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Geographic Information Systems and Science

Geographic Information Systems and Science

Steven A. Roberts; Colin Robertson

Oxford University Press, Canada
2016
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Geographic Information Systems helps students understand how GIS enables us to digitally represent the forms, patterns and processes of Earth. The text demonstrates how the special qualities of spatial geographic data require new methods and theories, and how these new methods and theories embody the field of GIScience that underlie the technology of GIS. Designed for users already familiar with GIS, it takes students beyond the surface of the technology by explaining methods and algorithms in enough detail for students to get an intuitive grasp of the underlying ideas while also demonstrating how those ideas are applied to geographical information. In order to help students become more effective users of GIS technology, the book highlights many of the common research challenges of GIS and invites the reader to think broadly about the assumptions embedded in GIS practice today. The authors stress a critical approach throughout by describing selected aspects of the field in sufficient depth to scrutinize the formalisms underlying the simple user-interfaces that greet new GIS users. Geographic Information Systems serves as an indispensable gateway to higher study in GIS by readers interested in the fundamental research challenges facing the field today.
City Games

City Games

Steven A. Riess

University of Illinois Press
1991
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Comprehensive and thoughtful, City Games looks at the complex interrelationship and interdependency between sport and the city. Steven A. Riess shows how demographic growth, evolving special arrangements, social reform, the formulation of class and ethnic subcultures, the expansion of urban government, and the rise of political machines and crime syndicates all interacted to influence the development of sports in the United States.
Touching Base

Touching Base

Steven A. Riess

University of Illinois Press
1999
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The revised and expanded edition of Touching Base examines the myths, realities, symbols, and rituals of America's national pastime. Steven Riess details the relationships among urban politics, communities, and baseball while exploring how Progressive Era sensibilities shaped debates over issues like Sunday games, ballpark construction, and promotion of the games. Focusing on Atlanta, New York, and Chicago, Riess looks at all the participants--from spectators to owners to players--in analyzing how baseball both influenced and mirrored broader society.
The Cost of Conviction

The Cost of Conviction

Steven A. Sloman

MIT PRESS LTD
2025
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A timely and important perspective on how people frame decisions and how relying on sacred values unwittingly leads to social polarization. When you are faced with a decision, do you consider the best outcome, or do you consider your deepest values about which actions are appropriate? The Cost of Conviction contrasts these two primary strategies for making decisions: consequentialism, the former, or prioritizing one s sacred values, the latter. Steven Sloman argues that, while both modes of decision making are necessary tools for a good decision maker, people err by deploying sacred values more often than they should, especially when it comes to sociopolitical issues. As a result, we oversimplify, grow disgusted and angry, and act in ways that contribute to social polarization. In this book, Sloman provides a new understanding of today s societal ills and grounds that understanding in science. The book begins by covering the philosophical and conceptual background of the two decision-making strategies, then takes a deep dive into the psychology of decision making. Drawing on historical and current examples of the use of the two strategies, the author provides a thorough overview of the psychology of decision making, including work on judgment, conscious and unconscious decision-making processes, the roles of emotion, and even an analysis of habit and addiction. With its unique emphasis on sacred values, The Cost of Conviction is an eye-opening must-read for all decision makers, especially those who wish to understand judgment, social decision making, and leadership.
Serial Murder

Serial Murder

Steven A. Egger

Praeger Publishers Inc
1990
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This book brings together experts in the fields of criminology, computer science, sociology, police science, victimology, psychology, oral history, and systems analysis, focussing their eclectic knowledge on the study of serial murder. The contributors present the reader with a careful development of state-of-the-art theory and research on serial murder providing a firm analytical bases for future study and research by social scientists into this elusive phenomenon. The book provides a synthesis of current literature and research with in-depth analysis of incidence and prevalence estimates and the etiology of victimization. Students and scholars of all the social sciences will find Serial Murder: An Elusive Phenomenon a valuable reference tool. Using case studies of serial murders, the contributors provide a micro-analysis of the phenomenon from both nomolithic and idiographic methodological perspectives. The book clearly presents the current law enforcement responses to serial murder and discusses the problem of linkage blindness, the inability of police to share information on unsolved murders. Finally, this study looks to the future of serial murder research and investigation. Each chapter is followed by a valuable reference section and the work concludes with a selected bibliography on serial murder.
Technology and Place

