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Evaluating the European Approach to Rural Development Grass-roots Experiences of the LEADER Programme

Evaluating the European Approach to Rural Development Grass-roots Experiences of the LEADER Programme

The LEADER programme initiated in 1991 aims to improve the development potential of rural areas in the European Union by drawing on local initiatives and skills. Highlighting this unique policy approach this book presents up-to-date research results on LEADER’s achievements and restrictions at the local level in a comparative way in order to discuss its merits and problems. What makes LEADER important is not only that it has a major role in rural development efforts but also that it has a pioneering role in the new type of governance participatory democracy. Asking whether LEADER strengthens local democracy or not this book also looks at how it affects the power balance among stakeholders between national and local actors and between genders. It questions whether LEADER projects are genuinely grass-root level activities reflecting local needs and ideals; and if the approach brings local know-how back onto the development agenda in innovations and development activities. Finally the authors examine the success of dissemination of knowledge within the LEADER programme to other regions. | Evaluating the European Approach to Rural Development Grass-roots Experiences of the LEADER Programme

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Infectious Diseases of the Dog and Cat A Color Handbook

Infectious Diseases of the Dog and Cat A Color Handbook

The field of infectious diseases in veterinary medicine is both rewarding and challenging and this book offers small animal veterinarians a lifeline by balancing relevant background guidance and optimizing efficiency. It provides a pathway for clinicians through this complex field by highlighting the most clinically relevant aspects of a wide range of diseases and granting them consideration for placement on dog and cat differential lists. Organized according to a system-based structure all the major clinically affected systems are covered along with a catch-all multisystem chapter for infectious diseases that escape easy classification. The book is clinically oriented based on experience underpinned by published research data. Pathogen-specific information enables rational choice of diagnostics therapy and prognostication for a complete list of small animal infectious diseases that includes bacterial viral parasitic/protozoal and fungal pathogens. This concise reference guide will be an invaluable tool for clinicians as they develop their understanding of and ability to communicate about infectious diseases of the dog and cat. Key features:Provides a clinically oriented quick reference guide Includes all major small animal infectious diseasesContains over 300 superb color illustrations | Infectious Diseases of the Dog and Cat A Color Handbook

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Cadaver Dog Handbook Forensic Training and Tactics for the Recovery of Human Remains

Cadaver Dog Handbook Forensic Training and Tactics for the Recovery of Human Remains

Intended for those who train and handle cadaver dogs this book also encompasses information for those who work closely with them such as police death investigators and anthropologists. Its interdisciplinary approach is useful to any member of a forensic team who regularly participates in or evaluates the results of the human remains search effort. Cadaver Dog Handbook sets out the principles and procedures for the training and handling of dogs for the location of human remains. It explains scent theory and its applications introduces basic training and searching strategies/tactics and covers the legal and taphonomic issues associated with dog searches. Intended for those who train and handle cadaver dogs this book also encompasses information for those who work closely with them such as police death investigators and anthropologists. Its interdisciplinary approach is useful to any member of a forensic team who regularly participates in or evaluates the results of the human remains search effort. | Cadaver Dog Handbook Forensic Training and Tactics for the Recovery of Human Remains

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Anticipatory Policymaking When Government Acts to Prevent Problems and Why It Is So Difficult

Anticipatory Policymaking When Government Acts to Prevent Problems and Why It Is So Difficult

Public policy analysts and political pundits alike tend to describe the policymaking process as a reactive sequence in which government develops solutions for clearly evident and identifiable problems. While this depiction holds true in many cases it fails to account for instances in which public policy is enacted in anticipation of a potential future problem. Whereas traditional policy concerns manifest themselves through ongoing harms anticipatory problems are projected to occur sometime in the future and it is the prospect of their potentially catastrophic impact that generates intense speculation and concern in the present. Anticipatory Policymaking: When Government Acts to Prevent Problems and Why It Is So Difficult provides an in depth examination of the complex process through which United States government institutions anticipate emerging threats. Using contemporary debates over the risks associated with nanotechnology pandemic influenza and global warming as case study material Rob A. DeLeo highlights the distinctive features of proactive governance. By challenging the pervasive assumption of reactive policymaking DeLeo provides a dynamic approach for conceptualizing the political dimensions of anticipatory policy change. | Anticipatory Policymaking When Government Acts to Prevent Problems and Why It Is So Difficult

