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Format: XIII, 257 Seiten

ISBN: 9781848163102 , 9781848163096 , 1848163096 , 184816310X

Content: This book is designed to enable non-native English speakers to write science research for publication in English. It can also be used by English speakers and is a practical, user-friendly book intended as a fast, do-it-yourself guide for those whose English language proficiency is above intermediate. The approach is based on material developed from teaching graduate students at Imperial College London and has been extensively piloted. The book guides the reader through the process of writing science research and will also help with writing a Master’s or Doctoral thesis in English. Science writing is much easier than it looks because the structure and language are conventional. The aim of this book is to help the reader discover a template or model for science research writing and then to provide the grammar and vocabulary tools needed to operate that model. There are five units: Introduction, Methodology, Results, Discussion/Conclusion and Abstract. The reader develops a model for each section of the research article through sample texts and exercises; this is followed by a Grammar and Writing Skills section designed to respond to frequently-asked questions as well as a Vocabulary list including examples of how the words and phrases are to be used.

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Language: English

Subjects: Chemistry/Pharmacy , Economics , Natural Sciences , Biology , General works , English Studies

Keywords: Naturwissenschaften ; Forschungsergebnis ; Wissenschaftliches Manuskript ; Englisch ; Wissenschaftliches Manuskript ; Textproduktion ; Wissenschaft ; Englisch ; Ratgeber ; Handbooks and manuals

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Format: XV, 408 S. , Ill., zahlr. graph. Darst., Kt. , Beil.

