This thesis describes two groundbreaking measurements in the precision frontier at the LHC: the first ever differential measurement of the Z-associated single top quark (tZq) production, and the luminosity measurement using Z boson production rate for the first time in CMS. Observed only in 2018, the tZq process is of great importance in probing top quark electroweak couplings. These couplings are natural places for new phenomena to happen in the top quark sector of the standard model. Yet...

From the very beginning, music has helped us create our world – everything from language, to technology, to philosophy and religion. The Art of Ancient Music discusses the important role music has played in shaping human development. While emphasizing shared human themes, the text has a special focus on the rise of Western music in the ancient Near East, the Bible, and the Classical worlds. A final chapter provides a discussion of the way music helped bridge the gap between the ancient wor...

Well-grounded in the history and theory of Anglo-American urbanism, this illustrated textbook sets out objectives, policies and design principles for planning new communities and redeveloping existing urban neighborhoods. Drawing from their extensive experience, the authors explain how better plans (and consequently better places) can be created by applying the three-dimensional principles of urban design and physical place-making to planning problems. Design First uses case studies from t...

Greenfield sites around towns and cities, and redevelopment infill sites in existing urban areas often become battlegrounds between the conflicting interests of developers and communities. In America, design charrettes (intensive design and planning workshops) have become widely used as a means of bringing together these divergent groups, using detailed design exercises to establish agreement around a development masterplan. Despite the increasing frequency of their use, charrettes are wid...

A cutting edge look at the experience of worker representation in the employment relations of workplace health and safety. Examining the extent to which existing arrangements deliver results, this book reflects on whether the effectiveness of worker representation is eroded or enhanced by current regulatory and organizational constructs.

Examines regulatory and other strategies for improving chemical risk management in small enterprises in the European Union. This book considers what supports are necessary to secure the implementation of these strategies and is particularly concerned with the role of chemical product supply as envisaged by REACH.

This book integrates Industrié 4.0, Value Chain Network Management 2.0, and Stakeholder Value-Led Management into a method, offering organizations an opportunity to be more analytical when making strategic decisions for operations management activities. Strategic Capability Response Analysis embraces the value expectations of all stakeholders in a business enterprise and links them together with a demand-supply-response relationship. This convergence delivers a focused “agile-rolling-value...

Under sitt alias Dillon Hope är Walter Nash fast besluten att hämnas. Efter att ha blivit informatör åt FBI i kampen mot den globala brottsorganisation som leds av den hänsynslösa Victoria Steers, har Nash inget kvar att förlora. Steers har krossat allt han älskade.Med hård träning och skoningslös beslutsamhet har den tidigare stillsamma och känslige Nash förvandlats till något helt annat – en man med dödliga färdigheter och ett enda mål: att förgöra Victoria Steers.För att...

Walter Nash är en intelligent man, tuff men rättvis. Han har en fru och en dotter och ett bra jobb på ett investeringsföretag, där hans medfödda talang och envishet har tagit honom till toppen. Trots att han aldrig har varit med om några stora äventyr och alltid arbetar för mycket, har han ett lyckligt och välordnat liv med sin familj.Men efter begravningen av sin frånvarande far, en Vietnamveteran, blir Nash oväntat kontaktad av FBI mitt i natten. De begär att han ska bli deras in...

Waverley by Sir Walter Scott is an enthralling tale of love, war and divided loyalties. Taking place during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, the novel tells the story of proud English officer Edward Waverley. After being posted to Dundee, Edward eventually befriends chieftain of the Highland Clan Mac-Ivor, and falls in love with his beautiful sister Flora. He then renounces his former loyalties in order actively to support Scotland in open rebellion against the Union with England. The book ...

Written in 1819 but set in 12th-century England, Ivanhoe is a tale of love struggling to survive against a violent backdrop of politics and war. Wilfred of Ivanhoe has been thrown out of his father’s home after falling in love with his father Cedric’s ward, Lady Rowena. Ivanhoe later returns from fighting in the Crusades and is wounded in a jousting tournament. A series of events follows, including the return of King Richard to England, resulting in Ivanhoe’s reconciliation with Cedric and...

Kansas City, Missouri, was the city my father loved. I ventured there from Hawaii in 2003 to attend to him, and, like father like son, I have never loved a city more. The Heart of America is a tragic yet unbroken heart, always in need of revitalization. I took up residence in the nearly dead downtown as the Kempers and other civic leaders led by Mayor K Barnes endeavored to revive it yet again. I fancied I was a journalist like Theodore Dreiser, a hero of mine. Alas, the Kansas City Star w...