Progress in Landslide Research and Technology, Volume 1 Issue 2, 2022

Table of Contents: “…Challenges and lessons learned from heavy rainfall induced geo-disasters over the last decade in Kyushu Island, Japan (Noriyuki Yasufuku).…”
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Cancer Care in Pandemic Times: Building Inclusive Local Health Security in Africa and India

Table of Contents: “…Part 1 cancer in pandemic times -- Chapter 1 - the cancer care challenge in the light of pandemic experience -- Chapter 2 - broken supply chains and local manufacturing innovation: responses to covid-19 and their implications for policy -- Part 2 the cancer care experience in east Africa -- Chapter 3 - the social pain of cancer in east africa: understanding need -- Chapter 4: access to cancer care: navigating the maze -- Chapter 5 - beyond 'late presentation': explaining delayed cancer diagnosis in east Africa -- Part 3 local industry and cancer care in india and east Africa -- Chapter 6 - cupboard full, cupboard empty: the industrial building blocks of covid-19 and cancer systems -- Chapter 7- manufacturing for cancer care in east africa: raising the ambition -- Chapter 8 - oncology drug production in sub-saharan africa: the challenge and opportunity, with evidence from india -- Part 4 - industrial innovation and industrial policy -- Chapter 9- emerging business models in cancer diagnostic startups in india and lessons for african countries -- Chapter 10 - realistic ambitions: technology transfer for biologics platform technologies -- Chapter 11 - palliation economics: the industrial organization of morphine in india -- Part 5 - tackling institutional gaps: using scenarios -- Chapter 12 innovation and policy in cancer pain management: systemic interactions in Tanzania -- Chapter 13 - using scenarios to support innovation and mutual linkages -- Chapter 14- conclusion: better cancer care and greater local health security: lessons, opportunities and ways forward.…”
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Principles and Practice of Case-based Clinical Reasoning Education A Method for Preclinical Students /

Table of Contents: “…Writing CBCR cases; Olle ten Cate & Maria van Loon -- 9. Curriculum and faculty development for Case-based Clinical Reasoning; Olle ten Cate & Gaiane Simonia -- 10. …”
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Cultivating Teacher Resilience International Approaches, Applications and Impact /

Table of Contents: “…-- 2 Understanding and examining teacher resilience from multiple perspectives -- 3 A BRiTE journey -- Section 2 Implementation and Applications -- 4 Staying BRiTE: An introduction -- 5 Connecting, embedding and developing BRiTE across multiple levels -- 6 Thinking dispositions for teaching: Enabling and supporting resilience in context -- 7 Implementing BRiTE in Initial Teacher Education Programs: through the eyes of the teacher educators -- 8 Doing it resiliently: Using arts-based approaches to embed resilience in professional experience learning -- 9 Building resilience for Early Years teachers -- 10 BRiTE mind: An online module to support mindful teacher resilience -- Section 3 Interventions and Impact -- 11 Building Resilience: Using BRiTE with beginning teachers in the US -- 12 Positive education: A professional learning programme to foster teacher's resilience and well-being -- 13 The professional assessment and development induction program:Application of the BRiTE project to the Spanish context -- 14 Practical applications for building teacher wellbeing in education -- 15 Understanding teacher wellbeing through job demands-resources theory -- Section 4 Future Directions -- 16 BRiTE-AR ways to prepare preservice teachers: Augmented reality addressing conflict and stress -- 17 Staying BRiTE in the Dutch teacher education context -- 18 Navigating changing times: Exploring teacher educator experiences of resilience -- 19 Looking back and moving forward.…”
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Introduction to GNU Octave A brief tutorial for linear algebra and calculus students by Lachniet, Jason

