Books: 'Knowledge operator'

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Ship knowledge: Covering ship design, construction and operation. 2nd ed. The Netherlands: DOKMAR, 2005.

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Stone, Vicki L. The desktop operator's knowledge assessment and performance examinations. Pittsburg, Pa: Graphic Arts Technical Foundation, 1995.

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Nix, Stephan J. Knowledge-based expert systems in water utility operation and management. Denver, CO: American Water Works Association Research Foundation, 1989.

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Nilmini, Wickramasinghe, ed. Redesigning innovative healthcare operation and the role of knowledge management. Hershey, PA: Medical Information Science Reference, 2010.

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Chapman, John W. M. Richard Sorge, the GRU and the Pacific War. GB Folkestone: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9781912961085.

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Sorge’s activities between 1930 and 1942 have tended to be lauded as those of a superlative human intelligence operator and the Soviet Union’s GRU (Soviet military intelligence unit) as the optimum of spy-masters. Although it was unusual for a great deal of inside knowledge to be obtained from the Japanese side, most attention has always been paid on the German side to the roles played by representatives of the German Army in Japan. This book, supported by extensive notes and a bibliography, by contrast, highlights the friendly relations between Sorge and Paul Wenneker, German naval attaché in Japan from 1932 to 1937 and 1940–45. Wenneker, from extensive and expanding contacts inside the Japanese Navy (and also concealed contacts with the Japanese Army) supplied Sorge with key information on the depth of rivalry between the Japanese armed services.

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Williams, Jeremy C. A review of the state of knowledge and of current practice in selection techniques for process operators. London: HMSO, 1993.

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Macfadyen, Brian. A knowledge engineering approach to aspects of operation planning for the machining of turbine discs. Manchester: UMIST, 1992.

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Sturrock, Fiona Elizabeth. An approach for the development of diagnostic interface support in nuclear power plant operation based on the identification and classification of knowledge requirements. Birmingham: University of Birmingham, 1999.

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Hayes-Roth, Barbara. An architecture for adaptive intelligent systems. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University, Dept. of Computer Science, 1993.

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Office, General Accounting. Defense acquisitions: Knowledge of software suppliers needed to manage risks : report to congressional requesters. Washington, D.C. (P.O. Box 37050, Washington 20013): U.S. General Accounting Office, 2004.

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Bachmann, Hugo, and Walter Ammann. Vibrations in Structures. Zurich, Switzerland: International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/sed003e.

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<p>«Vibrations in Structures» concentrates on vibrations in structures as excited by human motion or machine operation. Man-induced vibrations may arise from walking, running, skipping, dancing, etc. They occur mostly in pedestrian structures, office buildings, gymnasia and sports halls, dancing and concert halls, stadia, etc. Existing publications treat by and large some isolated aspects of the problem; the present one attempts, for the first time, a systematic survey of man-induced vibrations. Machine-induced vibrations occur during the operation of all sorts of machinery and tools with rotating, oscillating or thrusting parts. The study concentrates rather on small and medium size machinery placed on floors of industrial buildings and creating a potential source of undesirable vibrations. The associated questions have rarely been tackled to date; they entail probiems similar to those of man-induced vibrations.</p> <p>The book is consciously intended to serve the practising structural engineer and not primarily the dynamic specialist. It should be noted that its aim is not to provide directions on how to perform comprehensive dynamic computations. Instead, it attempts the following:</p> <ol> <li>to show where dynamic problems could occur and where a word of caution is good advice;</li> <li>to further the understanding of the phenomena encountered as well as of the underlying principles;</li> <li>to impart the basic knowledge for assessing the dynamic behaviour of the structures or structural elements;</li> <li>to describe suitable measures, both preventive to be applied in the design stage and remedial in the case of rehabilitation.</li> </ol>

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Xu, Zeshui. Linguistic Decision Making: Theory and Methods. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.

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Vallejo Maldonado, Pablo Ramon, and Nikolay Chaynov. Kinematics and dynamics of automobile piston engines. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/989072.