Technology and Place

Steven A. Moore

University of Texas Press
2001
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Developing "sustainable" architectural and agricultural technologies was the intent behind Blueprint Farm, an experimental agricultural project designed to benefit farm workers displaced by the industrialization of agriculture in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Yet, despite its promise, the very institutions that created Blueprint Farm terminated the project after just four years (1987-1991). In this book, Steven Moore demonstrates how the various stakeholders' competing definitions of "sustainability," "technology," and "place" ultimately doomed Blueprint Farm. He reconstructs the conflicting interests and goals of the founders, including Jim Hightower and the Texas Department of Agriculture, Laredo Junior College, and the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, and shows how, ironically, they unwittingly suppressed the self-determination of the very farm workers the project sought to benefit. From the instructive failure of Blueprint Farm, Moore extracts eight principles for a regenerative architecture, which he calls his "nonmodern manifesto."
Communication System Design Using DSP Algorithms

Communication System Design Using DSP Algorithms

Steven A. Tretter

Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
1995
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Designed for senior electrical engineering students, this textbook explores the theoretical concepts of digital signal processing and communication systems by presenting laboratory experiments using real-time DSP hardware. Each experiment begins with a presentation of the required theory and concludes with instructions for performing them. Engineering students gain experience in working with equipment commonly used in industry. This text features DSP-based algorithms for transmitter and receiver functions.
Communication System Design Using DSP Algorithms

Communication System Design Using DSP Algorithms

Steven A. Tretter

Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
2003
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Designed for senior electrical engineering students, this textbook explores the theoretical concepts of digital signal processing and communication systems by presenting laboratory experiments using real-time DSP hardware. The experiments are designed for the Texas Instruments TMS320C6701 Evaluation Module or TMS320C6711 DSK but can easily be adapted to other DSP boards. Each chapter begins with a presentation of the required theory and concludes with instructions for performing experiments to implement the theory. In the process of performing the experiments, students gain experience in working with software tools and equipment commonly used in industry.
The Medical Interview

The Medical Interview

Steven A. Cole; Julian Bird

Saunders
2014
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The Medical Interview by Drs. Steven A. Cole and Julian Bird equips you to communicate effectively with your patients so you can provide optimal care! This best-selling, widely adopted resource presents a practical, systematic approach to honing your basic interviewing skills and managing common challenging communicating situations. Its Three-Function Approach - "Build the Relationship," "Assess and Understand," and Collaborative Management" offers straightforward tasks, behaviors, and skills that can be easily mastered, making this an ideal learning tool for beginners and a valuable reference for experienced healthcare professionals. Effectively meet a full range of communication challenges including language and cultural barriers, sexual issues, elderly patients, breaking bad news, and non-adherence. Easily apply proven techniques with help from supportive case examples and actual interview questions. Get the skills you need now with new chapters covering advanced topics and applications including "Presentation and Documentation," nonverbal communication, using psychological principles in medical practice, and integrating structure and function. Quickly review information with summary tables, boxes and bulleted lists. Get access on the go with the fully searchable text online at Student Consult, including cost-free access to a specially customized, interactive web-based Module on Brief Action Planning (BAP), a key component of the web-based, interactive Comprehensive Motivational Interventions (CMI)T e-learning platform.
The Clinical Interview for Relationship-Centered Care: The Three Function Approach

The Clinical Interview for Relationship-Centered Care: The Three Function Approach