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The Handbook for Market Research for Life Sciences Companies Finding the Answers You Need to Understand Your Market

The Handbook for Market Research for Life Sciences Companies Finding the Answers You Need to Understand Your Market

As innovation moves from the lab to the market a new research phase begins for the entrepreneur: the market research phase. Inspired by a new technology that can change the world critical questions need to be addressed. Is there a market for my innovation? Who are my clients? What do they need? Is my innovation filling that gap in the market? Who are my competitors? How are they approaching the market? If these questions are unaswered entrepreneurs meet potential investors or partners with only a basic understanding of their market. The objective of this book is to fill this gap. It is a practical manual that gives entrepreneurs real-world advice and tools to build a solid market model. The book provides tips models and tools entrepreneurs can use to collect interpret and present their market and integrate it into their business plan. What the entrepreneur learns in this book will help him throughout his journey. After going over the market research process he will learn how to design and use a number of market research tools and how to adapt them in a life science context. From building a web survey to preparing interviews to doing your own secondary research this handbook will help him gain a comprehensive understanding of how to perform his own market research activities and how to analyze his data. Finally a number of frameworks (such as the TAM-SAM-SOM as well as the KANO Model) are described so that he can efficiently share what he has learned using models that simply yet effectively shares findings. | The Handbook for Market Research for Life Sciences Companies Finding the Answers You Need to Understand Your Market

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What is Ahead of Us?

What is Ahead of Us?

First published in 1937 What is Ahead of Us? is a collection of essays which were originally presented as lectures before the Fabian Society. Conceived in an era of growing fascism and economic despair the essays urge the reader to imagine more equitable alternatives to capitalism. The authors offer socialism as a solution but what is more interesting is their criticism of capitalism and the connections they draw between capitalism and fascism using examples from the West. This book will be of interest to students of history economics and political science.

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What is Financialization?

What is Financialization?

This book introduces a new and original analytic approach to defining understanding and explaining financialization. It provides a precise and quantifiable definition of financialization disaggregating financialization into its three varieties. These are examined through the lens of financial development both before and after the Great Recession providing the most in-depth analysis of the finance-real economy-labor nexus. It provides a historical perspective looking at financialization as a key dynamic that has shaped real economic structures in terms of both growth and inequality of income over the last four decades in high-income upper-middle-income and lower-middle-income countries. The book makes its multidisciplinary content readily accessible to non-economists by providing economics background information and to economists by providing social-theoretical context. It will be essential reading for academics researchers analysts and students of economics business finance sociology politics and international relations. It will also serve as a vital resource for policy-makers and bureaucrats in determining formulating implementing and revising policy alternatives to govern the pros and cons of financial development in terms of its effects on real output and income inequality. | What is Financialization?

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Skin Diseases of the Dog and Cat

Skin Diseases of the Dog and Cat

A Colour Handbook of Skin Diseases of the Dog and Cat was one of the first books to bring key information about skin diseases to clinicians in an easy-to-use problem-oriented format. This fully revised and updated Third Edition responds to the huge growth in knowledge about skin conditions over the last decade including the discovery of new conditions the development of new approaches to management and effective new treatment options. Chapters are organized based on symptoms each containing a decision tree giving basic and practical guidance. The clear user-friendly design provides one condition per page (or spread of pages). 13 chapters covering over 120 skin claw and ear conditions classified by their principle presenting sign. Concise systematically structured text covering definition aetiology and pathogenesis clinical features differential diagnoses diagnostic tests and management. Flow charts in each chapter to help clinicians get to the right diagnosis. Special focus on diseases affecting paediatric patients as well as chapters discussing paw ear and nasal planum diseases. Explanation of new treatments for atopic dermatitis. Over 350 superb colour photographs and diagrams mostly new for this this edition. A focus on clinical practice and the need to explain the disease to the owner. Up-to-date and fully referenced throughout. This practical book continues to provide an entirely comprehensive guide to the diagnosis and management of veterinary skin conditions in a format that is easily accessible for busy clinicians.

