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Computer-Aided Exercises in Civil Procedure
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…Exercise One - Holding and Dicta in the Context of a Diversity Case -- Exercise Two - Jurisdiction -- Exercise Three - Pleading a Complaint -- Exercise Four - Demurrers and Judgments on the Pleadings -- Exercise Five - Motions to Dismiss and Waiver under Federal Rule 12 -- Exercise Six - Joinder and Supplemental Jurisdiction -- Exercise Seven - Discovery -- Exercise Eight - Summary Judgment -- Exercise Nine - Judgment as a Matter of Law -- Exercise Ten - Evidence for Civil Procedure Students -- Exercise Eleven - Preclusion…”
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Pharo by Example 5.0
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…1 Preface -- 2 A quick tour of Pharo -- 3 A first application -- 4 Syntax in a nutshell -- 5 Understanding message syntax -- 6 The Pharo object model -- 7 Some of the key tools of the Pharo environment -- 8 Sharing code and source control -- 9 S Unit -- 10 Basic classes -- 11 Collections -- 12 Streams -- 13 Morphic -- 14 Seaside by example -- 15 Classes and metaclasses -- 16 Reflection -- 17 Regular expressions in Pharo…”
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Research Methods in Psychology
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: The Science of Psychology -- Chapter 2: Getting Started in Research -- Chapter 3: Research Ethics -- Chapter 4: Theory in Psychology -- Chapter 5: Psychological Measurement -- Chapter 6: Experimental Research -- Chapter 7: Non-experimental Research -- Chapter 8: Complex Research Designs -- Chapter 9: Survey Research -- Chapter 10: Single-Subject Research -- Chapter 11: Presenting Your Research -- Chapter 12: Descriptive Statistics -- Chapter 13: Inferential Statistics…”
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Understanding Risks and Uncertainties in Energy and Climate Policy Multidisciplinary Methods and Tools for a Low Carbon Society /
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…A detailed overview and consistent classification of climate-economy models -- 'Consensus Building in Engagement Processes' for reducing risks in developing sustainable pathways: Indigenous interests as core elements of engagement -- An application of calibration and uncertainty quantification techniques for agent-based models -- Investments in the EU power system: A stress-test analysis on the effectiveness of decarbonisation policies -- Impact Assessment of Climate and Energy Policy Scenarios: A Multi Criteria Approach -- Water Stress Implications of Energy Scenarios for the Middle East: an Assessment of Risks and Uncertainties -- Evaluation of national environmental efficiency under uncertainty using Data Envelopment Analysis -- Hypothesis for a Risk Cost of Carbon: Revising the Externalities and Ethics of Climate Change -- Assessment of Renewable Energy Projects using a Decision Support System: a process to endorse the Social License to Operate -- A unilateral climate and supply market model. .…”
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Modern Socio-Technical Perspectives on Privacy
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Privacy and Vulnerable Populations -- Part IV: Moving Forward -- 16. User-Tailored Privacy -- 17. …”
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Labour Control and Union Agency in Global Production Networks A Case Study of the Bangalore Export-garment Cluster /
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…Conclusion: Lessons For Building Sustained Union Power In Garment Production Countries.…”
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Dignity in the 21st Century Middle East and West /
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…-islam - A brief Overview of a world religion -- The prophet -- The koran and the hadîths -- Islam in everyday life -- Introduction to dignity in the koran -- Dignity and power -- Dignity and freedom -- How dignity becomes realisable -- Middle east and west - can common ground be found? …”
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The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America Decades of Change /
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Meanings of Poverty: an Ethnography of Bolsa Familia Beneficiaries in Rio de Janeiro/Brazil -- 7. Political Polarization, Colonial Inequalities, and the Crisis of Modernity in Venezuela -- 8. …”
