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Boreal Forests in the Face of Climate Change Sustainable Management /

Table of Contents: “…Deadwood Biodiversity -- 7. Embracing the Complexity and the Richness of Boreal Old-Growth Forests: A Further Step Toward Their Ecosystem Management -- 8. …”
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Struggles for Reproductive Justice in the Era of Anti-Genderism and Religious Fundamentalism

Table of Contents: “…State violence and reproduction in Nicaragua and Sweden -- 4: Reproductive justice in South Africa and African contexts: Where are we and where should we go and how in the era of global neoliberalism, neo-conservatism and religious fundamentalism? -- 5: Changing and competing discourses on abortion in Taiwan, 1990-2020 -- 6: In green and blue: Feminist struggle for abortion rights in Argentina -- 7: Narratives on the history of abortion in socialist Poland in today's struggles around abortion in Poland -- 8: Everyday bordering and the struggle for reproductive justice in Ireland -- 9: ¡Aborto Ya! …”
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The Contextualisation of 21st Century Skills Assessment in East Africa /

Table of Contents: “…Part1: The 21st century skills phenomenon: Chapter1. 21st century 'competencies" in East Africa: contextualisation to assessment -- Chapter2. …”
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The Illusion of Risk Control What Does it Take to Live With Uncertainty? /

Table of Contents: “…1 Uncertainty: new perspectives, questions and proposals, by Gilles Motet -- 2 Uncertainty - its ontological status and relation to safety, by Ove Njå, Øivind Solberg & Geir Sverre Braut -- 3 A conceptual foundation for assessing and managing risk, surprises and black swans, by Terje Aven -- 4 Recognizing complexity in risk management: the challenge of the Improbable, by Jean Pariès -- 5 Promoting safety by increasing uncertainty - Implications for risk Management, by Gudela Grote -- 6 Practices in the danger culture of late industrial society, by Arie Rip -- 7 Judicial Review of Uncertain Risks in Scientific Research, by Eric E. …”
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International Business by Carpenter, Mason A, Dunung, Sanjyot P

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment -- Chapter 3: Culture and Business -- Chapter 4: World Economies -- Chapter 5: Global and Regional Economic Cooperation and Integration -- Chapter 6: International Monetary System -- Chapter 7: Foreign Exchange and the Global Capital Markets -- Chapter 8: International Expansion and Global Market Opportunity Assessment -- Chapter 9: Exporting, Importing, and Global Sourcing -- Chapter 10: Strategy and International Business -- Chapter 11: Global Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship -- Chapter 12: Winning through Effective, Global Talent Management -- Chapter 13: Harnessing the Engine of Global Innovation -- Chapter 14: Competing Effectively through Global Marketing, Distribution, and Supply-Chain Management -- Chapter 15: Understanding the Roles of Finance and Accounting in Global Competitive Advantage --…”
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Data Parallel C++ Programming Accelerated Systems Using C++ and SYCL / by Reinders, James, Ashbaugh, Ben, Brodman, James, Kinsner, Michael, Pennycook, John, Tian, Xinmin

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Where Code Executes -- Chapter 3: Data Management and Ordering the Uses of Data -- Chapter 4: Expressing Parallelism -- Chapter 5: Error Handling -- Chapter 6: Unified Shared Memory -- Chapter 7: Buffers -- Chapter 8: Scheduling Kernels and Data Movement -- Chapter 9: Local Memory and Work-group Barriers -- Chapter 10: Defining Kernels -- Chapter 11: Vector and Math Arrays -- Chapter 12: Device Information and Kernel Specialization -- Chapter 13: Practical Tips -- Chapter 14: Common Parallel Patterns -- Chapter 15: Programming for GPUs -- Chapter 16: Programming for CPUs -- Chapter 17: Programming for FFGAs -- Chapter 18: Libraries -- Chapter 19: Memory Model and Atomics -- Chapter 20: Backend Interoperability -- Chapter 21: Migrating CUDA Code -- Epilogue.…”
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Value and the Humanities The Neoliberal University and Our Victorian Inheritance / by Bulaitis, Zoe Hope

Table of Contents: “…A History of Payment by Results: Lowe's Code (1862) and the Browne Report (2010) -- 3: Controversy and Conversation: The Relationship Between the Humanities and the Sciences -- 4. …”
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New Living Cases on Corporate Governance

Table of Contents: “…New Corporate Governance in the Post-Crisis World -- The Board of Directors as a Change Agent: Family Company Governance Case -- University Governance Case -- Start-up Investor Governance Case -- NPO Governance Case -- The Board of Directors as a Direction Body: M&A Governance Case -- Family Company Direction Case -- University Direction Case -- Board of Directors as a Strategic Sparring Partner -- The Board of Directors as an HR Governance Body -- Reward Governance -- Succession Planning Governance Case -- Owner - CEO Colaboration Case -- Board Management Collaboration Case -- Governance of Gender Diversity Case -- Outplacement Governance Case -- The Board of Directors as a Controlling Body: Subsidiary Governance Case -- Financial Competence on the Board Case -- IPO Governance Case -- Fraud Governance Case -- Lessons Learned from the Living Cases and trom the Global Financial Crisis. .…”
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Combatting Illicit Trade on the EU Border A Comparative Perspective /

