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Focused on reliability and safety engineering, this comprehensive guide offers practical methods for minimizing defects and failures in process design and operation. It caters to both beginners and experts, featuring tactics to navigate complexities and illustrative case studies for deeper insights. The author draws on over 40 years of experience, covering a range of topics including reliability parameters, cost-effective quality approaches, failure rate interpretation, and design assurance techniques, making it a valuable resource for professionals in the field.

Healthcare professionals navigate a constant influx of statistical data from various sources, including insurance companies and government agencies. This reliance on data is crucial for making informed decisions about medical service delivery, highlighting the importance of understanding and interpreting statistics in the healthcare field.

English keyboard music reached an unsurpassed level of sophistication in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries as organists such as William Byrd and his students took a genre associated with domestic, amateur performance and treated it as seriously as vocal music. This book draws together important research on the music, its sources and the instruments on which it was played. There are two chapters on instruments: John Koster on the use of harpsichord during the period, and Dominic Gwynn on the construction of Tudor-style organs based on the surviving evidence we have for them. This leads to a section devoted to organ performance practice in a liturgical context, in which John Harper discusses what the use of organs pitched in F may imply about their use in alternation with vocal polyphony, and Magnus Williamson explores improvisational practice in the Tudor period. The next section is on sources and repertoire, beginning with Frauke J�rgensen and Rachelle Taylor's chapter on Clarifica me Pater settings, which grows naturally out of the consideration of improvisation in the previous chapter. The next two contributions focus on two of the most important individual manuscript sources: Tihomir Popovic challenges assumptions about My Ladye Nevells Booke by reflecting on what the manuscript can tell us about aristocratic culture, and David J. Smith provides a detailed study of the famous Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. The discussion then broadens out into Pieter Dirksen's consideration of a wider selection of sources relating to John Bull, which in turn connects closely to David Leadbetter's work on Gibbons, lute sources and questions of style.

This bestseller is newly revised with updated statistics, new activities and completely new material on food security, energy and health. By shrinking the planet down to a village of just 100 people, children will discover how to grow up global and establish their own place in the world village.

A quarter century after the formation of the Popular Front and a decade since joining the EU, processes of state- and nation-building in Latvia are still on-going. Issues such as citizenship, language policy, minority rights, democratic legitimacy, economic stability, and security all remain objects of vigorous public discussion. The current situation also reflects longer-standing debates on the relationship between state, nation, and sovereignty in Latvian society and polity. By examining different aspects of these relationships, this volume aims to reveal both key turning points and continuities in Latvia's development, thereby helping to inform current debates.

This volume explores the critical themes of peace education, emphasizing the importance of fostering understanding, conflict resolution, and social justice in educational settings. It presents innovative strategies and practices for educators to cultivate a culture of peace among students. The book includes case studies and theoretical frameworks that highlight the role of education in promoting harmony and addressing global challenges. Through various perspectives, it aims to inspire educators to implement peace-oriented curricula and practices in their classrooms.

The book delves into the often-overlooked multicultural political thought and practices of Eastern Europe, highlighting their significance in contemporary discussions about state and nationhood after the Cold War. It combines theoretical insights with practical examples, aiming to reshape conventional views on the nation-state. The preface by former UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke adds a notable perspective to this exploration of political legacy and its implications for modern governance.

Takes a look at the lives of children around the world through the lens of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and through stories of statistics.