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Language Across the Curriculum & CLIL in English as an Additional Language (EAL) Contexts

Theory and Practice

By: Angel M.Y. Lin

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Language Across the Curriculum & CLIL in English as an Additional Language (EAL) Contexts

Theory and Practice

By: Angel M.Y. Lin

This book will be of interest to a broad readership, regardless of whether they have a background in sociolinguistics, functional linguistics or genre theories. It presents an accessible “meta-language” (i.e. a language for talking about language) that is workable and usable for teachers and researchers from both language and content backgrounds, thus facilitating collaboration across content and language subject panels. Chapters 1 to 3 lay the theoretical foundation of this common meta-language by critically reviewing, systematically presenting and integrating key theoretical resources for teachers and researchers in this field. In turn, Chapters 4 to 7 focus on issues in pedagogy and assessment, and on school-based approaches to LAC and CLIL, drawing on both research studies and the experiences of front-line teachers and school administrators. Chapter 8 provides a critical and reflexive angle on the field by asking difficult questions regarding how LAC and CLIL are often situated in contexts characterized by inequality of access to the linguistic and cultural capitals, where the local languages of the students are usually neglected or viewed unfavourably in relation to the L2 in mainstream society, and where teachers are usually positioned as recipients of knowledge rather than makers of knowledge. In closing, Chapter 9 reviews the state of the art in the field and proposes directions for future inquiry.

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9811018022

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9789811018022

Effective Lagrangians for the Standard Model

By: Antonio Dobado,Angel Gomez-Nicola,Antonio L. Maroto,Jose R. Pelaez

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Effective Lagrangians for the Standard Model

By: Antonio Dobado,Angel Gomez-Nicola,Antonio L. Maroto,Jose R. Pelaez

This book is devoted to some recently developed techniques in quantum field theory (QFT), as well as to their main applications to different areas of parti cle physics. All together they are known as the effective or phenomenological Lagrangian formalism. Motivated by the enormous amount of work carried out in this field during the last years, our purpose when writing this book has been to give a modern and pedagogical exposition of the most relevant as pects of the topic. We hope that our efforts will be useful, both for graduated students in the search for a solid theoretical background in modern phe nomenology and for more experimented particle physicists willing to learn about this field or to start working on it. Even though we have tried to keep the book as self-contained as possible, it has been written assuming that the reader is familiar, at least, with the most basic concepts and techniques of QFT, gauge theories, the standard model (SM) and differential geometry, at the level of graduate studies. It is therefore possible that senior high-energy physicists may find the book too detailed and so they could probably omit several sections. The book is divided into two main parts and the appendices. In the first part we introduce the fundamentals of the effective Lagrangian formalism and other basic topics such as Ward identities, non-linear sigma models (NLSM), spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB), anomalies, the SM symmetries, etc.

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3642591914

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Radical Dharma

Talking Race, Love, and Liberation

By: Rev. angel Kyodo williams,Lama Rod Owens,Jasmine Syedullah, Ph.D.

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Radical Dharma

Talking Race, Love, and Liberation

By: Rev. angel Kyodo williams,Lama Rod Owens,Jasmine Syedullah, Ph.D.

Igniting a long-overdue dialogue about how the legacy of racial injustice and white supremacy plays out in society at large and Buddhist communities in particular, this urgent call to action outlines a new dharma that takes into account the ways that racism and privilege prevent our collective awakening. The authors traveled around the country to spark an open conversation that brings together the Black prophetic tradition and the wisdom of the Dharma. Bridging the world of spirit and activism, they urge a compassionate response to the systemic, state-sanctioned violence and oppression that has persisted against black people since the slave era. With national attention focused on the recent killings of unarmed black citizens and the response of the Black-centered liberation groups such as Black Lives Matter, Radical Dharma demonstrates how social transformation and personal, spiritual liberation must be articulated and inextricably linked. Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Lama Rod Owens, and Jasmine Syedullah represent a new voice in American Buddhism. Offering their own histories and experiences as illustrations of the types of challenges facing dharma practitioners and teachers who are different from those of the past five decades, they ask how teachings that transcend color, class, and caste are hindered by discrimination and the dynamics of power, shame, and ignorance. Their illuminating argument goes beyond a demand for the equality and inclusion of diverse populations to advancing a new dharma that deconstructs rather than amplifies systems of suffering and prepares us to weigh the shortcomings not only of our own minds but also of our communities. They forge a path toward reconciliation and self-liberation that rests on radical honesty, a common ground where we can drop our need for perfection and propriety and speak as souls. In a society where profit rules, people's value is determined by the color of their skin, and many voices—including queer voices—are silenced, Radical Dharma recasts the concepts of engaged spirituality, social transformation, inclusiveness, and healing.

