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Health and Safety Games for Trainers
Graham Roberts-Phelps Manufacturer: Gower Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0566082020 |
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How, as a health and safety trainer, do you keep your training sessions fresh and enjoyable, and your delegates involved?If this is a question that you regularly ask yourself, then you'll welcome this new collection of nearly 100 games, quizzes and exercises. The manual covers every aspect of health and safety at work, including: safety awareness; managing safely; office safety; first aid; display screen equipment; risk assessment; environmental awareness; safe manual handling; fire safety; personal protective equipment, and hazardous substances.
The collection includes:
* true/false quizzes
* knowledge tests
* self-assessment questionnaires
* workplace assessment questionnaires
* safety icebreakers
* group energisers
* safety case studies and discussion groups
* crosswords and word search puzzles.
You'll find each of the exercises easy and simple to run, which means you can slip them into safety team meetings, or use them to help change the pace, or introduce or close a subject during a longer session. They focus on generic skills and knowledge, and are consequently ready-to-use or easily adapted to the specifics of your own organization. And all of them have been devised, developed and tested by the author during safety skills training courses.
Health and Safety Games for Trainers provides anyone involved in safety training with a compendium of ideas and material that will save you considerable time, increase the impact of your session and get your delegates active and involved.
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Neural Networks in Finance: Gaining Predictive Edge in the Market (Academic Press Advanced Finance Series)
Paul D. McNelis Manufacturer: Academic Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0124859674 |
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This book explores the intuitive appeal of neural networks and the genetic algorithm in finance. It demonstrates how neural networks used in combination with evolutionary computation outperform classical econometric methods for accuracy in forecasting, classification and dimensionality reduction.Download Description
This book explores the intuitive appeal of neural networks and the genetic algorithm in finance. It demonstrates how neural networks used in combination with evolutionary computation outperform classical econometric methods for accuracy in forecasting, classification and dimensionality reduction. McNelis utilizes a variety of examples, from forecasting automobile production and corporate bond spread, to inflation and deflation processes in Hong Kong and Japan, to credit card default in Germany to bank failures in Texas, to cap-floor volatilities in New York and Hong Kong.Customer Reviews:
More Mathematical than Technical.......2006-06-13
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California Family Laws & Rules 2006 (California Family Laws and Rules)
Manufacturer: West Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 031495595X |
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Chemical Equilibria and Kinetics in Soils
Garrison Sposito Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0195075641 |
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This book clearly illustrates the limitations of using chemical thermodynamics to describe chemical phenomena in soils--especially with regard to kinetics and molecular mechanisms--and proposes that the quantitative description of soils is not complete without adequate characterization of the rates of the chemical reactions. The author, a renowned authority in the field, focuses on reactions in the soil solution and considers aqueous phase properties. He also cogently draws distinctions between thermodynamic chemical species and kinetic chemical species. This critical introduction to the use of chemical thermodynamics and kinetics for describing reactions in the soil solution will appeal not only to professionals but to students as well.
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Chemistry of Soil Solutions
Adel Mohamed Elprince Manufacturer: Krieger Pub Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 089464470X |
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Interactions at the Soil Colloid-Soil Solution Interface (NATO Science Series E:)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0792310667 |
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Soil Liquid Phase Composition
Manufacturer: Elsevier Science ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0444506756 |
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The liquid phase of soil (soil solution) is a very thin, penetrating and all-embracing water layer. It has the most extensive surface among the biosphere components and interacts with all these components. Presented in this work is a new complex approach developed for soil liquid phase investigation that is based on
This volume sums up the vast experience of the authors' research into soil liquid phase composition in various ecosystems of Central and Eastern Europe. It describes the methodological basics of soil liquid phase research: methods of soil solution extraction, the main problems of application of ion-selective electrodes for immediate
This work is devoted to the pursuit of new approaches to soil liquid phase analysis with a goal of discovering the role of soil liquid phase in the functioning of natural and agricultural ecosystems in recent soil-formation, formation of primary biological production, and in bio-geochemical turnover of elements. It includes new field investigation data as well as all data generalization carried out by means of a special complex database (developed by the authors) on soil liquid phase composition and other soil-ecological properties in various ecosystems in Central and Eastern Europe.
This book is the first English edition that integrally considers both methodological aspects and results of investigation of composition, formation, dynamics, spatial heterogeneity, and interrelations of soil liquid phase with other components of ecosystems. Soil scientists, agricultural chemists and ecologists will find this title of great interest.