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The fundamentals of kinematics and dynamics of transport piston internal combustion engines made using different layout schemes are presented. Along with the traditional in-line, V-shaped, including oppositional, arrangement of cylinders, schemes with "staggered" arrangement of cylinders in the block at the displaced connecting rod necks of the crankshaft of the engine are considered. The kinematics of the coaxial crank mechanism is considered in detail. The questions of dynamics with reduction of calculated dependences of forces, moments, a choice of a rational order of work of cylinders in relation to the considered kinematic schemes are in detail stated. Considerable attention is paid to the unevenness of the crankshaft rotation speed and engine balancing. The loads on the main and connecting rod bearings of the crankshaft, the knowledge of which is necessary in determining the bearing capacity of bearing units, are also considered. Meets the requirements of the Federal state educational standards of higher education of the last generation. For students of higher educational institutions studying in the direction of training 23.03.03 "Operation of transport and technological machines and complexes" and related areas.

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Drakeford, Philip. From quantity to quality: An estimation of the effects on knowledge, expectations and values among pupils and teachers associated with work experience schemes operated in three Dyfed comprehensive schools during the pupils' final year of compulsory education. [s.l.]: typescript, 1991.

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Busacca, Maurizio, and Roberto Paladini. Collaboration Age. Venice: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-424-0.

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Recently, public policies of urban regeneration have intensified and multiplied. They are being promoted with the aim to start social and economic dynamics within the local context which is subject to intervention. From the empirical analysis, we realise that such activities are mainly implemented by three subjects or by mixed coalitions (public institutions, actors of the third sector and companies). Within them, each player is moved by a multiplicity of interests and goals that go beyond their own nature – public interest, market and mutualism – and tend to redefine themselves, thus becoming hybrid forms of production of value (social, economic, cultural). By studying a number Italian and Catalan cases, this essay deals with the theory that, under specific conditions and configurations, a collaborative direction – of organization, production and design – would give life to successful procedures, even without the identification of a one-best-way. The collaboration is not simply a choice of operation, but a real production method which mobilises social resources to create hybrid solutions – between state, market and society – to complex issues that could not be faced solely with the use of the rationale of action of one among the three actors. In this framework, the systems of relations and interactions between players and shared capital become an essential condition for the success of every initiative of urban redevelopment, or failure thereof. Such initiatives are brought to life by the strategic role of individuals who foster connections as well as the dissemination of non-redundant information between social networks, and collective and individual actors which would otherwise be separated and barely able to communicate and collaborate with each other. In addition to the functions carried out by knowledge brokers, that have been extensively described in organisational studies and economic sociology, the aforementioned figures act as real social enzymes, that is to say, they handle the available information and function as catalysts of social processes of production of knowledge. Moreover, they increase the reaction speed, working on mechanisms which control the spontaneity.

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Zgurovsky, Mikhail Z., and Valery S. Melnik. Nonlinear Analysis and Control of Physical Processes and Fields (Data and Knowledge in a Changing World). Springer, 2004.

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Stoff, Mary Cora. The effects of farm and operator characteristics, knowledge, and attitudes on farm-level improvements in irrigation efficiency in the central Willamette Valley. 1994.

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Katsuragawa, Mario, Luiz Vianna Nonato, and Francisco Luiz Vicentini Neto. Guia do oceanógrafo: Manuseio de cabos e acessórios. Brazil Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31012/978-65-5861-334-3.

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Oceanography is a multidisciplinary science that deals with the physical, chemical, geological e biological aspects of the marine environment. As most of the sciences, oceanographic research relies heavily on sampling procedures, which can be rather simple, as obtaining a water sample at sea surface, or very complex, as bringing an uncontaminated sediment sample from hadal regions (up to 11,000 m deep) to the surface. Despite the sampling operation complexity, it is of primary importance the use of the adequate instrumentation, as well the expertise of the instrument operator. Ideally, the operator should have a good knowledge of the technical characteristics of the instruments themselves, as well as the correct procedures for their operation. In addition, he should be well acquainted to the ship equipment employed in the deployment, operation and retrieval of those instruments, including cables, winches and cranes. Only if these aspects are taken in account a reliable and safe operation can be attained. In this way, this guide was conceived as a basic reference for researchers in their on-board operations, although certainly being useful for a wide range of outdoor activities. It was based on the authors years of experience in field work onboard research and fishing vessels. It includes notions on nautical cables, onboard load handling equipment and hardware, basic ropework, basic net weaving and repairing and a nautical glossary.

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A, Edmonds E., and Loughborough University of Technology. Department of Computer Studies., eds. Knowledge-based co-operation. London: Academic Press, 1993.

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Sogge, Christopher D. A review: The Laplacian and the d’Alembertian. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691160757.003.0001.

