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Rodríguez García, Hernán Ferney. Contingencias del lenguaje. Bogotá. Colombia: Universidad de La Salle. Ediciones Unisalle, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.19052/9789585486812.
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El lenguaje está en capacidad de configurar múltiples escenarios de interpretación que no se agotan en una solitaria crítica. Son las diversas formas en que se desenvuelve el lenguaje lo que permite acercarnos a su contingencia. Es decir, valiéndonos de la idea de una escenificación y transformación plural a través del lenguaje, se traduce el acontecer particular de fenómenos, personas y acciones en un entretejido capaz de reconocer las comprensiones subjetivistas para llevarnos a expresar nuestras ideas al panorama de la vida pública, de la vida en común. Frente al angustioso cuadro de hegemonía de las disciplinas y la instrumentalización de los discursos, surge una nueva posibilidad de hacer valederas las distintas voces que responden a nuevas identidades y maneras de generar reflexiones que se sobreponen ante los intentos que limitan la capacidad propia del entendimiento. Así, este libro y sus autores no quieren reservar una percepción generalizada de la vida, sino que se argumenta en contra de la coacción de percibirnos como sujetos atrapados por una perspectiva industrial de progresos, una ruptura con el pasado o la mercantilización del tiempo. Contrario a esto, se apuesta por un principio que reconoce nuestros diálogos contingentes, aquellos que devuelven el asombro propio de la investigación, al acompañarse de nuevos sentidos de comunicación e interpretación.
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Rajeev, S. G. Hamiltonian Systems Based on a Lie Algebra. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805021.003.0010.
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There is a remarkable analogy between Euler’s equations for a rigid body and his equations for an ideal fluid. The unifying idea is that of a Lie algebra with an inner product, which is not invariant, on it. The concepts of a vector space, Lie algebra, and inner product are reviewed. A hamiltonian dynamical system is derived from each metric Lie algebra. The Virasoro algebra (famous in string theory) is shown to lead to the KdV equation; and in a limiting case, to the Burgers equation for shocks. A hamiltonian formalism for two-dimensional Euler equations is then developed in detail. A discretization of these equations (using a spectral method) is then developed using mathematical ideas from quantum mechanics. Then a hamiltonian formalism for the full three-dimensional Euler equations is developed. The Clebsch variables which provide canonical pairs for fluid dynamics are then explained, in analogy to angular momentum.
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Scanlon, T. M. Desert. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812692.003.0008.
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The idea that just economic institutions should give people what they deserve can be appealed to as a way of justifying unequal rewards or as a way of limiting them. Claims about desert that could play these roles would be pure desert claims: that treating people in a certain way is justified simply by certain facts about what they are like or have done (where the qualifier “simply” excludes claims of need, and ideas of entitlement or legitimate expectations that presuppose particular institutions). Some pure desert claims are valid, such as claims about the appropriateness of moral praise, blame, and other evaluative attitudes. But economic rewards cannot be justified in this way. Claims to special reward based on moral merit, effort, ability, and marginal productivity, insofar as they are valid, are not desert claims in the relevant sense.
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Johnson, James Turner. Victory Though the Heavens Fall? Unlimited Warfare as Theme and Phenomenon. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198801825.003.0005.
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While recent moral discourse on war focuses on limiting the conduct of war even at the expense of unclear outcomes, the idea of unlimited war has paralleled the idea of delimited war, recurring in various contexts. Historically, this has often been associated with religious war, which appeals to a divinely ordained cause so overwhelming in its claims that enemies become enemies of God and no limits can be tolerated in fighting them. But appeal to national survival can serve a similar purpose, as in the RAF and US military’s counter-population bombing tactics during World War II. The idea of unlimited warfare as necessary for victory seems destined to endure. This chapter examines this idea through selected historical cases of unlimited warfare. Doing so sharpens the definition of unlimited war and explores what circumstances, if any, might provide justification for use of unlimited methods in the effort to achieve victory.
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Zulueta-Fülscher, Kimana, and Asanga Welikala. Les constitutions infra-étatiques dans les contextes fragiles et en situation de conflit : Document d'orientation no 15. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31752/idea.2021.108.
