The Wiley Auditor's SAS Field Guide 99

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Introducing the first SAS field guide ever! This user-friendly guide contains all the authoritative requirements of SASs in one accessible, pocket-sized format. Perfect as a quick, stand-alone reference or as a supplement to the comprehensive Wiley Practitioner's Guide to GAAS 99. Every core SAS requirement is presented in a clear and concise manner. Dan M. Guy, CPA, PhD (New York, NY), is the former Vice President of Auditing Standards for the AICPA. D. R. Carmichael, CPA, PhD (New York, NY), is a Wollman Distinguished Professor of Accounting at Bernard M. Baruch College.

The Auditor's Sas Field Guide 2000 (Auditor's Sas Field Guide)

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The Auditor's Sas Field Guide 2000 (Auditor's Sas Field Guide)
Dan M. Guy , and D. R. Carmichael
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Very Fine Starting Point

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A Pamphlet and a Sales Brochure

An inspiring glance into the potential of targeted training.

Virtual Learning: A Revolutionary Approach to Building a Highly Skilled Workforce
Roger C. Schank
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Designing World-Class E-Learning : How IBM, GE, Harvard Business School, And Columbia University Are Succeeding At E-Learning

ASIN: 0786311487

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The majority of today's corporate training programs are weak, ineffective, costly, and hated by the employees they are supposed to train. Worst of all, they are boring. Visionary educator Roger Schank has a better way, one that has been proven to produce exceptional in all levels of employees. In Virtual Learning: A Revolutionary Approach to Building a Highly Skilled Workforce, this world-renowned professor and consultant demonstrates his "learning by doing" programs through actual examples and entertaining case histories. Schank's computer simulation and role-playing scenario methods have helped companies as diverse as Andersen Consulting, Ameritech, AT&T, Target, and Bennigan's to save training expense, not to mention the incalculable cost of poorly-trained employees; use computer-based training to escape "read and memorize" programs of the past; teach employees to make discoveries on their own and train themselves; allow employees to fail in training exercises and learn from those failures; and broaden training goals and objectives to keep from limiting what is learned. Whether you are a trainer or human resource manager, a department manager, or even a CEO or other executive struggling over ways to get more from your workforce, let Roger Schank's Virtual Learning give you a head start on your competitors in learning tomorrow's computer interactive employee training procedures.

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Very Fine Starting Point.......2002-06-26

I have not found any virtual learning book to be fully satisfactory, but this one provides a very fine start. I completely agree with the author's opening premise that organizational learning is adrift and largely bankrupt intellectually (and what is being spent in dollars is largely being spent in a mindless and counter-productive fashion).

The seven core ideas that I drew from it are:

1) Learn by doing. Training must be fully integrated into day-to-day responsibilities and available on the fly.

2) Expert Modeling. Web-developers, multi-media experts, all these folks are *useless* unless there is a cadre of proven subject-matter-experts who can be used to devise the substance of the training in an interactive fashion.

3) Survey before modeling. Apart from having experts integrated into the design team, a larger survey of experts prior to the module design is recommended.

4) Embed failure. The author is a leading proponent of the idea that the best lessons are those that are learned from failing. They are, in a word, memorable.

5) Provide options. Building on the learning that occurs from failure, the author proposes strong emphasis on options menus that allow students to branch in different directions immediately after the failure.

6) Include ambiguity. The author suggests that avoidance of the "school solution" is helpful--there should be no one answer, but degrees of answer.

7) Prototype and test draft module. As obvious as it might seem, the author's experience suggests that too often distance learning modules go straight into production without being tested on real students, something he considers essential.

Missing from the book, which could do with a new edition, is a directory of virtual learning success stories apart from the author's own experience, and of virtual learning tools. I would be especially interested in an appendix with a cross-section of URLs for successful distance learning examples across the various university degree areas as well as in vocational training.

The book did inspire me to conceptualize virtual training and distance learning as a new means of managing corporate knowledge. I am very disenchanted with the years of nonsense coming from those championing "knowledge management" and as my own interests have moved toward collaborative work, external source exploitation, and organizational intelligence, I have come to the conclusion that a good strategy for any organization interested in perpetuating and leveraging its internal knowledge would be to take a distance learning approach that integrates a weekly open source intelligence report on the state of the knowledge segment; a distance learning menu related to that knowledge segment; an expert forum where completion of the distance learning is required before participating; and a virtual library of internal and external sources structured for efficient use. The next step would be to expand the circle and share the burden with other organizations, ultimately creating an information commons for that specific knowledge segment.

This is a good book, and helpful to anyone wishing to reflect on how the future calls for continuous education, learning by doing, and doing by learning.

Great to get excited about training again.......2000-11-03

As a curriculum developer, I am always looking for new and better ways to analyze and present material. Schank's theory of creating failure-based learning designed around a scenario is not new. I found it encouraging to read about projects similar to my own that were presented in such a creative way. I would have appreciated more "how-to," but still highly recommend this book as a means to stimulate your thinking about how to approach a topic from a different angle.