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This chapter reviews the Laplacian and the d'Alembertian. It begins with a brief discussion on the solution of wave equation both in Euclidean space and on manifolds and how this knowledge can be used to derive properties of eigenfunctions on Riemannian manifolds. A key step in understanding properties of solutions of wave equations on manifolds is to compute the types of distributions that include the fundamental solution of the wave operator in Minkowski space (d'Alembertian), with a specific function for the Euclidean Laplacian on Rn. The chapter also reviews another equation involving the Laplacian, before discussing the fundamental solutions of the d'Alembertian in R1+n.

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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Division of Reactor Controls and Human Factors, ed. Knowledge and abilities catalog for nuclear power plant operators: Pressurized water reactors. Washington, DC: Division of Reactor Controls and Human Factors, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 1995.

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Knowledge and abilities catalog for nuclear power plant operators: Pressurized water reactors. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: Division of Reactor Controls and Human Factors, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 1998.

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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Division of Human Factors Technology, ed. Knowledge and abilities catalog for nuclear power plant operators: Boiling water reactors. Washington, DC: Division of Human Technology, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 1986.

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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Division of Reactor Controls and Human Factors, ed. Knowledge and abilities catalog for nuclear power plant operators: Boiling water reactors. Washington, DC: Division of Reactor Controls and Human Factors, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 1995.

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Grant, Stuart A., and David B. Auyong. Trunk and Spine Ultrasound Guided Regional Anesthesia. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190231804.003.0004.

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This chapter describes the clinical anatomy and outlines the tools and techniques needed to perform thoracic, abdominal and neuraxial ultrasound-guided procedures. The nerve blocks described here include the transversus abdominis plane (TAP), quadratus lumborum, ilioinguinal-iliohypogastric, rectus sheath, intercostal, PECS, serratus plane, paravertebral, and neuraxial spinal and epidural blocks. For each nerve block, the indications, risks, and benefits of the varying approaches are described in detail. The chapter includes step-by-step instructions with illustrations to allow the operator to perform clinically effective and safe ultrasound-guided thoracic, truncal, and neuraxial procedures. At the conclusion of each block description, a “Pearls” segment highlights important tips gleaned from our clinical experience. This chapter provides the practitioner with thorough instruction and knowledge allowing the optimal delivery of regional anesthesia for any thoracic or abdominal surgery.

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Steel, Duncan G. Introduction to Quantum Nanotechnology. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192895073.001.0001.

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Quantum physics is rapidly emerging as a transformative approach to expand the frontiers of technology in areas including communications, information processing, metrology, and sensing. Indeed, the end of Moore’s Law looms in the near future and quantum effects in modern electronics such as quantum tunneling are a limiting factor. In contrast, in new technology based on quantum behavior, the quantum properties represent a new dimension of opportunity. This shift is already creating a growing need for engineers and physical scientists who have specialized knowledge in this area, in order to contribute to the growing effort. There are numerous outstanding textbooks available for a general approach to the field of quantum physics. There is much to be gained by taking the traditional learning approach, but it can take two or three years before students encounter many of the exciting ideas and tools for this area. This book takes an application-motivated approach to enable students to build a quantum toolbox. The first six chapters describe the quantum states of various systems of interest, while the remaining chapters focus mainly on dynamics. Important concepts like the quantum flip-flop, based using Rabi oscillations, and engineering the quantum vacuum are presented. Powerful tools including the atomic operator approach and density matrix operator are introduced with examples of applications. This book is aimed at upper level undergraduates and some first year graduate students. The book is arranged to fulfil the needs for a one-semester or two-semester sequence. For a one-semester sequence, the preface describes several paths that emphasize different aspects of quantum behavior.

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Grant, Stuart A., and David B. Auyong. Lower Limb Ultrasound Guided Regional Anesthesia. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190231804.003.0003.

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This chapter describes the clinical anatomy relevant to the lower extremities and outlines the tools and techniques used to perform lower extremity ultrasound-guided nerve blocks. The nerve blocks described here include the femoral, lateral femoral cutaneous, adductor canal (selective femoral), saphenous, obturator, lumbar plexus, sciatic (proximal, anterior, and popliteal approaches), (iPACK) and ankle blocks. For each nerve block, the indications, risks, and benefits of the varying approaches are described in detail. The chapter includes step-by-step instructions with illustrations, including cadaver dissections, to allow the operator to perform clinically effective and safe ultrasound-guided lower extremity regional anesthesia. At the conclusion of each block description, a “Pearls” segment highlights important tips gleaned from our clinical experience. This chapter provides the practitioner with thorough instruction and knowledge allowing optimal delivery of regional anesthetic for any lower extremity surgery or trauma.

