The contributors of this book examine how their research applies to the management or mismanagement of knowledge in organizations. It is divided into three sections: knowledge systems, emotional-motivational systems, and communication and behavioural systems.
This invaluable reference presents a comprehensive review of the basic methods for characterizing bioadhesive materials and improving vehicle targeting and uptake-offering possibilities for reformulating existing compounds to create new pharmaceuticals at lower development costs. Evaluates the unique carrier characteristics of bioadhesive polymers and their power to enhance localization of delivered agents, local bioavailability, and drug abso...
Looks at methods of researching the arts therapies and examines how particular definitions of research affect understanding and practice of arts therapies. Places approaches to research in four categories, and evaluates these approaches, arguing that the theoretical or philosophical understanding of what research actually is has an effect on what we think research can be used for.
This set reprints the 19th century work which heralded the emergence of this discipline, and includes the pioneering publications of Jacob Grimm, Franz Bopp, August Friedrich Pott and Rasmus Kristian Rask.
This set reprints the 19th century work which heralded the emergence of this discipline, and includes the pioneering publications of Jacob Grimm, Franz Bopp, August Friedrich Pott and Rasmus Kristian Rask.
This is the fifth volume in an evolving series known collectively as Studies in Perception and Action. It features papers presented at the Tenth International Conference on Perception and Action held in Edinburgh, Scotland in August of 1999. This series provides a unique insight into the evolution of research on the ecological approach to perception and action. Each volume presents new research, almost always at the cutting edge of the discipl...
In Defense of Legal Positivism is an uncompromising defence of legal positivism that insists on the separability of law and morality. After distinguishing among three facets of morality, Matthew Kramer explores a variety of ways in which law has been perceived as integrally connected to each of those facets.
Gesture, Speech, and Sign examines the relationship among signed languages, spoken languages, and gesture. Experts from a variety of fields explore the origins, neurobiology, and use of these three communication systems. The book closes with a discussion of how this knowledge can be used to improve human-computer interactions, and is designed to appeal to a multi-disciplinary audience including psychologists, linguists, and computer scientists.
Alan Riach's SCOTNOTE study guide outlines MacDiarmid's life and work, providing an overview of the poet's beliefs, opinions and influences, for senior school pupils and students at all levels.
The late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spanish literature discussed in this volume falls into two main categories: the work of the Galician novelist, short-story writer and critic, Emilia Pardo Bazan, and the wider context of prose fiction and criticism during the period 1870 to 1935.