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Mathematics Curriculum Reforms Around the World The 24th ICMI Study /

Table of Contents: “…: Berta Barquero, Britta Eyrich Jessen, Juan Ruiz-Hidalgo and Jennie Golding -- 14: Conclusion: Achieving Coherence and Relevance in Mathematics Curriculum Reforms: Some Guiding Principles: Will Morony -- Part IV: Theme C -Implementation of Reformed Mathematics Curricula Within and Across Different Contexts and Traditions -- 15: Introduction: Angel Ruiz -- 16: A First Exploration to Understand Mathematics Curricula Implementation: Results, Limitations and Successes: Angel Ruiz, Mogens Niss, Michèle Artigue, Yiming Cao and Enriqueta Reston -- 17: Towards a Model for Monitoring and Evaluating Curricular Reforms: Steve Thornton, Maitree Inprasitha, Angel Ruiz, Masami Isoda, Narumon Changsri and Kristen Tripet -- 18: Teachers, Resources, Assessment Practices: Role and Impact on the Curricular Implementation Process: Alf Coles, Luis Rodríguez-Muñiz, Ida Ah Chee Mok, Angel Ruiz, Ronnie Karsenty, Francesca Martignone, Iman Osta, Federica Ferretti and Thi Tan An Nguyen -- 19: Conclusion: 'Laws' of Curriculum Implementation and the Future in which We Are Living: Angel Ruiz -- Part V: Theme D - Globalisation and Internationalisation and their Impacts on Mathematics Curriculum Reforms -- 20: Introduction: Max Stephens, Djordje Kadijevich, Mogens Niss, Nadia Azrou and Yukihiko Namikawa -- 21: The Evolution and Uptake of Numeracy and Mathematical Literacy as Drivers for Curriculum Reform: Merrilyn Goos and Kathy O'Sullivan -- 22: Impacts of TIMSS and PISA on Mathematics Curriculum Reforms: Djordje Kadijevich, Max Stephens, Armando Solares-Rojas and Raisa Guberman -- 23: Emergence of Computational/Algorithmic Thinking and its Impact on the Mathematics Curriculum: Djordje Kadijevich, Max Stephens and Abolfazl Rafiepour -- 24: Conclusion: Future Visions of the Impact of Internationalisation and Globalisation on School Mathematics Curriculum: Max Stephens, Merrilyn Goos and Djordje Kadijevich -- Part VI: Theme E - Agents and Processes of Curriculum Design, Development and Reforms in School Mathematics: 25: Introduction: Ellen Jameson, Peter Sullivan and Ferdinando Arzarello -- 26: Case Studies in Agents andProcesses of Mathematics Curriculum Development and Reform: Iman Osta, Fidel Oteiza, Peter Sullivan and John Volmink -- 27: Modelling Curriculum Reforms: A System of Agents, Processes and Objects: Ellen Jameson and Janette Bobis -- 28: Boundary in Curriculum Reform: Alon Pinto and Jason Cooper -- 29: Teacher Professional Identity and Curriculum Reform: Stephen Quirke, Lorena Espinoza and Gérard Sensevy -- 30: Conclusion: Implications for Active Curriculum Reform Work and Future Research: Ellen Jameson, Peter Sullivan and Ferdinando Arzarello -- Part VII: International Perspectives and Influences on School Mathematics Curriculum Reforms: 31: Introduction: Yoshinori Shimizu and Renuka Vithal -- 32: OECD Learning Compass 2030: Implications for Mathematics Curricula: Miho Taguma, Kelly Makowiecki and Florence Gabriel -- 33: Making Sense of Mathematics and Making Mathematics Make Sense: William McCallum -- 34: School Mathematics Curriculum Reforms: Insights and Reflections: Berinderjeet Kaur -- Part VIII: Commentaries on ICMI Study 24: 35: Introduction: Renuka Vithal and Yoshinori Shimizu -- 36: Language of Teaching and Learning and School Mathematics Curriculum Reform: Tensions in Equity and Access: Anjum Halai -- 37: A Cultural-Political Reading of School Mathematics Curriculum Reform: Paola Valero -- Part IX: Conclusion to ICMI Study 24: 38: Key Messages and Lessons from Mathematics Curriculum Reforms around the World: Renuka Vithal and Yoshinori Shimizu -- Afterword: Jill Adler -- Subject Index / Author Index.…”
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Foundations of Robotics A Multidisciplinary Approach with Python and ROS /

