Author: Stephen R. OliveriPublisher: American Association of Petroleum Geologists
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Field Safety in Uncontrolled Environments
Author: Stephen R. OliveriPublisher: American Association of Petroleum Geologists
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Uncontrolled
Author: Jim ManziPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465029310
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
How do we know which social and economic policies work, which should be continued, and which should be changed? Jim Manzi argues that throughout history, various methods have been attempted -- except for controlled experimentation. Experiments provide the feedback loop that allows us, in certain limited ways, to identify error in our beliefs as a first step to correcting them. Over the course of the first half of the twentieth century, scientists invented a methodology for executing controlled experiments to evaluate certain kinds of proposed social interventions. This technique goes by many names in different contexts (randomized control trials, randomized field experiments, clinical trials, etc.). Over the past ten to twenty years this has been increasingly deployed in a wide variety of contexts, but it remains the red-haired step child of modern social science. This is starting to change, and this change should be encouraged and accelerated, even though the staggering complexity of human society creates severe limits to what social science could be realistically expected to achieve. Randomized trials have shown, for example, that work requirements for welfare recipients have succeeded like nothing else in encouraging employment, that charter school vouchers have been successful in increasing educational attainment for underprivileged children, and that community policing has worked to reduce crime, but also that programs like Head Start and Job Corps, which might be politically attractive, fail to attain their intended objectives. Business leaders can also use experiments to test decisions in a controlled, low-risk environment before investing precious resources in large-scale changes -- the philosophy behind Manzi's own successful software company. In a powerful and masterfully-argued book, Manzi shows us how the methods of science can be applied to social and economic policy in order to ensure progress and prosperity.
Uncontrolled Environment
Author: Elaine TaylorPublisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 148093612X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Uncontrolled Environment By: Elaine Taylor In Uncontrolled Environment, Elaine Taylor takes readers to post-World War II Oklahoma, where kids chased popsicle sticks through flooded streets and enjoyed penny candies in the rural sunshine. But, as Taylor shows us, even these golden memories are tainted by violence. Her book walks readers through uncomfortable assault and shows the ruined lives and tortured souls that result from sexual violence and racial discrimination. Uncontrolled Environment is a difficult but important exploration of women who survive these assaults. Their stories become the lighthouse for others looking for answers, peace, or validation. Taylor writes, “Black and White, wealthy and poor, workplace ‘sexual’ harassment is degrading and offensive. It hurts and destroys lives, young and old. It is illegal.”
Applied Bioelectricity
Author: J. Patrick ReillyPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461216648
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
Electric currents and electromagnetic fields have been applied to biological systems, particularly humans, with both therapeutic and pathological results. This text discusses biological responses to electric currents and electromagnetic fields, including medical applications and shock hazards. It covers fundamental physical and engineering principles of responses to short-term electrical exposure and emphasises human reactions, although animal responses are considered as well, and the treatment covers reactions from the just-detectable to the clearly detrimental. An important new chapter discusses standards for human exposure to electromagnetic fields and electric current and demonstrates how these standards have been developed using the principles treated in earlier chapters.
Environment and Sustainable Development
Author: Keiji UjikawaPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9819733200
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Our Common Future
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195531916
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Institutions in Turbulent Environments
Author: T.P. KeatingPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429853939
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Published in 1999. Contemporary organizations are faced with increasingly rapid and dramatic change within their political, cultural and technological environments. Institutions in Turbulent Environments critically examines the way organizations respond to these changes,with a particular focus upon the institutional disability sector. The book examines available theory concerning organizational contingency, adaptation and population ecology. It utilizes a framework developed from this theory to examine the ways in which a major institution for the intellectually disabled responded to the turbulence within its environment. It uses this data to re-examine theory and to propose changes to the way organization/environment relationships are understood.
Connecticut Schools ...
Author: Connecticut. State Board of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
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