ISBN: 9780262015097 , 9780262515665 , 0262015099 , 0262515660

Note: [pt. 1.] An introduction to the atlas : Navigating the future -- The foundations of the atlas -- Finding a center in the dynamic -- A note on rhetoric -- [pt. 2.] The atlas : A note on visualization -- How to navigate the atlas -- Readers of the atlas -- Limitations of the atlas -- [pt. 3.] Threads : [A.] Mission -- The mission of librarians is to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities -- Importance of worldview -- Longitude example -- Importance of theory and deep concepts : Libraries and theory -- Conversation theory : Credibility -- Other informative concepts and theories : Dialectic theories ; Sense-making ; Motivation theories ; Motivation ; Learning theory ; Constructivism ; Postmodernism -- Creating a new social compact : Evolution of the social compact -- Thread conclusion -- [B.] Knowledge creation -- The mission of librarians is to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities -- Knowledge is created through conversation ; Conversation theory : Conversants ; Service is not invisibility ; Language ; Evolution of systems -- System view -- User-based design -- User systems : Social network sites -- Agreements : Artifacts ; Source amnesia ; Invest in tools of creation over collection of artifacts ; Death of documents ; Memory ; Entailment mesh ; Annotations ; Limitations of tagging ; Cataloging relationships -- Scapes -- Reference extract -- Libraries are in the knowledge business, therefore the conversation business -- [C.] Facilitating -- The mission of librarians is to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities ; True facilitation means shared ownership : Members not patrons or users -- Means of facilitation -- Access : Publisher of community ; Shared shelves with the community ; Meeting spaces -- Knowledge : Library instruction ; Need for an expanded definition of literacy ; Gaming ; Social literacy -- E , Environment -- Motivation : Intrinsic ; Extrinsic -- Thread conclusion -- [D.] Communities -- The mission of librarians is to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities -- Pressure for participation : Boundary issues -- Digital environments : Internet model example ; Infrastructure providers ; TCP/IP ; Application builders ; Open source ; Information services ; Web 2.0 ; User -- Credibility : From authority to reliability ; Authoritative versus authoritarian ; Putting it all together: the participatory digital library -- Physical environments : Topical centers with curriculum -- Hybrid environments -- Different communities librarians serve -- Public : Free Library of Philadelphia ; Entrepreneurium ; Writing center ; Music center -- Academic : Issues of institutional repositories ; Scholarly communications -- Government : Department of Justice -- Assessment : Mapping conversations -- Special -- School : Growing importance of two-way infrastructure -- Archives -- Go to the conversation : Embedded librarians -- Truly distributed digital library -- Thread conclusion. [E.] Improve society -- The mission of librarians is to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities -- Importance of action and activism -- Service : Service is not invisibility -- Core values : Learning ; Openness ; Intellectual freedom and safety ; Intellectually honest not unbiased ; Ethics -- Social justice issues -- Policy : Democracy and openness overshadowed by technology -- Innovation : Innovation versus entrepreneurship -- Creating an agenda : Risks of data -- Leadership : Obligation of leadership -- Thread conclusion -- [F.] Librarians -- The mission of librarians is to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities -- Core skills -- Transition of traditional skills -- Information organization : Cataloging relationships ; , Evolution of integrated library systems -- Information seeking -- Public service : Reference -- Collection development : Community as collection ; Issues of institutional repositories -- Administration : Warehousing functions ; Shelving ; Circulation -- Importance of technical skills -- Ambiguity is essential for professional work -- Ability to work in interdisciplinary teams : Relation to other domains ; Information science ; Getting past the L v I debate ; Communications ; Computer science ; Humanities ; Education ; Paraprofessionals -- LIS education : Shift in innovation from academy to ubiquity ; Co-learning -- Increase friction in the process : Every course has symposia and practica -- Curriculum of communication and change over -- Traditional ideas of leadership : Recognize a school as a participatory network ; From school to school of thought ; Avoiding the Florentine dilemma -- Need to expand the educational ladder : Bachelor of information and instructional design ; Need for an executive doctorate ; Institute for advanced librarianship idea ; Vital roles of mentors -- Obligation of leadership and thread conclusion -- [G.] Threads postscript -- Practitioners -- Library and information science scholars -- Students -- Members -- The whole community of librarianship. [pt. 4.] Web citations -- [pt. 5.] Agreement supplements : Ability to work in interdisciplinary teams ; Academic ; Access ; Administration ; Agreements ; Ambiguity is essential for professional work ; Annotations ; Application builders ; Archives ; Artifacts ; Assessment ; Authoritative versus authoritarian ; Avoiding the Florentine dilemma ; Bachelor of information and instructional design ; Boundary issues ; Cataloging relationships ; Circulation ; Co-learning ; , Collection development ; Communications ; Community as collector ; Computer science ; Constructivism ; Conversants ; Conversation theory ; Core skills ; Core values ; Creating a new social compact ; Creating an agenda ; Credibility ; Curriculum of communication and change over traditional ideas of leadership ; Death of documents ; Democracy and openness overshadowed by technology ; Department of Justice ; Dialectic theories ; Different communities librarians serve ; Digital environments ; Embedded librarians ; Entailment mesh ; Entrepreneurium ; Environment ; Ethics ; Every course has symposia and practica ; Evolution of integrated library systems ; Evolution of systems ; Evolution of the social compact ; Extrinsic ; Free Library of Philadelphia ; From authority to reliability ; From school to school of thought ; Gaming ; Getting past the Lv I debate ; Go to the conversation ; Government ; Growing importance of two-way infrastructure ; Humanities ; Hybrid environments ; Importance of a worldview ; Importance of action and activism ; Importance of technical skills ; Importance of theory and deep concepts ; Increase friction in the process ; Information organization ; Information science ; Information seeking ; Information services ; Infrastructure providers ; Innovation ; Innovation versus entrepreneurship ; Institute for advanced librarianship idea ; Intellectual freedom and safety ; Intellectually honest not unbiased ; Internet model example ; Intrinsic ; Invest in tools of creation over collection of artifacts ; Issues of institution repositories ; Knowledge ; Knowledge is created through conversation ; Language ; Leadership ; Learning ; Learning theory ; Libraries are in the knowledge business, therefore the conversation business ; Library instruction ; Limitations of tagging ; LIS education ; Longitude example ; Mapping conversations ; Massive scale ; Means of facilitation ; Meeting spaces ; , Members not patrons or users ; Memory ; Motivation ; Motivation theory ; Music center ; Need for an executive doctorate ; Need for an expanded definition of literacy ; Need to expand the educational ladder ; Obligation of leadership ; Open source ; Openness ; Paraprofessionals ; Physical environments ; Policy ; Postmodernism ; Pressure for participation ; Public ; Public service ; Publisher of community ; Recognize a school as a participatory network ; Reference ; Reference extract ; Relation to other domains ; Risks of data ; Scapes ; Scholarly communications ; School ; School information management systems ; Selective dissemination of information ; Sense-making ; Service ; Service is not invisibility ; Shared shelves with the community ; Shelving ; Shift in innovation from academy to ubiquity ; Social justice issues ; Social literacy ; Social network sites ; Source amnesia ; Special ; System view ; TCP-IP ; The mission of librarians is to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities ; Topical centers with curriculum ; Transition of traditional skills ; True facilitation means shared ownership ; Truly distributed digital library ; User ; User systems ; User-based design ; Vital roles of mentors ; Warehousing functions ; Web 2.0 ; Writing center -- [pt. 5.] Atlas postscript