Table of Contents: “…Multi-robot systems: bio-inspired concepts and deployment challenges (Vivek Shankar Varadharajan and Giovanni Beltrame) -- Chapter 12 - The Embedded design process: CAD/CAM and prototyping (Eddi Pianca) -- PART III: Interaction Design -- Chapter 13 - Social robots: Principles of interaction design and user studies (Janie Busby Grant & Damith Herath) -- Chapter 14 - Safety first: On the safe deployment of robotic systems (Bruno Belzile and David St-Onge) -- Chapter 15 - Managing the world complexity: from linear regression to deep learning (Yann Bouteiller) -- Chapter 16 - Robot ethics: Ethical design considerations (Dylan Cawthorne) -- Chapter 17 - Robot Hexapod Build Labs (David Hinwood and Damith Herath) -- Chapter 18 - ROS Mobile Manipulator labs (David St-Onge, Corentin Boucher and Bruno Belzile).…”
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Agricultural Development in Asia and Africa Essays in Honor of Keijiro Otsuka /

Table of Contents: “…-- Integrated Farming Management Practices in Sub-Saharan Africa: Toward a Sustainable African Green Revolution -- Impacts of Transboundary Crop Diseases on Sustainable Crop Production: The Case of Maize Lethal Necrosis (MLN) in Africa -- Sustainable Green Growth in Agriculture:The Role of Regional Cooperation -- Facilitating Inclusive Use of ICTs in Rural China EdTech for Equity in China: Can Technology Improve Teaching for Millions of Rural Students?.…”
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Finland's Famous Education System Unvarnished Insights into Finnish Schooling /

Table of Contents: “…-- Ecological sustainability and steering of Finnish comprehensive schools -- Unmentioned challenges of Finnish teacher education: Decontextualisation, scientification and the rhetoric of the research-based agenda -- Teachers' expectations and expectations of teachers: Understanding teachers' societal role -- Businessing around comprehensive schooling -- Co-operation of edu-business and public schooling: Is the governance of education in Finland shifting from the public sector to networks?- Part 2: Equity, inequality, and the challenges of diversity, language and inclusion -- "Three bedrooms and a nice school" - Residential choices, school choices and vicious circles of segregation in the education landscape of Finnish cities -- Pupil selection and enrolment in comprehensive schools in urban Finland -- Everyday life in schools in disadvantaged areas -- Divided cities - Divided schools? …”
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The Word on College Reading and Writing by Babin, Monique, Burnell, Carol, Pesznecker, Susan, Rosevear, Nicole, Wood, Jaime

Table of Contents: “…-- Building Strong Reading Skills -- Read Effectively -- Create an Optimal Setting for Reading -- Use Pre-reading Strategies -- Read Efficiently -- Annotate and Take Notes -- Do Quick Research -- Discover What a Text is Trying to Say -- Explore the Ways the Text Affects You -- Reflect -- Troubleshoot Your Reading -- Writing about Texts -- Reading Critically -- Exploring the Structure of a Text -- Dialectic Note-taking -- Analyzing Content and Rhetoric -- Sentence-Level Analysis -- Point of View -- Word Choice -- Paragraph Analysis -- Summarizing a Text -- Critiquing a Text -- Drawing Conclusions, Synthesizing, and Reflecting -- What is Information Literacy? …”
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Technical Writing for Technicians by Fleming, Will

Table of Contents: “…WEEK 9 -- Employment Documents - Cover Letters -- Sample Student Cover Letter - Welding -- Sample Student Cover Letter - Automotive -- Employment Documents: Inquiry Letters -- Annotated Job Inquiry Sample -- X. WEEK 10 -- Final Quiz Grammar Review -- Technical Descriptions -- Technical Description (sample 1) -- Technical Description (sample 2) -- XI. …”
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Computer Aided Verification 33rd International Conference, CAV 2021, Virtual Event, July 20-23, 2021, Proceedings, Part II /

