... also maintains his difference from the largely subordinate social groups in which these humanist and Protestant notions originated In particular, my argument in this 22 Defending Literature in Early ... in these terms as a period of increasing separation of social roles and institutions out of the pre-modern merger of economic, social and judicial power in the feudal lord In particular, during ... dividing/unifying “and” in “profit and pleasure”) To these studies in “philosophy” then were added the traditional arts of courtly chivalry: horsemanship, shooting, fencing, lute playing, dancing,...
... Primer inSocial Media Suggestions on social media Although organizations will increasingly employ social media in their marketing efforts, certain perils exist for early adopters The following ... to reason that many will find alternate gains in this arena Connect with passionate users High-quality fishing line; methods for steam-lining packaging; precision drumming hardware; regardless ... to interface with your company on their own accord Even by simply presenting insider expertise, companies are finding that they can generate increased traffic for their websites and interest in...
... Thunderbird International Business Review In the 1997 issue of Journal of Teaching in International Business, Dr Kotabe was ranked the most prolific international marketing researcher in the world in the ... title, ‘Emerging Issues in International Business Research The purpose of this forum was to bring together both leading scholars and young rising stars in international business studies in order ... existing stock of IB research of the time and suggest future research directions, they all suffer Emerging issues in international business research BOX 1.1 SHIFT IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS RESEARCH...
... phytoalexin theory originated from studies of resistance to Ph infestans in potato The parasite/host interaction, which results in the production of rishitin, involves an induced shift in the biochemical ... only arisen within the last 500 years, brought about by significant intercontinental trade and movementin grain, root and fruit crops There was almost certainly previous limited movement around ... commonly accorded kingdom status This straminipilous lineage is extraordinarily diverse, including photosynthetic (chrysophyte, diatomaceous and fucoid); heterotrophic (free-living marine and gut comensal...
... considering using in the future Creating internal work groups 8.4% Coordinating internal schedules and events 9.3% Sharing documents 11.6% Creating “intranet-like” internal communications Maintaining ... prospecting by social networking Selling products 18.0% 10.1% Please check all the ways your organization uses social networks—including Facebook, LinkedIn, and MySpace—for sales Maintaining social ... considering using social media for in the future? 18.1% Blogs LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and blogging lead social media services and activities for business Four services dominate the use of social...
... level, increasingly taking up a greater role in financing and disseminating research and research results, and in enhancing the scaling up and out of new agricultural technologies Keywords: social ... globally in agricultural research systems in the early 1990s consisting of changes inresearch financing and institutional arrangements and a greater role for actors not traditionally involved in public ... analysis demonstrate that public agricultural research departments play a central coordinating role in facilitating information sharing, with other actors remaining on the periphery However, that analysis...
... scientific research; for instance, relying solely on observations for making inferences and ignoring theory is not considered acceptable scientific research Depending on a researcher’s training and interest, ... than inductive conclusions As shown in Figure 2.3, inductive and deductive reasoning go hand in hand in model building Induction occurs when we observe a fact and ask, “Why is this happening?” In ... We will examine theories and the process of theorizing in detail in the next chapter The next major in the research process is research design This is a blueprint for fulfilling the research objectives...
... modeling of fundamental biological interactions, investigating surface and interfacial phenomena important to engineering design in living systems, expanding the scope of process engineering into ... widely disseminated into chemical engineering departments in order to integrate methodological advances into the mainstream of research and education Surface and Interfacial Engineering (Chapter ... of Engineering-Institute of Medicine, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy "Report of the Research Briefing Panel on Chemical and Process Engineering for Biotechnology," in Research...
... asked to indicate how distressed they were by feelings of hopelessness, lack of interest, worrying, feeling blue, feeling lonely, blaming themselves, feeling trapped, crying easily, having a poor ... resource in the informal support system Research on Aging, 1, 434 – 463 Carstensen, L L (1987) Age-related changes insocial activity In L L Carstensen & B A Edelstein (Eds.), Handbook of clinical ... support and incidence and course of chronic disease in the elderly Family Systems Medicine, 13, 39 – 68 Lang, F R (2000) Endings and continuity of social relationships: Maximizing intrinsic benefits...
