Mechanism design is the field of economics that treats institutions and procedures as variables that can be selected in order to achieve desired objectives. An important aspect of a mechanism is the communication among its participants that it requires, which complements other design features such as incentives and complexity. A calculus-based theory of communication in mechanisms is developed in this book. The value of a calculus-based approach lies in its familiarity as well as the insight into mechanisms that it provides. Results are developed concerning (i) a first order approach to the construction of mechanisms, (ii) the range of mechanisms that can be used to achieve a given objective, as well as (iii) lower bounds on the required communication.
Mechanism design is the field of economics that treats institutions and procedures as variables that can be selected in order to achieve desired objectives. An important aspect of a mechanism is the communication among its participants that it requires, which complements other design features such as incentives and complexity. A calculus-based theory of communication in mechanisms is developed in this book. The value of a calculus-based approach lies in its familiarity as well as the insight into mechanisms that it provides. Results are developed concerning (i) a first order approach to the construction of mechanisms, (ii) the range of mechanisms that can be used to achieve a given objective, as well as (iii) lower bounds on the required communication.
All of the science fiction stories included in this anthology used the same prompt: "Write a short story between 4,000 and 5,000 words using the word 'nemesis' as your inspiration." Story Synopses: Star Log (K. J. GillenwaterStranded on a desolate planet far outside the interstellar starship lanes, a solitary man struggles to survive and to overcome the disturbing memories that haunt him.Guardian (Louis F. Williams)Reid Cade leaves New York and his badge behind when his wife dies of cancer. He settles in Montreal and quickly becomes a small-time bounty hunter. But, when Reid tries to collect on his latest bounty, he's drawn into an ultimate hunt he can't refuse.Disciple (Kristin Jacques)Moll's street rat family is betrayed by one of their own and slain by the unyielding enforcers of law. Left for dead, Moll's pleas for vengeance are answered by a forgotten Greek goddess.Stagnant (Dave Cardwell)In a world where nobody dies, society endures until a single death threatens it all. On the run, Skyla must follow the thread left for her where a devastating discovery in her genes awaits.Polarity (Holly Gonzalez)Decades after a genocidal war of invasion with human colonists, a lonely alien priestess hides to survive, believing she is the last of her kind. Taken prisoner by enemies who may be friends, she discovers the sacred ways of her people have been profaned by a mysterious usurper-and only destruction can restore the balance.Superhero Comic Girl vs. the Litterbox (Steven R. Brandt)Anastasia Starcaller believes she's an ordinary comic book artist. When the supervillain, Shapetwister, attacks her city, however, she discovers she has a superhero identity so secret, even she didn't know about it.Last Walk (Jinn Tiole)In need of a job, Rh ne joins a mission to find a planet worth terraforming. As a geologist, she delves into the study of the young target planet's tectonic activity. Xenobiologist, Shea, is happy to contact a possible alien life form. But then things start to go terribly wrong...Three Shades of Black (Matthew Thrush)Chaos rules the day and Fear the night. Humanity has lost its morality as the surviving humans resort to acts of horror they never thought they could commit just to stay alive. Tray is the last human on the planet not inflicted with the curse. Hope still burns within him. That is, until the ones from the sky come back for the rest of them. When Tray loses all connection to the world he's ever known, he must choose a new path.Outwitting Alexa (Jesse Sprague)Seb is a simple man. He wants simple things: to live out his contract and to buy his freedom. But between a worldwide catastrophe and his mistress's state-of-the-art home security system, Alexa, powered by artificial intelligence, both living and freedom may be far more complicated than anticipated.Mordecai (Hannah Ansley)After the sudden death of his lover, Mordecai is left with only the burning desire to avenge her. With his loyal companion by his side, an injured dog whose life he saved, he traverses the desolate wasteland hunting down the man who murdered his soul mate.
Brain-Compatible Learning for the Block 2e, provides middle school and high school educators with practical ideas and strategies for teaching effectively within block schedules. The authors explore how to use block scheduling to support brain-based learning and show teachers how to structure lesson planning, instruction, and assessment to take advantage of extended class periods. The revised edition offers updated research related to brain-based learning and block scheduling, includes expanded guidelines for developing extended lesson plans, and provides additional strategies for making the most of block scheduling.
