Environmental Effects on Engineered Materials (Corrosion Technology)

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This invaluable reference provides a comprehensive overview of corrosion and environmental effects on metals, intermetallics, glossy metals, ceramics and composites of metals, and ceramics and polymer materials. It surveys numerous options for various applications involving environments and guidance in materials selection and substitution. Exploring a wide range of environments, including aqueous and high-temperature surroundings, Environmental Effects on Engineered Materials examines specific material-environmental interactions; corrosion rates and material limitations; preventive measurements against corrosion; utilization of older materials in recent applications; the use of new materials for existing equipment; and more.

Environmental Effects on Engineered Materials (Corrosion Technology)

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A best-seller in its First Edition, Scale Development: Theory and Applications, Second Edition has been extensively updated and revised to address changes in the field and topics that have grown in importance since the First Edition. Widely adopted for graduate courses in departments such as Psychology, Public Health, Marketing, Nursing, and Education, this book will prove beneficial to applied researchers across the social sciences.

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Figures and practical tips for students

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Substantially expanded presentation of factor analysis (Chapter 6)

New chapter (7) on item response theory (IRT)

Coverage of qualitative procedures and issues related to differential item functioning (Chapter 8)

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"Very readable, well organized, and straightforward. I would recommend this book for practitioners, graduate students, and faculty members who are seeking a practical, rather than a psychometric, treatment of scale development. This book offers a clear overview for those interested in the development and validation of measurement scales."

--EVALUATION PRACTICE

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Practical introduction to measurement issues.......2006-11-24

This book is a beautifully written account of measurement issues in the social sciences. It is a great resource for anyone who is interested in developing their own instrument or who would like to learn more about measurement theory.

clear but a little simplistic.......2006-03-16

This is a nice resource for researchers completely unfamiliar with the process of measure development. The biggest limitation of the book is that it falls short in actually presenting equations for the statistics mentioned. Thus, it is a good place to start if you have little exposure to this process. However, if you plan on actually running a series of studies to create a new measure, then you'll want to augment this book with some real statistics books.

Scale Development : Theory and Applications (Applied Social Research Methods).......2005-10-03

This book was very helpful, although it does get a bit technical when it comes to the statistical explanations. For non-statisticians, it might be a bit difficult to understand. However, overall it is a good resource to have when designing a health survey.

Very helpful resource.......2005-08-25

This short volume is an excellent overview of how to create scales and indexes from survey items. The author assumes familiarity with the concepts behind reliability and validity, so the book is best used a supplement to an already developed measurement foundation. I highly recommend adding this to your reference library, I am sure you will refer to it throughout your career.

Nice overview of the scale construction process.......2004-10-03

If you've never developed scales for survey research before, this is probably one of the most readable and actionable books describing the process step by step. Browse through it in your local library before you buy a copy. Highly recommended.

Measurement of Love and Intimate Relations: Theories, Scales, and Applications for Love Development, Maintenance, and Dissolution

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Oliver C.S. Tzeng
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Reading this book will help answer the questions: What is love? Who will fall in love and who will not? Why will some love relationships endure and not others? How can one evaluate and improve a love relationship? Why does one love relationship dissolve more easily than another? How should one handle love dissolution problems? This is the most comprehensive and state-of-the-art work on the measurement of love. It includes descriptions of a theoretical paradigm and two love models, a common mythological framework for theory development and evaluation, an introduction to over 40 theories for love development, maintenance, and dissolution, the integration of research principles and strategies, the compilation of 26 popularly used scales, and illustrations of three empirical research programs in measuring love and intimate relations. The compilation of scales provides information on purpose, function, constructs, psychometric properties, subject response formats, and actual measurement items. This book complements Tzeng's most recent work, Theories of Love Development, Maintenance, and Dissolution.

Rasch Models: Foundations, Recent Developments, and Applications

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This edited volume comprises twenty-one chapters written by leading experts who have closely cooperated to present a self contained and unified overview of results thus far scattered or waiting for journal publication. Together, the chapters survey the underlying theory of Rasch models and the associated statistical ideas, provide systematic access to the fundamental results and proofs, and present a variety of applications.
A clear and current overview is given of the Rasch model for dichotomous and polychotomous responses per item, dealing with the fundamental assumptions, parameter estimation, fit tests, relations to other models, use of item banks, measurement of change and other fields of application.

