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Fractals in the Earth Sciences

Christopher C. Barton and Paul R. La Pointe

This well-illustrated volume reviews the many applications of fractal geometry used to study earth science patterns and processes. Designed as an introduction to this new area of study, the papers represent a broad spectrum of earth science disciplines where patterns have proven to be fractal over many orders of magnitude in time or space. This volume features an exhaustive list of published fractal dimensions measured for earth science patterns.
Global Perspectives on the Ecology of Human-Machine Systems

John M. Flach, Peter A. Hancock, Jeff Caird, and Kim J. Vicente

There is a growing consensus in the human factors/ergonomics community that human factors research has had little impact on significant applied problems. Some have suggested that the problem lies in the fact that much HF/E research has been based on the wrong type of psychology, an information processing view of psychology that is reductionistic and context-free. Ecological psychology offers a viable alternative, presenting a richer view of human behavior that is holistic and contextualized. The papers presented in these two volumes show the conceptual impact that ecological psychology can have on HF/E, as well as presenting a number of specific examples illustrating the ecological approach to human-machine systems. It is the first collection of papers that explicitly draws a connection between these two fields. While work in this area is only just beginning, the evidence available suggests that taking an ecological approach to human factors/ergonomics helps bridge the existing gap between basic research and applied problems.
Photography in the 1990s: Fifty Portfolios

Ronald R. Geibert

Photography in the 1990s: fifty portfolios was a two-disc international survey of nearly 400 images. Portfolios by 50 photographers were selected from 500 submissions from 30 countries. The jurors were museum curators from the Art Institute of Chicago, the Bibliotheque nationale de Paris, the Houston Museum of Art, and the MoMA in NYC. This publication represents a work by each of the photographers from six categories. The curator and project director was Professor Ron Geibert of Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.
Local Applications of the Ecological Approach To Human-Machine Systems

Peter A. Hancock, John M. Flach, Jeff Caird, and Kim J. Vicente

There is a growing consensus in the human factors/ergonomics community that human factors research has had little impact on significant applied problems. Some have suggested that the problem lies in the fact that much HF/E research has been based on the wrong type of psychology, an information processing view of psychology that is reductionistic and context-free. Ecological psychology offers a viable alternative, presenting a richer view of human behavior that is holistic and contextualized. The papers presented in these two volumes show the conceptual impact that ecological psychology can have on HF/E, as well as presenting a number of specific examples illustrating the ecological approach to human-machine systems. It is the first collection of papers that explicitly draws a connection between these two fields. While work in this area is only just beginning, the evidence available suggests that taking an ecological approach to human factors/ergonomics helps bridge the existing gap between basic research and applied problems.
Pleasures and Pains: Opium and the Orient in Nineteenth-Century British Culture

Barry Milligan

Throughout the nineteenth century, while Britons were taking their culture to the East, they were also bringing back exotic commodities and ideas, inviting the Orient to enter English terrain, bodies, and consciousness. This mixing is both mediated and mirrored by opium, an Oriental commodity that enters and alters the English body and mindset, thus confusing the direction of Anglo-Oriental power dynamics. Incorporating elements of literary criticism, cultural studies, and social history, Pleasures and Pains takes a new look at the complicated dynamics of empire as well as the development of still-prevalent perceptions of drugs as alien invaders responsible for the decay of national character.
Total Quality in Managing Human Resources

Joseph A. Petrick and Diana S. Furr

Human resource management is a particularly challenging role, both domestically and globally. This challenge can be viewed either as an opportunity or as a threat. As an opportunity, the principles and practices of total quality presented in this book can help human resource professionals or anyone who manages people, transform institutionalized mediocrity into organizational excellence.

The focus of this book is on managing the difference TQ makes in human resources. Whereas the traditional nature and scope of responsibility for most human resource professionals has been that of staff support geared to administrative compliance, the total quality approach offered here reveals the keys to developing and sustaining commitment to world-class performance. These keys include strategic input and continual improvement of the human resource system to enhance internal and external customer satisfaction both now and in the future. The full meaning of these new TQ role demands is explored in light of the driving forces reshaping the HR environment into the 21st Century.