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North Atlantic Books

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1623170990

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American Routes

Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of Race

By: Angel Adams Parham

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American Routes

Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of Race

By: Angel Adams Parham

American Routes provides a comparative and historical analysis of the migration and integration of white and free black refugees from nineteenth century St. Domingue/Haiti to Louisiana and follows the progress of their descendants over the course of two hundred years. The refugees reinforced Louisiana's tri-racial system and pushed back the progress of Anglo-American racialization by several decades. But over the course of the nineteenth century, the ascendance of the Anglo-American racial system began to eclipse Louisiana's tri-racial Latin/Caribbean system. The result was a racial palimpsest that transformed everyday life in southern Louisiana. White refugees and their descendants in Creole Louisiana succumbed to pressure to adopt a strict definition of whiteness as purity that conformed to standards of the Anglo-American racial system. Those of color, however, held on to the logic of the tri-racial system which allowed them to inhabit an intermediary racial group that provided a buffer against the worst effects of Jim Crow segregation. The St. Domingue/Haiti migration case foreshadows the experiences of present-day immigrants of color from Latin-America and the Caribbean, many of whom chafe against the strictures of the binary U.S. racial system and resist by refusing to be categorized as either black or white. The St. Domingue/Haiti case study is the first of its kind to compare the long-term integration experiences of white and free black nineteenth century immigrants to the U.S. In this sense, it fills a significant gap in studies of race and migration which have long relied on the historical experience of European immigrants as the standard to which all other immigrants are compared.

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Oxford University Press

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0190624760

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Unstoppable

A 90-Day Plan to Biohack Your Mind and Body for Success

By: Ben Angel

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Unstoppable

A 90-Day Plan to Biohack Your Mind and Body for Success

By: Ben Angel

Unlock Your Potential. Become Unstoppable. Unable to overcome debilitating fatigue and depression, bestselling author and personal devel-opment expert Ben Angel set out on a 90-day mission to find and conquer the root of his rut. The result of his journey is Unstoppable, a highly revealing book where Ben gives you a look into the world of nootropics, wearable devices, and nutrition and delivers a guide to help you reduce stress, increase focus, improve physical performance, and eliminate your fears. You’ll hear from world-leading biohackers, neuroscientists, doctors, and New York Times bestselling author Dave Asprey as Ben helps you: Identify the seven triggers causing your brain fog Discover the key to better health, more energy, and a better mood Optimize your mental performance and feel more alert with six nootropics Form new behaviors and break old patterns (the real secret to your success) Interrupt your stress response through breathing Align your biochemistry with your soul’s purpose in three easy steps Use progressive overload to become an upgraded version of yourself Plus, gain access to the Unstoppable Assessment to discover your identity type, pinpoint your energy levels, and create a plan to break through your own limits and become unstoppable. When we look at the most successful people, we usually look at their habits—their behaviors, their day-to-day rituals, their dedication. But what about the mind? Ben Angel hits this idea head-on in Unstoppable, tackling peak performance with biohacking strategies that will blow your mind. —Dr. Ivan Misner, founder of BNI and New York Times bestselling author

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Entrepreneur Press

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1613084501

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9781613084502

The Relationship between Language and Spatial Ability

An Analysis of Spatial Language for Reconstructing the Solving of Spatial Tasks

By: Angel Mizzi

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The Relationship between Language and Spatial Ability

An Analysis of Spatial Language for Reconstructing the Solving of Spatial Tasks

By: Angel Mizzi

This work investigates how different fifth-grade students solve spatial-verbal tasks and the role of language in this process. Based on a synthesis of theoretical foundations and methodological issues for supporting the relationship between spatial ability and language, this present study examines and classifies strategies used by students as well as the obstacles they encounter when solving spatial tasks in the reconstruction method.

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Springer

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3658206322

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Spin Glass Theory And Beyond: An Introduction To The Replica Method And Its Applications

By: Marc Mezard,Giorgio Parisi,Miguel Angel Virasoro

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Spin Glass Theory And Beyond: An Introduction To The Replica Method And Its Applications

By: Marc Mezard,Giorgio Parisi,Miguel Angel Virasoro

This book contains a detailed and self-contained presentation of the replica theory of infinite range spin glasses. The authors also explain recent theoretical developments, paying particular attention to new applications in the study of optimization theory and neural networks. About two-thirds of the book are a collection of the most interesting and pedagogical articles on the subject.

