Metadata and Semantics

Metadata and Semantics
Author: Miguel-Angel Sicilia
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2008-10-13
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0387777458

This is an edited volume based on the 2007 Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR), now in its second meeting. Metadata research is a pluri-disciplinary field that encompasses all aspects of the definition, creation, assessment, management and use of metadata. The volume brings together world class leaders to contribute their research and up-to-date information on metadata and semantics applied to library management, e-commerce, e-business, information science and librarianship, to name a few. The book is designed for a professional audience composed of researchers and practitioners in industry.

Presenting Data Effectively

Presenting Data Effectively
Author: Stephanie Evergreen
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2017-04-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1506353118

This book focuses on the best possible communication strategies for anyone working with data. From students developing a research poster to faculty presenting data findings at a conference, it provides the guiding principles of presenting data in evidence-based ways so that audiences are more engaged and researchers are better understood.

Global Report on Drowning

Global Report on Drowning
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9789241564786

"Made possible by funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies" --Title page.

Global Occupational Safety and Health Management Handbook

Global Occupational Safety and Health Management Handbook
Author: Thomas P. Fuller
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2019-02-12
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0429509359

This book was written with the belief that everyone globally has the right to a safe and healthy workplace. An 8-year old carrying bricks in the mid-day sun in Nepal, a pharmaceutical business executive on assignment in Bangladesh, or a mother polishing stone in her home in Tanzania; each has a fundamental right to a workplace free from risk of injury, illness, and death. Global Occupational Safety and Health Management Handbook is a broad presentation and discussion of the issues and obstacles facing the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) profession today in providing safe workplaces globally. Readers can use this book to find resources to assist in the development of their programs and to become informed about the basic structures of international OSH development and governance. Readers can also rely on this book to become more aware of global OSH issues and problems that they may be personally or professionally willing and able to help address. Seasoned OSH professionals can expect to learn about new ways to look at complicated and controversial topics. Young professionals and students can read this book to better understand the important global OSH interrelationships and challenges of the future. Features Serves as a one-stop resource for information on important international safety and health topics and issues Provides detailed information about international OSH tripartite, nongovernmental, and professional organizations Describes the various global OSH educational and professional development needs, and international approaches to expanding capacity and awareness of the profession Discusses controversial international OSH working conditions and explains their global impacts

Think Like a Mountain

Think Like a Mountain
Author: Aldo Leopold
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2021-08-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0241514673

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. In this lyrical meditation on America's wildlands, Aldo Leopold considers the different ways humans shape the natural landscape, and describes for the first time the far-reaching phenomenon now known as 'trophic cascades'. Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades, becoming the classics of a movement. Together, these books show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world.

Medicolegal Death Investigation System

Medicolegal Death Investigation System
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 85
Release: 2003-08-22
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0309167043

The US Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice (NIJ) asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of The National Academies to conduct a workshop that would examine the interface of the medicolegal death investigation system and the criminal justice system. NIJ was particularly interested in a workshop in which speakers would highlight not only the status and needs of the medicolegal death investigation system as currently administered by medical examiners and coroners but also its potential to meet emerging issues facing contemporary society in America. Additionally, the workshop was to highlight priority areas for a potential IOM study on this topic. To achieve those goals, IOM constituted the Committee for the Workshop on the Medicolegal Death Investigation System, which developed a workshop that focused on the role of the medical examiner and coroner death investigation system and its promise for improving both the criminal justice system and the public health and health care systems, and their ability to respond to terrorist threats and events. Six panels were formed to highlight different aspects of the medicolegal death investigation system, including ways to improve it and expand it beyond its traditional response and meet growing demands and challenges. This report summarizes the Workshop presentations and discussions that followed them.

Dispute Resolution in Australia

Dispute Resolution in Australia
Author: Hilary Astor
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Total Pages: 490
Release: 2002
Genre: Law
ISBN:

The 2nd edition of this book provides an accessible, coherent and critical treatment of dispute resolution in Australia, and been restructured to take account of the considerable changes in alternative dispute resolution (ADR). Throughout the book, dispute resolution methods are considered in a theoretical, critical and evaluative light. A range of ADR processes across a spectrum of applications is considered, with special attention given to commercial, family, discrimination and international disputes. Insights drawn from domestic and international contexts are combined in a unique way throughout the book. While having a predominantly Australian focus, appropriate comparisons from other jurisdictions are frequently made. The book locates debates surrounding ADR in the context of the politics of gender and other aspects of identity, while examining the influences of other contemporary legal theories on ADR. It considers ADR in both its social and political contexts. This book will be useful to scholars of ADR, as well as lawyers, policy-makers, practitioners and students of dispute resolution.