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Simple Solutions to Complex Catastrophes Dialectics of Peace, Climate, Finance, and Health /
Published 2024Table of Contents: “…Preface -- 1. Rapid cascades, coupled crises -- 2. Containment of crises -- 3. …”
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The Science of Plants
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…-- 1.2 Science and Experimentation -- 1.3 Plant Parts we Eat -- Chapter 1: Terms -- Chapter 2: Taxonomy and Seed Germination -- 2.1 Plant Taxonomy -- 2.2 Introduction to Seed Germination -- Chapter 2: Terms -- Chapter 3: How Plants Grow, Part 1 -- 3.1 Leaves -- 3.2 Shoots -- 3.3 Roots -- Chapter 3: Terms -- Chapter 4: How Plants Grow, Part 2 -- 4.1 Growth Patterns and Inflorescences -- 4.2 Plant Hormones -- Chapter 4: Terms -- Chapter 5: Inside Plants -- 5.1 Inside Leaves -- 5.2 Inside Stems -- 5.3 Inside Roots -- Chapter 5: Terms -- Chapter 6: Cells, Tissues, and Woody Growth -- 6.1 Plant Cells and Tissues -- 6.2 Woody Growth -- Chapter 6: Terms -- Chapter 7: Meristems and Flowers -- 7.1 Meristem Morphology -- 7.2 Flower Morphology -- Chapter 7: Terms -- Chapter 8: Fruit -- 8.1 Fruit Morphology -- Chapter 8: Terms -- Chapter 9: Seeds -- 9.1 Seed Morphology -- 9.2 Seed Physiology -- Chapter 9: Terms -- Chapter 10: Grafting -- 10.1 Grafts and Wounds -- 10.2 Unique Storage Organs -- Chapter 10: Terms -- Chapter 11: Water and Light -- 11.1 Plants and Water -- 11.2 Light and Photosynthesis -- Chapter 11: Terms -- Chapter 12: Soils, Fertility, and Plant Growth -- 12.1 Soils, Fertility, and Plant Growth -- Chapter 12: Terms -- Chapter 13: Sexual Reproduction -- 13.1 DNA -- 13.2 Mitosis -- 13.3 Meiosis -- Chapter 13: Terms -- Chapter 14: Variation and Plant Breeding -- 14.1 Gametogenesis -- 14.2 Inheritance of Big Differences -- 14.3 Linkage and Inheritance of Small Differences -- 14.4 Plant Breeding -- Chapter 14: Terms -- Chapter 15: Invasive plants and GMOs -- 15.1 Invasive plants -- 15.2 GMOs -- Chapter 15: Terms -- Glossary of Terms…”
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Evaluating Evidence of Mechanisms in Medicine Principles and Procedures /
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…-- 1.2 Where does evidence of a mechanism come from? -- 1.3 Why consider evidence of mechanisms? -- 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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Work and Occupation in French and English Mental Hospitals, c.1918-1939
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…The Supervision of Patient Occupation -- 8. The Patient Workers Inside Hospital -- 9. Work and Support for Patients Outside Hospital -- Conclusions.…”
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Growth and Competitive Strategy in 3 Circles
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: The Challenges of Growth -- Chapter 2: Introduction to 3-Circle Analysis -- Chapter 3: Defining the Context -- Chapter 4: The Meaning of Value -- Chapter 5: Sorting Value -- Chapter 6: Growth Strategy -- Chapter 7: Implementation: An Inside View of the Organization -- Chapter 8: Dynamic Aspects of Markets -- Chapter 9: Summary: Growth Strategy in 10 Steps -- References…”
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Spanish I Beginning Spanish Language and Culture
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…1.En la universidad -- 2. La familia -- 3.En casa -- 4.De compras -- 5.Los pasatiempos…”
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Introduction to Aerospace Structures and Materials
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Material physics & properties -- Chapter 2: Environment & durability -- Chapter 3: Material types -- Chapter 4: Manufacturing -- Chapter 5: Aircraft & spacecraft structures -- Chapter 6: Aircraft & spacecraft loads -- Chapter 7: Translating loads to stresses -- Chapter 8: Considering strength & stiffness -- Chapter 9: Design & certification -- Chapter 10: Fatigue & durability -- Chapter 11: Structural joints…”
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Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries The Legacy of Central Planning in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania /
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…Prologue-A Place to Live, Work, and Play: Housing Demand and Urbanization in the Baltic Countries -- Turbulent Political History and the Legacy of State Socialism in the Baltic Countries -- Soviet-Era Housing Systems Explained: Constructing and Inhabiting Socialist Housing Estates in the Baltics -- Freedom and Constraints: Ideals Transferred but Eclipsed by Industrialised Housing Production -- Mass Housing and 'Extensive Urbanism' in Eastern Europe: A Comparative Overview -- The Ethnic and Social Landscape of Residents in Tallinn's Socialist Housing Estates -- Residential Change and Socio-Demographic Challenges for Large Housing Estates: Exploring Post-Soviet Riga -- Soviet Housing Estates and their Residents in Vilnius -- Living in a Large Housing Estate: An Insiders' Perspective from Lithuania -- Innovation Inside and Outside "The System": Revisiting the Role of Architects in Planning Socialist-Era Residential Districts in Estonia -- Evolution of Award-Winning Microrayons and Housing Estates in the Baltics -- Aspirations versus Reality in the Formation of Mikrorayon Commercial Centers in Lithuania -- Forms of Governing Parking in Housing Estates in Tallinn, Estonia -- State-Subsidized Renovation of Socialist Apartment Blocks in Estonia -- Large Housing Estates in Latvia: Origin and Future Challenges -- Possibilities for Energy-Efficient and Sustainable Renovation of Socialist Residential Space: "Smart City" Redevelopment in Tartu, Estonia .…”
