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Electromechanobiology of Cartilage and Osteoarthritis A Tribute to Alan Grodzinsky on his 75th Birthday /

Table of Contents: “…Aggrecan and Hyaluronan: The infamous Cartilage Polyelectrolytes- Then and Now (Anna Plaas, Meghan Moran, John Sandy, Vincent Hascall) -- Chapter 2. …”
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Building a Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Understanding the Challenges of the Agriculture Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Part I - Improving Agricultural Productivity -- Chapter 2: Improved Seeds and Agricultural Productivity of Family Farms in Cameroon -- Chapter 3: Breaking the Traditional Trap: Assessing Drivers of Modern Technology Adoption by Smallholder Farmers in Hurungwe District, Zimbabwe -- Chapter 4: Input Utilization and Agricultural Labour Productivity: A Gender Analysis -- Chapter 5: Evaluation of Women's On-Farm Trial of Drought Tolerant Maize in Southern Guinea Savannah Agro-Ecological Zone of Nigeria -- Chapter 6: Impact of Bioenergy Crop Adoption on Total Crop Incomes of Farmers in Northern Ghana: The Case of Jatropha Curcas -- Part II - Addressing Climate Change Challenges -- Chapter 7: Profitability in a Sustainable Agricultural Production System: An Approach by the Soil and Water Conservation -- Chapter 8: Land Tenure and Communities' Vulnerability to Climate Shocks: Insights from the Niger Basin of Benin -- Chapter 9: Impact of Drought Index Insurance on Supplemental Irrigation: A Randomized Controlled Trial Experimental Evidence in Northern Ghana -- Part III - Promoting Agro-Industrialization -- Chapter 10: Does the Development of the Agricultural Sector Affect the Manufacturing Sector? …”
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The Evolution of China's Anti-Poverty Strategies Cases of 20 Chinese Changing Lives / by Brown, William N.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Mogan Mountain's Tang Hairong -- Chapter 2: Liu Yunguang: An Entrepreneur With a Passion for Youth -- Chapter 3: Jing Xuhua - A Loving Mother Triumphs at Home and in Business -- Chapter 4: Ye Nan Brings a Bright Future to West China -- Chapter 5: Yang Ying- From House Maid to Millionaire Philanthropist -- Chapter 6: Gerile - Making Snacks to Put Her Daughter Through College -- Chapter 7: Zhang Fang - Documenting Inner Mongolia's Environmental Fight -- Chapter 8: Zhao Xuan, A Retired Teacher From Xi'an -- Chapter 9: Bu Wenjun: Inheriting Wei-family's Brick-Carving Craftsmanship -- Chapter 10: Zhang Jianlong - From Migrant Worker to Cattle King -- Chapter 11: Xin Baotong- Helping the Helpless to Dream Again -- Chapter 12: Wang Zenghao - Young Volunteer Working in Tibet -- Chapter 13: Dawa Wangdui: A Tibetan Serf -turned Entrepreneur -- Chapter 14: Xia Jiangping - Greening the Roof of the World! …”
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Impact of Information Society Research in the Global South

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Chapter 1: Research on Impact of the Information Society in the Global South: An Introduction to SIRCA -- Part I: Impact of Research -- Chapter 2. …”
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Principles of Economics

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Economics: The Study of Choice -- Chapter 2: Confronting Scarcity: Choices in Production -- Chapter 3: Demand and Supply -- Chapter 4: Applications of Demand and Supply -- Chapter 5: Elasticity: A Measure of Response -- Chapter 6: Markets, Maximizers, and Efficiency -- Chapter 7: The Analysis of Consumer Choice -- Chapter 8: Production and Cost -- Chapter 9: Competitive Markets for Goods and Services -- Chapter 10: Monopoly -- Chapter 11: The World of Imperfect Competition -- Chapter 12: Wages and Employment in Perfect Competition -- Chapter 13: Interest Rates and the Markets for Capital and Natural Resources -- Chapter 14: Imperfectly Competitive Markets for Factors of Production -- Chapter 15: Public Finance and Public Choice -- Chapter 16: Antitrust Policy and Business Regulation -- Chapter 17: International Trade -- Chapter 18: The Economics of the Environment -- Chapter 19: Inequality, Poverty, and Discrimination -- Chapter 20: Macroeconomics: The Big Picture -- Chapter 21: Measuring Total Output and Income -- Chapter 22: Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply -- Chapter 23: Economic Growth -- Chapter 24: The Nature and Creation of Money -- Chapter 25: Financial Markets and the Economy -- Chapter 26: Monetary Policy and the Fed -- Chapter 27: Government and Fiscal Policy -- Chapter 28: Consumption and the Aggregate Expenditures Model -- Chapter 29: Investment and Economic Activity -- Chapter 30: Net Exports and International Finance -- Chapter 31: Inflation and Unemployment -- Chapter 32: A Brief History of Macroeconomic Thought and Policy -- Chapter 33: Economic Development -- Chapter 34: Socialist Economies in Transition…”
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The Social Metabolism of Spanish Agriculture, 1900-2008 The Mediterranean Way Towards Industrialization / by González de Molina, Manuel, Soto Fernández, David, Guzmán Casado, Gloria, Infante-Amate, Juan, Aguilera Fernández, Eduardo, Vila Traver, Jaime, García Ruiz, Roberto

