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The Art of Useless

Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China

By: Calvin Hui

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The Art of Useless

Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China

By: Calvin Hui

Since embarking on economic reforms in 1978, the People’s Republic of China has also undergone a sweeping cultural reorganization, from proletarian culture under Mao to middle-class consumer culture today. Under these circumstances, how has a Chinese middle class come into being, and how has consumerism become the dominant ideology of an avowedly socialist country? The Art of Useless offers an innovative way to understand China’s unprecedented political-economic, social, and cultural transformations, showing how consumer culture helps anticipate, produce, and shape a new middle-class subjectivity. Examining changing representations of the production and consumption of fashion in documentaries and films, Calvin Hui traces how culture contributes to China’s changing social relations through the cultivation of new identities and sensibilities. He explores the commodity chain of fashion on a transnational scale, from production to consumption to disposal, as well as media portrayals of the intersections of clothing with class, gender, and ethnicity. Hui illuminates key cinematic narratives, such as a factory worker’s desire for a high-quality suit in the 1960s, an intellectual’s longing for fashionable clothes in the 1980s, and a white-collar woman’s craving for brand-name commodities in the 2000s. He considers how documentary films depict the undersides of consumption—exploited laborers who fantasize about the products they manufacture as well as the accumulation of waste and its disposal—revealing how global capitalism renders migrant factory workers, scavengers, and garbage invisible. A highly interdisciplinary work that combines theoretical nuance with masterful close analyses, The Art of Useless is an innovative rethinking of the emergence of China’s middle-class consumer culture.

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Columbia University Press

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0231549830

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9780231549837

World Congress on Superconductivity

Westin Galleria Hotel, Houston, Texas

By: Calvin G. Burnham,R. D. Kane

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World Congress on Superconductivity

Westin Galleria Hotel, Houston, Texas

By: Calvin G. Burnham,R. D. Kane

The development of high temperature superconductors is one of the major technological discoveries of this century. The impact and interactions from the scientific, technical, business and political aspects will be presented.

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World Scientific

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9971506106

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9789971506100

Ternary Quantum Dots

Synthesis, Properties, and Applications

By: Oluwatobi Samuel Oluwafemi,El Hadji Mamour Sakho,Sundararajan Parani,Thabang Calvin Lebepe

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Ternary Quantum Dots

Synthesis, Properties, and Applications

By: Oluwatobi Samuel Oluwafemi,El Hadji Mamour Sakho,Sundararajan Parani,Thabang Calvin Lebepe

Ternary Quantum Dots: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications reviews the latest advances in ternary (I-III-VI) chalcopyrite quantum dots (QDs), along with their synthesis, properties and applications. Sections address the fundamental key concepts of ternary quantum dots, progress in synthesis strategies (i.e., organic and aqueous synthesis), and characterization methods (i.e., transmission electron microscopy, dynamic light scattering, etc.). Properties of ternary quantum dots are comprehensively reviewed, including optical, chemical and physical properties. The factors and mechanisms of the cytotoxicity of ternary quantum dot-based nanomaterials are also described. Since ternary chalcopyrite quantum dots are less toxic and more environmentally benign than conventional binary II-VI chalcogenide quantum dots, they are being investigated to replace conventional quantum dots in a range of applications. Thus, this book reviews QDs in various applications, such as solar cells, photocatalytic, sensors and bio-applications. - Reviews fundamental concepts of ternary quantum dots and quantum dot-nanocomposites including the most relevant synthesis strategies, key properties, and characterization techniques - Delves into the cytotoxicity of quantum dots looking at the factors and mechanisms that influence cytotoxicity including demonstration of cytotoxicity assays for in vitro and in vivo tests - Touches on the many applications of ternary quantum dots including biomedical applications, applications in solar cells, sensing applications, and photocatalytic applications

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Woodhead Publishing

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0128183047

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9780128183045

Developer's Guide to Collections in Microsoft .NET

By: Calvin Janes

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Developer's Guide to Collections in Microsoft .NET