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No-Body Homicide Cases A Practical Guide to Investigating Prosecuting and Winning Cases When the Victim Is Missing

No-Body Homicide Cases A Practical Guide to Investigating Prosecuting and Winning Cases When the Victim Is Missing

A practical guide for police death investigators and prosecutors No-Body Homicide Cases: A Practical Guide to Investigating Prosecuting and Winning Cases When the Victim is Missing Second Edition takes an expansive look at both the history of no-body murder cases and the best methods to investigate solve and bring them to court. How do you prove someone guilty of murder when the best and primary piece of evidence—the victim’s body—is missing? Exclusively dedicated to the investigation and prosecution of no-body homicide cases this fully updated Second Edition provides the author’s insight gained from investigating consulting on and trying scores of no-body cases throughout the United States. Taking readers step-by-step from the first days of a homicide investigation through the trial the book explores the history of confessions and discloses the investigative techniques police must use to catch these cunning killers. Chapters review methods criminals have used to dispose of bodies delving into the psychological profile of the type of defendant who murders someone then hides the body. Since the last edition published the number of no-body murder cases investigated has skyrocketed with more than 50 percent of all no-body murder cases tried and prosecuted have occurred since the year 2000. New to this edition is a chapter on a full singular high-profile case from start to finish to illustrate the entire no-body investigative and adjudication process. A sample arrest warrant for a no-body murder case is provided in addition to Chapter 12 updating the prior edition’s nearly 400 case summaries provided to the current figure as of this publication of 576 no-body murder trials in U. S. history. No-Body Homicide Cases Second Edition continues to serve as an essential resource and the how-to manual for investigating prosecuting and winning no-body murder cases. | No-Body Homicide Cases A Practical Guide to Investigating Prosecuting and Winning Cases When the Victim Is Missing

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No-Body Homicide Cases A Practical Guide to Investigating Prosecuting and Winning Cases When the Victim Is Missing

No-Body Homicide Cases A Practical Guide to Investigating Prosecuting and Winning Cases When the Victim Is Missing

How do you prove someone guilty of murder when the best piece of evidence—the victim’s body—is missing? Exclusively dedicated to the investigation and prosecution of no-body homicide cases this book provides the author’s insight gained from investigating and trying a no-body case along with what he’s learned consulting on scores of others across the country. A practical guide for police and prosecutors it takes an expansive look at both the history of no-body murder cases and the best methods to investigate solve and bring them to court. Taking readers step by step from the first days of a homicide investigation through the trial the book explores the history of confessions the use of jailhouse snitches to get information and CSI-style forensics utilized in solving a case. It delves into the psychological profile of the type of defendant who murders someone and then hides the body and reviews methods criminals have used to dispose of bodies. It also discloses the investigative techniques police must use to catch these devious killers. Using real-life case studies No-Body Homicide Cases: A Practical Guide to Investigating Prosecuting and Winning Cases When the Victim is Missing summarizes and analyzes the nearly 400 no-body murder trials in U. S. history enabling readers to leverage the similarities in these cases with their own scenarios. The book is an essential resource for all investigators and a roadmap to a conviction for prosecutors. | No-Body Homicide Cases A Practical Guide to Investigating Prosecuting and Winning Cases When the Victim Is Missing

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Pharmacy What It Is and How It Works