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Preface -- 1 Basic operation -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Navigating the GUI -- 1.3 Matrices and vectors -- 1.4 Plotting -- Chapter 1 Exercises -- 2 Matrices and linear systems -- 2.1 Linear systems -- 2.2 Polynomial curve fitting -- 2.3 Matrix transformations -- Chapter 2 Exercises -- 3 Calculus -- 3.1 Limits, sequences, and series -- 3.2 Numerical integration -- 3.3 Parametric, polar, and implicit functions -- 3.4 Complex variables -- 3.5 Special functions -- 3.6 Symbolic operations -- Chapter 3 Exercises -- 4 Eigenvalue problems -- 4.1 Eigenvalues and eigenvectors -- 4.2 Markov chains -- 4.3 Diagonalization -- 4.4 Singular value decomposition -- 4.5 Gram-Schmidt and the QR algorithm -- Chapter 4 Exercises -- 5 Additional topics -- 5.1 Three dimensional graphs -- 5.2 Multiple integrals -- 5.3 Vector fields -- 5.4 Statistics -- 5.5 Differential equations -- Chapter 5 Exercises -- 6 Applied projects -- 6.1 SVD and digital image compression -- 6.2 The Gini index and nonlinear curve-fitting -- 6.3 Designing a helical strake: arc length and curvature -- 6.4 Modeling a cave passage: cubic spline curves -- 6.5 Graphs of surfaces and 3D-printing -- A MATLAB compatibility -- B List of Octave commands -- References -- Index…”
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Chapeau! First-Year French by Dinneen, David A., Kernen, Madeleine

Table 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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Gendered Lives Global Issues by Fernandez, Nadine T., Nelson, Katie

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Key Concepts -- Chapter 2: Key Perspectives -- Part II: South Asia -- Chapter 3: Introducing the Region -- Chapter 4: Controlling National Borders by Controlling Reproduction -- Chapter 5: Understanding Caste and Kinship within Hijras, a “Third” Gender Community in India -- Chapter 6: The “City” and “The Easy Life”: Work and Gender among Sherpa in Nepal -- Part III: Latin America -- Chapter 7: Latin America: Introducing the Region -- Chapter 8: Being a Good Mexican Man by Embracing “Erectile Dysfunction” -- Chapter 9: Intersectionality and Normative Masculinity in Northeast Brazil -- Chapter 10: Mexico’s Antipoverty Program Oportunidades and the Shifting Dynamics of Citizenship for Ñuu Savi (Mixtec) Village Women -- Chapter 11: Q’eqchi’-Maya Women: Memory, Markets, and Multilevel Marketing in Guatemala -- Part IV: The Caribbean -- Chapter 12: The Caribbean: Introducing the Region -- Chapter 13: Quinceañeras: Girls’ Coming-of-Age Parties in Contemporary Havana, Cuba -- Chapter 14: Jamaican Realities of Masculinities and Sexualities: “How Far Have We Come since Michel Foucault?” …”
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Writing Guide with Handbook by Robinson, Michelle Bachelor, Jerskey, Maria, Fulwiller, Toby

Table of Contents: “…-- Chapter 8 Analytical Report: Writing from Facts -- Chapter 9 Rhetorical Analysis: Interpreting the Art of Rhetoric -- Chapter 10 Position Argument: Practicing the Art of Rhetoric -- Chapter 11 Reasoning Strategies: Improving Critical Thinking -- Chapter 12 Argumentative Research: Enhancing the Art of Rhetoric with Evidence -- Chapter 13 Research Process: Accessing and Recording Information -- Chapter 14 Annotated Bibliography: Gathering, Evaluating, and Documenting Sources -- Chapter 15 Case Study Profile: What One Person Says About All -- Unit 3 Navigating Rhetoric in Real Life -- Chapter 16 Print or Textual Analysis: What You Read -- Chapter 17 Image Analysis: What You See -- Chapter 18 Multimodal and Online Writing: Creative Interaction between Text and Image -- Chapter 19 Scripting for the Public Forum: Writing to Speak -- Chapter 20 Portfolio Reflection: Your Growth as a Writer…”
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Perspectives on Digital Humanism

Table of Contents: “…Digital Humanism - Navigating the Tensions Ahead -- 44. Should We Rethink How We Do Research? …”
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The Politics of Diversity in Music Education