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Akemann, Gernot. Random matrix theory and quantum chromodynamics. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198797319.003.0005.

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This chapter was originally presented to a mixed audience of physicists and mathematicians with some basic working knowledge of random matrix theory. The first part is devoted to the solution of the chiral Gaussian unitary ensemble in the presence of characteristic polynomials, using orthogonal polynomial techniques. This includes all eigenvalue density correlation functions, smallest eigenvalue distributions, and their microscopic limit at the origin. These quantities are relevant for the description of the Dirac operator spectrum in quantum chromodynamics with three colors in four Euclidean space-time dimensions. In the second part these two theories are related based on symmetries, and the random matrix approximation is explained. In the last part recent developments are covered, including the effect of finite chemical potential and finite space-time lattice spacing, and their corresponding orthogonal polynomials. This chapter also provides some open random matrix problems.

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Grant, Stuart A., and David B. Auyong. Upper Limb Ultrasound Guided Regional Anesthesia. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190231804.003.0002.

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This chapter describes the clinical anatomy and outlines the tools and techniques needed to perform upper extremity ultrasound-guided nerve blocks. The nerve blocks above the clavicle described here include the interscalene, dorsal scapular, suprascapular, cervical plexus, and supraclavicular blocks. Nerve blocks below the clavicle described here include the infraclavicular and axillary blocks and distal blocks at the wrist and elbow. For each nerve block, the indications, risks, and benefits of the varying approaches are described in detail. The chapter includes step-by-step instructions with illustrations, including cadaver dissections, to allow the operator to perform clinically effective and safe ultrasound-guided upper extremity regional anesthesia. At the conclusion of each block description, a “Pearls” segment highlights important tips gained from our clinical experience. This chapter provides the practitioner with thorough instruction and knowledge allowing optimal delivery of regional anesthesia for any upper extremity surgery or trauma.

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1955-, Andresen Astri, Elvbakken Kari Tove, Hubbard William H, Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies., and Universitetet i. Bergen, eds. Public health and preventive medicine, 1800-2000: Knowledge, co-operation, and conflict : conference proceedings. Bergen: Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies, 2004.

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Lichtenstein, Nelson. Supply-Chain Tourist; or, How Globalization Has Transformed the Labor Question. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037856.003.0003.

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This chapter, which yanks the reader from mid-twentieth-century Detroit to early twenty-first-century Guangdong Province, recounts the author's discovery that the labor question can have many different configurations, especially when some of the most important and characteristic enterprises of our day are the big-box retailers, whose employee rolls and annual revenues now far outrank those of the largest manufacturing companies. It appears that the essence of the twenty-first-century labor question no longer resides at the point of production in a struggle between workers and the owners of the factories in which they labor. Instead, the site of value production is found at every link along a set of global supply chains, in which the manufacturer and the warehouse operator, the ports and the shipping companies, as well as the retailers and their branded vendors jockey for power and profit. In this disaggregated system, legal ownership of the forces of production has been divorced from operational control, making accountability for labor conditions diffuse and knowledge of the actual producers far from transparent.

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Halvorsen, Tar, and Peter Vale. One World, Many Knowledges: Regional experiences and cross-regional links in higher education. African Minds, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.47622/978-0-620-55789-4.

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Various forms of academic co-operation criss-cross the modern university system in a bewildering number of ways, from the open exchange of ideas and knowledge, to the sharing of research results, and frank discussions about research challenges. Embedded in these scholarly networks is the question of whether a global template for the management of both higher education and national research organisations is necessary, and if so, must institutions slavishly follow the high-flown language of the global knowledge society or risk falling behind in the ubiquitous university ranking system? Or are there alternatives that can achieve a better, more ethically inclined, world? Basing their observations on their own experiences, an interesting mix of seasoned scholars and new voices from southern Africa and the Nordic region offer critical perspectives on issues of inter- and cross-regional academic co-operation. Several of the chapters also touch on the evolution of the higher education sector in the two regions. An absorbing and intelligent study, this book will be invaluable for anyone interested in the strategies scholars are using to adapt to the interconnectedness of the modern world. It offers fresh insights into how academics are attempting to protect the spaces in which they can freely and openly debate the challenges they face, while aiming to transform higher education, and foster scholarly collaboration. The Southern African-Nordic Centre (SANORD) is a partnership of higher education institutions from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Botswana, Namibia, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. SANORDs primary aim is to promote multilateral research co-operation on matters of importance to the development of both regions. Our activities are based on the values of democracy, equity, and mutually beneficial academic engagement.

