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Controlling Knowledge

Author : Louis Brenner
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253339171
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Controlling Knowledge written by Louis Brenner and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-22 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I know of no one who has taken such an ambitious swath of time and done such a good job of showing the continuity and change across those one hundred years. . . . a splendid achievement, the result of decades of research and reflection." —David Robinson Controlling Knowledge examines the history of West African Muslim society in the Republic of Mali, formerly the Soudan Français, in the 20th century. Focusing on the transformation of Muslim institutions—especially modernized Muslim schools (médersas) and voluntary organizations—over the past hundred years, Louis Brenner uncovers the social and political processes that have produced new forms, definitions, and expressions of Islam that are patently different from those that prevailed a century earlier. Brenner's study shows that Muslim society in Mali is religiously pluralistic and that it has developed different ways of relating religious obligations to prevailing social and political conditions. Although they were heavily influenced by French and Middle Eastern models, Brenner demonstrates that it was in opposition to French colonial authority that the first médersas and voluntary associations appeared. The complex array of power relations within which these institutions evolved, under French colonial rule and in the postcolonial secularist state, is revealed in this thoughtful book. Controlling Knowledge makes a major contribution to our understanding of Muslim history in Mali and West Africa, both in recent decades and over the long term.

Controlling Knowledge

Author : Lorna Stefanick
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
ISBN 13 : 192683626X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Controlling Knowledge written by Lorna Stefanick and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital communications technology has immeasurably enhanced our capacity to store, retrieve, and exchange information. But who controls our access to information, and who decides what others have a right to know about us? In Controlling Knowledge, author Lorna Stefanick offers a thought-provoking and eminently user-friendly overview of current legislation governing freedom of information and the protection of privacy. Aiming to clarify rather than mystify, Stefanick outlines the history and application of FOIP legislation, with special focus on how these laws affect the individual. To illustrate the impact of FOIP, she examines the notion of informed consent, looks at concerns about surveillance in the digital age, and explores the sometimes insidious influence of Facebook. Specialists in public policy and public administration, information technology, communications, law, criminal justice, sociology, and health care will find much here that bears directly on their work, while students and general readers will welcome the book's down-to-earth language and accessible style. Intended to serve as a "citizen's guide," Controlling Knowledge is a vital resource for anyone seeking to understand how freedom of information and privacy protection are legally defined and how this legislation is shaping our individual rights as citizens of the information age.

Controlling Voices

Author : TyAnna K. Herrington
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809323739
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book Controlling Voices written by TyAnna K. Herrington and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TyAnna K. Herrington explains current intellectual property law and examines the effect of the Internet and ideological power on its interpretation. Promoting a balanced development of our national culture, she advocates educators' informed participation in ensuring egalitarian public access to information. She discusses the control of information and the creation of knowledge in terms of the way control functions under current property law.

Understanding and Controlling Crime

Author : David P. Farrington
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461249406
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book Understanding and Controlling Crime written by David P. Farrington and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1982 the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation created a small committee-the Justice Program Study Group (whose membership is listed at the end ofthis preface)-and posed to it what can hardly be regarded as an easy ques tion: "What ideas, what concepts, what basic intellectual frameworks are lack ing" to understand and to more effectively deal with crime in our society? Those who are acquainted with the work of the members of the Study Group will appreciate how many divergent views were expressed-divergent to the degree that some of us came to the conclusion that we were not a Study Group at all but rather a group being studied, an odd collection of ancient experimental animals serving some dark purpose of the Foundation. Eventually, however, a surprisingly strong concurrence emerged. We found we were impressed by the extent to which in our discussions we placed heavy reliance on the products of two types of research: first, those few longitudinal studies related to juvenile delinquency and crime that had been pursued in this country and, second, a few experimental studies that had sought to measure the consequences of different official interventions in criminal careers. These two research strategies had taught us much about crime and its control. Other strategies-case studies, cross-sectional surveys, participant observations, and similar techniques-had indeed been productive, but it was the longitudinal and experimental designs that firmed up the knowledge that the others helped to discover.

Principle Concepts of Technology and Innovation Management: Critical Research Models

Author : Friedman, Robert S.
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1605660396
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Principle Concepts of Technology and Innovation Management: Critical Research Models written by Friedman, Robert S. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a reference guide to the theory and research supporting the field of Technology and Innovation Management"--Provided by publisher.