Table of Contents: “…1 Introduction -- Part 1 Exploring the politics of inquiry in music education research -- 2 The art(s) of getting lost: Halting places for culturally responsive research methods -- 3 Body politics: Positioning the pregnant researcher amongst asylum seekers -- 4 The politics of reflexivity in music teachers' intercultural dialogue -- 5 Doing dirty work: Listening for ignorance amongst the ruins of reflexivity in music education research -- Part 2 Navigating shifting political landscapes of society and state -- 6 Educative power and the respectful curricular inclusion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander music -- 7 To "move, surprise and thrill": Thirty years of promoting cultural diversity in Norwegian school concerts -- 8 The challenges of implementing diverse political directives in contemporary China: Between creativity and Confucianism -- 9 "Where the social stigma has been overcome": Musician-teachers negotiating identity and place in Nepali society -- Part 3 Extending the scope of diversity in music education -- 10 The paradox of democracy in popular music education: Intersectionalizing "youth" through curriculum analysis -- 11 Where does diversity go straight? …”
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Transformation Literacy Pathways to Regenerative Civilizations /

Table 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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Realising Linguistic, Cultural and Educational Rights Through Non-Territorial Autonomy

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Introduction. By David J. Smith, Ivan Dodovski -- Chapter 2: The Role of Law and Non-Territorial Autonomy Arrangements in the Implementation of Linguistic Rights: A Comparative Perspective. …”
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Mobilities in Life and Death Negotiating Room for Migrants and Minorities in European Cemeteries /

Table of Contents: “…Cemeteries as Translocal Contact Zones: Navigating Regulations, Unwritten Rules and Divergent Expectations in Luxembourg City (Mariske Westendorp & Sonja Kmec) -- 3. …”
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Chronotropics Caribbean Women Writing Spacetime /

Table of Contents: “…1: Introduction: Chronotropics -- Part I: Defiances/Divergences/Digressions -- 2: Of Slave Ships as Chronotopes: Fabienne Kanor's Humus and Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro's Las Negras -- 3: Wreckognition: Archival Ruins in Dionne Brand's The Blue Clerk -- 4: Past Histories and Present Realities: Reading Desire and Difference in Mayra Santos Febres' Fe en disfraz -- 5: Haunting Genealogies: Indo-Caribbean Feminist Literary Reimaginings of the Monstrous Past -- Part II: Traumas/Restructures/Retracings -- 6: Connecting Diasporas: Reading Erna Brodber's Work through African Fractal Theory -- 7: When the Tout-Monde is not one: Maryse Condé's Problematic 'World-in-Motion' in Les belles ténébreuses (2008) and Le fabuleux et triste destin d'Ivan et Ivana (2017) -- 8: Writing "In Transit": Literary Constructions of Sovereignty in Julia Alvarez's Afterlife -- Part III: Destruction/Desires/Disruptions -- 9: Beyond the Crossroad: Caribbean Environments, Gender and Race in Pauline Melville's The Ventriloquist's Tale and Elizabeth Nunez's Prospero's Daughter -- 10: Creolized Ecology in Mayra Montero's Palm of Darkness -- 11: Canadian Re-mapping of Caribbean Desire in Nalo Hopkinson's Sister Mine and Shani Mootoo's He Drown She in the Sea -- Part IV: Bilocation/Inhabitations/(G)hostings -- 12: Spiritual Crossings: Olokún and Caribbean Futures Past in La mucama de Omicunlé by Rita Indiana Hernández -- 13: A Site of Memory: Revisiting (in) Gisèle Pineau's Mes quatre femmes -- 14: At the Crossroads of History: The Cohabitation of Past and Present in Kettly Mars's L'Ange du patriarche -- 15: Fiction as a Spider's Web? …”
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Tracing Private Conversations in Early Modern Europe Talking in Everyday Life /

Table of Contents: “…Talking Privately in Utopia: Ideals of Silence and Dissimulation in Smeek's Krinke Kesmes (1708); Liam Benison -- Part II: Navigating Hierarchical Settings -- 5. "Alone amongst ourselves": How to Talk in Private According to the Cologne Diarist Hermann von Weinsberg (1518-97); Krisztina Péter -- 6. …”
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Performing Citizenship Bodies, Agencies, Limitations /

Table of Contents: “…Yet Another Effort, Citizens, if you Want to Learn How to React!; Kai van Eikels -- 3. [An] Elephant in the room. Notes on the 'Welcome City' Hamburg; Paula Hildebrandt -- 4. …”
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Sustainable Living with Environmental Risks