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World Scientific Publishing Company

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9813103914

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9789813103917

Laser Chemistry

Spectroscopy, Dynamics and Applications

By: Helmut H. Telle,Angel González Ureña,Robert J. Donovan

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Laser Chemistry

Spectroscopy, Dynamics and Applications

By: Helmut H. Telle,Angel González Ureña,Robert J. Donovan

Laser Chemistry: Spectroscopy, Dynamics and Applications provides a basic introduction to the subject, written for students and other novices. It assumes little in the way of prior knowledge, and carefully guides the reader through the important theory and concepts whilst introducing key techniques and applications.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470059400

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9780470059401

Computer Vision in the Infrared Spectrum

Challenges and Approaches

By: Michael Teutsch,Angel D. Sappa,Riad I. Hammoud

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Computer Vision in the Infrared Spectrum

Challenges and Approaches

By: Michael Teutsch,Angel D. Sappa,Riad I. Hammoud

Human visual perception is limited to the visual-optical spectrum. Machine vision is not. Cameras sensitive to the different infrared spectra can enhance the abilities of autonomous systems and visually perceive the environment in a holistic way. Relevant scene content can be made visible especially in situations, where sensors of other modalities face issues like a visual-optical camera that needs a source of illumination. As a consequence, not only human mistakes can be avoided by increasing the level of automation, but also machine-induced errors can be reduced that, for example, could make a self-driving car crash into a pedestrian under difficult illumination conditions. Furthermore, multi-spectral sensor systems with infrared imagery as one modality are a rich source of information and can provably increase the robustness of many autonomous systems. Applications that can benefit from utilizing infrared imagery range from robotics to automotive and from biometrics to surveillance. In this book, we provide a brief yet concise introduction to the current state-of-the-art of computer vision and machine learning in the infrared spectrum. Based on various popular computer vision tasks such as image enhancement, object detection, or object tracking, we first motivate each task starting from established literature in the visual-optical spectrum. Then, we discuss the differences between processing images and videos in the visual-optical spectrum and the various infrared spectra. An overview of the current literature is provided together with an outlook for each task. Furthermore, available and annotated public datasets and common evaluation methods and metrics are presented. In a separate chapter, popular applications that can greatly benefit from the use of infrared imagery as a data source are presented and discussed. Among them are automatic target recognition, video surveillance, or biometrics including face recognition. Finally, we conclude with recommendations for well-fitting sensor setups and data processing algorithms for certain computer vision tasks. We address this book to prospective researchers and engineers new to the field but also to anyone who wants to get introduced to the challenges and the approaches of computer vision using infrared images or videos. Readers will be able to start their work directly after reading the book supported by a highly comprehensive backlog of recent and relevant literature as well as related infrared datasets including existing evaluation frameworks. Together with consistently decreasing costs for infrared cameras, new fields of application appear and make computer vision in the infrared spectrum a great opportunity to face nowadays scientific and engineering challenges.

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Springer Nature

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3031018265

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9783031018268

The Songs of the Sage

(4Q510, 4Q511)

By: Joseph L. Angel

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The Songs of the Sage

(4Q510, 4Q511)

By: Joseph L. Angel

This volume provides a fresh edition of the Songs of the Sage (4Q510, 4Q511) arranged according to the sequence of the fragments determined by the material reconstruction of the best-preserved manuscript, 4Q511. It is an unparalleled, comprehensive resource for anyone interested in studying this ancient Jewish anti-demonic prayer text.

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BRILL

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9004519424

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9789004519428

Design Techniques For Integrated Cmos Class-d Audio Amplifiers

By: Adrian Israel Colli-menchi,Miguel Angel Rojas-gonzalez,Edgar Sanchez-sinencio

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Design Techniques For Integrated Cmos Class-d Audio Amplifiers

By: Adrian Israel Colli-menchi,Miguel Angel Rojas-gonzalez,Edgar Sanchez-sinencio

This invaluable textbook covers the theory and circuit design techniques to implement CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor) class-D audio amplifiers integrated circuits. The first part of the book introduces the motivation and fundamentals of audio amplification. The loudspeaker's operation and main audio performance metrics explains the limitations in the amplification process. The second part of this book presents the operating principle and design procedure of the class-D amplifier main architectures to provide the performance tradeoffs. The circuit design procedures involved in each block of the class-D amplifier architecture are highlighted. The third part of this book discusses several important design examples introducing state-of-the-art architectures and circuit design techniques to improve the audio performance, power consumption, and efficiency of standard class-D audio amplifiers.