By: Calvin Janes

Build the skills to apply Microsoft .NET collections effectively Put .NET collections to work—and manage issues with GUI data binding, threading, data querying, and storage. Led by a data collection expert, you'll gain task-oriented guidance, exercises, and extensive code samples to tackle common problems and improve application performance. This one-stop reference is designed for experienced Microsoft Visual Basic and C# developers—whether you’re already using collections or just starting out. Discover how to: Implement arrays, associative arrays, stacks, linked lists, and other collection types Apply built in .NET collection classes by learning their methods and properties Add enumerator, dictionary, and other .NET collection interfaces to your classes Query collections by writing simple to complex Microsoft LINQ statements Synchronize data across threads using built in .NET synchronization classes Enhance your custom collection classes with serialization support Use simple data binding to display collections in Windows Forms, Microsoft Silverlight, and Windows Presentation Foundation

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Pearson Education

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0735665273

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9780735665279

Lower Permian Colonial Rugose Corals, Western and Northwestern Pangaea

Taxonomy and Distribution

By: Jerzy Fedorowski,E. W. Bamber,Calvin H. Stevens

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Lower Permian Colonial Rugose Corals, Western and Northwestern Pangaea

Taxonomy and Distribution

By: Jerzy Fedorowski,E. W. Bamber,Calvin H. Stevens

The most comprehensive summary available on the stratigraphic occurrence, geographic distribution, phylogeny, and taxonomy of Early Permian colonial rugose corals that occupied the Cordilleran - Arctic - Uralian (CAU) Realm, along the northwestern and western marine shelves and accreted terranes of the ancient supercontinent Pangaea. It is based on all previous studies by other coral specialists, a thorough review of all published data, and on information from a very large number of new collections from new areas. This book contains a new classification and phylogenetic scheme, based on critical restudy of the entire coral fauna at all taxonomic levels."--Publisher's website.

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NRC Research Press

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0660196646

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9780660196640

Stem Cell Research Developments

By: Calvin A. Fong

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Stem Cell Research Developments

By: Calvin A. Fong

Stem cells are primal cells common to all multi-cellular organisms that retain the ability to renew themselves through cell division and can differentiate into a range of specialised cell types. This book presents research in this field.

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Nova Publishers

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1600216013

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9781600216015

Global Fever

How to Treat Climate Change

By: William H. Calvin

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Global Fever

How to Treat Climate Change

By: William H. Calvin

Passionately written yet thoroughly grounded in the latest climate science, "Global Fear" delivers both a stark warning and an ambitious blueprint for saving the future of the planet. Photos.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226092046

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9780226092041

Smoking and Health Research Frontiers

By: Calvin B. Fong

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Smoking and Health Research Frontiers

By: Calvin B. Fong

Smoking is a greater cause of death and disability than any single disease, says the World Health Organisation. According to their figures, it is responsible for approximately five million deaths world-wide every year. Tobacco smoking is a known or probable cause of approximately 25 diseases including cancer, heart attacks and strokes. The WHO says that its impact on world health is still not fully assessed. This book offers leading edge research from around the globe with a focus on smoking cessation and the effects of passive smoking on health.

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1600214800

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XAFS for Everyone

By: Scott Calvin

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XAFS for Everyone

By: Scott Calvin

XAFS for Everyone provides a practical, thorough guide to x-ray absorption fine-structure (XAFS) spectroscopy for both novices and seasoned practitioners from a range of disciplines. The text is enhanced with more than 200 figures as well as cartoon characters who offer informative commentary on the different approaches used in XAFS spectroscopy. The book covers sample preparation, data reduction, tips and tricks for data collection, fingerprinting, linear combination analysis, principal component analysis, and modeling using theoretical standards. It describes both near-edge (XANES) and extended (EXAFS) applications in detail. Examples throughout the text are drawn from diverse areas, including materials science, environmental science, structural biology, catalysis, nanoscience, chemistry, art, and archaeology. In addition, five case studies from the literature demonstrate the use of XAFS principles and analysis in practice. The text includes derivations and sample calculations to foster a deeper comprehension of the results. Whether you are encountering this technique for the first time or looking to hone your craft, this innovative and engaging book gives you insight on implementing XAFS spectroscopy and interpreting XAFS experiments and results. It helps you understand real-world trade-offs and the reasons behind common rules of thumb.