The Complete Guide to Understanding, Controlling, and Stopping Bullies & Bullying at Work

Author : Margaret R. Kohut
Publisher : Atlantic Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1601382367
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Guide to Understanding, Controlling, and Stopping Bullies & Bullying at Work written by Margaret R. Kohut and published by Atlantic Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), more than two million workers in the United States alone are victims of workplace violence each year, leading to millions of dollars lost in employee productivity. Many people believe that bullying occurs only among school-age children and fail to acknowledge the presence and devastating effects of bullying in the workplace. It is time that this destructive issue be addressed and resolved; however, you may be asking yourself how to accomplish such a task. The Complete Guide to Understanding, Controlling, and Stopping Bullies & Bullying at Work will provide you with valuable information on the topic, as well as unique solutions to the problem. In this new book, you will learn how to identify the problem of workplace bullying, how to define the workplace bully, how to identify characteristics of a targeted employee, how to identify pathological characteristic of workplace bullies, how to bust bullying, and how to bully-proof your employees. This book also discusses the indicators of a toxic workplace, the causes of workplace bullying, reasons why workplace bullying is perpetuated and unchallenged by other employees, the connection between bullying and lethal workplace violence, and the legal aspects of bullying. Furthermore, you will learn about mob bullying, the effects of bullying on the target, and the effects of bullying on the organization. The author also covers such special topics as workplace bullying in federal, state, and local organizations; the United States armed forces; Fortune 500 companies; and medical organizations, as well as reverse bullying by employees who inappropriately assert harassment and bullying by their superiors even though they have been fairly disciplined for sub-standard job performance. This book goes one step further and provides solutions to end workplace violence, anti-bullying pledges, and examples of zero-tolerance bullying policies. If you are a manager, a supervisor, or even just an employee and you suspect bullying is occurring, you need to read this book. Whether bullying is already happening or you want to be sure it never does, The Complete Guide to Understanding, Controlling, and Stopping Bullies & Bullying at Work will provide you with everything you need to know to create a better working environment. Atlantic Publishing is a small, independent publishing company based in Ocala, Florida. Founded over twenty years ago in the company president's garage, Atlantic Publishing has grown to become a renowned resource for non-fiction books. Today, over 450 titles are in print covering subjects such as small business, healthy living, management, finance, careers, and real estate. Atlantic Publishing prides itself on producing award winning, high-quality manuals that give readers up-to-date, pertinent information, real-world examples, and case studies with expert advice. Every book has resources, contact information, and web sites of the products or companies discussed.

Competence Development in Controlling and Management Accounting

Author : Stephan Schöning
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3658393904
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (583 download)

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Download or read book Competence Development in Controlling and Management Accounting written by Stephan Schöning and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-12 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is considered a guideline for systemic personnel development in controlling of nationally and internationally active companies on the basis of a targeted development of competencies. In particular, the challenges posed by digitalization and globalization are considered and substantiated with the help of empirical studies. Employees and managers in controlling as well as HR managers in companies gain a deeper understanding of the necessity and the components of systematic personnel development. The goals are the formation of high-performance teams in controlling as well as the identification of personal career paths on the way to top management tasks as CFO. The focus of the personnel development model is on the transfer of the competence-oriented development approach, which, in addition to the traditionally considered technical and methodological competencies, also takes into account social and personal competencies as well as additional digital and intercultural competencies. The book is rounded off by a survey of the current situation, the definition of a target situation to be aimed at, the discussion of suitable further training measures and the monitoring of the level of competency achieved, and illustrates concrete career concepts.

Controlling Communicable Disease

Author : Noah, Norman
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335226671
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Controlling Communicable Disease written by Noah, Norman and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume enables the public health practitioner to understand the principles of communicable disease control, and how to follow these up in practice. The author highlights the practical measures for disease prevention and control in diseases such as HIV, TB, hepatitis and other STIs.

Higher Education in South Africa

Author : Eli Bitzer
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 1920338144
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Higher Education in South Africa written by Eli Bitzer and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Higher Education in South Africa should be of considerable interest to higher education researchers outside of South Africa, as well as within, for the general and comparative assessments it makes. The South African higher education researchers included within its covers have clearly engaged with research and writing from many parts of the world, which they have then applied to make sense of their own condition. - Malcolm Tight Lancaster University, UK

Advances in Building Technology

Author : M. Anson
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080526632
Total Pages : 1896 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Advances in Building Technology written by M. Anson and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2002-11-14 with total page 1896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set of proceedings is based on the International Conference on Advances in Building Technology in Hong Kong on 4-6 December 2002. The two volumes of proceedings contain 9 invited keynote papers, 72 papers delivered by 11 teams , and 133 contributed papers from over 20 countries around the world. The papers cover a wide spectrum of topics across the three technology sub-themes of structures and construction, environment, and information technology. The variety within these categories spans a width of topics, and these proceedings provide readers with a good general overview of recent advances in building research.

Keyview

Author : Barkley "Red" Barkley
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1434369498
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Keyview written by Barkley "Red" Barkley and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a book of some questions to ponder; some answers to ponder; some propositions; some controversial materials. It will inform some and possibly outrage some who have a different point of view about your world around us. If you have a closed mind it may not be the book for you. It is a book with a large background of Bible implications. It suggests future events as well as the world situation around you now. You will see things that are worth your notice and attention. Unlike other more common literature; it can be begun at nearly any page. It is a volume, not to promote one basic ideal, but many. You should find something pertaining to your own world within these pages; something you would like to know or should know. It is a book of the discovery of the over-looked apparent. Some thinking is required. If you like to think, it should be reading for pleasure. You will discover you live in a world of many worlds. One of the main ideas of this book is to stimulate one's own thinking facility (the brain) to more active participation in the world around us. The future is better to the thinkers. One is not likely to read this book in one setting because it is a thinking book; a book to ponder. You will see more if you walk so to speak, rather than fly through this book; as it says in the book, "Open your eyes and see the darkness; close your eyes and see the light".

