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Transitions to Professional Nursing Practice
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 -- Professional Nursing Practice -- Baccalaureate Education -- Healthcare in the 21st Century -- Accountability -- Autonomy -- References -- Chapter 2 -- Nursing Philosophy -- Professional Development -- References -- Chapter 3 -- Interprofessional Communication -- Interprofessional Collaboration -- Critical Thinking -- Evidence-Based Practice -- References -- Chapter 4 -- Leadership in Nursing -- References -- Chapter 5 -- Nursing Theory -- References -- Chapter 6 -- Professional Organizations -- References…”
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Agriculture for Economic Development in Africa Evidence from Ethiopia /
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Part I -- 1 Introduction -- Aim and Contribution -- Case Study Approach -- References -- 2 The Role of Agriculture in Economic Development -- Agriculture for Development -- Agricultural Development -- References -- 3 The Role of the State in Agricultural Development -- Agricultural Policies -- Public Spending on Economic and Agricultural Development -- References -- 4 Sustained Growth and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa -- References -- Part II -- 5 Case Study Context: Ethiopia -- Economic Context -- Political Context -- Policy Context -- Agricultural Context -- Agricultural and Economic Growth in the Twenty-First Century -- References -- Part III -- 6 Methodology -- Data -- Method -- References -- 7 SIO Multiplier Analysis -- Discussion of Results -- References -- 8 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Index.…”
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Manufacturing Refused Knowledge in the Age of Epistemic Pluralism Discourses, Imaginaries, and Practices on the Border of Science /
Published 2024Table of Contents: “…1 Introduction: Manufacturing Knowledge at the Border of Science - Stefano Crabu, Federico Neresini, Maria Carmela Agodi, and Simone Tosoni -- 2 Can We Look at Refused Knowledge Differently? - Federico Neresini -- 3 Embracing Refused Knowledge: The Turning Processes - Paolo Volonté -- 4 Us and Them: Martyrs, Prophets and Mythic Narratives of Refused Knowledge - Paolo Bory -- 5 From Scientific to Syncretic Patchwork Storytelling: The Discursive Ecosystem of Italian Stop 5G Refused Knowledge Communities - Simone Tosoni -- 6 Disentangling Discursive Spaces of Knowledge Refused by Science: An Analysis of the Epistemic Structures in the Narratives Repertoires on Health During the Covid-19 Pandemic - Ilenia Picardi, Luca Serafini, and Marco Serino -- 7 Challenging the Institutional Politics of Life in the Making of Refused Knowledge - Stefano Crabu -- 8 "This is the real face of Covid-19!"…”
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Introduction to Implant Prosthodontics A Case-Based Clinical Guide
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Abbreviations used in the text -- Prologue -- Chapter 1 -- Diagnostic Elements for Treatment Planning in Implant Restorations -- Abstract -- Knowledge background -- References for Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Radiographic and Surgical Guides -- Abstract -- Knowledge background -- References for Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Implant Overdentures -- Abstract -- Knowledge background -- References for Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Impression techniques for implant restorations -- Abstract -- Knowledge background -- References for Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Intra-Oral Scanning -- Digital Impressions for Implant Restorations -- Abstract -- Knowledge background -- References for Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Cement-retained Implant Restorations -- Abstract -- Knowledge background -- References for Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Screw-retained Implant Restorations -- Abstract -- Knowledge background -- References for Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Completely Digital Workflow for Implant Restorations -- Abstract -- Knowledge background -- References for Chapter 8 -- Glossary of scientific terms…”
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A History of Genomics across Species, Communities and Projects
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…The Pig Community and Their Reference Genome -- Part III. Contextualising and Enhancing Reference Genomes -- Chapter 6. …”
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Enabling Things to Talk Designing IoT solutions with the IoT Architectural Reference Model /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Introduction to the Internet of Things -- The Need for a Common Ground for the IoT - The History and Reasoning Behind the IoT - A Project -- The IoT Architectural Reference Model as Enabler -- IoT in Practice: Examples - IoT in Logistics and Health -- IoT - A Guidance to the ARM -- A Process to Generate Concrete Architectures -- IoT Reference Model -- IoT Reference Architecture -- The IoT ARM Reference Manual -- Interactions -- Toward a Concrete Architecture -- ARM Testimonials -- Summary and Outlook.…”
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Programming Languages and Systems 32nd European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2023, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2023,...
