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This contemporary book offers current perspectives on routines and rituals to extend an understanding of the scope of these concepts with a view to challenging conventional wisdom and to offer insight for practitioners Routines and rituals are part of everyday being Routines can be useful for individuals in structuring messiness in their lives while rituals are often more spectacular in nature and typically involve a collective event Routines and rituals can be traditional established new or reinvented as well as personal social and or emotional Traditionally rituals have been characterised by formality customs regularity and procedure conversely routines public or private have been considered less important in their significance and meaning Employing several research methods literature review ethnography netnography autoethnography and in depth interviews and examining a variety of contexts ranging from hen parties clothing to collegiate tailgating and the Covid pandemic this edited volume reveals typologies and tactics for strategic practitioner use and policy makers as well as identifying avenues for further research The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Marketing Management

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Masterly Utterly compelling A highly readable and engaging tour Sam Freedman The Times From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise the definitive guide to our era of risk and the players raising the stakes In the bestselling The Signal and the Noise Nate Silver showed how forecasting would define the age of Big Data Now in this timely and riveting new book Silver investigates The River or those whose mastery of risk allows them to shape and dominate so much of modern life These professional risk takers poker players and hedge fund managers crypto true believers and blue chip art collectors can teach us much about navigating the uncertainty of the 21st century By embedding within these worlds Silver offers insight into a range of issues that affect us all from the frontiers of finance to the future of AI The River has increasing amounts of wealth and power in our society and understanding their mindset including the flaws in their thinking is key to understanding what drives technology and the global economy today There are certain commonalities in this otherwise diverse group high tolerance for risk appreciation of uncertainty affinity for numbers skill at de coupling self reliance a

This book provides a practical introduction to analyzing ecological data using real data sets The first part gives a largely non mathematical introduction to data exploration univariate methods including GAM and mixed modeling techniques multivariate analysis time series analysis and spatial statistics The second part provides 17 case studies The case studies include topics ranging from terrestrial ecology to marine biology and can be used as a template for a reader s own data analysis Data from all case studies are available from www highstat com Guidance on software is provided in the book

The 3rd edition of this popular textbook introduces the reader to the investigation of vegetation systems with an emphasis on data analysis The book succinctly illustrates the various paths leading to high quality data suitable for pattern recognition pattern testing static and dynamic modelling and model testing including spatial and temporal aspects of ecosystems Step by step introductions using small examples lead to more demanding approaches illustrated by real world examples aimed at explaining interpretations All data sets and examples described in the book are available online and are written using the freely available statistical package R This book will be of particular value to beginning graduate students and postdoctoral researchers of vegetation ecology ecological data analysis and ecological modelling and experienced researchers needing a guide to new methods A completely revised and updated edition of this popular introduction to data analysis in vegetation ecology Includes practical step by step examples using the freely available statistical package R Complex concepts and operations are explained using clear illustrations and case studies relating to real world phenomena Emphasizes method selection rather than just giving a set of recipes

Discover how the explosions in data analytics AI and digital communication are benefiting sports and sports fans around the world In Sports and Technology Have The Power To Change The World Driving Positive Change Through The Use of Data and AI the Director of Microsoft Sports Jon Flynn delivers an insightful new take on the transformative power of sport and its ability to unite people break down barriers and generate positive change The author explains the critical role that technology has played in growing the impact of sporting events and enabling social change while fostering community improvement In the book you ll explore many of the ways in which sports enabled by new tech have made significant contributions to society and promoted individual development health and wellbeing You ll also find Discussions of green technologies and climate and sustainability initiatives linked to sport with a case study about the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics Explorations of the impact of advanced data analytics with a case study focusing on the 2013 NBA Final matchup between the Miami Heat and the San Antonio Spurs How sport scientists are optimizing player performance Perfect for anyone interested in the intersection of sport society and technology Sports and

In today s interconnected world healthcare systems are increasingly turning to digital technologies to enhance patient care and optimize operations However this digital transformation presents significant challenges in guaranteeing the security and privacy of sensitive healthcare data Secure Health A Guide to Cybersecurity for Healthcare Managers confronts these challenges head on offering a comprehensive exploration of the latest advancements and best practices in securing digital health systems From examining the convergence of Internet of Things IoT applications with healthcare privacy and security to investigating ethical hacking frameworks and biometric access management each chapter delves into valuable insights for safeguarding healthcare data in an ever more digitized landscape What sets this book apart is its holistic perspective encompassing not only technical aspects but also governance standards the unique cybersecurity challenges of telehealth and the optimization of healthcare supply chain management KEY FEATURES Explores the integration of IoT devices into healthcare and the associated privacy and security risks Examines security frameworks and best practices for e health information governance Introduces a novel framework for eth