Pharmacy What It Is and How It Works

Now fully updated for its fourth edition Pharmacy: What It Is and How It Works continues to provide a comprehensive review of all aspects of pharmacy from the various roles pathways and settings of pharmacists to information about how pharmacy works within the broader health care system. Beginning with a brief historical perspective on the field the book discusses the many facets of the pharmacy profession. It describes the role of pharmacists in different settings and provides information ranging from licensing requirements to working conditions highlighting the critical role of pharmacists within the health care system. The author examines the drug use process with sections on distribution prescribing dispensing and pricing. He also discusses the role of pharmacy support personnel. A chapter on informatics explores how pharmacy has evolved through information technology and automation. Additional chapters cover poison control pharmaceutical care pharmacy organizations the drug approval process and career development. Designed for classroom and professional use the book contains numerous tools to facilitate comprehension including: Learning objectives to help readers focus on the goals of each chapter Informative tables and figures summarizing data Summary paragraphs tying in salient points Discussion questions and exercises to test assimilation Challenges which place the material in broader context Websites and references to encourage further study This valuable text provides a look into the profession that is both broad and deep supplying a one-stop introduction to a promising career in pharmacy. | Pharmacy What It Is and How It Works

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A Guide to IT Contracting Checklists Tools and Techniques

A Guide to IT Contracting Checklists Tools and Techniques

Since A Guide to IT Contracting: Checklists Tools and Techniques first published several alarming trends have developed in the technology contracting industry. These trends include: The Dawn of the As-Is Technology Product The Ever-Changing Product Where in the World Is My Data? To meet these challenges the Second Edition helps business managers and lawyers explore alternate solutions from other vendors conduct simultaneous negotiations with other vendors and generally ensure prospective vendors understand they can lose the deal if they refuse to act reasonably. Distilling the most critical business and legal lessons learned through the author’s decades of legal experience drafting and negotiating IT-related agreements this single volume lets readers quickly access information on virtually every type of technology agreement. Structured to focus on a particular type of IT agreement each chapter includes a checklist of essential terms a brief summary of what the agreement is intended to do and a complete review of the legal and business issues that are addressed in that particular agreement. Providing nonlegal professionals with the tools to address IT contracting issues the book: Contains checklists to help readers organize key concepts for ready reference Supplies references to helpful online resources and aids for contract drafting Includes a complete glossary that defines key legal business and technical terms Technology contracting is becoming ever more difficult. This book is filled with recommendations to mitigate potential risk and makes clear the importance of maintaining negotiating leverage with potential vendors. | A Guide to IT Contracting Checklists Tools and Techniques

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Games Gambling and Probability An Introduction to Mathematics

Games Gambling and Probability An Introduction to Mathematics

Many experiments have shown the human brain generally has very serious problems dealing with probability and chance. A greater understanding of probability can help develop the intuition necessary to approach risk with the ability to make more informed (and better) decisions. The first four chapters offer the standard content for an introductory probability course albeit presented in a much different way and order. The chapters afterward include some discussion of different games different ideas that relate to the law of large numbers and many more mathematical topics not typically seen in such a book. The use of games is meant to make the book (and course) feel like fun! Since many of the early games discussed are casino games the study of those games along with an understanding of the material in later chapters should remind you that gambling is a bad idea; you should think of placing bets in a casino as paying for entertainment. Winning can obviously be a fun reward but should not ever be expected. Changes for the Second Edition: New chapter on Game Theory New chapter on Sports Mathematics The chapter on Blackjack which was Chapter 4 in the first edition appears later in the book. Reorganization has been done to improve the flow of topics and learning. New sections on Arkham Horror Uno and Scrabble have been added. Even more exercises were added! The goal for this textbook is to complement the inquiry-based learning movement. In my mind concepts and ideas will stick with the reader more when they are motivated in an interesting way. Here we use questions about various games (not just casino games) to motivate the mathematics and I would say that the writing emphasizes a just-in-time mathematics approach. Topics are presented mathematically as questions about the games themselves are posed. Table of Contents Preface1. Mathematics and Probability 2. Roulette and Craps: Expected Value 3. Counting: Poker Hands 4. More Dice: Counting and Combinations and Statistics 5. Game Theory: Poker Bluffing and Other Games 6. Probability/Stochastic Matrices: Board Game Movement 7. Sports Mathematics: Probability Meets Athletics 8. Blackjack: Previous Methods Revisited 9. A Mix of Other Games 10. Betting Systems: Can You Beat the System? 11. Potpourri: Assorted Adventures in Probability Appendices Tables Answers and Selected Solutions Bibliography Biography Dr. David G. Taylor is a professor of mathematics and an associate dean for academic affairs at Roanoke College in southwest Virginia. He attended Lebanon Valley College for his B. S. in computer science and mathematics and went to the University of Virginia for his Ph. D. While his graduate school focus was on studying infinite dimensional Lie algebras he started studying the mathematics of various games in order to have a more undergraduate-friendly research agenda. Work done with two Roanoke College students Heather Cook and Jonathan Marino appears in this book! Currently he owns over 100 different board games and enjoys using probability in his decision-making while playing most of those games. In his spare time he enjoys reading cooking coding playing his board games and spending time with his six-year-old dog Lilly. | Games Gambling and Probability An Introduction to Mathematics

