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Internalized Homonegativity Among Same Gender Loving Black Men An Exploration of Truths

Internalized Homonegativity Among Same Gender Loving Black Men An Exploration of Truths

This book accessibly explores the phenomenon of internalized homonegativity among same gender loving Black men who love other men providing practical tools to help therapists identify the underlying motivations for their clients' feelings. Written from personal and clinical experience P. Ryan Grant defines internalized homonegativity as the negative thoughts felt by a person due to their same gender loving identity. The book's introduction provides a backdrop of the developmental experiences Black same gender loving men often encounter and connects theoretical concepts with qualitative Black same gender loving male experiences. Chapters then explore the contextual consequences of internalized homonegativity and educate readers on how conditioned shame and anxiety relating to these factors alter mental health and functioning in various spaces. The final part of the book presents therapeutic techniques based on dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to assist readers in helping clients to navigate a homonegative world. This book is essential reading for sex therapists educators students and sexuality professionals who are looking for resources on working with Black same gender loving male clients as well as those occupations seeking to create programs for Black same gender loving men. It will also be a helpful resource for Black same gender loving men seeking to live value-based lives. | Internalized Homonegativity Among Same Gender Loving Black Men An Exploration of Truths

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Process Chemistry in the Pharmaceutical Industry Volume 2 Challenges in an Ever Changing Climate

Process Chemistry in the Pharmaceutical Industry Volume 2 Challenges in an Ever Changing Climate

As pharmaceutical companies strive to develop safer medicines at a lower cost they must keep pace with the rapid growth of technology and research methodologies. Defying the misconception of process chemistry as mere scale-up work Process Chemistry in the Pharmaceutical Industry Vol. 2: Challenges in an Ever Changing Climate explores novel applications of synthetic physical and analytical chemistry in drug discovery and development. It offers an accurate depiction of the most up-to-date process research and development methods applied to synthesis clinical trials and commercializing drug candidates. The second installment in this progressive series this volumereviews the latest breakthroughs to advance process chemistry including asymmetric synthesis crystallization morphology enzymatic intervention green chemistry macromolecules (monoclonal antibodies biological molecules polymers) enantioselectivity organometallic chemistry process analytical tools chemical engineering controls regulatory compliance and outsourcing/globalization. It explores new approaches to synthetic processes examines the latest safety methods and experiment design and suggests realistic solutions to problems encountered in manufacturing and process development. Significant topics include atom economy ease of synthesis instrumentation automization quality control cost considerations green practices and future trends. Jointly edited by the founder/president of Delphian Pharmaceuticals and the director of Chemical R&D at Pfizer this book brings together contributions byreputed scientists technologists engineers and professors from leading academic institutions such as the Imperial College UK the University of Tokyo ETH Switzerland the International University at Bermen Germany and the University of Connecticut USA and from principal pharmaceutical companies that include Merck Bristol Myers Squibb Pfizer Novartis Eli Lilly Astrazeneca and DSM. | Process Chemistry in the Pharmaceutical Industry Volume 2 Challenges in an Ever Changing Climate

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Shaping Entrepreneurship Research Made as Well as Found

Shaping Entrepreneurship Research Made as Well as Found

Shaping Entrepreneurship Research: Made as Well as Found is a collection of readings designed to support entrepreneurship research. Focused on a worldview in which the future is open-ended and shapeable through human action – i. e. “made” this collection reframes entrepreneurship as a science of the artificial rather than as a natural or social science. It posits an open-ended universe for the making of human artifacts even if large swathes of nature and society are not within the control of the people making them. The book explores the notion of “made” through 25 foundational readings – classics from the history of ideas. Organized into five sections each classic is individually introduced by the editors in one of five chapters written to explain its relevance and significance for a “made” view of entrepreneurship. Readers will benefit from exposure to these classic ideas and ongoing research in a variety of areas that fall somewhat outside the line-of-sight of traditional entrepreneurship research. Both individually and collectively the readings suggest opportunities to ask new questions and develop new ways of framing entrepreneurship research that carry the discussion beyond worlds found to worlds made as well as found. The book is crafted to be valuable to three groups of scholars: young scholars with limited or no access to research infrastructure but with a desire to participate in deep conversations; young scholars with access to research infrastructure who also desire to listen-in on a different kind of conversation; and established entrepreneurship scholars who are contemplating an alternative set of foundational ideas to support their conversations in the discipline. | Shaping Entrepreneurship Research Made as Well as Found