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Les constitutions infra-étatiques sont des instruments juridiques écrits qui limitent et structurent le pouvoir politique au niveau infra-étatique et qui possèdent une suprématie juridique par rapport aux autres normes légales infra-étatiques. Leurs objectifs premiers sont de définir le système de gouvernement de l’entité infra-étatique mais aussi, souvent, de codifier les droits des citoyens en son sein. Elles peuvent également oeuvrer à la délimitation de la communauté politique et de son identité au niveau infra-étatique. Les entités infra-étatiques se définissent, quant à elles, comme parties intégrantes d’un pays ou d’un État, avec un territoire clairement délimité. Ce document d’orientation analyse les constitutions infra-étatiques dans les contextes fragiles et en situation de conflit (que ce soit dans des États fédéraux, unitaires ou hybrides) qui ont été adoptées à l’issue de la guerre froide après 1991. L’échantillon utilisé pour cette étude comporte dix pays : l’Afrique du Sud, la Bosnie-Herzégovine, les Comores (Anjouan), l’Éthiopie, l’Indonésie (Aceh et Papouasie), la Papouasie‒Nouvelle-Guinée (PNG, Bougainville), la Russie (Tchétchénie et Daghestan), la Somalie, le Soudan et le Soudan du Sud.
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Moody-Adams, Michele. Is There a “Safe Space” for Academic Freedom? Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791508.003.0003.
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This chapter addresses the charge, implicit in justice-based arguments for intellectual “safe spaces” on college campuses, that protecting academic freedom undermines equality of educational opportunity for students targeted by harmful expression. The discussion clarifies this argument’s central concepts and assumptions, including the concepts of expressive harm, psychological trauma, and “triggers”; the notions of microaggression and implicit bias; and the idea (articulated in the work of Jeremy Waldron) that there is a connection between a community’s “aesthetics” and its capacity to assure its members of respectful consideration. It is argued that limiting or eliminating academic freedom would stifle the critical reflection and robust debate most likely to promote justice in the face of contemporary challenges. A university that is safe for robust debate about justice cannot provide the comforts of “home.”
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Newton, Daniel W., and Jeffery A. LePine. Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Job Engagement: “You Gotta Keep ’em Separated!”. Edited by Philip M. Podsakoff, Scott B. Mackenzie, and Nathan P. Podsakoff. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190219000.013.18.
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Scholars largely agree that organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) is a behavioral construct that promotes individual performance and, in the aggregate, unit and organizational functioning and effectiveness. However, there are some views of the OCB construct that blur its conceptual lines with other constructs, thus limiting the theoretical, empirical, and practical insights we can draw from our research. In this chapter, we offer a counterpoint to the idea that the OCB and engagement constructs are largely redundant and that they should be combined. We first describe the nature of the two concepts and identify similarities and core distinctions. We then position OCB and engagement in a general framework that clarifies how and under what conditions they are related more or less strongly. Finally, we offer a road map for future research based on insights gleaned from considering associations and theoretical gaps among the two constructs’ dimensions.
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André, Naomi, Karen M. Bryan, and Eric Saylor, eds. Representing Blackness on the Operatic Stage. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036781.003.0001.
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This book examines the ways in which the idea of blackness has worked as a complex of representational strategies in the genre of opera. Offering new readings of both canonical and lesser-known operas by black and nonblack composers alike, it explores what representations of blackness in opera had in their original contexts, and what kind of performative and cultural significance they have retained. It shows that getting a black opera singer onstage involves successfully negotiating many professional and cultural barriers, but achieving that aim can lead to new and equally limiting obstacles. This is evident in the case of minstrelsy, which entail greater challenges for black performers compared to their white counterparts. Through an analysis of the “representation of blackness in opera,” the book brings to the fore questions about race and identity that are intertwined with questions of musical presentation. Most of the essays it contains are grounded in the phenomenon of black Other—the treatment of darker-skinned people as exotic or Other.
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Hain, Richard D. W., and Satbir Singh Jassal. Models of paediatric palliative care. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198745457.003.0002.
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The UK has a variety of resources for children with life-limiting conditions that are perhaps unrivalled in the world. This is both good and bad. It offers the potential for children and their families to have choices about the location of their care. On the other hand, a multiplicity of agencies brings with it the risk of miscommunication and internecine strife. This chapter summarizes ideal models of palliative care, defining the four categories of life-limiting conditions in childhood and the role of paediatric palliative medicine specialists.