Measuring service quality in hospitals: Scale development and managerial applications : An article from: Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice

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Donald J Shemwell , and Ugur Yavas
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Solving Large-scale Problems in Mechanics: The Development and Application of Computational Solution Methods

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Solving Large-Scale Problems in Mechanics The Development and Application of Computational Solution Methods M. Paradrakakis National Technical University of Athens, Greece This book consists of a number of self-contained chapters written by internationally acclaimed leading researchers. It deals with the application of computational solution methods for handling large-scale problems in mechanics. The techniques explored here are applicable to any problem in the field where available computing power is liable to be stretched to its limit. Emphasis is given to computational procedures suitable to computing systems with vector and parallel architectures. Each chapter proceeds logically, first with theory, then with algorithmic-computational analysis, and finally applications to real problems. This is a comprehensive state-of-the-art treatment of theory and practice, illustrated by extensive numerical examples, which should serve as an essential reference book on the subject.

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A Major Literary Event: a brilliant new translation of Thomas Mann's first great novel, one of the two for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929.

Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1900, when Mann was only twenty-five, has become a classic of modem literature -- the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany. With consummate skill, Mann draws a rounded picture of middle-class life: births and christenings; marriages, divorces, and deaths; successes and failures. These commonplace occurrences, intrinsically the same, vary slightly as they recur in each succeeding generation. Yet as the Buddenbrooks family eventually succumbs to the seductions of modernity -- seductions that are at variance with its own traditions -- its downfall becomes certain.

In immensity of scope, richness of detail, and fullness of humanity, Buddenbrooks surpasses all other modem family chronicles; it has, indeed, proved a model for most of them. Judged as the greatest of Mann's novels by some critics, it is ranked as among the greatest by all. Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929.

From the Hardcover edition.

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Decline and fall of a bourgeois family.......2007-05-09

French literature of or about the XIX Century deeply explored the rise of the bourgeoisie over the nobility. Think of Balzac and Proust. But it was this book, published at the turn of the XX Century, which first explored in a comparable depth the decline and fall of a bourgeois family, amidst social unrest. This is the epic story of the Buddenbrook family through four generations. This was a family who had greatly prospered in the free city of Lübeck, in Northern Germany. They were a family of merchants and naval entrepreneurs, deeply rooted in the Protestant ethics of Weberian fame. They were very religious and hard workers. The novel begins with a scene of family bliss: old Johann Buddenbrook has purchased a new house, a big, beautiful one, and the family is gathered. They are celebrating economic and social success. There is Jean, the son and partner, his distinguished wife, and their three children, their and their grandparents' joy and pride. Thomas is a serious and noble boy; Christian is a troublemaker; and little Tony is a hardnosed girl, also naughty but always good in the end. The novel continues telling the story of the upbringing of the three kids and the people around them. The old folk die, and the younger begin to go out to the world. Thomas reveals as an excellent businessman, in the tradition of his forebearers, has a good marriage and gets elected as senator of the city, which he celebrates by moving into a spectacular new house. Christian becomes a ne'er-do-well, a drunkard and a useless guy. In fact he becomes pathetic and hypochondriac. and the pretty Tony experiences tragedy and bad marriages. The decline continues.

There is no point in elaborating on the complex, tight plot. It is a multilayered bovel, with some side stories, but always a straight language and an easy to read style, with no experimentalisms. Mann is a very skilled narrator, and his first novel shows him already in full possession of his art. Character development is very good, and his Realism gives no quarter. Mann illustrates some fifty years, starting in 1835, in the life of this interesting city, one of the cradles of modern commerce, finance, and Capitalism in general. Along with the Buddenbrooks, we experience the profound changes the city undergoes. Business, politics, religion, music, family life and social relationships are all explored. A great fresco of life, by the guy who would later pen "The Magic Mountain" and "Doktor Faustus", philosophical and chornological sequels of this excellent novel.

Just not worth the time.......2007-03-28

I thought this book was very well written and entertaining but just too long. If you love Mann then read this book, if not, then just read Magic Mountain or Death in Venice.

I've decided to elaborate on my review.

The reason why I think this book is not worth the time is because the topic is too narrow. For the average reader, this book's focus on a German upper-middle class family from the turn of the twentieth century might not grab their attention and hold it for 736 pages. I am interested in German history and culture yet I found myself struggling through sections. I think many people who are introduced to Mann by this work may dismiss him because this book failed to really capture their imagination. For this reason, I think many people can skip this particular work.