Table of Contents: “…Breakdown of agricultural income andcoverage of household expenditure -- 4.7. …”
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Religious Entanglements Between Germans and Indians, 1800-1945

Table of Contents: “…Neglected Aspects of the So-Called Revival of a Classical Indian Dance Form -- 8 'The Priestess of Hindu Dance': Leila Sokhey's Repertoire and Its Reception in the Netherlands and Germany (1927-38) -- 9 Roaming Between East and West: In Search of Religious Ecstasy in the Interwar Period -- 10 Negotiating Germanness with Indian Religious History: Transfers of Academic Knowledge and Notions of völkisch Belief -- 11 Hakenkreuz, Swastika and Crescent: The Religious Factor in Nazi Cultural Politics Regarding India -- 12 Curating the Fragments of Local Modernities: The Menaka Digital Archive from the Perspective of Ongoing Research.…”
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Causal Mechanisms in the Global Development of Social Policies

Table of Contents: “…Political Responses of Conditional Income Transfer Recipients: A Mechanism Approach -- Part VI Concluding Section -- 14. …”
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Protest Movements in Asylum and Deportation

Table of Contents: “…The Refugee Protest Camp Vienna: Monika Mokre -- Part IV: Restrictive Protest against Asylum Seekers: 11: Mobilization against Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Germany: A Social Movement Perspective: Dieter Rucht -- 12: Protest against the Reception of Asylum Seekers in Austria: Miriam Haselbacher, Sieglinde Rosenberger -- Conclusion: 13: Protests Revisited: Political Configurations, Political Culture and Protest Impact: Gianni D'Amato, Helen Schwenken -- Glossary.…”
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Performing Citizenship Bodies, Agencies, Limitations /

Table of Contents: “…Of Mice and Masks: How performing citizenship worked for a thousand years in the Venetian Republic and why the Age of Enlightenment brought it to an abrupt end; Mirjam Schaub -- 17. Perform, Citizen!: On the Resource of Visibility in Performative Practice, between Invitation and Imperative; Maike Gunsilius -- 18. …”
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Managing Protected Areas People and Places /

Table of Contents: “…Judaism and Engagements With Nature: Theology and Practice -- 12. Islam and Engagements With Nature; Theology and Practice -- 13. …”
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Technological and Institutional Innovations for Marginalized Smallholders in Agricultural Development

Table of Contents: “…An optimization model for technology adoption of marginalized smallholders -- Part 2 Diversification of Agricultural Production and Income -- 6. The BRAC Approach to Small Farmers' Innovations -- 7. …”
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La hora del cuento en español by Rojas-Primus, Constanza, Rodríguez, Sofía

Table of Contents: “…-- Ema la bailarina -- El manzano -- Hogar dulce hogar -- La chica con la cometa -- Part Two -- A Day with Mia -- The Dream of the Nanny-Goat -- My Red Rose -- Penny Cleans the Classroom -- The Bossy Toucan -- The Flying Gilt -- The Purple Pencil -- I Love to Help! …”
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Dependable Embedded Systems

