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Effective Writing in the Public Sector
Intended for both students and practitioners in public administration who want to communicate more effectively with a variety of audiences, this book offers clear, easy-to-understand guidelines on how to write more clearly, concisely, and coherently, as well as correctly. It covers the basics of goo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Budgeting for Public Managers
by John W. Swain • B. J. ReedBenefiting from the authors' many years of teaching undergraduate and graduate students and practitioners, here is a clear, comprehensive, practice-oriented text for public budgeting courses. Rather than presenting each budgeting concern in mind-numbing detail, the book offers a commonsensical view ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Reading Chinese Script: A Cognitive Analysis
This volume uses unique properties of Chinese script to focus on morphological analyses during the character and word recognition process, though some of the reported work also pertains to the use of phonological information. In addition, this volume contains work on syntactic and pragmatic processe... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
Constraints of Agency: Explorations of Theory in Everyday Life (Annals of Theoretical Psychology #12)
This book explores the basic concept of agency and develops it further in psychology using it to better understand and explain psychological processes and behavior. More importantly, this book seeks to put an emphasis on the role of agency in four distinct settings: history of psychology, neuroscie... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Residual Stress, Thermomechanics & Infrared Imaging and Inverse Problems, Volume 6: Proceedings of the 2019 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics (Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series)
by John Considine • Sven Bossuyt • Antonio Baldi • Sharlotte L. B. Kramer • Fabrice Pierron • Johan HoefnagelsResidual Stress, Thermomechanics & Infrared Imaging and Inverse Problems, Volume 6 of the Proceedings of the 2019 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the sixth volume of six from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research an... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
The Oneness Hypothesis: Beyond the Boundary of Self
by Stephen R. Clark • Michael R. Slater • Mark Unno • Jay L. Garfield • Lawrence Blum • Tao Jiang • Justin Tiwald • Victoria Harrison • Eva Feder Kittay • Donald L. Baxter • Bradford Cokelet • Kendy M. Hess • Cho Geung Ho • Shaun Nichols • Dimitri Putilin • Nina Strohminger • William B. Swann • Sanaz TalaifarThe idea that the self is inextricably intertwined with the rest of the world—the “oneness hypothesis”—can be found in many of the world’s philosophical and religious traditions. Oneness provides ways to imagine and achieve a more expansive conception of the self as fundamentally connected with othe... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Video Analytics. Face and Facial Expression Recognition: Third International Workshop, FFER 2018, and Second International Workshop, DLPR 2018, Beijing, China, August 20, 2018, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11264)
by Thomas B. Moeslund • Kamal Nasrollahi • Gang Hua • Shuicheng Yan • Shiguang Shan • Zhaoxiang Zhang • Qiang Ji • Xiang Bai • Yi Fang • Yangqing Jia • Meina Kan • Chunhua Shen • Jingdong Wang • Gui-Song XiaThis book constitutes the proceedings of the Third Workshop on Face and Facial Expression Recognition from Real World Videos, FFER 2018, and the Second International Workshop on Deep Learning for Pattern Recognition, DLPR 2018, held at the 24th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Vulnerable: The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
by Ravi Malhotra • Jeffrey Simpson • Paul Daly • David Robitaille • Jomo Kwame Sundaram • Katherine Fierlbeck • Grégoire Webber • Pat Armstrong • Hugh Armstrong • Jane Philpott • Delphine Nakache • Ivy Bourgeault • Daniel Weinstock • Aimée Craft • Anis Chowdhury • Teresa Scassa • Chidi Oguamanam • E. Richard Gold • Olivia Lee • Carissima Mathen • Steven J. Hoffman • Vanessa Gruben • Martha Jackman • Bryan Thomas • Lorian Hardcastle • Deborah McGregor • Jeffery Hewitt • Michelle Giroux • Amir Attaran • Adam R. Houston • Alexandra Flynn • Mel Cappe • Tim Caulfield • Marie-France Fortin • Jennifer A. Quaid • Kumanan Wilson • Kelly Bronson • Jason Millar • Vardit Ravitsky • Terry Skolnik • Yves Le Bouthillier • Martine Lagacé • Linda Garcia • Leilani Farha • Kaitlin Schwan • Adelina Iftene • Jamie Chai Liew • Y. Y. Chen • Anne Levesque • Kwame McKenzie • Jennifer A. Chandler • Mona Gupta • Yasmin Khaliq • Simon Hatcher • Tess Sheldon • Katherine Lippel • Louise Bélanger-Hardy • Sarah Berger Richardson • Sam Halabi • Patrick Fafard • Céline Castets-Renard • Eleonore Fournier-Tombs • Jeremy De Beer • Matthew Herder • Jason W. NickersonThe novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease known as COVID-19, has infected people in 212 countries so far and on every continent except Antarctica. Vast changes to our home lives, social interactions, government functioning and relations between countries have swept the world i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020