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Nurturing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Support for Research Careers in Health and Biomedicine

By: Aleksandra Thomson,Rachael Gooberman-Hill

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Nurturing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Support for Research Careers in Health and Biomedicine

By: Aleksandra Thomson,Rachael Gooberman-Hill

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Today’s academic and research institutions recognise the importance of diverse research teams in health and biomedical science, in terms of the business case, social justice and the common good. This ‘go-to’ book familiarises readers with the key equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) issues in relation to research careers and researcher development. Bringing together the challenges and solutions to EDI matters with an evidence-based approach in one volume, the book offers practical strategies and interventions for academic and research settings. This is an essential guide for equality planning team members, researchers, HRM officers and managers across academia and research.

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Policy Press

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1447368010

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9781447368014

Poland and European East-West Cooperation in the 1970s

The Opening Up

By: Aleksandra Komornicka

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Poland and European East-West Cooperation in the 1970s

The Opening Up

By: Aleksandra Komornicka

This book offers an international reading of the Polish socialist regime’s history in the 1970s, and its opening up to the West. It bridges Poland’s socialist domestic history with critical developments of the global and European 1970s, including détente in the Cold War, western European integration, and globalisation. In this period of international transformations, socialist Poland under Edward Gierek's leadership multiplied its economic and political contacts with capitalist countries, especially western Europe, and became a leader of East-West cooperation among Council for Mutual Economic Assistance and Warsaw Pact members. Relying on sources from public and corporate archives in five different European states, the book demonstrates both that the global political and economic transformations of that period were critical for the decision-making process in Poland and, moreover, that the national socialist elites participated in shaping these transformations. By looking at the goals and expectations of the Polish socialist elites and their practices of political and economic exchanges with western Europe, the book explains the logic which drove the socialist regime into entanglement with the West. As is shown here, this entanglement proved inextricable and critical for the socialist regime's failure and Poland’s political and economic future. This book will be of much interest to students of European history, cold war studies, socialism studies and International Relations.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000963225

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9781000963229

Serial Verbs

By: Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd,Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

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Serial Verbs

By: Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd,Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions, in which several verbs combine to form a single predicate. It uses an inductively-based framework for the analysis and draws on data from languages with different typological profiles and genetic affiliations.

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Oxford Studies in Typology and

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0198791267

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9780198791263

Towards Creative Imagination in Victorian Literature

By: Aleksandra Piasecka

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Towards Creative Imagination in Victorian Literature

By: Aleksandra Piasecka

This book explores the concept of the creative imagination in Mid- and Late Victorian England. In these times of transition, as the age of the Industrial Revolution was regarded, aesthetic considerations became involved in the broader debate on the shape of the modern world. Thus, the approach to the artistic imagination was closely connected with the shifting beliefs concerning the essence of beauty, and the role of religion, not to mention attitudes towards nature and society. These aspects defined the aims furthered by painters and poets alike and set the direction for their artistic endeavours. Five people have been chosen as representatives of their time in the discussion about artistic imagination: John Ruskin, William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater and Arthur Symons. Accordingly, the material analysed to recreate the Victorian understanding of the artistic faculties is of different kinds, and embraces not only critical essays (Ruskin, Pater, Symons), but also belles-lettres: short stories (Morris) and poems (Rossetti, Symons). In this manner, two positions complement each other: namely, the views of the theoreticians and those of practitioners. The former attempted to discern and extract the quintessence of the artistic powers on the basis of their observations and reflections, whereas the latter relied on their personal experiences in this respect.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443861987

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9781443861984

Tężnie jako czynnik kształtujący mikrobiologiczną jakość powietrza w uzdrowisku

By: ALEKSANDRA BURKOWSKA-BUT

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Tężnie jako czynnik kształtujący mikrobiologiczną jakość powietrza w uzdrowisku

By: ALEKSANDRA BURKOWSKA-BUT

W ostatnich latach popularnym sposobem na przyciągnięcie turystów i uatrakcyjnienie miejscowości uzdrowiskowych stało się budowanie otwartych inhalatoriów. Tężnie solankowe mogą być nie tylko atrakcją turystyczną, ale i ważnym obiektem leczniczym. Jednak brakuje doniesień literaturowych na temat ich funkcjonowania i oddziaływania tężni, szczególnie w kontekście mikrobiologii środowiskowej oraz zdrowia publicznego. Praca ta zawiera pierwszą długoterminową ocenę mikrobiologicznego zanieczyszczenia powietrza na terenie uzdrowisk nizinnych ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem otoczenia naturalnych inhalatoriów.

