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Making time on Mars
"Making Time on Mars is a book about people, robots, processes and intuitions working together to make time on Mars. In early 2004, for over ninety days NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers mission set their daily work activities on Earth according to "Mars time" clocks. Two local Mars times, one for each of the two Mars rovers, drove work timelines for all mission members. A successful mission that …
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Laboratory lifestyles :the construction of scientific fictions
"The past decade has seen an extraordinary laboratory-building boom. This new crop of laboratories features spectacular architecture and resort-like amenities. The buildings sprawl luxuriously on verdant campuses or sit sleekly in expensive urban neighborhoods. Designed to attract venture capital, generous philanthropy, and star scientists, these laboratories are meant to create the ideal condi…
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- 9780262349741
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 274 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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The mobility of students and the highly skilled :implications for education f…
Analyses of the interrelated mobility of students and the highly skilled that consider its implications for fiscal policy, higher education financing, and economic development.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262326018
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- 1 online resource (vi, 346 pages) :illustrations.
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Structures of scientific collaboration
How technology and bureaucracy shape collaborative scientific research projects: an empirical study of multiorganizational collaboration in the physical sciences. Collaboration among organizations is rapidly becoming common in scientific research as globalization and new communication technologies make it possible for researchers from different locations and institutions to work together on com…
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- 9780262283588
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- 1 online resource (xi, 280 pages) :illustrations.
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Velvet revolution at the synchrotron :biology, physics, and change in science
Change in scientific practice and its implications for the status of scientific claims, examined through an analysis of three episodes at a synchrotron laboratory.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258746
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- 1 online resource (viii, 152 pages) :illustrations.
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Minimum wages
This is a comprehensive review of evidence on the effect of minimum wages on employment, skills, wage and income distributions, and longer-term labour market outcomes, and concludes that the minimum wage is not a good policy tool.Minimum wages exist in more than one hundred countries, both industrialized and developing. The United States passed a federal minimum wage law in 1938 and has increas…
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- 9780262280563
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- 1 online resource (377 pages) :illustrations
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Labor and the environmental movement :the quest for common ground
Relations between organized labor and environmental groups are typically characterized as adversarial, most often because of the specter of job loss invoked by industries facing environmental regulation. But, as Brian Obach shows, the two largest and most powerful social movements in the United States actually share a great deal of common ground. Unions and environmentalists have worked togethe…
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- 9780262280938
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- 1 online resource (x, 338 pages).
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Productivity, inequality, and the digital economy :a transatlantic perspective
Revised contributions and discussions from a two-day international conference on "Information and Communications Technologies, Employment, and Earnings," organized by the editors, held in Nice in June 1998, and sponsored by the Conseil de l'Emploi, des Revenus et de la Coh?esion Sociale (CERC), and by the 10th CREST-NBER Franco-American economic seminar.Essays on the computer and the economy, p…
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- 9780262274272
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- 1 online resource (x, 305 pages) :illustrations
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The road winds uphill all the way :gender, work, and family in the United Sta…
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- 0585077517
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 276 pages)
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The Science and Technology Labor Force the Value of Doctorate Holders and D…
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the demand for PhDs on the labor markets of twelve countries. The authors analyze the role of PhDs in the creation of innovation in a knowledge-based economy and examine economic issues such as the return on investment for the education and training of doctoral graduates. To provide a more comprehensive picture of the employment patterns, career paths …
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