College Writing Skills uses explanation, demonstration, and practice to teach skills essential to success in college writing. For this course Peder Jones and Jay Farness have constructed a framework of rhetoric--work in composing paragraphs and essays--around disciplined study of sentences and words. The authors have sought in each section of the book to combine the most useful features of contemporary and traditional approaches to college English. Their overall aim is to enable the beginning college writer to compose clear and effective sentences, paragraphs, and compositions. This new edition of College Writing Skills is a refinement of the four previous editions; it has been shaped by helpful comments from students and instructors who have used the course. Exercises have been updated, and many minor changes for clarity have been made. Basic features of this text have not changed, however. As a hybrid of textbook and workbook, it continues to stress focused practice leading to directed independent composing activities; it emphasizes student writing rather than students reading about writing. This emphasis translates into more than 500 sets of exercises, more than 100 optional workshop activities, and an Appendix covering special problems in the acquisition of English. The exercises in this textbook embody our belief that practice is crucial to improving one's writing skills. Accordingly, this text provides practice in forming ideas, in getting ideas our one's head and onto paper, in experimenting with various sentence structures in order to achieve clarity, in following models of correct grammar and effective style, and in making the writing process pay off through effective revision and editing. A Collegiate Press book
College Writing Skills uses explanation, demonstration, and practice to teach skills essential to success in college writing. For this course Peder Jones and Jay Farness have constructed a framework of rhetoric--work in composing paragraphs and essays--around disciplined study of sentences and words. The authors have sought in each section of the book to combine the most useful features of contemporary and traditional approaches to college English. Their overall aim is to enable the beginning college writer to compose clear and effective sentences, paragraphs, and compositions. This new edition of College Writing Skills is a refinement of the four previous editions; it has been shaped by helpful comments from students and instructors who have used the course. Exercises have been updated, and many minor changes for clarity have been made. Basic features of this text have not changed, however. As a hybrid of textbook and workbook, it continues to stress focused practice leading to directed independent composing activities; it emphasizes student writing rather than students reading about writing. This emphasis translates into more than 500 sets of exercises, more than 100 optional workshop activities, and an Appendix covering special problems in the acquisition of English. The exercises in this textbook embody our belief that practice is crucial to improving one's writing skills. Accordingly, this text provides practice in forming ideas, in getting ideas our one's head and onto paper, in experimenting with various sentence structures in order to achieve clarity, in following models of correct grammar and effective style, and in making the writing process pay off through effective revision and editing. A Collegiate Press book
Aelian's Historical Miscellany is a pleasurable example of light reading for Romans of the early third century. Offering engaging anecdotes about historical figures, retellings of legendary events, and descriptive pieces - in sum: amusement, information, and variety - Aelian's collection of nuggets and narratives could be enjoyed by a wide reading public. A rather similar book had been published in Latin in the previous century by Aulus Gellius; Aelian is a late, perhaps the last, representative of what had been a very popular genre. Here then are anecdotes about the famous Greek philosophers, poets, historians, and playwrights; myths instructively retold; moralizing tales about heroes and rulers, athletes and wise men; reports about styles in dress, foods and drink, lovers, gift-giving practices, entertainments, religious beliefs and death customs; and comments on Greek painting. Some of the information is not preserved in any other source. Underlying it all are Aelian's Stoic ideals as well as this Roman's great admiration for the culture of the Greeks (whose language he borrowed for his writings).
The· simplest picture of an atom, a molecule or a solid is the picture of its distribution of charge. It is obtained by specifying the positions of the atomic nuclei and by showing how the density, p(E), of the electronic charge-cloud varies from place to place. A much more detailed picture is provided by the many-electron wavefunction. This quantity shows not only the arrangement of the electrons with respect to the nuclei, but also the arrangement of the electrons with respect to each other, and it allows the evaluation of the total energy and other properties. The many-electron wavefunction is in principle obtained by solving the many-electron Schrodinger equation for the motion of the interacting electrons under the influ ence of the nuclei, but in practice the equation is unsolvable, and it is necessary to proceed by methods of approximation. Needless to say, .such methods will as a rule depend on the complexity of the system considered.
Integrating sport psychology with the personal testimonies of baseball players, this helpful guide offers a step-by-step overview of what it takes for a boy playing little league baseball to work his way to college ball, the minor leagues, and beyond. Throughout, emphasis remains on the mental challenges players face and ways players can prepare for these challenges, both on and off the field. From college scholarships to meager minor league salaries, from getting traded to getting injured, this handbook will help athletes and parents navigate choices while illuminating the mental aspects that give the game its unpredictability and vitality.
