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The Presidential Expectations Gap

Public Attitudes Concerning the Presidency

By: Richard Waterman,Carol L. Silva,Hank Jenkins-Smith

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The Presidential Expectations Gap

Public Attitudes Concerning the Presidency

By: Richard Waterman,Carol L. Silva,Hank Jenkins-Smith

For decades, public expectations of U.S. presidents have become increasingly excessive and unreasonable. Despite much anecdotal evidence, few scholars have attempted to test the expectations gap thesis empirically. This is the first systematic study to prove the existence of the expectations gap and to identify the factors that contribute to the public’s disappointment in a given president. Using data from five original surveys, the authors confirm that the expectations gap is manifest in public opinion. It leads to lower approval ratings, lowers the chance that a president will be reelected, and even contributes to the success of the political party that does not hold the White House in congressional midterm elections. This study provides important insights not only on the American presidency and public opinion, but also on citizens’ trust in government.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472029711

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9780472029716

Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval

7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006, Alicante, Spain, September 20-22, 2006, Revised Selected Papers

By: Cross-Language Evaluation Forum. Workshop,Carol Peters

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Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval

7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006, Alicante, Spain, September 20-22, 2006, Revised Selected Papers

By: Cross-Language Evaluation Forum. Workshop,Carol Peters

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006, held in Alicante, Spain, September 2006. The revised papers presented together with an introduction were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on Multilingual Textual Document Retrieval, Domain-Specifig Information Retrieval, i-CLEF, QA@CLEF, ImageCLEF, CLSR, WebCLEF and GeoCLEF.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540749985

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9783540749981

Joy Bauer's Food Cures

Treat Common Health Concerns, Look Younger & Live Longer

By: Joy Bauer,Carol Svec

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Joy Bauer's Food Cures

Treat Common Health Concerns, Look Younger & Live Longer

By: Joy Bauer,Carol Svec

Comprehensively updated with cutting-edge research and expertise from one of the country's foremost nutritionists, Joy Bauer's Food Cures shows you how common health concerns--from beauty issues to life-threatening diseases--can be managed, treated, and sometimes even cured by the foods you eat. Inside you will find easy-to-follow 4-step food prescriptions, customizable and convenient meal plans, and delicious recipes for your favorite meals and snacks. With Joy's wisdom and practical, medically sound advice, you will learn how to use food as nature's ultimate medicine.

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Rodale Books

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1609613139

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Sacramento's Greenhaven/Pocket Area

By: Carol Ann Gregory

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Sacramento's Greenhaven/Pocket Area

By: Carol Ann Gregory

The Greenhaven/Pocket community is located just southwest of downtown Sacramento. Geographically, its unique location is within a meandering bend of the Sacramento River, thus termed "the Pocket" because it is bounded by the Sacramento River to the north, west, and south. Captured here in over 180 vintage images are the sorrows and triumphs of the area's earliest settlers, encompassing the continents of the world and spanning over a century. The Greenhaven/Pocket area was a rural farming community for 110 years before suburban development, with the most significant group of people contributing to the area's history and identity being Portuguese immigrants from the Azores Islands of Faial, Pico, Sao Jorge, and Terceira. They began arriving a few years after the Gold Rush and by 1880, almost half of the Portuguese population in Sacramento County was within these townships that encompassed and surrounded the Riverside/Pocket area. Pictured here is the evolution of this thriving community, from the earliest founding families and their sprawling ranches, to the Japanese settlement of World War I, and finally to the innovative Greenhaven 70 plan development in the 1960s that laid the foundation for today's community.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439630038

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Eyelid, Conjunctival, and Orbital Tumors

An Atlas and Textbook

By: Jerry A. Shields,Carol L. Shields

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Eyelid, Conjunctival, and Orbital Tumors