Written by Lab, Williams, Holcomb, King, and Buerger, Explaining Criminal Justice is the first brief survey text designed for students entering the field of criminal justice who lack a criminal justice background. This primer's helpful shorthand presentation will be useful to students in a variety of ways: * Defines key terminology and issues in an easily understood format. * Offers a basic understanding of the component parts of the criminal justice system and how they interrelate. * Provides coverage of all major issues--plus a realistic overview of the criminal justice system. Each chapter features a list of key terms, brief discussions of the important issues under each topic, discussions of emerging issues and concerns in the field, references for all key topics, a brief bibliography, and appropriate website listings.
Epstein Joyce L.; Sanders Mavis G.; Steven Sheldon; Simon Beth S.; Salinas Karen Clark; Jansorn Natalie R.; Frances L. VanVoorhis; Martin Cecelia S.; Thomas Brenda G.; Greenfield Marsha D.; Hutchins Darcy J.; Williams Kenyatta J.
Written by a team of well-known experts, this foundational text demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-oriented programs.
Tom J. Humphrey; Lisa K. Williams; Raveendra R. Kulkarni; Khaled Taha-Abdelaziz; Bahram Shojadoost; Jake Astill; Shayan Sharif; Peter Groves; Jean-Pierre Vaillancourt; Manon Racicot; Mattias Delpont; Steven C. Ricke; A.V.S. Perumalla; Navam S. Hettiarachchy
This collection features five peer-reviewed reviews on managing bacterial diseases of poultry.The first chapter provides a brief overview of Campylobacter in poultry production and the routes of transmission from bird to human. It considers current and future challenges in controlling Campylobacter, as well as the control measures implemented to reduce the occurrence of infection in poultry flocks. The second chapter discusses economically-important enteric diseases and disorders of poultry. The chapter highlights the aetiology of these diseases and explores more sustainable alternatives to promote gastrointestinal health, such as plant-derived extracts, organic acids, prebiotics and probiotics.The third chapter provides an overview of best practices to manage disease outbreaks in poultry. It reviews current disease preventative measures, health monitoring procedures, as well as disease investigation techniques. The fourth chapter reviews the emergence and re-emergence of several infectious pathogens in poultry production and the consequent need to improve current biosecurity measures in poultry flocks to ensure optimal animal health and welfare. The final chapter considers the main alternatives to antibiotics in preventing zoonoses and other major pathogens in poultry. The chapter reviews the sector’s use of prebiotics and related compounds, as well as the beneficial effects of their use.
In the past decade, the field of trenchless technology has expanded rapidly in products, equipment, and utilization. This expansion would not have occurred without a strong increase ineconomic incentives to the user. Because theoperating environment has changed, trenchless technology is often the preferred alternative to traditional methods of digging holes and installing conduits. The infrastructure in which we live has become more congested and has to beshared by several users. In addition, the cost of restoring a road or landscaped area after construction may be higher than the cost of installing the conduit. These factors add to the need for trenchless technology-the ability to dig holes without disturbing the surface. In some ways, trenchless technology is a futuristic concept. Ruth Krauss in a children'sbookofdefinitions wrote,"AHole...Is to Dig." But thisstatement is not necessarily true. Today, a hole could be to bore. Trenchless technology is not new. But it certainly has become the buzzword of the construction industry and it appears that it will have a growing impact in the way contractors, utilities, and others install new facilities. Methods to bore horizontal holes were practiced as early as the 18005, but this technology has greatly changed. Today's tools include sophisticated drilling methods, state-of the-art power systems, and electronic guidance techniques. These tools can bore faster, safer, and more accurately, and in many instances more economically, than open-cllt methods. Technology has played an important role in these advances, but economics has become the driving force in making these systems popular.