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Soil Solution Chemistry: Applications to Environmental Science and Agriculture
Jeffrey D. Wolt Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0471585548 |
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Deals with all aspects of chemistry involving the fluid element found in soils. Stresses the direct analysis and interpretation of soil solution composition in order to gain insights into chemical reactivity and availability in soils. Contains practical laboratory and field techniques for obtaining and analyzing soil solutions. Also provides theoretical background on the physical and analytical chemistry involved.
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The Thermodynamics of Soil Solution
Garrison Sposito Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0198575688 |
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Ant-mediated effects on spruce litter decomposition, solution chemistry, and microbial activity [An article from: Soil Biology and Biochemistry]
B. Stadler , A. Schramm , and K. Kalbitz Manufacturer: Elsevier ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000RR6UHI |
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This digital document is a journal article from Soil Biology and Biochemistry, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Bio fuel ash in a road construction: Impact on soil solution chemistry [An article from: Waste Management]
R.T. Thurdin , P.A.W. van Hees , D. Bylund , and Lundstro Manufacturer: Elsevier ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000RR5WH2 |
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This digital document is a journal article from Waste Management, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Comparison of throughfall and soil solution chemistry between a high-density Corsican pine stand and a naturally regenerated silver birch stand [An article from: Environmental Pollution]
A. De Schrijver , L. Nachtergale , J. Staelens , and Luys Manufacturer: Elsevier ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000RR0G6O |
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This digital document is a journal article from Environmental Pollution, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Ecosystem response to 15 years of chronic nitrogen additions at the Harvard Forest LTER, Massachusetts, USA [An article from: Forest Ecology and Management]
A.H. Magill , J.D. Aber , W.S. Currie , and Nadelhoffer Manufacturer: Elsevier ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000RR0YZC |
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This digital document is a journal article from Forest Ecology and Management, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Neural Development and Schizophrenia: Theory and Research
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 030644996X |
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Synthon Model of Organic Chemistry and Synthesis Design (Lecture Notes in Chemistry)
J. Koca , M. Kratochvil , V. Kvasnicka , L. Matyska , and J. Pospichal Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0387509321 |
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One of the most interesting fields of mathematically oriented chemical research is the so-called computer-assisted organic synthesis design. These lecture notes elaborate the mathematical model of organic chemistry, which offers formal concepts for unambiguous description of computer algorithms for organic synthesis design including retrosynthesis and reaction mechanisms. All definitions and theorems are supplemented by many illustrative examples. The model is closely related to the course of thinking of organic chemists. These notes will be useful for all theoretically oriented organic chemists who are interested in mathematical modelling of organic chemistry and computer-assisted organic synthesis design.
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Principles of Physics: A Calculus-Based Text, Volume 1 (with PhysicsNOW)
Raymond A. Serway , and John W. Jewett Manufacturer: Brooks Cole ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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This successful text was the first to address the latest teaching and learning trends as suggested by the Introductory University Physics Project (IUPP) guidelines. PRINCIPLES OF PHYSICS features a concise approach to traditional topics, an early introduction to modern physics, integration of physics education research pedagogies, as well as the integration of contemporary topics throughout the text. This revision of PRINCIPLES OF PHYSICS also contains text/media integration unlike no other through the PhysicsNow online assessment, tutorial, and course management system.
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The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin
Maeve Brennan Manufacturer: Mariner Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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Ireland is once more the source of great, and disturbing, fiction. Most of us will not have heard of Maeve Brennan before opening this volume, yet the quality of her stories is cause for wonder. The first several are autobiographical sketches of her childhood in 1920s Dublin. In one, she takes her brother with her to the Poor Clare nuns, a closed order. Because the little boy is only 2, he gets to see the hidden lives about which his older sister is so curious: "I imagined them, silent and swift, of all ages, descending upon Robert from every part of the convent." In another, following the treaty that turned Ireland into a free state, "some unfriendly men" twice come looking for her father, a Republican. One raider even thrusts his head up the fireplace, only to cover himself and the living room in soot. Despite the disarray, her mother rejoices. "And with us chattering a delighted, incredulous accompaniment, she laughed as though her heart might break."In Brennan's acute hands, this proverbial phrase has more sorrow than joy about it, and in the collection's two other sequences, the emotions are far more raw. Husbands and wives are deadlocked in loveless marriages--the men longing for escape, the women desperate for contact. These are visions of powerful feelings, powerfully quelled, and there are some heart-freezing juxtapositions. One story ends with a young couple coming together; in the very next, 27 years later, ill will is everywhere.