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Ferlie, Ewan, Sue Dopson, Chris Bennett, Michael D. Fischer, Jean Ledger, and Gerry McGivern. Concluding discussion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198777212.003.0011.

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The concluding chapter further develops the overall themes explored throughout the book. We critique the evidence-based management movement empirically by suggesting its absence in a sector which should have been fertile territory for it (given the strong evidence-based medicine inheritance). We highlight instead the importance of the macro context of public services reforming (with political and ideological components) in shaping which preferred management knowledges become influential in local health care organizations. We also complement this macro-level perspective with an awareness of the role of micro-level knowledge leadership. We then bring in some academic literature on business schools (‘the Business School Business’) and consider how business schools might properly operate in this domain given their importance as management knowledge producers. Finally, we reflect on the implications of what might have changed since we completed our research, including the populist rise of an anti-expert backlash.

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Halvorsen, Tor, Skare Orgeret, and Roy Krøvel. Sharing Knowledge, Transforming Societies: The Norhed Programme 2013-2020. African Minds, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47622/9781928502005.

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In June 2016, the Norwegian Programme for Capacity Development in Higher Education and Research for Development (Norhed) hosted a conference on the theme of 'knowledge for development'in an attempt to shift the focus of the programme towards its academic content. This book follows up on that event. The conference highlighted the usefulness of presenting the value of Norhed's different projects to the world, showing how they improve knowledge and expand access to it through co-operation. A wish for more meta-knowledge was also expressed and this gives rise to the following questions: Is this way of co-operating contributing to the growth of independent post-colonial knowledge production in the South, based on analyses of local data and experiences in ways that are relevant to our shared future? Does the growth of academic independence, as well as greater equality, and the ability to develop theories different to those imposed by the better-off parts of the world, give rise to deeper understandings and better explanations? Does it, at least, spread the ability to translate existing methodologies in ways that add meaning to observations of local context and data, and thus enhance the relevance and influence of the academic profession locally and internationally? This book, in its varied contributions, does not provide definite answers to these questions but it does show that Norhed is a step in the right direction. Norhed is an attempt to fund collaboration within and between higher education institutions. We know that both the uniqueness of this programme, and ideas of how to better utilise the learning and experience emerging from it, call for more elaboration and broader dissemination before we can offer further guidance on how to do things better. This book is a first attempt.

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Bodenham, Andrew R. Vascular access during anaesthesia. Edited by Michel M. R. F. Struys. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199642045.003.0049.

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Vascular access, both arterial and venous, at peripheral and more central sites is relatively new in historical medical terms and has only really developed into mainstream practice in the last 60 years. Other routes of drug and fluid administration via the gut and inhalation preceded it by centuries. It is a core skill for anaesthetists and intensivists, yet is not always well taught or is left out of core training curricula, with the assumption that skills will just be picked up early along the way. Like many procedures, it can be surprisingly easy to learn the basics, but many hazards and difficulties await the less skilled or inexperienced operator. A thorough knowledge of applied anatomy, practical skills, and recognition and management of complications are essential for safe practice. The increasing use of ultrasound, ECG guidance, X-ray screening, and other devices, and improved design of access devices allow much safer and more successful procedures. Many patients will now have long-term devices in situ, which can be used during anaesthesia and critical care. Such devices are increasingly inserted or removed by anaesthetists. Space precludes a detailed description of actual techniques for all routes of access; only general principles will be covered in this chapter.

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Shen, Wei, and Benjamin Rouben. Fundamentals of CANDU Reactor Physics. ASME, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.884836.

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Nuclear Engineering and Technology for the 21st Century - Monograph Series Jovica Riznic, Series Editor With more than 75 years of combined working experience in the area of reactor physics and safety, the intention of the authors of this monograph is to provide a practical book on reactor physics, particularly for the safe operation of aged CANDU reactors, with minimal mathematics or equations. The book gives a glimpse of first principles and their engineering application in reactor physics, for those who are interested in or are working in the Canadian nuclear industry. The book is also ideal as a reference for physicists, operators, regulatory staff, and for those who need to interact with reactor physicists at CANDU sites, nuclear laboratories, institutes, universities, or engineering companies. This book assumes prior knowledge of nuclear physics offered at the secondary level. As very few equations appear in the monograph, it is not considered suitable for specialists whose focus is only on calculations or on the development of software on reactor physics. Such readers should refer to the books listed in the bibliography at the end of the monograph.