Language: English

Subjects: General works

Keywords: Bibliothek ; Gesellschaft ; Bibliothekswissenschaft ; Bibliothek ; Zukunft ; Bibliothekar ; Berufsbild ; Lehrmittel

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Author information: Lankes, R. David 1970-

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Format: 232 S. , 23 cm

ISBN: 383530903X , 9783835309036

Series Statement: Göttinger Studien zur Generationsforschung 6

Content: "The protests of '1968' have become a powerful symbol of generational belonging and central to the western world's collective memory. In many European countries, the '68ers' have been transformed into a mythical yardstick of what contitutes a generation. Yet few people thought of themselves in this way in the late 1960s: the idea of the '68er' only emerged from complex and often retrospective processes of generational building, both within countries and at an international level. Often labelled the first 'global generation', the term '68er' may have entered the vernacular across Europe, but what it entailed in different political and cultural contexts warrants examination. Were the '68ers' a pan-European phenomenon or did different generational entities emerge from national debates and discourses? The articles collected here examine the idea of a '68er' generation in West Germany, elsewhere in Western Europe, and in countries formerly behind the Iron Curtain. They address how activists - and those who observed them - made sense of those events at the time, how the idea of a generational experience was mobilized politically to powerful effect in the years that followed, and why the '68ers' have become the generation against which all others are measured in some countries, but not in others."--Publisher's description

Language: English

Subjects: History , Political Science , Sociology

Keywords: Deutschland ; Italien ; Frankreich ; Ostblock ; Geschichte 1960-1972 ; Europa ; Achtundsechziger ; Generation ; Geschichte 1600-1700 ; Aufsatzsammlung

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Author information: Goltz, Anna von der 1978-

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Format: 339 S. , Ill., graph. Darst.

ISBN: 9783923381593 , 1593262639

Series Statement: Advances in geoecology 42

Content: Soils are regularly exposed to different kinds of external loads, which can be described as static or dynamic and are always variable in loading time and magnitude. How far these external forces and soil management strategies coincide with the approach of sustainability of soils and their functions in a changing world with an intensely growing population is often discussed controversially. The most recent flooding events in Germany, Poland, Austria, Czech Republic, etc. and the catastrophic landslides in Italy, etc., also visualize the enormous effects and threats which must be linked to the manmade soil degradation due to non-site adjusted management approaches in combination with climate change-induced intensified rainstorm events etc. This idea becomes even more relevant with increasing intensity of soil cultivation-induced changes of mechanical, hydraulic and physicochemical soil processes and functions. The result of such processes must be defined as a degraded system, which certainly requires a better and more process based understanding of the dominant processes under the aspect of requested crop yield increase, better filtering and buffering for clean drinking water production as well as also concerning a less intense climate gas emission to the atmosphere (global change effect). In the following, various aspects of mainly mechanical soil degradation will be described in the book elucidating the various scale effects as well as the consequences also for soil erosion and its quantification. Eight contributions deal with scale dependent processes of soil degradation from micro- to macroscale and they also describe the interactions between soil particles and chemistry on soil strength.

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Language: English

Subjects: Geography

Keywords: Degradation ; Bodenerosion ; Aufsatzsammlung

Author information: Krümmelbein, Julia 1976-

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Format: XII, 357 S. , Ill., graph. Darst., Kt., Notenbeisp.

Edition: 1. publ.

