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Spontaneous Venturing

Author : Dean A. Shepherd
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262038870
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Spontaneous Venturing written by Dean A. Shepherd and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifying a new approach to disaster response: spontaneous, compassionate, and impromptu actions to alleviate suffering. In Spontaneous Venturing, Dean Shepherd and Trenton Williams identify and describe a new approach for responding to disaster and suffering: the local organizing of spontaneous, compassionate, and impromptu actions—the rapid emergence of a compassionate venture. This approach, termed by the authors “spontaneous venturing,” can be more effective than the traditional “command-and-control” methods of large disaster relief organizations. It can customize and target resources and deliver them quickly, helping victims almost immediately. For example, during the catastrophic 2009 bushfires in Victoria, Australia—the focal disaster for the book—residents organized an impromptu relief center that collected and distributed urgently needed goods without red tape. Special bonds and friendships formed among the volunteers and victims; some were both volunteer and victim. Many victims were able to mobilize resources despite considerable personal losses. Shepherd and Williams describe the lasting impact of disaster and tell the stories of Victoria residents who organized in the aftermath of the bushfires. They consider the limitations of traditional disaster relief efforts and explain that when victims take action to help others, they develop behavioral, emotional, and assumptive resilience; venturing leads to social interaction, community connections, and other positive outcomes. Finally, they explore spontaneous venturing in a less-developed country, investigating the activities of Haitians after the devastating 2010 earthquake. The lesson for communities hit by disaster: find opportunities for compassionate action.

Regulation of Immune Response Dynamics

Author : Charles DeLisi
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000697010
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Regulation of Immune Response Dynamics written by Charles DeLisi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1982: This book has been divided into two volumes; the first focusing primarily on auto-anti-idiotic regulation, and the second primarily on T cell regulation.

Polling America [2 volumes]

Author : Richard L. Clark
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Polling America [2 volumes] written by Richard L. Clark and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides an authoritative overview of the composition of public opinion in America, the methodologies by which public opinion is measured, and the importance of polling to U.S. politics, policy, and culture. This revised edition is a comprehensive resource for understanding all aspects of public opinion polling in the United States, including major and emerging theories and concepts; historical and current methodologies; political, journalistic, and corporate uses; landmark events and developments in the history of polling; and influential people and organizations. The encyclopedia also illuminates how public opinion polling has become important in shaping the trajectory of American society and the views that Americans have about themselves and their fellow citizens. Specific big-picture topics explored include how data mining of internet and social media usage trends has shaped modern political and business advertising campaigns; the impact of politically partisan media outlets on public opinion; and attitudes of various sectors of the American electorate about diverse topics including gun control, abortion, immigration, marijuana legalization, and the nation's two main political parties.

The Oxford Handbook of Spontaneous Thought

Author : Kieran C. R. Fox
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190464747
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Spontaneous Thought written by Kieran C. R. Fox and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where do spontaneous thoughts come from? It may be surprising that the seemingly straightforward answers "from the mind" or "from the brain" are in fact an incredibly recent understanding of the origins of spontaneous thought. For nearly all of human history, our thoughts - especially the most sudden, insightful, and important - were almost universally ascribed to divine or other external sources. Only in the past few centuries have we truly taken responsibility for their own mental content, and finally localized thought to the central nervous system - laying the foundations for a protoscience of spontaneous thought. But enormous questions still loom: what, exactly, is spontaneous thought? Why does our brain engage in spontaneous forms of thinking, and when is this most likely to occur? And perhaps the question most interesting and accessible from a scientific perspective: how does the brain generate and evaluate its own spontaneous creations? Spontaneous thought includes our daytime fantasies and mind-wandering; the flashes of insight and inspiration familiar to the artist, scientist, and inventor; and the nighttime visions we call dreams. This Handbook brings together views from neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, phenomenology, history, education, contemplative traditions, and clinical practice to begin to address the ubiquitous but poorly understood mental phenomena that we collectively call 'spontaneous thought.' In studying such an abstruse and seemingly impractical subject, we should remember that our capacity for spontaneity, originality, and creativity defines us as a species - and as individuals. Spontaneous forms of thought enable us to transcend not only the here and now of perceptual experience, but also the bonds of our deliberately-controlled and goal-directed cognition; they allow the space for us to be other than who we are, and for our minds to think beyond the limitations of our current viewpoints and beliefs.

Experiencing Spontaneity, Risk & Improvisation in Organizational Life

Author : Patricia Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134266251
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Experiencing Spontaneity, Risk & Improvisation in Organizational Life written by Patricia Shaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-05-09 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing and exploring the possible meanings of the idea of 'working live', this valuable book makes sense of the sense-making experience, drawing attention to the way ideas and concepts emerge 'live' in all conversations in organizations.

Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process

Author : Irwin Z. Hoffman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317771354
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Book Synopsis Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process by : Irwin Z. Hoffman

Download or read book Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process written by Irwin Z. Hoffman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The psychoanalytic process is characterized by a complex weave of interrelated polarities: transference and countertransference, repetition and new experience, enactment and interpretation, discipline and personal responsiveness, the intrapsychic and the interpersonal, construction and discovery. In Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process, Irwin Z. Hoffman, through compelling clinical accounts, demonstrates the great therapeutic potential that resides in the analyst's struggle to achieve a balance within each of these dialectics. According to Hoffman, the psychoanalytic modality implicates a dialectic tension between interpersonal influence and interpretive exploration, a tension in which noninterpretive and interpretive interactions continuously elicit one another. It follows that Hoffman's "dialectical constructivism" highlights the intrinsic ambiguity of experience, an ambiguity that coexists with the irrefutable facts of a person's life, including the fact of mortality. The analytic situation promotes awareness of the freedom to shape one's life story within the constraints of given realities. Hoffman deems it a special kind of crucible for the affirmation of worth and the construction of meaning in a highly uncertain world. The analyst, in turn, emerges as a moral influence with an ironic kind of authority, one that is enhanced by the ritualized aspects of the analytic process even as it is subjected to critical scrutiny. An intensely clinical work, Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process forges a new understanding of the curative possibilities that grow out of the tensions, the choices, and the constraints inhering in the intimate encounter of a psychoanalyst and a patient. Compelling reading for all analysts and analytic therapists, it will also be powerfully informative for scholars in the social sciences and the humanities.

The Domain of Reasons

Author : John Skorupski
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019165163X
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Domain of Reasons written by John Skorupski and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about normativity and reasons. By the end, however, the subject becomes the relation between self, thought, and world. If we understand normativity, we are on the road to understanding this relation. John Skorupski argues that all normative properties are reducible to reason relations, so that the sole normative ingredient in any normative concept is the concept of a reason. This is a concept fundamental to all thought. It is pervasive (actions, beliefs, and sentiments all fall within its range), primitive (all other normative concepts are reducible to it), and constitutive of the idea of thought itself. Thinking is sensitivity to reasons. Thought in the full sense of autonomous cognition is possible only for a being sensitive to reasons and capable of deliberating about them. In Part II of the book Skorupski examines epistemic reasons, and shows that aprioricity, necessity, evidence, and probability, which may not seem to be normative at all, are in fact normative concepts analysable in terms of the concept of a reason. In Part III he shows the same for the concept of a person's good, and for moral concepts including the concept of a right. Part IV moves to the epistemology and metaphysics of reasons. When we make claims about reasons to believe, reasons to feel, or reasons to act we are asserting genuine propositions: judgeable, truth-apt contents. But these normative propositions must be distinguished from factual propositions, for they do not represent states of affairs. So Skorupski's ambitious theory of normativity has broad and deep implications for philosophy. It shows how reflection on the logic, epistemology, and ontology of reasons finally leads us to an account of the interplay of self, thought, and world.

Impact of the Environment on Reproductive Health

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Impact of the Environment on Reproductive Health written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

MHD. Mental Health Digest

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book MHD. Mental Health Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Psychophysiological Recording

Author : Robert Morris Stern
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780195113594
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Psychophysiological Recording written by Robert Morris Stern and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a thorough revision of an introductory text on psychophysiological recording, with new information on equipment used to do brain scanning and other equipment not available in 1980.

The Slow Inward Current and Cardiac Arrhythmias

Author : Douglas P. Zipes
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400988907
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Slow Inward Current and Cardiac Arrhythmias written by Douglas P. Zipes and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Paul Cranefield published his monograph, The Conduction of the Cardiac Impulse, in 1975, much has been learned about the role of the slow inward current in cardiac electrophysiology. Because of this expanse in know ledge, both basic and clinical, it appeared reasonable to review in a mono graph once again what was known. When Martinus Nijhoff first approached us to undertake the task of updating this information, we were initially reluctant for several reasons. First, we did not feel that the subject could be adequately and thoroughly reviewed, from the cell to the bedside, by a single person. Second, time constraints on all of us precluded even attempting such a task. However, we were encouraged by several of our friends (' egged on' one might even say, since they wished the job done but did not want to do it themselves!) who promised faithfully to contribute chapters on time if we accepted the task. So we did, and most of them did also.

Diversity in Advertising

Author : Jerome D. Williams
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135617562
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Diversity in Advertising written by Jerome D. Williams and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004-04-13 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume grew out of the annual Advertising and Consumer Psychology conference sponsored by the Society for Consumer Psychology. Representing a collection of research from academics in the fields of social psychology, advertising, and marketing, the chapters all focus on discussing existing and needed research to face the challenges of diversity in the next millennium. The contributors are researchers who have pushed the envelope in understanding diversity in advertising, rather than merely relying on theoretical frameworks developed decades ago when the demographics of the population were much different. This volume provides a vast array of information for academics and practitioners seeking to better understand how individual characteristics impact on the sending, receiving, and processing of communication efforts. It highlights past and current knowledge on diversity in advertising, important questions that have not been addressed satisfactorily in this area, and how current theories can be used to construct better communication plans and message content. The various chapters draw upon existing literature from the fields of psychology, marketing, and related disciplines to amplify understanding and insight into developing effective advertising approaches to reach diverse audiences. This book will contribute to the understanding of the diversity of people, the changing landscape of the U.S., and the need for a more inclusive society.