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'A womans answer is neuer to seke': Early Modern Jestbooks 1526–1635 Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women: Series III Part

'A womans answer is neuer to seke': Early Modern Jestbooks 1526–1635 Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women: Series III Part

By turns witty and inane crude and learned scurrilous and moralistic jestbooks offer an important and often overlooked viewpoint on the lives of women in early modern England. This volume reproduces seven jestbooks with connections to early modern Englishwomen as well as showing something of the broad genre itself. Four have a direct connection to women through their jests and framing (Wyddow Edyth VVestward for Smelts Long Meg of VVestminster and Pasqvils Iests) excerpts from two books specifically focus on women in some sections (The Schoolemaster and Wits Fittes and Fancies) and the volume also includes the extremely popular general jestbook (A C. Mery Talys). | 'A womans answer is neuer to seke': Early Modern Jestbooks 1526–1635 Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women: Series III Part

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Food Allergy Molecular and Clinical Practice

Food Allergy Molecular and Clinical Practice

Food allergy is an adverse immunological reaction to allergens present in food. Up to 4% adults and 8% children are affected by food allergy. The increase in allergic diseases to food has led to the need for better diagnostics and more effective therapeutic approaches. This book describes the molecular biology and immunology of major food allergens from laboratory based science to clinical immunology encompassing novel characterisation and quantification methods the application of recombinant food allergens in molecular diagnosis and the development of novel therapeutics. This book is the ideal reference tool for researchers students and allergy clinicians to accurately diagnose and manage food allergies. | Food Allergy Molecular and Clinical Practice

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Monographs in Contact Allergy Volume 1 Non-Fragrance Allergens in Cosmetics (Part 1 and Part 2)

Monographs in Contact Allergy Volume 1 Non-Fragrance Allergens in Cosmetics (Part 1 and Part 2)

Monographs in Contact Allergy Volume 1: Non-Fragrance Allergens in Cosmetics (Part 1 and Part 2) is the first 2-part volume in an exciting series on contact allergy. It presents over 500 natural or synthetic chemicals and compounds which have caused allergic contact dermatitis in cosmetic products. Included here are INCI names synonyms description/definition CAS and EU numbers chemical class function in cosmetics molecular formula structural formula and advice on patch tests. A full literature review is given of patch testing in patients case reports of cosmetic allergic contact dermatitis irritant contact dermatitis photosensitivity immediate contact reactions and systemic side effects. This text is suitable for anyone with an interest in contact allergy from university students to professionals and all readers will find this informative and detailed series an invaluable resource. Key Features: Monographs of all known non-fragrance chemicals and substances which have caused allergic contact dermatitis from their presence in cosmetic products Provides lists of all functional groups (such as antioxidants preservatives artificial nail building emollients hair dyeing hair colorants) in both the EU and US formats and all chemicals in these groups which have caused cosmetic allergy Presents an alphabetical list of all synonyms indicating their INCI names Reported cross-reactions pseudo-cross-reactions and co-reactions patch test sensitization and presence in cosmetic products (including data from FDA’s Voluntary Cosmetic Registration Program) and chemical analyses are discussed Covers an extensive amount of information to benefit dermatologists allergists and non-medical professionals involved with the research development and marketing of cosmetic products | Monographs in Contact Allergy Volume 1 Non-Fragrance Allergens in Cosmetics (Part 1 and Part 2)