Club 27 er en betegnelse for en række rockmusikere og kunstnere, som har det til fælles, at de er døde i en alder af 27. Betegnelsen har spillet en afgørende rolle for rockens selvforståelse og selviscenesættelse gennem årene. Med tiden har klubben fået så berømte medlemmer som Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain og senest Amy Winehouse – samt danske Michael Strunge. Dødsfaldene, der ofte er forbundet med stofmisbrug og selvmord, har givet anledning til mytemageri – ikke mindst den berømte Faust-myte – og sågar vilde konspirationsteorier. I singlen giver Peder Bundgaard sin personlige beretning om nogle af rockens tragiske skæbner – og deres fællesskab. Er Club 27 en forbandelse – eller en tilfældighed? En sandhed – eller bare en myte? Bundgaard giver et overraskende bud. Peder Bundgaard (f. 1945) har et indgående kendskab til rockmusik og skrevet flere musikbiografier samt bidraget til diverse rockleksika. Han har desuden designet pladeomslag for danske rocknavne som Gasolin', Bifrost, Sebastian, TV-2, Sort Sol, Malurt, Kashmir m.fl.
This open access book explores the question of who or what ‘the public’ is within ‘public health’ in post-war Britain. Drawing on historical research on the place of the public in public health in Britain from the establishment of the National Health Service in 1948, the book presents a new perspective on the relationship between state and citizen. Focusing on health education, health surveys, heart disease and the development of vaccination policy and practice, the book establishes that ‘the public’ was not one thing but many. It considers how public health policy makers and practitioners imagined the public or publics. These publics were not mere constructions; they had agency and the ability to ‘speak back’ to public health. The nature of publicness changed during the latter half of the twentieth century, and this book argues that the relationship between the public and public health offers a powerful lens through which to examine such shifts.
In this groundbreaking book, Adrian Bejan takes the recurring patterns in nature—trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning bolts—and reveals how a single principle of physics, the constructal law, accounts for the evolution of these and many other designs in our world. Everything—from biological life to inanimate systems—generates shape and structure and evolves in a sequence of ever-improving designs in order to facilitate flow. River basins, cardiovascular systems, and bolts of lightning are very efficient flow systems to move a current—of water, blood, or electricity. Likewise, the more complex architecture of animals evolve to cover greater distance per unit of useful energy, or increase their flow across the land. Such designs also appear in human organizations, like the hierarchical “flowcharts” or reporting structures in corporations and political bodies. All are governed by the same principle, known as the constructal law, and configure and reconfigure themselves over time to flow more efficiently. Written in an easy style that achieves clarity without sacrificing complexity, Design in Nature is a paradigm-shifting book that will fundamentally transform our understanding of the world around us.
This book aims to develop innovation theory by focusing on innovation in a consumer society. In an advanced consumer society, services dominate and are provided through digital as well as physical channels by local, national and global firms. This book aims to identify the ways in which value can be increased for all stakeholders through both incremental and disruptive innovation. When interacting with leading businesses, there is a common acceptance that we need a better understanding of how to innovate in a service economy. Today, most advanced economies are service and knowledge based, accounting for about 70 percent of GDP. OECD reports document a considerable knowledge gap related to service innovation. It is a challenge for both business and society that future economic growth will increasingly be based on services rather than manufacturing and products. Failing to understand innovation issues in this context as an engine for growth is somewhat alarming. This raises the question: do we know how to innovate successfully in a consumer driven society? In this book, the authors develop the concept of Value Driven Service Innovation, alongside a methodology for applying this approach in practice: the Service Innovation Triangle. They develop a better understanding of innovation, based on the uniqueness of services in order to develop the theory of service innovation suitable for a consumer society.
This book investigates how the lives of soldiers deployed on international missions are affected during deployment and after returning home to family, work, and civilian life. Analyses are based on unique longitudinal data, comprehensive and deep interviews, making it possible to follow the impact of deployment on a broad range of life outcomes.
