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Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming - Workshops XP 2020 Workshops, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 8-12, 2020, Revised Selected Papers /
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…Third International Workshop on Software-Intensive Business -- Unleashing the Business Potential of Software: A Summary of the Third International Workshop on Software-intensive Business -- An Approach for Software-Intensive Business Innovation Based on Experimentation in Non-Software-Intensive Companies -- Towards specific software engineering practices for early-stage startups -- API Utilization and Monetization in Finnish Industries -- ICO Crowdfunding: Incentives, Pricing Strategy, Token Strategy and Crowd Involvement -- What key aspects do ICOs reveal about their businesses -- Product Roadmap Alignment - Achieving the Vision Together: A Grey Literature Review -- Exploring the Success Factors for a Launch of an Algorithmic Consulting Platform -- Eighth International Workshop on Large-Scale Agile Development -- Agile at Scale: A Summary of the 8th International Workshop on Large-Scale Agile Development -- Operationalizing Agile Methods: Examining Coherence in Large-Scale AgileTransformations -- Transitioning from a First Generation to Second Generation Large-Scale Agile Development Method: Towards understanding Implications for Coordination -- Exploring the Product Owner Role within SAFe Implementation in a Multinational Enterprise -- Evaluation of Agile Team Work Quality -- A systematic approach to agile development in highly regulated environment -- Second European Workshop on Serverless Computing and Applications -- Summary of 2nd European Symposium on Serverless Computing and Applications -- Diminuendo! …”
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Social and Affective Neuroscience of Everyday Human Interaction From Theory to Methodology /
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…Molecular imaging of the human emotion circuit -- The neurocognitive mechanisms of unconscious emotional responses -- Social and Affective Neuroscience of Embodiment -- The neuroscience of beauty -- Mirror Neurons ... in action: ERPs and neuroimaging evidence -- Sex differences in social cognition -- Development of morality and emotional processing -- Trust in Social Interaction: From Dyads to Civilizations -- The time has come to be mindwanderful: Mind wandering and the intuitive psychology mode -- Social Cognition development and socio affective dysfunction in childhood and adolescence -- Clinical neuroscience meets second-person neuropsychiatry -- EEG and ERPs in the study of Language and Social Knowledge -- fMRI and fNIRS methods for social brain studies: hyperscanning possibilities -- Modulating the Social and Affective Brain with transcranial stimulation techniques -- What our eyes can tell us about our social and affective brain? …”
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A People’s History of Structural Racism in Academia From A(dministration of Justice) to Z(oology)
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Licensing -- 1: Introduction -- 2: A Look at Structural Racism by Discipline -- Administration of Justice -- Anthropology -- Architecture -- Art- Dance -- Art- Drama -- Art- Visual -- Art History -- Astronomy -- Biology -- Business -- Career Counseling -- Career Technology Education (CTE) -- CTE -Fire Technology -- CTE- Graphic Design -- CTE - Multimedia Studies -- Chemistry -- Communication/Film/Speech -- Computer Science -- Early Childhood Education -- Economics -- Engineering -- English -- English as Second Language -- Environmental Science -- Ethnic Studies -- Geography -- Geology -- Health Education -- History -- Human Sexuality -- Languages -- Library and Information Science -- Mathematics -- Mathematics- Statistics -- Music -- Music/Musical Performance/ers -- Philosophy -- Physics -- Physics- Astrophysics -- Political Science -- Psychology -- Sociology -- Zoology -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Reflections from the Authors -- A List of Resources for Further Exploration -- References…”
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Migration in Southern Africa IMISCOE Regional Reader /
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Young Mothers, Labour Migration and Social Security in South Africa -- Chapter 11. Conceptualising Second Generation Immigrants in South Africa: The Experiences of Nigerian Second Generation Immigrants -- Chapter 12. …”
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Informal Calculus with Applications to Biological and Environmental Sciences