Table of Contents: “…Managing Environmental Risks and Promoting Sustainability: Science Advancement and Leadership Development -- Biodiversity Agriculture Supports Human Populations -- Conservation and Sustainable Management of Soil Biodiversity for Agricultural Productivity -- Conservation Tillage Assessment For Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emission In Rainfed Agro-Ecosystem -- Improving Biodiversity in Rice Paddy Fields to Promote Land Sustainability -- Agroforestry Models for Promoting Effective Risk Management and Building Sustainable Communities -- Managing Environmental Risks and Promoting Sustainability: Conservation of Forest Resources in Madagascar -- Community-Based Mangrove Forest Management in Thailand: Key Lesson Learned for Environmental Risk Management -- Necessity of Adaptive Risk Management for Fisheries and Wildlife -- Valuation of Non-Marketed Agricultural Ecosystem Services and Food Security in Southeast Asia -- Emerging Socio-Economic and Environmental Issues Affecting Food Security: A Case Study of Silang-Santa Rosa Subwatershed -- Strengthening the Capacity of Flood-Affected Rural Communities in Padang Terap, State of Kedah, Malaysia -- Mitigating Coastal Erosion in Fort Dauphin, Madagascar -- Risk Management of Chemical Pollution: Principles from the Japanese Experience -- Research on the Sod Between Chlorophyll-a and Organic Matter BOD, COD, Phosphorus and Total Nitrogen in Stagnant Lake Basins -- Managing Construction Development Risks to the Environment -- Ecosystem Restoration Using the Near-Natural Method in Shanghai -- Sustainable Management of Urban Green Environments: Challenges and Opportunities -- Environment and Social Capacity Assessment for Sustainability Promotion and Risk Management -- Rural Landscape Conservation in Japan: Lessons from the Satoyama Conservation Program in Kanagawa Prefecture -- Enhancing Students' Ecological Thinking to Improve Understanding of Environmental Risk -- Interactive Multimedia Education System (IMES) as a International Education Platform.…”
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Biofuels and Sustainability Holistic Perspectives for Policy-making /

Table of Contents: “…Key strategies for policy makers - National strategy options for Japan [Shiroyama, Matsuura and Saito].…”
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The Missing Link An Introduction to Web Development and Programming by Mendez, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Brief History of the Internet -- Chapter 2: Current Trends -- Chapter 3: Web Servers -- Chapter 4: Network Basics -- Chapter 5: Website Design -- Chapter 6: Development -- Chapter 7: Markup Languages -- Chapter 8: Creating HTML Files -- Chapter 9: Page Layout -- Chapter 10: Text Layout -- Chapter 11: Navigation -- Chapter 12: Graphics -- Chapter 13: Tables -- Chapter 14: Forms -- Chapter 15: Canvas -- Chapter 16: Media Support -- Chapter 17: Mobile Device Support -- Chapter 18: Tags to Avoid -- Chapter 19: Rule Structure -- Chapter 20: Layout Formatting -- Chapter 21: Font and Text Decoration -- Chapter 22: Responsive Styling -- Chapter 23: Server-Side and Client-Side Scripting -- Chapter 24: Creating PHP Files -- Chapter 25: PHP Errors -- Chapter 26: PHP Output -- Chapter 27: Data Storage -- Chapter 28: Data Manipulation -- Chapter 29: Email -- Chapter 30: File Interaction -- Chapter 31: Structures -- Chapter 32: Functions -- Chapter 33: Objects and Classes -- Chapter 34: JavaScript Syntax -- Chapter 35: JavaScript Examples -- Chapter 36: jQuery -- Chapter 37: Database Types -- Chapter 38: Data Relationships -- Chapter 39: MySQL Data Types -- Chapter 40: Normalization -- Chapter 41: MySQL CRUD Actions -- Chapter 42: Advanced Queries -- Chapter 43: Security -- Chapter 44: Integration Examples -- Chapter 45: Finishing Touches -- Chapter 46: Now What?…”
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Mathematics for Elementary Teachers by Manes, Michelle

Table of Contents: “…a -- Worldwide Voyage -- Navigation…”
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