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CRC Press

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0415684048

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9780415684040

Population, Ethnicity, And Nation-building

By: Calvin Goldscheider

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Population, Ethnicity, And Nation-building

By: Calvin Goldscheider

This volume focuses on the linkages between ethnicity and population processes in the context of nation-building. Using historical and contemporary illustrations in a variety of countries, parts of this complex puzzle are scrutinized through the prisms of sociology, history, political science, anthropology, and demography Themes of ethnic group formation and transformation, persistence and assimilation, demographic transitions and convergences, and the processes of political mobilization and economic development are described and compared. Case studies from Southeast Asia, China, Africa, Brazil, Israel, the former Soviet Union, Canada, Europe, and the United States are presented by leading scholars. The examples illustrate the diversity of contexts that connect population, ethnicity, and nation-building, raising new questions and comparative problems. The importance of ethnic conflict for issues of inequality and group disadvantage in the emerging societies of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East; in the politics of race and immigration in western societies; and in European and American history emerges from the research. The multidisciplinary emphasis addresses core themes of ethnicity and nation-building in comparative perspectives.

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Routledge

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1000307727

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9781000307726

Cell Apoptosis Research Progress

By: Calvin V. Burnside

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Cell Apoptosis Research Progress

By: Calvin V. Burnside

Apoptosis is the regulated form of cell death. It is a complex process defined by a set of characteristic morphological and biochemical features that involves the active participation of affected cells in a self-destruction cascade. This title looks at research into this programmed cell death.

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1604560665

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Mesenteric Principles of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Basic and Applied Science

By: John Calvin Coffey,Rishabh Sehgal,Dara Walsh

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Mesenteric Principles of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Basic and Applied Science

By: John Calvin Coffey,Rishabh Sehgal,Dara Walsh

Mesenteric-based gastrointestinal and colorectal surgery has been practiced internationally for over a century. However, it is not yet universally adopted, and considerable variations exist. Such variations are explained by the historical disparity that has persisted between anatomic and surgical approaches to the intestinal mesentery. While mesenteric-based surgery is far from new, it is remarkable that its anatomic basis has only recently been formally described. This means that key mesenteric principles of intestinal and colorectal surgery can now be taught, conducted and developed, in an entirely standardised manner. This book is composed of two parts. In this new book surgical anatomy, activities and operations are carefully defined, and beautifully illustrated, to enable all surgeons to conduct mesenteric-based intestinal and colorectal surgery, appropriately and with confidence.

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1498780652

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9781498780650

Hacker & Moore's Essentials of Obstetrics and Gynecology E-Book

By: Neville F. Hacker,Joseph C. Gambone,Calvin J. Hobel

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Hacker & Moore's Essentials of Obstetrics and Gynecology E-Book

By: Neville F. Hacker,Joseph C. Gambone,Calvin J. Hobel

Hacker & Moore's Essentials of Obstetrics and Gynecology, by Drs. Neville F. Hacker, Joseph C. Gambone, and Calvin J. Hobel, is the #1 choice of ob/gyn residents and medical students because of its concise focus, comprehensive coverage, and easy-to-use format. This new edition features updated clinical cases and assessments, new Clinical Key boxes, and thoroughly revised text and images that reflect today's best knowledge on the evaluation, diagnosis, and management of a wide range of ob/gyn disorders. - Concise, comprehensive content is well organized, highly accessible, and relevant to today's practice. - High-quality, full-color design for maximum readability. - New Clinical Key boxes and judicious use of bolding make it easy to identify the high-yield material you need to know. - Content is aligned to APGO/CREOG objectives to ensure coverage of essential, clinically relevant material.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323388523

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9780323388528

Neurological Aspects of Substance Abuse

By: John Calvin M. Brust

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Neurological Aspects of Substance Abuse

By: John Calvin M. Brust

The 2nd Edition of this comprehensive text features practical guidance on how to diagnose and manage the neurological effects and complications of every major category of recreationally used drugs. Book jacket.