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…Algebra Tips and Tricks: Part I -- Algebra Tips and Tricks Part I (Combining Terms, Distributing, Functions, Graphing) -- Homework for Algebra Tips and Tricks: Part I -- Derivative Introduction -- Ball Toss Project -- Position to Velocity -- Homework: Position to Velocity -- Algebra Tips and Tricks Part II (Piecewise Defined Functions) -- Limits -- Homework: Limits -- Algebra Tips and Tricks Part III (Factoring) -- Algebraic Limits -- Homework: Algebraic Limits -- Instantaneous Velocity -- Homework: Instantaneous Velocity -- Algebra Tips and Tricks IV (Tips for dealing with fractions) -- Definition of Derivative Examples -- Project: Hard Definition of Derivative Problems -- Homework: Examples of the Definition of the Derivative -- Project: Killdeer Migration Speed -- Rules for Derivatives -- Algebra Tips and Tricks Part V (Exponents) -- Power Rule -- Homework: Power Rule -- Algebra Tips and Tricks Part VI (Logarithms) -- Exponentials, Logarithms, and Trig Functions -- Homework: Exponents, Logs, Trig Functions -- Product Rule -- Homework: Product Rule -- Quotient Rule -- Homework: Quotient Rule -- Chain Rule -- Homework: Chain Rule -- Multirule Derivatives -- Homework: Multirule Derivatives -- Anti-derivatives -- Homework: Anti-derivatives -- More Derivative Intuition -- Derivatives and Graphs -- Homework: Derivative Graphs -- Second Derivatives and Interpreting the Derivative -- Homework: Second Derivatives and Interpreting the Derivative -- Optimization -- Homework: Optimization -- Derivatives in Space -- Homework: Derivatives in Space -- Differential Equations -- Recurrance Relations -- Homework: Recurrence Relations -- Introduction to Differential Equations -- Homework: Introduction to Differential Equations -- Understanding Differential Equations -- Homework: Understanding Differential Equations -- Initial Value Problems -- Homework: Initial Value Problems -- Growth and Decay -- Homework: Growth and Decay -- Exploring Graphs of Differential Equations -- Project: Modelling with Differential Equations -- Intuition for Integration -- Introduction to Integrals -- Numeric Integration Techniques -- Homework: Numeric Integration Techniques -- Fundamental Theorem of Calculus -- Homework: The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus -- Project: Measuring Streamflow -- Project: Quake Lake -- Rules for Integration -- Power, exponential, trig, and logarithm rules -- Homework: Power, exponential, trig, and logarithmic rules -- u-substitution -- Homework: u-substitution -- Integral Applications -- Homework: Integral Applications -- Integration by Parts -- Homework: Integration by Parts -- Acknowledgements…”
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Ancient Greek I A 21st Century Approach
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…Module 1 The Greek Alphabet -- Module 2 More Sounds and Punctuation -- Module 3 Accents and Accenting Verbs I -- Module 4 Adverbs -- Module 5 Conjunctions and Accenting Verbs II -- Module 6 Endings Create Meaning -- Guest Feature 1 Stefan Hagel Teaches Us How to Sing -- Module 7 Nouns, Pronouns, and their Case Functions -- Module 8 Prepositions and Prefixes -- Module 9 The Verb and μι-Verbs εἰμί, δίδωμι, τίθημι -- Module 10 The Verbs ἔχω, ποιέω, ἔρχομαι, φημί -- Module 11 The Definite Article and Persistent Accent -- Module 12 Substantive Adjectives and the Article -- Module 13 Third Declension Nouns -- Guest Feature 2 Tom Holland on the Art of Translating Herodotos -- Module 14 First Declension Nouns in –η and -ᾱ and τίς, τί; τις, τι; ὅστις, ἥτις, ὅτι -- Module 15 Attributive and Predicate Position -- Module 16 Second Declension Nouns -- Module 17 The Future Indicative and Infinitive Active of ἔχω, ἐλαύνω, ἔρχομαι and the Dynamic Infinitive -- Module 18 The Personal Pronouns; εἷς, οὐδείς, and μηδείς; the Dative and Accusative of Respect; Time Expressions -- Module 19 οἶδα and the Present and Future Indicative and Infinitive Middle and Passive of ἐλαύνω, καλέω, φέρω, δίδωμι, τίθημι -- Guest Feature 3 Joe Goodkin, Singer and Songwriter -- Module 20 First and Second Declension Adjectives and Common Adjectives and Pronouns: αὐτός, οὗτος, ὅδε, ἐκεῖνος, and -ων, -ουσα, -ον -- Module 21 First Declension Short Alpha Nouns -- Module 22 The Relative Pronoun -- Module 23 The Imperfect and Aorist Indicative of λέγω, ἔχω, ἐργάζομαι, δίδωμι, τίθημι -- Module 24 Contract Verbs -- Module 25 The Infinitive in Indirect Statement and πρίν- and ὥστε-Clauses -- Guest Feature 4 Amy R. …”
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Rethinking Secular Time in Victorian England