As I said I found the book to be quite interesting throughout, but there were sections that did not add to the book. No one but the true Mann fan will read about some of this family's daily minutia completely enthralled. I am a fan of Mann and I certainly had problems with some of the work. I think the book would have been just as good if not better with fewer pages. The book would at least be more accessible if it were shorter.

The writing is superb, the story is very compelling at times and I am glad I read Buddenbrooks, but I can certainly sympathize with some of the negative reviews for this book and I would not recommend this book for any of my friends unless they like Mann to begin with. If I were not interested in Germany, I may have put this book down way before the final page.

Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (Everyman's Library (Cloth)).......2006-09-20

I read the "The magic mountain" by Thomas Mann about a year
ago and was very impressed by it. It was a book about ideas
and discussions, drawing from different standpoints of the
political spectrum. I even went on to rate the magic mountain
as one of the greatest books I had read. Buddenbrooks was
a bit of let down. Its clearly a book written by a coming of
age author, and one can see the author's work mature as the work progresses. I think the Magic mountain is a must read and
Buddenbrooks lacks the intellectual distance that Mann is
capable of. Its a Mann book, and not reading it is like
missing a flower in the garden.

Genetics As A Sieve.......2006-08-26

The novels of Thomas Mann often portray the fortunes of an artistic aristocratic family in Germany at the turn of the century. What Mann finds fascinating about these families is their decline from wealth to poverty and health to disease. In BUDDENBROOKS, Mann begins a four generation saga with old Johann Buddenbrooks, who by the mid 1800s had established his family as a local power in terms of wealth and health. Clearly Mann saw more than a little of himself in the Buddenbrooks clan. In fact, when his novel was first published in 1901, many of his readers saw themselves and their town novelized in a fashion that scandalized them. They did not like to think of themselves as the inheritors of a worn out and dissolute society.

Johann has a son Jean, who tries hard to carry on the tradition of success in both family and business that he inherited from his father. Jean has many of the hard-nosed qualities of business that marked the success of his father. Jean is soon faced with problems unknown to Johann. Beginning with Jean's generation is the decline of the fortunes of the Buddenbrooks. Jean has an older brother Gotthold who commits two sins that later mark the next generation. He has no interest in or aptitude for running a large family business. In his personal weaknesses, Gotthold comes across as a Freddy Corleone, jealous of the talent of his older brother Michael from THE GODFATHER. Further, Gotthold alienates his family with a marriage of which they disapprove.

Jean has three children, a daughter Antonie (Tony), and two sons Tom and Christian. It is the fortunes of these three that comprise the bulk of the book. It is almost painful for the reader to note the decline of this generation for reasons that may not be all of their own doing. When Tony matures, she is faced with an impossible choice: to marry the man whom she truly loves (Morten Schartzkopf) or the wealthy pig (Grunlich), whom Jean unwisely pressures her to marry. Despite Jean's best intentions, his refusal to let his daughter follow her heart is a very big reason for his family's later decline.

Tom is Jean's eldest son and determines to carry on the family tradition of success, but he is less capable than his father and still less capable than his grandfather. Tom combines diminished business acumen with an inability to tolerate with what he sees as the moral lapses of his brother Christian. Tom is blind to his own penchant for an interest in fine clothes and culture that Johann would have found incomprehensible, yet he has no scruples about lashing out at Christian's foibles.

Christian is a walking mess of neuroses, which later cause him to wind up in a mental institution. He has no talent for business and he sees himself as a dabbler in the arts, which probably goes a long way toward explaining Tom's antipathy and lack of patience for him. Further the family trait of whining about an unfair distribution of a will that was first seen in Gotthold emerges with a vengeance when Tom lies, leaving Christian with a pittance.

The family's decline ceases with Tom's son Hanno, a basically decent but sickly boy who dies of typhus at fifteen. What Mann has done in the Buddenbrooks saga is to use the passing of the decades as a temporal sieve, slowly filtering out the best of the genetic wheat, leaving only the effete chaff. In so doing, he dramatizes what for him was the most abiding concern of his life: a rationale for the extinction of his family's class and culture.

A realistic story of a family and the ordinary wear and tear of life.......2006-07-25

The Buddenbrooks motto is: "My son, show zeal for each day's affairs of business, but only for such that makes for a peaceful night's sleep." (page 473). A wise and careful approach to life like that you would think would keep the family going on and on -- but no --- "the storms and shipwrecks of life." (page 590) pull them down. A history (fictional) of a family in a big book that does not seem so big, because of the skillful way it is told, in short well organized chapters.

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