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Cannabis as Medicine

Cannabis as Medicine

For hundreds of years cannabis has been used as a therapeutic medicine around the world. Cannabis was an accepted medicine during the second half of the 19th century but its use declined because single agent pain medications were advocated by physicians who demanded standardization of medicines. It was not until 1964 when the chemical structure of THC (delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol) was elucidated and its pharmacological effects began to be understood. Numerous therapeutic effects of cannabis have been reviewed but cannabis-based medicines are still an enigma because of legal issues. Many patients could benefit from cannabinoids terpenoids and flavonoids found in Cannabis sativa L. These patients suffer from medical conditions including chronic pain chronic inflammatory diseases neurological disorders and other debilitating illnesses. As more states are legalizing medical cannabis prescribers need a reliable source which provides clinical information in a succinct format. This book focuses on the science of cannabis as an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory supplement. It discusses cannabis uses in the human body for bone health/osteoporosis; brain injury and trauma; cancer; diabetes; gastrointestinal conditions; mental health disorders; insomnia; pain; anxiety disorders; depression; migraines; eye disorders; and arthritis and inflammation. There is emphasis on using the whole plant — from root to raw leaves and flowers discussing strains extraction and analysis and use of cannabis-infused edibles. Features: Provides an understanding of the botanical and biochemistry behind cannabis as well as its use as a dietary supplement. Discusses endocannabinoid system and cannabinoid receptors. Includes information on antioxidant benefits pain receptors using cannabinoids and dosage guidelines. Presents research on cannabis treatment plans drug-cannabis interactions and dosing issues cannabis vapes edibles creams and suppositories. Multiple appendices including a glossary of cannabis vocabulary how to use cannabis products a patient guide and recipes as well as information on cannabis for pets. | Cannabis as Medicine

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Understanding Social Entrepreneurship The Relentless Pursuit of Mission in an Ever Changing World

Understanding Social Entrepreneurship The Relentless Pursuit of Mission in an Ever Changing World

Understanding Social Entrepreneurship is the leading textbook that provides students with a comprehensive overview of the field. It brings the mindset principles strategies tools and techniques of entrepreneurship into the social sector to present innovative solutions to today’s vexing social issues. Kickul and Lyons cover all the key topics relevant to social entrepreneurship including a detailed examination of each of the steps in the entrepreneurial process. This third edition includes several new features: A process-oriented format taking students through discovery design development and delivery Two new chapters: one on lean start-up and design thinking for social entrepreneurship and another on unconventional approaches from developing countries Updated and new case studies with improved global coverage Voices from the Field sections that explore evidence-based research from the field. Bringing together a rigorous theoretical foundation and a strong practical focus this is the go-to resource for students of social entrepreneurship at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. A companion website includes an instructor’s manual PowerPoint slides a test bank and other tools to provide additional support for students and instructors. | Understanding Social Entrepreneurship The Relentless Pursuit of Mission in an Ever Changing World

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Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice

Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice

Books orient intrigue provoke and direct the reader while editing interpreting encapsulating constructing and revealing architectural representation. Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice explores the role of the book form within the realm of architectural representation. It proposes the book itself as another three-dimensional complementary architectural representation with a generational and propositional role within the design process. Artists’ books in particular – that is a book made as an original work of art with an artist designer or architect as author – have certain qualities and characteristics quite different from the conventional presentation and documentation of architecture. Paginal sequentiality the structure and objecthood of the book and the act of reading create possibilities for the book as a site for architectural imagining and discourse. In this way the form of the book affects how the architectural work is conceived constructed and read. In five main sections Binding Space examines the relationships between the drawing the building and the book. It proposes thinking through the book as a form of spatial practice one in which the book is cast as object outcome process and tool. Through the book we read spatial practice anew.

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The European Union as a Global Regulator?

The European Union as a Global Regulator?

