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      • Trusted Partner
        November 2011

        Im Bureau

        Erzählungen

        by Robert Walser, Reto Sorg

        Das Gesetz des Büros prägt unser Leben von A bis Z. Als der junge Robert Walser um 1900 zu schreiben anfing, war das noch ganz anders gewesen. Als Auszubildender in einer Bank hatte er das ›Bureau‹ als etwas irritierend Neues erfahren. Es erscheint als Inbegriff eines fremdbestimmten und sinnentleerten Lebens und bildet zugleich den Ort, an dem die Fantasien und Träume ansetzen, mit denen sich der Dichter die Wirklichkeit aneignet. Wie die Bürokratie-Satiren von Melville, Gogol oder Kafka werfen auch Robert Walsers hier erstmals versammelten Erzählungen über Angestellte ein ebenso erhellendes wie erheiterndes Licht auf das, was uns im Innersten zusammenhält: die Rationalisierung der Arbeitswelt.

      • Trusted Partner
        July 2007

        Empirische Analyse des Handelns

        Ausgewählte Schriften

        by Paul F. Lazarsfeld, Christian Fleck, Nico Stehr, Hella Beister

        Paul F. Lazarsfeld, in Wien geboren und 1933 in die USA emigriert, gelangte vor allem als Methodologe der quantitativen Sozialforschung zu internationalem Ansehen.Weniger bekannt ist, daß er sich zeit seines Lebens auch mit der Frage beschäftigte, wie man soziales Handeln erklären könnte. Die in vorliegendem Band versammelten ausgewählten Schriften präsentieren erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung seine verstreuten Arbeiten zu diesem Thema. Lazarsfeld entwirft hier die Grundzüge einer empirischen Handlungsanalyse, die eine überraschende Alternative zu den gegenwärtig dominanten Modellen der Rational-Choice-Theorie darstellt. Paul F. Lazarsfeld (1901–1976) war Professor für Soziologie an der Columbia University in New York und Gründer des Bureau of Applied Social Research.

      • Trusted Partner

        The Story of Liu Tianzuo

        by Shi Zhongshan

        The story takes place in the early 1980s. Liu Tianzuo has a talent for playing suona, so he was recruited into a certain art propaganda team. In the army, Liu Tianzuo's talent in playing attracted Fu Yao, a nurse in the medical department of the military department. The two fell in love, but after Fu Yao's mother objected and failed, Fu Yao also married others. A few years later, Tianzuo married before the reduction and demobilization of the army, and transferred to work in a company affiliated to the Foreign Trade Bureau. After that, he resigned and went to the sea to do feed business and earned his first pot of gold. The band was recalled and the performance was very popular. Later, a performance company was formed and became the "home of veterans" for demobilized soldiers. The business became more prosperous...

      • Trusted Partner
        June 2019

        The Song of High Wind

        by Liu Ailong, Deng Fujun

        This is a novel about Liu Shaoqi in the form of historical biography, which narrates the fighting experience of Liu Shaoqi from the end of 1939 to the beginning of 1942, thereby vividly demonstrating his unswerving political caliber and superior military capability. The novel describes his life in a chronological order: after being entrusted with the mission of organizing the central plains bureau of the C.P.C., Liu Shaoqi got rid of the disturbing thought of “everything should be subject to the united front”of Xiang Ying, member of the Political Bureau and the commander of the New Fourth Army, and gave full play to initiative in the battles including the Bantaji Battle, two operations against the enemy's “mopping-up” campaign, the Guocun Village Battle, the Huangqiao Battle, making great contributions to tipping the balance after the Southern Anhui Incident, building the Anti-Japanese base area of central China and persisting in the War of Resistance Against Japan in enemy-occupied areas.

      • Trusted Partner
        February 2022

        The North Barrier

        by Lao Teng

        The relationship between nature and man is the center of gravity in the novel "The North Barrier". Through the contest between the hunter Jinhu and the police station director Hu about "hunting" and "hunting ban", the novel tells the dilemma faced by the Sanlin District with a long hunting history under the promulgation of the new national policy, and explores many people and animals. , The emotional connection between people. The story kicked off with the incident of "hand over the gun". The "One Shot Biao" Golden Tiger "cut the meat" and hand over the gun under the call of the national policy, but still has a grudge against abandoning the sacred cause of hunting, especially the Director of the Public Security Bureau Hu When he vowed to become the "Hunter Terminator in the Three Forests", the resistance in his heart rose to the extreme. The gunshot incident, the police turmoil, and Jinhu's punishment have intensified the conflict between Jinhu and Director Hu. The two competed to defend their professional dignity.

      • Trusted Partner
        Forestry & related industries
        May 1999

        Russian-English, English-Russian Forestry and Wood Dictionary, 2nd Edition

        by William Linnard, David Darrah-Morgan

        Russia and the other republics of the former USSR are now more accessible than at any other time in history. In the future, the forest resource of Russia, easily the greatest of any country in the world, will become even more globally important both environmentally and commercially.This new dictionary incorporates an updated and enlarged version of the first Russian-English edition, published in 1966, plus an entirely new English-Russian section of similar size. It contains many new terms, species names, acronyms and abbreviations to account for the great changes which have taken place in Russian forestry in terms of mechanization, woodworking technology, forest management and economics, environmental pollution and conservation. A list of the botanical names of trees and shrubs, with their Russian and English equivalents has also been included.The book has been compiled by Dr William Linnard, former Assistant Director of the Commonwealth Forestry Bureau, with over forty years’ experience of abstracting and translating forestry literature and David Darrah-Morgan, M.A. (Translation), a full-time translator, specializing in forestry and related fields.

      • Trusted Partner

        Zuo Zongtang(Youth Illustrated Edition)

        by Ruan Mei

        This book goes back to the historical scene of the late Qing Dynasty with meticulous writing to tell the history of Zuo Zongtang's youthful growth and restore the struggle of Zuo Zongtang to serve the country with his body in spite of the hardships and dangers. The book consists of twenty chapters, which are about the following contents: Zuo Zongtang came from a humble background and was in a troubled times, but he was a scholar and a soldier and he made many wonderful achievements; he founded such industries as Fuzhou Shipbuilding and Gansu Manufacturing Bureau, and contributed to the modernization of China; he defeated Agubert, who had occupied in Xinjiang for thirteen years, and carried the coffin to the expedition to recover Ili, so that all the territory of 1.66 million square kilometers was returned to China; he resisted the French and protected Taiwan, and contributed to the establishment of a province; he served as the Minister of Military Affairs and the Minister of the two rivers, and he was a member of the National People's Congress. He served as the Minister of Military Affairs and the Governor of the two rivers, and he was a clean and honest man who promoted water conservancy and rebuilt the book bureau to promote the country through culture.

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        Firebird

        by Li Wenfeng

        Nuitou Mountain and Ear Mountain in Zouma Township, Furong County, are mysterious and magical places in western Hunan. Since ancient times, they have been isolated from the outside world due to the impoverished mountains and have been in deep poverty. Through the fateful writing of Jin Weimin, an ordinary cadre of the Furong County Cultural Bureau, who participated in the poverty alleviation process, the novel demonstrates the magnificent and magnificent power of dreams of realizing the 2020 comprehensive well-off dream. Dreaming is beautiful, but the process of dreaming is difficult and tortuous. Complicated village conditions, weird events, conspiracy black hands, ups and downs and suspense in this battle for poverty alleviation without gunpowder, but there is no lack of moving human warmth. As a poverty alleviation cadre, Jin Weimin and the younger generation of village party secretary Wang Jiuge and other grass-roots cadres dare to take on the responsibilities, overcome numerous difficulties, and integrate the party’s policies, people’s wishes, history and culture with their ideals and emotions, respecting the laws of poverty alleviation and innovating and seeking changes. Finally, the “last mile” of targeted poverty alleviation will be opened up. The narrative structure of the novel and the direction of the mountains and rivers are both external and internal. The details of life in the mountain village are connected like a spider web, full of emotion, sincere and sincere. The language, personality, psychology and cultural region of the characters constitute symbolism, metaphor and fusion. volume_up content_copy share

      • Transport planning & policy
        January 2006

        Managing Construction and Infrastructure in the 21st Century Bureau of Reclamation

        by Committee on Organizing to Manage Construction and Infrastructure in the 21st Century Bureau of Reclamation, National Research Council

        In the more than 100 years since its formation, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation of the Department of Interior (DOI), through its construction program, has brought water, electric power, and recreation facilities to millions of people in the Western United States. With major water and power systems in place, the Bureau’s attention has now turned to operation, maintenance, repair, and modernization of those facilities in an environmentally and economically sound manner. To help with this effort, DOI asked the NRC to advise the Bureau on “appropriate organizational, management, and resource configurations to meet its construction, maintenance, and infrastructure requirements for its missions of the 21st century.†This report presents an assessment of the requirements facing the Bureau in the 21st century, an analysis of good practices and techniques for addressing those challenges, and a review of workforce and human resource needs. The report also provides alternative scenarios that describe possible future organizations for infrastructure management.