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Butterworth-Heinemann

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0750673133

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9780750673136

Some Assembly Required

Work, Community, and Politics in China’s Rural Enterprises

By: Calvin Chen

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Work, Community, and Politics in China’s Rural Enterprises

By: Calvin Chen

One linchpin of China’s expansion has been township and village enterprises (TVEs), a vast group of firms with diverse modes of ownership and structure. Based on the author’s fieldwork in Zhejiang, this book explores the emergence and success of rural enterprises. This study also examines how ordinary rural residents have made sense of and participated in the industrialization engulfing them in recent decades. How much does TVE success depend on the ruthless exploitation of workers? How did peasants-turned-workers develop such impressive skills so quickly? To what extent do employees’ values affect the cohesion and operations of companies? And how long can peasant workers sustain these efforts in the face of increasing market competition? The author argues that the resilience of these factories has as much to do with how authority is defined and how people interact as it does with the ability to generate profits. How social capital was deployed and replenished at critical moments was central to the eventual rise and consolidation of these enterprises as effective, robust institutions. Without mutual respect, company leaders would have found it impossible to improve their firms’ productivity, workplace stability, and long-term viability.

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BRILL

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1684174759

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9781684174751

Manual of Airway Management in Critical Care

eBook without Multimedia

By: Jarrod M. Mosier,Calvin A. Brown III,Matteo Parotto,Raquel R. Bartz

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Manual of Airway Management in Critical Care

eBook without Multimedia

By: Jarrod M. Mosier,Calvin A. Brown III,Matteo Parotto,Raquel R. Bartz

Patterned after the renowned Walls Manual of Emergency Airway Management, Manual of Airway Management in Critical Care is a concise, focused reference on this challenging topic specifically for ICU providers. Drs. Jarrod M. Mosier, Calvin A. Brown III, Matteo Parotto, and Raquel R. Bartz bring their extensive expertise in critical care airway management to this all-new volume, as well as Dr. Mosier’s experience as director of the nationally recognized The Difficult Airway Course: Critical CareTM. An excellent resource for intensivists, advanced practice providers, critical care nurses, and respiratory therapists, this first-of-its-kind text reflects ICU airway management from cover to cover: its unique standards of care, its unique risks, and its unique body of literature that set it apart from other medical disciplines.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975214218

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The Walls Manual of Emergency Airway Management

By: Calvin A. Brown,John C. Sakles,Nathan W. Mick

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The Walls Manual of Emergency Airway Management

By: Calvin A. Brown,John C. Sakles,Nathan W. Mick

The Walls Manual of Emergency Airway Management is the world’s most trusted reference on emergency airway management, and is the foundation text in the nationally recognized The Difficult Airway Course: EmergencyTM and The Difficult Airway Course: EMSTM. Its practical, hands-on approach provides all the concrete guidance you need to effectively respond to any airway emergency, whether inside the hospital, emergency department, urgent care setting, or anywhere else where airway emergencies may occur. Apply the latest evidence-based approaches thanks to state-of-the-art coverage that includes new chapters on “The Difficult Airway Cart” and “Human Factors in Emergency Airway Management,” expanded coverage on delayed sequence intubation (DSI), and comprehensive updates throughout. Efficiently overcome any challenge in airway management with the aid of step-by-step instructions, mnemonics, easy-to-follow algorithms, and rich illustrations. Glean expert insights from a brand-new editorial team led by Calvin Brown III, MD, who is Dr. Walls’ colleague and protégé, and consisting of the same experts who teach The Difficult Airway Course: EmergencyTM and The Difficult Airway Course: AnesthesiaTM.

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1496351983

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Religion and the Technological Future

An Introduction to Biohacking, Artificial Intelligence, and Transhumanism

By: Calvin Mercer,Tracy J. Trothen

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Religion and the Technological Future

An Introduction to Biohacking, Artificial Intelligence, and Transhumanism

By: Calvin Mercer,Tracy J. Trothen

We live in an age of rapid technological advancement. Never before has humankind wielded so much power over our own biology. Biohacking, the attempt at human enhancement of physical, cognitive, affective, moral, and spiritual traits, has become a global phenomenon. This textbook introduces religious and ethical implications of biohacking, artificial intelligence, and other technological changes, offering perspectives from monotheistic and karmic religions and applied ethics. These technological breakthroughs are transforming our societies and ourselves fundamentally via genetic modification, tissue engineering, artificial intelligence, robotics, the merging of computer technology with human biology, extended reality, brain stimulation, and nanotechnology. The book also considers the extreme possibilities of mind uploading, cryonics, and superintelligence. Chapters explore some of the political, economic, sociological, and psychological dimensions of these advances, with bibliographies for further study and questions for discussion. The technological future is here – and it is up to us to decide its moral and religious shape.