The European Union is often depicted as a dominant global regulator. The purpose of this volume is to move beyond establishing that the EU influences global regulation towards an emphasis on the conditions with which it exerts that influence. Toward that end it focuses on the EU's active efforts both bilateral and multilateral to shape regulations beyond its borders. The empirical chapters in this volume are explicitly comparative among foreign partners across international contexts over time and across issues. The more conceptual contributions posit an explanation for the EU’s choice of regulatory cooperation strategy and take stock of Market Power Europe as a dynamic conceptual framework for understanding and researching the EU as a power. Collectively this volume advances three arguments: the utility of the EU’s regulatory power resources is context-specific; debates about what kinds of power projection the EU has been found to be at least as currently conceived unproductive; and that the EU’s engagement in the world is better explained through general theories of international political economy. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy. | The European Union as a Global Regulator?

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Money Culture Class Elite Women as Modern Subjects

Money Culture Class Elite Women as Modern Subjects

Based on ethnographic research this book explores the ways in which elite women use and view money in order to construct identities – of class status and gender. Drawing on their everyday worlds it tracks the intricate and contested meanings they attach to money. Focusing on weddings travel and spirituality Parul Bhandari delineates the entitlements and privileges as well as the obsessions and vulnerabilities that underlie the construction of class the shaping of elite cultures and the curating of femininity. As such this book offers an innovative account of the interplay between money modernity class and gender. | Money Culture Class Elite Women as Modern Subjects

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Infrastructure as Business The Role of Private Investment Capital

Infrastructure as Business The Role of Private Investment Capital

Infrastructure as Business brings new emphasis and clarity to the importance of private investment capital in large-scale infrastructure projects introducing investors policymakers and other stakeholders to a key element that is surprisingly absent from the discourse on public-private partnerships. Despite the importance of modernizing infrastructure across the globe governments often face challenges in securing the necessary capital to meet future need as well as developing policy to meet these goals. Explaining the structure of the private investment universe and flow of private capital in such projects this book ambitiously aims to bridge this infrastructure gap by elucidating shared terminology conceptual frameworks and an alignment of goals and objectives between public and private sectors—essential to meet increasing environmental social and governmental requirements for infrastructure in coming years. Appropriate for graduate-level courses in real estate public policy and urban planning that focus on infrastructure project finance and procurement and delivery models such as PPPs. Provides a clear understanding of private investment and PPPs to the investment community as well as professionals in real estate project finance and related fields who often learn mostly on-the-job and from colleagues. Equips government officials and policymakers with key terms and concepts needed to sit across the table with private financers and explore opportunities for private capital investment in early project stages. Outlines communication strategies for both public and private sectors which will increasingly need to collaborate to address climate change respond to new technologies and develop efficient ways to deliver services. Written to engage academic private investment and public policy/governance audiences alike Infrastructure as Business: The Role of Private Investment Capital invites discussion and opens doors to advancing new business models with international applications to offer increased value for private investors as well as more efficient flexible funding for innovative infrastructure development in the future. | Infrastructure as Business The Role of Private Investment Capital

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The Courtroom as a Space of Resistance Reflections on the Legacy of the Rivonia Trial

The Courtroom as a Space of Resistance Reflections on the Legacy of the Rivonia Trial

Fifty years before his death in 2013 Nelson Mandela stood before Justice de Wet in Pretoria's Palace of Justice and delivered one of the most spectacular and liberating statements ever made from a dock. In what came to be regarded as the trial that changed South Africa Mandela summed up the spirit of the liberation struggle and the moral basis for the post-Apartheid society. In this blistering critique of Apartheid and its perversion of justice Mandela transforms the law into a sword and shield. He invokes it while undermining it uses it while subverting it and claims it while defeating it. Wise and strategic Mandela skilfully reimagines the courtroom as a site of visibility and hearing opening up a political space within the legal. This volume returns to the Rivonia courtroom to engage with Mandela's masterful performance of resistance and the dramatic core of that transformative event. Cutting across a wide-range of critical theories and discourses contributors reflect on the personal spatial temporal performative and literary dimensions of that constitutive event. By redefining the spaces institutions and discourses of law contributors present a fresh perspective that re-sets the margins of what can be thought and said in the courtroom. | The Courtroom as a Space of Resistance Reflections on the Legacy of the Rivonia Trial

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Key Issues in Chinese as a Second Language Research

Key Issues in Chinese as a Second Language Research

Key Issues in Chinese as a Second Language Research presents and discusses research projects that serve as theoretical grounding for improving the teaching and learning of Chinese as a second language (CSL) in order to help researchers and practitioners better understand the acquisition development and use of CSL. With the exception of the first chapter which is state-of-the-art each chapter makes an attempt to bring together theory and practice by focusing on theory building and theory application in practice. The book is organized around areas where most future research is needed in CSL: phonology semantics grammar and pragmatics. Consisting of contributions from an international group of scholars working on cutting-edge research this is the ideal text for researchers graduate students and practitioners in the area of Chinese as a second or foreign language.