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9814704261

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Foundations of MIMO Communication

By: Robert W. Heath Jr.,Angel Lozano

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Foundations of MIMO Communication

By: Robert W. Heath Jr.,Angel Lozano

Understand the fundamentals of wireless and MIMO communication with this accessible and comprehensive text. Viewing the subject through an information theory lens, but also drawing on other perspectives, it provides a sound treatment of the key concepts underpinning contemporary wireless communication and MIMO, all the way to massive MIMO. Authoritative and insightful, it includes over 330 worked examples and 450 homework problems, with solutions and MATLAB code and data available online. Altogether, this is an excellent resource for instructors and graduate students, as well as an outstanding reference for researchers and practicing engineers.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108577083

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Computational Statistics Handbook with MATLAB

By: Wendy L. Martinez,Angel R. Martinez

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Computational Statistics Handbook with MATLAB

By: Wendy L. Martinez,Angel R. Martinez

As with the bestselling first edition, Computational Statistics Handbook with MATLAB, Second Edition covers some of the most commonly used contemporary techniques in computational statistics. With a strong, practical focus on implementing the methods, the authors include algorithmic descriptions of the procedures as well as

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CRC Press

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1420010867

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9781420010862

The FOS and JUN Families of Transcription Factors

By: Peter E. Angel,Peter Herrlich

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The FOS and JUN Families of Transcription Factors

By: Peter E. Angel,Peter Herrlich

This book introduces and analyzes the crucial role of AP-1 in cell growth, proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis. AP-1 is the endpoint of several pathways of signal transduction, including one that triggers cancerous growth. The control of its activity is an issue of basic science, cancer therapy, and other diseases. The chapters provide multiple viewpoints of the emerging data on AP-1, including its role as a factor regulating genes involved in the metastatic properties of cancer, as a factor that interacts with viral gene products, and as a part of the mechanism by which steroid and retinoic acid receptors function as anti-inflammatory proteins.

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1351357115

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Top-Down Design of High-Performance Sigma-Delta Modulators

By: Fernando Medeiro,Belén Pérez Verdú,Angel Rodríguez-Vázquez

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Top-Down Design of High-Performance Sigma-Delta Modulators

By: Fernando Medeiro,Belén Pérez Verdú,Angel Rodríguez-Vázquez

The interest for :I:~ modulation-based NO converters has significantly increased in the last years. The reason for that is twofold. On the one hand, unlike other converters that need accurate building blocks to obtain high res olution, :I:~ converters show low sensitivity to the imperfections of their building blocks. This is achieved through extensive use of digital signal pro cessing - a desirable feature regarding the implementation of NO interfaces in mainstream CMOS technologies which are better suited for implementing fast, dense, digital circuits than accurate analog circuits. On the other hand, the number of applications with industrial interest has also grown. In fact, starting from the earliest in the audio band, today we can find :I:~ converters in a large variety of NO interfaces, ranging from instrumentation to commu nications. These advances have been supported by a number of research works that have lead to a considerably large amount of published papers and books cov ering different sub-topics: from purely theoretical aspects to architecture and circuit optimization. However, so much material is often difficultly digested by those unexperienced designers who have been committed to developing a :I:~ converter, mainly because there is a lack of methodology. In our view, a clear methodology is necessary in :I:~ modulator design because all related tasks are rather hard.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1475730039

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Multimodal Interaction in Image and Video Applications

By: Angel D. Sappa,Jordi Vitrià

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Multimodal Interaction in Image and Video Applications

By: Angel D. Sappa,Jordi Vitrià

Traditional Pattern Recognition (PR) and Computer Vision (CV) technologies have mainly focused on full automation, even though full automation often proves elusive or unnatural in many applications, where the technology is expected to assist rather than replace the human agents. However, not all the problems can be automatically solved being the human interaction the only way to tackle those applications. Recently, multimodal human interaction has become an important field of increasing interest in the research community. Advanced man-machine interfaces with high cognitive capabilities are a hot research topic that aims at solving challenging problems in image and video applications. Actually, the idea of computer interactive systems was already proposed on the early stages of computer science. Nowadays, the ubiquity of image sensors together with the ever-increasing computing performance has open new and challenging opportunities for research in multimodal human interaction. This book aims to show how existing PR and CV technologies can naturally evolve using this new paradigm. The chapters of this book show different successful case studies of multimodal interactive technologies for both image and video applications. They cover a wide spectrum of applications, ranging from interactive handwriting transcriptions to human-robot interactions in real environments.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642359329

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9783642359323

Mountain High Pharms Hemp and Cannabis DressingsSauces*Salads & Sides

By: Anne Ott,Angel OGrady

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Mountain High Pharms Hemp and Cannabis DressingsSauces*Salads & Sides

By: Anne Ott,Angel OGrady

Get all that you need to make your meal complete. Sides, Salads, Dressings, Sauces All of the wonderful compliments to any meal. Healthy, simple easy to convert recipes.

