Robert Schneider

People often rely on mental shortcuts, known as heuristics, to help them make judgments and decisions quickly and efficiently. While, generally, these heuristics lead to accurate judgments, in certain circumstances, heuristics can bias problem-solving and decision-making producing errors with serious consequences. What We Know About Heuristics and Biases introduces the literature on heuristics and provides an assessment tool designed to obviate these problems. Measuring six cognitive and social biases—confirmation bias, fundamental attribution error, the bias blind spot, anchoring bias, representativeness bias, and projection bias–this tool provides an innovate and cutting edge method for assessment professionals and researchers in measurement.

People often rely on mental shortcuts, known as heuristics, to help them make judgments and decisions quickly and efficiently. While, generally, these heuristics lead to accurate judgments, in certain circumstances, heuristics can bias problem-solving and decision-making producing errors with serious consequences. What We Know About Heuristics and Biases introduces the literature on heuristics and provides an assessment tool designed to obviate these problems. Measuring six cognitive and social biases—confirmation bias, fundamental attribution error, the bias blind spot, anchoring bias, representativeness bias, and projection bias–this tool provides an innovate and cutting edge method for assessment professionals and researchers in measurement.

"It's surely the ultimate coffee-table book.... " — Daily Mail "This exciting collection lends itself to significant discussion and interest, given coffee is such a large part of our daily culture around the globe." — Travel by Entree “… another brilliant document of an exciting epoch in coffee culture.” — We Heart "Do you love coffee, traveling and design? Then this is a must-have for you! The addresses of 39 cafes, café clubs and coffee roasteries in 26 cities in different parts of the world can be found in a unique book and album in one "Café Cool: feel-good inspiring designs". The author, Robert Schneider, presents an amazing collection of modern, designer places, designed to turn the coffee experience into an art." — AD Poland "This book is a homage to his belief that, particularly given the recent global pandemic, it is vital that we continue to support and appreciate quality coffee in cafes and coffee shops that exhibit great feel-good inspiring designs." — Coffee T&I Café Cool: feel-good inspiring designs is the much-anticipated third book in the series by Robert Schneider, and features 39 cafés and coffee shops and roasteries in 26 cities around the world, richly illustrated with full-colour images. The curated selection shares a focus on modern contemporary designs, showcasing independent, local coffee hubs that sit at the heart of communities and are designed to foster a fantastic coffee experience. Insightful commentary by the owners and designers capture the feel and personality of each project. Schneider has once again served up an engaging and inspiring collection of modern cafés and coffee shops for lovers of coffee and good design. This book is a homage to his belief that, particularly given the recent global pandemic, it is vital that we continue to support and appreciate quality coffee in cafes and coffee shops that exhibit great feel-good inspiring designs.

The Definitive Guide to Governing Shared Services and SOA Projects SOA Governance: Governing Shared Services On-Premise and in the Cloud is the result of a multi-year project to collect proven industry practices for establishing IT governance controls specific to the adoption of SOA and service-orientation. Authored by world-renowned experts in the fields of SOA, IT governance, and cloud computing, this comprehensive book provides clear direction as to what does and does not constitute SOA governance and then steps the reader through the most important industry governance practices, as they pertain to individual SOA project lifecycle stages. With a consistent, vendor-neutral focus, and with the help of case study examples, the authors demonstrate how to define and position precepts, organizational roles, processes, standards, and metrics. Readers benefit from thorough and visually depicted cross-references and mapping between roles, processes, precepts, and project stages, enabling them to fully explore dynamics and dependencies and thereby learn how to use these governance controls to create their own custom SOA governance systems. This important title will be valuable to every practitioner concerned with making SOA work, including senior IT managers, project managers, architects, analysts, developers, administrators, QA professionals, security specialists, and cloud computing professionals. Topic Areas Defining SOA governance Establishing an SOA governance office and program Working with proven SOA governance precepts and processes Identifying organizational roles and relating them to SOA governance Associating design-time and runtime SOA project stages with SOA governance controls Governance considerations specific to shared services Roles, precepts, and factors specific to cloud-based services Understanding and categorizing SOA governance products and technologies Applying governance controls as early as the planning stages and measuring their success in subsequent stages Using vitality triggers to govern shared services on an on-going basis SOA governance controls that pertain to business information documents and policies

Dank verbessertem Instrumentarium und besserem Verstandnis fur die Prinzipien (Behrens und Searls 1986) zum sicheren und wirkungsvollen Gebrauch, wurde der Fixateur externe zu einem unersetzbaren Werkzeug eines jeden erfahrenen Traumatologen. Als wichtigste Indikationen fur den Fixateur externe gelten die 2 Degrees und 3 Degrees offenen Frakturen, infizierte Pseudarthrosen sowie Korrektureingriffe bei Achsenabweichungen und Langendifferenz. Der Fixateur externe wird weiter eingesetzt zur raschen, initialenRuhigstellungvon Weich- teilverletzungen und Frakturen bei Schwerstverletzten, zur Ruhigstellung geschlossener Frakturen mit schwerem Weichteiltrauma (Quetschung des Weichteilmantels, Verbrennun- gen, dermatologische Erkrankungen), bei ausgedehnten Schaft-und periartikularen Bru- chen, zur vorubergehenden gelenkuberbruckenden Ruhigstellung schwerer Weichteil-und Bandverletzungen, bei bestimmten Beckenringverletzungen und ausgewahlten Kinderfrak- turen sowie fur Arthrodesen und Osteotomien. Der Fixateur externe besitzt die einzigartige Moeglichkeit, Knochen-und Weichteile weit ausserhalb der Operations-oder Verletzungszone zu stabilisieren. Falls korrekt angewendet, gewahrt er ungehinderten Zugang zu den entscheidenden Skelett-und Weichteilstrukturen, so dass sowohl Initialversorgung als auch sekundare Wiederherstellung des Knochens und Weichteilmantels ermoeglicht wird. Durch die Verwendung des Fixateur externe bleibt das zusatzliche Gewebetrauma zur primaren Skelett- und Weichteilverletzung sehr gering. Auch das Infektrisiko ist geringer als das bei einer "inneren" Osteosynthese.

In the early 1950s, the pioneering work of Robert Danis on operative treatment of fractures was in danger of falling into oblivion. Maurice E. Muller, impressed and intrigued by his contacts with Danis, first critically applied internal fixation and immediate mobilization to some 80 patients and found the basic concept confirmed, but in need of further develop- ment with regard to technology, clinical application, and scientific analysis. In 1958 he assembled a group of friends, general and orthopedic surgeons, willing to invest time and effort in helping to create the necessary armamentarium and to form a study group for clinical trials. This group was set up in the same year under the name Arbeitsgemein- schaft fiir Osteosynthesefragen (AO), later on to be known in English-speaking countries as the Association for the Study of Internal Fixation (ASIF). The first report on operative treatment of fractures by Muller, Allgower, and Willeneg- ger, published in 1963, stressed the advantages of early open reduction and internal fixa- tion. This book, first published in German, amusingly lost an important part when trans- lated into English. At the suggestion of worried American and English partp. ers, a picture series showing the healing pattern of 188 tibial fractures operated on in Chur between December 20, 1961 and April26, 1962 was left out.