      • Transport industries
        September 1997

        The Bureau of Transportation Statistics

        Priorities for the Future

        by Constance F. Citro and Janet L. Norwood, Editors; Panel on Statistical Programs and Practices of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Research Council

        How can the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), the nation's newest federal statistical agency, contribute to the work of the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT)? What is the appropriate role for such an agency as a part of a major department? BTS was authorized in 1991 by the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) in recognition of the need for more and better data for transportation officials at local, state, and federal levels. While the USDOT has many long-standing data collection programs for particular transportation modes (highways, rail, air, etc.), it has never had a statistical agency with a mandate to improve the quality and relevance of transportation data for important system-wide, cross-modal analyses of the nation's transportation system. This book examines how BTS can provide statistical leadership for USDOT, define and maintain quality standards for transportation data, and improve data documentation. It considers BTS's role in developing national transportation indicators, coordinating data collection throughout USDOT, filling gaps, identifying user needs, and developing analysis programs for transportation data. Anyone concerned with having high-quality, relevant transportation indicators and other data available for policy planning, evaluation, and research will be interested in this book, as will students of effective government.

      • Waste management
        November 2008

        Assessment of the Bureau of Reclamation's Security Program

        by Committee to Assess the Bureau of Reclamation's Security Program; Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment; Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences; National Research Council

        The water impounded behind a dam can be used to generate power and to provide water for drinking, irrigation, commerce, industry, and recreation. However, if a dam fails, the water that would be unleashed has the energy and power to cause mass destruction downstream, killing and injuring people and destroying property, agriculture, industry, and local and regional economies. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) is responsible for managing and operating some of this nation's largest and most critical dams. The failure of one or more of these dams as the result of a malicious act would come with little warning and a limited time for evacuation. In the years since the 9/11 attacks, Reclamation has invested significant resources to establish and build a security program. Reclamation is now ready to evaluate the results of these efforts and determine how best to move forward to develop a security program that is robust and sustainable. This book assesses Reclamation's security program and determines its level of preparedness to deter, respond to, and recover from malicious acts to its physical infrastructure and to the people who use and manage it.

      • Materials science
        December 2009

        Review of the Bureau of Reclamation's Corrosion Prevention Standards for Ductile Iron Pipe

        by Committee on the Review of the Bureau of Reclamation's Corrosion Prevention Standards for Ductile Iron Pipe; National Materials Advisory Board; Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences; National Research Council

        Ductile iron pipe (DIP) was introduced about 50 years ago as a more economical and better-performing product for water transmission and distribution. As with iron or steel pipes, DIP is subject to corrosion, the rate of which depends on the environment in which the pipe is placed. Corrosion mitigation protocols are employed to slow the corrosion process to an acceptable rate for the application. When to use corrosion mitigation systems, and which system, depends on the corrosivity of the soils in which the pipeline is buried. The Bureau of Reclamation's specification for DIP in highly corrosive soil has been contested by some as an overly stringent requirement, necessitating the pipe to be modified from its as-manufactured state and thereby adding unnecessary cost to a pipeline system. This book evaluates the specifications in question and presents findings and recommendations. Specifically, the authoring committee answers the following questions: Does polyethylene encasement with cathodic protection work on ductile iron pipe installed in highly corrosive soils? Will polyethylene encasement and cathodic protection reliably provide a minimum service life of 50 years? What possible alternative corrosion mitigation methods for DIP would provide a service life of 50 years?

      • Travel & Transport
        October 2003

        Measuring Personal Travel and Goods Movement

        A Review of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics' Surveys -- Special Report 277

        by Committee to Review the Bureau of Transportation Statistics' Survey Programs, National Research Council

        TRB Special Report 277 - Measuring Personal Travel and Goods Movement recommends a series of actions the U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) should take to render its flagship surveys -- the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) and the Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) -- more effective in meeting the needs of a broad spectrum of data users. The report also recommends approaches BTS and its survey partners should adopt to develop more effective survey methods and address institutional issues affecting survey stability and quality. Report Summary published in the October-September 2004 issue of the TR News.

      • Population & demography
        June 2011

        Change and the 2020 Census

        Not Whether But How

        by Thomas M. Cook, Janet L. Norwood, and Daniel L. Cork, Editors; Panel to Review the 2010 Census; National Research Council

        Sponsored by the Census Bureau and charged to evaluate the 2010 U.S. census with an eye toward suggesting research and development for the 2020 census, the Panel to Review the 2010 Census uses this first interim report to suggest general priorities for 2020 research. Although the Census Bureau has taken some useful organizational and administrative steps to prepare for 2020, the panel offers three core recommendations, and suggests the Census Bureau take and assertive, aggressive approach to 2020 planning rather than casting possibilities purely as hypothetical. The first recommendation on research and development suggests four broad topic areas for research early in the decade. Second, the report suggest that the Bureau take an aggressive, assertive posture toward research in these priority areas. Third, it identifies the setting of bold goals as essential to underscoring the need for serious reengineering and building commitment to change.

