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Baltic Hospitality from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century Receiving Strangers in Northeastern Europe /
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…German Merchants in Novgorod: Hospitality and Hostility, Twelfth-Fifteenth Centuries; Pavel V. Lukin -- 6. Guests or Strangers? The Reception of Visiting Merchants in the Towns of the Baltic Rim, Sixteenth Century; Lovisa Olsson -- Part II: Early Modern Hospitalities -- 7. …”
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Stochastic Transport in Upper Ocean Dynamics STUOD 2021 Workshop, London, UK, September 20-23 /
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…Platzer) -- Frequentist perspective on robust parameter estimation using the ensemble Kalman filter (S. Reich) -- Random ocean swell-rays: a stochastic framework (V. …”
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Democratizing Risk Governance Bridging Science, Expertise, Deliberation and Public Values /
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…Chapter 7: Carbon capture, utilization and storage: public confidence in risk decision-making -- Chapter 8: Public Inclusion and Responsiveness in Governance of Genetically Engineered Animals -- Chapter 9: Decision-making about Newborn screening panels in Canada: risk management and public participation -- Chapter 10: Balancing shared decision-making with population-based recommendations: a policy perspective of PSA testing and mammography screening -- Chapter 11: Public Engagement on Childhood Vaccination: Democratizing policy decision-making through public deliberation -- Chapter 12: Narratives and the Water Fluoridation Controversy -- Chapter 13: Exploring the Role of Information Sources in Vaccine Decision-Making among Four Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities in the U.S -- Chapter 14: Opportunities and Perils of Public Consultation in the creation of COVID-19 vaccine priority groups.…”
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Blue Planet Law The Ecology of our Economic and Technological World /
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…Between the Hobbesian nightmare and a new culture of the commons -- Human Responsibility for the Protection of our "Common Home" -- Scientific Knowledge: its Impacts on Judicial Decision-making and International Law in the Era of Sustainability -- Part II Climate, Ocean and Biodiversity Protection -- Climate Change and Sustainability -- Pollution and Law -- Suing States: The Role of Courts in Promoting States' Responsibility for Climate Change -- Marine biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction -- Climate Change and the Ocean: The Disruption of the Coral Reef -- Marine Protected Areas and Ocean Sustainability -- Part III Law, Policy and Ecological Sustainability -- Renewable Energies, Sustainability and Law -- The Impact of Ecolabels and Green Taxes on Market Outcomes -- Environmental Governance through Tax Law in the European Union -- The Legal and Normative Challenges behind Sustainable Seafood -- Economy of the Sea and Sustainable Development: The 2030 Agenda Beyond Boxes -- Part IV Law, Genetic Resources and Biotechnology -- A Legal Approach to Fostering Green Infrastructure for Improved Water and Energy Efficiency -- Law and Marine Genetic Resources -- Marine Bioprospecting: Understanding the Activity and Some Challenges related to Environmental Protection, Scientific Research, Ethics and the Law -- Biotechnological Patents, Compulsory Licensing and Sars-cov-2 in a pandemic and epidemic context -- Fighting Listeria monocytogenes with bacteriophages: Biotechnology for Food Safety -- Genetic Engineering and the Law - Past, Present and Beyond: 20+1 Criteria to Help Focus the Path to Our Common Future.…”
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Cohabitation and Marriage in the Americas: Geo-historical Legacies and New Trends
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: A Geography of Cohabitation in the Americas, 1970-2010: Albert Esteve, Antonio López-Gay, Julián López-Colás, Iñaki Permanyer, Sheela Kennedy, Benoît Laplante, Ron Lesthaeghe, Anna Turu, Teresa Antònia Cusidó -- Chapter 2: The Rise of Cohabitation in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1970-2011: Albert Esteve, Ron Lesthaeghe, Antonio López-Gay and Joan Garcia-Román -- Chapter 3: Cohabitation and Marriage in Canada. …”
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Performing Citizenship Bodies, Agencies, Limitations /