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Hain, Richard D. W., and Satbir Singh Jassal. Psychological symptoms. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198745457.003.0013.
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Disorders of the psyche (particularly depression and anxiety) are relatively common amongst children with life-limiting conditions. Most of the tools available for evaluating or assessing them in palliative medicine were developed for adults, as were strategies for treating them. The ideal practice is to collaborate with local child and adolescent mental health services in the management of all such children. This chapter covers management of psychological conditions, including depression, anxiety, insomnia, and terminal delirium. For each symptom, causes or general points are detailed, with recommendations on pharmacological approaches covered in detail.
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Ray, Greg. Tarski on the Concept of Truth. Edited by Michael Glanzberg. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199557929.013.27.
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Alfred Tarski’s work on truth has been so central to the discourse on truth that most coming to it for the first time have probably already heard a great deal about what is said there. Unfortunately, since the work is largely technical and Tarski was only tangentially philosophical, a certain incautious assimilation dominates many philosophical discussions of Tarski’s ideas, and so, examining Tarski on the concept of truth is in many ways an act of unlearning. This chapter will focus on key ideas in Tarski’s work that have had a lasting impact: T-sentence, Convention T, Tarskian truth definition, and Tarski’s general limiting theses on the expressibility and definability of truth. Though these ideas are familiar in name, the chapter seeks to uncover and remove certain widespread misunderstandings. Tarski’s name also features prominently in discussions of the liar paradox, so we will discuss Tarski’s misunderstood connection to this ancient puzzle.
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Garland, David. 1. What is the welfare state? Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199672660.003.0001.
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There are three general conceptions used for the welfare state: the first characterizes the welfare state as welfare for the poor; the second focuses on social insurance, social rights, and social services; and the third highlights economic management and the role that the ‘government of the economy’ plays in every welfare state. ‘What is the welfare state?’ explains that welfare states are varied, complex, and difficult to define. There is no simple theory that clearly expresses what they do, no simple vision that neatly captures what they are for. The welfare state is a damage-limiting, problem-solving device rather than anyone’s ideal social relationship.
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Marin, Mara. Labor Relations and the Politics of Commitment. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190498627.003.0006.
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Chapter 5 argues that work makes us vulnerable to those whose labor is presupposed by ours. The hierarchical division between high- and low-skilled labor, justified by ideas of personal achievement and rights as boundaries, denies this vulnerability by making invisible both the full value of “low-skilled” work and the value of labor that, because it requires the combination of qualitatively different skills, can only be created cooperatively. The division between high- and low-skilled labor enables the accumulation of capital by obscuring this value and the interest of the vast majority of workers in having this value recognized rather than transferred to capital. The notion of commitment is critical in undermining these ideas, showing how a common interest can arise out of different positions in the structure of work, and making visible workers’ shared interest in limiting returns on capital and increasing returns on labor.
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Diamond, James A. God as Liberator and the Slave. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805694.003.0010.
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This chapter offers a new approach to the moral quandary of the biblical sanctioning of slavery. The chapter argues that the Bible shapes its ideal view of slavery, not simply as deleterious to the human moral condition but as metaphysically injurious as well. It first conducts a methodical narrative analysis of the term ‘eved, the Hebrew word for slave. It then proceeds to examine the Bible’s strict regulation of slavery which is calibrated to rule it out of existence altogether. Rabbinic law advanced biblical law in further humane directions, limiting the harshness of slavery, culminating in a medieval formulation by Maimonides which presents a model of Jewish philosophical theology through a sophisticated weave of biblical texts, philosophy, theology, and law.
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Knights, David, and Vedran Omanović. Rethinking Diversity in Organizations and Society. Edited by Regine Bendl, Inge Bleijenbergh, Elina Henttonen, and Albert J. Mills. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199679805.013.22.
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The problem addressed in this chapter is whether emphasis on the ‘business case’ has gone too far, for even on its own terms there have been questions concerning the actual commercial benefits of diversity management. The concern is that if practitioner interests in anti-discrimination are reduced to the business case, then any failure to achieve commercial benefits will condemn the whole programme. Consequently, there has to be some return to the social justice arguments for managing diversity. As a way of seeking to stimulate such developments, we have conducted a literature survey of the various methodological and analytical frameworks deployed in diversity in organizations research. This is in order to search for alternatives to the reduction of ideas and interests in diversity to a single managerial preoccupation with making diversity ‘pay’, or limiting diversity practices to their potential to generate commercial benefits.
