- Velodrome- XC- Zedler...and many more
En Cyclo Pedia: Everything you need to know about cycling, from the essential to the obscure
by Johan TellIn En Cyclo Pedia Johan Tell - award-winning Swedish writer and cycling obsessive - uncovers the very soul of cycling, exploring and explaining the many and varied stories that form the basis of cycling culture. Beautifully illustrated, with hundreds of entries ranging from Tour de France stages to illegal Alley Cat races, and cult heroes to cycling slang, Tell provides a personal insight into this complex world that only a cycling junkie can. From a pilgrimage to the Bianchi factory in Milan to scouring the streets of New York for the origins of the fixie, via the bicycle cafés of Barcelona and the cobblestones of Flanders, En Cyclo Pedia is a complete A to Z guide to the unique, indescribable character of global bike culture.Entries include:- Alley Cat Race- Bianchi- BMX- Brooks- Cafés- Campagnolo- Carbon Fibre- Drag- Environment- Films- Fixie- Grand Tours- Hand-built- Hipster- Lycra- Mountains- Nutrition- Oudenaarde- Paris-Roubaix- Quicksilver- Rouleur- Scalatore- Shaved Legs- Style- Tattoos- Ultracycling- Velodrome- XC- Zedler...and many more
En antena. Libro de estilo del periodismo oral
by Cadena SER«Usted habrá escuchado hablar alguna vez del sonido SER. Sepa que es el conjunto de buenas prácticas que permite identificar a cualquiera de las emisoras de esta cadena de radio "a simple oído".»Antonio Hernández-Rodicio, director de Cadena SER En antena. Libro de estilo del periodismo oral detalla los hábitos necesarios para expresarse y tratar la información como el mejor periodista radiofónico y, en definitiva, para ejercer un periodismo eficaz, riguroso y ético. Aunque las normas y consejos que recoge nacieron con el fin de unificar el método, los principios y las formas expresivas que configuran la personalidad de una cadena emblemática, su utilidad rebasa la de ese y cualquier otro medio, y se extiende a cualquier persona que se vaya a poner delante de un micrófono, una cámara o un público. «La época en la que este libro sale al mercado se caracteriza por lo que eufemística y agramaticalmente sedenomina "era de la posverdad"; palabra esta última que ocupa el lugar de lo que veníamos llamando mentira, manipulación o bulo. »Por eso las empresas informativas y sus profesionales acreditados se hacen cada vez más imprescindibles ante ese maremágnum donde todo vale; y pueden constituirse en el refugio de las noticias contrastadas y de las narraciones elaboradas con una perspectiva ética al servicio de la sociedad.»Álex Grijelmo
En antena. Libro de estilo del periodismo oral
by Cadena Ser«Usted habrá escuchado hablar alguna vez del sonido SER. Sepa que es el conjunto de buenas prácticas que permite identificar a cualquiera de las emisoras de esta cadena de radio "a simple oído".»Antonio Hernández-Rodicio, director de Cadena SER En antena. Libro de estilo del periodismo oral detalla los hábitos necesarios para expresarse y tratar la información como el mejor periodista radiofónico y, en definitiva, para ejercer un periodismo eficaz, riguroso y ético. Aunque las normas y consejos que recoge nacieron con el fin de unificar el método, los principios y las formas expresivas que configuran la personalidad de una cadena emblemática, su utilidad rebasa la de ese y cualquier otro medio, y se extiende a cualquier persona que se vaya a poner delante de un micrófono, una cámara o un público. «La época en la que este libro sale al mercado se caracteriza por lo que eufemística y agramaticalmente sedenomina "era de la posverdad"; palabra esta última que ocupa el lugar de lo que veníamos llamando mentira, manipulación o bulo. »Por eso las empresas informativas y sus profesionales acreditados se hacen cada vez más imprescindibles ante ese maremágnum donde todo vale; y pueden constituirse en el refugio de las noticias contrastadas y de las narraciones elaboradas con una perspectiva ética al servicio de la sociedad.»Álex Grijelmo
Enabling Discovery, Development, and Translation of Treatments for Cognitive Dysfunction in Depression: Workshop Summary
by Lisa BainMajor depressive disorder (MDD) is recognized worldwide as a major cause of disability, morbidity, and mortality. According to the World Health Organization, unipolar depressive disorders affect more than 150 million people around the world and represent the leading cause of years lost due to disability among both men and women. In the United States alone, nearly 8 percent of persons over the age of 12 report current depression. MDD has long been defined primarily as a mood disorder. However,more recently people have begun to recognize effects on cognition as a major contributor to the disablement that accompanies depression and to consider this an underrecognized treatment target for depression. To explore how best to enable the discovery, development, and translation of treatments for cognitive dysfunction in depression, including a focus on the regulatory path forward, the Institute of Medicine's Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous Disorders convened key stakeholders at a workshop in February 2015. This report summarizes the presentations from expert speakers and discussions among workshop participants.