ISBN: 9780521879170

Content: "This book introduces stochastic dynamical systems theory in order to synthesize our current knowledge of climate variability. Nonlinear processes, such as advection, radiation and turbulent mixing, play a central role in climate variability. These processes can give rise to transition phenomena, associated with tipping or bifurcation points, once external conditions are changed. The theory of dynamical systems provides a systematic way to study these transition phenomena. Its stochastic extension also forms the basis of modern (nonlinear) data analysis techniques, predictability studies and data assimilation methods. Early chapters apply the stochastic dynamical systems framework to a hierarchy of climate models to synthesize current knowledge of climate variability. Later chapters analyse phenomena such as the North Atlantic Oscillation, El Niño/Southern Oscillation, Atlantic Multidecadal Variability, Dansgaard-Oeschger Events, Pleistocene Ice Ages, and climate predictability. This book will prove invaluable for graduate students and researchers in climate dynamics, physical oceanography, meteorology and paleoclimatology"-- Provided by publisher. -- "Chapter 1: Climate Variability Complex motions on the sphere; CCDGAD, Aerial Boundaries, Michael Hedges. Human life is possible because of the specific conditions of the fluid envelopes surrounding the Earth. These fluid envelopes and the processes affecting their behavior are usually grouped into one system: the climate system. Quantities in the climate system, such as temperature and precipitation, vary on many time scales and these variations are highly relevant for many aspects of human life, such as food production and safety. There are many very good textbooks containing a description of the components of the climate system (Peixoto and Oort, 1992; Ruddiman, 2001), the relevant processes (Hartmann, 1994) and

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Language: English

Subjects: Geography

Keywords: Dynamische Klimatologie ; Klimatologie ; Modellierung ; Nichtlineare Dynamik ; Aufsatzsammlung

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (234 p)

Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]

ISBN: 9783110720044

Content: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- The Bitter Fruits of Success -- Elderly Housing in Contemporary Japan: Exploring Alternative Forms of Housing -- The Housing System and Generational Divides: Housing Pathways and Life-courses in Japan -- Older Japanese Spouse Care in Relation to Household Structure, Gender Relation, and Political Economy -- "Silver Robots" and "Robotic Nurses"? Japans Robot Culture and Elderly Care -- The Effectiveness of New Job Security Measure for the Older Employees in Japan -- Comparing Social Policies: The Long-term Care Insurance as a Case -- Contributing Authors -- Programme of the annual VSJF Meeting 2008

Content: This volume contains selected papers of the 2008 annual conference of the German Association for Social Science Research on Japan (Vereinigung für sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung e.V. - VSJF). The academic meeting has addressed the issue of demographic change in Japan in comparison to the social developments of ageing in Germany and other member states of the European Union. The conference was organized by the Institute for Modern Japanese Studies at Heinrich-Heine-University of Duesseldorf and took place at the Mutter Haus in Kaiserswerth (an ancient part of Duesseldorf). Speakers from Germany, England, Japan and the Netherlands presented their papers in four sessions on the topics "Demographic Trends and Social Analysis", "Family and Welfare Policies", "Ageing Society and the Organization of Households" and "Demographic Change and the Economy". Central to all transnational and national studies on demographic change is the question of how societies can be reconstructed and be made adaptive to these changes in order to survive as solidarity communities. The authors of this volume attend to this question by discussing on recent trends of social and economic restructuring and giving insight into new research developments such as in the area of households and housing, family care work, medical insurance, robot technology or the employment sector

Note: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English

Additional Edition: ISBN 9783940671639

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als print ISBN 9783940671639

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9783110720044

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Format: XX, 293 S. , graph. Darst.

Edition: 1. publ.

ISBN: 9780521887427 , 9780521715348

Series Statement: Econometric Society monographs

Note: "The definition and measurement of social welfare have been a vexed issue for the past century. This book makes a constructive, easily applicable proposal and suggests how to evaluate the economic situation of a society in a way that gives priority to the worse-off and that respects each individual's preferences over his or her own consumption, work, leisure and so on. This approach resonates with the current concern to go 'beyond the GDP' in the measurement of social progress. Compared to technical studies in welfare economics, this book emphasizes constructive results rather than paradoxes and impossibilities, and shows how one can start from basic principles of efficiency and fairness and end up with concrete evaluations of policies. Compared to more philosophical treatments of social justice, this book is more precise about the definition of social welfare and reaches conclusions about concrete policies and institutions only after a rigorous derivation from clearly stated principles"-- Provided by publisher. -- "The definition and measurement of social welfare have been a vexed issue for the past century. This book makes a constructive, easily applicable proposal and suggests how to evaluate the economic situation of a society in a way that gives priority to the worse-off and that respects each individual's preferences over his or her own consumption, work, leisure, and so on. This approach resonates with the current concern to go beyond the GDP in the measurement of social progress. Compared to technical studies in welfare economics, this book emphasizes constructive results rather than paradoxes and impossibilities, and shows how one can start from basic principles of efficiency and fairness and end up with concrete evaluations of policies. Compared to more philosophical treatments of social justice, this book is more precise about the definition of social w , Includes bibliographical references and index