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…1 Introduction: Secularities, Technologies, and Modern -- Temporalities -- Challenging Secularization -- First Challenge: The Material Turn -- Second Challenge: The Temporal Turn -- Confusing Times -- Rethinking Secularization -- Overview of the Book -- Bibliography -- 2 Secular Time: Origin Story and Operationalization -- Origins of the Saeculum -- Immutable Mobiles -- Victorian Networks -- Bibliography -- 3 Railways: Tracks, Trains, and Travellers -- Moving Bodies -- Local Time -- Branching Out -- Temporal Trauma -- The Transport Machine -- Tracks -- Trains -- Travellers -- Temporal Coordination -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 4 News: The Pursuit of Immediacy -- Temporality and Form -- A Printed Public Sphere -- Emerging Publics -- Environmental Resistance -- Expanding Networks -- Mobilization -- Insulation -- Printing -- Journalism Skills -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 5 Banknotes: The Money of Civilization -- Performing the Economy -- Gold Standard -- The State -- Policing the Standard -- The Bank of England -- A Networkof Notes -- A Combination of the Arts -- As Good as Gold -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 6 Conclusion: A New Approach to Secularization -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Stochastics of Environmental and Financial Economics Centre of Advanced Study, Oslo, Norway, 2014-2015 /
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Path-dependent Kolmogorov equations associated with the frame of a Brownian motion -- Nonlinear Young integrals via fractional calculus -- A weak limit theorem for numerical approximation of Brownian semi-stationary processes -- Non-elliptic SPDEs and ambit fields: existence of densities -- Dynamic risk measures and path-dependent second order PDEs -- Pricing CoCos with a market trigger -- Quantification of model risk in quadratic hedging in finance -- Risk-sensitive mean-field type control under partial observation -- Risk aversion in modeling of cap-and-trade mechanism and optimal design of emission markets -- Exponential ergodicity of the jump-diffusion CIR process -- Optimal control of predictive mean-field equations and applications to finance -- Modelling the impact of wind power production on electricity prices by regime-switching Levy semistationary processes -- Pricing options on EU ETS certificates with a time-varying market price of risk model.…”
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Calculus
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Second-Order Linear Equations -- 7.3. Nonhomogeneous Linear Equations -- 7.4. …”
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World History Since 1500 An Open and Free Textbook
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…Author Biographies -- Acknowledgement -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1: The World in 1500 -- Chapter 2: Expanding Empires, Europe and the Americas 1500-1700 -- Chapter 3: Cultural Encounters and Expanding Empires in Asia and Eurasia 1500-1700 -- Chapter 4: Islamic Empires - Mughals, Ottomans and Safavids 1500-1700 -- Chapter 5: Age of Reason - The Scientific Revolution, Enlightened Thought and its Impact -- Chapter 6: Challenging the Old Order - The Age of Revolutions -- Chapter 7: Remaking the World - The Industrial Revolution, Workers and a New Economic Order -- Chapter 8: Nation Building and Reform 1700-1900 -- Chapter 9: Managing Modernity in Asia 1700-1900 -- Chapter 10: The Second Wave of Imperialism 1700-1900 -- Chapter 11: World in Crisis, Conflict, and the Struggle for Independence - World War I, the Indian Independence Movement and the Russian Revolution -- Chapter 12: Interwar Years and the Rise of Fascism -- Chapter 13: World War II -- Chapter 14: Cold War and Decolonization of the World from 1950 -- Chapter 15: The Modern World…”
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Mathematics Education and Language Diversity The 21st ICMI Study /
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Challenges and opportunities for second language learners in undergraduate mathematics -- Mathematics in the hands of deaf learners and blind learners: visual-gestural-somatic means of doing and expressing -- Challenging deficit perspectives: student agency in multilingual mathematics classrooms -- Language diversity in mathematics teacher education: challenges across three countries -- Impact of differing grammatical structures in mathematics teaching and learning -- Addressing multi-language diversity in mathematics teacher education programs -- Language diversity and new media: issues of multimodality and performance -- Making use of multiple (non-shared) first languages: state and need of research and development in the European language context -- Purposefully relating multilingual registers - building theory and teaching strategies for bilingual learners based on an integration of three traditions -- Trends in mathematics education in multilingual contexts for indigenous population: experiences from Latin America -- Tensions in teaching mathematics in contexts of language diversity -- Research rationalities and the construction of the deficient multilingual mathematics learner -- Language diversity in research and its consequences -- Using ICTs to facilitate multilingual mathematics teaching and learning -- Mathematics teaching, language policy and the political role of language: perspectives from around the world -- Reflections -- Index.…”