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…Doing Rights with Things: the Art of Becoming Citizens; Engin Isin -- 5. Performing Citizenship - Gathering (in the) Movement; Liz Rech -- 6. …”
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Cicero, On Pompey’s Command (De Imperio), 27-49. Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, Commentary, and Translation
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…Introduction: why does the set text matter? -- 3. Latin text with study questions and vocabulary aid -- The Only Way is Pompey (§27) -- The Perfect General, Pompey the Kid, and Mr. …”
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The European Experience A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 15002000
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Divorce in Europe New Insights in Trends, Causes and Consequences of Relation Break-ups /
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…Divorce Trends -- Chapter 2. Estimating Trends in Relationship Stability over Time: Conceptual and Empirical Challenges -- Chapter 3. …”
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Ethics and Drug Resistance: Collective Responsibility for Global Public Health
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Part 1 Theoretical and conceptual approaches to ethics in antimicrobial resistance -- Chapter 1 The practical ethics of antimicrobial resistance as a collective action problem (Julian Savulescu) -- Chapter 2 Collective responsibility for antimicrobial resistance (Angus Dawson) -- Chapter 3 Moral aspects of antimicrobial stewardship (Marcel Verweij) -- Chapter 4 Ethical frameworks for rational antibiotic use (Annette Rid, Jasper Littmann, Alena Buyx) -- Chapter 5 The virtuous physician as antimicrobial prescriber (Justin Oakley) -- Chapter 6 Solidarity and compliance with antimicrobial policy (Søren Holm, Thomas Ploug) -- Chapter 7 Resistance, inequality, and epidemiological transition (Lynette Reid) -- Chapter 8 The price of precaution (Joakim Larsson, Christian Munthe) -- Part 2 Ethics and antimicrobial resistance in context -- Chapter 9 Hospital acquired infection (Lyn Gilbert & Ian Kerridge) -- Chapter 10 Antibiotic use in childhood (Michael Millar) -- Chapter 11 Ethics, animals, public goods (Jonny Anomaly) -- Chapter 12 Malaria (PY Cheah& Mike Parker) -- Chapter 13 Resistant HIV (Bridget Haire) -- Chapter 14 Access & availability of new TB drugs (Diego Silva, Adrian Viens, Jasper Littmann) -- Chapter 15 TB Resistance and Human rights (Leslie London) -- Chapter 16 TB Resistance in developing countries (Richard Coker, Marco Liverani, Mishal Khan) -- Chapter 17 Animal Epidemiology (Lisa Boden & Dominic Mellor) -- Part 3 Ethical, legal and economic aspects of antimicrobial resistance -- Chapter 18 Privacy and data collection(Leslie Francis) -- Chapter 19 Mandatory treatment interventions (Carl Coleman) -- Chapter 20 Ethics and AMR Regulation (Belinda Bennett) -- Chapter 21 Ethics of Drug Development (Nick King) -- Chapter 22 Economics of resistance (Coast/Smith) -- Conclusion.…”
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Big Data in Bioeconomy Results from the European DataBio Project /
Published 2021Table of Contents: “….) -- Delineation of management zones using satellite imageries -- Farm Weather Insurance Assessment -- Copernicus Data and CAP Subsidies Control -- Future vision, Summary and Outlook -- Part III Applications in Forestry: Introduction - state of the art of technology and market potential for Big Data in forestry -- Finnish Forest Data based Metsään.fi-services -- Forest variable estimation and change monitoring solutions based on remote sensing Big Data -- Monitoring Forest Health: Big Data applied to diseases and plagues control -- Forest damage monitoring for the bark beetle -- Conclusions and Outlook - Summary of Big Data in forestry -- Part IV Applications in Fishery: The potential of Big data for improving pelagic fisheries sustainability -- Tuna fisheries fuel consumption reduction and safer operations -- Sustainable and added value small pelagic fisheries pilots -- Conclusion and future vision -- Part V - Summary and Outlook: Summary of experiences of the potential and Exploitation of Big Data and AI in Bioeconomy -- Glossary - Terminology, acronyms, abbreviations.…”
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Managing Protected Areas People and Places /
Published 2024Table of Contents: “…Managing a UNESCOWorld Heritage Site in a Post-Colonial, Post-Conflict and Post-Disaster Destination. The Case of the Haitian National History Park -- 7. …”
