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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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).

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  Kitty Hawk and Beyond: The Wright Brothers and the Early Years of Aviation: A Photographic History

  Ronald R. Geibert and Patrick B. Nolan

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  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.

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  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.

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  The Philosophical Biographer: Doubt and Dialectic in Johnson's Lives of the Poets

  Martin Maner

  The Philosophical Biographer shows how a shift in philosophical outlook in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-from an understanding of human knowledge rooted in deductive certainties to one resting on inductive probability-influenced the development of biographical narrative in general and in particular the way Johnson dealt with biographical evidence in his Lives of the Poets.

  Examining the psychological and philosophical doubt that lay at the heart of Johnson's character and intellect, Martin Maner reveals in the biographical studies of Savage, Swift, Milton, and Pope an ingrained pattern of dialectical argument and a skeptical attitude toward evidence--a method that involves the reader in judgments about the poets as it conveys Johnson's own understanding of truth. In the Life of Savage, Johnson moves from thesis to antithesis, generating out of opposing emotional responses--irony and sympathy, ridicule and pathos-an understanding of the man. Dialectically undercutting the conclusions of previous biographers of Swift and Milton, Johnson fashions a new, somewhat acidic estimation of Swift and a portrait of Milton that engages contemporary questions of the probable and the marvelous. The Life of Pope, Johnson's greatest dialectical achievement, alternates between blame and praise, public and private realms, weaving tone, context, and analogy into great, contrasting patterns of inquiry and judgment.

  Establishing the centrality of a dialectical method in the Lives of the Poets, Martin Maner links the rise of biography as well as Johnson's interest in the form to the shift in epistemology brought about by empiricism. In the new patterns of thought of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, biography--the estimation of a life through sifting of historical events and evidence--was the most philosophical of endeavors, and Johnson its greatest practitioner.

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  Proceedings of the 4th Midcentral Ergonomics/Human Factors Conference

  John M. Flach

  Proceedings of the Fourth Midcentral Ergonomics/Human Factors Conference, Urbana, IL, July 15-17, 1987.

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  Mardi Gras 1986

  Ronald R. Geibert

  Color photographs made at the 1986 Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans.

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  The Celebrative Spirit: 1937-1943 Photographs of Social and Recreational Events that Exhibit the Spirit of Community

  Ronald R. Geibert

  The Celebrative Spirit: 1937 - 1943 combines rarely seen photographs of community spirit from the Library of Congress, rare audio and video interviews, and interpretative text by noted historian F. Jack Hurley on ten photographers employed by the Farm Security Administration during the Roosevelt Presidency.