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Lulu.com

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1312575743

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Family, Intergenerational Solidarity, and Post-Traditional Society

By: Ronald J. Angel,Jacqueline L. Angel

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Family, Intergenerational Solidarity, and Post-Traditional Society

By: Ronald J. Angel,Jacqueline L. Angel

Almost all families will at some time have to make difficult decisions concerning aging family members, involving institutionalization, moving from medical interventions to palliative care, and even physician-assisted death. Yet, the historical transition from traditional to post-traditional society means that these decisions are no longer determined by strict rules and norms, and the growing role of the welfare state has been accompanied by changes in the nature of family and social solidarity. Advances in medical technology and greatly expanded life spans further complicate the decision-making process. Family, Intergenerational Solidarity, and Post-Traditional Society examines a range of difficult issues that families commonly face during the family life course within these contexts. The book explores both practical and ethical questions regarding filial responsibility and the roles of the state and adult children in providing financial and instrumental support to dependent parents. The book follows the experiences and deliberations of a fictional family through a series of vignettes in which its members must make difficult decisions about the treatment of a seriously ill parent. Advanced undergraduate and graduate students in family studies, gerontology/aging, sociology, social work, health and social care, and nursing will find this essential reading.

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Routledge

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1351701762

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Counternetwork

Countering the Expansion of Transnational Criminal Networks

By: Angel Rabasa,Christopher M. Schnaubelt,Peter Chalk,Douglas Farah,Gregory Midgette,Howard J. Shatz

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Counternetwork

Countering the Expansion of Transnational Criminal Networks

By: Angel Rabasa,Christopher M. Schnaubelt,Peter Chalk,Douglas Farah,Gregory Midgette,Howard J. Shatz

This report presents operational characteristics of transnational criminal networks originating in South America, identifies U.S. government policies and programs to counter these networks, and examines the military's role in that context.

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Rand Corporation

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0833094777

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9780833094773

Uniting Diverse Organizations

Managing Goal-oriented Advocacy Networks

By: Angel Saz-Carranza

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Uniting Diverse Organizations

Managing Goal-oriented Advocacy Networks

By: Angel Saz-Carranza

Networks are made up of organizations. Often a central unit, or "Network Administrative Organization" (NAO), manages an entire network of organizations that collaborate to achieve an overall network-level goal. Goal-directed networks are those that come together to achieve a shared objective, in addition to the individual organization-specific goals. This book’s focus is on the management of goal-directed networks. Despite the fact that formalized goal-directed interorganizational networks have become extremely popular in the public and nonprofit sectors, as many social problems require concerted action, publications on managing goal-directed networks do not exist. In this book, author Angel Saz-Carranza examines four networks that differ by size, scope, and geographical location. He offers a novel and innovative framework focusing on networks’ inherent internal tensions between unity and diversity, paralleling the differentiation/integration tension found in organization theory, which has not previously been applied to interorganizational networks.

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0415899028

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9780415899024

Global Equilibrium Exchange Rates

Euro, Dollar, “Ins,” “Outs,” and Other Major Currencies in a Panel Cointegration Framework

By: Mr.Angel J. Ubide,J. Humberto Lopez,Mr.Enrique Alberola Ila,Ms.Susana Garcia Cervero

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Global Equilibrium Exchange Rates

Euro, Dollar, “Ins,” “Outs,” and Other Major Currencies in a Panel Cointegration Framework

By: Mr.Angel J. Ubide,J. Humberto Lopez,Mr.Enrique Alberola Ila,Ms.Susana Garcia Cervero

This paper presents a methodology for calculating bilateral equilibrium exchange rates for a panel of currencies in a way that guarantees global consistency. The methodology has three parts: a theoretical model that encompasses the balance of payments and the Balassa-Samuelson approaches to real exchange rate determination; an unobserved components decomposition in a cointegration framework that identifies a time-varying equilibrium real exchange rate; and an algebraic transformation that extracts bilateral equilibrium nominal rates. The results uncover that, by the start of Stage III of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), the euro was significantly undervalued against the dollar and the pound, but overvalued against the yen. The paper also shows that the four major EMU currencies locked their parities with the euro at a rate close to equilibrium.

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International Monetary Fund

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1451858736

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9781451858730

The Muslim World After 9/11

By: Angel Rabasa

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The Muslim World After 9/11

By: Angel Rabasa

Examines the dynamics that drive changes in the religio-political landscape of the Muslim world, the effects of 9/11, the global war on terrorism, and the war in Iraq. The authors present a typology of ideological tendencies; identify the factors that produce religious extremism religious violence; assess key cleavages along sectarian, ethnic, regional, and national lines; and identify possible strategies and military options for the United States to pursue in this critical and volatile part of the world.

