Exploring Perceptions from the Unknown 101

by Pearz Reagan
Exploring Perceptions from the Unknown 101
Author: Pearz Reagan
Publisher: Pearz Reagan
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2024-08-23
Genre: Science
ISBN:
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An Interdisciplinary Exploration Based on My Personal Journey Abstract: This narrative weaves together personal experiences, scientific exploration, and philosophical inquiry to explore the nature of reality, consciousness, and the universe. Through the lens of bipolar disorder and manic episodes, the author delves into profound questions about the interconnectedness of all things, the potential of black holes to transmit information across time and space, and the intersection of science and spirituality. This work invites readers to challenge their assumptions, broaden their understanding, and consider the possibilities that lie beyond the limits of current knowledge.

Science Fiction: 101

by Robert K. Silverberg
Science Fiction: 101
Author: Robert K. Silverberg
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2014-05-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0451466764
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Before Robert Silverberg won multiple Hugo and Nebula awards and became Grand Master of science fiction, he was a young man learning the art and craft of writing the genre. In Science Fiction: 101, Silverberg reveals the roots of modern science fiction with thought-provoking essays about some of the field’s most groundbreaking stories—included in this volume—which inspired him and taught him to write. These insightful analyses, along with the skills and strategies Silverberg developed to build his successful career, make this an indispensable volume for readers interested in science fiction history. Featuring Thirteen Classic Stories by Brian W. Aldiss, Alfred Bester, James Blish, Philip K. Dick, Damon Knight, C. M. Kornbluth, Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore, Frederik Pohl, Bob Shaw, Robert Sheckley, Cordwainer Smith, and Jack Vance

Practical Tips for Developing Your Staff

by Tracey Pratchett
Practical Tips for Developing Your Staff
Author: Tracey Pratchett
Publisher: Facet Publishing
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2016-11-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1783300183
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This book offers innovative tips and tried-and-tested best practice to enable library and knowledge workers to take control of professional development regardless of the budget and time available to them. Continuing professional development (CPD) is a key component of a successful and satisfying career. Part of the Practical Tips for Library and Information Professionals series, this book offer a wide range of ideas and methods for all library and information professionals to manage the development of those who work for and with them. You will find flexible tips and implementation advice on topics including: - enabling others to plan, reflect on and evaluate their personal development - appraisals and goal setting: linking personal objectives to organizational objectives - performance management - sourcing funding to attend and run events - planning formal development activities such as courses and conferences - accessing informal activities - using social media as a development tool - the role of professional bodies and networks mentoring, buddying and coaching networking. Readership: All library and information professionals who have responsibility for managing, mentoring and training staff and individuals wishing to manage their own CPD.

Lean For Dummies

by Natalie J. Sayer
Lean For Dummies
Author: Natalie J. Sayer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2012-03-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118117565
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Take charge and engage your enterprise in a Lean transformation Have you thought about using Lean in your business or organization, but are not really sure how to implement it? Or perhaps you're already using Lean, but you need to get up to speed. Lean For Dummies shows you how to do more with less and create an enterprise that embraces change. In plain-English, this friendly guide explores the general overview of Lean, how flow and the value stream works, and the best ways to apply Lean to your enterprise. This revised edition includes the latest tools, advice, and information that can be used by everyone — from major corporations to small business, from non-profits and hospitals to manufacturers and service corporations. In addition, it takes a look at the successes and failures of earlier Lean pioneers — including Toyota, the inventors of Lean — and offer case studies and hands-on advice. The latest on the Six Sigma and Lean movements The role of technology and the expanding Lean toolbox Case studies enhance the material Lean For Dummies gives today's business owners and upper level management in companies of all sizes and in all industries, the tools and information they need to streamline process and operate more efficiently.

Children's Exploration and Cultural Formation

by Mariane Hedegaard
Children's Exploration and Cultural Formation
Author: Mariane Hedegaard
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2020-02-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 303036271X
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This open access book examines the educational conditions that support cultures of exploration in kindergartens. It conceptualises cultures of exploration, whether those cultures are created through children’s own engagement or are demanded of them through undertaking specific tasks within different institutional settings. It shows how the conditions for children’s exploration form a web of activities in different settings with social relationships, local landscapes and artefacts. The book builds on the understanding of cultural traditions as deeply implicated in the developmental processes, meaning that local considerations must be reflected in education for sustainable futures. Therefore the book examines and conceptualises exploration and cultural formation through locally situated cases and navigates toward global educational concepts. The book provides different windows into how children may explore in everyday practice settings in kindergarten, and contributes to a loci-based, ecological, integral knowledge relevant for early childhood education.

Brain-Inspired Intelligence and Visual Perception

by Wenfeng Wang
Brain-Inspired Intelligence and Visual Perception
Author: Wenfeng Wang
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2019-02-14
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811335494
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This book presents the latest findings in the field of brain-inspired intelligence and visual perception (BIVP), and discusses novel research assumptions, including an introduction to brain science and the brain vision hypotheses. Moreover, it introduces readers to the theory and algorithms of BIVP – such as pheromone accumulation and iteration, neural cognitive computing mechanisms, the integration and scheduling of core modules, and brain-inspired perception, motion and control – in a step-by-step manner. Accordingly, it will appeal to university researchers, R&D engineers, undergraduate and graduate students; to anyone interested in robots, brain cognition or computer vision; and to all those wishing to learn about the core theory, principles, methods, algorithms, and applications of BIVP.

Optical Illusion Experiments

by Michael A. Dispezio
Optical Illusion Experiments
Author: Michael A. Dispezio
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781402723360
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Kids can be both scientists and magicians--all at once! With just a little practice, and these 50 super experiments, they’ll amaze people with fool-the-eye illusions that also illustrate basic principles of visual perception. They’re amazingly cool, too, featuring tricks of motion; distortions of length and size; tilts, twists, and topsy-turvies that give a new slant on things; and fantastic flat-screen phantoms that play with illusions of depth.

When Entrepreneurs Meet: The Collective Governance Of New Ideas

by Darcy W E Allen
When Entrepreneurs Meet: The Collective Governance Of New Ideas
Author: Darcy W E Allen
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2020-10-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1786349205
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When Entrepreneurs Meet: The Collective Governance of New Ideas challenges our understanding of how entrepreneurs crystallize opportunities surrounding new technologies. While innovation is the fundamental driver of growth and prosperity, how the earliest stages of entrepreneurship are governed remains elusive. This book creates a new, institutional approach to understanding entrepreneurship before emphasizing how entrepreneurs create governance structures to coordinate new knowledge resources.Rather than the conventional view that entrepreneurship happens inside firms, this unique transaction-cost economics analysis of entrepreneurship suggests it might begin earlier in hybrid, polycentric self-governance structures, including the innovation commons. Allen explores and analyses various examples of these structures, including hackerspaces and the institutions coalescing around the development of the blockchain economy, along with the dynamics of how those institutions might collapse into firms. This new understanding of the entrepreneurial governance problem is also connected to contemporary questions about the purpose, scope, and application of innovation policy.