Raising The Alarm
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Raising The Alarm
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Author : Robert Andrew Este
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-06-13
Raising The Alarm written by Robert Andrew Este and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-13 with Education categories.
As the foundation of our modern world, innovation has generated a seemingly endless ocean of new products, new processes, new thoughts, and new ways of doing things. Every day, we enhance our innovation and its effects – and we advance, accomplish and constantly seek even more! Generally, we tend to live well based on our innovation outputs. This suggests that we think we know what we are doing, and that we know where we are headed. We do know what we’re doing, don’t we? Most would say: yes, we do; indeed, we are inclined to be certain of it. But: can we be certain about what we know about innovation? To address this question, we search for evidence of any useful outputs of the work of philosophy. Such outputs should help us better understand if we can, indeed, be certain about what we do, and where we are going. Is there any evidence of this? Alas! – philosophy is nowhere to be found! As a tool of rigorous reflection and understanding, even where some of the most exciting and forward-looking innovation enterprise in science, engineering and organizational structuring takes place, philosophy seems to have vanished – if it was ever there in the first place. Today, this seems somehow normal, and quite all right. But is it? Of course, we are aware that our history of philosophy illuminates the earlier pathways we once followed to achieve our modernity, and that is fine; but, where is philosophy and its work today? Where has philosophy gone? In this book we explore these questions, and more: why is philosophy vanishing, or even entirely absent from our world today? What has happened? If, at one time, philosophy was so very important, why would it no longer be much in evidence, if it is there at all? Where is the work of philosophy today as we push forward with innovation in our astonishing, leading-edge realms? Do we really understand what we are doing? Do we have any idea where we are going? And, most chillingly, regardless of the answers – does it matter? The claim is made in this book that the disappearance of philosophy does matter, and alarm bells ought to be ringing. Why? Because the work of philosophy, work we seem to have forgotten, is essential for us to know where we are going. If we are truly serious about surviving and thriving, especially by being so innovative in so many spectacular and challenging ways, we cannot afford to have philosophy and its works disappear and then be forgotten. Said plainly, we cannot deny and then lose the maps and compass of philosophy applied to the challenges of today and tomorrow. If we do, we lose any reason for any journey, anywhere. And, more broadly, we are in danger of losing reason generally. To continue denying philosophy – and then, in the end, to deny that very denial – is a move with no hope of benefit. But, the lack of evidence for the work of philosophy indicates that move is underway. We are destroying any useful link between innovation and philosophy. In so doing, we are seriously reducing the value of innovation (no matter how wonderful we think it might be) while blindly forgetting the critical importance of philosophy and its work. This move will guarantee that the path to our future will be fraught with unnecessary hardship and difficulty, and then, if it is permanent, will deal a fatal blow. If we truly wish to thrive and persevere, we are compelled to avoid the fatal error of philosophical denial. To do so, we must rediscover, revitalize and apply anew the rigorous work of philosophy to innovation in our modern era.
Raising The Alarm Over False Conversion
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Author : Alfred Chong
language : en
Publisher: eBookIt.com
Release Date : 2013-05
Raising The Alarm Over False Conversion written by Alfred Chong and has been published by eBookIt.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05 with Religion categories.
Millions of professing Christians are lulled to slumber in their unconverted state indefinitely, all the while comfortable with the false assurance of salvation, misplaced confidence, misconception, their good deeds and religious activities. They have been misled and are unknowingly living under the deception of false conversion. Therefore it is important for professing believers to understand among other things: God's grace and God's sovereignty in salvation; true conversion versus false conversion; the importance of preaching and hearing of the Gospel; the false doctrines; the danger of the false gospels and the altar call evangelism; the great evil scheme; the warnings from Jesus; and the urgent need for personal awakening. How can one know if one has been converted? What are God's ways of dealing with mankind in regard to salvation? What to do if you have not been converted? In short, professing Christians ought to know all the relevant and significant matters pertaining to true and false conversions. If nobody raises the alarm over false conversions and the great evil scheme is not exposed, countless professing Christians around the world would continue to live in false hope. By raising the issue and sharing the knowledge concerning true and false conversions, and by the grace and mercy of God, the author may help to set many false converts free from the devil's deception so that they are able to seek God's mercy and the true salvation.