But Brennan, whose life seems to have been even more tragic than that of any of her characters, can also anatomize peace, or at least respite. In "The Carpet with the Big Pink Roses on It," Mrs. Bagot and her child and pets (also on the shakiest of ground with Mr. Bagot) fall into an afternoon slumber. "They all slept safely. There wasn't a sound in the house. Nobody came to the door. Nobody saw them. There on the bed they might all have been invisible, or enchanted, or, as they were for that time, forgotten." Alas, such states of grace are momentary in Brennan's houses. According to William Maxwell, the title novella--a brilliant anatomy of envy and hate--"belongs with the great short stories of this century." So do several other pieces in The Springs of Affection.
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These masterly stories trace the patterns of love in three middle-class Dublin families, patterns as intricate and various as Irish lace. "Maeve Brennan's book is full of small miracles," wrote the New York Times Book Review. "The magnificent title story is wide-ranging, savage, poignant, and should bring [Brennan] back to the table of modern fiction, where her place has been empty too long."Customer Reviews:
STORIES THAT RESONATE WITH TRUTH..........2004-02-18
The stories collected here are divided into three groups - the `perhaps' autobiographical tales (told from the first person); and two groups that center on the marriages and lives of two couples, the Derdons and the Bagots. There is a sadness that permeates most of these stories - although there are moments of humor contained in them, to be sure - that sings in that peculiarly Irish way of sorrow that is too deep to voice otherwise. The marriages of the Derdons and the Bagots are soaked in the dampness of resignation - a resignation to lives that must be accepted in lieu of anything that gives more satisfaction or happiness or joy. It is a resignation that is heartbreaking. I think we have probably all been touched by its cold hands at one time or another - when we are lucky, we can shake off their grasp. If we give ourselves up to it, the weight will grow and grow throughout the length of our lives. Perhaps in seeing what that weight has done to the lives of the people depicted here, we can find the strength and will to shrug off that weight.
Brennan's prose is marvelous - it captures everything vital in the lives of these characters, right down to the faded, damp-stained wallpaper in their homes. Their hopes - which are invariably just as faded, if not more - and dreams, their joys and sorrows, are all depicted so vividly that we feel them at the deepest level. That's an amazing accomplishment in writing - these stories should be more widely read for that reason alone.
William Maxwell, Maeve Brennan's friend and editor at The New Yorker, contributes one of the most illuminating and touching introductions I've ever read - it's incredibly useful to the reader's appreciation of both the author and her work. I would suggest reading it a couple of times before entering into the stories themselves, and again when you've finished them.
This collection is a treasure - I stumbled on it by chance, another unexpected discovery. `Luck of the Irish'...? Perhaps.
Beautifully Written, Harsh In Their Judgement.......2001-06-15
The final story that is the title of the book is one of the best short stories I have read. The final story also could serve as a summary of the worst that the previous stories hold. It is riven with hatred, selfishness, and a woman who relishes the possessions of the dead no matter how close they were to her. Her preoccupation with the faults of others, and her one accomplishment of having outlived them all, is a portrait of a person more miserable than that of Dickens' Ebenezer. However this woman is worse, for she neither seeks an affirmation of life and is acutely aware of whom she has been for almost nine decades.
The other stories will document the gradual decay of relationships whether between family members or those who have wed. One husband is driven to sobbing not because he grieves for his dead wife; rather he realizes he lacks the ability to care enough to grieve. A mother looses a child and rejects her religion with an enthusiasm that is jarring. Those who have children often have little use for them, and those who are bereft of issue spend their years bemoaning their absence.
Mr. Maxwell described the stories with words like ferocious and devastating; they are all of that and more. It is a beautiful collection from a woman who was a brilliant writer who laid bare the darker sides of human nature without pause or apology, and felt no need for a redemptive or soft ending. Indeed the final story may be the hardest of all. For if a reader is left standing at the beginning of the final chapter, they will undoubtedly be flattened by its close.
Beautifully written stories........2001-05-05
I'm a sucker for Dublin stories.......1998-12-26
Not to be missed.......1998-11-20
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The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin.(Review): An article from: New Criterion
Brooke Allen Manufacturer: Foundation for Cultural Review ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00098RNIA Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from New Criterion, published by Foundation for Cultural Review on June 1, 1998. The length of the article is 2359 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Books:
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