A Pamphlet and a Sales Brochure.......2000-08-07

From a technological perspective this is a book. But judged by the content Virtual Learning is more like a pamphlet Schank has used to publish his set of theses. And just like those nailed to the door of the Wittenberg Cathedral in 1517, Schank's theses question established truths. Instead of the role of faith in salvation, Schank questions truths about how people learn and how they consequently should be trained.

On the other hand, Virtual learning is a sales brochure of the services Roger Schank's company, Institute for the Learning Sciences (ILS) offers for organisations. For example, the cases offer convincing references of satisfied customers of ILS. A cynical reader might suspect that only the successful projects are included and the lukewarm cases forgotten. Had Schank included two or three cases outside his own business history, the book would make a much better case.

Schank tries to apply his own theses in this book. Instead of providing lists of things to remember he tells stories and presents experiences from the field. He does not give ready-made answers but encourages readers to try things out themselves. Yes, Virtual learning is an antithesis of a traditional coursebook.

An inspiring glance into the potential of targeted training........1999-05-25

Before I read this book, I was becomming sadly disheartened with my profession (training) - knowing that training had the power and potential to be a real driving and competitive force but still watching as the majority of businesses diseminate the same old traditionally facilitated delivery courses that are consistently weak in meeting expectations of both employees and business. Then I picked up Schank's book and my vision was articulated, my hope reborn! Schank specifically discusses the power of the new simulation technology, throwing away stone age mantras of the profession (i.e. different people learn differently) and lays new and relevant foundations. Highly recommend this for any trainer who longs to make a difference in his/her work environment.

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Thorough and affectionate.......2002-04-07

Those of us who have enjoyed California olives for a long time will read many previously unknown facts about this complicated and risky agricultural pursuit.

Dr. Taylor has obviously spent long hours and many miles in her research of the subject. The Bibliography alone consumes 20 pages! Furthermore, there are 10 pages of Acknowledgements.

The end result is a comprehensive chronicle of olives in California with a strong emphasis on ripe olive processes (both olive oil and pickled in cans). Her writing style reflects a love of the subject.

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The olive in California: History of an immigrant tree and the industries it generated
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The conversion of energy generated in the Sun's interior creates its hot corona and a wealth of dynamical phenomena such as flares and mass ejections. Based on recent significant progress in understanding magnetic reconnection and a wealth of new observations of energetic particle signatures from the Sun, the present volume reviews the current theoretical and experimental status in the field. Paying attention to both the details and the broader picture, this book addresses both the experienced researcher as well as nonspecialist researchers from related areas and postgraduate students in astrophsics.

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Just a few decades ago, chemical oscillations were thought to be exotic reactions of only theoretical interest. Now known to govern an array of physical and biological processes, including the regulation of the heart, these oscillations are being studied by a diverse group across the sciences. This book is the first introduction to nonlinear chemical dynamics written specifically for chemists. It covers oscillating reactions, chaos, and chemical pattern formation, and includes numerous practical suggestions on reactor design, data analysis, and computer simulations. Assuming only an undergraduate knowledge of chemistry, the book is an ideal starting point for research in the field. The book begins with a brief history of nonlinear chemical dynamics and a review of the basic mathematics and chemistry. The authors then provide an extensive overview of nonlinear dynamics, starting with the flow reactor and moving on to a detailed discussion of chemical oscillators. Throughout the authors emphasize the chemical mechanistic basis for self-organization. The overview is followed by a series of chapters on more advanced topics, including complex oscillations, biological systems, polymers, interactions between fields and waves, and Turing patterns. Underscoring the hands-on nature of the material, the book concludes with a series of classroom-tested demonstrations and experiments appropriate for an undergraduate laboratory.

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Chaos in Chemistry and Biochemistry

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Chaos and Order in Nature (Springer Series in Synergetics)

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Chaos and Order in Nature (Springer Series in Synergetics)
H. Haken
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Fractals, Quasicrystals, Chaos, Knots and Algebraic Quantum Mechanics (NATO Science Series C:)

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Fractals, Quasicrystals, Chaos, Knots and Algebraic Quantum Mechanics (NATO Science Series C:)

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Methods in Nucleic Acids Research
Jim D. Karam , Lee Chao , and Gregory W. Warr
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Methods in Nucleic Acids Research provides extensively referenced overviews of chapter topics, in addition to step-by-step laboratory protocols. Topics include discussions regarding the preparation and assay of antibodies against oligopeptides, RNA footprinting, gel-retardation assays for nucleic acid binding proteins, in vitro transcription and translation assays for studies of eukaryotic gene expression, human genome mapping, forensic analysis of DNA polymorphism, in situ hybridization for the detection of specific RNA, and other methods. Biochemists, molecular biologists, immunologists, cell biologists, and geneticists will find this book invaluable for their research.