Raising The Alarm
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Raising The Alarm written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
All of the Health Risks and None of the Benefits Raising the Alarm: The Case for Better Flame Retardant Regulation in Canada. [...] So far, this has resulted in the prohibition of the manufacture, use, sale or import of polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs), in addition to the restrictions on PBDEs and HBCDs mentioned above.54 Additionally, following screening assessments of 10 organic flame retardants under CEPA, pursuant to the CMP, the Minister of the Environment and the Minister of Health have recommended that two flame retardan [...] When the State of California signed into law a prohibition on the use of a wide class of flame retardants in residential upholstered furniture, mattresses and children's projects above certain levels, the text of the bill explicitly "declare[d]" that an impetus for the legal change was the fact that "[f]ire fighters are at particular risk from flame retardant chemicals...[including] increased cancer [...] In addition to carrying out a mandatory screening assessment, if the substance meets the above criteria, the Ministers must also propose one of the following measures: 1) placing the substance on the Priority Substances List (which prioritizes the substance for a full toxicity assessment); 2) placing the substance directly on the List of Toxic Substances, or; 3) taking no further action on the sub [...] As discussed, this approach is consistent with the approach reviewed and backed by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission.105 The need for supplementary precautionary testing of non- organohalogen flame retardants In addition to the prohibition of organohalogen flame retardants described above, before approving any non-organohalogen for use in one of the Four Proposed Product Categories,106 the.
Alarm
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Author : Alice Bennett
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2022-12-15
Alarm written by Alice Bennett and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Alarms are alarming. They wake us up, demand our attention and force us to attend to things we've preferred to ignore. But alarms also allow us to feel secure, to sleep and to retreat from alertness. They take over vigilance on our behalf. From the alarm clock and the air-raid siren to the doorbell and the phone alert, the history of alarms is also the history of work, security, technology and emotion. Alarm responds to culture's most urgent calls to attention by examining all kinds of alarms, from the restless presence of the alarm clock in modernist art to the siren – the sound of the police – in classic hip hop. More than just bells and whistles, alarms are objects that have defined sleeping and waking, safety and danger, and they have fundamentally shaped our understanding of the mind and its capacity for attention. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
The Electrical Age
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
The Electrical Age written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with categories.
Performance Assessment And Systematic Design Of Industrial Alarm Systems
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Author : Naseeb Ahmed Adnan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Performance Assessment And Systematic Design Of Industrial Alarm Systems written by Naseeb Ahmed Adnan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Electronic alarm systems categories.
In process plants, alarms are configured to notify operators of any abnormalities or faults. However, in practice a majority of raised alarms are false or nuisance and create problems for operators as they face an increasing number of alarms to handle. In the past, many catastrophic incidents happened only because of poor performance of alarm systems. Therefore, a dependable and efficient alarm system is needed to ensure plant safety and uninterrupted operation. To assess performance of a plant's alarm system, it is necessary to evaluate various performances indices. Motivated by this, this thesis develops quantitative relationships among commonly used alarm attributes and performance indices. Alarm design techniques, like, deadbands and delay-timers can significantly reduce false and nuisance alarms. However, these techniques introduce some delay in raising the alarm (detection delay). In this thesis, detection delays are calculated using Markov processes for deadbands and delay-timers. A design procedure is then proposed that compromises between detection delay, false alarm rate (Type I error) and missed alarm rate (Type II error) for an optimal configuration. Inclusion of these indices in alarm design makes the system more reliable and effective in nature. Filtering is another widely used alarm design technique in industries. Two most commonly used filter types in industry are the moving average filter and the exponentially weighted moving average filter. However, the effect of filter parameters on the alarm detection delay is not well known. We investigated this relationship for the moving average filter and proposed a method to design filter order. We proposed a generalized delay-timer framework where instead of consecutive n samples in the conventional case, n_1 out of n consecutive samples (n_1
Fire Safety Risk Assessment
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Author : Great Britain: Department for Communities and Local Government
language : en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date : 2006-06-12
Fire Safety Risk Assessment written by Great Britain: Department for Communities and Local Government and has been published by The Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-12 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Fire Safety in Educational Premises
Earthquake Early Warning Systems
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Author : Paolo Gasparini
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2007-08-10
Earthquake Early Warning Systems written by Paolo Gasparini and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-10 with Science categories.
The book provides information on the major EEW systems in operation and on the state-of-the-art of the different blocks forming an EW system: the rapid detection and estimation of the earthquake’s focal parameters, the signal transmission, the engineering interface and the information reliability/false alarm problem. It is the first time that so many aspects of EEW systems have been specifically focused upon within a single book.
Raising The Alarm
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Raising The Alarm written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Electronic books categories.
Fated
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Author : Benedict Jacka
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2012-02-28
Fated written by Benedict Jacka and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-28 with Fiction categories.
Enter a “gorgeously realized world”* and meet a mage destined for greatness in the first novel in the national bestselling Alex Verus series. Alex is part of a world hidden in plain sight, running a magic shop in London that caters to clientele who can do much more than pull rabbits out of hats. And while Alex’s own powers aren’t as showy as some mages, he does have the advantage of foreseeing the possible future—allowing him to pull off operations that have a million to one chance of success. But when Alex is approached by multiple factions seeking his skills to crack open a relic from a long-ago mage war, he knows that whatever’s inside must be beyond powerful. And thanks to his abilities, Alex can predict that by taking the job, his odds of survival are about to go from slim to none....