Прочая образовательная литература
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This groundbreaking book presents a new way of looking at leadership that is anchored in research on women leaders in education. The authors examine how successful women in education lead and offer suggestions and ideas for developing and honing these exemplary leadership practices. Women and Educational Leadership shows how the qualities that characterize women's approaches to leadership differ from traditional approaches?whether the traditional leader is a woman or a man. The authors reveal that women leaders are more collaborative by nature and demonstrate a commitment to social justice. They tend to bring an instructional focus to leadership, include spiritual dimensions in their work, and strive for balance between the personal and professional. This important book offers a new model of leadership that shifts away from the traditional heroic notion of leadership to the collective account of leadership that focuses on leadership for a specific purpose—like social justice. The authors include illustrative examples of leaders who have brought diverse groups to work toward common ground. They also show how leadership is a way to facilitate and support the work of organizational members. The ideas and suggestions presented throughout the book can help the next generation fulfill the promise of a new tradition of leadership. Women and Educational Leadership is part of the Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education series.
Elementarteilchen und ihre Wechselwirkungen
Die dritte Auflage dieses bewahrten Lehrbuchs bietet in seiner grundlichen Uberarbeitung und mit zahlreichen Erganzungen eine konzise Ubersicht uber die Physik der Elementarteilchen und ihrer Wechselwirkungen. Die Autoren – beide Wissenschaftler mit langjahriger und umfassender Forschungs- und Lehrerfahrung an renommierten Einrichtungen – stellen in einzigartiger Weise den Kanon der Elementarteilchenphysik gleichzeitig verstandlich und ubersichtlich zusammen. Das Lehrbuch dient der effizienten Prufungsvorbereitung, ist aber auch zum Nachschlagen fur Diplom- und Doktorarbeiten geeignet – dies nicht zuletzt dank des umfangreichen Tabellenanhangs. Aus dem Inhalt: I Einleitung II Grundlagen III Die elektromagnetische Wechselwirkung IV Die schwache Wechselwirkung V Die starke Wechselwirkung VI Ausblick VII Tabellen-Anhang Klaus Bethge studierte Physik in Berlin und Heidelberg und ging im Anschluss an seine Habilitation 1967 fur zwei Jahre als Research Associate an die University of Pennsylvania. 1973 folgte er dem Ruf an das Institut fur Kernphysik der Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universitat in Frankfurt am Main. Inzwischen kann er auf eine langjahrige Lehrtatigkeit zuruckblicken. Seine Forschung konzentriert sich auf Schwerionenphysik sowie Ionenstrahlphysik und Materialuntersuchungen an Metallen, Halbleitern und Isolatoren mit nuklearen und massenspektrometrischen Methoden. Bekannt sind seine zahlreichen Publikationen, insbesondere seine pragnanten Lehrbucher wie z.B. das bei Wiley-VCH erschienene 'Physik der Atome und Molekule'. Ulrich E. Schroder studierte Mathematik und Physik in Rostock, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main und Gottingen. Diverse Forschungsaufenthalte fuhrten ihn an die Universitat Karlsruhe, das International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Triest und ans Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) Hamburg. Nach seiner Habilitation 1974 war er als Privatdozent und akademischer Direktor am Institut fur Theoretische Physik der Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universitat in Frankfurt am Main tatig. Zu seinen Forschungsschwerpunkten, zu denen zahlreiche Artikel und Bucher vorliegen, zahlen Symmetrien, Elementarteilchenphysik und Feldtheorie.
Airborne Measurements for Environmental Research. Methods and Instruments
This first comprehensive review of airborne measurement principles covers all atmospheric components and surface parameters. It describes the common techniques to characterize aerosol particles and cloud/precipitation elements, while also explaining radiation quantities and pertinent hyperspectral and active remote sensing measurement techniques along the way. As a result, the major principles of operation are introduced and exemplified using specific instruments, treating both classic and emerging measurement techniques. The two editors head an international community of eminent scientists, all of them accepted and experienced specialists in their field, who help readers to understand specific problems related to airborne research, such as immanent uncertainties and limitations. They also provide guidance on the suitability of instruments to measure certain parameters and to select the correct type of device. While primarily intended for climate, geophysical and atmospheric researchers, its relevance to solar system objects makes this work equally appealing to astronomers studying atmospheres of solar system bodies with telescopes and space probes.
Chemical and Biological Microsensors. Applications in Fluid Media
This book reviews the state of art in the field of chemical sensors for analyses of ionic or molecular species dissolved in liquid media, mainly in aqueous solutions. The transduction of such devices is based on chemical, biological and physical phenomena. The fundamental phenomena involved in these sensors are described in the different chapters by specialists having a good expertise in the field. Numerous recent bibliographic references are given. Most of the devices could be miniaturised using modern technologies allowing a fabrication on a large scale, for a mass production at low cost. Moreover, such devices could open the field of applications in a near future (environmental, biomedical, food industries, domotic and automotive applications etc.).