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Corran, Emily. Some Comments on Later Casuistry and ‘Jesuitical’ Equivocation. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198828884.003.0007.
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This chapter discusses early modern controversies about equivocation and mental reservation in the light of medieval intellectual history. Sixteenth-century polemics on equivocation are best explained in terms of the social and intellectual developments of that period, rather than anything inherent to the medieval discussion. The Reformation, the wars of religion in the sixteenth century, the persecution of religious minorities created an urgent new need for casuistry among Catholics who found themselves endangered. In addition the Second Scholasticism sought to make pastoral teaching relevant to political leaders of their period. Nevertheless, the combination of a stable framework of casuistical questions and changing content of moral theology that emerged in the later Middle Ages is crucial for understanding its subsequent history. The framework of ideas that were established during the medieval period was a crucial limiting factor to the later quarrels about justified equivocation.
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Ahlbäck Öberg, Shirin. Introduction. Edited by Jon Pierre. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199665679.013.42.
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The contributions in this section reveal the constitutional design of Sweden. Considering the number of fundamental laws and the length of the Instrument of Government (IG), the impression might be that constitutional principles are of great importance in Swedish political life. However, Swedish political culture is best described as pragmatic and consensual, where the government’s ability to take action has been given deliberate precedence over constitutional ideas that focus on limiting government under higher law. Furthermore, from a constitutional design perspective, Sweden is an interesting case. During the previous IG of 1809, which was based on the principle of separation of powers, comprehensive changes in the practice of government were made without any corresponding amendments of the IG itself. The most noteworthy of these changes were the introduction of universal suffrage, parliamentarism, and the abolition of the Parliament of the Four Estates, which was replaced by a bicameral system.
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McCleary, Richard, David McDowall, and Bradley J. Bartos. Construct Validity. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190661557.003.0008.
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Chapter 8 focuses on threats to construct validity arising from the left-hand side time series and the right-hand side intervention model. Construct validity is limited to questions of whether an observed effect can be generalized to alternative cause and effect measures. The “talking out” self-injurious behavior time series, shown in Chapter 5, are examples of primary data. Researchers often have no choice but to use secondary data that were collected by third parties for purposes unrelated to any hypothesis test. Even in those less-than-ideal instances, however, an optimal time series can be constructed by limiting the time frame and otherwise paying attention to regime changes. Threats to construct validity that arise from the right-hand side intervention model, such as fuzzy or unclear onset and responses, are controlled by paying close attention to the underlying theory. Even a minimal theory should specify the onset and duration of an impact.
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Page, John, and Finn Tarp, eds. Mining for Change. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198851172.001.0001.
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For a growing number of countries in Africa the discovery and exploitation of natural resources is a great opportunity, but one accompanied by considerable risks. In Africa, countries dependent on oil, gas, and mining have tended to have weaker long-run growth, higher rates of poverty, and greater income inequality than less resource-abundant economies. In resource-producing economies, relative prices make it more difficult to diversify into activities outside of the resource sector, limiting structural change. Economic structure matters for at least two reasons. First, countries whose exports are highly concentrated are vulnerable to declining prices and volatility. Second, economic diversification matters for long-term growth. This book presents research undertaken to understand how better management of the revenues and opportunities associated with natural resources can accelerate diversification and structural change in Africa. It begins with chapters on managing the boom, the construction sector, and linking industry to the resource—three major issues that frame the question of how to use natural resources for structural change. It then reports the main research results for five countries—Ghana, Mozambique, Uganda, Tanzania, and Zambia. Each country study covers the same three themes—managing the boom, the construction sector, and linking industry to the resource. One message that clearly emerges is that good policy can make a difference. A concluding chapter sets out some ideas for policy change in each of the areas that guided the research, and then goes on to propose some ideas for widening the options for structural change.
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Breilh, Jaime. Critical Epidemiology and the People's Health. Edited by Nancy Krieger. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190492786.001.0001.