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Introduction -- Introduction: Fighting Against Illicit Tobacco Trade in the Era of Fast Change -- International Legal Framework on the Fight Against Illicit Tobacco Trade: An Overview -- Part II: Criminal Policy with Regard to Illicit Tobacco Trade: National Experiences and Challenges -- Between Taxes, Criminal Law and Health Care: The Fight Against Illicit Tobacco Trade in Germany -- The Italian National Legal Framework Related to Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products -- Prevention of Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products: Experience of Lithuania -- Legal and Practical Challenges of Combating Illicit Trade of Tobacco in Poland -- A Complex Legal Framework for a Lack of Legal Certainty: Case Study of Romania -- Prevention and Repression of Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products: Experience of Slovakia -- Part III: Conclusions -- Conclusions: Criminal Policy on Illicit Tobacco Trade Between Scylla of Health Concerns and Charybdis of Fiscal Interests.…”
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Aviation Noise Impact Management Technologies, Regulations, and Societal Well-being in Europe /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Understanding the basics of aviation noise -- Status: Noise burden in Europe -- Part I: Regulating and reducing noise today -- Balanced approach to aircraft noise management -- Perspective on 25 years of European aircraft noise reduction technology efforts and shift towards global research aimed at quieter air transport -- Future aircraft and the future of aircraft noise -- Competing agendas for land-use around airports -- Part II: Beyond flying machines, Human beings -- Impact of aircraft noise on health -- Coping with aviation noise: Non-acoustic factors influencing annoyance and sleep disturbance from noise -- Engaging communities in the hard quest for consensus -- Towards innovative ways to assess annoyance -- Towards mapping of noise impact -- ANIMA noise platform and ANIMA methodology: One-stop shop for aviation noise management -- Overall perspectives.…”
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Leading in a VUCA World Integrating Leadership, Discernment and Spirituality /

Table of Contents: “…The Metanarraphors we Lead and Mediate by: Insights from Cognitive Metaphor Theory in the context of Mediation in a VUCA world -- The Quest to Lead (with) Millennials in a VUCA-World: Bridging the Gap between Generations -- Personal leadership as Form of Spirituality -- Leading Organisations in Turbulent Times: Towards a Different Mental Model -- Spirituality and Leadership in a South African Context -- Still Points: Simplicity at Key Management Niches in Complex Companies -- How to Integrate Spirituality, Emotions and Rationality in (group) Decision-making -- Embodied Realism as Interpretive Framework for Spirituality, Discernment and Leadership -- A Well-played Life: Discernment as the Constitutive Building Block of Selfless Leadership -- Discerning Spirituality for Missional Leaders -- Challenging the New 'One-Dimensional Man': The Protestant Orders of Life as a Critical Nuance to Workplace Spirituality -- From Spirituality to Responsible Leadership: Ignatian Discernment and Theory-U.…”
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African Land Reform Under Economic Liberalisation States, Chiefs, and Rural Communities /

Table of Contents: “…Politics of land resource management in Mozambique -- Chapter 7. Land law reform and complex state-building process in Rwanda -- Chapter 8. …”
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Law of Wills by Lewis, Browne C.

Table of Contents: “…Part I – The Intestacy System -- Chapter One: Ethically Representing the Elderly Client -- Chapter Two: Intestacy System (Basic Overview) -- Chapter Three: Intestacy System (Surviving Spouse) -- Chapter Four: The Intestacy System (Marital and Adopted Children) -- Chapter Five: Intestacy (Non-Marital Children, Stepchildren and Foster Children) -- Chapter Six: Intestacy (Children of Assisted Reproductive Technology) -- Part II —The Testacy System -- Chapter Seven: Testamentary Freedom -- Chapter Eight: Disinheritance -- Chapter Nine: Testamentary Capacity (Mental Competency and Insane Delusion) -- Chapter Ten: Testamentary Capacity (Undue Influence, Duress and Fraud) -- Chapter Eleven: Attested Wills -- Chapter Twelve: Non-Attested Wills -- Chapter Thirteen: Additional Doctrines Impacting Wills -- Chapter Fourteen: Mistakes and Curative Doctrines -- Chapter Fifteen: The Stale Will Problem -- Part III — Nonprobate Transfers -- Chapter Sixteen: Will Substitutes…”
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Airplane Flying Handbook (FAA-H-8083-3C)

