OCR A Chemistry A2 Student Unit Guide: Unit F325 New Edition: Equilibria, Energetics and Elements ePub

OCR A Chemistry A2 Student Unit Guide: Unit F325 New Edition: Equilibria, Energetics and Elements ePub
Author: Mike Smith
Publisher: Philip Allan
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2013-02-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1444172964

Written by a former senior examiner, Mike Smith, this OCR(A) A2 Chemistry Student Unit Guide is the essential study companion for Unit F325: Equilibria, Energetics and Elements.This full-colour book includes all you need to know to prepare for your unit exam: clear guidance on the content of the unit, with topic summaries, knowledge check questions and a quick-reference index examiner's advice throughout, so you will know what to expect in the exam and will be able to demonstrate the skills required exam-style questions, with graded student responses, so you can see clearly what is required to get a better grade

OCR(A) A2 Chemistry Student Unit Guide: Unit F325 Equilibria, Energetics and Elements

OCR(A) A2 Chemistry Student Unit Guide: Unit F325 Equilibria, Energetics and Elements
Author: Mike Smith
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2009-06-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1444155466

Student Unit Guides are perfect for revision. Each guide is written by an examiner and explains the unit requirements, summarises the relevant unit content and includes a series of specimen questions and answers. There are three sections to each guide: Introduction - includes advice on how to use the guide, an explanation of the skills being tested by the assessment objectives, an outline of the unit or module and, depending on the unit, suggestions for how to revise effectively and prepare for the examination questions. Content Guidance - provides an examiner's overview of the module's key terms and concepts and identifies opportunities to exhibit the skills required by the unit. It is designed to help students to structure their revision and make them aware of the concepts they need to understand the exam and how they might analyse and evaluate topics. Question and Answers - sample questions and with graded answers which have been carefully written to reflect the style of the unit. All responses are accompanied by commentaries which highlight their respective strengths and weaknesses, giving students an insight into the mind of the examiner.

The Philosophy of Punishment and the History of Political Thought

The Philosophy of Punishment and the History of Political Thought
Author: Peter Karl Koritansky
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2011-12-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0826219446

"Conveniently divided into three sections, the book explores pagan and Christian pre-modern thought; early modern thought, culminating in chapters on Kant and classic Utilitarianism; and postmodern thought as exemplified in the theories of Nietzsche and Foucault. In all, the essays probe the work of Plato, Saint Augustine, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Hobbes, Immanuel Kant, Cesere Beccaria, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Michel Foucault.

Rethinking Philosophy and Theology with Deleuze

Rethinking Philosophy and Theology with Deleuze
Author: Brent Adkins
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2013-06-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1441188258

The debate between faith and reason has been a dominant feature of Western thought for more than two millennia. This book takes up the problem of the relation between philosophy and theology and proposes that this relation can be reconceived if both philosophy and theology are seen as different ways of organising affects. Brent Adkins and Paul R. Hinlicky break new ground in this timely debate in two ways. Firstly, they lay bare the contemporary dependence on Kant and propose that our Kantian inheritance leaves us with an insuperable dualism. Secondly, the authors argue that the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze provides a way of resolving the debate between faith and reason that does justice to philosophy and theology by reconceiving of both as assemblages. Deleuze's philosophy differentiates domains of thought in terms of what they create. This seems like a particularly fruitful way to pursue the problem of the relations among philosophy and theology because it allows their distinction without at the same time placing them in opposition to one another.

Evaluation in Action

Evaluation in Action
Author: Gillian Squirrell
Publisher: Russell House Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Evaluation
ISBN: 9781905541768

"Evaluation is a powerful tool that can create considerable fear. It may be used to decide how to allocate often scarce resources, it can be the forerunner of bad news, or just be a means to preserve the status quo. But evaluation is always about people, and can empower the disempowered, stimulate change, and support democratic innovation and creativity, and it is these elements that this book emphasises. Exploring its emotional as well as social, political and technical aspects, this book shows how evaluation is always about people, and that what it becomes is a matter of choice. Accessible for those early in their experience of evaluation, this book takes them and those with more experience to more advanced levels, by providing: theory, background information, history and reflections on the diversity of possible developments of evaluation. It offers readers opportunities to reflect on examples and on their own practice, and to make use of some guidelines and check-lists."--Book jacket.