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A Review of the State of Knowledge and of Current Practice in Selection Techniques for Process Operators (HSE Contract Research Report). Health and Safety Executive (HSE), 1993.

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Hawley, Mark, and John Cunning, eds. Guidelines for Mine Waste Dump and Stockpile Design. CSIRO Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9781486303519.

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Guidelines for Mine Waste Dump and Stockpile Design is a comprehensive, practical guide to the investigation, design, operation and monitoring of mine waste dumps, dragline spoils and major stockpiles associated with large open pit mines. These facilities are some of the largest man-made structures on Earth, and while most have performed very well, there are cases where instabilities have occurred with severe consequences, including loss of life and extensive environmental and economic damage. Developed and written by industry experts with extensive knowledge and experience, this book is an initiative of the Large Open Pit (LOP) Project. It comprises 16 chapters that follow the life cycle of a mine waste dump, dragline spoil or stockpile from site selection to closure and reclamation. It describes the investigation and design process, introduces a comprehensive stability rating and hazard classification system, provides guidance on acceptability criteria, and sets out the key elements of stability and runout analysis. Chapters on site and material characterisation, surface water and groundwater characterisation and management, risk assessment, operations and monitoring, management of ARD, emerging technologies and closure are included. A chapter is also dedicated to the analysis and design of dragline spoils. Guidelines for Mine Waste Dump and Stockpile Design summarises the current state of practice and provides insight and guidance to mine operators, geotechnical engineers, mining engineers, hydrogeologists, geologists and other individuals that are responsible at the mine site level for ensuring the stability and performance of these structures. Readership includes mining engineers, geotechnical engineers, civil engineers, engineering geologists, hydrogeologists, environmental scientists, and other professionals involved in the site selection, investigation, design, permitting, construction, operation, monitoring, closure and reclamation of mine waste dumps and stockpiles.

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Zachmann, Karin, and Sarah Ehlers, eds. Wissen und Begründen. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783748903383.

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Evidence has become a key resource within our knowledge society. At the same time, during the course of the 20th century, negotiations on the validity of knowledge became a political and controversial phenomenon which has since shaped the multiple fields of science, technology, politics, medicine and society. As the diagnosis of a ‘post-factual age’ makes clear: knowledge will not be accepted in modern society per se; instead knowledge operators have to satisfy demands to give validity to their findings. But which practices should they apply for this purpose? How is the validity of knowledge negotiated in different public spheres? Using an interdisciplinary perspective, this anthology examines the dynamics of evidence practices. The authors cover examples from research in the fields of medicine, communication, the economy, science, technology and environmental studies. At the same time, they connect analysis from recent history with current phenomena. With contributions by Helena Bilandzic, Tommaso Bruni, Sarah Ehlers, Stefan Esselborn, Sascha Dickel, Kay Felder, Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio, Christine Haßauer, Susanne Kinnebrock, Magdalena Klingler, Emilia Lehmann, Sabine Maasen, Ruth Müller, Jutta Roosen, Helmuth Trischler, Andreas Wenninger, Fabienne Will, Karin Zachmann

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S, Tippett Katherine, and Cypel Yasmin S, eds. Design and operation: The continuing survey of food intakes by individuals and the diet and health knowledge survey, 1994-96. [Washington, D.C.]: United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, 1998.

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S, Tippett Katherine, Cypel Yasmin S, and United States. Agricultural Research Service., eds. Design and operation: The continuing survey of food intakes by individuals and the diet and health knowledge survey, 1994-96. [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, 1998.

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S, Tippett Katherine, Cypel Yasmin S, and United States. Agricultural Research Service., eds. Design and operation: The continuing survey of food intakes by individuals and the diet and health knowledge survey, 1994-96. [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, 1998.

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Mignolo, Walter D. The Politics of Decolonial Investigations. Duke University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478002574.