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The A-Z Guide to Food as Medicine Second Edition

The A-Z Guide to Food as Medicine Second Edition

Reprising The 2017 American Library Association Outstanding Academic Title award-winning A-Z Guide to Food As Medicine this new edition explores the physiological effects of more than 250 foods food groups nutrients and phytochemicals in entries that include: Definition and background information such as traditional medicinal use culinary facts and dietary intake and deficiency information Scientific findings on the physiological effects of foods food groups and food constituents Bioactive dose when known such as nutrient Dietary Reference Intakes focusing on 19-to-50-year-old individuals Safety highlights such as nutrient Tolerable Upper Intake Levels A health professional’s comprehensive nutrition handbook that includes all nutrients nutrient functions good and excellent sources of nutrients nutrient assessment and deficiency symptoms as well as summaries of foods food groups and phytochemicals. New to the Second Edition: Disease- and condition-focused Index that leads readers to foods used to manage specific conditions and diseases Focus on practical recommendations for health maintenance and disease prevention including tables insets and updated scientific findings on more than a dozen new foods Accompanying teaching aids and lesson plans available online at http://www. crcpress. com Features: Dictionary-style summaries of the physiological effects of foods food groups nutrients and phytochemicals alphabetically listed for quick access Approximately 60 B & W images of foods; informational tables and insets that define or illustrate concepts such as drug terminologies classes of phytochemicals and medicinal aspects of foods and of a plant-based diet Over 1 000 scientific references from peer-reviewed sources including The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Evidence Analysis Library and position statements of major health organizations | The A-Z Guide to Food as Medicine Second Edition

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Perception and Imaging Photography as a Way of Seeing

Perception and Imaging Photography as a Way of Seeing

When you look at an image what do you see think and feel? How do you want your audience to react when they view your work? For over 30 years the late Richard Zakia helped photographers enrich their creative vision through his classic book Perception and Imaging. Now he is joined by co-author John Suler who extensively studied and worked with images throughout his career as a clinical psychologist. Together they present their insights into the principles of perception memory color time space shapes illusion subliminals rhetoric personality style and photo critique. Unlike any other book Perception and Imaging will give you an extensive understanding of how photography relates to art design advertising psychology and philosophy as well as what makes photography unique among the image-making disciplines. Whether you are a beginner or a professional this information will help you appreciate photography not simply as a mastering of technique and composition but as a way of truly seeing especially now in the digital age. – New sections about photo sharing in social media and online groups devoted to photography critique – Includes inspirational images from some of the world’s most well-known photographers including Henri Cartier-Bresson Man Ray and Ansel Adams – A comprehensive discussion of the decisive moment photo its vital ingredients and why some consider it the essence of photography – New sections about body language in photographs camera angles aspect ratios self portraits and selfies and how memory and personality affect photography | Perception and Imaging Photography as a Way of Seeing

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Learn R As a Language

Learn R As a Language

Learning a computer language like R can be either frustrating fun or boring. Having fun requires challenges that wake up the learner’s curiosity but also provide an emotional reward on overcoming them. This book is designed so that it includes smaller and bigger challenges in what I call playgrounds in the hope that all readers will enjoy their path to R fluency. Fluency in the use of a language is a skill that is acquired through practice and exploration. Although rarely mentioned separately fluency in a computer programming language involves both writing and reading. The parallels between natural and computer languages are many but differences are also important. For students and professionals in the biological sciences humanities and many applied fields recognizing the parallels between R and natural languages should help them feel at home with R. The approach I use is similar to that of a travel guide encouraging exploration and describing the available alternatives and how to reach them. The intention is to guide the reader through the R landscape of 2020 and beyond. Features R as it is currently used Few prescriptive rules—mostly the author’s preferences together with alternatives Explanation of the R grammar emphasizing the R way of doing things Tutoring for programming in the small using scripts The grammar of graphics and the grammar of data described as grammars Examples of data exchange between R and the foreign world using common file formats Coaching for becoming an independent R user capable of both writing original code and solving future challenges What makes this book different from others: Tries to break the ice and help readers from all disciplines feel at home with R Does not make assumptions about what the reader will use R for Attempts to do only one thing well: guide readers into becoming fluent in the R language Pedro J. Aphalo is a PhD graduate from the University of Edinburgh and is currently a lecturer at the University of Helsinki. A plant biologist and agriculture scientist with a passion for data electronics computers and photography in addition to plants Dr. Aphalo has been a user of R for 25 years. He first organized an R course for MSc students 18 years ago and is the author of 13 R packages currently in CRAN. | Learn R As a Language

