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"This third edition is again a practical introduction to communication research methods, foregrounding the role research plays in communication and media industry careers. Covering major methodologies such as surveys, experiments, focus groups, in-depth interviews, content analysis, and others, the book takes the reader through the research process from beginning to end. The text continues to help students link the research methods they learn to practical contexts through its activities and features, which include Voices from Industry boxes written by practitioners that give insight into application of methods; Steps to Success research review checklists; and numerous end-of-chapter activities to reinforce concepts. This third edition contains updates throughout, including an expanded discussion of reliability and validity across both qualitative and quantitative research contexts as well as new Research in Action boxes that showcase how research is used in professional and public contexts. The text is ideally suited to both undergraduate and graduate courses in communication research methods within communication, media, and mass communication programs. Online resources, including sample syllabi, PowerPoint slides, and test banks are available at www.routledge.com/9781032288819"--

Why are even progressive local authorities with the 'will to improve' seldom able to change cities? Why does it seem almost impossible to redress spatial inequalities, deliver and maintain basic services, elevate impoverished areas and protect the marginalised communities? Why do municipalities in the Global South refuse to work with prevailing social informalities, and resort instead to interventions that are known to displace and aggravate the very issues they aim to address?

Local Officials and the Struggle to Transform Cities analyses these challenges in South African cities, where the brief post-apartheid moment opened a window for progressive city government and made research into state practices both possible and necessary. In debate with other 'progressive moments' in large cities in Brazil, the USA and India, the book interrogates City officials' practices. It considers the instruments they invent and negotiate to implement urban policies, the agency they develop and the constraints they navigate in governing unequal cities. This focus on actual officials' practices is captured through first-hand experience, state ethnographies and engaged research. These reveal day-to-day practice that question generalised explanations of state failure in complex urban societies as essential malevolence, contextual weakness, corruption and inefficiency. It is hoped that opening the black box of the workings of state opens paths for the construction of progressive policies in contemporary cities.

"Decisions that impact human health are made all the time. Quantitative Environmental Risk Analysis for Human Health provides readers with the basic skills and knowledge needed to manage, evaluate, or perform environmental risk assessments and risk analyses for both chemicals and radioactive contaminants. This book explains the fundamental methodology for analyzing environmental risk with examples for selected applications. Key elements of the environmental risk methodology include: (1) source term and release characterization, (2) migration of contaminants in various media, (3) exposure assessment, (4) dose-response evaluation, (5) risk characterization, and (6) risk communication and management. Also included is an introduction to uncertainty analysis and environmental laws and regulations. The new edition includes two new chapters, significant additions or modifications to five chapters, and the addition of student-oriented learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter. "Case Studies" is a new chapter that provides the student with four risk assessment examples representing a spectrum of purposes and levels of quantitative intensity. The second new chapter, "Screening and Computational Resources", provides brief descriptions of publicly available and commercial software of potential interest to the risk analysis practitioner"--

Das Buch behandelt alle Inhalte der Ausbildung im Kommunalen Finanzmanagement (Öffentliche Finanzwirtschaft) an den Hochschulen und Studieninstituten im Land Sachsen-Anhalt.Hierzu gehören u. a. das Drei-Komponenten-System, die Technik der kaufmännischen Buchführung, Ablauf, Organisation und Personal des kommunalen Finanzmanagements sowie die Planung des Ergebnis- und Finanzhaushalts. Ebenfalls behandelt werden Ansatz, Ausweis und Bewertung der Positionen der kommunalen Bilanz, besondere Bewertungen in der Eröffnungsbilanz, Eigen- und Fremdfinanzierung des kommunalen Haushalts, Haushaltsausgleich, Überwachung im Ergebnis- und Finanzhaushalt sowie Vermögenswirtschaft und Anlagenbuchhaltung.Die Vielzahl von Beispielen und praktischen Übungen inkl. Musterlösungen macht das Buch zugleich zu einer ausgezeichneten Arbeitsgrundlage für die Behördenpraxis.Dr. Michael Grimberg lehrte an der Hochschule Harz am Fachbereich Verwaltungswissenschaften schwerpunktmäßig in den Fächern "Öffentliche Finanzwirtschaft" und "Betriebswirtschaftslehre"

Der "Palast des Volkes" oder das ehemalige "Haus der Republik" genannt befindet sich im Zentrum der rumänischen Hauptstadt Bukarest auf dem Platz, der heute Arsenalhügel (Dealul Arsenalului) heißt und von der Izvor Straße im Westen und Nordwesten, von der Bulevardul Națiunilor Unite im Norden, im Osten von Bulevardul Libertății und im Süden von der Calea 13 Septembrie begrenzt wird. Der Palast dient als offizieller Sitz der Abgeordnetenkammer (Camera Deputaților) und des Senats (Senatul). Zusätzlich beherbergt er das Nationalmuseum für zeitgenössische Kunst und ist Sitz mehrerer internationaler Organisationen (seit Mai 1994). Im Jahr 2004 wurde der neue Plenarsaal eingeweiht. "27 Jahre nach der Revolution von 1989 ist das Gebäude, das zur Verherrlichung des Sozialismus, des Kommunismus und des Totalitarismus gedacht war, heute durch die darin untergebrachten Institutionen (Abgeordnetenkammer Senat, Legislativrat, Verfassungsgericht von Rumänien) ein Symbol der Demokratie", heißt es auf der offiziellen Seite des Palastes.

Gestures are central to the way people use language when they interact. This book places our impulse to gesture at the very heart of linguistic structure: grammar. Based on the phenomenon of negation - a linguistic universal with clear grammatical and gestural manifestations - Simon Harrison argues that linguistic concepts are fundamentally multi modal and shows how they lead to recurrent bindings between grammar and gesture when people speak. Studying how speakers express negation multi modally in a range of social and professional contexts, Harrison explores how and when people gesture, what people achieve linguistically and discursively with their gestures, and why we find similar uses of gesture in different languages (including spoken and signed language). Establishing the inseparability of grammar and gesture, this book is an important reference for any researcher interested in the relation between language, gesture, and cognition

"Providing a comprehensive overview of this essential component of modern governance and featuring helpful definitions of key concepts and further reading, this book is essential reading for all students of public policy, administration and management"--