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Chapeau! First-Year French
Published 1989Table of Contents: “…Pour Commenter: Masculin, feminin -- Chapitre Un: Flagrant desir -- Chapitre Deux: Recherche Susan, desesperement -- Chapitre Trois: Rose bonbon -- Integration 1-3: L'important, c'est d'aimer -- Chapitre Quatre: Les Quatre cents coups -- Chapitre Cinq: Les Saisons du plaisir -- Chapitre Six: L'Ane qui a bu la lune -- Integration 4-6: La Comedie du travail -- Chapitre Sept: Ca va cogner -- Chapitre Huit: Dernier domicile connu -- Chapitre Neuf: Passe ton bac d'abord -- Integration 7-9: Candide ou l'optimisme au XXe -- Chapitre Dix: Chambre avec vue -- Chapitre Onze: Et vogue le navire -- Chapitre Douze: Les ailes du desir -- Integration 10-12: A bout de souffle -- Chapitre Treize: L'Argent de poche -- Chapitre Quatorze: Pourvu que ce soit une fille -- Chapitre Quinze: L'as de pique -- Integration 13-15: Eclair de lune -- Chapitre Seize: Manon des sources -- Chapitre Dix-Sept: Apres la repetition -- Chapitre Dix-Huit: Une Langouste au petit dejeuner -- Chapitre Dix-Neuf: L'etat de bonheur permanent -- Chapitre Vingt: Pauline a la plage -- Chapitre Vingt et un: La grenouille et la baleine -- Chapitre Vingt-Deux: La Derniere seance…”
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Shared Physical Custody Interdisciplinary Insights in Child Custody Arrangements /
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…Linkages Between Children's Living Arrangements After Divorce and the Quality of the Father-Child Relationship; Father involvement as important underlying mechanism -- Chapter 7. Who cares? …”
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Transformation Literacy Pathways to Regenerative Civilizations /
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Introduction and conceptual framing - transformation literacy as a future-making skill -- Part 1: Mindsets in service of wellbeing on a healthy planet -- Setting the scene: How to connect with a world as an interconnected whole -- The same tone, but a new sound - understanding the story of the soul as pathway to regenerative civilizations -- Possible futures -- Transformative literacy as the ability to look forward from within -- Chinese cultural treasures as contributions to a mindset of interconnectedness for global transformations -- The systems aliveness approach - from navigating emergency to stewarding wellbeing on a healthy planet -- Part 2: Systems that enable and safeguard wellbeing on a healthy planet -- Setting the scene: Viewing the world as interconnected systems -- Everything is connected - envisioning how a regenerative world looks like -- Managing forestry in a sustainable manner, the importance of system´s analysis -- Sustainable community transformation process.…”
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Evaluating Evidence of Mechanisms in Medicine Principles and Procedures /
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…-- 1.3.1 Evaluating efficacy -- 1.3.2 Evaluating external validity -- 1.3.3 Other questions -- 1.3.4 Importance of considering evidence of mechanisms -- 2 How to consider evidence of mechanisms: a summary -- 2.1 Questions to address -- 2.2 Quality level of evidence and status of claim -- 2.3 Identifying evidence of mechanisms in the literature -- 2.4 Evaluating evidence of mechanisms -- 2.5 Using evidence of mechanisms to evaluate causal claims -- 2.6 Overall approach -- 3 Identifying evidence of mechanisms in the literature -- 3.1 Hypothesize a mechanism -- 3.2 Search the literature -- 3.3 Identify the evidence most relevant to the mechanism hypothesis -- 3.4 Presenting the evidence of mechanisms -- 4 Evaluating evidence of mechanisms -- 4.1 Considerations for evaluating evidence of mechanism -- 4.2 Presenting quality of evidence of mechanisms -- 5 Using evidence of mechanisms to evaluate efficacy and external validity -- 5.1 Efficacy -- 5.2 External validity -- 6 Glossary -- 7 References -- 8 Acknowledgements -- 9 Appendix A. …”
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Financial Accounting
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Why Is Financial Accounting Important? -- Chapter 2: What Should Decision Makers Know So That Good Decisions Can Be Made about an Organization? …”
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Processes Writing Across Academic Careers
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…Marcia Littenberg, former Chair, FSC WID -- Writers on Writing -- Messages from the Nursing Department -- Utilizing a Writing in the Disciplines (WID) Course to Teach Nursing Students about Their Profession -- The Importance of Correct Perspective of the Nursing Profession -- How Nursing Taught Me to Write Scholarly -- My Education in Writing as a Nurse -- Messages from STEM and Health Science Scholars -- Sexual and Asexual Reproductive Stages of Fungi -- Medical Maladies and Existential Healing -- Who Runs Boston? …”
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Vessel Health and Preservation: The Right Approach for Vascular Access
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…Right Technology assessment -- Chapter 13. Why is VHP important in paediatrics? -- Chapter 14. Troubleshooting in paediatrics -- Section 5. …”
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Transformational Change for People and the Planet Evaluating Environment and Development /