Enabling Programmable Self with HealthVault: An Accessible Personal Health Record
by Vaibhav BhandariPersonal health and fitness has joined the digital revolution. Using Microsoft HealthVault, people interested in monitoring their health have an unprecedented opportunity to research their own data. This concise book explains how HealthVault users can collect and analyze their data, and how application developers can help them with mobile or web-based applications.You’ll learn how to use HealthVault’s open API, flexibility, and connections with multiple health-care providers to develop health data applications, enable automatic updates from well-known fitness devices, and use programming libraries to create reports and investigate trends.Get a walkthrough of HealthVault functionality available to end usersUse HealthVault to capture data from devices that measure a user’s healthExamine HealthVault’s API for interacting with applications and devices, using .NET code samplesDevelop a Quantified Self application for consumers that can track more than 80 data typesLearn how to build mobile apps for HealthVault by exploring an end-to-end example for Windows Phone 7Use best practices for releasing, maintaining, and marketing HealthVault applications to end users
Encaustic Workshop: Artistic Techniques For Working With Wax
by Patricia Baldwin SeggebruchIn its purest form, encaustic painting is as simple as applying melted beeswax to an absorbent surface. In Encaustic Workshop, Revised Edition, it becomes much more: a dynamic medium where anything goes and the possibilities are endless. Packed with step-by-step techniques, helpful tips and diverse examples of completed works, Encaustic Workshop, Revised Edition brings an encaustic workshop to your own workspace. If you're a beginner, you'll find everything you need to know to get started. If you're more advanced, you'll discover things you never knew you could do with encaustic. In this revised 10th anniversary edition, learn about new materials, surfaces and techniques that will take your encaustic paintings to entirely new level.
Enciclopedia de componentes electrónicos. Vol 1
by Charles Platt¿Quiere saber cómo utilizar un componente electrónico? Este volumen incluye información clave sobre los componentes de sus proyectos.
Encounters with Jesus (Ancient Context, Ancient Faith)
by Gary M. BurgeChristian readers of the New Testament study the great stories about Jesus through the lens of western culture. In this series of books, Gary Burge uses his extensive knowledge of the first century world and the Middle East to offer insights not available to the average person. Each book will develop important cultural themes and wrap them around well-known New Testament passages. And the result will be insights rarely gained elsewhere. See Jesus through the eyes of two men and three women. Each character in the story—a tax collector, a Phoenician woman, a centurion, etc.—brings along elements from their own world now hidden from us because we do not share the culture of Jesus' world. Insights from the first century Middle East abound to unlock profound insights about Jesus and his audience.
Encyclopaedia of Classical Indian Sciences
by Helaine Selin Roddam NarasimhaThis book is an attempt to provide an authentic account of natural science, technology and medicine as practiced by Indians and other South Asians. It also includes biographical articles on ancient Indian scientists.