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Rand Corporation

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0833037129

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9780833037121

The Broken Compass

Parental Involvement with Children's Education

By: Keith Robinson,Angel L. Harris

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The Broken Compass

Parental Involvement with Children's Education

By: Keith Robinson,Angel L. Harris

It seems like common sense that children do better when parents are actively involved in their schooling. But how well does the evidence stack up? The Broken Compass puts this question to the test in the most thorough scientific investigation to date of how parents across socioeconomic and ethnic groups contribute to the academic performance of K-12 children. The study's surprising discovery is that no clear connection exists between parental involvement and improved student performance. Keith Robinson and Angel Harris assessed over sixty measures of parental participation, at home and in school. Some of the associations they found between socioeconomic status and educational involvement were consistent with past studies. Yet other results ran contrary to previous research and popular perceptions. It is not the case that Hispanic and African American parents are less concerned with education than other ethnic groups--or that "tiger parenting" among Asian Americans gets the desired results. In fact, many low-income parents across a wide spectrum want to be involved in their children's school lives, but they often receive little support from the school system. And for immigrant families, language barriers only worsen the problem. While Robinson and Harris do not wish to discourage parents' interest, they believe that the time has come to seriously reconsider whether greater parental involvement can make much of a dent in the basic problems facing their children's education today. This provocative study challenges some of our most cherished beliefs about the role of family in educational success.

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Harvard University Press

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0674727428

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9780674727427

Wonder Boy

Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley

By: Angel Au-Yeung,David Jeans

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Wonder Boy

Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley

By: Angel Au-Yeung,David Jeans

A Financial Times best business book of 2023 In 1998, at the age of 24, Tony Hsieh sold his first company to Microsoft for $265 million. In 2009, at the age of 35, he sold his e-commerce company, Zappos, to Amazon for $1.2 billion. In 2020, at the age of 46, he died. Tony Hsieh revolutionized both the tech world and corporate culture. He was a business visionary. He was also a man in search of happiness. So why did it all go so wrong? Tony Hsieh’s first successful venture was in middle school, selling personalized buttons. At Harvard, he made a profit compiling and selling study guides. From there, he went on to build the billion-dollar online shoe empire of Zappos. The secret to his success? Making his employees happy. At its peak, Zappos’s employee-friendly culture was so famous across the tech industry that it inspired copycats and earned a cult following. Then Hsieh moved the Zappos headquarters to Las Vegas, where he personally funded a nine-figure campaign to revitalize the city’s historic downtown area. But as Hsieh fell deeper into his struggles with mental health and drug addiction, the people making up his inner circle began changing from friends to enablers. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with a wide range of people whose lives Hsieh touched, journalists Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans craft a rich portrait of a man who was plagued by his eternal search for happiness and ultimately succumbed to his own demons.

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Weighted Bergman Spaces Induced by Rapidly Increasing Weights

By: Jose Angel Pelaez,Jouni Rattya

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Weighted Bergman Spaces Induced by Rapidly Increasing Weights

By: Jose Angel Pelaez,Jouni Rattya

This monograph is devoted to the study of the weighted Bergman space $A^p_\omega$ of the unit disc $\mathbb{D}$ that is induced by a radial continuous weight $\omega$ satisfying $\lim_{r\to 1^-}\frac{\int_r^1\omega(s)\,ds}{\omega(r)(1-r)}=\infty.$ Every such $A^p_\omega$ lies between the Hardy space $H^p$ and every classical weighted Bergman space $A^p_\alpha$. Even if it is well known that $H^p$ is the limit of $A^p_\alpha$, as $\alpha\to-1$, in many respects, it is shown that $A^p_\omega$ lies ``closer'' to $H^p$ than any $A^p_\alpha$, and that several finer function-theoretic properties of $A^p_\alpha$ do not carry over to $A^p_\omega$.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821888021

