ROBERT H. PULLEY, JR. V DETROIT ENGINEERING & MACHINE COMPANY, 378 MICH 418 (1966)
Title | ROBERT H. PULLEY, JR. V DETROIT ENGINEERING & MACHINE COMPANY, 378 MICH 418 (1966) PDF eBook |
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Total Pages | 6 |
Release | 1966 |
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NRC Telephone Directory
Title | NRC Telephone Directory PDF eBook |
Author | U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 156 |
Release | 1988 |
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Mechanics of Pneumatic Tires
Title | Mechanics of Pneumatic Tires PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel K. Clark |
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Total Pages | 942 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Friction |
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Electoral Engineering
Title | Electoral Engineering PDF eBook |
Author | Pippa Norris |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 384 |
Release | 2004-02-09 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780521536714 |
From Kosovo to Kabul, the last decade witnessed growing interest in ?electoral engineering?. Reformers have sought to achieve either greater government accountability through majoritarian arrangements or wider parliamentary diversity through proportional formula. Underlying the normative debates are important claims about the impact and consequences of electoral reform for political representation and voting behavior. The study compares and evaluates two broad schools of thought, each offering contracting expectations. One popular approach claims that formal rules define electoral incentives facing parties, politicians and citizens. By changing these rules, rational choice institutionalism claims that we have the capacity to shape political behavior. Alternative cultural modernization theories differ in their emphasis on the primary motors driving human behavior, their expectations about the pace of change, and also their assumptions about the ability of formal institutional rules to alter, rather than adapt to, deeply embedded and habitual social norms and patterns of human behavior.
The Associated Press V. National Labor Relations Board
Title | The Associated Press V. National Labor Relations Board PDF eBook |
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Total Pages | 176 |
Release | 1937 |
Genre | Collective bargaining |
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Anthropometry and Biomechanics
Title | Anthropometry and Biomechanics PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald Easterby |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | 310 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 1468410989 |
Assessment of the physical dimensions of the human body and application of this knowledge to the design of tools, equip ment, and work are certainly among the oldest arts and sciences. It would be an easy task if all anthropometric dimensions, of all people, would follow a general rule. Thus, philosophers and artists embedded their ideas about the most aesthetic proportions into ideal schemes of perfect proportions. "Golden sections" were developed in ancient India, China, Egypt, and Greece, and more recently by Leonardo DaVinci, or Albrecht Durer. However, such canons are fictive since actual human dimensions and proportions vary greatly among individuals. The different physical appearances often have been associated with mental, physiological and behavioral characteristics of the individuals. Hypocrates (about 460-377 BC) taught that there are four temperaments (actually, body fluids) represented by four body types. The psychiatrist Ernst Kretchmer (1888-1964) proposed that three typical somatotypes (pyknic, athletic, aesthenic) could reflect human character traits. Since the 1940's, W. H. Sheldon and his coworkers devised a system of three body physiques (endo-, meso-, ectomorphic). The classification was originally qualitative, and only recently has been developed to include actual measurements.
Monitors of the U.S. Navy, 1861-1937
Title | Monitors of the U.S. Navy, 1861-1937 PDF eBook |
Author | Richard H. Webber |
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Total Pages | 58 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Turret ships |
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