Table of Contents: “…Complexity and Termination -- Learning Probabilistic Termination Proofs -- Ghost Signals: Verifying Termination of Busy Waiting -- Reflections on Termination of Linear Loops -- Decision Tree Learning in CEGIS-Based Termination Analysis -- ATLAS: Automated Amortised Complexity Analysis of Self-Adjusting Data Structures -- Decision Procedures and Solvers -- Theory Exploration Powered by Deductive Synthesis -- CoqQFBV: A Scalable Certified SMT Quantifier-Free Bit-Vector Solver -- Porous Invariants -- JavaSMT 3: Interacting with SMT Solvers in Java -- Efficient SMT-based Analysis of Failure Propagation -- ToolX : Better Delta Debugging for the SMT-LIBv2 Language and Friends -- Learning Union of Integer Hypercubes with Queries (with applications to monadic decomposition) -- Interpolation and Model Checking for Nonlinear Arithmetic -- An SMT Solver for Regular Expressions and Linear Arithmetic over String Length -- Counting Minimal Unsatisfiable Subsets -- Sound Verification Procedures for Temporal Properties of Infinite-State Systems -- Hardware and Model Checking -- Progress in Certifying Hardware Model Checking Results -- Model-Checking Structured Context-Free Languages -- Model Checking ! …”
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Computer Aided Verification 34th International Conference, CAV 2022, Haifa, Israel, August 7-10, 2022, Proceedings, Part I /

Table of Contents: “…A Billion SMT Queries a Day -- Program Verification with Constrained Horn Clauses -- Formal Methods for Probabilistic Programs Data-Driven Invariant Learning for Probabilistic Programs -- Sound and Complete Certificates for Quantitative Termination Analysis of Probabilistic Programs.…”
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Computer Aided Verification 34th International Conference, CAV 2022, Haifa, Israel, August 7-10, 2022, Proceedings, Part II /

Table of Contents: “…A Billion SMT Queries a Day -- Program Verification with Constrained Horn Clauses -- Formal Methods for Probabilistic Programs Data-Driven Invariant Learning for Probabilistic Programs -- Sound and Complete Certificates for Quantitative Termination Analysis of Probabilistic Programs.…”
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Proof and Proving in Mathematics Education The 19th ICMI Study /

Table of Contents: “…Contemporary proofs for mathematics education: Frank Quinn -- Part IV: Proof in the school curriculum -- 11. …”
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The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History

Table of Contents: “…Montana -- 27: Slavery in Islamic West Africa; Jennifer Lofkrantz -- 28: Urban East African Slavery; Michelle Liebst -- 29: Slavery in South Asia; Emma Kalb -- 30: Slavery in Southeastern Europe; Viorel Achim -- 31: Injection: The Global Spread of Abolitionism; William Mulligan -- Part 5: Contemporary Societies (1900-Present) -- 32: American Slaveries since Emancipation; Catherine Armstrong -- 33: Slavery in French West Africa; Benedetta Rossi -- 34: Slave Labor in Nazi Germany; Marc Buggeln -- 35: State-introduced Slavery in Soviet Forced Labor Camps; Felicitas Fischer von Weikersthal -- 36: North Korean Slavery and Forced Labor in Present-Day Europe; Remco Breuker -- 37: Modern Slavery in the Global Economy; Bruno Lamas -- 38: Injection: Modern Slavery and Political Strategy; Joel Quirk -- 39: Conclusion: Situating Slavery Studies in the Field of Global History; Juliane Schiel.…”
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Organic Chemistry with a Biological Emphasis by Soderberg, Tim