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Springer Nature

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3030623599

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9783030623593

Discrete Hamiltonian Systems

Difference Equations, Continued Fractions, and Riccati Equations

By: Calvin Ahlbrandt,A.C. Peterson

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Discrete Hamiltonian Systems

Difference Equations, Continued Fractions, and Riccati Equations

By: Calvin Ahlbrandt,A.C. Peterson

This book should be accessible to students who have had a first course in matrix theory. The existence and uniqueness theorem of Chapter 4 requires the implicit function theorem, but we give a self-contained constructive proof ofthat theorem. The reader willing to accept the implicit function theorem can read the book without an advanced calculus background. Chapter 8 uses the Moore-Penrose pseudo-inverse, but is accessible to students who have facility with matrices. Exercises are placed at those points in the text where they are relevant. For U. S. universities, we intend for the book to be used at the senior undergraduate level or beginning graduate level. Chapter 2, which is on continued fractions, is not essential to the material of the remaining chapters, but is intimately related to the remaining material. Continued fractions provide closed form representations of the extreme solutions of some discrete matrix Riccati equations. Continued fractions solution methods for Riccati difference equations provide an approach analogous to series solution methods for linear differential equations. The book develops several topics which have not been available at this level. In particular, the material of the chapters on continued fractions (Chapter 2), symplectic systems (Chapter 3), and discrete variational theory (Chapter 4) summarize recent literature. Similarly, the material on transforming Riccati equations presented in Chapter 3 gives a self-contained unification of various forms of Riccati equations. Motivation for our approach to difference equations came from the work of Harris, Vaughan, Hartman, Reid, Patula, Hooker, Erbe & Van, and Bohner.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1475724675

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Optimizing Decision Making in the Apparel Supply Chain Using Artificial Intelligence (AI)

From Production to Retail

By: Calvin Wong,Z. X. Guo,S Y S Leung

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Optimizing Decision Making in the Apparel Supply Chain Using Artificial Intelligence (AI)

From Production to Retail

By: Calvin Wong,Z. X. Guo,S Y S Leung

Practitioners in apparel manufacturing and retailing enterprises in the fashion industry, ranging from senior to front line management, constantly face complex and critical decisions. There has been growing interest in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to enhance this process, and a number of AI techniques have already been successfully applied to apparel production and retailing. Optimizing decision making in the apparel supply chain using artificial intelligence (AI): From production to retail provides detailed coverage of these techniques, outlining how they are used to assist decision makers in tackling key supply chain problems. Key decision points in the apparel supply chain and the fundamentals of artificial intelligence techniques are the focus of the opening chapters, before the book proceeds to discuss the use of neural networks, genetic algorithms, fuzzy set theory and extreme learning machines for intelligent sales forecasting and intelligent product cross-selling systems. - Helps the reader gain an understanding of the key decision points in the apparel supply chain - Discusses the fundamentals of artificial intelligence techniques for apparel management techniques - Considers the use of neural networks in selecting the location of apparel manufacturing plants

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0857097849

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Teaching English Language Skills for University EFL Students: From Theories to Implementation

By: Debora Tri Ragawanti,Yustinus Calvin Gai Mali,Sanditya Jati Swara

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Teaching English Language Skills for University EFL Students: From Theories to Implementation

By: Debora Tri Ragawanti,Yustinus Calvin Gai Mali,Sanditya Jati Swara

This book addresses some essential topics in four English language skills. i.e., Listening, Reading, Speaking and Writing. The topics are implemented in a lesson plan for EFL university students. The lesson plan is based on a particular theory. More to that, reflections on how the theory implementation in the lesson plan can promote and hinder learning are also provided. The book consists of six chapters and each chapter has an introduction, theoretical base, teaching procedures, learning potentials, considerations, and conclusion.

