Developing a Professional Vita or Resume

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This book is different from the myriad of resume books on the market. It is designed for the professional who frequently needs a formal summary of education and work background. It is full of examples and worksheets that guide usres in the process of creating or updating their vitas or resumes.

Developing a Professional Vita or Resume

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Developing a Professional Vita or Resume

Manufacturer: Garrett Park Pr
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0912048778

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School-to-career (STC) programs, which integrate academic education and vocational skills training, seek to improve the transitions of young people from school to work. The School-to-Work Opportunities Act (STWOA), passed by Congress in 1994, provided more than $1.5 billion over a five-year period to support increased school-to-work activities in the nations public high schools. However, after its initial five years, STWOA was not reauthorized. In this report, the author uses a national dataset to measure the success of various programs (including Tech Prep and Career Academies, which differ from the STWOA activities). He finds that certain STC activities do promote postsecondary enrollment and employment and that a case can be made for funding the types of programs supported by STWOA. However, he also notes that there is a pressing need for a serious evaluation of the effectiveness of the specific activities remaining in California and of any that might arise in the future.

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The hiring of part-time and temporary workers has historically been a mechanism for adjusting imbalances between supply and demand in the labor market. The use of such workers has increased dramatically as technological changes have put a premium on flexibility, and as fringe benefits have come to constitute an increasing percentage of labor costs. Flexibility is sought not only by organizations, but also by individuals: students, women with children, disabled persons, and retirees all benefit by part-time opportunities. Part-Time Work discusses these opportunities, and the risk involved in employment which is sometimes underpaid and devalued, and from which movement to full-time positions is difficult. This volume represents the work of a cross-section of specialists in labor economics, industrial relations specialists, and social scientists who are engaged in research on the transformation of work in Canada, the United States, and Great Britain. Chapters focus on the structural aspects of part-time work, conditions under which such work is performed, constraints imposed on employers by official agencies, and expectations and attitudes of part-time workers rooted in a particular society. Part-Time Work will prove particularly useful to sociologists, labor specialists, and relevant government agencies, organizations, and unions.

Working part-time risks and opportunities

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Working part-time risks and opportunities
Barbara.; Lundy, Katherina L. P.; Lundy, Larry A. Warme
Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ORF4YG

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perfect shower gift.......2002-05-21

I bought this book for a friend of mine having a baby shower and wound up keeping it for myself!

It's a must read! The book will keep you laughing for hours.

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If men had babies. . . Lamaze would be taught play-by-play.

The Perfect Gift.......2002-04-20

I bought three--one for myself, one for my daughter, and one for the next pregnant woman I know. The title says it all. How would things be different if men had babies? Some hilarious changes would be afoot. The drawings really bring these changes to hysterical life. If you know anyone pregnant or the mother of young children (or if you are one yourself), this is an inexpensive way to give her a lot of much appreciated laughter. I really enjoyed it.

The Perfect Gift.......2002-04-20

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100 Solos: Clarinet
Music Sales Corporation
Manufacturer: Amsco Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0825610974
Release Date: 1987-12-31

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Graded solos for players at all levels. The pieces are complete in themselves and require no accompaniment.

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100 Solos Clarinet (Music)
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Manufacturer: Columbia Pictures Publications
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For centuries, eyewitnesses around the world—from America to Africa, Argentina to Scotland—have reported sightings of dark, mysterious creatures in area lakes that surface briefly, only to quickly disappear. While the most famous lake monsters, those living in Loch Ness and Lake Champlain, have gained international notoriety, hundreds of lakes around the world are said to shelter these shadowy creatures.

Lake Monster Mysteries is the first book to collectively approach these widespread mysteries from a scientific perspective. By using exhaustive research and results from firsthand investigations to help separate truth from myth, the authors foster our understanding of what really lurks in the cold, murky depths.

Benjamin Radford and Joe Nickell are considered to be among the top lake monster authorities in the world. Here they share unique insights into many of the world's best-known lake monsters. They interview dozens of people and discuss the different types of lake monster sightings, delve into possible explanations for those sightings, and examine hoaxes, evidence claims, and legends surrounding the monsters. The authors have conducted groundbreaking fieldwork and experiments at lakes, examined photographic evidence, and analyzed the most current sonar readings.

Incorporating newly-revealed information and up-to-date developments, the cases in Lake Monster Mysteries are in-depth, firsthand investigations that will inform and entertain both avid lake monster researchers and lovers of unexplained mysteries.

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Close, but no cryptozoological cigar.......2006-05-19

When two authors active in skeptic organization CSICOP decide to publish a book about lake monsters it's not much of an accomplishment to correctly assume what kind of book it'll turn out to be. Skeptical analyses, critical discussions, debunking of earlier research that has often been flawed and/or incorrect, and on-site investigations and interviews.

And, well, that's exactly what Lake Monster Mysteries is all about. Throughout the book Joe Nickell and colleague Benjamin Radford presents a number of lakes in the U.S. and Canada (as well as Loch Ness in Scotland) that all claim to be the home of one or more lake monsters. The reader is presented with a short but informative background to each lake and its alleged monsters, offered details about some of the most important research to date, and is taken along with Nickell and Radford as they carry out their fieldwork and analyses of some of the most famous photographs and sightings.

Which is all both interesting and worthwhile, but to the reader who has an earlier interest in these lakes and their mysterious inhabitants the book fails to offer very much new material. However, this doesn't mean it's not a very good contribution to cryptozoological research. Nickell and Radford - who not very surprisingly come out as extremely skeptical to everyone and everything - are very efficient in their work when they point out many of the errors that precious researchers have done and later used in their own books, and it's difficult not to agree with them when they show the reader how something as mundane as a floating log or otters swimming in a straight line very easily can fool even the most experienced of observer and create the illusion that it's really a slime sea serpent cruising along the surface of the water.