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Phytosterols as Functional Food Components and Nutraceuticals

Phytosterols as Functional Food Components and Nutraceuticals

Analyzes food and biological samples of phytosterols and discusses plant sterol analysis with respect to functional foods. Investigates the safety of phytosterols and phytosterol esters and associated health risks including potential impact on cancer development and the lowering of cholesterol levels. Details the chemistry occurrence and biological effects of phytosterol oxides. | Phytosterols as Functional Food Components and Nutraceuticals

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Seaweeds as Plant Fertilizer Agricultural Biostimulants and Animal Fodder

Seaweeds as Plant Fertilizer Agricultural Biostimulants and Animal Fodder

The main effects of Seaweed extracts (Ascophyllum Fucus Sargassum Saccorhiza Laminaria Gelidium and others) when used as agricultural fertilizers are better seed germination and higher quality fruit production with longer shelf life; better use of soil nutrients; more productive crops and plants with greater resistance to unfavorable environmental conditions. Algae also have a long history of use as animal feed. They have a highly variable composition depending on the species collection season and habitat and on external conditions such as water temperature light intensity and nutrient concentration in water. In relation to ruminal fermentation a high variability of the digestibility values ​​was found among seaweed species and cannot be attributed only to the composition of different nutrients of the algae. The role of marine algae for reduction of methane production is discussed with particular emphasis on novel algae-based feed strategies that target minimal methane emissions without affecting the functionality of the microbiota and overall animal productivity. Key Features:Sustainable AgricultureNatural FeedingNutrients Liquid SeaweedAgricultural BiostimulantsNatural Pesticides | Seaweeds as Plant Fertilizer Agricultural Biostimulants and Animal Fodder

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Polymer Biomaterials in Solution as Interfaces and as Solids A Festschrift Honoring the 60th Birthday of Dr. Allan S. Hoffman

Polymer Biomaterials in Solution as Interfaces and as Solids A Festschrift Honoring the 60th Birthday of Dr. Allan S. Hoffman

The articles collected in this publication have previously been published in eight special issues of the Journal of Biomaterials Science Polymer Edition in honour of Dr. Allan S. Hoffman who is known as a pioneer a leader and a mentor in the field of biomaterials. The papers from renowned scientists from all parts of the world representing the state-of-the-art in polymeric biomaterials today have been rearranged into a logical order of sections each having a distinct focus. The topics covered are: Surface Modification Characterization and Properties; Protein Adsorption; Blood Interactions; Cell Interactions; Immobilized Cell Receptor Ligands and Immobilized Cells; Immobilized Biomolecules and Synthetic Derivatives of Biomolecules; New Polymers and Applications; Biodegradable Polymers and Drug Delivery; Water-Soluble Biomolecules Sunthetic Polymers and their Conjugates; Hydrogels. | Polymer Biomaterials in Solution as Interfaces and as Solids A Festschrift Honoring the 60th Birthday of Dr. Allan S. Hoffman

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Development as Swaraj Towards a Sustainable and Equitable Future

Development as Swaraj Towards a Sustainable and Equitable Future

This book offers an in-depth insight into the Indian concept of swaraj-self-rule-both in theory and practice and posits it within the larger context of development. It opens by discussing the limitations of prevailing sustainable development paradigm as well as other heterodox development paradigms in achieving a sustainable and equitable future. Further it constructs development theory around the idea of swaraj based on the writings of M K Gandhi and J C Kumarappa. The swaraj development vision weaves in the morality of the greatest good of all political decentralisation and economic self-sufficiency as important elements to achieve an exploitation-free social order that ensures more control for individuals over their lives. It reveals sustainability and equality as inherent features of such a non-violent social order. The book then provides an introduction to the khadi-handspun and handwoven textile-sector which is taken as a case study to demonstrate the swaraj development approach. The use of this sector helps readers to get a snapshot of the efforts that have been made since the time of Gandhi and Kumarappa towards the attainment of swaraj. Importantly the khadi section highlights the method of translating theory into practice based on the unique three-pronged approach of the swaraj development paradigm. By showcasing how to establish swaraj within the khadi sector the author offers insights into how it can be replicated for attaining a sustainable and equitable world. The book will appeal to scholars and researchers in the fields of Gandhian studies and development studies. | Development as Swaraj Towards a Sustainable and Equitable Future

