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Dr. Steven Vogel Lecture
No full textDr. Steven Vogel will give a public Sigma Xi Distinguished Scientist lecture and a research seminar in the School of Marine Sciences seminar series. A noted author on bio-mechanics, Dr. Vogel\u27s expertise spans many disciplines including biology, marine science, physics, mathematics, and engineering. His public seminar will address the physics of living, and touch on strategies for engaging K-16 students in learning physics
Steven Vogel, Visiting Professor at the EHESS
No full textMarketcraft : A series of lectures by Steven Vogel (UC, Berkeley) Marketcraft Japanese-Style: What Japan Tells Us About the Art of Making Markets Work Date: 14th June 2017, 13:00 - 15:00 Venue: 54 bd Raspail 75006 Paris, Room A07_51 (7th Floor) In Sébastien Lechevalier's seminar « Comprendre le changement institutionnel en Asie. Une perspective comparée avec les États-Unis et l’Europe » Marketcraft: What Does It Really Take to Make Markets Work? Date: 16th June 2017, 14:00- 16:00 Ve..
Interview with Petr Vogel
No full textAn interview in two sessions, December 2002 and January 2003, with Petr Vogel, Senior Research Associate in Physics, Emeritus in the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy. Born and raised in Prague, Vogel recalls his family's experiences in the concentration camp in Theresienstadt, his post-World War II experiences growing up under Communism; college preparation in the LaGuardia Gymnasium; transfer from Charles University to the Prague Institute of Technology; post-graduate work at the Nuclear Research Institute of the Academy of Sciences near Prague in the early sixties; contacts with scientists from Russia (Vadim Soloviev) and from the West at a summer school in 1962 in Slovakia and transfer to the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research in Dubna (USSR), where Vogel finished his graduate studies (1966) and returned to his job at the Prague Institute. He recalls the Prague Spring of 1968 and its collapse; postdoctoral work at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen and his interactions there with Kai Neergaard (1968-70), working on pure nuclear structure problems; and his arrival at Caltech in 1970 to work with Felix Boehm. Vogel also began collaborating with Aage Winther on the problems of mu-mesic atoms; and also with Steven Koonin and Brian Davis having to do with work done in Boehm's group on some effects that looked like time reversal. He comments on the interest in neutrino physics at the end of the seventies by Fred Reines's (at Irvine) and Boehm's group; theoretical calculations on the neutrino spectrum at nuclear reactors that led to important experimental work in the eighties; Reine's claim that he had discovered neutrino oscillations (and Richard Feynman's efforts to disprove it); and his work with Feynman on the supposed existence of a fifth force, also a wrong claim
Steven Johnson Author Talk Poster
No full textK-State Book NetworkA poster advertising an author talk by Steven Johnson at Kansas State University on September 3, 2014. Steven Johnson's book "The Ghost Map" was the 2014-2015 common book
Life's Devices: The Physical World of Animals and Plants/ Steven Vogel.
No full textIn English.This entertaining and informative book describes how living things bump up against non-biological reality. "My immodest aim," says the author, "is to change how you view your immediate surroundings." He asks us to wonder about the design of plants and animals around us: why a fish swims more rapidly than a duck can paddle, why healthy trees more commonly uproot than break, how a shark manages with such a flimsy skeleton, or how a mouse can easily survive a fall onto any surface from any height. The book will not only fascinate the general reader but will also serve as an introductory survey of biomechanics. On one hand, organisms cannot alter the earth's gravity, the properties of water, the compressibility of air, or the behavior of diffusing molecules. On the other, such physical factors form both constraints with which the evolutionary process must contend and opportunities upon which it might capitalize. Life's Devices includes examples from every major group of animals and plants, with references to recent work, with illustrative problems, and with suggestions of experiments that need only common household materials.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Constraints and opportunities -- 2. A variety of variables -- 3. Size and Shape -- 4. Dimensions, gradients, and summations -- 5. Gases and liquids -- 6. Viscosity and flow -- 7. Pressure and flow -- 8. Diffusion versus convection -- 9. A matter of materials -- 10. A matter of materials -- 11. Insinuations about curves -- 12. Systems of support -- 13. The mechanics of motility -- 14. Staying put and getting away -- 15. Energy and afterthoughts -- Appendix 1. Notes on numbers -- Appendix 2. Problems and demonstrations -- List of symbols -- References and index of citations -- Subject Index1 online resourc
Steven Bialer and Patti Smith, July 1978
No full textMusician, poet, and author Patti Smith sits on a bed in a hotel room in July 1978. The photograph was taken by Don Hamerman as part of a session for "Unicorn Times," an alternative performing arts periodical in Washington, D.C. Steven Bialer, the Design Director for "Unicorn Times," is seated on the bed next to Smith
Steven Garber
No full textSteven Garber speaks on the importance and value of truth.
