Securing the Future

Securing the Future
Author: Sheldon Danziger
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2000-06-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1610441508

More than ever, the economic health of a country depends upon the skills, knowledge, and capacities of its people. How does a person acquire these human assets and how can we promote their development? Securing the Future assembles an interdisciplinary team of scholars to investigate the full range of factors—pediatric, psychological, social, and economic—that bear on a child's development into a well-adjusted, economically productive member of society. A central purpose of the volume is to identify sound interventions that will boost human assets, particularly among the disadvantaged. The book provides a comprehensive evaluation of current initiatives and offers a wealth of new suggestions for effective public and private investments in child development. While children from affluent, highly educated families have good quality child care and an expensive education provided for them, children from poor families make do with informal child care and a public school system that does not always meet their needs. How might we best redress this growing imbalance? The contributors to this volume recommend policies that treat academic attainment together with psychological development and social adjustment. Mentoring programs, for example, promote better school performance by first fostering a young person's motivation to learn. Investments made early in life, such as preschool education, are shown to have the greatest impact on later learning for the least cost. In their focus upon children, however, the authors do not neglect the important links between generations. Poverty and inequality harm the development of parents and children alike. Interventions that empower parents to fight for better services and better schools are also of great benefit to their children. Securing the Future shows how investments in child development are both a means to an end and an end in themselves. They benefit the child directly and they also help that child contribute to the well-being of society. This book points us toward more effective strategies for promoting the economic success and the social cohesion of future generations. A Volume in the Ford Foundation Series on Asset Building

Securing the Future

Securing the Future
Author: Gerald I. Kendall
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1997-12-29
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9781574441970

Today's managers encounter tremendous resistance in getting others to buy-in to change. The ongoing rounds of downsizing and upheaval have taken their toll, leaving a legacy of skepticism. Therefore, managers must not only have ideas, but must be experts at "selling" the correct answers, information, and measurements to address issues of change. Securing the Future uses the Theory of Constraints, a breakthrough improvement methodology, to provide solutions to today's management problems. It documents the step-by-step approach to achieving a strategic vision of long-term competitive advantage, employment security, and customer satisfaction. Using a combination of parable, methodology, and case studies, this book presents an in-depth management road map to exponential improvement in any organization. If you are looking for concrete ideas on how to build the intellectual capital your organization will need in order to thrive in years to come, Securing the Future will show you the way.

Securing the Future

Securing the Future
Author: Gerald I. Kendall
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1997-12-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 104018264X

Today's managers encounter tremendous resistance in getting others to buy-in to change. The ongoing rounds of downsizing and upheaval have taken their toll, leaving a legacy of skepticism. Therefore, managers must not only have ideas, but must be experts at "selling" the correct answers, information, and measurements to address issues of change.

Fluid Structure Interaction and Moving Boundary Problems IV

Fluid Structure Interaction and Moving Boundary Problems IV
Author: Subrata Kumar Chakrabarti
Publisher: WIT Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2007
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1845640721

Publishing papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Fluid Structure Interactions, this book features contributions from experts specialising in this field on new ideas and the latest techniques. A valuable addition to this successful series and will be of great interest to mechanical and structural engineers, offshore engineers, earthquake engineers, naval engineers and any other experts involved in topics related to fluid structure interaction. Topics covered include: Hydrodynamic Forces; Response of Structures including Fluid Dynamic; Offshore Structure and Ship Dynamics; Fluid Pipeline Interactions; Structure Response to Serve Shock and Blast Loading; Vortex Shedding and Flow Induced Vibrations; Cavitations Effects in Turbo Machines and Pumps; Wind Effects on Bridges and Tall Structures; Mechanics of Cables, Rivers and Moorings; Building Biofluids and Biological Tissue Interaction Problems in CFD; Experimental Studies and Validation; Vibrations and Noise; Free Surface Flows and Moving Boundary Problems.

Honoring the Past, Building the Future

Honoring the Past, Building the Future
Author: Ricardo Ávila
Publisher: Inter-American Development Bank
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1597820911

Although science has unlocked the secrets of the human genome, the causes of social and economic development remain stubbornly enigmatic. Why do some countries adopt new technologies more readily than others? Why does income inequality persist in some regions--even in the face of rapid economic growth? Why do some societies welcome the challenges of globalization while others attempt to turn back the tide? Honoring the Past, Building the Future examines these and many related questions through the experience of Latin America and the Caribbean. In an accessible, journalistic style, author Ricardo Ávila explores a tumultuous half-century in which the region went from backwater to breadbasket, from dictatorship to democracy, and from economic basket case to emerging power.

Optimization of Structural and Mechanical Systems

Optimization of Structural and Mechanical Systems
Author: Jasbir S. Arora
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 610
Release: 2007
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9812779671

This book provides a discussion of the general impact of WTO membership on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and addresses the political and economic impact on cross-Strait relations of common membership. The book begins with an introduction which analyzes the state of cross-Strait economic and political relations on the eve of dual accession to the WTO and briefly introduces the chapters which follow. The first chapter discusses the concessions made by both sides in their accession agreements and is followed by two chapters which describe the manner in which the Taiwan economy was reformed to achieve compliance as well as the specific, restrictive trade regime that was put into place to manage mainland trade. The next two chapters deal with the implications of that restrictive trade regime for the Taiwan economy in Asia and with the nature of the interactions between the two sides within the WTO. The final four chapters of the volume examine the impact of membership on four sectors of the economy: finance; agriculture; electronics and automobiles. There is a post-script which briefly covers developments since the chapters were completed.

Innovation, Communication and Engineering

Innovation, Communication and Engineering
Author: Teen-Hang Meen
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 2334
Release: 2013-10-08
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1138001201

This volume represents the proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Innovation, Communication and Engineering (ICICE 2013). This conference was organized by the China University of Petroleum (Huadong/East China) and the Taiwanese Institute of Knowledge Innovation, and was held in Qingdao, Shandong, P.R. China, October 26 - November 1, 2013. The conference received 653 submitted papers from 10 countries, of which 214 papers were selected by the committees to be presented at ICICE 2013. The conference provided a unified communication platform for researchers in a wide range of fields from information technology, communication science, and applied mathematics, to computer science, advanced material science, design and engineering. This volume enables interdisciplinary collaboration between science and engineering technologists in academia and industry as well as networking internationally. Consists of a book of abstracts (260 pp.) and a USB flash card with full papers (912 pp.).

Accelerated Bridge Construction

Accelerated Bridge Construction
Author: Mohiuddin Ali Khan
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 651
Release: 2014-08-12
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0124072259

The traveling public has no patience for prolonged, high cost construction projects. This puts highway construction contractors under intense pressure to minimize traffic disruptions and construction cost. Actively promoted by the Federal Highway Administration, there are hundreds of accelerated bridge construction (ABC) construction programs in the United States, Europe and Japan. Accelerated Bridge Construction: Best Practices and Techniques provides a wide range of construction techniques, processes and technologies designed to maximize bridge construction or reconstruction operations while minimizing project delays and community disruption. - Describes design methods for accelerated bridge substructure construction; reducing foundation construction time and methods by using pile bents - Explains applications to steel bridges, temporary bridges in place of detours using quick erection and demolition - Covers design-build systems' boon to ABC; development of software; use of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) - Includes applications to glulam and sawn lumber bridges, precast concrete bridges, precast joints details; use of lightweight aggregate concrete, aluminum and high-performance steel