Download or read book From Controversy to Cutting Edge written by Mark Lax and published by . This book was released on 2021-12 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The F-111 is unique among the aircraft that the Royal Australian Air Force has operated throughout its history. Never before has one type had such a profound impact not only on the RAAF, but upon Australia's strategic policy outlook. From the moment it was ordered, however, the F-111 would be shrouded in controversy. Cost blow-outs, delivery delays, technical problems and an undeserved poor reputation meant that the aircraft's place in the frontline of Australia's defence would be continually challenged. Despite the barbs, the aircraft survived to fly in Australia for nearly 40 years--a clear testimony to the skill and dedication of the men and women who flew, maintained and supplied it. As this amazing aircraft has now departed from service, its story can finally be told with full access to the range of official records regarding its acquisition and operation. The politics spanning fifty years of air force history, the controversies, and that media drama, have all been faithfully and unflinchingly described. Loved by the public, decried by armchair strategists, the F-111 has at last found its place in Australia's rich military history.
Download or read book Law at the Cutting Edge written by Sinéad Agnew and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-04 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection celebrates the immense contribution of Sarah Worthington to the field of private law. Defining the subject broadly, experts from the judiciary and the academy address contemporary challenges arising in the fields of agency, company law and insolvency, contract law, equity, the law of money, personal property, restitution and unjust enrichment. The breadth of the contributors' expertise and their willingness to offer innovative and insightful solutions to difficult problems perfectly mirror Sarah Worthington's rigorous and inspirational approach to private law scholarship.
Download or read book Dupuytren Disease and Related Diseases The Cutting Edge written by Paul M. N. Werker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, leading international experts showcase the latest advances in research into Dupuytren disease and its clinical management. The coverage spans all relevant specialties, including cell biology, biomechanics, genomics, surgery, pharmacotherapy, and radiotherapy. The opening sections address epidemiology, cellular and extracellular events, and genetics. Treatment by means of collagenase injection, percutaneous needle fasciotomy, and other surgical and minimally invasive approaches is then extensively discussed. Comparative studies of different approaches are reviewed, and aspects of patient assessment, examined. The prevention and treatment of disease recurrences are also addressed. Further sections consider related conditions, other treatment options, and future pathways for research. This book should be read by all who treat or conduct research into Dupuytren disease. It is based on presentations delivered at the 2015 International Conference on Dupuytren Disease, held in Groningen, the Netherlands, which was designed to promote a coordinated global response to the disease involving patients, scientists, and clinicians.
Download or read book Cutting Edge Therapies for Autism written by Tony Lyons and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2012-07-15 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the latest information on autism research, therapies, evaluations, and treatment centers.
Download or read book Global Defense Procurement and the F 35 Joint Strike Fighter written by Bert Chapman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-27 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the development and evolution of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a multinational aircraft endeavor involving the U.S. and many of its allies. The author provides a historical overview of jet fighter aircraft, discussing the different generations of these planes and their technical characteristics, as well as an outline of emerging international geopolitical and security trends the F-35 may see combat in. By examining the role of defense industries, domestic politics, and governmental oversight of the Joint Strike Fighter in various countries, the author concludes that this aircraft will be deployed in most of these countries to replace their aging jet fighter fleets and combat potential military aggression from China, Russia, and other revisionist international powers.
Download or read book Campaigns on the Cutting Edge written by Richard J. Semiatin and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2020-04-10 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Campaigns on the Cutting Edge evaluates the current trends of today’s campaigns and assesses the innovative changes these well-tuned organizations are making on the presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial levels. As technology now allows candidates to announce their candidacies online, raise money through web fundraising, and mobilize supporters via smartphones, these increasingly mobile and integrated campaigns face the growing influence of outside interests. The thoroughly updated Fourth Edition looks at the 2018 midterm election and focuses on the rise of fake news, women′s activism in the #MeToo movement, voter ballot access measures, and the ways in which technology increases the volume of information that campaigns use.