In addition, this book offers practitioner assessment instruments, practical TQ tools, and specific implementation steps to take in order to make the TQ difference in managing human resources domestically and globally.
1994

Ronald R. Geibert

The book 1994 is comprised of samples made in the summer of 1994. Geibert taught a class for a Nevada school Consortium first in Paris and then in Saint Jean-du-Luz, France. The images of the town, which have never been exhibited were the last color film/camera images that Geibert made before making the transition over to installations, multimedia, and scanned books.
The New Street Photography

Ronald R. Geibert

THE NEW STREET PHOTOGRAPHY examines contemporary "street" photography through the eyes of 30 artists. It includes 150 images, narrated artists statements, and biographies on Joel Meyerowitz, Martin Parr, and Henry Wessel, among others.
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Information Systems

H. Korth and Amit P. Sheth

Conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Information Systems, Austin, TX, September 28-30, 1994.
Real Estate: Principles and Practices

James E. Larsen

This book provides a clear understanding of the theories and practices used in real estate. By balancing practical information with academic rigor, it provides a comprehensive introduction to real estate. It can be used as a first course in real estate career preparation or as an elective course for those seeking practical real estate knowledge. Although it is not a prelicensing text, it could be used for licensing oriented courses with additional state specific material.
Paleonutrition: The Diet and Health of Prehistoric Americans

Kristin D. Sobolik

Scholars working in all aspects of dietary and health reconstruction present their research and its applications to the study of paleonutrition, the limitations of each dietary assemblage in determining paleonutrition, and how those limitations can be alleviated. The 24 scholars present data on the advances that have been made in understanding the nutrition of prehistoric Americans and how those studies have helped define the integrative basis of such research.
RIDE-IMS '93, Third International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering: Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems

H. J. Schek, Amit P. Sheth, and B. Czjedo

Held in Vienna, Austria, April 1993, the workshop heard work-in-progress, industrial, and position papers, which are presented along with panel discussions. Among the topics: lean languages and models, interdatabase consistency and constraints, schematic issues, query processing and optimization, etc.
Memories of Rahija

Abe Bassett

Sometime in 1987, sadly, I realized that my father, who would have been 102 had he lived, passed the milestone of his 100th birthday without note or commemoration. I vowed this would not happen with my mother, Rahija Saad Bassett. In early May, 1991, I wrote to all of her children, grandchildren, nephews and nieces, cousins, and others, asking them to pause for a moment of reflection at the noon hour on her date of birth. And I also asked for a written remembrance: a story, an incident, an impression to be shared. This book is a collection of those individual memories which have come together to form a vivid image of a loving, nurturing woman, who seldom complained of ill fortune, who loved God, and nature, and life, and her children, and all those about her. Her stories are a part of our family folklore and her history is a vital part of our heritage. This collection gives us a unique way to remember her, and an opportunity to pass on to our children and their children and their children's children the heritage which helped to shape us and them. Thank you all for your memories, and I thank my sisters for their special help.
Memories of Rahija

Abe J. Bassett

Sometime in 1987, sadly, I realized that my father, who would have been 102 had he lived, passed the milestone of his 100th birthday without note or commemoration. I vowed this would not happen with my mother, Rahija Saad Bassett. In early May, 1991, I wrote to all of her children, grandchildren, nephews and nieces, cousins, and others, asking them to pause for a moment of reflection at the noon hour on her date of birth. And I also asked for a written remembrance: a story, an incident, an impression to be shared. This book is a collection of those individual memories which have come together to form a vivid image of a loving, nurturing woman, who seldom complained of ill fortune, who loved God, and nature, and life, and her children, and all those about her. Her stories are a part of our family folklore and her history is a vital part of our heritage. This collection gives us a unique way to remember her, and an opportunity to pass on to our children and their children and their children's children the heritage which helped to shape us and them. Thank you all for your memories, and I thank my sisters for their special help.
From the Midwest

Ronald R. Geibert

From the Midwest presents the insightful views of life in Japan and Germany by Ohioian photographer Ron Geibert. The Dayton Art Institute book features color pictures of ceremonies, children at play, and landscapes. Includes critical analysis by former Seattle Art Museum curator Rod Slemmons
From the Midwest: Extras