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This book provides a groundbreaking approach to critical epidemiology for understanding the complexity of the health process and studying the social determination of health. It presents a powerful critique of Cartesian health sciences; the flaws of the “functional health determinants” model; and reductionist approaches to health statistics, qualitative research, and conventional health geography. It is a consolidated and well-sustained text that explains the role of social–gender–ethnic relations in the reproduction of health inequity, proposing a new paradigm with indispensible concepts and methodological means to develop a new understanding of health as a socially determined and distributed process. It combines the strengths of scientific traditions of the North and South to bring forward a new understanding and application of qualitative and quantitative (statistical) evidence that goes beyond the limits of conventional epidemiology—public and population health. The book presents alternative conceptions and tools for constructing deep prevention. It provides a neo-humanist conception of the role of health and life sciences that assumes critical, intercultural, and transdisciplinary thinking as a fundamental tool beyond the limiting elitist framework of positivist reasoning. It is an important source of fresh ideas and practical instruments for teaching, research, and agency, based on a renewed conception of the relation between nature, society, health, and environmental problems.
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Hopke, Jill E., and Luis E. Hestres. Communicating about Fossil Fuel Divestment. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.566.
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Divestment is a socially responsible investing tactic to remove assets from a sector or industry based on moral objections to its business practices. It has historical roots in the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. The early-21st-century fossil fuel divestment movement began with climate activist and 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben’s Rolling Stone article, “Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math.” McKibben’s argument centers on three numbers. The first is 2°C, the international target for limiting global warming that was agreed upon at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 2009 Copenhagen conference of parties (COP). The second is 565 Gigatons, the estimated upper limit of carbon dioxide that the world population can put into the atmosphere and reasonably expect to stay below 2°C. The third number is 2,795 Gigatons, which is the amount of proven fossil fuel reserves. That the amount of proven reserves is five times that which is allowable within the 2°C limit forms the basis for calls to divest.The aggregation of individual divestment campaigns constitutes a movement with shared goals. Divestment can also function as “tactic” to indirectly apply pressure to targets of a movement, such as in the case of the movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline in the United States. Since 2012, the fossil fuel divestment movement has been gaining traction, first in the United States and United Kingdom, with student-led organizing focused on pressuring universities to divest endowment assets on moral grounds.In partnership with 350.org, The Guardian launched its Keep it in the Ground campaign in March 2015 at the behest of outgoing editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger. Within its first year, the digital campaign garnered support from more than a quarter-million online petitioners and won a “campaign of the year” award in the Press Gazette’s British Journalism Awards. Since the launch of The Guardian’s campaign, “keep it in the ground” has become a dominant frame used by fossil fuel divestment activists.Divestment campaigns seek to stigmatize the fossil fuel industry. The rationale for divestment rests on the idea that fossil fuel companies are financially valued based on their resource reserves and will not be able to extract these reserves with a 2°C or lower climate target. Thus, their valuation will be reduced and the financial holdings become “stranded assets.” Critics of divestment have cited the costs and risks to institutional endowments that divestment would entail, arguing that to divest would go against their fiduciary responsibility. Critics have also argued that divesting from fossil fuel assets would have little or no impact on the industry. Some higher education institutions, including Princeton and Harvard, have objected to divestment as a politicization of their endowments. Divestment advocates have responded to this concern by pointing out that not divesting is not a politically neutral act—it is, in fact, choosing the side of fossil fuel corporations.
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Yennurajalingam, Sriram, and Eduardo Bruera, eds. Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care Flashcards. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190633066.001.0001.
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In the United States, the subspecialty of hospice and palliative medicine has seen rapid growth since it was recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties. During the past decade, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of palliative care programs and improved access to palliative and hospice for patients with life-limiting illness. There has also been an increase in the educational opportunities as well as growth of fellowship programs to train palliative care fellows. Unfortunately, there are limited study aids available for learning and retaining essential concepts in palliative care. Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care Flashcards is a comprehensive, evidence-based book of flashcards for clinicians caring for patients who require hospice and palliative care and supportive care. Written in a clinical scenario/vignette, question-and-answer format by experts with first-hand experience in the field, the flashcards are highly readable and serve as a source of fast answers to clinical questions in the field. A total of 300 flashcards are organized into chapters by disease and provide readers with up-to-date information that follows the core curriculum of American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine for ease of use and rapid review for exams. This book will equip care professionals with key concepts related to the assessment and management of palliative care, making it an ideal point-of-care quick reference for physicians, nurse practitioners, fellows, residents, and students.