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IMS

A Development and Deployment Perspective

By: Khalid Al-Begain,Chitra Balakrishna,Luis Angel Galindo,David Moro Fernandez

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IMS

A Development and Deployment Perspective

By: Khalid Al-Begain,Chitra Balakrishna,Luis Angel Galindo,David Moro Fernandez

Providing an holistic approach to IMS technologies, IMS: A Development and Deployment Perspective explores service architecture for development and delivery of IMS services. Approaching IMS from the perspective of the user and the service provider it examines both the current state of deployment and future trends. The book offers a realistic view of IMS deployment to operators and service providers, giving practical examples, application cases and business models. It also presents IMS deployment strategies based on real-life deployment statistics from a live IMS test bed connected to an operator network and proof-of-concept applications including inter-operability trials and results. Focusing on IMS potential in terms of service creation, service composition and service provision the book discusses the ability of IMS to act not only as a service delivery framework, but also as a service integration framework. It presents the possible future of IMS in terms of convergence with Internet services, including discussions about integration with web technologies including the WIMS 2.0 initiative. The book enables a better understanding of how web technologies can complement the IMS service architecture and pioneer the post-IMS progress and success. Presents a novel service-oriented approach to IMS services and applications from a deployment perspective Places IMS in the context of the current telecom environment providing business models through WIMS 2.0 initiative Predicts the trends and potential future for the IMS evolution Provides a technical foundation to IMS principles and architecture Gives examples and solutions to the challenges of service creation and implementation and analyses deployment hurdles and interoperability trials Describes trends of convergence based on IMS and Web technologies

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0470750014

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Recent Progress in Controlling Chaos

By: Miguel Angel Fern ndez Sanju n,Celso Grebogi

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Recent Progress in Controlling Chaos

By: Miguel Angel Fern ndez Sanju n,Celso Grebogi

This book provides a collection of research papers on one of the topics where the applications of chaos have been more fruitful: controlling chaos. Here, new theoretical ideas, as experimental implementations of controlling chaos, are included, while the applications contained in this volume can be referred to turbulent magnetized plasmas, chaotic neural networks, modeling city traffic and models of interest in celestial mechanics. Recent Progress in Controlling Chaos will provide an overview of the recent progress in this field, which will be very useful for students and researchers. The authors of these research works are prominent in their areas of specialization, and they offer an excellent state-of-the-art of this field and its most recent developments and progress.

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World Scientific

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9814291692

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Enlightenment East and West

By: Leonard Angel

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Enlightenment East and West

By: Leonard Angel

This book shows that mysticism is incomplete without scientific rationalism, and that our current social and political projects cannot be completed without assimilating the values and practices of mysticism. It discusses cross-cultural ethics, mysticism and value theory, mysticism and metaphysics, mysticism and the theory of knowledge, ethics and religion, parapsychology, patriarchy, and social and political history.

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State University of New York Press

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0791494985

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Introduction to the Philosophy of Educational Research

By: Omar A. Ponce,Jose Gomez Galan,Nellie Pagán-Maldonado,Angel L. Canales Encarnación

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Introduction to the Philosophy of Educational Research

By: Omar A. Ponce,Jose Gomez Galan,Nellie Pagán-Maldonado,Angel L. Canales Encarnación

This book provides an accessible introduction to the philosophy of educational research. A historical-philosophical journey presents the development of research methods from their origins to the present day. In addition, the book reflects on how research methods have influenced scientific effectiveness. Throughout, the book covers the principal things that need to be known today about the theory and practice of educational research, its epistemological bases, and its development as a discipline within scientific knowledge. The historical events that defined both the methodological evolution and the current situation of contemporary educational research are described to enable its understanding.This book provides an accessible introduction to the philosophy of educational research. A historical-philosophical journey presents the development of research methods from their origins to the present day.. It can also be used as didactic material for classroom discussions on educational research, educational philosophy, and current controversies in education. Its usefulness reaches the social sciences, humanities, and experimental sciences in all areas related to teaching and training. The basis of educational research is exposed, both in its concepts or philosophical visions and methodologies, which ultimately define what education means today.

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CRC Press

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100079699X

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Supramolecular Electrochemistry

By: Angel E. Kaifer,Marielle Gómez-Kaifer

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Supramolecular Electrochemistry

By: Angel E. Kaifer,Marielle Gómez-Kaifer

This book describes the electrochemical behavior of supramolecular systems. Special emphasis will be given to the electrochemistry of host-guest complexes, monolayer and multilayer assemblies, dendrimers, and other supramolecular assemblies. A fundamental theme throughout the book is to explore the effects that supramolecular structure exerts on the thermodynamics and kinetics of electrochemical reactions. Conversely, attention will be placed to the various ways in which electrochemical or redox conversions can be utilized to control or affect the structure or properties of supramolecular systems. This first book on this topic will be of value for graduate students and advanced researchers in both electrochemistry and supramolecular chemistry.