It's not a very thick book though, and you'll finish it in a heartbeat. The lakes under investigation are all situated in the U.S. or Canada: Lake Champlain, Lake Memphremagog, Silver Lake, Lake Crescent, Lake George, and Lake Okanagan. True, Loch Ness also has a chapter of its own, but neither Nickell nor Radford visit the lake in person, and those mysterious lakes from the rest of the world that are mentioned at the end of the book aren't given very much attention.

Therefore "Investigating the World's Most Elusive Creatures" is somewhat misleading, and should have been changed to "Investigating North America's Most Elusive Creatures". Furthermore, it's sometimes easy to get the feeling that Nickell and Radford have been somewhat in too much of a hurry when dismissing the existence of the lake monsters, after having spent a day or two at the lake without seeing anything unusual and thus concluding that there's nothing unusual to be seen.

But the good outweighs the bad, and all in all Lake Monster Mysteries is a sweet read indeed. The most fascinating chapter is without a doubt the one about Lake Okanagan and its monster Ogopogo. Here the authors make a detour from the perspective of the hardcore skeptic and spend time discussing the folklore surrounding the lake, and if this had been done in the other chapters as well the final score would have been close to the highest possible.

Plunging into the depths of a mystery.(Lake Monster Mysteries: Investigating the World's Most Elusive Creatures)(Book review): An article from: Skeptical Inquirer

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Plunging into the depths of a mystery.(Lake Monster Mysteries: Investigating the World's Most Elusive Creatures)(Book review): An article from: Skeptical Inquirer
Michael Dennett
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This digital document is an article from Skeptical Inquirer, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2006. The length of the article is 694 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.

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Title: Plunging into the depths of a mystery.(Lake Monster Mysteries: Investigating the World's Most Elusive Creatures)(Book review)
Author: Michael Dennett
Publication: Skeptical Inquirer (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 30 Issue: 5 Page: 56(1)

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Interested in how an efficient search engine works? Want to know what algorithms are used to rank resulting documents in response to user requests? The authors answer these and other key information retrieval design and implementation questions.

This book is not yet another high level text. Instead, algorithms are thoroughly described, making this book ideally suited for both computer science students and practitioners who work on search-related applications. As stated in the foreword, this book provides a current, broad, and detailed overview of the field and is the only one that does so. Examples are used throughout to illustrate the algorithms.

The authors explain how a query is ranked against a document collection using either a single or a combination of retrieval strategies, and how an assortment of utilities are integrated into the query processing scheme to improve these rankings. Methods for building and compressing text indexes, querying and retrieving documents in multiple languages, and using parallel or distributed processing to expedite the search are likewise described.

This edition is a major expansion of the one published in 1998. Besides updating the entire book with current techniques, it includes new sections on language models, cross-language information retrieval, peer-to-peer processing, XML search, mediators, and duplicate document detection.

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A Good Guide to The Field.......2006-08-31

The Second Edition of "Information Retrieval", by Grossman and Frieder is one of the best books you can find as a introductory guide to the field, being well fit for a undergraduate or graduate course on the topic. It is somewhat a parallel to "Modern Information Retrieval", by Baeza-Yates and Ribeiro-Neto.

Chapter 2, "Retrieval Strategies", make a very good review of the main information retrieval models. The main characteristic of this chapter is that it also give some introduction to the theory needed to understand the models. In this chapter, the authors take care to provide not only equations, but also examples of how these equations work in small sets of documents, making it easier for student to grasp their workings. It is a long and detailed chapter, maybe the best you can find among the field.

Chapters 3 to 8, make a broad review of IR techniques, however they do not go deep in any technique. The best part is that they have pointers to all the techniques discussed. Those chapters, are actually broad surveys of the title chapter topic.

Great reference and textbook for IR practitioners and students.......2005-09-03

Information Retrieval is a textbook for computer science students and a reference book for IR practitioners. The References section is an excellent starting point for conducting literature research.

The best features of the book are its readability -reviewed by students and IR scientists- and the authors' willingness to provide step-by-step hands-on examples and plenty of graphics. The authors' transparency with how-to calculations encourages readers to learn by doing.

This book is recommended for IR practitioners, computer science departments and technical libraries. It is also recommended for search engine optimization specialists and web developers that need to incorporate search technology, ranking algorithms and heuristics into their projects.

Extremely Clear "Fundamentals" Book.......2002-02-13

If you're working in the IR industry, or want to develop software in this field, this book is a great starting point. A clarification: this will is not a book for researchers -- instead think of it as a book for advanced practitioners or engineers needing to work in this area. Inside you'll see complete worked examples of several fundamental computations rather than detailed proofs.

Engineering Stochastic Local Search Algorithms. Designing, Implementing and Analyzing Effective Heuristics: International Workshop, SLS 2007, Brussels, ... (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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Engineering Stochastic Local Search Algorithms. Designing, Implementing and Analyzing Effective Heuristics: International Workshop, SLS 2007, Brussels, ... (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 3540744452

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Workshop on Engineering Stochastic Local Search Algorithms 2007, held in Brussels, Belgium, September 6-8, 2007.

The 12 revised full papers presented together with 9 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 50 submissions. The topics include Methodological developments, behavior of SLS algorithms, search space analysis, algorithm performance, tuning procedures, AI/OR techniques and dynamic behaviour.

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