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Inside Asylum Bureaucracy: Organizing Refugee Status Determination in Austria
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: Claiming asylum in the 21st century: an institutional perspective -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Determining refugee status in the European context: the legal and institutional framework -- Part II: Setting the scene: the context and circumstances of work at the Federal Asylum Office -- 3.The organization: structure, environment and socialization -- 4.The asylum interview as a magnifying glass for key issues: conflicting norms, power struggles, and actors' strategies -- 5.Regulation vs. room for maneuver -- 6.Definitiveness vs. uncertainty -- 7.The human individual vs. the faceless case -- 8.Responsibility vs. dissociation -- Part IV: Conclusion and prospects: theorizing public officials' practices and practical ways ahead -- 9.Practices in focus: the dilemmas that evoke them and the effects they have -- 10.Practical implications: how to deal with structural dilemmas? …”
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Reconsidering Constitutional Formation II Decisive Constitutional Normativity From Old Liberties to New Precedence /
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Conservative Criticism of the 1815 Constitution of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands -- Eirik Holmøyvik, Constituent Power and Constitutionalism in 19th Century Norway -- Giuseppe Mecca, In Keeping with the Spirit of the Albertine Statute. …”
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African Land Reform Under Economic Liberalisation States, Chiefs, and Rural Communities /
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Post-Cold War Ethiopian land policy and state power in land commercialisation -- Chapter 9. Traversing state, agribusinesses, and farmers' land discourse in Kenyan commercial intensive agriculture.…”
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Sociology Understanding and Changing the Social World
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Sociology and the Sociological Perspective -- Chapter 2: Eye on Society: Doing Sociological Research -- Chapter 3: Culture -- Chapter 4: Socialization -- Chapter 5: Social Structure and Social Interaction -- Chapter 6: Groups and Organizations -- Chapter 7: Deviance, Crime, and Social Control -- Chapter 8: Social Stratification -- Chapter 9: Global Stratification -- Chapter 10: Race and Ethnicity -- Chapter 11: Gender and Gender Inequality -- Chapter 12: Aging and the Elderly -- Chapter 13: Work and the Economy -- Chapter 14: Politics and Government -- Chapter 15: The Family -- Chapter 16: Education -- Chapter 17: Religion -- Chapter 18: Health and Medicine -- Chapter 19: Population and Urbanization -- Chapter 20: Social Change and the Environment -- Chapter 21: Collective Behavior and Social Movements -- Chapter 22: Conclusion: Understanding and Changing the Social World…”
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Global Corruption Its Regulation under International Conventions, US, UK, and Canadian Law and Practice
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Table of Acronyms -- About the Editor -- Contributing Authors and Co-Authors -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 - Corruption in Context: Social, Economic, and Political Dimensions -- Chapter 2 - Bribery and Other Offences -- Chapter 3 - Jurisdiction, Corporate Liability, Accomplices, and Inchoate Offences -- Chapter 4 - Money Laundering -- Chapter 5 - Asset Recovery and Mutual Legal Assistance -- Chapter 6 - Investigation and Prosecution -- Chapter 7 - Criminal and Civil Sanctions and Remedies -- Chapter 8 - The Lawyer's Ethical and Professional Duties -- Chapter 9 - Compliance Programs, Risk Assessments, and Due Diligence -- Chapter 10 - Public Officials and Conflicts of Interest -- Chapter 11 - Regulation of Lobbying -- Chapter 12 - Public Procurement -- Chapter 13 - Whistleblower Protections -- Chapter 14 - Campaign Finance: Controlling the Risks of Corruption and Public Cynicism -- Chapter 15 - Collective Action -- Chapter 16 - The Role of NGOs…”
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Introduction to Anthropology