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Rethinking Social Capital and Entrepreneurship in Greater China Is Guanxi Still Important?

Rethinking Social Capital and Entrepreneurship in Greater China Is Guanxi Still Important?

Family networks and wider personal social relationships - guanxi - have long been held to be a significant factor making for the success of many Chinese family businesses and guanxi is often seen as a special characteristic which shapes the nature of all business in China. This book re-examines this proposition critically bringing together the very latest research and comparing the situation in different parts of Greater China – mainland China Taiwan and Hong Kong. It considers entrepreneurship venture capital intergenerational succession disputes family businesses in different sectors of the economy and particular family businesses. Among the book’s many interesting conclusions is the observation that guanxi capitalism has evolved in different ways in the different parts of Greater China with the particular institutional setting having a major impact. | Rethinking Social Capital and Entrepreneurship in Greater China Is Guanxi Still Important?

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Al Jazeera and the Global Media Landscape The South is Talking Back

Al Jazeera and the Global Media Landscape The South is Talking Back

This book analyzes how and why Al Jazeera English (AJE) became the channel of choice to understand the massive protests across the Arab world 2011. Aiming to explain the ‘Al Jazeera moment ’ it tracks the channel’s bumpy road towards international recognition in a longitudinal in-depth analysis of the channel’s editorial profile and strategies. Studying AJE from its launch in mid-November 2006 to the ‘Arab Spring’ it explains and problematizes the channel’s ambitious editorial agenda and strategies examines the internal conflicts practical challenges and minor breakthroughs in its formative years. The Al Jazeera-phenomenon has received massive attention but it remains under-researched. The growth of transnational satellite television has transformed the global media landscape into a complex web of multi-vocal multimedia and multi-directional flows. Based on a combination of policy- production- and content analysis of comprehensive empirical data the book offers an innovative perspective on the theorization of global news contra-flows. By problematizing the distinctive characteristics of AJE it examines the strategic motivation behind the channel and the ways in which its production processes and news profile are meant to be different from its Anglo-American competitors. These questions underscore a central nexus of the book: the changing relationship between transnational satellite news and power. | Al Jazeera and the Global Media Landscape The South is Talking Back

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Introduction to the Principalship Theory to Practice

Introduction to the Principalship Theory to Practice

The second edition of this textbook from respected author team Kaplan and Owings explores how principals can effectively build a culture around student achievement. Introduction to the Principalship a second edition closely aligned with NELP (2018) standards helps aspiring principals understand how to develop a vision for improvement make decisions and manage conflict build teachers’ capacity communicate monitor the organization’s performance and create a school climate of mutual respect. This important book provides readers with various leadership concepts to inform their practice as well as the cognitive and practical tools to evaluate and prioritize what leadership actions to take. Each chapter offers opportunities for readers to create personal meaning and explore new ways of doing leadership to advance a positive person-focused environment. Providing both the theoretical framework and skills for effective practice Introduction to the Principalship addresses the issues most urgent and relevant for educational leadership graduate students learning how to build a school culture that promotes every student’s success. Fully revised this second edition includes a new chapter on building your capacity for leadership expanded discussion of data-informed accountability equity considerations and crisis management and all chapters updated and revised throughout to reflect the latest developments in the field. Special Features: •Learning Objectives—chapter openers introduce the topic and initiate student thinking. •Reflections and Relevance—interactive exercises role plays class activities and assignments that can be used synchronously and asynchronously to deepen and extend student learning. •Key Takeaways—organized by learning objective these answer readers’ question What about this information is meaningful for me as an aspiring principal? •Suggested Readings—each chapter concludes with annotated suggested readings to extend and deepen discussion of key issues in chapter. •NELP Standards—each chapter is aligned to the latest school leadership licensure standards. •Companion Website—includes links to supplemental material additional readings video clips with related teaching and learning activities and PowerPoints for instructors. | Introduction to the Principalship Theory to Practice