      • Crime & criminology
        May 2008

        Surveying Victims

        Options for Conducting the National Crime Victimization Survey

        by Robert M. Groves and Daniel L. Cork, Editors, Panel to Review the Programs of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Research Council

        It is easy to underestimate how little was known about crimes and victims before the findings of the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) became common wisdom. In the late 1960s, knowledge of crimes and their victims came largely from reports filed by local police agencies as part of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) system, as well as from studies of the files held by individual police departments. Criminologists understood that there existed a "dark figure" of crime consisting of events not reported to the police. However, over the course of the last decade, the effectiveness of the NCVS has been undermined by the demands of conducting an increasingly expensive survey in an effectively flat-line budgetary environment. Surveying Victims: Options for Conducting the National Crime Victimization Survey, reviews the programs of the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS.) Specifically, it explores alternative options for conducting the NCVS, which is the largest BJS program. This book describes various design possibilities and their implications relative to three basic goals; flexibility, in terms of both content and analysis; utility for gathering information on crimes that are not well reported to police; and small-domain estimation, including providing information on states or localities. This book finds that, as currently configured and funded, the NCVS is not achieving and cannot achieve BJS's mandated goal to "collect and analyze data that will serve as a continuous indication of the incidence and attributes of crime." Accordingly, Surveying Victims recommends that BJS be afforded the budgetary resources necessary to generate accurate measure of victimization.

      • Population & demography
        March 2000

        Designing the 2010 Census

        First Interim Report

        by Michael L. Cohen, Benjamin F. King, Panel on Research on Future Census Methods, Committee on National Statistics, National Research Council

        The Panel on Research on Future Census Methods was formed to examine alternative designs for the 2010 census and to assist the Census Bureau in planning tests and analyses to help assess and compare the advantages and disadvantages of them. Designing the 2010 Census: First Interim Report,examines whether the auxiliary information that is planned to be collected (and retained) during the 2000 census could be augmented to help guide the Census Bureau in its assessment of alternative designs for the 2010 census.

      • Mathematics
        December 2015

        The Bicentennial Census

        New Directions for Methodology in 1990: 30th Anniversary Edition

        by Constance F. Citro and Michael L. Cohen, Editors; Committee on National Statistics; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

        In 1982 the Census Bureau requested the Committee on National Statistics to establish a panel to suggest research and experiments, to recommend improved methods, and to guide the Census Bureau on technical problems in appraising contending methods with regard to the conduct of the decennial census. In response, the panel produced an interim report that focused on recommendations for improvements in census methodology that warranted early investigation and testing. This report updates and expands the ideas and conclusions about decennial census methodology.

      • Population & demography
        January 2011

        Measuring the Group Quarters Population in the American Community Survey

        Interim Report

        by Krisztina Marton and Paul R. Voss, Editors; Panel on Statistical Methods for Measuring the Group Quarters Population in the American Community Survey; Committee on National Statistics; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; National Research Council

        Following several years of testing and evaluation, the American Community Survey (ACS) was launched in 2005 as a replacement for the census "long form," used to collect detailed social, economic, and housing data from a sample of the U.S. population as part of the decennial census. During the first year of the ACS implementation, the Census Bureau collected data only from households. In 2006 a sample of group quarters (GQs) -- such as correctional facilities, nursing homes, and college dorms -- was added to more closely mirror the design of the census long-form sample. The design of the ACS relies on monthly samples that are cumulated to produce multiyear estimates based on 1, 3, and 5 years of data. The data published by the Census Bureau for a geographic area depend on the area's size. The multiyear averaging approach enables the Census Bureau to produce estimates that are intended to be robust enough to release for small areas, such as the smallest governmental units and census block groups. However, the sparseness of the GQ representation in the monthly samples affects the quality of the estimates in many small areas that have large GQ populations relative to the total population. The Census Bureau asked the National Research Council to review and evaluate the statistical methods used for measuring the GQ population. This book presents recommendations addressing improvements in the sample design, sample allocation, weighting, and estimation procedures to assist the Census Bureau's work in the very near term, while further research is conducted to address the underlying question of the relative importance and costs of the GQ data collection in the context of the overall ACS design.

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