Steven Garber is the principal of The Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation & Culture, which is focused on reframing the way people understand life, especially the meaning of vocation and the common good. A consultant to foundations, corporations and educational institutions, he is a teacher of many people in many places. The author of The Fabric of Faithfulness: Weaving Together Belief and Behavior, and Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good, he is also a contributor to the books, Faith Goes to Work: Reflections from the Marketplace, and Get Up Off Your Knees: Preaching the U2 Catalogue. He lives with his wife Meg in Virginia
Japan remodeled how government and industry are reforming Japanese capitalism
No full text"As the Japanese economy languished in the 1990s, Japanese government officials, business executives, and opinion leaders concluded that their economic model had gone terribly wrong. As government officials and industry leaders scrutinized their options, they selected reforms to modify or reinforce preexisting institutions rather than to abandon them. In Japan Remodeled, Steven K. Vogel explains the nature and extent of these reforms and why there are enacted." "Vogel demonstrates how government and industry have devised innovative solutions. The cumulative result of many small adjustments is, he argues, an emerging Japan that has a substantially redesigned economic model characterized by more selectivity in business partnerships, more differentiation across sectors and companies, and more openness to foreign players."--BOOK JACKET
Japan remodeled : how government and industry are reforming Japanese capitalism /
No full text"As the Japanese economy languished in the 1990s, Japanese government officials, business executives, and opinion leaders concluded that their economic model had gone terribly wrong. As government officials and industry leaders scrutinized their options, they selected reforms to modify or reinforce preexisting institutions rather than to abandon them. In Japan Remodeled, Steven K. Vogel explains the nature and extent of these reforms and why there are enacted." "Vogel demonstrates how government and industry have devised innovative solutions. The cumulative result of many small adjustments is, he argues, an emerging Japan that has a substantially redesigned economic model characterized by more selectivity in business partnerships, more differentiation across sectors and companies, and more openness to foreign players."--Jacket.Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-238) and index.The Japanese model and institutional change -- The crisis of Japanese capitalism -- Policy reform Japanese style -- The varieties of reform -- Corporate restructuring Japanese style -- The varieties of restructuring -- Japan's new model."As the Japanese economy languished in the 1990s, Japanese government officials, business executives, and opinion leaders concluded that their economic model had gone terribly wrong. As government officials and industry leaders scrutinized their options, they selected reforms to modify or reinforce preexisting institutions rather than to abandon them. In Japan Remodeled, Steven K. Vogel explains the nature and extent of these reforms and why there are enacted." "Vogel demonstrates how government and industry have devised innovative solutions. The cumulative result of many small adjustments is, he argues, an emerging Japan that has a substantially redesigned economic model characterized by more selectivity in business partnerships, more differentiation across sectors and companies, and more openness to foreign players."--Jacket.The Nippon Foundatio
Steven Yedinak Interview
No full textLTC (RET) Steven M. Yedinak commissioned in the U. S. Army Infantry in 1963 and subsequently spent 26 years in Special Forces and Airborne Infantry. He served two combat tours in Vietnam (1966-67 & 1971-1972), and started the Mobile Guerrilla Force. He is the author of Hard to Forget: An American with the Mobile Guerrilla Force in Vietnam (Random House, 1998). He retired from the Army in 1989
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