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Capmany, José, and Daniel Pérez. Programmable Integrated Photonics. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198844402.001.0001.
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Programmable Integrated Photonics (PIP) is a new paradigm that aims at designing common integrated optical hardware configurations, which by suitable programming can implement a variety of functionalities that, in turn, can be exploited as basic operations in many application fields. Programmability enables by means of external control signals both chip reconfiguration for multifunction operation as well as chip stabilization against non-ideal operation due to fluctuations in environmental conditions and fabrication errors. Programming also allows activating parts of the chip, which are not essential for the implementation of a given functionality but can be of help in reducing noise levels through the diversion of undesired reflections. After some years where the Application Specific Photonic Integrated Circuit (ASPIC) paradigm has completely dominated the field of integrated optics, there is an increasing interest in PIP justified by the surge of a number of emerging applications that are and will be calling for true flexibility, reconfigurability as well as low-cost, compact and low-power consuming devices. This book aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to this emergent field covering aspects that range from the basic aspects of technologies and building photonic component blocks to the design alternatives and principles of complex programmable photonics circuits, their limiting factors, techniques for characterization and performance monitoring/control and their salient applications both in the classical as well as in the quantum information fields. The book concentrates and focuses mainly on the distinctive features of programmable photonics as compared to more traditional ASPIC approaches.
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Steel, Duncan G. Introduction to Quantum Nanotechnology. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192895073.001.0001.
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Quantum physics is rapidly emerging as a transformative approach to expand the frontiers of technology in areas including communications, information processing, metrology, and sensing. Indeed, the end of Moore’s Law looms in the near future and quantum effects in modern electronics such as quantum tunneling are a limiting factor. In contrast, in new technology based on quantum behavior, the quantum properties represent a new dimension of opportunity. This shift is already creating a growing need for engineers and physical scientists who have specialized knowledge in this area, in order to contribute to the growing effort. There are numerous outstanding textbooks available for a general approach to the field of quantum physics. There is much to be gained by taking the traditional learning approach, but it can take two or three years before students encounter many of the exciting ideas and tools for this area. This book takes an application-motivated approach to enable students to build a quantum toolbox. The first six chapters describe the quantum states of various systems of interest, while the remaining chapters focus mainly on dynamics. Important concepts like the quantum flip-flop, based using Rabi oscillations, and engineering the quantum vacuum are presented. Powerful tools including the atomic operator approach and density matrix operator are introduced with examples of applications. This book is aimed at upper level undergraduates and some first year graduate students. The book is arranged to fulfil the needs for a one-semester or two-semester sequence. For a one-semester sequence, the preface describes several paths that emphasize different aspects of quantum behavior.
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Draganov, Alexandr. Mathematical Tools for Real-World Applications. The MIT Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14218.001.0001.
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Techniques for applying mathematical concepts in the real world: six rarely taught but crucial tools for analysis, research, and problem-solving. Many young graduates leave school with a solid knowledge of mathematical concepts but struggle to apply these concepts in practice. Real scientific and engineering problems are different from those found in textbooks: they are messier, take longer to solve, and standard solution recipes might not apply. This book fills the gap between what is taught in the typical college curriculum and what a practicing engineer or scientist needs to know. It presents six powerful tools for analysis, research, and problem solving in the real world: dimensional analysis, limiting cases, symmetry, scaling, making order of magnitude estimates, and the method of successive approximations. The book does not focus on formulaic manipulations of equations, but emphasizes analysis and explores connections between the equations and the application. Each chapter introduces a set of ideas and techniques and then shows how these techniques apply to a series of problems. (Knowledge of algebra and trigonometry, but not calculus, is required.) The final two chapters tie all six techniques together and apply them to two real-world problems: computing the probability of a rare, catastrophic event, and tracking a satellite with a GPS receiver. Readers will learn how to analyze, dissect, and gain insight into the results by using all the techniques presented in earlier chapters—and discover how analysis tools work on problems not concocted for a textbook. The appendix provides solutions to many of the problems found throughout the book. Alexandr Draganov was born and raised in Kyiv, Ukraine; in light of the current war in Ukraine he will donate 100% of his royalties for the first year to support medical and humanitarian efforts there.