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... to Celltech to continue working in physical chemistry and developed interests in QSAR and data modelling In 2001 he joined Umetrics UK as a consultant, teaching and consulting in Chemometric methods ... Watson Research Center Dr Haiminen received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Helsinki, Finland Her research interests include bioinformatics, pattern discovery and data mining ... joining Jealott’s Hill International Research Centre to work in insect control, Rob collaborated with Iain to build up an imaging system that could be implemented in the screening for new insecticides...
... providing reading materials Findings: Such examples are included in the write-up for each child development work within pediatric and family • Linguistic Isolation: The percent of children living in ... for each indicator in Appendix A All other estimates were taken from existing to inform and support programs and policies intended to The initiative is particularly interested in coordinating health ... potentially lasting into adulthood include iron deficiency and elevated levels of lead in the blood Findings: • Breastfeeding: The percentage of mothers still breastfeeding their infants at six...
... cannot join the trial Common criteria for entering a trial include: ■■ Having a certain type or stage of cancer ■■ Having received a certain kind of therapy in the past ■■ Being in a certain age ... patient safety inresearch During the informed consent process you learn important information about a clinical trial This information can help you decide whether to join During the informed consent ... Deciding to Take Part in Clinical Trials 10 Questions to Ask 11 How to Find Clinical Trials 12 What are clinical trials? Clinical trials are research studies that involve...
... at Illinois in 1980, I was finally free to begin studying happiness Stage 2: Subjective Well-Being In 1980, Carol and I spent our sabbatical year in the Virgin Islands While Carol taught nine psychology ... became increasingly disenchanted with the reigning behavioristic and materialistic paradigm in their discipline, and they did interesting studies using measures of well-being It is hoped that the research ... understanding Finally, then, John would tighten down the circle of inquiry to the thinking of other social psychologists who had reported on their findings in the literature of our discipline It...
... the Frontiers in Soil Science Research Workshop to identify emerging areas for researchin soil science by addressing the interaction of soil science subdisciplines, collaborative research with ... discipline that could be leveraged in the interdisciplinary activities and opportunities in other funding agencies To many people, including many in the federal funding agencies, soil science is still ... quantified by thin sectioning and staining allow estimates of water fluxes in soil In addition, soil features, such as clay coatings and iron mottling, provide permanent signatures in the soil that...
... Rethinking social work ethics The contents of this book 1 12 In search of the holy grail Naina Patel Introduction Starting anti-racism Utilitarianism Differing goals 16 Ethical issues insocial ... issues insocial work research Geraldine Macdonald and Kenneth Macdonald Introduction Social work and researchResearch methods and social work Research interpretation Research topic choice Client ... may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information...
... record 5.1 Initializing Factors Since a uniform initialization of all factors is a saddle-point of the objective, we opt to initialize the q(y) factors with the marginals obtained using just the ... confirm our hypothesis that we gain significant benefit by intertwining constraints on extraction consistency in the learning process, rather than only using this constraint to filter output 7.1 Analysis ... of the remaining three factors were hand-tuned4 using our training data set Inference Our goal is to predict a set of records R Ideally we would like to compute P (R|x), marginalizing out the...
... of machine translation In Proceedings of HLT/NAACL Franz Josef Och and Hermann Ney 2002 Discriminative training and maximum entropy models for statistical machine translation In Proceedings of ... genuine improvement in translation quality In Sections 3.1 and 3.2 we examine ways of synthetically producing such variant translations 3.1 Permuting phrases One way in which variation can be introduced ... Josef Och 2003 Minimum error rate training for statistical machine translation In Proceedings of ACL, Sapporo, Japan, July Kishore Papineni, Salim Roukos, Todd Ward, and WeiJing Zhu 2002 Bleu:...
... were interested in becoming program managers and executives And in part, this development insocial work reflected the barriers facing women, throughout most of the twentieth century, in gaining ... Since the 1970s, the curriculum in many of the graduate schools of social work has also included a minor, but distinct, curriculum track dealing with management practice (Austin 1995, 2000) In ... together within a single community, or the problem of linking such programs to serve a single household when a series of problem conditions are affecting household members In examining the processes...