Ronald R. Geibert

From the Midwest: extras expands on the work of Ohioan photographer Ron Geibert's book From the Midwest, capturing insightful views of life in Japan.
Parents

Ronald R. Geibert, Museum of Contemporary Art at Wright State University, and Dayton Art Institute

Parents bears witness to the profundity of that first and possibly foremost relationship in our lives: that which we share with our parents. Photographically derived works by Linda Connor, Duane Michals, and Larry Sultan, among others and selected writings in eight-four oversized pages. Augment with camera interviews of Ann Fessler, Tony Mendoza, Adina Sabghir, and Larry Sultan.
Physical and Hydrologic-Flow Properties of Fractures: Las Vegas, Nevada - Zion Canyon, Utah - Grand Canyon, Arizona - Yucca Mountain, Nevada, July 20-24, 1989 (Field Trip Guidebook T385)

Christopher C. Barton and Paul A. Hsieh

Fractures are one of the most abundant structures in geology and are found in almost all rocks and soils at or near the Earth's surface. They are found over a wide range of length scales, from micro-fractures within mineral grams (micro-meters) to oceanic-intraplate fractures as much as 5000 km in length. The important role of fractures in fluid transport in the crust has long been recognized by geologists who have studied dikes (fracture conduits for flow of igneous rocks) and mineral veins fracture conduits for precipitation from aqueous Fluids). In studying these paleo-flow systems, little attention has been given to quantification of the flow properties of the system. Until two decades ago, hydrologists (Long, 1983) and petroleum-reservoir engineers (Nelson, 1985) studying fluid flow in rock had recognized the role of fractures only qualitatively. Quantitatively, the mathematics of fracture flow had been considered intractable while the mathematics of porous-media flow through the rock matrix had been developed and refined for almost one hundred ears. Direct observation of the flow properties of rock at field scales demonstrated the inadequacy of the porous media models beyond the scale of laboratory samples. The hydraulic conductivity of fractured bulk rock has been measured to be as much as 8 orders of magnitude greater than matrix hydraulic conductivity measured in laboratory samples of the same intact rock. Clearly, fractures are primary conduits for fluid flow in rock at time scales of economic and practical interest. Quantitative understanding of the physics of flow in individual fractures and fracture networks has become an important research topic with direct applications to contemporary and paleo flow systems.
Handbook of Crystallography: For Electron Microscopists and Others

A. G. Jackson

A handbook of the formulae used in crystallography covering the relations of vectors in the reciprocal lattice, the defining vectors for various crystal systems and transformations, structure factors for various lattices, quantities such as the angles between planes and other data.
IMS '91: First International Workshop on Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems

Y. Kambayashi, Marek Rusinkiewicz, and Amit P. Sheth

Conference proceedings of the First International Workshop on Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems, Kyoto, Japan, April 7-9, 1991.
The Future of Feasible Socialism

Hee-Young Shin

Korean translation of Alec Nove, The Economics of Feasible Socialism: Revisited (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1991).
Kitty Hawk and Beyond: The Wright Brothers and the Early Years of Aviation: A Photographic History

Ronald R. Geibert and Patrick B. Nolan
Thermodynamics of Chemical Systems

Scott E. Wood

The concepts and relations pertinent to the solution of many thermodynamic problems encountered in multi-phase, multi-component systems are developed in this volume. Emphasis is placed on a comprehension and development of general expressions for solving such problems, rather than ready-made equations for particular applications. The first half of the book is devoted to defining the thermodynamic functions and to generating the fundamental relations relevant to chemical systems at equilibrium. The second half concentrates on the application of these relations to real systems and the methods which can be used to obtain additional connections. Throughout, the methods of Gibbs are used with emphasis on the chemical potential.
Electrical Characterization of GaAs Materials and Devices

David C. Look

Summarizes electrical measurement data in GaAs materials and devices, and describes in detail the techniques used to obtain these data and the ideas behind them. Special emphasis is given to subjects sometimes ignored in other works such as impurity and defect Fermi functions, degeneracy factors and multiband conduction, and also to relatively new subjects such as the application of magnetoresistance to determine carrier mobility in device structures. Some of the information is quite practical, e.g., how to make ohmic contacts or where to buy a commercial, automated Hall-effect apparatus. Includes many detailed derivations.