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Free Download University Rankings: Theoretical Basis, Methodology and Impacts on Global Higher Education By Jung Cheol Shin, Robert K. Toutkoushian (auth.), Jung Cheol Shin, Robert K. Toutkoushian, Ulrich Teichler (eds.)
2011 | 274 Pages | ISBN: 9400711158 | PDF | 4 MB
This ground-breaking and exhaustive analysis of university ranking surveys scrutinizes their theoretical bases, methodological issues, societal impact, and policy implications, providing readers with a deep understanding of these controversial comparators. The authors propose that university rankings are misused by policymakers and institutional leaders alike. They assert that these interested parties overlook the highly problematic internal logic of ranking methodologies even as they obsess over the surveys’ assessment of their status. The result is that institutions suffer from short-termism, realigning their resources to maximize their relative rankings. While rankings are widely used in policy and academic discussions, this is the first book to explore the theoretical and methodological issues of ranking itself. It is a welcome contribution to an often highly charged debate. Far from showing how to manipulate the system, this collection of work by key researchers aims to enlighten interested parties."This is the best book going on university rankings. It provides a reliable, readable, wide-ranging guide for the policy maker, university leader, scholar and would be doctoral student who wants to make sense of the mass of ranking data now available. Shin, Toutkoushian and Teichler tell us how to sort the good, the bad and the ugly in university comparison. A strength of the book, one that guarantees its broad relevance, is the inclusion of contributions from each of the world’s major zones of higher education."Simon Marginson, Professor, University of Melbourne "This book offers a comprehensive and very timely analysis of a topic of central importance to contemporary higher education: university rankings. Contributors to the book provide a key to the understanding of the theoretical basis and methodological foundations of rankings and their impact on higher education systems and institutions. Illuminating the amazing popularity of rankings, broad and refreshing reflection on the drivers and consequences of rankings are offered."Jürgen Enders, Professor, University of Twente

Free Download Kovoor T. Behanan, "Yoga: Its Scientific Basis"
English | ISBN: 0486417921 | 2002 | 294 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Clear explanation and evaluation of fundamental concepts of Hindu thought; historical synopsis of the development of Hindu religious philosophy; detailed descriptions of the psychology and psychoanalysis of yoga, its postures and varieties of breathing; exercises in concentration – even methods by which yogis achieve muscular control over bodily functions.

Free Download The Neural Basis of Free Will: Criterial Causation by Peter Ulric Tse
English | February 22nd, 2013 | ISBN: 0262019108 | 456 pages | True EPUB | 2.05 MB
A neuroscientific perspective on the mind-body problem that focuses on how the brain actually accomplishes mental causation.

Free Download Dean Ornish, "Love & Survival: The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0060172134, 0965855546 | EPUB | pages: 284 | 2.0 mb
Love and survival. What do they have to do with each other?

Free Download The Physical Basis of Electronics by J. G. R. Dijck
English | PDF | 1964 | 373 Pages | ISBN : N/A | 30.3 MB
"For many years we have been accustomed to regard the development of electronics as an exponential process. Now, however, a much more impressive phenomenon can be dis- cerned: it looks as if electronics is no longer content to be a branch of the science of electricity. We are witnesses today of an enormous "electronic revolution", in which what is traditionally regarded as electricity plays only a subsidiary part.

Free Download Reduced Basis Methods for Partial Differential Equations: An Introduction by Alfio Quarteroni , Andrea Manzoni , Federico Negri
English | PDF (True) | 2016 | 305 Pages | ISBN : 3319154303 | 2.7 MB
This book provides a basic introduction to reduced basis (RB) methods for problems involving the repeated solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) arising from engineering and applied sciences, such as PDEs depending on several parameters and PDE-constrained optimization.

Free Download Anatomical Basis of Cranial Neurosurgery By Wolfgang Seeger
English | PDF,EPUB | 2018 | 463 Pages | ISBN : 3319635964 | 95.85 MB
This didactic book clearly and systematically describes the anatomical-surgical fundamentals of cranial neurosurgery, relating them to norm variants, imaging modalities and interdisciplinary aspects. All illustrations, hand drawn in ink by the first author, are simple and self-explanatory.

Free Download The Embryologic Basis of Craniofacial Structure:
Developmental Anatomy, Evolutionary Design, and Clinical Applications
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031156358 | 1756 Pages | PDF (True) | 275 MB

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Free Download An Axiomatic Basis for Quantum Mechanics: Volume 1 Derivation of Hilbert Space Structure by Günther Ludwig
English | PDF | 1985 | 254 Pages | ISBN : 3642700314 | 33 MB
This book is the first volume of a two-volume work, which is an improved version of a preprint [47] published in German. We seek to deduce the funda mental concepts of quantum mechanics solely from a description of macroscopic devices. The microscopic systems such as electrons, atoms, etc. must be detected on the basis of the macroscopic behavior of the devices. This detection resembles the detection of the dinosaurs on the basis offossils. In this first volume we develop a general description of macroscopic systems by trajectories in state spaces. This general description is a basis for the special de scription of devices consisting of two parts, where the first part is acting on the second. The microsystems are discovered as systems transmitting the action. Axioms which describe general empirical structures of the interactions between the two parts of each device, give rise to a derivation of the Hilbert space structure of quantum mechanics. Possibly, these axioms (and consequently the Hilbert space structure) may fail to describe other realms than the structure of atoms and mole cules, for instance the "elementary particles". This book supplements ref. [2]. Both together not only give an extensive foundation of quantum mechanics but also a solution in principle of the measuring problem.