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Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika

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8323137145

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9788323137146

Experiencing the Body in Yoga Practice

Meanings and Knowledge Transfer

By: Krzysztof T. Konecki,Aleksandra Płaczek,Dagmara Tarasiuk

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Experiencing the Body in Yoga Practice

Meanings and Knowledge Transfer

By: Krzysztof T. Konecki,Aleksandra Płaczek,Dagmara Tarasiuk

Experiencing the Body in Yoga Practice: Meanings and Knowledge Transfer inspires more mindful and contemplative qualitative research on body and knowledge transfer in bodily practices in hatha yoga. The book explores the work of the mind, as well as the role of emotions and body sensations in perceiving reality and in reflecting on it. Procedures and research methods are an extension of our mind, which wants to reach into the social reality to describe it objectively. It usually refuses body and emotions. The techniques of sampling and representativeness are also tools of the mind. Using these tools, our contact with social reality produces emotions and feelings of the body. These phenomena surrounding the mind and body often go unnoticed during research and are only partially reported in the conclusions. Experiencing the Body in Yoga Practice: Meanings and Knowledge Transfer examines this gap. It presents the application of a contemplative way of thinking and proceeding in qualitative social research and a first-person perspective, focusing on experiencing lived body and knowledge transfer in hatha yoga. It analyzes how the mind focuses and stops working, proceeds in the finite province of the meaning of yoga, how the body produces emotions and deals with them during yoga sessions, and how the knowledge is transferred by using the body in some linguistic and cultural context. The book will be of interest to sociologists and social scientists who want to concentrate on and analyze the experiences of the body from contemplative and phenomenological perspectives. It is also key reading for all practitioners dealing with body and bodywork, such as in sports, recreational activities, physical education, rehabilitation, physical work, educational activities, etc.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000951901

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9781000951905

Converging Minds

The Creative Potential of Collaborative AI

By: Aleksandra Przegalinska,Tamilla Triantoro

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Converging Minds

The Creative Potential of Collaborative AI

By: Aleksandra Przegalinska,Tamilla Triantoro

This groundbreaking book explores the power of collaborative AI in amplifying human creativity and expertise. Written by two seasoned experts in data analytics, AI, and machine learning, the book offers a comprehensive overview of the creative process behind AI-powered content generation. It takes the reader through a unique collaborative process between human authors and various AI-based topic experts, created, prompted, and fine-tuned by the authors. This book features a comprehensive list of prompts that readers can use to create their own ChatGPT-powered topic experts. By following these expertly crafted prompts, individuals and businesses alike can harness the power of AI, tailoring it to their specific needs and fostering a fruitful collaboration between humans and machines. With real-world use cases and deep insights into the foundations of generative AI, the book showcases how humans and machines can work together to achieve better business outcomes and tackle complex challenges. Social and ethical implications of collaborative AI are covered and how it may impact the future of work and employment. Through reading the book, readers will gain a deep understanding of the latest advancements in AI and how they can shape our world. Converging Minds: The Creative Potential of Collaborative AI is essential reading for anyone interested in the transformative potential of AI-powered content generation and human-AI collaboration. It will appeal to data scientists, machine learning architects, prompt engineers, general computer scientists, and engineers in the fields of generative AI and deep learning. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution- No Derivatives (CC-BY -ND)] 4.0 license.

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CRC Press

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1040031080

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9781040031087

The Ambiguous Legacy of Socialist Modernist Architecture in Central and Eastern Europe

By: Mariusz E. Sokołowicz,Aleksandra Nowakowska,Błażej Ciarkowski

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The Ambiguous Legacy of Socialist Modernist Architecture in Central and Eastern Europe

By: Mariusz E. Sokołowicz,Aleksandra Nowakowska,Błażej Ciarkowski

This book examines the unique socialist-modernist architecture built in the twentieth century in Central and Eastern Europe as a source of heritage and of existing and potential value for the present and future generations. Due to the historical context in which it was created, such architecture remains ambiguous. On the one hand, the wider public associates it with the legacy of the unpleasant period of the real socialist economic regime. Yet, on the other hand, it is also a manifestation of social modernization and the promotion of a significant proportion of the population. This book focuses particularly on concrete heritage, a legacy of modernist architecture in Central and Eastern Europe, and it was this material that enabled their rebuilding after World War II and modernization during the following decades. The authors search for the value of modernist architecture and using case studies from Poland, Bulgaria, Northern Macedonia, Lithuania and Slovenia verify to what extent this heritage is embedded in the local socio-economic milieu and becomes a basis for creating new values. They argue that the challenge is to change the ways we think about heritage, from looking at it from the point of view of a single monument to thinking in terms of a place with its own character and identity that builds its relation to history and its embeddedness in the local space. Furthermore, they propose that the preservation of existing concrete structures and adapting them to modern needs is of great importance for sustainability. With increasing awareness of the issue of preserving post-war architectural heritage and the strategies of dissonant heritage management, this multidisciplinary study will be of interest to architecture historians, conservators, heritage economists, urban planners and architects.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000875512

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9781000875515

Information Technology Control and Audit

By: Sandra Senft,Frederick Gallegos,Aleksandra Davis

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Information Technology Control and Audit

By: Sandra Senft,Frederick Gallegos,Aleksandra Davis

The new edition of a bestseller, Information Technology Control and Audit, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of IT governance, controls, auditing applications, systems development, and operations. Aligned to and supporting the Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT), it examines emerging trend

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CRC Press

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1439893241

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The Socio-Emotional Competencies of Students: A Guide for Teachers