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Evaluation at the Endgame: Evaluating Sustainability and the SDGs by Moving Past Dominion and Institutional Capture -- 15. Importance and Utilization of Theory-based Evaluations in the Context of Sustainable Development and Social-Ecological Systems -- 16. …”
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Youth Suicide Prevention and Intervention Best Practices and Policy Implications /
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Youth Suicide in Schools: Understanding Bereavement, Contagion, and the Importance of Thoughtful Postvention -- Chapter 8. Utilizing Suicide Risk Screening as a Prevention Technique in the Medical Setting -- Chapter 9. …”
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Managing Protected Areas People and Places /
Published 2024Table of Contents: “…What Have We Learned From the Impact of the Pandemic on Our Relationship With Nature? The Importance of Views From Home -- 14. Impacts and Lessons Learned From the Covid-19 Pandemic for Protected and Conserved Area Management -- 15. …”
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Innovations in Quantitative Risk Management TU München, September 2013 /
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Part I Markets, Regulation, and Model Risk -- A Random Holding Period Approach for Liquidity-Inclusive Risk Management -- Regulatory Developments in Risk Management: Restoring Confidence in Internal Models -- Model Risk in Incomplete Markets with Jumps -- Part II Financial Engineering -- Bid-Ask Spread for Exotic Options Under Conic Finance -- Derivative Pricing Under the Possibility of Long Memory in the supOU Stochastic Volatility Model -- A Two-Sided BNS Model for Multicurrency FX Markets -- Modeling the Price of Natural Gas with Temperature and Oil Price as Exogenous Factors -- Copula-Specific Credit Portfolio Modeling -- Implied Recovery Rates-Auctions and Models -- Upside and Downside Risk Exposures of Currency Carry Trades via Tail Dependence -- Part III Insurance Risk and Asset Management -- Participating Life Insurance Contracts Under Risk Based Solvency Frameworks: How to Increase Capital Efficiency by Product Design -- Reducing Surrender Incentives Through Fee Structure in Variable Annuities -- A Variational Approach for Mean-Variance-Optimal Deterministic Consumption and Investment -- Risk Control in Asset Management: Motives and Concepts -- Worst-Case Scenario Portfolio Optimization Given the Probability of a Crash -- Improving Optimal Terminal Value Replicating Portfolios -- Part IV Computational Methods for Risk Management -- Risk and Computation -- Extreme Value Importance Sampling for Rare Event Risk Measurement -- A Note on the Numerical Evaluation of the Hartman-Watson Density and Distribution Function -- Computation of Copulas by Fourier Methods -- Part V Dependence Modelling -- Goodness-of-fit Tests for Archimedean Copulas in High Dimensions -- Duality in Risk Aggregation -- Some Consequences of the Markov Kernel Perspective of Copulas -- Copula Representations for Invariant Dependence Functions -- Nonparametric Copula Density Estimation Using a Petrov-Galerkin Projection.…”
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The European Blood and Marrow Transplantation Textbook for Nurses Under the Auspices of EBMT /
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Brief history of HSCT Nursing. Importance of HSCT nursing. Extended practice roles etc. -- Chapter 1. …”
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Childlessness in Europe: Contexts, Causes, and Consequences
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Mills -- Part V: Consequences of Childlessness: What's a (Childless) Man Without a Woman? The Differential Importance of Couple Dynamics for the Wellbeing of Childless Men and Women in the Netherlands: Renske Keizer & Katya Ivanova -- Fertility and Women's Old-Age Income in Germany: Tatjana Mika & Christin Czaplicki -- Childlessness and Intergenerational Transfers in LaterLife across Europe: Marco Albertini & Martin Kohli.…”
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Preparing to Publish
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…-- Exploring the Anatomy of a Research Article -- Chapter 2 Synopsis: The Organization of a Research Article -- Chapter 3: Writing the Introduction Section -- Conceptualizing the Research Article -- Goals of an Effective Introduction Section -- Introduction Goal 1: Establishing a Knowledge Territory -- Introduction Goal 2: Identifying a Niche -- Introduction Goal 3: Addressing the Niche -- Some Other Important Points about Introductions -- Chapter 3 Synopsis: Writing Introductions -- Chapter 4: Writing the Methods Section -- Conceptualizing the Research Article -- Goals of an Effective Methods Section -- Methods Goal 1: Contextualize the Study's Methods -- Methods Goal 2: Describe the Study -- Methods Goal 3: Analyzing the Data -- Chapter 4 Synopsis: Writing Methods Sections -- Chapter 5: Writing the Results Section -- Conceptualizing the Research Article: Review -- Goals of an Effective Results Section -- Results Goal 1: Approaching the Niche -- Results Goal 2: Occupying the Niche -- Results Goal 3: Construing the Niche -- Results Goal 4: Expanding the Niche -- Chapter 5 Synopsis: Writing Results Sections -- Chapter 6: Discussion/Conclusion Section(s) -- Conceptualizing the Research Article -- Goals of an Effective Discussion/Conclusion Section -- Discussion/Conclusion Goal 1: Re-establishing the Territory -- Discussion/Conclusion Goal 2: Framing Principal Findings -- Discussion/Conclusion Goal 3: Reshaping the Territory -- Discussion/Conclusion Goal 4: Establishing Additional Territory -- Chapter 6 Synopsis: Writing the Discussion/Conclusion -- Chapter 7: Writing Abstracts -- Defining Abstracts -- Goals of an Abstract -- Formal Features of Abstracts: Length, Word Choice, and Grammar -- Chapter 7 Synopsis: Writing the Abstract -- About the Contributors…”