Language: English

Subjects: Economics

Keywords: Wohlfahrtstheorie ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Verteilungsgerechtigkeit

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Author information: Fleurbaey, Marc 1961-

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Note: "Collects together texts dating from Handel's lifetime that contain references to him (directly, or by implication) and his music" - Introduction

Language: English

Keywords: Händel, Georg Friedrich 1685-1759 ; Quelle

Author information: Burrows, Donald 1945-

Author information: Händel, Georg Friedrich 1685-1759

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Format: XIII, 279 S. , graph. Darst. , 24 cm

Edition: 1. publ.

ISBN: 9780521518475 , 0521518474

Content: "The traditional (final or average salary) pension that employers have provided their employees has suffered a huge decline in labor force coverage in the United Kingdom and the United States, and less severe declines in Canada and elsewhere. The traditional pension provides a precious measure of retirement security by paying retirees an annuity for life. This study compares developments in the countries just named and in Australia, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, and Switzerland to explain the forces behind the decline of the traditional pension and to contrast the experience of public sector employer-provided plans, where it remains dominant. Given the great value of the longevity insurance that the traditional plan provides, and the risks its diminished coverage entails, the book proposes a set of measures that either stem the decline or endow defined contribution pensions with some of the attributes of the traditional plan"--

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , The development of employer-provided pensions -- The economics of employer-provided pension plans -- Issues in funding and investing -- Current regulatory issues -- Public-sector employer-provided pensions and recent innovations in the first tier -- The causes of decline -- Policies to address the decline of the traditional pension -- Summary and conclusions -- Appendix 1 : Ten country profiles -- Appendix 2 : Mathematical treatments and derivations

Language: English

Subjects: Economics

Keywords: Altersruhegeld ; Internationaler Vergleich

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Format: X, 211 S. , graph. Darst.

Edition: 1. publ.

ISBN: 1107003776 , 9781107003774

Content: "This book is about the diversity of older people and the discrimination that results. Older people are often stereotyped according to their age. Age stereotyping is concerned with associating certain characteristics, or the lack of them, with certain ages. It in effect homogenises the particular age group as being all the same, rather than recognising any diversity within that age group (Robinson, Gustafson, and Popovich 2008). There is an impression that older people share certain attributes, patterns of behaviour, appearances and beliefs (Ward et al 2008). This stereotyping according to age is not restricted to older people of course and can apply to all ages and age groups. Here is a useful quote to that illustrates how the issue of age pervades many aspects of the life course:Our lives are defined by ageing: the ages at which we can learn to drive, vote, have sex, buy a house, or retire, get a pension, travel by bus for free. More subtle are the implicit boundaries that curtail our lives: the 'safe' age to have children, the 'experience' needed to fill the boss's role, the physical strength needed for some jobs. Society is continually making judgments about when you are too old for something - and when you are too old"--

Content: "This volume of essays is concerned with the discrimination against older people that results from a failure to recognise their diversity. By considering the unique combinations of discrimination that arise from the interrelationship of age and gender, pensions, ethnicity, sexual orientation, socio-economic class and disability, the contributors demonstrate that the discrimination suffered is multiple in nature. It is the combination of these characteristics that leads to the need for more complex ways of tackling age discrimination"--

Note: Literaturangaben , Machine generated contents note: 1. Context Malcolm Sargeant; 2. Multiple discrimination Lynn Roseberry; 3. Older women in the workplace Diane Grant; 4. Women and disadvantage in modern pensions systems Athina Vlachantoni; 5. Age and ethnicity Karen Kobashi and Sharon Koehn; 6. Sexual orientation, gender identity and age Malcolm Sargeant; 7. Age and disability Mark Priestly; 8. Age and health/social care Jose Luis-Fernandez and Sara Allin; 9. Age and class Alexandra Lopes.

Language: English

Subjects: Ethnology

Keywords: Alter ; Diskriminierung ; Aufsatzsammlung