An Atlas and Textbook

By: Jerry A. Shields,Carol L. Shields

Written by world-renowned authorities in ocular oncology at the Wills Eye Institute, this text/atlas is a complete pictorial and textual guide to the clinical features, pathology, diagnosis, and management of eyelid, conjunctival, and orbital tumors and pseudotumors. It features 2,532 photographs and surgical drawings—2,137 in full color—that depict the clinical variations, histopathologic characteristics, and treatment of all neoplasms and related lesions. This thoroughly updated edition combines the content of Atlas of Eyelid and Conjunctival Tumors and Atlas of Orbital Tumors and contains over 50 percent new material. Each entity is presented in an easy-to-follow format: a concise description with references on the left-hand page and six illustrations on the right-hand page. The photographs show in precise detail the gross and microscopic features that distinguish each type of lesion. Professional drawings and intraoperative photographs demonstrate key surgical principles and procedures. A companion volume, Intraocular Tumors: An Atlas and Text, Second Edition, is also available. You can order the two books separately, or save 15% by ordering them together as a set.

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872

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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0781775787

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Virtual and Augmented Architecture (VAA’01)

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Architecture (VAA’01), Trinity College, Dublin, 21 -22 June 2001

By: Bob Fisher,Kenneth Dawson-Howe,Carol O'Sullivan

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Virtual and Augmented Architecture (VAA’01)

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Architecture (VAA’01), Trinity College, Dublin, 21 -22 June 2001

By: Bob Fisher,Kenneth Dawson-Howe,Carol O'Sullivan

This book focuseson the use of computer visionand graphics in architecture. It arose from a convergenceof several hot topics: 1. visualization of built environments for engineering, historical and other purposes, 2. virtual reconstruction of architecture from visual data of existing struc tures, whether via photogrammetric or range sensing techniques, and 3. augmentation of video data of architecture with useful information. The focus here is on architecture and howto present it, enhance it's abilities, make it easier to understand and make it accessibleto a larger public. Collective interest in this topic led to the International Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Architecture, whose papers are contained in this book. As editors, we were very pleased about how well the different papers chosen gavea nice focus to the topic and conference.It is clear that there are many different research approaches still active in this area - this makes it an exciting time. Wehope that this book captures that excitement and succeeds in bringing it to you.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1447103378

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Seeds

Ecology, Biogeography, and, Evolution of Dormancy and Germination

By: Carol C. Baskin,Jerry M. Baskin

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Seeds

Ecology, Biogeography, and, Evolution of Dormancy and Germination

By: Carol C. Baskin,Jerry M. Baskin

The new edition of Seeds contains new information on many topics discussed in the first edition, such as fruit/seed heteromorphism, breaking of physical dormancy and effects of inbreeding depression on germination. New topics have been added to each chapter, including dichotomous keys to types of seeds and kinds of dormancy; a hierarchical dormancy classification system; role of seed banks in restoration of plant communities; and seed germination in relation to parental effects, pollen competition, local adaption, climate change and karrikinolide in smoke from burning plants. The database for the world biogeography of seed dormancy has been expanded from 3,580 to about 13,600 species. New insights are presented on seed dormancy and germination ecology of species with specialized life cycles or habitat requirements such as orchids, parasitic, aquatics and halophytes. Information from various fields of science has been combined with seed dormancy data to increase our understanding of the evolutionary/phylogenetic origins and relationships of the various kinds of seed dormancy (and nondormancy) and the conditions under which each may have evolved. This comprehensive synthesis of information on the ecology, biogeography and evolution of seeds provides a thorough overview of whole-seed biology that will facilitate and help focus research efforts. - Most wide-ranging and thorough account of whole-seed dormancy available - Contains information on dormancy and germination of more than 14,000 species from all the continents – even the two angiosperm species native to the Antarctica continent - Includes a taxonomic index so researchers can quickly find information on their study organism(s) and - Provides a dichotomous key for the kinds of seed dormancy - Topics range from fossil evidence of seed dormancy to molecular biology of seed dormancy - Much attention is given to the evolution of kinds of seed dormancy - Includes chapters on the basics of how to do seed dormancy studies; on special groups of plants, for example orchids, parasites, aquatics, halophytes; and one chapter devoted to soil seed banks - Contains a revised, up-dated classification scheme of seed dormancy, including a formula for each kind of dormancy - Detailed attention is given to physiological dormancy, the most common kind of dormancy on earth

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Elsevier

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0124166830

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Developing Multilingual Writing

Agency, Audience, Identity

By: Hiroe Kobayashi,Carol Rinnert

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Developing Multilingual Writing

Agency, Audience, Identity

By: Hiroe Kobayashi,Carol Rinnert

With millions of people becoming multilingual writers in the globalized digital world, this book helps to empower writers to connect with their readers and project their identities effectively across languages, social contexts, and genres. In a series of closely-related studies that build on each other, we look comprehensively at how writers develop their ability to construct meaning for different audiences in multiple languages. This book, which draws on various approaches (including a social view of writing, multicompetence, adaptive transfer, complex systems theory, motivation, and translanguaging), contributes to on-going efforts to integrate differing approaches to multilingual writing research. This book focusses on how writer agency (control over text construction), audience awareness (ability to meet expectations of prospective readers), and writer identity (projection of image of the writer in the text) progress as multilingual writers gain more experience across languages. The within-writer, cross-sectional text analysis (Chapters 2-5) examines 185 essays written in Japanese and English by eight groups of writers from novice to advanced (N=103), supplemented by insights from these writers’ reflections. We explore how they employ three kinds of text features (discourse types, metadiscourse, and self-representation), which relate to their developing agency, audience, and writer identity in their text construction, and propose a new model for writer voice construction based on those features. The four case studies (Chapters 6-9) focus on five university students and six professionals to examine closely how individual writers’ agency, audience, and identity are interrelated in their text construction in two or three languages and diverse genres, including academic and creative writing. The combined studies provide new insights into multilingual writing development by revealing the close interrelationship among these three principal aspects of writing across languages. They also demonstrate the writers’ multi-directional use of dynamic transfer (reuse and reshaping) for L1, L2, and L3 text construction, and the use of mixed languages L1/L2 or L1/L3 (translanguaging) for composing processes, in addition to the creative power of multilingual writers. One significant contribution of this book is to provide models of innovative ways to analyze text and new directions for writing research that go beyond complexity, accuracy, and fluency. Categories and detailed examples of text features used for writer voice construction (e.g., specific characteristics of Personal, Emergent, and Mature Voice) are helpful for writing teachers and for developing writers to improve ways of conveying their own intended writer identity to the reader. The studies break new ground by extending our analysis of L2 writing to the same writers’ L1 and L3 writing and multiple genres.

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Springer Nature

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3031120450

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Eyelid, Conjunctival, and Orbital Tumors: An Atlas and Textbook

By: Jerry A. Shields,Carol L. Shields

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Eyelid, Conjunctival, and Orbital Tumors: An Atlas and Textbook

By: Jerry A. Shields,Carol L. Shields

For outstanding visual clarity in ocular diagnosis ... nothing else comes close. In this updated and revised third edition, world-renowned authorities from the Wills Eye Hospital provide outstanding guidance on recognition, evaluation, and treatment of ocular tumors, highlighted by more than 3,000 stunning photographs and surgical drawings. This unsurpassed ocular oncology resource is a comprehensive guide to the clinical features, diagnosis, management, and pathology of eyelid, conjunctival, and orbital tumors and pseudotumors, depicting clinical variations, treatment and histopathologic characteristics of the wide spectrum of neoplasms and related lesions. Now brought thoroughly up to date with recent clinical and scientific innovations, this unique volume offers more high-quality images than any other text/atlas in the field. Presents each entity in an easy-to-follow format: a concise description with references on the left-hand page and six illustrations on the right-hand page. Depicts in precise photographic detail the gross and microscopic features that distinguish each type of lesion, while professional drawings and intraoperative photographs demonstrate key surgical principles and procedures. Includes numerous new references regarding diagnosis and treatment, as well as new scientific tables containing key information for your clinical practice. Features 25% new images, including panoramic images, surgical images, diagnostic testing images from multiple modalities, and updated, high resolution MRI and CT scans. Covers new information on evolving conditions such as IgG4 orbital inflammatory disease, solitary fibrous tumor of the orbit, and lymphoid proliferations of the orbit, conjunctiva, and globe; as well as new methods of nonsurgical therapy such as topical chemotherapy, intravenous chemotherapy, and immunotherapy and biological therapy with Rituxan for lymphoma; and new information on classification of various tumors and expected outcomes are clearly displayed in table format.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1496321499