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Criminal Procedure Undergraduate Edition Author
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Why Is Criminal Procedure So Important? -- III. Key Cases for Incorporation (Nationalization) of the Bill of Rights -- IV. …”
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Principles of Finance
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…The Importance of Trade Credit and Working Capital in Planning -- Why It Matters -- 19.1 What Is Working Capital? …”
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Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos -- Chapter 2: Disaggregated Hispanic Groups and Cancer: Importance, Methodology and Current Knowledge -- Chapter 3: Colorectal Cancer Disparities in Latinos: Genes vs. …”
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Ethics in Law Enforcement
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Ethical Behaviour -- 1.1 The Importance of Ethical Behaviour -- 1.2 Ethics and the Pursuit of a Law Enforcement Career -- 1.3 As Employees in Law Enforcement Agencies -- Chapter 2: Ethical Systems -- 2.1 Major Ethical Systems -- 2.2 Utilitarian Ethics -- 2.3 Deontology -- 2.4 Virtue Ethics -- 2.5 Ethics of Care -- 2.6 Egoism -- 2.7 Religion or Divine Command Theory -- 2.8 Natural Law -- 2.9 Social Contract Theory -- 2.10 Rawls' Theory of Justice -- 2.11 Moral Relativism -- Chapter 3: Ethical Dilemmas and the Process of Effective Resolution -- 3.1 Ethical Dilemmas -- 3.2 Values -- 3.3 Solving Ethical Dilemmas -- Chapter 4: Key Ethical Issues within Law Enforcement -- 4.1 Ethical Issues -- 4.2 The Ethics of Power and Authority -- 4.3 The Milgram Experiment -- 4.4 Person, Gender, and Cultural Differences in Conformity -- 4.5 Ethical Issues during an Investigation -- 4.6 Gratuities -- Chapter 5: Accountability and Investigation -- 5.1 Autonomy and Accountability -- 5.2 British Columbia's Police Act -- 5.3 The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act -- 5.4 Investigation Models -- 5.5 Independent Investigations Office -- Chapter 6: Policing -- 6.1 Noble Cause Corruption -- 6.2 Policing Public Demonstrations and Crowd Control -- 6.3 Sex Offender Notification Laws -- 6.4 Ethics of Private Policing -- Chapter 7: Discretion, Supervision, and Leadership -- 7.1 The Ethics Surrounding Discretion -- 7.2 Discretion and Supervision -- 7.3 Selective Enforcement -- 7.4 Loyalty -- 7.5 Ethical Leadership -- 7.6 Transactional and Transformational Leadership -- Chapter 8: The Culture of Law Enforcement -- 8.1 Police Subculture -- 8.2 Socialization of Police -- 8.3 Skepticism and Cynicism -- 8.4 Moral Culpability versus Legal Culpability…”
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Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage Past, Present and Future /
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Connecting Water and Heritage for the Future -- PART I: Drinking Water -- Silent and Unseen: Stewardship of Water Infrastructural Heritage -- The Qanat System: A Reflection on the Heritage of the Extraction of Hidden Waters -- Studying Ancient Water Management in Monte Albán, Mexico, to Solve Water Issues, Improve Urban Living, and Protect Heritage in the Present -- Thirsty Cities: Learning from Dutch Water Supply Heritage -- PART II: Agricultural Water -- Water Meadows as European Agricultural Heritage -- Holler Colonies and the Altes Land: A vivid example of the importance of European intangible and tangible heritage -- Archaic Water: the role of a legend in constructing the water management heritage of Sanbonkihara, Japan -- How Citizens Reshaped a Plan for an Aerotropolis and Preserved the Water Heritage System of the Taoyuan Tableland -- PART III: Land Reclamation and Defense -- Reassessing Heritage: Contradiction and Discrepancy between Fishery and Agriculture in planning the Hachirogata Polder and its Surrounding Lagoon in Mid-20th Century Japan -- The Noordoostpolder: A landscape planning perspective on the preservation and development of 20th century polder landscapes in the Netherlands -- Europolders A European program on polder landscape, heritage, and innovation -- Hold the Line: The transformation of the New Dutch Waterline and the Future Possibilities of Heritage River and Coastal Planning -- PART IV: River and Coastal Planning -- 'Absent-present' heritage: the cultural heritage of dwelling on the Changjian (Yangtze) River -- Neglected and undervalued cultural heritage: Waterfronts and riverbanks of Alblasserwaard, the Netherlands -- Room for the River: Trend, Break, or Tradition? …”
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From Assessing to Conserving Biodiversity Conceptual and Practical Challenges /
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…Dussault) -- Chapter 5. The Importance of Scaling in Biodiversity (Luís Borda de Agua) -- Part II. …”
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