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How to be an academic superhero : establishing and sustaining a successful career in the social sciences, arts and humanities
In universities across the world, academics struggle to establish and sustain their careers while satisfying intensifying institutional demands. Drawing from the author's decades of observation and experience in academia, this exceptional book responds to the challenges of fostering a successful academic career. Featuring an overarching focus on holistic career development as well as specific chapters on mentorship, networking, job applications and interviews, publishing, funding and more, this book guides readers through their prospective academic careers while offering informed and compassionate advice and insights. While the book is organized chronologically, providing early-, mid- and late-career guidance, the issues and challenges discussed can be addressed continuously and sometimes simultaneously across an academic's professional life. In a straightforward and engaging style, How to be an Academic Superhero offers realistic, practical advice for anyone contemplating or developing an academic career in the social sciences, arts or humanities. Career mentors looking for a useful and accessible instructional resource will also find it to be of value.
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Fighting for a living
This book investigates the circumstances that have produced starkly different systems of recruiting and employing soldiers in different parts of the globe over the last years.
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Passion for fashion : careers in style
A practical career guide details the ins and outs of fashion production, capturing the inspiration and passion of the entire fashion industry, from designer, model, and photographer, to stylist and color specialist.
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Magnetic resonance linear accelerator technology and adaptive radiation therapy: An overview for clinicians
Radiation therapy (RT) continues to play an important role in the treatment of cancer. Adaptive RT (ART) is a novel method through which RT treatments are evolving. With the ART approach, computed tomography or magnetic resonance (MR) images are obtained as part of the treatment delivery process. This enables the adaptation of the irradiated volume to account for changes in organ and/or tumor position, movement, size, or shape that may occur over the course of treatment. The advantages and challenges of ART maybe somewhat abstract to oncologists and clinicians outside of the specialty of radiation oncology. ART is positioned to affect many different types of cancer. There is a wide spectrum of hypothesized benefits, from small toxicity improvements to meaningful gains in overall survival. The use and application of this novel technology should be understood by the oncologic community at large, such that it can be appropriately contextualized within the landscape of cancer therapies. Likewise, the need to test these advances is pressing. MR-guided ART (MRgART) is an emerging, extended modality of ART that expands upon and further advances the capabilities of ART. MRgART presents unique opportunities to iteratively improve adaptive image guidance. However, although the MRgART adaptive process advances ART to previously unattained levels, it can be more expensive, time-consuming, and complex. In this review, the authors present an overview for clinicians describing the process of ART and specifically MRgART.
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On the job in the game
Discusses sports jobs that are off the field, including agents, statisticians, and athletic trainers.
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Professing to learn : creating tenured lives and careers in the American research university
Research, teaching, service, and public outreach—all are aspects of being a tenured professor. But this list of responsibilities is missing a central component: actual scholarly learning—disciplinary knowledge that faculty teach, explore in research, and share with the academic community. How do professors pursue such learning when they must give their attention as well to administrative and other obligations?
Professing to Learn explores university professors' scholarly growth and learning in the years immediately following the award of tenure, a crucial period that has a lasting impact on the academic career. Some launch from this point to multiple accomplishments and accolades, while others falter, their academic pursuits stalled. What contributes to these different outcomes?
Drawing on interviews with seventy-eight professors in diverse disciplines and fields at five major American research universities, Anna Neumann describes how tenured faculty shape and disseminate their own disciplinary knowledge while attending committee meetings, grading exams, holding office hours, administering programs and departments, and negotiating with colleagues. By exploring the intellectual activities pursued by these faculty and their ongoing efforts to develop and define their academic interests, Professing to Learn directs the attention of higher education professionals and policy makers to the core aim of higher education: the creation of academic knowledge through research, teaching, and service.
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Dream jobs in math
\"This title explores some of the amazing careers available in the field of mathematicsand they're not just limited to the classroom! From helping athletes gain a competitive edge to helping eradicate hunger around the world, readers may be surprised to learn what exciting careers math can lead to.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Attitude Constrained Robust Explicit Guidance for Terminal Phase of Autonomous Lunar Soft-Landing
An attitude-constrained jerk-minimizing optimal explicit terminal guidance is presented in this paper for the terminal phase of a multi-phase lunar soft-landing. An
analytic expression
for the acceleration vector serves as the guidance command that can be computed by low-speed onboard processors in real-time. High terminal accuracy in each phase is achieved by enforcing ‘hard terminal constraints’ on the position, velocity, and acceleration (hence attitude) of the spacecraft. The initial conditions on position, velocity and acceleration are also enforced as hard constraints to ensure a smooth handover between consecutive phases. The required time-to-go is computed to minimize the deviation of the acceleration from the average of initial and final values. This results in a very smooth variation of the acceleration vector (hence attitude as well, owing to the strap-down nature of the thruster), starting from the applicable initial value to the desired final value in the segment. Along the trajectory, compatibility of the recomputed time-to-go in the absence of additional perturbation is maintained by auto-adjusting a tuning parameter. Moreover, if necessary, the time-to-go is adjusted once again to prevent altitude excursion beyond a pre-selected safety margin. This process of careful online auto-adjustment of the time-to-go, followed by using it to recompute the guidance command, makes the guidance
operate in closed-loop with significant robustness
. Consequently, it enables a larger capture region and introduces the capability to recover from partial failures, which are critical requirements for such challenging missions.
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Dream jobs in technology
\"This title explores the fantastic careers available in technology. From designing smart objects, such as a fridge that tells you what groceries you need, to protecting people from online hacking, a career in technology can change and improve people's lives.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Solution-Focused Counseling in Schools
The third edition of this widely adopted text covers both the philosophical foundations and nuts-and-bolts essentials of using solution-focused counseling to help preschool 12 students resolve problems. Dr. Murphy sempowering techniques help students focus on doing what works assimply and efficiently as possible by using their strengths, resources, wisdom, and feedback. This edition includes new chapters and information on the restrictive influence of problems on people s thinking,strategies for positive relationship building, collecting client feedback to monitor and improve counseling services, and coconstructing Solvable problems and reachable goals.
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