In the past decade, the field of trenchless technology has expanded rapidly in products, equipment, and utilization. This expansion would not have occurred without a strong increase ineconomic incentives to the user. Because theoperating environment has changed, trenchless technology is often the preferred alternative to traditional methods of digging holes and installing conduits. The infrastructure in which we live has become more congested and has to beshared by several users. In addition, the cost of restoring a road or landscaped area after construction may be higher than the cost of installing the conduit. These factors add to the need for trenchless technology-the ability to dig holes without disturbing the surface. In some ways, trenchless technology is a futuristic concept. Ruth Krauss in a children'sbookofdefinitions wrote,"AHole...Is to Dig." But thisstatement is not necessarily true. Today, a hole could be to bore. Trenchless technology is not new. But it certainly has become the buzzword of the construction industry and it appears that it will have a growing impact in the way contractors, utilities, and others install new facilities. Methods to bore horizontal holes were practiced as early as the 18005, but this technology has greatly changed. Today's tools include sophisticated drilling methods, state-of the-art power systems, and electronic guidance techniques. These tools can bore faster, safer, and more accurately, and in many instances more economically, than open-cllt methods. Technology has played an important role in these advances, but economics has become the driving force in making these systems popular.
The Powers of Attention, Attraction, and Intention in Field Control Therapy: My Pathway of Adventure, Discovery, and HealingAs toxins gradually build up in the body, health issues can begin to appear. Healthy tissues showa different field than unhealthy tissue, and Field Control Therapy, or FCT, works with such energyfields. Steven Tonsager, one of the most active practitioners of FCT, shares his work, which ledhim to form theories about the power of energy medicine in treating patients and his own life.Although Steven was influenced by FCT founder Dr. Savely Yurkovsky, Dr. David Hawkins, andDr. William Tiller, he explores new territory in the book, giving FCT practitioners and otherspowerful, practical tools and strategies to uncover insights into the cause and treatments of varioushealth issues. In The Powers of Attention, Attraction, and Intention in Field Control Therapy: MyPathway of Adventure, Discovery, and Healing, Steven offers the following: - New ideas to help patients understand differences between conventional and informationalmedicine by providing clinical examples.- New methods for FCT practitioners to test patients to improve results, as well as new waysto make FCT remedies and administer them to patients.- Additional concepts to connect FCT testing with toxicological principles.- Practical methods to apply MEMON technology for patients with sensitivity toelectromagnetic fields produced by technology.Steven, who hopes his book will inspire others to integrate FCT into their professional and personallives also details his path of discovery during his work with patients in his sometimes irreverentstyle, describing the transformation in his thinking after administering more than 10,000 FCTtests. Those findings led to discoveries explored in the last portion of the book, going beyondcurrent FCT methods and theories.
Handbook of Contemporary Psychotherapy explores a wide range of constructs not captured in the DSM or traditional research but that play important roles in psychotherapy cases. To provide readers with a tool bag of practical techniques they can use in these cases, editors William O'Donohue and Steven R. Graybar present chapters written by leading clinical authorities on such topics as the process of change in psychotherapy, attachment and terror management, projective identification, terminating psychotherapy therapeutically, shame and its many ramifications for clients, dream work, boundaries, forgiveness, the repressed and recovered memory debate, and many others. Each chapter includes a definition of the construct, along with sections on theory, the construct's possible roles in pathology and treatment, measurement, intervention strategies, case illustrations, and future research. Features Addresses in a practical manner complex patients who do not fall under empirically supported treatments or diagnostic categories Covers in a scholarly and clinically useful way critically important constructs often neglected in academic discourse Explores issues with measurement limitations in an intellectually honest manner Offers a tool bag of practical techniques Of interest to both experienced psychotherapists and to beginning students who wish to better orient to the complexities of psychotherapy, the book is appropriate for all the major disciplines of psychotherapy, including psychiatry, psychology, social work, psychiatric nursing, marital and family therapists.