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Uwais Inspirasi Indonesia

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6231330419

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9786231330413

Navigating Conflict

How Youth Handle Trouble in a High-Poverty School

By: Calvin Morrill,Michael Musheno

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Navigating Conflict

How Youth Handle Trouble in a High-Poverty School

By: Calvin Morrill,Michael Musheno

Urban schools are often associated with violence, chaos, and youth aggression. But is this reputation really the whole picture? In Navigating Conflict, Calvin Morrill and Michael Musheno challenge the violence-centered conventional wisdom of urban youth studies, revealing instead the social ingenuity with which teens informally and peacefully navigate strife-ridden peer trouble. Taking as their focus a multi-ethnic, high-poverty school in the American southwest, the authors complicate our vision of urban youth, along the way revealing the resilience of students in the face of carceral disciplinary tactics. Grounded in sixteen years of ethnographic fieldwork, Navigating Conflict draws on archival and institutional evidence to locate urban schools in more than a century of local, state, and national change. Morrill and Musheno make the case for schools that work, where negative externalities are buffered and policies are adapted to ever-evolving student populations. They argue that these kinds of schools require meaningful, inclusive student organizations for sustaining social trust and collective peer dignity alongside responsive administrative leadership. Further, students must be given the freedom to associate and move among their peers, all while in the vicinity of watchful, but not intrusive adults. Morrill and Musheno make a compelling case for these foundational conditions, arguing that only through them can schools enable a rich climate for learning, achievement, and social advancement.

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022652387X

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The Monsoon Diaries

A Doctor’s Journey of Hope and Healing from the ER Frontlines to the Far Reaches of the World

By: Calvin D. Sun

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The Monsoon Diaries

A Doctor’s Journey of Hope and Healing from the ER Frontlines to the Far Reaches of the World

By: Calvin D. Sun

There are heroes among us, and Dr. Calvin Sun is one of them. Read this book." -Lisa Ling, journalist The Monsoon Diaries is the firsthand account of Dr. Calvin Sun, an emergency room doctor who worked tirelessly on the front lines in multiple hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing upon the lessons he learned from his adventures traveling to more than 190 countries in ten years, as well as from the grief he experienced as a teen when his father died, Dr. Sun shares his journey, from growing up as a young Asian American in New York to his calling first to medical school and then to the open road. He believes that the fight for a better world creates meaning when all feels meaningless, and he hopes that telling his story will help readers reframe this tragic moment in our lifetimes into possibility, with the goal of building a more empathetic society.

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Harper Horizon

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0785291768

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9780785291763

Master Techniques in Facial Rejuvenation E-Book

By: Babak Azizzadeh,Mark R. Murphy,Calvin M. Johnson,Guy G Massry,Rebecca Fitzgerald

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Master Techniques in Facial Rejuvenation E-Book

By: Babak Azizzadeh,Mark R. Murphy,Calvin M. Johnson,Guy G Massry,Rebecca Fitzgerald

Comprehensive coverage, multidisciplinary guidance, and step-by-step instruction help you choose the best approach and get the best results for any facial rejuvenation challenge. Master Techniques in Facial Rejuvenation, 2nd Edition, by Drs. Babak Azizzadeh, Mark Murphy, Calvin Johnson, Guy Massry, and Rebecca Fitzgerald, presents multiple facial rejuvenation techniques by experts in the fields of plastic surgery, facial plastic surgery, otolaryngology, oculoplastic surgery and dermatology. Competing and complementary techniques focus on all areas of the face, providing a balanced and systematic approach to this fast-growing field. - Presents step-by-step, full-color depictions of the authors' surgical techniques, with emphasis on minimally invasive surgery, recent trends, and adjunctive procedures. - Addresses facial shape and proportions with injectable agents in youth and age. - Provides multiple viewpoints on advanced and time-tested techniques. - Features expanded coverage of non-invasive procedures such as Botulinum toxin and fillers, neuromodulators, tightening devices, and panfacial nonsurgical rejuvenation, plus newly updated information on face lifts. - Includes all-new chapters on non-surgical brow and eyelid rejuvenation, ptosis repair and blepharoplasty, deep plane rhytidectomy modifications, and orthognathic aesthetic facial surgery. - Expert ConsultTM eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, Q&As, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323378269