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Civilian Lunatic Asylums During the First World War A Study of Austerity on London's Fringe /
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…Infrastructure: rules, walls, obstacles and opportunities -- 3. Certified insane: concepts and practices -- 4. Personnel: staffing the asylums and serving the Colours -- 5. …”
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Environmental Leadership Capacity Building in Higher Education Experience and Lessons from Asian Program for Incubation of Environmental Leaders /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Asian Program for Incubation of Environmental Leaders -- Concepts of EL -- How to teach EL in a class room - Environmental Challenges and Leadership in Asia -- APIEL resonance -- Leadership Education tackling Water Environmental Issues in Arid Regions -- IPoS: Intensive Program on Sustainability -- Cambodia Considering their sustainable future -- BKK: Sustainable solid waste management in Asian developing countries -- Sustainable urban development toward Green City of the Greater Pearl River Delta, China.…”
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Hydraulic Fracturing and Rock Mechanics
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…1 Introduction -- Part I Laboratory observation -- 2 Rock mechanics in hydraulic fracturing operations -- Part II Laboratory observation -- 3 Reservoir characteristics -- 4 Constant flow injection -- 5 Constant pressure injection -- Part III Theoretical modeling considering Nonuniform fluid pressure -- 6 Fracture initiation -- 7 Fracture propagation -- 8 Fracture interaction behaviors -- Part IV Field implication -- 9 Formation of complex networks -- Epilogue -- References.…”
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Narrative Ethics in Public Health: The Value of Stories
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Boyle's "The Fugitive" -- Addressing Historical Trauma among US American Indian/Alaskan Natives: The Ethics of Making Space for Multiple Narratives in Public Health Research and Practice -- Using paired poems to crystallize and (re)consider public health breastfeeding promotion -- Database of Individual Patient Experiences (DIPEx): Potential for Public Health Considerations -- Poverty as Trauma: Considering Social Determinants of Health through the Lens of Narrative Ethics -- Ethical Imperatives and Challenges with Community-based Participatory Research in Public Health: Reflections of One Academic -- Disclosure of HIV Status during a Household HIV Survey in Namibia -- Vaccine Refusal: Stories from the Front Lines of Immunization Education -- What Is This All About: Tipping theBalance toward Treatment and Recovery -- The Boys Under My Deck: Fostering Resilience In Diverse Urban Neighborhoods -- Overweight and Obesity: A New Narrative -- Voices of Our Fathers: Narrative (Care) Ethics, Pragmatic Bioethics, Trust and Trustworthiness -- Stories, Stigma and Sequences: HIV Cluster Detection and Response Activities Through a Narrative Ethics Lens -- A Novel Approach to Public Health Crises Using Narrative Ethics -- Patient Rights versus Public Health.…”
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Strand Corrosion in Prestressed Concrete Structures
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Effect of corrosion on mechanical behaviors of prestressing strands -- Corrosion-induced cracking of prestressed concrete -- Effect of corrosion-induced crack on the bond between strand and concrete -- Bond-slip model of corroded strand considering rotation effect -- Prestress loss and transfer length prediction in pretensioned concrete structures with corrosive cracking -- Secondary anchorage and prestress loss of fractured strand in PT beams -- Flexural behaviors of corroded posttensioned concrete beams -- Bearing capacity prediction of corroded PC beams incorporating grouting defects and bond degradation.…”
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The Adventure of Physics - Vol. V Motion Inside Matter - Pleasure, Technology, and Stars
Published 1990Table of Contents: “…1 Motion For Enjoying Life -- 2 Changing The World With Quantum Effects -- 3 Quantum Electrodynamics – The Origin Of Virtual Reality -- 4 Quantum Mechanics With Gravitation – First Steps -- 5 The Structure Of The Nucleus – The Densest Clouds -- 6 The Sun, The Stars And The Birth Of Matter -- 7 The Strong Interaction – Inside Nuclei And Nucleons -- 8 The Weak Nuclear Interaction And The Handedness Of Nature -- 9 The Standard Model Of Particle Physics – As Seen On Television -- 10 Dreams Of Unification -- 11 Bacteria, Flies And Knots -- 12 Quantum Physics In A Nutshell – Again…”
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