If John 6 can be considered "the Grand Central Station of Johannine Critical issues," Peder Borgen's 1965 monograph, Bread from Heaven, proved to be one of the most incisive and important monographs on that difficult chapter. With extensive implications for addressing a host of other New Testament issues--including the unity and disunity of John's narrative, relations between Johannine and Synoptic traditions, and the socio-religious context of the Fourth Gospel--Borgen's work argues hard for a unitive view of the Johannine text. Rather than seeing John's story of Jesus as an amalgam of disparate sources, or as dependent on the Synoptics, Borgen explores a number of commonalities between contemporary Jewish writings, including the writings of Philo and haggadic midrashim. In so doing, new glimpses are also availed onto the dialectical Johannine situation, including an antidocetic thrust as well as Johannine-synagogue engagements. The enduring impact of Borgen's work shows the Fourth Gospel to represent a self-standing tradition, characterized by Jewish engagements of biblical texts, contributing to homiletic expansions upon memories of the ministry of Jesus for later generations. --From the Foreword by Paul N. Anderson
The global digital revolution has changed consumer society, service expectations, and funding models forever. Value Driven Service Innovation explores these changes from the perspectives of leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of innovation today.
Hypertension is the most common preventable cause of premature all-cause mortality, primarily from cardiovascular disease (CVD). Individuals with dysglycemia, including prediabetes and diabetes, are at increased risk. Licorice intake raises blood pressure (BP) through the effects of glycyrrhizic acid (GA), but the true limit of safe intake is uncertain. Home BP has several benefits over BP measured at a clinic, including a higher predictive value for CVD. By combining office and home BP, it is possible to diagnose masked hypertension (MH), in which home but not office BP is elevated, and white coat hypertension (WCH), in which office but not home BP is elevated. The aim of this thesis was to advance our knowledge on home BP in relation to dysglycemia, markers of CVD, and licorice intake. The first 3 papers used data from the Linköping cohort of the prospective Swedish CArdioPulmonary bioImage Study (SCAPIS). Study IV was a randomized controlled cross-over study. Data was obtained from questionnaires, blood samples and office and home BP measurements. In studies I-III, pulse wave velocity (PWV), coronary artery calcium score (CACS), and carotid artery plaques as markers of CVD were also included. In Study I, we examined 5025 men and women aged 50-64 years old for the relation between dysglycemia and home BP. Both the systolic office and home BP measurements were positively as-sociated with dysglycemia. Participants with dysglycemia vs normoglycemia more often had MH. The findings were in line with previous research and strengthened the association between dysglycemia and MH. In Study II, we examined the associations between MH and markers of CVD in 4122 individuals without BP-lowering treatment. Of participants, 4.2% had MH, and these were more often men and had higher BMI than those with normotension. Participants with MH also had higher odds for CACS ≥100, an as-sociation which has previously been suggested as a trend. In Study III, we examined the relation between soluble P-se-lectin (sP-selectin) as a measure of thrombotic activity, plasma high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) as a measure of inflammation, and home BP in 4548 participants. Both markers were higher in each hypertension phenotype compared with sustained normotension. The quartile of participants with the highest sP-se-lectin values had higher odds for CACS ≥100 and carotid artery plaques. The association between sP-selectin and sustained hyper-tension was novel and not affected by adjustments for hsCRP. In Study IV, 28 healthy participants aged 18-30 years old were evaluated for the effects of a daily intake of licorice containing 100 mg of GA compared with a control product for 2 weeks. During the licorice intake period, the systolic home BP increased with 3.1 mmHg, and the suppression of serum aldosterone and plasma renin levels indicated that this was due to the licorice intake. In conclusion, this thesis further strengthens the idea that both home and office BP measurements have values beyond that of the other, and that home BP may be most valuable in individuals with dysglycemia and obesity, and in men. Finally, licorice may be more potent