Steven A. Cole; Richard M. Frankel; Kelley M. Skeff

Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
2026
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The interview is the cornerstone of accurate diagnosis and effective care. The Clinical Interview for Relationship-Centered Care (formerly The Medical Interview: The Three Function Approach) provides practical, real-world guidance from a relationship-centered, clinical perspective. The fully revised 4th Edition equips you to communicate effectively using the Three Function Approach-Connect, Co-construct, and Collaborate-helping you hone foundational interviewing skills as well as advanced skills for challenging situations. Ideal for early learners as well as experienced healthcare professionals, this highly readable text helps you learn and master straightforward concepts, microskills, and skill-sets you need to provide optimal care for every patient. Describes three core functions of the clinical interview-connect, co-construct the illness narrative, and collaborate for care-with updated evidence-base to facilitate relationship-centered care throughout day-to-day practice Introduces three “meta-skills”-connect to self in context, connect with values, and connect non-verbally-higher-order skills to facilitate learning and clinical implementation Provides a new biopsychosocial tool, “the three pillars,” for co-constructing the clinical narrative: chronology of the present illness, ecology of the illness, and affirmation of strengths and resources Includes a new section on Professional Identity Formation, with research and clinical perspectives, and related chapters on Mindfulness, Use of Self, and Approach to Patient/Family and Student Concerns-all designed to help clinicians and educators understand transformative role transitions that mature during a practice lifetime Integrates Motivational Interviewing and Health Coaching with new chapters on Brief Action Planning (BAP), BAP-MI (Advanced Skills), and the Spirit of Motivational Interviewing Adds chapters on advanced topics and applications such as using digital technology (computers and virtual visits), presentation and documentation, language and cultural barriers, health literacy, elderly patients, mitigating burnout, team-based care, and applications across health systems Addresses challenges of chronic and life-limiting illness with new chapters on Optimizing Three Function Presence Over Time, Sharing Difficult News While Exploring Hope, and Collaborating for Care in Discussing Limitations of Treatment An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud
Geology and Production of Helium and Associated Gases

Geology and Production of Helium and Associated Gases

Steven A. Tedesco

Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
2022
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Geology and Production of Helium and Associated Gases brings together several different theories and models on how helium is generated, migrated to the reservoir, and trapped from several geologic rock types. The importance of this element in society cannot be stressed enough, but helium is in significant short supply. Nitrogen is also important in the fertilizer industry and is a byproduct of helium and natural gas production. Nitrogen presence often indicates the presence of Helium. This book brings together a tremendous amount of geology, engineering, and production methods not available elsewhere in one source.
Plants And Harappan Subsistence

Plants And Harappan Subsistence

Steven A. Weber

Routledge
2019
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This book aims to interpret the archeobotanical remains at the site of Rojdi, in northwest India, with reference to diet and environment and within a socio-economic framework. It discusses artifactual material which associates it with the 'Harappan Cultural Tradition'.
Plants And Harappan Subsistence

Plants And Harappan Subsistence

Steven A. Weber

TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2024
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This book aims to interpret the archeobotanical remains at the site of Rojdi, in northwest India, with reference to diet and environment and within a socio-economic framework. It discusses artifactual material which associates it with the 'Harappan Cultural Tradition'.
Bone Health in Children