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Algorithms known as ``particle'' methods, whose characteristic feature is the discretization technique when the set of discrete objects is introduced, which are model ``particles'' considered as some mesh of moving nodes, are becoming more and more widespread in mathematical modelling. Until recently, particle methods have mainly been developed as an alternative to classical numerical methods for solving problems in plasma physics. As a result, no specialized monographs on this subject had been available. The aim of this book is to fill the gap in literature on this subject and deals with combined Lagrangian-Eulerian schemes of the ``particle-in-cell'' type, the most widespread among particle methods. The authors describe a universal approach to the construction of such algorithms.

The approach is based on splitting the initial problem by which the auxiliary problem with a hyperbolic (divergent) operator is separated. After special discretization of the solution, such a splitting naturally leads to the well-known schemes of ``particle-in-cell'' methods. Examples of calculations in this book give the reader an idea of the capabilities of particle-in-cell methods, their requirements to computers, and the degree of precision that can be achieved. This book is primarily intended for specialists in calculations, who want to get a general idea of numerical particle-in-cell methods and the sphere of their applications. As a methodological guide, it will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, mathematicians and physicists specializing in mathematical modelling.

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Sir John Moore organized and trained the British light infantry during the Napoleonic wars, and thus is regarded as the father of all subseqent British special warfare units. This biography is the first to draw on papers in the archives of the Dukes of Hamilton and Argyll which shed new light on Moore's upbringing and the shaping of his revolutionary approach to the art and science of warfare.

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A highly unreliable biography.......2005-03-26

Despite the claims made for this biography there is hardly any new material in it. It is based mainly on the memoir of Moore by his brother, the 1923 edition of Moore's letters, and the 1904 edition of his Journal (i.e. not the original documents).

It is chock-full of inaccuracies, right from Page 2 where the author confuses Moore's father with his grandfather. Some are small - a sloop is called a frigate, a wainscot wall is described as "lath and plaster" and so on. But others are serious, such as the author's assertion (a key point in his assessment of Moore's character) that Moore may never have killed anyone himself. This is nonsense; both Moore's diary and his brother's memoir describe him doing just that. Day also describes an occasion when Moore's ship was attacked by a privateer, which he says had "most of its crew shot to pieces" as Moore's shipmates fought back. But the source says clearly that the privateer didn't attack but sailed away instead. The stirring battle Day describes is wholly imaginary.

The book is full of passages in quotation marks, but many are inaccurate, some of them so much so that they are only paraphrases of the original quotations.

Weirdest of all - although the author and the publisher's blurb both stress Moore's importance as a trainer of troops - his most important contribution to British military history, the creation of the British Light Infantry arm at Shorncliffe, just isn't in the book at all. The book simply leaves out the years in which Moore worked on his greatest achievement, skipping without comment straight from November 1802 to August 1806. So if you don't already know why Moore is important to the British Army, you won't find out from this book. Bizarre.

Interesting Biography of a Military Leader.......2002-12-04

This new title by Roger Day, `The Life of Sir John Moore' provides the reader with an interesting view of a man who the author categorizes as "the classic tragic British hero". This is the first biography I have read of Sir John Moore although I have come across him in many previous books. The author's view of Sir John Moore differs from many other accounts, the most recent being in `The Peninsular War' by Charles Esdaile.

Regardless of these differences I found that the author's biography of Sir John Moore was well presented and a delight to read. His campaigns were covered in enough detail to allow the reader to form an opinion on the man and his achievements. The narrative runs to only 220 pages so it could not be considered an exhaustive study but more of a general overview of the man and his times. According to the publishers much of the primary research material has previously not been utilized.

Upon finishing the book I felt that Sir John Moore was a brave man who actually felt some responsibility towards his troops welfare and did all in his power as a leader to ensure that they were well looked after and used in an intelligent manner. At times it appeared that these concerns and his forward thinking, taking in the `bigger picture', did not sit well with both his superiors and politicians in London nor with some of his subordinates.

Once again I was amazed and disgusted to read of the political backstabbing and cover-ups conducted by some of the politicians at the time. This appears to be a constant thread throughout history, the soldiers doing the dirty work while the politicians find some way of appearing to be squeaky clean when things go wrong. Overall this is an enjoyable book and should find acceptance with those who have read little on the subject, a good primer for further reading.

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For James D. Watson, the year 2003 was momentous: The 50th anniversary of the discovery, with Francis Crick, of the DNA double helix; the 35th anniversary of the publication of his best-selling memoir of the discovery, The Double Helix; the 35th anniversary of his appointment as Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, an institution he molded into a research and education center of international renown and prestige: and the year in which the sequencing of the human genome was completed, a project of unprecedented international effort and coordination that Watson got off the ground and sustained during its first, critical years.

In the course of his 75 years, Watson has achieved a reputation as outspoken, capricious, abrasive, and ruthless in pursuing his visionary goals. Few other scientists have achieved his celebrity status, or enjoyed it so much, without losing professional credibility.

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Their essays cover much of his scientific life and, taken together, create a portrait of a complex man whose originality and force of will have produced extraordinary achievements.

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Watson's world.(Biology)(Book Review): An article from: American Scientist

Manufacturer: Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
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Inspiring Science: Jim Watson and the Age of DNA
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