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…-- Chapter 2 Methods: Cultural and Archaeological -- Chapter 3 Culture Concept Theory: Theories of Cultural Change -- Chapter 4 Biological Evolution and Early Human Evidence -- Chapter 5 The Genus Homo and the Emergence of Us -- Chapter 6 Language and Communication -- Chapter 7 Work, Life, and Value: Economic Anthropology -- Chapter 8 Authority, Decisions, and Power: Political Anthropology -- Chapter 9 Social Inequality -- Chapter 10 The Global Impact of Human Migration -- Chapter 11 Forming Family through Kinship -- Chapter 12 Gender and Sexuality -- Chapter 13 Religion and Culture -- Chapter 14 Anthropology of Food -- Chapter 15 Anthropology of Media -- Chapter 16 Art, Music, and Sport -- Chapter 17 Medical Anthropology -- Chapter 18 Human-Animal Relationship -- Chapter 19 Indigenous Anthropology -- Chapter 20 Anthropology on the Ground…”
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Natural Resources Sustainability An introductory synthesis
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Chapter 1: Natural Resources Sustainability in a Nutshell -- Chapter 2: Lessons from Environmental Histroy -- Chapter 3: Relevant Fundamentals of Physical Geography and Geology -- Chapter 4: Relevant Fundamentals of Ecology -- Chapter 5: Human Population and Sustainability -- Chapter 6: The Neoclassical Economics Approach to Sustainability -- Chapter 7: Learning from Oxymorons I - Ecological Economnics -- Chapter 8: Learning from Oxymorons II - Industrial Ecology -- Chapter 9: Property, Policy, and Insitutional Economics -- Chapter 10: Political Ecology -- Chapter 11: Using Land Sustainability -- Chapter 12: Water Resource Sustainability -- Chapter 13: Wealth from the Earth - Mineral Resources -- Chapter 14: Energy Sustainability -- Chapter 15: Policies for Natural Resources Sustainability -- Chapter 16: Envisioning a Sustainable American Way of Life -- Appendix…”
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Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…Latinos: What Have We Learned and Where Should We Focus Our Attention -- Chapter 6: Differential Cancer Risk in Latinos: The Role of Diet -- Chapter 7: Biomarkers of Gastric Pre-Malignant Lesions -- Chapter 8: Molecular Subtypes and Driver Mutations in Latinos with Gastric Cancer: Implications for Etiological and Translational Research -- Chapter 9: The Biology of Breast Cancer Disparities in Hispanics: Current Knowledge, Gaps and Research Opportunities -- Chapter 10: Molecular Profiles of Breast Cancer in Hispanic/Latina -- Chapter 11: Biomarkers and Precision Medicine in Oncology Practice and Clinical Trials -- Chapter 12: Overcoming Barriers for Latinos on Cancer Clinical Trials -- Chapter 13: Breast Cancer Precision Medicine in Hispanics/Latinas: Focus on Luminal B Tumors -- Chapter 14: Is Precision Medicine Widening Cancer Care Disparities in Latino Populations? …”
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Using Social Theory in Higher Education
Published 2024Table of Contents: “…A response to Suzanne Egan -- Chapter 8 The power, passions, and perils of identity: On Chantal Mouffe, -- Chapter 9 Connections, engagements and troubles: a response to Remy Y.S. …”
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Linear Selection Indices in Modern Plant Breeding
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…General introduction -- The linear phenotypic selection index theory -- Constrained linear phenotypic selection indices -- Constrained linear phenotypic selection indices -- Linear marker and genomic selection indices -- Linear genomic selection indices -- Constrained linear genomic selection indices -- Linear phenotypic eigen selection index methods -- Linear molecular and genomic eigen selection index methods -- Multistage linear selection indices -- Stochastic simulation of four linear phenotypic selection indices -- RIndSel: Selection indices with R.…”
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Social Change in the Gulf Region Multidisciplinary Perspectives /
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…Tribal Ruling in Urban Kuwaiti Society -- The Gender-Pay Gap and the Family in the Gulf: Root Causes, Implications and Policy Response -- Special Economic Zone Experience Overseas? Industrial Parks and Ports in the Gulf and China's Presence -- Youth as Barometer of Socio-cultural Change in Iran -- Yemen, the wound that still bleeds in the Middle East -- COVID-19 and Migrant Workers in the Gulf. .…”
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