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Introduction to Electromagnetism From Coulomb to Maxwell

Introduction to Electromagnetism From Coulomb to Maxwell

This edition aims to expand on the first edition and take the reader through to the wave equation on coaxial cable and free-space by using Maxwell’s equations. The new chapters include time varying signals and fundamentals of Maxwell's equations. This book will introduce and discuss electromagnetic fields in an accessible manner. The author explains electroconductive fields and develops ideas relating to signal propagation and develops Maxwell’s equations and applies them to propagation in a planar optical waveguide. The first of the new chapters introduces the idea of a travelling wave by considering the variation of voltage along a coaxial line. This concept will be used in the second new chapter which solves Maxwell’s equations in free-space and then applies them to a planar optical waveguide in the third new chapter. As this is an area that most students find difficult it links back to the earlier chapters to aid understanding. This book is intended for first- and second-year electrical and electronic undergraduates and can also be used for undergraduates in mechanical engineering computing and physics. The book includes examples and homework problems. Introduces and examines electrostatic fields in an accessible manner Explains electroconductive fields Develops ideas relating to signal propagation Examines Maxwell’s equations and relates them to propagation in a planar optical waveguide Martin Sibley recently retired after 33 years of teaching at the University of Huddersfield. He has a PhD from Huddersfield Polytechnic in Preamplifier Design for Optical Receivers. He started his career in academia in 1986 having spent 3 years as a postgraduate student and then 2 years as a British Telecom-funded research fellow. His research work had a strong bias to the practical implementation of research and he taught electromagnetism and communications at all levels since 1986. Dr. Sibley finished his academic career as a Reader in Communications School of Computing and Engineering University of Huddersfield. He has authored five books and published over 80 research papers. | Introduction to Electromagnetism From Coulomb to Maxwell

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A Concordance to Conrad's Victory

A Concordance to Conrad's Victory

Originally published in 1979 The Concordance to Conrad’s Victory is intended to provide access to certain information on the text of the novel in a manner convenient to Conrad scholars. To this end the authors have included an alphabetical list of word frequencies and a type/token ratio table as well as a list of word frequencies in rank order. In the concordance itself each specific word in the text is listed in alphabetical order along with an identifier number and a context for the word. This volume is part of a series which produced verbal indexes concordances and related data for all of Conrad’s works. | A Concordance to Conrad's Victory

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An Introduction to Analysis

An Introduction to Analysis

The third edition of this widely popular textbook is authored by a master teacher. This book provides a mathematically rigorous introduction to analysis of real­valued functions of one variable. This intuitive student-friendly text is written in a manner that will help to ease the transition from primarily computational to primarily theoretical mathematics. The material is presented clearly and as intuitive as possible while maintaining mathematical integrity. The author supplies the ideas of the proof and leaves the write-up as an exercise. The text also states why a step in a proof is the reasonable thing to do and which techniques are recurrent. Examples while no substitute for a proof are a valuable tool in helping to develop intuition and are an important feature of this text. Examples can also provide a vivid reminder that what one hopes might be true is not always true. Features of the Third Edition: Begins with a discussion of the axioms of the real number system. The limit is introduced via sequences. Examples motivate what is to come highlight the need for hypothesis in a theorem and make abstract ideas more concrete. A new section on the Cantor set and the Cantor function. Additional material on connectedness. Exercises range in difficulty from the routine getting your feet wet types of problems to the moderately challenging problems. Topology of the real number system is developed to obtain the familiar properties of continuous functions. Some exercises are devoted to the construction of counterexamples. The author presents the material to make the subject understandable and perhaps exciting to those who are beginning their study of abstract mathematics. Table of Contents Preface Introduction The Real Number System Sequences of Real Numbers Topology of the Real Numbers Continuous Functions Differentiation Integration Series of Real Numbers Sequences and Series of Functions Fourier Series Bibliography Hints and Answers to Selected Exercises Index Biography James R. Kirkwood holds a Ph. D. from University of Virginia. He has authored fifteen published mathematics textbooks on various topics including calculus real analysis mathematical biology and mathematical physics. His original research was in mathematical physics and he co-authored the seminal paper in a topic now called Kirkwood-Thomas Theory in mathematical physics. During the summer he teaches real analysis to entering graduate students at the University of Virginia. He has been awarded several National Science Foundation grants. His texts Elementary Linear Algebra Linear Algebra and Markov Processes are also published by CRC Press. | An Introduction to Analysis

