Arm and Hand Movement: Current Knowledge and Future Perspective

Arm and Hand Movement: Current Knowledge and Future Perspective
Author: Renée Morris
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2015-05-27
Genre: Anatomy and movement
ISBN: 2889195775

This Research Topic is devoted to arm and hand movement in health as well as in several disease conditions. It is a collection of several original research papers and reviews, clinical case studies, hypothesis and theory articles, opinions, commentaries, and methods papers that cover some important aspects of the topic from distinct scientific perspectives. We invite the readers to appreciate the range in methodologies and experimental designs that together have led to widen our understanding of this especially broad field of research.

Civil Society and the Political Imagination in Africa

Civil Society and the Political Imagination in Africa
Author: John L. Comaroff
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780226114149

The essays in this important new collection explore the diverse, unexpected, and controversial ways in which the idea of civil society has recently entered into populist politics and public debate throughout Africa. In a substantial introduction, anthropologists Jean and John Comaroff offer a critical theoretical analysis of the nature and deployment of the concept—and the current debates surrounding it. Building on this framework, the contributors investigate the "problem" of civil society across their regions of expertise, which cover the continent. Drawing creatively on one another's work, they examine the impact of colonial ideology, postcoloniality, and development practice on discourses of civility, the workings of everyday politics, the construction of new modes of selfhood, and the pursuit of moral community. Incisive and original, the book shows how struggles over civil society in Africa reveal much about larger historical forces in the post-Cold War era. It also makes a strong case for the contribution of historical anthropology to contemporary discourses on the rise of a "new world order."

Collective Bargaining in Higher Education

Collective Bargaining in Higher Education
Author: Daniel J. Julius
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2021-11-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000466183

This is one of the first compilations on collective bargaining in higher education reflecting the work of scholars, practitioners, and employer and union advocates. It offers a practical and comprehensive resource to higher education leaders responsible for developing, managing, and maintaining collective bargaining relationships with academic personnel. Offering views from an experienced and diverse group, this book explores how to manage relationships in collaborative, transparent, and equitable ways, best practices for meaningful outcome measures, and approaches for framing collective bargaining as a long-term process that benefits the institution. This volume provides an overview of the contemporary landscape, benchmark measures of success, and practical advice focusing on advancing collaborative, equitable, and sustainable labor relations approaches in higher education. Designed for administrators, union leaders, elected officials, and policy makers, at all stages of their careers as well as for faculty and students in graduate programs, this volume serves as an invaluable resource for those who endeavor to conceptualize, conduct, manage, and implement collective bargaining in more mutually effective and beneficial ways for all parties.

Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems

Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
Author: Hubert Garavel
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 620
Release: 2003-03-14
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540008985

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2003, held in Warsaw, Poland, in April 2003. The 43 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 160 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on bounded model checking and SAT-based methods, mu-calculus and temporal logics, verification of parameterized systems, abstractions and counterexamples, real-time and scheduling, security and cryptography, modules and compositional verification, symbolic state spaces and decision diagrams, performance and mobility, state space reductions, constraint solving and decision procedures, and testing and verification.

Yemen’s Democracy Experiment in Regional Perspective

Yemen’s Democracy Experiment in Regional Perspective
Author: S. Phillips
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2008-11-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230616488

This study examines the nature of changes to Yemen's power structures, political dynamics and institutions since the intention to democratize was announced in 1990 paying particular attention to the role of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh.