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Leading Academic Change

Vision, Strategy, Transformation

By: Elaine P. Maimon

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Leading Academic Change

Vision, Strategy, Transformation

By: Elaine P. Maimon

Written by a sitting college president who has presided over transformative change at a state university, this book takes on the big questions and issues of change and change management, what needs to be done and how to do it. Writing in a highly accessible style, the author recommends changes for higher education such as the reallocation of resources to support full-time faculty members in foundation-level courses, navigable pathways from community college to the university, infusion rather than proliferation of courses, and the role of state universities in countering the disappearance of the middle class. The book describes how these changes can be made, as well as why we must make them if our society is to thrive in the twenty-first century.

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Leading Academic Change

Vision, Strategy, Transformation

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Personality Traits and Drug Consumption

A Story Told by Data

By: Elaine Fehrman,Vincent Egan,Alexander N. Gorban,Jeremy Levesley,Evgeny M. Mirkes,Awaz K. Muhammad

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Personality Traits and Drug Consumption

A Story Told by Data

By: Elaine Fehrman,Vincent Egan,Alexander N. Gorban,Jeremy Levesley,Evgeny M. Mirkes,Awaz K. Muhammad

This book discusses the psychological traits associated with drug consumption through the statistical analysis of a new database with information on 1885 respondents and use of 18 drugs. After reviewing published works on the psychological profiles of drug users and describing the data mining and machine learning methods used, it demonstrates that the personality traits (five factor model, impulsivity, and sensation seeking) together with simple demographic data make it possible to predict the risk of consumption of individual drugs with a sensitivity and specificity above 70% for most drugs. It also analyzes the correlations of use of different substances and describes the groups of drugs with correlated use, identifying significant differences in personality profiles for users of different drugs. The book is intended for advanced undergraduates and first-year PhD students, as well as researchers and practitioners. Although no previous knowledge of machine learning, advanced data mining concepts or modern psychology of personality is assumed, familiarity with basic statistics and some experience in the use of probabilities would be helpful. For a more detailed introduction to statistical methods, the book provides recommendations for undergraduate textbooks.

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171

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Springer

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3030104427

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The Second Tree

Of Clones, Chimeras and Quests for Immortality

By: Elaine Dewar

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The Second Tree

Of Clones, Chimeras and Quests for Immortality

By: Elaine Dewar

The Second Tree documents a biological revolution that will change the way you think about the material world, your own life and even the inevitability of your own death Genetic scientists are busily pushing back the boundaries of the humanly possible, climbing the branches of a tree of life that has been grafted by man, not God. Elaine Dewar chronicles the lives, the discoveries, and the feuds among modern biologists, exploring how they have crafted the tools to alter human evolution. She travels the globe on the trail of Charles Darwin and his intellectual descendants, telling the story of James D. Watson and his partner Francis Crick, who first described DNA; of Frederick Sanger, who invented how to sequence genes and won two Nobel prizes; of the computer scientists who put the human genome on the World Wide Web. She visits companies that are trying to turn cloned sheep into pharmacies on the hoof, to resurrect prize cows from the grave, to transplant human genes into mice — ultimately attempting to give us immortality in pieces while trying to keep investors happy. As these tales spill out, we find out how biologists learn by doing: tearing mice and worms and flies and human eggs apart, twinning disparate animal cells and genes together — creating clones and chimeras as outlandish as any sphinx. In public, research biologists often express their good intentions about curing the big diseases. In private, many of them are compelled by furious struggles to be rich, famous and first. Dewar lays bare the motives, conflicts and fears of the men and women whose job it is to trespass the boundaries of what laypeople consider ethical and sacred.

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662

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Vintage Canada

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0307368912

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9780307368911

A Writer's Resource with Student Access to Catalyst 2.0

By: Elaine P. Maimon,Janice Peritz,Kathleen Yancey

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A Writer's Resource with Student Access to Catalyst 2.0

By: Elaine P. Maimon,Janice Peritz,Kathleen Yancey

Comb- or spiral-bound and clearly tabbed, A Writerâ¬"s Resource combines 20 years of research into writing in college with the most extensive technological support available to form an indispensable resource for learning, writing, researching, and editing.

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McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

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007325892X

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The McGraw-Hill Handbook (hardcover) - 2009 MLA & APA Update, Student Edition

By: Elaine Maimon,Janice Peritz,Kathleen Yancey

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The McGraw-Hill Handbook (hardcover) - 2009 MLA & APA Update, Student Edition

By: Elaine Maimon,Janice Peritz,Kathleen Yancey

As we wrote the first edition of The McGraw-Hill Handbook, our students were in our minds, acting as our chief consultants. We knew that their perspectives on college life were different from those of previous generations of students, and so were their expectations. We understood that they needed a handbook for the twenty-first century, with state-of-the-art resources on writing, researching, and graphic design. They might be using a handbook in an English composition class at 9:00 AM, but at 10:00 AM they might be preparing PowerPoints for a speech course, and at 11:00 AM they might need the handbook to help with a history assignment. More than any other textbook, their handbook was their guide, not just to writing, but also to learning in college. In revising the second edition, we have endeavored to make it an even stronger and more varied resource for achieving excellence in the ever-changing digital environment that students confront in college.

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McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

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0077395778

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A Writer's Resource with Student Access to Catalyst 2.0

By: Elaine P. Maimon,Janice Peritz,Kathleen Yancey

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By: Elaine P. Maimon,Janice Peritz,Kathleen Yancey

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The McGraw-Hill Handbook (hardcover) - 2009 MLA & APA Update, Student Edition

The McGraw-Hill Handbook (hardcover) - 2009 MLA & APA Update, Student Edition

A Writer's Resource with Student Access to Catalyst 2.0

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