Ceramics Science and Technology, Volume 2. Materials and Properties
Although ceramics have been known to mankind literally for millennia, research has never ceased. Apart from the classic uses as a bulk material in pottery, construction, and decoration, the latter half of the twentieth century saw an explosive growth of application fields, such as electrical and thermal insulators, wear-resistant bearings, surface coatings, lightweight armour, or aerospace materials. In addition to plain, hard solids, modern ceramics come in many new guises such as fabrics, ultrathin films, microstructures and hybrid composites. Built on the solid foundations laid down by the 20-volume series Materials Science and Technology, Ceramics Science and Technology picks out this exciting material class and illuminates it from all sides. Materials scientists, engineers, chemists, biochemists, physicists and medical researchers alike will find this work a treasure trove for a wide range of ceramics knowledge from theory and fundamentals to practical approaches and problem solutions.
Eating Disorders and the Brain
Why is the brain important in eating disorders? This ground-breaking new book describes how increasingly sophisticated neuroscientific approaches are revealing much about the role of the brain in eating disorders. Even more importantly, it discusses how underlying brain abnormalities and dysfunction may contribute to the development and help in the treatment of these serious disorders. Neuropsychological studies show impairments in specific cognitive functions, especially executive and visuo-spatial skills. Neuroimaging studies show structural and functional abnormalities, including cortical atrophy and neural circuit abnormalities, the latter appearing to be playing a major part in the development of anorexia nervosa. Neurochemistry studies show dysregulation within neurotransmitter systems, with effects upon the modulation of feeding, mood, anxiety, neuroendocrine control, metabolic rate, sympathetic tone and temperature. The first chapter, by an eating disorders clinician, explains the importance of a neuroscience perspective for clinicians. This is followed by an overview of the common eating disorders, then chapters on what we know of them from studies of neuroimaging, neuropsychology and neurochemistry. The mysterious phenomenon of body image disturbance is then described and explained from a neuroscience perspective. The next two chapters focus on neuroscience models of eating disorders, the first offering an overview and the second a new and comprehensive explanatory model of anorexia nervosa. The following two chapters offer a clinical perspective, with attention on the implications of a neuroscience perspective for patients and their families, the second providing details of clinical applications of neuroscience understanding. The final chapter looks to the future. This book succinctly reviews current knowledge about all these aspects of eating disorder neuroscience and explores the implications for treatment. It will be of great interest to all clinicians (psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, dieticians, paediatricians, physicians, physiotherapists) working in eating disorders, as well as to neuroscience researchers.
Pharmaceutical Biotechnology. Drug Discovery and Clinical Applications
This second edition of a very successful book is thoroughly updated with existing chapters completely rewritten while the content has more than doubled from 16 to 36 chapters. As with the first edition, the focus is on industrial pharmaceutical research, written by a team of industry experts from around the world, while quality and safety management, drug approval and regulation, patenting issues, and biotechnology fundamentals are also covered. In addition, this new edition now not only includes biotech drug development but also the use of biopharmaceuticals in diagnostics and vaccinations. With a foreword by Robert Langer, Kenneth J Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at MIT and member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences.
Surface and Thin Film Analysis. A Compendium of Principles, Instrumentation, and Applications
Surveying and comparing all techniques relevant for practical applications in surface and thin film analysis, this second edition of a bestseller is a vital guide to this hot topic in nano- and surface technology. This new book has been revised and updated and is divided into four parts – electron, ion, and photon detection, as well as scanning probe microscopy. New chapters have been added to cover such techniques as SNOM, FIM, atom probe (AP),and sum frequency generation (SFG). Appendices with a summary and comparison of techniques and a list of equipment suppliers make this book a rapid reference for materials scientists, analytical chemists, and those working in the biotechnological industry. From a Review of the First Edition (edited by Bubert and Jenett) «… a useful resource…» (Journal of the American Chemical Society)
Multiscale Analysis and Nonlinear Dynamics. From Genes to the Brain
Since modeling multiscale phenomena in systems biology and neuroscience is a highly interdisciplinary task, the editor of the book invited experts in bio-engineering, chemistry, cardiology, neuroscience, computer science, and applied mathematics, to provide their perspectives. Each chapter is a window into the current state of the art in the areas of research discussed and the book is intended for advanced researchers interested in recent developments in these fields. While multiscale analysis is the major integrating theme of the book, its subtitle does not call for bridging the scales from genes to behavior, but rather stresses the unifying perspective offered by the concepts referred to in the title. It is believed that the interdisciplinary approach adopted here will be beneficial for all the above mentioned fields.
Adult Civic Engagement in Adult Learning. New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, Number 135
Take an in-depth look at adult learning and education for citizenship and civic engagement. This issue presents the foundational connections between the adult education and civic engagement movements. It’s filled with studies on adult learning for participatory or deliberate democratic change and engagement at the local grassroots level. Contributors consider civic engagement in their areas of research and practice and explore the formal and informal ways that citizens come to learn, to deliberate, and to act on the social issues they find important locally and globally. As a result, the volume offers broad examples of different types of formal and informal adult learning for civic engagement. This is 135th volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education. Noted for its depth of coverage, it explores issues of common interest to instructors, administrators, counselors, and policymakers in a broad range of adult and continuing education settings, such as colleges and universities, extension programs, businesses, libraries, and museums.