Download or read book Climate Controversy 2013 written by MacCracken Woodwell Ellis Abraham and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secondary students and top climate scientists join forces to expand public awareness, knowledge, and understanding of current climate issues garnering crucial support for U.S. and international environmental policymakers as a community service.
Download or read book Philosophy of Science The Key Thinkers written by James Robert Brown and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the great philosophers from Plato and Aristotle to the present day have been philosophers of science. However, this book concentrates on modern philosophy of science, starting in the nineteenth century and offering coverage of all the leading thinkers in the field including Whewell, Mill, Reichenbach, Carnap, Popper, Feyerabend, Putnam, van Fraassen, Bloor, Latour, Hacking, Cartwright and many more. Crucially the book demonstrates how the ideas and arguments of these key thinkers have contributed to our understanding of such central issues as experience and necessity, conventionalism, logical empiricism, induction and falsification, the sociology of science, and realism. Ideal for undergraduate students, the book lays the necessary foundations for a complete and thorough understanding of this fascinating subject.
Download or read book The Cutting Edge written by Mark A. Lorell and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 1998-10-20 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proposition that innovation is critical in the cost-effective design and development of successful military aircraft is still subject to some debate. RAND research indicates that innovation is promoted by intense competition among three or more industry competitors. Given the critical policy importance of this issue in the current environment of drastic consolidation of the aerospace defense industry, the authors here examine the history of the major prime contractors in developing jet fighters since World War II. They make use of an extensive RAND database that includes nearly all jet fighters, fighter-attack aircraft, and bombers developed and flown by U.S. industry since 1945, as well as all related prototypes, modifications, upgrades, etc. The report concludes that (1) experience matters, because of the tendency to specialize and thus to develop system-specific expertise; (2) yet the most dramatic innovations and breakthroughs came from secondary or marginal players trying to compete with the industry leaders; and (3) dedicated military R&D conducted or directly funded by the U.S. government has been critical in the development of new higher-performance fighters and bombers.
Download or read book Controversial Images written by Feona Attwood and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a series of case studies of recent media controversies, this collection draws on new perspectives in cultural studies to consider a wide variety of images. The book suggest how we might achieve a more subtle understanding of controversial images and negotiate the difficult terrain of the new media landscape.
Download or read book Cutting Edge written by Miriam Defensor-Santiago and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teaching Classroom Controversies written by Glenn Y. Bezalel and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching Classroom Controversies is the essential guide for all teachers trying to navigate their way through issues of controversy in the age of ‘fake news’ and ‘alternative facts’. Arguing that schools have a key role to help turn the tide and promote intellectual humility and openness, the book shows teachers how they can set the boundaries to ensure a purposeful learning environment that thinks about controversy in terms of evidence, reasoned argument, and critical reflection. Drawing on the latest research, the first part of the book provides frameworks for teaching and learning about controversy, including how to facilitate respectful discussion, the biases that impact student beliefs, and the pedagogical techniques that should be applied in the classroom. The second part offers practical guidance on how to teach the most contentious issues facing young children and teenagers in society today, dealing with wide-ranging questions such as: Is Santa Claus real? Do I have a ‘normal’ family? Is the Holocaust a hoax? Should there be any limits on free speech? Teaching Classroom Controversies offers teachers the tools to develop their students' critical thinking on the timely and cutting-edge issues of controversy that are shaping our world.