By: Ewa Banaszak,Robert Florkowski,Ida Laudańska-Krzemińska,Aleksandra Lubczyńska,Agata Wiza

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The Socio-Emotional Competencies of Students: A Guide for Teachers

By: Ewa Banaszak,Robert Florkowski,Ida Laudańska-Krzemińska,Aleksandra Lubczyńska,Agata Wiza

This book comprises materials that may serve as an inspiration to teachers and non-pedagogical employees who wish to develop socio-emotional skills in pupils. (...) There are various concepts of socio-emotional learning (SEL); however, they all refer to the development of personal and social skills, including learning how to cooperate, be empathetic, communicate, self-regulate (manage one’s emotions) and think critically. (...) Socio-emotional competencies of pupils foster their functioning in school and achieving – both personal and professional – success in the future. These competencies may be developed at school. The socio-emotional learning process is not a separate aspect of the didactic process; it is rather a philosophy of developing these competencies during each activity: lessons, project work, and school breaks. *** The guide is prepared in a way that makes it accessible. It is divided into subject sections, (...) and individual modules are not too extensive; each of them ends with a set of questions which encourage a reflection. Particular problems are also completed with examples from school practice. (…) A significant challenge in training teachers is not providing them with knowledge but working with teachers’ personal beliefs. Owing to these beliefs, information is either accepted or not, and the proposed solutions are implemented (or not) into school practices, both didactic and pedagogical. The authors offer questions that are very useful in terms of encouraging reflections on one’s own opinions, beliefs, practices and their consequences. Małgorzata Rosalska, Prof. UAM, Ph.D. The book has been created for the purposes of the EU project Building social and emotional skills to BOOST mental health resilience in children and young people in Europe and funded from the Horizon 2020 scheme.

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Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar

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8367450388

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9788367450386

Flight of Mammals: From Terrestrial Limbs to Wings

By: Aleksandra A. Panyutina,Leonid P. Korzun,Alexander N. Kuznetsov

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Flight of Mammals: From Terrestrial Limbs to Wings

By: Aleksandra A. Panyutina,Leonid P. Korzun,Alexander N. Kuznetsov

This book offers a new explanation for the development of flight in mammals and offers detailed morphological descriptions of mammals with flapping flight. The skeletomuscular apparatus of the shoulder girdle and forelimbs of tree shrews, flying lemurs and bats is described in detail. Special attention is paid to the recognition of peculiar features of the skeleton and joints. For the basic locomotor patterns of flying lemurs and bats, the kinematic models of the shoulder girdle elements are developed. The most important locomotor postures of these animals are analyzed by means of statics. The key structural characters of the shoulder girdle and forelimbs of flying lemurs and bats, the formation of which provided transition of mammals from terrestrial locomotion to gliding and then, to flapping flight, are recognized. The concept is proposed that preadaptations preceding the acquisition of flapping flight could have come from widely sprawled forelimb posture while gliding from tree to tree and running up the thick trunks. It is shown that flying lemur is an adequate morphofunctional model for an ancestral stage of bats. The evolutionary ecomorphological scenario describing probable transformational stages of typical parasagittal limbs of chiropteran ancestors into wings is developed.

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Springer

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3319087568

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Languages of the Amazon

By: Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd

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Languages of the Amazon

By: Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd

This guide and introduction to the extraordinary range of languages in Amazonia includes some of the most fascinating in the world and many of which are now teetering on the edge of extinction.

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Oxford University Press

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0199593566

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9780199593569

Nurturing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Support for Research Careers in Health and Biomedicine

By: Aleksandra Thomson,Rachael Gooberman-Hill

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Nurturing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Support for Research Careers in Health and Biomedicine

By: Aleksandra Thomson,Rachael Gooberman-Hill

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Providing scientific evidence to support equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in health and biomedicine, this book offers practical strategies and interventions for academic settings.

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Nurturing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

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Poland and European East-West Cooperation in the 1970s

Poland and European East-West Cooperation in the 1970s

Serial Verbs

Serial Verbs

Towards Creative Imagination in Victorian Literature

Towards Creative Imagination in Victorian Literature

Tężnie jako czynnik kształtujący mikrobiologiczną jakość powietrza w uzdrowisku

Tężnie jako czynnik kształtujący mikrobiologiczną jakość powietrza w uzdrowisku

Experiencing the Body in Yoga Practice

Experiencing the Body in Yoga Practice

Converging Minds

Converging Minds

The Ambiguous Legacy of Socialist Modernist Architecture in Central and Eastern Europe

The Ambiguous Legacy of Socialist Modernist Architecture in Central and Eastern Europe

Information Technology Control and Audit

Information Technology Control and Audit

The Socio-Emotional Competencies of Students: A Guide for Teachers

The Socio-Emotional Competencies of Students: A Guide for Teachers

Flight of Mammals: From Terrestrial Limbs to Wings

Flight of Mammals: From Terrestrial Limbs to Wings

Languages of the Amazon

Languages of the Amazon

Nurturing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Nurturing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

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