Cumulative Record

Author : B. F. Skinner
Publisher : B. F. Skinner Foundation
ISBN 13 : 0989983978
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book Cumulative Record written by B. F. Skinner and published by B. F. Skinner Foundation. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the title suggests, this book contains articles that Skinner first published elsewhere. The articles range widely in content, from the famous “A Case History in Scientific Method” to “Has Gertrude Stein a Secret.” The book is divided into the following sections: PART I: The Implications of a Science of Behavior for Human Affairs, Especially for the Concept of Freedom PART II: A Method for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior–Its Theory and Practice, Its History, and a Glimpse of Its Future PART III: The Technology of Education PART IV: The Analysis and Management of Neurotic, Psychotic, and Retarded Behavior PART V: For Experimental Psychologists Only PART VI: Creative Behavior PART VII: Literary and Verbal Behavior PART VIII: Theoretical Considerations PART IX: A Miscellany PART X: Coda Published in 1959, 1961, and 1972. This expanded edition was reprinted by the B. F. Skinner Foundation in 1990

Integrating Device Data into the Electronic Medical Record

Author : John Zaleski
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 3895786322
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book Integrating Device Data into the Electronic Medical Record written by John Zaleski and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-12-23 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Future generations of vital signs and point-of-care medical devices must interoperate directly and seamlessly with information technology systems to facilitate effective patient care management within the healthcare enterprise. This is the first book addressing medical device integration with the computer-based patient record in a holistic way. Readers step into the area of two-way device communication & control and learn best practises from an author known for his brilliant expertise in this field. It is a fundamental guide for a broad group of people: clinical and biomedical engineers, physicians, bioinformatics practitioners, and vendors. Providing the essential how-to for medical device integration into the electronic medical record (EMR), health information system (HIS), and computerized patient record (CPR), the book highlights information on data extraction, usually not offered by device vendors. This comprises topics such as the use of third-party software, information on what to do when you develop interfaces on your own, regulatory issues, and how to assure connectivity and access to data. For physicians, it is a primer and knowledge manual for data integration when applied to clinical care and trials. It gives information on knowledge management and how data can be used statistically and as a tool in patient care management. Furthermore, it impresses upon the reader the quantities of data that must be processed and reduced to make for effective use at the point of care. HIS and CPR vendors may learn how data integration can be simplified and how software developers may be assisted in the process of communicating vital information to their repositories. The book is rounded off by a chapter on the future of integration.

Organisational Culture: Concept, Context, And Measurement (In Two Volumes)

Author : Elizabeth Kummerow
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814525103
Total Pages : 1007 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Organisational Culture: Concept, Context, And Measurement (In Two Volumes) written by Elizabeth Kummerow and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 1007 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1989, the prominent organisational culture scholar, Stephen Ott, lamented what he saw as the failure of the organisational culture perspective to have the kind of lasting influence — whether empirical, or in terms of its contribution to practice — that had been hoped for. In attempting to explain this state of affairs, Ott observed that: “Some of the most important unanswered questions are methodological, and without methodological advancement, the perspective will not achieve maturity.” The situation today, more than two decades after Ott voiced these concerns, is that academics, researchers, and practitioners alike continue to struggle with the question of how best to decipher and measure an organisation's culture.Organisational Culture: Concept, Context and Measurement (In Two Volumes) aims to encourage an agenda for organisational culture research that gives a renewed emphasis to methodological issues. In pursuit of this aim, consideration is given to both conceptual questions and questions of measurement. In Volume I of the book, the main focus is on the concept of organisational culture. Based on an analysis and critique of existing treatments, as well as a comparison of organisational culture with a number of closely related concepts, consideration is given to how the concept might usefully be elaborated and further refined. In Volume II of the book, the focus is on methodological issues. Drawing on the findings of a series of empirical studies conducted over a number of years, consideration is given to what would be required to develop a measure for organisational culture that is practically useful and also capable of accessing culture at its deepest, and arguably most influential yet most elusive, level. In particular, an approach is advocated that seeks to contextualise organisational culture, in terms of various time and experience domains, and that also promotes the use of attributions analysis as a means whereby to further understand culture at this level.A valuable resource for scholars and practitioners alike, the book provides readers who are interested in understanding the role and influence of culture in organisations with a comprehensive analysis of the development and application of the organisational culture concept. For readers who are interested in conducting research into the measurement and practical application of organisational culture, the book provides a methodological approach that can be used to guide their research.

Mental Health Digest

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Mental Health Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Communication Yearbook 8

Author : Robert N. Bostrom
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415876834
Total Pages : 823 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book Communication Yearbook 8 written by Robert N. Bostrom and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 823 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.