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Introduction to organic structure and bonding, part I -- Section 1: Drawing organic structures -- Section 2: Functional groups and organic nomenclature -- Section 3: Structures of some important classes of biological molecules -- Chapter 2: Introduction to organic structure and bonding, part II -- Section 1: Covalent bonding in organic molecules -- Section 2: Molecular orbital theory -- Section 3: Resonance -- Section 4: Non-covalent interactions -- Section 5: Physical properties of organic compounds -- Chapter 3: Conformation and Stereochemistry -- Section 1: Conformations of open-chain organic molecules -- Section 2: Conformations of cyclic organic molecules -- Section 3: Chirality and stereoisomers -- Section 4: Labeling chiral centers -- Section 5: Optical activity -- Section 6: Compounds with multiple chiral centers -- Section 7: Meso compounds -- Section 8: Fischer and Haworth projections -- Section 9: Stereochemistry of alkenes -- Section 10: Stereochemistry in biology and medicine -- Section 11: Prochirality -- Chapter 4: Structure determination part I - Infrared spectroscopy, UV-visible spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry -- Section 1: Mass Spectrometry -- Section 2: Introduction to molecular spectroscopy -- Section 3: Infrared spectroscopy -- Section 4: Ultraviolet and visible spectroscopy -- Chapter 5: Structure determination part II - Nuclear magnetic resonancespectroscopy -- Section 1: The origin of the NMR signal -- Section 2: Chemical equivalence -- Section 3: The 1H-NMR experiment -- Section 4: The basis for differences in chemical shift -- Section 5: Spin-spin coupling -- Section 6: 13C-NMR spectroscopy -- Section 7: Solving unknown structures -- Section 8: Complex coupling in 1H-NMR spectra -- Section 9: Other applications of NMR -- Chapter 6: Overview of organic reactivity -- Section 1: A first look at some organic reaction mechanisms -- Section 2: A quick review of thermodynamics and kinetics -- Section 3: Catalysis -- Section 4: Comparing biological reactions to laboratory reactions -- Chapter 7: Acid-base reactions -- Section 1: Acid-base reactions -- Section 2: Comparing the acidity and basicity of organic functional groups– the acidityconstant -- Section 3: Structural effects on acidity and basicity -- Section 4: Acid-base properties of phenols -- Section 5: Acid-base properties of nitrogen-containing functional groups -- Section 6: Carbon acids -- Section 7: Polyprotic acids -- Section 8: Effects of enzyme microenvironment on acidity and basicity -- Chapter 8: Nucleophilic substitution reactions -- Section 1: Two mechanistic models for nucleophilic substitution -- Section 2: Nucleophiles -- Section 3: Electrophiles -- Section 4: Leaving groups -- Section 5: SN1 reactions with allylic electrophiles -- Section 6: SN1 or SN2? …”
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Migration and Identity through Creative Writing StOries: Strangers to Ourselves /

Table of Contents: “…On Immigration, Religion and Home (Bibi Baksh) -- Part 3. Am I a work in progress? -- 6. …”
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Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained by Quinby, M. (Moses), 1810-1875

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The Prison Chaplaincy, And Its Experiences by Quinby, Hosea, 1804-1878

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Designing Democratic Schools and Learning Environments A Global Perspective /

Table of Contents: “…Calling the shots: how each student can flourish with freedom, equity, and community -- Chapter 15. Educating students to think, feel and behave democratically: Study Hall Educational Foundation (SHEF): A magical space of possibility -- Chapter 16. …”
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The European Higher Education Area Between Critical Reflections and Future Policies /

Table of Contents: “…Dan Florin Stănescu, Elena-Mădălina Iorga, José González Monteagudo, Maria Francesca Freda -- Part V: Social Dimension and Equity of Higher Education -- 28. Equity and the Social Dimension: an Overview [Overview Paper]. …”
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Human-Nature Interactions Exploring Nature's Values Across Landscapes /

Table of Contents: “…Gendered Values, Roles, and Challenges for Sustainable Provision of Forest-based Ecosystem Services in Nepal -- Chapter 10. Environmental [in]equity: Accessibility to green spaces in a rapidly urbanizing mountain-city -- Chapter 11. …”
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Addressing Gaps in Infectious Disease Training and Care in the Caribbean Region: The University of the West Indies - Jamaica / University of South Carolina Partnership to Develop a... by S. Weissman, T. Thompson, T. Quinby, C. Henn

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El Proyecto de Aprendizaje como Estrategia de Ruptura para Superar Obstáculos Epistemológicos by Eva Lidmila Pasek de Pinto, Flormaría Olarte Méndez

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