Now in its third edition this bestseller explores the pathological complexities of asbestosrelated disease and examines how asbestos induces diseases in biological systems with four new chapters on asbestosis and immunity asbestos litigation and surgical and nonsurgical management of mesothelioma

A necessary book for our times But also just great fun Saul Perlmutter Nobel LaureateThe world is awash in bullshit and we re drowning in it Politicians are unconstrained by facts Science is conducted by press release Start up culture elevates hype to high art These days calling bullshit is a noble act Based on a popular course at the University of Washington Calling Bullshit gives us the tools to see through the obfuscations deliberate and careless that dominate every realm of our lives In this lively guide biologist Carl Bergstrom and statistician Jevin West show that calling bullshit is crucial to a properly functioning social group whether it be a circle of friends a community of researchers or the citizens of a nation Through six rules of thumb they help us recognize bullshit whenever and wherever we encounter it even within ourselves and explain it to a crystal loving aunt or casually racist grandfather

Around the globe faculty and higher education leaders are actively changing what they teach to create a sustainable world This book shares how to transition to programs and courses that teach just and sustainable business management practices critical for success

This book focuses on and promotes the applications of the diverse tools and techniques of industrial engineering to the design and operation of systems in industry business the government and the mil

In More Science Less Fear Jennifer Hochschild shows how the fraught politics of genomics is unfolding in American life She focuses on genetically modified medicines that target African Americans DNA evidence in the criminal justice system the ancestry craze and genetic tests in prenatal exams She finds that contending camps differ in how they answer two questions How significant are genetic factors in explaining human traits and behaviors And what is the right balance between risk acceptance and risk avoidance Hochschild develops solutions that can reduce the ideological heat and more closely align the use of genomics with democracy

Around the globe faculty and higher education leaders are actively changing what they teach to create a sustainable world This book shares how to transition to programs and courses that teach just and sustainable business management practices critical for success

The Science and the Story of the Future of Learning Educators have been trying to harness the promise of technology in education for decades to no avail but we have learned that children in groups when given access to the Internet can learn anything by themselves In this groundbreaking book you ll glimpse the emerging future of learning with technology It turns out the promise isn t in the technology itself it s in the self directed learning of the children who use it In 1999 Sugata Mitra conducted the famous Hole in the Wall experiment that inspired three TED Talks and earned him the first million dollar TED prize for research in 2013 Since then he has conducted new research around self organized learning environments SOLE building Schools in the Cloud all over the world This new book shares the results of this research and offers Examples of thriving Schools in the Cloud in unlikely places Mitra s predictions on the future of learning How to design assessments for self organizing learning How to build your own School in the Cloud Clips from the documentary The School in the Cloud Discover the future of learning by digging deep into Mitra s thought provoking experiences examples and vision

In Unreliable the distinguished scientist Csaba Szabo examines the causes and consequences of the reproducibility crisis in biomedical research showing why the factors that encourage misconduct ste

In Unreliable the distinguished scientist Csaba Szabo examines the causes and consequences of the reproducibility crisis in biomedical research showing why the factors that encourage misconduct ste

All students practitioners and researchers in forestry and related disciplines need a good grounding in statistics and probability This need is increasing as techniques for gathering and analysing large amounts of data are becoming commonplace This revised edition of this unique textbook is specifically designed for statistics and probability courses taught to students of forestry and related disciplines It introduces probability statistical techniques data analysis hypothesis testing experimental design sampling methods nonparametric tests and statistical quality control using examples drawn from a forestry wood science and conservation context The book now includes several new practical exercises for students to practice data analysis and experimental design themselves It has been updated throughout and its scope has been broadened to reflect the evolving and dynamic nature of forestry bringing in examples from conservation science recreation and urban forestry Specifically written and designed to teach statistics and probability to students of forestry and related disciplines in the natural sciences This revised edition has been broadened to reflect the dynamism of modern forestry Chapters in this revised edition include new practical exercise

An evolutionary case for the existence of free willScientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision making many conclude that agency or free will is an illusion In Free Agents leading neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell presents a wealth of evidence to the contrary arguing that we are not mere machines responding to physical forces but agents acting with purpose Traversing billions of years of evolution Mitchell tells the remarkable story of how living beings capable of choice arose from lifeless matter He explains how the emergence of nervous systems provided a means to learn about the world granting sentient animals the capacity to model predict and simulate Mitchell reveals how these faculties reached their peak in humans with our abilities to imagine and to be introspective to reason in the moment and to shape our possible futures through the exercise of our individual agency Mitchell s argument has important implications for how we understand decision making for how our individual agency can be enhanced or infringed for how we think about collective agency in the face of global crises and for how we cons