Bone Health in Children

Steven A. Abrams; Keli M. Hawthorne

CRC Press
2020
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Bone health is one of the most widely discussed topics in pediatric nutrition. Ensuring adequate calcium and vitamin D intake is essential, and other factors also play a significant role. Bone Health in Children explores the recent decades of research and public commentary on the subject, debunks popular myths, and clarifies the often confusing and contradictory scientific literature. Presenting practical and theoretical education and advice, the book provides rational and accessible information geared to a wide audience of individuals interested in this critical element of pediatric health.Highlights include: The Institute of Medicine process by which Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) are developedIron, calcium, and vitamin D requirements for infants, children, and pregnant and lactating womenControversy over high-dose vitamin D supplementation and pregnancyDetailed explanation of the scientific research process related to human nutritionThe nonbone health aspects of vitamin D and why literature claims about this topic can be misleadingFrequently Asked Questions regarding nutrition with answers in short format Providing a solid understanding as to how dietary guidelines are developed and evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of their underlying data, this volume answers practical questions crucial for choosing diets for children while also delving into the more theoretical aspects of conducting and interpreting medical research.
Community and Loyalty in American Philosophy
American pragmatism has always had at its heart a focus on questions of communities and ethics. This book explores the interrelated work of three thinkers influenced by the pragmatist tradition: Josiah Royce, Wilfrid Sellars, and Richard Rorty. These thinkers’ work spanned the range of twentieth-century philosophy, both historically and conceptually, but all had common concerns about how morality functions and what we can hope for in our interactions with others. Steven Miller argues that Royce, Sellars, and Rorty form a traditional line of inheritance, with the thought of each developing upon the best insights of the ones prior. Furthermore, he shows how three divergent views about the function, possibilities, and limits of moral community coalesce into a key narrative about how best we can work with and for other people, as we strive to come to think of widely different others as somehow being morally considerable as "one of us."
Communication System Design Using DSP Algorithms

Communication System Design Using DSP Algorithms

Steven A. Tretter

Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
2008
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Designed for senior electrical engineering students, this textbook explores the theoretical concepts of digital signal processing and communication systems by presenting laboratory experiments using real-time DSP hardware. Originally designed for the Texas Instruments TMS320C6701 Evaluation Module or TMS320C6711 DSK, this new edition updates the experiments based on the TMS320C6713 (but can easily be adapted to other DSP boards). Each chapter begins with a presentation of the required theory and concludes with instructions for performing experiments to implement the theory. In the process of performing the experiments, students gain experience in working with software tools and equipment commonly used in industry.
Music Editing for Film and Television

Music Editing for Film and Television

Steven A. Saltzman

Routledge
2014
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Making music for the movies is a complicated, involved, and challenging process. Music Editing for Film and Television covers the practical skills needed to successfully hone your craft. Through an overview of the music editing process, this book will equip you with detailed techniques to solve musical problems encountered during editing. An abundance of interviews with well-known professionals provide a wide range of perspectives on music editing for film, while special features address an array of projects, from a low-budget documentary, to a Hollywood blockbuster, to indie projects.
Questioning Architectural Judgment

Questioning Architectural Judgment

Steven A. Moore; Barbara B. Wilson

Routledge
2013
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The book shines light on the problem of judgment, particularly in the realm of architectural "technics" and the codes that regulate it. The struggle to define "sustainability," and thus judge architecture through such lenses, is but one dimension of the contemporary problem of judgment. By providing the reader with an inherently interdisciplinary study of a particular discipline—architecture, it brings to the topic lenses that challenge the too frequently unexamined assumptions of the discipline. By situating architecture within a broader cultural field and using case studies to dissect the issues discussed, the book emphasizes that it is not simply a matter of designing better, more efficient, or more stringent codes to guide place-making, but a matter of reconstructing the boundaries of the systems to be coded. The authors are winners of the EDRA Place-Research Award 2014 for their work on the Green Alley Demonstration Project used in the book.
Questioning Architectural Judgment

Questioning Architectural Judgment

Steven A. Moore; Barbara B. Wilson

Routledge
2013
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The book shines light on the problem of judgment, particularly in the realm of architectural "technics" and the codes that regulate it. The struggle to define "sustainability," and thus judge architecture through such lenses, is but one dimension of the contemporary problem of judgment. By providing the reader with an inherently interdisciplinary study of a particular discipline—architecture, it brings to the topic lenses that challenge the too frequently unexamined assumptions of the discipline. By situating architecture within a broader cultural field and using case studies to dissect the issues discussed, the book emphasizes that it is not simply a matter of designing better, more efficient, or more stringent codes to guide place-making, but a matter of reconstructing the boundaries of the systems to be coded. The authors are winners of the EDRA Place-Research Award 2014 for their work on the Green Alley Demonstration Project used in the book.