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Design of efficient, dependable SoCs based on cross-layer-reliability approach with emphasis on wireless communication as application and DRAM memories -- CRAU: Compositional System-Level Reliability Analysis in the Presence of Uncertainties -- Semantics-aware Soft Error Handling for Embedded Systems using Compiler-OS Interaction -- ARES: Self-Adaptive Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architectures as Reliability Enhancers in Embedded Systems -- Cross-Layer Techniques for Dependable Software Execution on Embedded Systems -- Ambrosia: Cross-layer Modeling and Mitigation of Aging Effects in Embedded Systems -- Cross-Layer Dependability for Embedded Hardware/Software Systems -- Fault-Tolerant Computing with Heterogeneous Hardware/Software Hardening Modes -- Robust Computing for Machine Learning-Based Systems -- Hardening embedded system software -- LIFT: Lifting Device-Level Characteristics for Error Resilient System Level Design: A Crosslayer Approach -- VirTherm-3D: Communication Virtualization Enabling System Management for Dependable 3D MPSoCs -- OTERA: Online Test Strategies for Reliable Reconfigurable Architectures -- Variability-Aware Software: Recent Results and Contributions -- EM Lifetime Constrained Optimization for Multi-Segment Power Grid Networks -- Lightweight Software-Assisted Memory Error Correction -- Reliability-Driven Resource Management for Multi-Core Systems-on-Chip -- Monitor Circuits for Device-Circuit Interaction -- PERCIES: Providing Efficient Reliability in Critical Embedded Systems.…”
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Cancer in the Arab World

Table of Contents: “…1 Introduction -- 2 General Oncology Care in Algeria -- 3 General Oncology Care in Bahrain -- 4 General Oncology Care in Egypt -- 5 General Oncology Care in Iraq -- 6 General Oncology Care in Jordan -- 7 General Oncology Care in Kuwait -- 8 General Oncology Care in Lebanon -- 9 General Oncology Care in Libya -- 10 General Oncology Care in Mauritania -- 11 General Oncology Care in Morocco -- 12 General Oncology Care in Oman -- 13 General Oncology Care in Palestine -- 14 General Oncology Care in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia -- 15 General Oncology Care in Somalia -- 16 General Oncology Care in Sudan -- 17 General Oncology Care in Syria -- 18 General Oncology Care in Tunisia -- 19 General oncology care in the UAE -- 20 General Oncology Care in the Republic of Yemen -- 21 General Oncology Care in Qatar, Comoros & Djibouti -- 22 Breast Cancer in the Arab World -- 23 Colorectal Cancer in the Arab World -- 24 Palliative Care in the Arab World -- 25 Cancer Research in the Arab World -- 26 Pediatric Oncology in the Arab World -- 27 Challenges Associated with Medical Travel for Cancer Patients in the Arab World: A Systematic Review -- 28 Radiation Therapy in Arab World -- 29 Cancer Care During War and Conflict.…”
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Lived Nation as the History of Experiences and Emotions in Finland, 1800-2000

Table of Contents: “…Nocturnal Nation: Violence and the Nation in Dreams During and After World War II- Ville Kivimäki -- 13. …”
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General Average and Risk Management in Medieval and Early Modern Maritime Business

Table of Contents: “…Rules and Practices of General Average in the Islamic Mediterranean on the Eve of the Emergence of the Italian Communes; Hassan Khalilieh -- 6. …”
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Childlessness in Europe: Contexts, Causes, and Consequences

Table of Contents: “…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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Connecting Mathematics and Mathematics Education Collected Papers on Mathematics Education as a Design Science / by Wittmann, Erich Christian

Table of Contents: “…The mathematical training of teachers from the point of view of education. Survey Lecture at ICME 6. Journal für Mathematik-Didaktik 10 (1989), 291-308 -- 4. …”
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Renewing Local Planning to Face Climate Change in the Tropics

Table of Contents: “…The case of the West Arsi Woreda in Ethiopia -- Visualize and communicate extreme weather risk to improve urban resilience -- Climate change adaptation and resilience in Mali -- Building resilience to drought in the Sahel by early risk identification and advices -- Risk analysis and evaluation to improve climate adaptation planning in Western Niger -- A simplified hydrological method for flood risk assessment at sub-basin level in Niger -- Socio-technical transitions and resilient infrastructure: analyzing changes in access to water following infrastructure upgrade in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania -- Monitoring and evaluating advocacy and mainstreaming of climate change adaptation in Haiti -- Knowledge for transformational adaptation planning: comparing the potential of forecasting and back casting methods for assessing people vulnerability -- Possible impact of pelletized crop residues use as a fuel for cooking in Niger -- An effective Mainstreaming DRR and Resilience approach in La Paz (Mexico) and San Jose (Costa-Rica) -- Climate vulnerability reduction credits: measuring results of adaptation; potential applicability for sub-Saharan communities -- Review of pilot projects on index-based insurance in Africa: insights and lessons Learned -- A new perspective for integrating climate change in local development plans.…”
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