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Dances with Dependency

Out of Poverty Through Self-Reliance

By: Calvin Helin

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Dances with Dependency

Out of Poverty Through Self-Reliance

By: Calvin Helin

Dances with Dependency offers effective strategies to eliminate welfare dependency and help eradicate poverty among indigenous populations. Beginning with an impassioned and insightful portrait of today’s native communities, it connects the prevailing impoverishment and despair directly to a “dependency mindset” forged by welfare economics. To reframe this debilitating mindset, it advocates policy reform in conjunction with a return to native peoples’ ten-thousand-year tradition of self-reliance based on personal responsibility and cultural awareness. Author Calvin Helin, un-tethered to agendas of political correctness or partisan politics, describes the mounting crisis as an impending demographic tsunami threatening both the United States and Canada. In the United States, where government entitlement programs for diverse ethnic minorities coexist with an already huge national debt, he shows how prosperity is obviously at stake. This looming demographic tidal wave viewed constructively, however, can become an opportunity for reform—among not only indigenous peoples of North America but any impoverished population struggling with dependency in inner cities, developing nations, and post-totalitarian countries.

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1497638879

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Hacker & Moore's Essentials of Obstetrics and Gynecology

By: Neville F. Hacker,Joseph C. Gambone,Calvin J. Hobel

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Hacker & Moore's Essentials of Obstetrics and Gynecology

By: Neville F. Hacker,Joseph C. Gambone,Calvin J. Hobel

Hacker & Moore's Essentials of Obstetrics and Gynecology, by Drs. Neville F. Hacker, Joseph C. Gambone, and Calvin J. Hobel, is the #1 choice of ob/gyn residents and medical students because of its concise focus, comprehensive coverage, and easy-to-use format. This new edition features updated clinical cases and assessments, new Clinical Key boxes, and thoroughly revised text and images that reflect today's best knowledge on the evaluation, diagnosis, and management of a wide range of ob/gyn disorders. Concise, comprehensive content is well organized, highly accessible, and relevant to today's practice. High-quality, full-color design for maximum readability. Online access to updated clinical cases, self-assessment tools, an obstetric statistics resource, and a glossary of common terms. New Clinical Key boxes and judicious use of bolding make it easy to identify the high-yield material you need to know. Content is aligned to APGO/CREOG objectives to ensure coverage of essential, clinically relevant material.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1455775584

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Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design

By: John W. M. Rogers,Calvin Plett

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Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design

By: John W. M. Rogers,Calvin Plett

This newly revised and expanded edition of the 2003 Artech House classic, Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design, serves as an up-to-date, practical reference for complete RFIC know-how. The second edition includes numerous updates, including greater coverage of CMOS PA design, RFIC design with on-chip components, and more worked examples with simulation results. By emphasizing working designs, this book practically transports you into the authors' own RFIC lab so you can fully understand the function of each design detailed in this book. Among the RFIC designs examined are RF integrated LC-based filters, VCO automatic amplitude control loops, and fully integrated transformer-based circuits, as well as image reject mixers and power amplifiers. If you are new to RFIC design, you can benefit from the introduction to basic theory so you can quickly come up to speed on how RFICs perform and work together in a communications device. A thorough examination of RFIC technology guides you in knowing when RFICs are the right choice for designing a communication device. This leading-edge resource is packed with over 1,000 equations and more than 435 illustrations that support key topics.

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1607839806

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The Making of Assassin's Creed: 15th Anniversary

By: Alex Calvin,Ubisoft

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The Making of Assassin's Creed: 15th Anniversary

By: Alex Calvin,Ubisoft

An oversized full-color hardcover that celebrates fifteen years of the iconic Assassin’s Creed video game saga! Discover the genesis of each Assassin’s Creed game and get an insider's look at the efforts that went into creating one the biggest franchises in the video game industry. In observance of Assassin’s Creed’s fifteen-year anniversary, Ubisoft and Dark Horse Books have teamed up to create an extensive examination into the creation of the award-winning Assassin’s Creed franchise. Featuring gorgeous art from over a decade-and-a-half of development, and detailed interviews with the games’ past and present creators, this is the perfect companion piece for any aspiring Assassin.

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Dark Horse Comics

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1506734863

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