The cooperative action of different regions of our brains gives us an amazing capacity to perform activities as diverse as playing the piano and hitting a tennis ball. Somehow, without conscious effort, our eyes find the information we need to operate successfully in the world around us. The development of head-mounted eye trackers over recent years has made it possible to record where we look during different active tasks, and so work out what information our eyes supply to the brain systems that control our limbs. We are now in a position to explore the strategies that the eye movement system uses in the initiation and guidance of action. Looking and Acting examines a wide range of visually guided behaviour, from sedentary tasks like reading and drawing, to dynamic activities such as driving and playing cricket. A central theme is that the eye movement system has its own knowledge about where to find the most appropriate information for guiding action - information not usually available to conscious scrutiny. Thus each type of action has its own specific repertoire of linked eye movements, acquired in parallel with the motor skills themselves. Starting with a brief background to eye movement studies, the book then reviews a range of observations and analyses of different activities. It ends with discussions of the nature of visual representation, the neurophysiology of the systems involved, and the roles of attention and learning. Opening a field in eye movement research, this fascinating book will be of great interest to all vision scientists (psychologists, physiologists, ophthalmologists) whether at professional, graduate, or advanced undergraduate levels. It will also be of value to musicians, artists, sports scientists, and transport engineers, and indeed anyone intrigued by the way we sample the visual world.

Looking and Acting: Vision and eye movements in natural behaviour

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Land, Michael

Psychology & Counseling

Oxford University Press

Security is a paradox. It is often viewed as intrusive, unwanted, a hassle, or something that limits personal, if not professional, freedoms. However, if we need security, we often feel as if we can never have enough. Security Management: A Critical Thinking Approach provides security professionals with the ability to critically examine their organizational environment and make it secure while creating an optimal relationship between obtrusion and necessity. It stresses the benefits of using a methodical critical thinking process in building a comprehensive safety management system. The book provides a mechanism that enables readers to think clearly and critically about the process of security management, emphasizing the ability to articulate the differing aspects of business and security management by reasoning through complex problems in the changing organizational landscape. The authors elucidate the core security management competencies of planning, organizing, staffing, and leading while providing a process to critically analyze those functions. They specifically address information security, cyber security, energy-sector security, chemical security, and general security management utilizing a critical thinking framework. Going farther than other books available regarding security management, this volume not only provides fundamental concepts in security, but it also creates informed, critical, and creative security managers who communicate effectively in their environment. It helps create a practitioner who will completely examine the environment and make informed well-thought-out judgments to tailor a security program to fit a specific organization.

Security Management: A Critical Thinking Approach (Occupational Safety & Health Guide)

Business & Money

Ricks, Truett

Ricks, Bobby

Economics

CRC-Press

Security Management for Occupational Safety (Occupational Safety & Health Guide Series)

How far would or should you go to feel secure? While everyone wants safety and security, the measures to achieve it are often viewed of as intrusive, unwanted, a hassle, and limiting to personal and professional freedoms. Yet, when an incident occurs, we can never have enough security. Security Management for Occupational Safety provides a framework through which occupational safety practitioners can critically examine their organizational environments and make them safer while assuming a best possible relationship between obtrusion and necessity. This book examines the diverse factors involved in occupational management―planning, people, budget, information, and preparedness―to present an accurately balanced picture of safety functions. It uses a critical thinking approach to interpreting data as a tool for providing more effective occupational safety management. The book discusses core security management competencies of planning, organizing, staffing, and leading while providing a process to critically analyze those functions. It stresses the benefits of using a methodical critical thinking process in building a comprehensive safety management system, addressing information security, cyber security, energy-sector security, chemical security, and general security management utilizing a critical thinking framework. The author doesn’t focus on how to secure, guard, or protect. While there are commonalities in many aspects of occupational risks and hazards, all are going to be unique. Instead, he guides you through each stage of critical thinking, emphasizing the ability to articulate the differing aspects of business and security management by reasoning through complex problems in the changing organizational landscape. The book not only provides fundamental concepts in security but it also creates informed, critical, and creative security managers who communicate effectively in their environment and make informed well-thought-out judgments to tailor a security program to fit a specific organization.

This book illustrates how to incorporate the computer into course planning lessons and activities that are appropriate for different subject areas and grade levels.

Tools for Schools: Applications Software for the Classroom

Turner, Sandra V.

Computers & Technology

PWS Pub. Co.

This book assumes students have access to a Macintosh with HyperCard. This book is written at the beginning level - for teachers who have little prior experience with computers. The approach is practical and applied, theoretical, comprehensive in scope rather than broad brush. The authors believe people learn by doing, therefore, a hands-on approach is used to introduce each type of applications software. The students will apply that experience to the development of activities for their own students.

Hypercard: A Tool for Learning/Book and 3 Disks

Science & Math

Turner, Sandra

Mathematics

Wadsworth Pub. Co.

This book illustrates how to incorporate the computer into course planning lessons and activities that are appropriate for different subject areas and grade levels.

Tools for Schools

Software

Wadsworth Publishing

TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS W/CD-ROM: MICROSOFT OFFICE

Coe, Mary Ann

Education & Reference

Cengage Learning'

Provides specific ways to use word processing, graphics, slide shows, page layout, database, spreadsheet, charting, hypermedia, and telecommunications software (including e-mail and the Internet) to teach topics in the K-12 curriculum. The book is written at a beginning level for teachers who have had little or no prior experience with computers. Sample activities, teaching ideas, and step-by-step instructions will help the instructor use these computer applications. The reader learns how the computer can be used as a practical tool that teachers and students can use in all areas of education. May be used with either a Macintosh or Windows PC. To effectively use the book, instructors will need ClarisWorks 5.0, HyperStudio 3, and Netscape or another Web browser.

Tools for Schools: AppleWorks 5.0/ClarisWorks 5.0

Security Management (Occupational Safety and Health Guide)

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