Foundations of Information Ethics

Author : John T. F. Burgess
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 0838917224
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Information Ethics written by John T. F. Burgess and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2019-07-03 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by Robert Hauptman As discussions about the roles played by information in economic, political, and social arenas continue to evolve, the need for an intellectual primer on information ethics that also functions as a solid working casebook for LIS students and professionals has never been more urgent. This text, written by a stellar group of ethics scholars and contributors from around the globe, expertly fills that need. Organized into twelve chapters, making it ideal for use by instructors, this volume from editors Burgess and Knox thoroughly covers principles and concepts in information ethics, as well as the history of ethics in the information professions; examines human rights, information access, privacy, discourse, intellectual property, censorship, data and cybersecurity ethics, intercultural information ethics, and global digital citizenship and responsibility; synthesizes the philosophical underpinnings of these key subjects with abundant primary source material to provide historical context along with timely and relevant case studies; features contributions from John M. Budd, Paul T. Jaeger, Rachel Fischer, Margaret Zimmerman, Kathrine A. Henderson, Peter Darch, Michael Zimmer, and Masooda Bashir, among others; and offers a special concluding chapter by Amelia Gibson that explores emerging issues in information ethics, including discussions ranging from the ethics of social media and social movements to AI decision making. This important survey will be a key text for LIS students and an essential reference work for practitioners.

The Psychology of Thinking

Author : Irving Elgar Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Psychology of Thinking written by Irving Elgar Miller and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Woven Stone

Author : Simon J. Ortiz
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816550735
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Woven Stone written by Simon J. Ortiz and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What I do as a writer, teacher, and storyteller is to demystify language," says Simon Ortiz. Widely regarded as one of the country's most important Native American poets, Ortiz has led a thirty-year career marked by a fascination with language—and by a love of his people. This omnibus of three previous works offers old and new readers an appreciation of the fruits of his dedication. Going for the Rain (1976) expresses closeness to a specific Native American way of life and its philosophy and is structured in the narrative form of a journey on the road of life. A Good Journey (1977), an evocation of Ortiz's constant awareness of his heritage, draws on the oral tradition of his Pueblo culture. Fight Back: For the Sake of the People, For the Sake of the Land (1980)—revised for this volume—has its origins in his work as a laborer in the uranium industry and is intended as a political observation and statement about that industry's effects on Native American lands and lives. In an introduction written for this volume, Ortiz tells of his boyhood in Acoma Pueblo, his early love for language, his education, and his exposure to the wider world. He traces his development as a writer, recalling his attraction to the Beats and his growing political awareness, especially a consciousness of his and other people's social struggle. "Native American writers must have an individual and communally unified commitment to their art and its relationship to their indigenous culture and people," writes Ortiz. "Through our poetry, prose, and other written works that evoke love, respect, and responsibility, Native Americans may be able to help the United States of America to go beyond survival."

The Millennial Dawn ...

Author : Charles Taze Russell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Millennial Dawn ... written by Charles Taze Russell and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Concept of Control

Author : Savilla Alice Elkus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Concept of Control written by Savilla Alice Elkus and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Learning for Adaptive and Reactive Robot Control

Author : Aude Billard
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262367017
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Learning for Adaptive and Reactive Robot Control written by Aude Billard and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Methods by which robots can learn control laws that enable real-time reactivity using dynamical systems; with applications and exercises. This book presents a wealth of machine learning techniques to make the control of robots more flexible and safe when interacting with humans. It introduces a set of control laws that enable reactivity using dynamical systems, a widely used method for solving motion-planning problems in robotics. These control approaches can replan in milliseconds to adapt to new environmental constraints and offer safe and compliant control of forces in contact. The techniques offer theoretical advantages, including convergence to a goal, non-penetration of obstacles, and passivity. The coverage of learning begins with low-level control parameters and progresses to higher-level competencies composed of combinations of skills. Learning for Adaptive and Reactive Robot Control is designed for graduate-level courses in robotics, with chapters that proceed from fundamentals to more advanced content. Techniques covered include learning from demonstration, optimization, and reinforcement learning, and using dynamical systems in learning control laws, trajectory planning, and methods for compliant and force control . Features for teaching in each chapter: applications, which range from arm manipulators to whole-body control of humanoid robots; pencil-and-paper and programming exercises; lecture videos, slides, and MATLAB code examples available on the author’s website . an eTextbook platform website offering protected material[EPS2] for instructors including solutions.