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Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories

6th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2005, Vienna, Austria, 21-23 September, 2005, Revised Selected Papers

By: Cross-Language Evaluation Forum. Workshop,Carol Peters

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Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories

6th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2005, Vienna, Austria, 21-23 September, 2005, Revised Selected Papers

By: Cross-Language Evaluation Forum. Workshop,Carol Peters

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 6th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2005. The book presents 111 revised papers together with an introduction. Topical sections include multilingual textual document retrieval, cross-language and more, monolingual experiments, domain-specific information retrieval, interactive cross-language information retrieval, multiple language question answering, cross-language retrieval in image collections, cross-language speech retrieval, multilingual Web track, cross-language geographical retrieval, and evaluation issues.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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354045697X

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Clinical Dermatology

By: Carol A. Soutor,Maria Hordinsky

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Clinical Dermatology

By: Carol A. Soutor,Maria Hordinsky

A comprehensive single-volume text on clinical dermatology Featuring a strong focus on diagnosis and treatment, Clinical Dermatology is a concise yet thorough guide to 100 of the most common dermatologic conditions. This latest addition to the LANGE Clinical series is enriched by a full-color presentation and a logical, easy-to-use organization. More than 250 full-color illustrations Divided into three sections: Fundamentals of Diagnosis and Treatment, Common Skin Diseases, and Problem Based Dermatology (which includes cases) "Pearls" and "Pitfalls" throughout the text

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0071772960

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Exploring Development Through Childhood

By: Martin Fabes,Richard Fabes,Carol Lynn Martin

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Exploring Development Through Childhood

By: Martin Fabes,Richard Fabes,Carol Lynn Martin

This text uses a chronological organization to teach principles of development through childhood and encourages readers to reflect on their own personal experience of development. A brief paperback version of Exploring Child Development, the authors' goal was to address the need for a book that actually showed the child in the context of human relationships. Children do not develop in a vacuum, as the process of development is shaped by the continuous interplay between individuals and their ever-changing environments. To illustrate the uniqueness of these individuals and environments, the authors have integrated examples of diversity throughout the text, in the domains of physical, psychological and cultural differences, gender, race, ethnicity, and social and economic status.

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Allyn & Bacon

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0205342124

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9780205342129

Psychology

By: Carole Wade,Carol Tavris

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Psychology

By: Carole Wade,Carol Tavris

The aim of this book is to encourage students to think critically and imaginatively about psychology, and to apply what they learn to their own lives and the world around them. Included are quick quizzes, to reinforce learning

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0673996476

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The Presidential Expectations Gap

The Presidential Expectations Gap

Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval

Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval

Joy Bauer's Food Cures

Joy Bauer's Food Cures

Sacramento's Greenhaven/Pocket Area

Sacramento's Greenhaven/Pocket Area

Eyelid, Conjunctival, and Orbital Tumors

Eyelid, Conjunctival, and Orbital Tumors

Virtual and Augmented Architecture (VAA’01)

Virtual and Augmented Architecture (VAA’01)

Seeds

Seeds

Developing Multilingual Writing

Developing Multilingual Writing

Eyelid, Conjunctival, and Orbital Tumors: An Atlas and Textbook

Eyelid, Conjunctival, and Orbital Tumors: An Atlas and Textbook

Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories

Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories

Clinical Dermatology

Clinical Dermatology

Exploring Development Through Childhood

Exploring Development Through Childhood

Psychology

Psychology

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