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12733
Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…-- Chapter 6: Housing Poverty and Inequality in Urban India -- Part Four: Rural Poverty Reduction Policies -- Chapter 7: Evaluation of the Policy of Crop Diversification as a Strategy for Reduction of Rural Poverty in India -- Chapter 8: Conflict and Livelihood Decisions in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh -- Part Five: Dimensions of Poverty and its Reductions -- Chapter 9: Decomposing Spatial Inequality in Sri Lanka: A Quantile Regression Approach -- Chapter 10: Non-Income Dimensions, Prevalence, Depth and Severity of Poverty: Spatial Estimation with Household Level Data in India -- Chapter 11: Is Poverty Comparable Across Varying Size of Population Among Indian States? …”
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Tacitus, Annals, 15.20-23, 33-45. Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- 2.1 Tacitus: life and career -- 2.2 Tacitus' times: the political system of the principate -- 2.3 Tacitus' oeuvre: opera minora and maiora -- 2.4 Tacitus' style (as an instrument of thought) -- 2.5 Tacitus' Nero-narrative: Rocky-Horror-Picture Show and Broadway on the Tiber -- 2.6 Thrasea Paetus and the so-called ‘Stoic opposition' -- 3. Latin text with study questions and vocabulary aid -- 4. …”
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Improving Interagency Collaboration, Innovation and Learning in Criminal Justice Systems Supporting Offender Rehabilitation /
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…Facilitating Understanding Of Ex-Prison Service Users' Needs: The Utility Of Q Method As A Means Of Representing Service User Voices In Service Development, Siv Elin Nord Sæbjørnsen, Atle Ødegård And Sarah Hean -- 15. …”
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Knowledge for Governance
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…Experimentalist Systems in Manufacturing Multinationals: Recursivity and Continuous Learning Through Destabilization -- Chapterv19. …”
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Exceptional Lifespans
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…Mortality of supercentenarians: estimates from the updated IDL -- Chapter 4. Does the risk of death continue to rise among supercentenarians? …”
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Community and Identity in Contemporary Technosciences
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…Mistaken Identities of Experts and Novices: How Undergraduate Students Contribute to Engineering Laboratory Communities (Caitlin Donahue Wylie) -- Chapter 13. …”
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Computation and the Humanities Towards an Oral History of Digital Humanities /
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…-'It's Probably the Only Modestly Widely used System with a Command Language in Latin': An Oral History Conversation Between Manfred Thaller and Julianne Nyhan -- 'I was Keen on Getting Computers into Humanists' Thinking': An Oral History Conversation Between John Bradley and Julianne Nyhan -- 'Moderate Expectations, Tolerable Disappointments': An Oral History Conversation between Claus Huitfeldt and Julianne Nyhan -- 'So, Into the Chopper it Went': An Oral History Conversation between Gabriel Egan and Julianne Nyhan -- Revolutionaries and Underdogs -- By Way of a Conclusion.…”
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Advanced High School Statistics
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…1 Data collection -- 1.1 Case study -- 1.2 Data basics -- 1.3 Overview of data collection principles -- 1.4 Observational studies and sampling strategies -- 1.5 Experiments -- 2 Summarizing data -- 2.1 Examining numerical data -- 2.2 Numerical summaries and box plots -- 2.3 Considering categorical data -- 2.4 Case study: malaria vaccine (special topic) -- 3 Probability -- 3.1 Defining probability -- 3.2 Conditional probability -- 3.3 The binomial formula -- 3.4 Simulations -- 3.5 Random variables -- 3.6 Continuous distributions -- 4 Distributions of random variables -- 4.1 Normal distribution -- 4.2 Sampling distribution of a sample mean -- 4.3 Geometric distribution -- 4.4 Binomial distribution -- 4.5 Sampling distribution of a sample proportion -- 5 Foundation for inference -- 5.1 Estimating unknown parameters -- 5.2 Confidence intervals -- 5.3 Introducing hypothesis testing -- 5.4 Does it make sense? …”
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