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In The Politics of Decolonial Investigations Walter D. Mignolo provides a sweeping examination of how coloniality has operated around the world in its myriad forms from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first. Decolonial border thinking allows Mignolo to outline how the combination of the self-fashioned narratives of Western civilization and the hegemony of Eurocentric thought served to eradicate all knowledges in non-European languages and praxes of living and being. Mignolo also traces the geopolitical origins of racialized and gendered classifications, modernity, globalization, and cosmopolitanism, placing them all within the framework of coloniality. Drawing on the work of theorists and decolonial practitioners from the Global South and the Global East, Mignolo shows how coloniality has provoked the emergence of decolonial politics initiated by delinking from all forms of Western knowledge and subjectivities. The urgent task, Mignolo stresses, is the epistemic reconstitution of categories of thought and praxes of living destituted in the very process of building Western civilization and the idea of modernity. The overcoming of the long-lasting hegemony of the West and its distorted legacies is already underway in all areas of human existence. Mignolo underscores the relevance of the politics of decolonial investigations, in and outside the academy, to liberate ourselves from canonized knowledge, ways of knowing, and praxes of living.

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Линков, А. С. Общая теория и технология графического структурирования и представления знаний (Общая теория и технология ГСиП знаний). Академическое изд-во «Гео», 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.21782/b978-5-6043022-1-7.

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The monograph is devoted to the creation of a single complex of scientiJic and practical developments aimed at solving the problems of knowledge operation (such as information or data) by means of their graphic structuring and representation (GSR) in any subject areas of science and practice. In particular, it can be used in information and digital technologies, knowledge engineering, systemic analysis, cognitive science, implementation of interdisciplinary research, etc. Its main purpose is systematization of knowledge, as well as conceptual modeling of complex notions and objects of activity in the logic of problem-oriented approach. The complex is a trinity of theoretical principles, graphic language of conceptual modeling (GLCM) of knowledge, and the GSR technology, implemented using Microsoft Excel, and has no analogues in the given subject area. Its basis is Linkov’s diagonal information graphic knowledge matrix (digmata), being a universal way to extract and structure knowledge from text and other sources, as well as a universal converter of any representation form of knowledge into a uniform graphic form. Simplicity and constructiveness of the complex allow its wide introduction into practice. The monograph is accompanied by a USB Jlash drive containing text and graphic materials. The monograph is intended for the widest range of persons confronted with the above-mentioned problems of science and practice.

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Nowak, Dariusz, ed. Production–operation management. The chosen aspects. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Poznaniu, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18559/978-83-8211-059-3.

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The aim of the e-book is to present the theoretical, cognitive and practical aspects of the essence and complexity of operational management in a production company. The presented modern production methods together with the challenges and problems of contemporary enterprises should better help to understand the issues of sustainable development, with particular emphasis on waste. The book consists of six chapters devoted to relevant and topic issues relating to the core business of an industrial enterprise. Chapter 1 The nature of the industrial enterprise is an introduction to further considerations and deals with the essence of the basic aspects of the company. Both popular and less known definitions of an enterprise, its features, functions and principles of operation are presented. An important part of the chapter is the presentation and formulation of strategic, tactical and operational goals. Moreover, the division of enterprises is presented with the use of various criteria and the features of the industrial market, which make it distinct. Chapter 2 The operational management evolution and its role in the industrial enterprise discusses the evolution and concept of production and operational management. The management levels were also presented, indicating their most important functions. An integral part of the chapter is the essence of the production system, viewed through the prism of the five elements. Chapter 3 Functions and role in operations management presents the issues concerning the organization of production processes, production capacity and inventory management. This part also presents considerations on cooperation and collaboration between enterprises in the process of creating value. Chapter 4 Traditional methods used in operational activities focuses on methods such as benchmarking, outsourcing, core competences, JIT, MPR I and MRP II, as well as TQM and kaizen. Knowledge of these methods should contribute to understanding the activities of modern enterprises, the way of company functioning, the realization of production activities, as well as aspects related to building a competitive position. Chapter 5 Modern methods used in production-operations management discusses the less common and less frequently used production methods, based on a modern and innovative approach. In particular, it was focused on: Shop Floor Control and cooperative manufacturing, environment-conscious manufacturing (ECM) and life-cycle assessment ( LCA), waste management and recycling, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), virtual enterprise, World Class Manufacturing (WCM), Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and House of Quality (HOQ), theory of constraints (TOC), Drum Buffer Rope (DBR), group technology (GT) and cellular manufacturing (CM), Demand Chain Management and competitive intelligence (CI). In the last section discusses: the role of sustainable statistical process control and Computer-Aided Process Planning in context formatting of information management. Chapter 6 Problems of sustainable development and challenges related to production and operations management describes the problem and challenges related to production and operations activities. In particular, attention was paid to the threats related to changes in global warming, the growing scale of waste, or the processes of globalization. It was pointed out that the emerging problem may be both a threat and a chance for the development of enterprises. An integral part of the chapter are also considerations on technical progress, innovation and the importance of human capital in operational activities.