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Forensic DNA Profiling A Practical Guide to Assigning Likelihood Ratios

Forensic DNA Profiling A Practical Guide to Assigning Likelihood Ratios

DNA testing and its forensic analysis are recognized as the “gold standard” in forensic identification science methods. However there is a great need for a hands-on step-by-step guide to teach the forensic DNA community how to interpret DNA mixtures how to assign a likelihood ratio and how to use the subsequent likelihood ratio when reporting interpretation conclusions. Forensic DNA Profiling: A Practical Guide to Assigning Likelihood Ratios will provide a roadmap for labs all over the world and the next generation of analysts who need this foundational understanding. The techniques used in forensic DNA analysis are based upon the accepted principles of molecular biology. The interpretation of a good-quality DNA profile generated from a crime scene stain from a single-source donor provides an unambiguous result when using the most modern forensic DNA methods. Unfortunately many crime scene profiles are not single source. They are described as mixed since they contain DNA from two or more individuals. Interpretation of DNA mixtures represents one of the greatest challenges to the forensic DNA analyst. As such the book introduces terms used to describe DNA profiles and profile interpretation. Chapters explain DNA extraction methods the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) capillary electrophoresis (CE) likelihood ratios (LRs) and their interpretation and population genetic models—including Mendelian inheritance and Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. It is important that analysts understand how LRs are generated in a probabilistic framework ideally with an appreciation of both semicontinuous and fully continuous probabilistic approaches. KEY FEATURES:• The first book to focus entirely on DNA mixtures and the complexities involved with interpreting the results • Takes a hands-on approach offering theory with worked examples and exercises to be easily understood and implementable by laboratory personnel • New methods heretofore unpublished previously provide a means to innovate deconvoluting a mixed DNA profile assign an LR and appropriately report the weight of evidence • Includes a chapter on assigning LRs for close relatives (i. e. “It’s not me it was my brother”) and discusses strategies for the validation of probabilistic genotyping softwareForensic DNA Profiling fills the void for labs unfamiliar with LRs and moving to probabilistic solutions and for labs already familiar with LRs but wishing to understand how they are calculated in more detail. The book will be a welcome read for lab professionals and technicians students and legal professionals seeking to understand and apply the techniques covered. | Forensic DNA Profiling A Practical Guide to Assigning Likelihood Ratios

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Introduction to Medical Physics

Introduction to Medical Physics

This textbook provides an accessible introduction to the basic principles of medical physics the applications of medical physics equipment and the role of a medical physicist in healthcare. Introduction to Medical Physics is designed to support undergraduate and graduate students taking their first modules on a medical physics course or as a dedicated book for specific modules such as medical imaging and radiotherapy. It is ideally suited for new teaching schemes such as Modernising Scientific Careers and will be invaluable for all medical physics students worldwide. Key features: Written by an experienced and senior team of medical physicists from highly respected institutions The first book written specifically to introduce medical physics to undergraduate and graduate physics students Provides worked examples relevant to actual clinical situations

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