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Applied Communication Research Methods Getting Started as a Researcher

Applied Communication Research Methods Getting Started as a Researcher

This third edition is again a practical introduction to communication research methods foregrounding the role research plays in communication and media industry careers. Covering major methodologies such as surveys experiments focus groups in-depth interviews content analysis and others the book takes the reader through the research process from beginning to end. The text continues to help students link the research methods they learn to practical contexts through its activities and features which include Voices From Industry boxes written by practitioners that give insight into application of methods; Steps to Success research review checklists; and numerous end-of-chapter activities to reinforce concepts. This third edition contains updates throughout including an expanded discussion of reliability and validity across both qualitative and quantitative research contexts as well as new Research in Action boxes that showcase how research is used in professional and public contexts. The text is ideally suited to both undergraduate and graduate courses in communication research methods within communication media and mass communication programs. Online resources including sample syllabi PowerPoint slides and test banks are available at www. routledge. com/9781032288819. | Applied Communication Research Methods Getting Started as a Researcher

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Perception as Information Detection Reflections on Gibson’s Ecological Approach to Visual Perception

Perception as Information Detection Reflections on Gibson’s Ecological Approach to Visual Perception

This book provides a chapter-by-chapter update to and reflection on of the landmark volume by J. J. Gibson on the Ecological Approach to Visual Perception (1979). Gibson’s book was presented a pioneering approach in experimental psychology; it was his most complete and mature description of the ecological approach to visual perception. Perception as Information Detection commemorates develops and updates each of the sixteen chapters from Gibson’s volume. The book brings together some of the foremost perceptual scientists in the field from the United States Europe and Asia to reflect on Gibson’s original chapters expand on the key concepts discussed and relate this to their own cutting-edge research. This connects Gibson’s classic with the current state of the field as well as providing a new generation of students with a contemporary overview of the ecological approach to visual perception. Perception as Information Detection is an important resource for perceptual scientists as well as both undergraduates and graduates studying sensation and perception vision cognitive science ecological psychology and philosophy of mind. | Perception as Information Detection Reflections on Gibson’s Ecological Approach to Visual Perception

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Phenomenology as Qualitative Research A Critical Analysis of Meaning Attribution

Phenomenology as Qualitative Research A Critical Analysis of Meaning Attribution

Phenomenology originated as a novel way of doing philosophy early in the twentieth century. In the writings of Husserl and Heidegger regarded as its founders it was a non-empirical kind of philosophical enquiry. Although this tradition has continued in a variety of forms ‘phenomenology’ is now also used to denote an empirical form of qualitative research (PQR) especially in health psychology and education. However the methods adopted by researchers in these disciplines have never been subject to detailed critical analysis; nor have the methods advocated by methodological writers who are regularly cited in the research literature. This book examines these methods closely offering a detailed analysis of worked-through examples in three influential textbooks by Giorgi van Manen and Smith Flowers and Larkin. Paley argues that the methods described in these texts are radically under-specified and suggests alternatives to PQR as an approach to qualitative research particularly the use of interview data in the construction of models designed to explain phenomena rather than merely describe or interpret them. This book also analyses and aims to develop the implicit theory of ‘meaning’ found in PQR writings. The author establishes an account of ‘meaning’ as an inference marker and explores the methodological implications of this view. This book evaluates the methods used in phenomenology-as-qualitative-research and formulates a more fully theorised alternative. It will appeal to researchers and students in the areas of health nursing psychology education public health sociology anthropology political science philosophy and logic. | Phenomenology as Qualitative Research A Critical Analysis of Meaning Attribution

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Ethics for Bioengineering Scientists Treating Data as Clients