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Kam, Ronald, and Paul Sullivan. Microsurgical skills. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199672516.003.0012.

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Safe ophthalmic surgery requires the surgeon to have the ability to select the best instruments for a particular task, knowledge of the most effective way of using each instrument, and knowledge of the limitations and side effects of the use of each instrument. This chapter focuses on microsurgical skills. It begins with an introduction to the use of forceps and the way they are used to grasp tissues. It then goes on to discuss toothed forceps, sutures, suturing tissues, and tying a surgeon’s knot. The chapter also presents a number of surgical scenarios, such as suturing a leaking corneal wound, suturing skin during a lateral tarsal strip operation, repairing full-thickness corneal lacerations, and repairing scleral lacerations.

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Chiang, Connie Y. Removal and Displacement. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190842062.003.0002.

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This chapter examines how Japanese Americans’ involvement in natural resource industries (farming and fisheries) shaped the campaign for their removal from the Pacific Coast in the wake of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. Their intimate knowledge of these lands and waters grounded arguments to both expel and keep them. This chapter also explores Farm Security Administration (FSA) efforts to keep Japanese American land in production. Fearing a decline in crop output at a time when certain foodstuffs were in high demand, FSA officials sought substitute operators to cultivate farms in Japanese Americans’ absence. These negotiations often led to significant economic losses for detainees.

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Etchegaray, Claire. Reid on Our Mental Constitution. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198783909.003.0004.

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Reid is suspected to beg the question of belief-justification by referring to our mental constitution as the already truthful constitution of the knowing subject. But Reid does not simply say that knowledge is a natural or a divine gift. He claims that his inquiry into our constitution shows how natural powers operate and how they give us access to reality. He claims to explain our true beliefs. This chapter first distinguishes Reid’s approach from any subjectivism and shows how, for Reid, knowledge depends on “our constitution”: only the discernment of truth (and not the truth itself) depends on our mental constitution. The chapter considers why Reid claims to explain the discernment of truth by referring to our constitution, and concludes on the originality of Reid’s anti-scepticism by assessing the proper sense in which the mind is a subject of knowledge.

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Pfister, Thomas, and Martin Schweighofer. Energy Cultures as Sociomaterial Orders of Energy. Edited by Debra J. Davidson and Matthias Gross. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190633851.013.10.

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This chapter discusses energy systems and energy transformations from a perspective on culture. First, it outlines three essential elements of energy cultures: everyday practices as ground layer, collective representations of the order of energy as second layer, and knowledge as a dynamic link mediating between these layers. The subsequent two sections use the examples of sustainable electricity in the European Union and Germany, as well as various efforts to create more sustainable ways of heating and housing, to illustrate how energy cultures operate and how they become particularly visible when contested. The suggested perspective, therefore, analyzes such transformations in terms of knowledge struggles in which different actors seek to promote their envisioned energy cultures. Utilizing specific knowledge-centered practices, these actors attempt to intervene in everyday practices of energy production, use, and distribution, as well as in collective representations of the roles, values, and meanings of energy within a society.

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Becker, Misha, and Susannah Kirby. A-Movement in Language Development. Edited by Jeffrey L. Lidz, William Snyder, and Joe Pater. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199601264.013.12.

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This chapter provides an overview of the literature on children’s acquisition of constructions involving A(rgument)-movement: passive, unaccusative verbs, raising-to-subject, and raising-to-object. Considering A-movement within a derivational theoretical framework (GB/Minimalism), we provide some historical and theoretical context for treating these constructions under the same operation. In all cases, the surface position of an NP is incongruous with its syntactic configuration for receiving its thematic role. For each construction we discuss empirical evidence concerning children’s knowledge of the construction (including, where available, cross-linguistic data), and the major theoretical debates that have arisen around them, notably Maturation. We suggest that variability in experimental outcomes, both within and across constructions, can be linked to methodological choices and not likely to lack of linguistic knowledge.

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