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Advances in Proof-Theoretic Semantics
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…A two-sorted typed lambda-calculus; Heinrich Wansing -- Chapter 15. Kreisel's second clause and the Theory of Constructions; Walter Dean & Hidenori Kurokawa -- Chapter 16. …”
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Active Calculus Multivariable
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Preface9 Multivariable and Vector Functions -- 9.1 Functions of Several Variables and Three Dimensional Space -- 9.2 Vectors -- 9.3 The Dot Product -- 9.4 The Cross Product -- 9.5 Lines and Planes in Space -- 9.6 Vector-Valued Functions -- 9.7 Derivatives and Integrals of Vector-Valued Functions9.8 Arc Length and Curvature -- 10 Derivatives of Multivariable Functions -- 10.1 Limits -- 10.2 First-Order Partial Derivatives -- 10.3 Second-Order Partial Derivatives -- 10.4 Linearization: Tangent Planes and Differentials -- 10.5 The Chain Rule -- 10.6 Directional Derivatives and the Gradient -- 10.7 Optimization -- 10.8 Constrained Optimization:Lagrange Multipliers -- 11 Multiple Integrals -- 11.1 Double Riemann Sums and Double Integrals over Rectangles -- 11.2 Iterated Integrals -- 11.3 Double Integrals over General Regions -- 11.4 Applications of Double Integrals -- 11.5 Double Integrals in Polar Coordinates -- 11.6 Surfaces Defined Parametrically and Surface Area -- 11.7 Triple Integrals -- 11.8 Triple Integrals in Cylindrical and Spherical Coordinates -- 11.9 Change of Variables…”
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Quaternion Algebras
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…Quaternion Orders -- 24. Quaternion Orders: Second Meeting -- 25. The Eichler Mass Formula -- 26. …”
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Public Financial Management and Internal Control The Importance of Managerial Capability for Successful Reform in Developing and Transition Economies /
Published 2024Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Financial control and financial management in the public sector: a managerial perspective -- Chapter 2: Implementing public financial management and internal control (PFM/IC -- Chapter 3: The distinction between public financial management and internal control (PFM/IC) and public financial administration and internal control (PFA/IC) -- Chapter 4: The practical steps for initiating a successful PFM/IC reform -- Chapter 5: The particular responsibilities of the minister of finance and the ministry in the development of a PFM/IC policy -- Chapter 6: Risks and unintended consequences of the reform -- Chapter 7: The responsibilities of the top operational management official for the implementation and quality control of PFM/IC -- Chapter 8: The role of the head of finance and the finance department in line ministries and other public organisations with the application of PFM/IC -- Chapter 9: The role of the department responsible for advising on and securing the application of PFM/IC -- Chapter 10: Achieving the benefits that introducing PFM/IC can generate and accounting for the costs -- Chapter 11: International standards of internal control relevant to the application of PFM/IC -- Chapter 12: Managing and controlling second level organisations - the responsibilities of the first level organisation -- Chapter 13: Monitoring the change from administration to management - demonstrating this through the utilisation of a statement of internal control -- Chapter 14: Public sector reform, delegation and the impact upon PFM/IC.…”
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Elementary New Testament Greek