Ethics for Bioengineering Scientists Treating Data as Clients

This book introduces bioengineers and students who must generate and/or report scientific data to the ethical challenges they will face in preserving the integrity of their data. It provides the perspective of reaching ethical decisions via pathways that treat data as clients to whom bioengineering scientists owe a responsibility that is an existential component of their professional identity. The initial chapters lay a historical biological and philosophical foundation for ethics as a human activity and data as a foundation of science. The middle chapters explore ethical challenges in lay engineering medical and bioengineering scientist settings. These chapters focus on micro-ethics individual behavior and cases that showcase the consequences of violating data integrity. Macro-ethics policy is dealt with in the Enrichment sections at the end of the chapters with essay problems and subjects for debates (in a classroom setting). The book can be used for individual study using links in the Enrichment sections to access cases and media presentations like PBS’ Ethics in America. The final chapters explore the impact of bioengineering science ethics on patients via medical product development its regulation by the FDA and the contribution of data integrity violation to product failure. The book was developed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in bioengineering. It also contains much needed material that researchers and academics would find valuable (e. g. FDA survey and lab animal research justification). Introduces an approach to ethical decision making based on treating data as clients Compares the ethics of three professions; engineering medicine and bioengineering Provides five moral theories to choose from for evaluating ethical decisions and includes a procedure for applying them to moral analysis and application of the procedure to example cases. Examines core concepts like autonomy confidentiality conflict of interest and justice Explains the process of developing a medical product under FDA regulation Explores the role of lawyers and the judiciary in product development including intellectual property protection Examines a range of ethical cases from the historical Tuskegee autonomy case to the modern CRISPR-Cas9 patent case. Howard Winet PhD is an Adjunct Professor recall Orthopaedic Surgery and Bioengineering at University of California Los Angeles. | Ethics for Bioengineering Scientists Treating Data as Clients

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Cooking as a Chemical Reaction Culinary Science with Experiments

Cooking as a Chemical Reaction Culinary Science with Experiments

With this book students are able to perform experiments and then make observations that they will frequently see in the kitchen and other food preparation and processing areas and learn the science behind these phenomena. The second edition of Cooking as a Chemical Reaction: Culinary Science with Experiments features new chapters on food hygiene and safety kitchen terminology and taste pairing as well as an expanded chapter on the role of food additives in culinary transformations. The text uses experiments and experiences from the kitchen and other food preparation areas rather than theory as the basic means of explaining the scientific facts and principles behind food preparation and food processing. It engages students in their own learning process. This textbook is designed so that students can first perform certain experiments and record their observations in tables provided in the book. The book then explains the science behind their observations. Features: Experiments and recipes form the basic means of teaching culinary chemistry Features new chapters on food hygiene and safety kitchen terminology and taste pairing Employs real kitchen practices to explain the subjects Covers traditional food chemistry including water in culinary transformations protein carbohydrates fats sensorial properties Many concepts throughout the book are marked with a symbol that indicates the concept is one that they will come across frequently not just in this text but in the kitchen and other food preparation and processing areas. A second symbol precedes the scientific explanation of the observation made during the experiments in the chapter. At the end of each chapter students are presented with important points to remember more ideas to try and study questions to reinforce concepts that were presented in the chapter. The book is designed for each chapter to be read and studied in chronological order as the concepts of each chapter will reoccur in subsequent chapters. Written at the undergraduate level this book is designed for students in culinary arts nutrition dietetics food science and technology and gastronomy programs. It is intended for students with limited scientific background who are studying different aspects of food preparation and processing. | Cooking as a Chemical Reaction Culinary Science with Experiments

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Applied Communication Research Methods Getting Started as a Researcher

Applied Communication Research Methods Getting Started as a Researcher

A hands-on guide for applying research methods to common problems issues projects and questions that communication practitioners deal with on a regular basis this text demonstrates the relevance of research in professional roles and communication and media careers. The second edition features updated material that covers major communication research methods including surveys experiments focus groups and observation research while also providing key background information on ethics validity reliability concept explication statistical analysis and other current topics. It continues to foster student engagement with research through its numerous features and practical activities including: Research in Depth—examples of methods as applied in scholarly research Reflect & React—problems and issues that promote reflection and discussion Voices from Industry—Q&As with professionals working in communication industries End-of-Unit Activities—exercises that reinforce concepts and content The text is ideally suited to both undergraduate and graduate courses in mass communication research methods. Online resources including sample syllabi PowerPoint slides and test banks are available on the companion website: www. routledge. com/cw/boyle. | Applied Communication Research Methods Getting Started as a Researcher

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