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John Wiley & Sons

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3527613617

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Growth and Transport in Nanostructured Materials

Reactive Transport in PVD, CVD, and ALD

By: Angel Yanguas-Gil

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Growth and Transport in Nanostructured Materials

Reactive Transport in PVD, CVD, and ALD

By: Angel Yanguas-Gil

This book will address the application of gas phase thin film methods, including techniques such as evaporation, sputtering, CVD, and ALD to the synthesis of materials on nanostructured and high aspect-ratio high surface area materials. We have chosen to introduce these topics and the different application fields from a chronological perspective: we start with the early concepts of step coverage and later conformality in semiconductor manufacturing, and how later on the range of application branched out to include others such as energy storage, catalysis, and more broadly nanomaterials synthesis. The book will describe the ballistic and continuum descriptions of gas transport on nanostructured materials and then will move on to incorporate the impact of precursor-surface interaction. We will finally conclude approaching the subjects of feature shape evolution and the connection between nano and reactor scales and will briefly present different advanced algorithms that can be used to effectively compute particle transport, in some cases borrowing from other disciplines such as radiative heat transfer. The book gathers in a single place information scattered over thirty years of scientific research, including the most recent results in the field of Atomic Layer Deposition. Besides a mathematical description of the fundamentals of thin film growth in nanostructured materials, it includes analytic expressions and plots that can be used to predict the growth using gas phase synthesis methods in a number of ideal approximations. The focus on the fundamental aspects over particular processes will broaden the appeal and the shelf lifetime of this book. The reader of this book will gain a thorough understanding on the coating of high surface area and nanostructured materials using gas phase thin film deposition methods, including the limitations of each technique. Those coming from the theoretical side will gain the knowledge required to model the growth process, while those readers more interested in the process development will gain the theoretical understanding will be useful for process optimization.

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Springer

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3319246720

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Orthogonal Sets and Polar Methods in Linear Algebra

Applications to Matrix Calculations, Systems of Equations, Inequalities, and Linear Programming

By: Enrique Castillo,Angel Cobo,Francisco Jubete,Rosa Eva Pruneda

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Orthogonal Sets and Polar Methods in Linear Algebra

Applications to Matrix Calculations, Systems of Equations, Inequalities, and Linear Programming

By: Enrique Castillo,Angel Cobo,Francisco Jubete,Rosa Eva Pruneda

A unique, applied approach to problem solving in linearalgebra Departing from the standard methods of analysis, this unique bookpresents methodologies and algorithms based on the concept oforthogonality and demonstrates their application to both standardand novel problems in linear algebra. Covering basic theory oflinear systems, linear inequalities, and linear programming, itfocuses on elegant, computationally simple solutions to real-worldphysical, economic, and engineering problems. The authors clearlyexplain the reasons behind the analysis of different structures andconcepts and use numerous illustrative examples to correlate themathematical models to the reality they represent. Readers aregiven precise guidelines for: * Checking the equivalence of two systems * Solving a system in certain selected variables * Modifying systems of equations * Solving linear systems of inequalities * Using the new exterior point method * Modifying a linear programming problem With few prerequisites, but with plenty of figures and tables,end-of-chapter exercises as well as Java and Mathematica programsavailable from the authors' Web site, this is an invaluabletext/reference for mathematicians, engineers, applied scientists,and graduate students in mathematics.

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1118031148

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A Quest for Symmetry

Selected Works of Bunji Sakita

By: B. Sakita,Keiji Kikkawa,Miguel Angel Virasoro,Spenta R. Wadia

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A Quest for Symmetry

Selected Works of Bunji Sakita

By: B. Sakita,Keiji Kikkawa,Miguel Angel Virasoro,Spenta R. Wadia

This important book contains selected research papers of Prof Bunji Sakita. Included are his pioneering papers on SU(6) symmetry, strong coupling theory, string theory, supersymmetry and the method of collective coordinates. There is also a vivid personal account of his journey in physics. The book brings to light some of the key concepts of modern high energy physics.

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World Scientific

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9810236433

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Down Home Cookin' from Up On the Mountain

By: Anne Ott,Angel O'Grady

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Down Home Cookin' from Up On the Mountain

By: Anne Ott,Angel O'Grady

Mother and Daughter have joined together again to bring you a wonderful collection of "Down Home" style recipes that have been collected from family, friends and through their travels. Enjoy Earths Delightful Pleasures!

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Lulu.com

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1304747131

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Mathematical Methods and Models for Economists

By: Angel de la Fuente

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Mathematical Methods and Models for Economists

By: Angel de la Fuente

This book is intended as a textbook for a first-year PhD course in mathematics for economists and as a reference for graduate students in economics. It provides a self-contained, rigorous treatment of most of the concepts and techniques required to follow the standard first-year theory sequence in micro and macroeconomics. The topics covered include an introduction to analysis in metric spaces, differential calculus, comparative statics, convexity, static optimization, dynamical systems and dynamic optimization. The book includes a large number of applications to standard economic models and over two hundred fully worked-out problems.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139643339

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