Download or read book Current Controversies in Bioethics written by S Matthew Liao and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Bioethics: Current Controversies -- Part I Research Ethics: How Should We Justify Ancillary-Care Duties? -- 1 Locating Medical Researchers' Ancillary-Care Obligations within the Division of Moral Labor -- 2 The Grounds of Ancillary Care Duties -- Suggested Further Readings (Part I) -- Study Questions (Part I) -- Part II Clinical Ethics: Are Psychopaths Morally Accountable? -- 3 Fine Cuts of Moral Agency: Dissociable Deficits in Psychopathy and Autism -- 4 Holding Psychopaths Responsible and the Guise of the Good -- Suggested Further Readings (Part II) -- Study Questions (Part II) -- Part III Reproductive Ethics: Is There a Solution to the Nonidentity Problem? -- 5 Dividing and Conquering the Nonidentity Problem -- 6 The Nonidentity Problem: United and Unconquered -- Suggested Further Readings (Part III) -- Study Questions (Part III) -- Part IV Neuroethics: What Is Addiction and Does It Excuse? -- 7 Addiction, Habits, and Blame -- 8 How Addicts Lose Control -- Suggested Further Readings (Part IV) -- Study Questions (Part IV) -- Part V Public Health Ethics: Is Luck Egalitarianism Implausibly Harsh? -- 9 Rarely Harsh and Always Fair: Luck Egalitarianism and Unhealthy Choices -- 10 Luck Egalitarianism, Harshness, and the Rule of Rescue -- Suggested Further Readings (Part V) -- Study Questions (Part V) -- Supplemental Guide to Further Controversies -- Index
Download or read book The Particulate Air Pollution Controversy written by Robert F. Phalen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-10-31 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise book presents the relevant scientific data, historical developments, unsolved problems, and new research opportunities related to particulate air pollution and human health. Included are chapters on the nature of particulate air pollution, fates and toxicity of inhaled particles, evidence of harmful effects of air pollution, events that led to the current controversy, interpretation of modern epidemiology studies, needed research, challenges to commonly accepted ideas about pollutants and health, and recommendations for scientists, regulators, legislators, the public and industry.
Download or read book Australia s Nuclear Policy written by Michael Clarke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia’s Nuclear Policy: Reconciling Strategic, Economic and Normative Interests critically re-evaluates Australia’s engagement with nuclear weapons, nuclear power and the nuclear fuel cycle since the dawn of the nuclear age. The authors develop a holistic conception of ’nuclear policy’ that extends across the three distinct but related spheres - strategic, economic and normative - that have arisen from the basic ’dual-use’ dilemma of nuclear technology. Existing scholarship on Australia’s nuclear policy has generally grappled with each of these spheres in isolation. In a fresh evaluation of the field, the authors investigate the broader aims of Australian nuclear policy and detail how successive Australian governments have engaged with nuclear issues since 1945. Through its holistic approach, the book demonstrates the logic of seemingly conflicting policy positions at the heart of Australian nuclear policy, including simultaneous reliance on US extended deterrence and the pursuit of nuclear disarmament. Such apparent contradictions highlight the complex relationships between different ends and means of nuclear policy. How successive Australian governments of different political shades have attempted to reconcile these in their nuclear policy over time is a central part of the history and future of Australia’s engagement with the nuclear fuel cycle.
Download or read book Australian Perspectives on Global Air and Space Power written by Nicole Townsend and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys historical and emerging global air and space power issues and provides a multidisciplinary understanding of the application of air and space power in the past and present, while exploring potential future challenges that global air forces may face. Bringing together leading and emerging academics, professionals, and military personnel from Australia within the field of air and space power, this edited collection traces the evolution of technological innovations, as well as the ethical and cultural frameworks which have informed the development of air and space power in the 20th and 21st centuries, and contemplates the future. It covers topics such as the insurgents' use of drones, the ethics of air strikes, the privatisation of air power, the historical trajectory of air power strategy, and the sociological implications of an ‘air force’ identity. While many of the chapters use Australian-based case studies for their analysis, they have broader applicability to a global readership, and several chapters examine other nations’ experiences, including those of the United States and the United Kingdom. This accessible, illuminating book is an important addition to contemporary air and space power literature, and will be of great interest to students and scholars of air and space power, air warfare, military and international history, defence studies, and contemporary strategic studies, as well as military professionals.
Download or read book General Technical Report PSW written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