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Alphabet, words, and names; Nominal Sentences -- Chapter 2: Verbs and basic clauses; Contract Verbs; the Definite Article ("the"; Negation -- Chapter 3: Cases and Gender -- Chapter 4: Prepositions -- Chapter 5: Adjectives; Predicate and Attributive positions -- Chapter 6: Verb tenses -- Chapter 7: Verb moods (including Participles) -- Chapter 8: Other patterns of nouns and verbs, including Middle-Only verbs -- Chapter 9: Pronouns and conjunctions -- Chapter 10: Complex Sentences -- Chapter 11: Special verbs -- Chapter 12: Third declension (consonant stems), Part 1 -- Chapter 13: Third declension, Part 2 -- Chapter 14: Participles, concluded -- Chapter 15: Verb Voices: Active, Middle, and Passive -- Chapter 16: Perfect (Stative) Aspect -- Chapter 17: Subjunctive Mood -- Chapter 18: Other Verb Uses -- Chapter 19: Extra Verbs, Athematic and Contract Verbs -- Chapter 20: Final pieces -- Appendix A: Note to Instructors -- Appendix B: The Fifteen Tenses of English and Their Latin and Greek Equivalents -- Appendix C: Second and Root Aorists -- Appendix D: Principal Parts of Verbs -- Appendix E: all the forms of "be" -- Appendix F: Vocabulary English-Greek (whole course) -- Appendix G: Vocabulary Greek-English (whole course) -- Appendix H: All the Verb Forms -- Appendix I: Conspectus of Noun Endings…”
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Contextualised open educational practices Towards student agency and self-directed learning
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Open educational practices for self-directed learning: An open educational resources fellowship as a case study -- Chapter 2: Multilingual digital education for social justice through localised self-directed open educational practices in South Africa -- Chapter 3: What open educational resources’ incorporation in education might contribute including implications for self-directed learning -- Chapter 4: Multilingual philosophy glossaries: Steps towards socially just pedagogical praxis -- Chapter 5: Designing an open educational resource as part of a technology-enhanced practice environment developing the oral interactional competence of beginner language learners -- Chapter 6: Decolonising the journalism curriculum through co-creating an OER textbook with students -- Chapter 7: Stories students tell about their learning experiences creating open educational resources in a music education module -- Chapter 8: Second-year health students’ perspectives on developing open educational resources -- Chapter 9: An open educational resource as a tool to create awareness around infectious diseases: A focus on the human immunodeficiency virus, Mycobacterium tuberculosis and the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus -- Chapter 10: How decolonial practices can assist with researching open educational resources and developing open legal pedagogies from a South African perspective -- References -- Index…”
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Kantianism for Animals A Radical Kantian Animal Ethic /
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Thompson's Challenge to Kant -- 5.2 First-Personal Versus Second-Personal Accounts of 'Directionality' -- 5.3 Rejecting Thompson's Challenge -- 5.4 Consent, Forgiveness, and Apologies Without Second-Personal Authority -- References -- 6 Kantian Moral Patients Without Practical Reason? …”
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Debating European Citizenship
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…: Alain Brun -- EU Accession to the ECHR Requires Ensuring the Franchise for EU Citizens in National Elections: Andrew Duff -- How to Enfranchise Second Country Nationals? Test the Options for Best Fit, Easiest Adoption and Lowest Costs: David Owen -- What's in a People? …”
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Etiology and Morphogenesis of Congenital Heart Disease From Gene Function and Cellular Interaction to Morphology /
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Valve Development and Diseases -- Atrioventricular valve abnormalities: From molecular mechanisms underlying morphogenesis to clinical perspective -- Molecular Mechanisms of Heart Valve Development and Disease -- A novel role for endocardium in perinatal valve development: Lessons learned from tissue specific gene deletion of the Tie1 receptor tyrosine kinase -- The Role of the Epicardium in the Formation of the Cardiac Valves in the Mouse -- TMEM100, a novel intracellular transmembrane protein essential for vascular development and cardiac morphogenesis -- Cell autonomous regulation of BMP-2 in endocardial cushion cells during AV valvuloseptal morphogenesis -- Part V. The Second Heart Field and Outflow Tract -- Properties of cardiac progenitor cells in the second heart field -- Nodal signaling and congenital heart defects -- Utilizing Zebrafish to Understand Second Heart Field Development -- A history and interaction of outflow progenitor cells implicated in "Takao syndrome" -- The loss of Foxc2 expression in the outflow tract links the interrupted arch in the conditional Foxc2 knockout mouse -- Environmental modification for phenotype of truncus arteriosus in Tbx1 hypomorphic mice -- Part VI. …”
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