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ISBN:
Category : Trademarks
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Author: Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Author: United States. Patent and Trademark OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 1430
Book Description
The Power to Divide
Author: Timothy W. CrawfordPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501754726
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Timothy W. Crawford's The Power to Divide examines the use of wedge strategies, a form of divisive statecraft designed to isolate adversaries from allies and potential supporters to gain key advantages. With a multidimensional argument about the power of accommodation in competition, and a survey of alliance diplomacy around both World Wars, The Power to Divide artfully analyzes the past and future performance of wedge strategy in great power politics. Crawford argues that nations attempting to use wedge strategy do best when they credibly accommodate likely or established allies of their enemies. He also argues that a divider's own alliances can pose obstacles to success and explains the conditions that help dividers overcome them. He advances these claims in eight focused studies of alliance diplomacy surrounding the World Wars, derived from published official documents and secondary histories. Through those narratives, Crawford adeptly assesses the record of countries that tried an accommodative wedge strategy, and why ultimately, they succeeded or failed. These calculated actions often became turning points, desired or not, in a nation's established power. For policymakers today facing threats to power from great power competitors, Crawford argues that a deeper historical and theoretical grasp of the role of these wedge strategies in alliance politics and grand strategy is necessary. Crawford drives home the contemporary relevance of the analysis with a survey of China's potential to use such strategies to divide India from the US, and the United States' potential to use them to forestall a China-Russia alliance, and closes with a review of key theoretical insights for policy.
Birnbaum's United States, 1997
Author: Alexandria M. BirnbaumPublisher: HarperPerennial
ISBN: 9780062782571
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 1650
Book Description
Packed with a wealth of information about travel to and through the United States, this encyclopedic guide contains entries on 42 cities and stops along 60 beautiful driving routes across the country. Arranged in an easy-to-use format, it includes tips on planning the trip; highlights of great hotels, restaurants, and attractions; and off-the-beaten-path pleasures. Index. Illus.
America's Children
Author: Institute of Medicine and National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309173930
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
America's Children is a comprehensive, easy-to-read analysis of the relationship between health insurance and access to care. The book addresses three broad questions: How is children's health care currently financed? Does insurance equal access to care? How should the nation address the health needs of this vulnerable population? America's Children explores the changing role of Medicaid under managed care; state-initiated and private sector children's insurance programs; specific effects of insurance status on the care children receive; and the impact of chronic medical conditions and special health care needs. It also examines the status of "safety net" health providers, including community health centers, children's hospitals, school-based health centers, and others and reviews the changing patterns of coverage and tax policy options to increase coverage of private-sector, employer-based health insurance. In response to growing public concerns about uninsured children, last year Congress voted to provide $24 billion over five years for new state insurance initiatives. This volume will serve as a primer for concerned federal policymakers and regulators, state agency officials, health plan decisionmakers, health care providers, children's health advocates, and researchers.
Sonic Interactions in Virtual Environments
Author: Michele GeronazzoPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303104021X
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
This open access book tackles the design of 3D spatial interactions in an audio-centered and audio-first perspective, providing the fundamental notions related to the creation and evaluation of immersive sonic experiences. The key elements that enhance the sensation of place in a virtual environment (VE) are: Immersive audio: the computational aspects of the acoustical-space properties of Virutal Reality (VR) technologies Sonic interaction: the human-computer interplay through auditory feedback in VE VR systems: naturally support multimodal integration, impacting different application domains Sonic Interactions in Virtual Environments will feature state-of-the-art research on real-time auralization, sonic interaction design in VR, quality of the experience in multimodal scenarios, and applications. Contributors and editors include interdisciplinary experts from the fields of computer science, engineering, acoustics, psychology, design, humanities, and beyond. Their mission is to shape an emerging new field of study at the intersection of sonic interaction design and immersive media, embracing an archipelago of existing research spread in different audio communities and to increase among the VR communities, researchers, and practitioners, the awareness of the importance of sonic elements when designing immersive environments.
Psychological Experiments on the Internet
Author: Michael H. BirnbaumPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0120999803
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Until recently, most psychological research was conducted using subject samples in close proximity to the investigators--namely university undergraduates. In recent years, however, it has become possible to test people from all over the world by placing experiments on the internet. The number of people using the internet for this purpose is likely to become the main venue for subject pools in coming years. As such, learning about experiments on the internet will be of vital interest to all research psychologists. Psychological Experiments on the Internet is divided into three sections. Section I discusses the history of web experimentation, as well as the advantages, disadvantages, and validity of web-based psychological research. Section II discusses examples of web-based experiments on individual differences and cross-cultural studies. Section III provides readers with the necessary information and techniques for utilizing the internet in their own research designs. Innovative topic that will capture the imagination of many readers Includes examples of actual web based experiments
Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000
Author: Pat KirkhamPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300093314
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
A celebration of the many contributions of women designers to 20th-century American culture. Encompassing work in fields ranging from textiles and ceramics to furniture and fashion, it features the achievements of women of various ethnic and cultural groups, including both famous designers (Ray Eames, Florence Knoll and Donna Karan) and their less well-known sisters.
Reducing medical errors
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on HealthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical care
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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