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Taming the Abrasive Manager is an ideal resource for managers, human resource professionals, coaches, and anyone who works for or with an abrasive boss. Executive coach Dr. Laura Crawshaw— known as the “Boss Whisperer” for her work in this field—shares her discoveries on how to tame the deep fears that drive abrasive managers to attack their coworkers. In her straight-shooting style, Crawshaw offers invaluable insights gained from her encounters with abrasive bosses in corporate jungles who aggressively defend against threats to their dominance in the high-risk business of survival. These insights, combined with lessons learned from employees and organizations who have successfully reined in their unmanageable bosses, provide realistic solutions that will improve the workplace for everyone..
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Chan Kim has never felt like an outsider in his life. That is, not until his family moves from L.A. to a tiny town in Minnesota--Land of 10,000 Lakes--and probably 10,000 hicks,too. The Kims are the only Asian family in town, and when Chan and his twin sister, Young, attend high school, it's a blond-haired, blue-eyed whiteout.

Chan throws himself into the only game in town--football--and the necessary roughness required to make a player. On the field it means "justifiable violence," but as Chan is about to discover, off the field it's a whole different ballgame . . .Chan Jung Kim has always been popular. But that was when he lived in L.A. and was the star of his soccer team. Now his family’s moved—to a tiny town in Minnesota, where football’s the name of the game and nobody has ever seen an Asian American family before. Desperate to fit in, Chan throws himself into the game—but he feels like an outsider. For the first time in his life, he finds himself thinking about what it really means to be Korean—and what is really important. By turns gripping, painful, funny, and illuminating, Necessary Roughness introduces a major new talent and a fresh young voice to the Harper list.

1997 Best Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library)
1998 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA)Chan Jung Kim has always been popular. But that was when he lived in L.A. and was the star of his soccer team. Now his family’s moved—to a tiny town in Minnesota, where football’s the name of the game and nobody has ever seen an Asian American family before. Desperate to fit in, Chan throws himself into the game—but he feels like an outsider. For the first time in his life, he finds himself thinking about what it really means to be Korean—and what is really important. By turns gripping, painful, funny, and illuminating, Necessary Roughness introduces a major new talent and a fresh young voice to the Harper list.

1997 Best Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library)
1998 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA).
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This digital document is a journal article from Safety Science, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Surface roughness affects friction, but it is not clear which surface roughness characteristics are better correlated with friction. The surface roughness parameters generated from quarry tiles were correlated with the transition friction between the tiles and a commonly used sole testing material, Neolite, with three different mixtures of glycerol and water as contaminants at the interface. Measurement of surface roughness usually requires removing the waviness portion from the measured profiles in order to focus on the surface features of interest through the selection of different cut-off lengths for filtering. The effect of cut-off length on the values of surface roughness parameters and their correlation with transition friction were investigated. The correlation coefficient between the surface roughness parameters and the measured friction was affected by the glycerol contents. The cut-off lengths of 2.5 and 8 mm resulted in stronger correlated surface roughness parameters than that of 0.8 mm. The surface parameters @D"a, R"p"m, R"k, R"3"z and R"a had a stronger correlation with the transition friction than other surface parameters examined in this study. .
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Based on research funded by the European Commission, this important handbook provides a basis for a unified approach to three-dimensional surface finish assessment. It covers a broad range of issues related to 3-D micro-topography, with particular emphasis on standardisation, measurement, characterisation and interpretation. This reprint includes an updating introductory section. This work is to be the basis for a 3D international standard.

· Updated version of noted previous publication
· Contains basis, for the first time, for a unified approach to the subject
· The basis for a 3D international standard.
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The book, with 156 full color photographs, presents the culmination of a three-year field program in which roughness and other hydraulic parameters were measured. Physical and hydraulic characteristics are presented for 78 New Zealand river and canal reaches which may be used as reference reaches for estimating roughness coefficients in similar channels..
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