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Introduction to Flight Training -- Chapter 2: Ground Operations -- Chapter 3: Basic Flight Maneuvers -- Chapter 4: Energy Management: Mastering Altitude and Airspeed Control -- Chapter 5: Maintaining Aircraft Control: Upset Prevention and Recovery Training -- Chapter 6: Takeoffs and Departure Climbs -- Chapter 7: Ground Reference Maneuvers -- Chapter 8: Airport Traffic Patterns -- Chapter 9: Approaches and Landings -- Chapter 10: Performance Maneuvers -- Chapter 11: Night Operations -- Chapter 12: Transition to Complex Airplanes -- Chapter 13: Transition to Multiengine Airplanes -- Chapter 14: Transition to Tailwheel Airplanes -- Chapter 15: Transition to Turbopropeller-Powered Airplanes -- Chapter 16: Transition to Jet-Powered Airplanes -- Chapter 17: Transition to Light Sport Airplanes (LSA) -- Chapter 18: Emergency Procedures…”
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Lost Without It How GPS is more than just navigation by McAlister, Chris

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Acknowledgement of First Peoples -- Accessibility Information -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I: Fundamentals -- Part II: Datums and Coordinates -- Part III: GNSS Basic Principles -- Part IV: Code Observable -- Part V: DGPS -- Part VI: Phase Observable -- Part VII: GNSS Projects…”
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Evidence-based Software Engineering by Jones, Derek M.

Table of Contents: “…1 Introduction -- 2 Human cognition -- 3 Cognitive capitalism -- 4 Ecosystems -- 5 Projects -- 6 Reliability -- 7 Source code -- 8 Stories told by data -- 9 Probability -- 10 Statistics -- 11 Regression modeling -- 12 Miscellaneous techniques -- 13 Experiments -- 14 Data preparation -- 15 Overview of R…”
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Where Does Art Come From? by McCurdy, Leah

Table of Contents: “…About the Publisher -- Accessibility Statement -- About This Project -- Acknowledgments -- How to Read this Book & Land Acknowledgment -- Where Does Art Come From? An Introduction -- Where Are We Going? …”
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Guide to Qualitative Research in Parliaments Experiences and Practices / by Berthet, Valentine, Gaweda, Barbara, Kantola, Johanna, Miller, Cherry, Ahrens, Petra, Elomäki, Anna

Table of Contents: “…Doing research interviews and ethnography -- Chapter 5: Coding the data -- Chapter 6: Interpreting the data -- Chapter 7: Conclusion.…”
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Computer Aided Verification 33rd International Conference, CAV 2021, Virtual Event, July 20-23, 2021, Proceedings, Part I /

Table of Contents: “…-- Checking Data-Race Freedom of GPU Kernels, Compositionally -- GenMC: A Model Checker for Weak Memory Models -- Hybrid and Cyber-Physical Systems -- Synthesizing Invariant Barrier Certificates via Difference-of-Convex Programming -- An Iterative Scheme of Safe Reinforcement Learning for Nonlinear Systems via Barrier Certificate Generation -- HybridSynchAADL: Modeling and Formal Analysis of Virtually Synchronous CPSs in AADL -- Computing Bottom SCCs Symbolically Using Transition Guided Reduction -- Implicit Semi-Algebraic Abstraction for Polynomial Dynamical Systems -- IMITATOR 3: Synthesis of timing parameters beyond decidability -- Formally Verified Switching Logic for Recoverability of Aircraft Controller -- SceneChecker: Boosting Scenario Verification using Symmetry Abstractions -- Effective Hybrid System Falsification Using Monte Carlo Tree Search Guided by QB-Robustness -- Fast zone-based algorithms for reachability in pushdown timed automata -- Security -- Verified Cryptographic Code for Everybody -- Not All Bugs Are Created Equal, But Robust Reachability Can Tell The Difference -- A Temporal Logic for Asynchronous Hyperproperties -- Product Programs in the Wild: Retrofitting Program Verifiers to Check Information Flow Security -- Constraint-based Relational Verification -- Pre-Deployment Security Assessment for Cloud Services through Semantic Reasoning -- Synthesis -- Synthesis with Asymptotic Resource Bounds -- Program Sketching by Automatically Generating Mocks from Tests -- Counterexample-Guided Partial Bounding for Recursive Function Synthesis -- PAYNT: A Tool for Inductive Synthesis of Probabilistic Programs -- Adapting Behaviors via Reactive Synthesis -- Causality-based Game Solving.…”
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The Huawei and Snowden Questions Can Electronic Equipment from Untrusted Vendors be Verified? Can an Untrusted Vendor Build Trust into Electronic Equipment? / by Lysne, Olav

Table of Contents: “…-- 4 Development of ICT Systems -- 5 Theoretical Foundation -- 6 Reverse Engineering of Code -- 7 Static Detection of Malware -- 8 Dynamic Detection Methods -- 9 Formal Methods -- 10 Software Quality and Quality Management -- 11 Containment of Untrusted Modules -- 12 Summary and Way Forward.…”
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