Emergent Information

Emergent Information
Author: Wolfgang Hofkirchner
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2012
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9814313483

At the dawn of the information age, a proper understanding of information and how it relates to matter and energy is of utmost importance for the survival of civilisation. Yet, attempts to reconcile information concepts underlying science and technology with those en vogue in social science, humanities, and arts are rather rare. This book offers a new approach, departing from fragmented information concepts.Many academics refrain from undergoing unifications, as most undertakings are reductionistic. This book contends that it is the noble task of an as-yet-to-be-developed science of information to go one step in the direction of a unified theory of information without falling back into neither reduction nor anthropomorphisation.To be able to succeed in an ambitious task like this, the book advocates the application of complex systems theory and its philosophical underpinnings. Information needs to be interpreted in terms of self-organisation to do justice to the richness of its manifestations. The way the book does so will provide the reader with a deep insight into a basic feature of our world.The following are discussed in the volume: A Science of Information; A New Way of Thinking; Praxio-Onto-Epistemology; Evolutionary Systems Design; Evolutionary Systems Ontology; Evolutionary Systems Methodology; Capurro's Information Concept Trilemma; A Multi-Stage Model of Evolutionary Types of Information: Pattern Formation, Code-Making, and Constituting Sense; A Triple-C Model of Systemic Functions of Information: Cognising, Communicating, and Co-Operating; Nine Categories of Information Capabilities: Reflectivity (physical), Psyche (biotic), Consciousness (human); Connectivity (physical), Signalability (biotic), Languageability (human); Cohesiveness (physical), Coherency (biotic), Communitarity (human); Nine Categories of Information: Response (physical), Flexible Response (biotic), Reflexion (human); Correspondences (physical), Signals (biotic), Symbolic Acts (human); Assemblage (physical), Assignment (biotic), Association (human); A Unified Theory of Information for, about, and by means of the Information Society.

Discovery and Selection of Semantic Web Services

Discovery and Selection of Semantic Web Services
Author: Xia Wang
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2012-09-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3642339387

For advanced web search engines to be able not only to search for semantically related information dispersed over different web pages, but also for semantic services providing certain functionalities, discovering semantic services is the key issue. Addressing four problems of current solution, this book presents the following contributions. A novel service model independent of semantic service description models is proposed, which clearly defines all elements necessary for service discovery and selection. It takes service selection as its gist and improves efficiency. Corresponding selection algorithms and their implementation as components of the extended Semantically Enabled Service-oriented Architecture in the Web Service Modeling Environment are detailed. Many applications of semantic web services, e.g. discovery, composition and mediation, can benefit from a general approach for building application ontologies. With application ontologies thus built, services are discovered in the same way as with single domain ontologies, and the mediation problem between service ontologies is solved. Further, an ontology-based approach to improve service discovery is proposed and validated. Within the service model, a service selection approach oriented at quality criteria is proposed. It normalises diverse qualities of a service in their respective metrics and employs a service selection algorithm based on soundness.

God and Being

God and Being
Author: George Pattison
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2011-01-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199588686

Speaking of God in terms of Being has become one of the most hotly contested topics in the philosophy of religion of the last twenty years. Pattison offers a response that takes into account the insights of postmodern thinking whilst attempting to provide a new basis for religious language and life.

Treasures from Lord Fairhaven's Library at Anglesey Abbey

Treasures from Lord Fairhaven's Library at Anglesey Abbey
Author: Mark Purcell (Librarian)
Publisher: Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9781857598261

This text provides an overview of the collections of Anglesey Abbey, one of the National Trust's most superb.