than previously known, suggesting the need for increased awareness. Förhöjt blodtryck (hypertoni) är den huvudsakliga orsaken till förtida död, främst genom hjärtkärlsjukdom. Flera mekanismer och riskfaktorer som kan förklara hypertoni har identifierats. Individer med förhöjt blodsocker, inklusive diabetes och dess förstadier, lö-per ökad risk för hjärtkärlsjukdom, och förhöjt blodsocker samexisterar ofta med hypertoni. Lakritsintag höjer blodtrycket genom dess beståndsdel glycyrrhizinsyra (GA), och även om både Europeiska unionen och Världshälsoorganisationen har föreslagit att ett intag av upp till 100 mg per dag sannolikt är säkert att förtära för de flesta individer, är den gränsnivån osäker. Jämfört med blodtryck som mäts på mottagningen av medicinskt utbildad personal har hemblodtryck flera fördelar, inklusive starkare koppling till framtida hjärtkärlsjukdom. Genom att kombinera mottagnings- och hemblodtryck går det att diagnosticera maskerad hypertoni (MH), då hemblodtrycket är förhöjt trots normalt mottagningsblodtryck, och vitrockhypertoni (WCH), då mottagningsblodtrycket men inte hemblodtrycket är förhöjd. Syftet med denna avhandling var att vidare utforska hemblodtryck i relation till förhöjt blodsocker, markörer för hjärtkärlsjukdom, och lakritsintag. Avhandlingens fyra arbeten baseras på två studier. I de första tre arbetena analyserades data från Linköpings-kohorten i the Swedish CArdioPulmonary bioImage Study (SCAPIS), en prospektiv studie av män och kvinnor i åldrarna 50-64 år. I det sista arbetet analyserades data från en lottad överkorsningsstudie. Data i studierna bestod av enkätsvar, blodprover, samt mottagnings- och hemblodtrycksmätningar. I studie I-III ingick även pulsvågshastighet, kalkhalt i kranskärlen vid skiktröntgen (CACS) och plack-förekomst i halspulsådrorna vid ultraljudsundersökning som markörer på hjärtkärlsjukdom. I det första delarbetet undersökte vi data för 5025 individer avseende blodtryck och förhöjt blodsocker. Både mottagnings- och hemblodtryck var associerat med förhöjt blodsocker. Deltagare med förhöjt blodsocker hade oftare MH jämfört med de med normalt blodsocker, och skillnaden mellan mottagnings- och hemblodtrycket var omvänt associerat med långtidsblodsocker. Fynden var i linje med tidigare forskning, och stärkte kända kopplingar mellan MH och förhöjt blodsocker. Förklaringarna till detta samband är okända, men möjliga sådana inkluderar selektiva effekter av blodtryckssänkande läkemedel hos individer med förhöjt blodsocker, samsjukligheter såsom fetma, och aktivering av det sympatiska nervsystemet. I det andra delarbetet analyserade vi förekomst av och associationer för MH hos 4122 individer utan pågående blodtryckssänkande läkemedelsbehandling. Av dessa hade 4.2% MH, och dessa var oftare män och hade högre BMI än de med normalt blodtryck. Deltagare med MH hade också högre pulsvågshastighet och oftare förhöjt CACS. Associationen mellan MH och markörer för hjärt-kärlsjukdom var tidigare känd och styrktes av våra resultat. I det tredje delarbetet undersökte vi 4548 deltagare avseende två blodprovsmarkörer: en för blodplättsaktivitet, lösligt P-selektin i blodet, och en för inflammation, högkänsligt C-reaktivt protein (hsCRP). Både P-selektin och hsCRP var högre vid hypertoni, oavsett typ, jämfört med vid normalt blodtryck. Den kvartil av deltagarna som hade högst P-selektin hade oftare WCH och hypertoni både hemma och på mottagningen, jämfört med normalt blodtryck, och oftare förhöjt CACS och plack i halspulsådrorna. Associationen mellan P-selektin och högt blodtryck både hemma och på mottagningen var inte tidigare känd, och påverkades inte av justering för hsCRP, vilket antydde att den inte enbart förklarades av inflammation. I det fjärde och sista delarbetet inkluderas 28 friska individer i åldrarna 18 till 30 år. I en överkorsningsstudie bad vi deltagarna att dagligen under 2 veckor inta antingen lakrits med ett innehåll av 100 mg GA eller en kontrollprodukt utan lakrits. Deltagarna undersöktes med avseende på hemblodtryck, liksom hormonnivåer i blodet. Under lakrits- jämfört med kontrollperioden steg det systoliska hemblodtrycket med 3,1 mmHg, och hormonnivåerna påverkades på ett sätt som talade för att GA påverkade blodtrycket. Sammanfattningsvis stärker studiernas resultat kunskapen om att blodtrycksmätning både på mottagningen och i hemmet är värdefullt både var för sig och tillsammans, och att hemblodtryck är särskilt värdefullt hos individer med förhöjt blodsocker eller övervikt, samt hos män. Slutligen visade sig små mängder lakrits påverka kroppen mer än tidigare känt, och ökad medvetenhet och bättre etikettering av lakritsprodukter kan vara befogad.
Head Off the Books in this collection of newspaper columns, where J. Peder Zane uses classic and contemporary literature to explore American culture and politics. The book review editor for the Raleigh, North Carolina News & Observer from 1996 to 2009, Zane demonstrates that good books are essential for understanding ourselves and the world around us. The one hundred and thirty columns gathered in Off the Books find that sweet spot where literature's eternal values meet the day's current events. Together they offer a literary overview of the ideas, issues, and events shaping our culture—from 9/11 and the struggle for gay rights to the decline of high culture and the rise of sensationalism and solipsism. As they plumb and draw from the work of leading writers—from William Faulkner, Knut Hamsun, and Eudora Welty to Don DeLillo, Lydia Millet, and Philip Roth—these columns make an argument not just about the pleasure of books, but about their very necessity in our lives and culture.
To Paul the traditions from and about Jesus had authority similar to that of the Scriptures: a logion or story served as text for paraphrastic expositions. Such expositions are also seen in John's Gospel. - It is insufficient to discuss 'John and the Synoptics'. A better scope is 'John within early gospel traditions'.- Paul and Philo maintain a cosmic understanding of Jesus and the Jewish people, respectively. Correspondingly, Jesus is seen in cosmological perspective in John's Prologue. Philo illuminates the role of God's logos relative to creation and revelation. - Archaeology testifies to the reliability of John's topographical references. Both John and Philo can combine theological and ideological elaborations with specific geographical references, historical events and religious feasts. The study has brought in material and perspectives which strengthen the view that the Gospel of John was independent of the other three written gospels.
Global warming and concerns about sustainability recently have pushed ecological design to the forefront of architectural study and debate. As Peder Anker explains in From Bauhaus to Ecohouse, despite claims of novelty, debates about environmentally sensitive architecture have been ongoing for nearly a century. By exploring key moments of inspiration between designers and ecologists from the Bauhaus projects of the interwar period to the eco-arks of the 1980s, Anker traces the historical intersection of architecture and ecological science and assesses how both remain intertwined philosophically and pragmatically within the still-evolving field of ecological design. The idea that science could improve human life attracted architects and designers who looked to the science of ecology to better their methodologies. Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus school, taught that designed form should follow the laws of nature in order to function effectively. With the Bauhaus movement, ecology and design merged and laid the foundation of modernist architecture. Anker discusses in detail how the former faculty members of the Bauhaus school -- including László Maholy-Nagy and Herbert Bayer -- left Nazi Germany in the mid-1930s and engaged with ecologists during their "London period" and in the U.S. A subsequent generation of students and admirers of Bauhaus, such as Richard Buckminster Fuller and Ian McHarg, picked up their program, and -- under the general banner of merging art and science in the design process -- Bauhaus-minded architects began to think ecologically while some ecologists lent their ideas to design. Anker charts complicated currents of ecological design thought spanning pre-- and post--World War II and through the cold war, including pivotal changes such as the emergence of space exploration and new theories on closed-system living in space capsules, space stations, and planetary colonies. Space ecology, Anker explains, inspired leading landscape designers of the 1970s, who used the imagined life of astronauts as a model for how humans should live in harmony with nature. Theories of how to design for extraterrestrial living impacted design and ecological thinking for earth-based living as well, as evidenced in Disney's Spaceship Earth attraction as well as in the Biosphere 2 experiments in Arizona in the early 1990s. Illuminating important connections between theories about the relationship between humans and the built environment, Anker's provocative study provides new insight into a critical period in the evolution of environmental awareness.
Fishery policies are broadly debated in the Nordic countries, focusing on balancing biological concern of fish stocks, economic return to society and coastal communities’ interests. Market Based Fisheries Management is used in several Nordic countries today and is the core of these debates. While it by many is considered a powerful tool that works towards ensuring improved economy of fisheries, it is also considered a controversial tool. This report “Structural Adjustment and Regulation of Nordic Fisheries until 2025” document the effects of Marked Based Management of selected Nordic fisheries, forecast the structural development of these until 2025 under the current alternative fishery management. Nordic lessons on Market Based Fisheries Management are also provided as a basis for the political debate on the future of Nordic Fisheries.
This new reference work is the first and only available index to all the Greek words in the writings of Philo, main fragments included. Designed specifically to aid with scholarly research on Philo, this lemmatized and computer-generated concordance lists each Greek word alphabetically, followed by an exhaustive listing of every occurrence of the term within Philo's extensive corpus." "Based on the four major text editions of Philo's writings - Cohn-Wendland (1896-1915), Colson (1941), Petit (1978), and Paramelle (1984) - this index facilitates word study by incorporating contracted words and words with variant spellings into a single listing. It also notes supplementary lemmas and other grammatical variations in brackets after the primary entry." "The Philo Index will be a valuable addition to research and academic libraries and an indispensable tool for scholars and students of Philo."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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