Handbook of Contemporary Psychotherapy explores a wide range of constructs not captured in the DSM or traditional research but that play important roles in psychotherapy cases. To provide readers with a tool bag of practical techniques they can use in these cases, editors William O'Donohue and Steven R. Graybar present chapters written by leading clinical authorities on such topics as the process of change in psychotherapy, attachment and terror management, projective identification, terminating psychotherapy therapeutically, shame and its many ramifications for clients, dream work, boundaries, forgiveness, the repressed and recovered memory debate, and many others. Each chapter includes a definition of the construct, along with sections on theory, the construct's possible roles in pathology and treatment, measurement, intervention strategies, case illustrations, and future research. Features Addresses in a practical manner complex patients who do not fall under empirically supported treatments or diagnostic categories Covers in a scholarly and clinically useful way critically important constructs often neglected in academic discourse Explores issues with measurement limitations in an intellectually honest manner Offers a tool bag of practical techniques Of interest to both experienced psychotherapists and to beginning students who wish to better orient to the complexities of psychotherapy, the book is appropriate for all the major disciplines of psychotherapy, including psychiatry, psychology, social work, psychiatric nursing, marital and family therapists.
Containing 100 challenging clinical cases illustrated with superb, high-quality images, this book covers a wide range of dermatological conditions, from the commonly occurring to those slightly rarer cases. This book is an invaluable reference for all dermatology professionals in practice and offers the perfect revision guide for those in training, from hospital-based doctors preparing for higher examinations to established physicians in their continuing professional development.
Rehder's study examines the use of metaphor in three of America's greatest poets. Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams and Hart Crane are looked at in turn, their views on metaphor discussed and their use of metaphor in their poems analyzed. Considering Aristotle and Derrida, and taking account of recent theoretical work, Rehder offers an interpretation of why metaphor is fundamental to our thinking and to poetry.
Rehder's study examines the use of metaphor in three of America's greatest poets. Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams and Hart Crane are looked at in turn, their views on metaphor discussed and their use of metaphor in their poems analyzed. Considering Aristotle and Derrida, and taking account of recent theoretical work, Rehder offers an interpretation of why metaphor is fundamental to our thinking and to poetry.
(c)#87 Number Eighty-Seven The development of this Unique Super Hero is envisioned with Spiritual inspiration from Our Heavenly Father. Within the Biblical Numerology importance of The Spiritual Realms of order, we take great pride, humility and love in utilizing the very specialized numbers of (c)#87. #8:, Eight; the Number Eight: represents New beginnings, with the Resurrection of Christ on the eighth day. Hebrew boys circumcised on the eighth day (Genesis 17:12) Featuring BYRON WILLIAMS
This book contains a new analogy for dysfunctional and codependent groups of people: a medieval-style Toxic Court dominated by a troubled but unpredictable Emperor. Yet the Emperor's bad behavior is enabled by the seven different kinds of people who make up the Toxic Court: the Peasant, the Concubine, the Pimp, the Profiteer, the Courtier, the Saint, and the Executioner. All may be male or female.
What are the practical implications of truly caring about yourself and others, of approaching each day with an open mind, an open heart, and a desire to reduce the suffering of all living beings? Can we learn compassion as a way of life, as an antidote to violence and cruelty? In The Seven Virtues of Highly Compassionate People, social scientists Nancy Guerra and Kirk R. Williams provide easy-to-follow steps to help you understand the what, the why, and the how of compassion. They bring together cutting-edge research, inspiring spiritual teachings, and their own life experiences to help you bring compassion front and center in your life. Not only is compassion good for you and those around you, but it is the key to a more peaceful and just world.“The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license. Funded by The Living Peace Foundation.”
What are the practical implications of truly caring about yourself and others, of approaching each day with an open mind, an open heart, and a desire to reduce the suffering of all living beings? Can we learn compassion as a way of life, as an antidote to violence and cruelty? In The Seven Virtues of Highly Compassionate People, social scientists Nancy Guerra and Kirk R. Williams provide easy-to-follow steps to help you understand the what, the why, and the how of compassion. They bring together cutting-edge research, inspiring spiritual teachings, and their own life experiences to help you bring compassion front and center in your life. Not only is compassion good for you and those around you, but it is the key to a more peaceful and just world.“The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license. Funded by The Living Peace Foundation.”