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…Logics for extensional, locally complete analysis via domain refinements -- Clustered Relational Thread-Modular Abstract Interpretation with Local Traces -- Adversarial Reachability for Program-level Security Analysis -- Automated Grading of Regular Expressions -- Builtin Types viewed as Inductive Families -- Pragmatic Gradual Polymorphism with References -- Modal crash types for intermittent computing -- Gradual Tensor Shape Checking -- A Type System for Effect Handlers and Dynamic Labels -- Interpreting Knowledge-based Programs -- Contextual Modal Type Theory with Polymorphic Contexts -- A Complete Inference System for Skip-free Guarded Kleene Algebra with Tests -- Quorum Tree Abstractions of Consensus Protocols -- MAG π : Types for Failure-Prone Communication -- System $Fˆ\mu \omega$ with Context-free Session Types -- Safe Session-Based Concurrency with Shared Linear State -- Bunched Fuzz: Sensitivity for Vector Metrics -- Fast and Correct Gradient-Based Optimisation for Probabilistic Programmingvia Smoothing -- Type-safe Quantum Programming in Idris -- Automatic Alignment in Higher-Order Probabilistic Programming Languages.…”
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The Wheat Genome
Published 2024Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- IWGSC RefSeq bread wheat reference genome sequence -- Wheat genomic resources and their role in wheat research -- Wheat genome structural and functional annotation -- The wheat transcriptome and discovery of functional gene networks -- Genome-wide resource development to accelerate gene discovery and functional analysis in wheat -- Genome-editing technology applications in wheat breeding -- Wheat genetic diversity explored through genomic approaches -- Dawn of the wheat pangenome: sequencing the genomes of 10+ elite lines -- Sequencing ancient wheat to illuminate the history of domestication -- Genome sequences from diploids and wild relatives of wheat for comparative genomics and alien Introgressions -- The impact of the durum wheat genome in identifying new germplasm for breeding -- Haplotype mapping in globally diverse germplasm for genomic-assisted wheat breeding -- Genome-informed discovery of genes and association with wheat traits -- Genomic insights on global journeys of adaptive wheat genes that brought us to modern wheat -- Genomic selection in wheat utilizing the reference sequence -- Rapid cloning of disease resistance genes in wheat. .…”
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Supporting Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities & Mental Illness
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…-- The Impact of Names Beyond the Hurt Feelings: Implications for Service and Support -- Conclusion -- References -- CHAPTER 3: AN OVERVIEW OF MENTAL ILLNESS -- Introduction -- Background of Mental Health Care -- Indicators Associated with Disorders of Thinking -- Indicators Associated with Disorders of Mood -- Indicators Associated with Disorders of Behaviour -- Conclusion -- References -- CHAPTER 4: COMMON PHYSICAL CONCERNS -- Introduction -- Health Status -- Factors Affecting Health Status -- Common Health Challenges -- Impact of Support Providers on Health Status -- Health Promotion -- Conclusion -- References -- CHAPTER 5: WHEN THE PROBLEM IS PAIN -- Introduction -- Ethical Principles for Addressing Physical Health Conditions and Assessing Pain -- The Hierarchy of Pain Assessment Techniques -- Guiding Principles Pain Assessment -- Behavioural Pain Assessment Tools -- Picture Resources for Identifying Emotions of Physical Distress -- Pain and Health Care for Dually Diagnosed Persons -- Conclusion -- References -- CHAPTER 6: BEHAVIOUR THAT HURTS -- Introduction -- Overview of Applied Behavioural Analysis -- Strategies to Help Decrease Self-Injurious and Aggressive Behaviour -- Conclusion -- References -- CHAPTER 7: SEXUALITY -- Introduction -- Discussion Topics for Sexual Education Support -- Understanding Boundaries -- Providing Resources -- Differentiating between Challenging Behaviours and Sex Offending Behaviours -- Conclusion -- References --…”
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Intellectual Property Law & the Information Society—Cases and Materials
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Chapter One: The Theories Behind Intellectual Property -- Chapter Two: Intellectual Property & the Constitution -- Chapter Three: Intellectual Property & the First Amendment -- Chapter Four: Trademark: Introduction -- Chapter Five: Subject Matter: Requirements for Trademark Protection -- Chapter Six: Grounds for Refusing Registration -- Chapter Seven: Trademark Infringement -- Chapter Eight: Defense to Trademark Infringement: Fair & Nominative Use -- Chapter Nine: False Advertising, Dilution & 'Cyberpiracy' -- Chapter Ten: Introduction to Copyright: Theory & History -- Chapter Eleven: Copyrightable Subject Matter -- Chapter Twelve: Copyright's "Reach": Infringement -- Chapter Thirteen: Limitations on Exclusive Rights: Fair Use -- Chapter Fourteen: Secondary Liability for Copyright Infringement & Safe Harbors in the Digital Age -- Chapter Fifteen: Anti-Circumvention: A New Statutory Scheme -- Chapter Sixteen: Copyright & State Misappropriation Law: Preemption -- Chapter Seventeen: Patents: Hopes, Fears, History & Doctrine -- Chapter Eighteen: Patentable Subject Matter -- Chapter Nineteen: Requirements for Patent Protection: Utility -- Chapter Twenty: Requirements for Patent Protection: Novelty -- Chapter Twenty-One: Non-Obviousness -- Chapter Twenty-Two: Trade Secrecy & Preemption -- Chapter Twenty-Three: A Creative Commons? …”
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Women's Private Practices of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe
Published 2024Table of Contents: “…Situating Women's Private Practices of Knowledge Production in the Early Modern Context -- References -- Lady Jane Lumley's Private Education and Its Political Resonances -- Introduction: Education at a Noble Household -- The Private, the Public, and the Political in Lady Lumley's Writings -- Lady Lumley's The Tragedie of Euripides Called Iphigeneia -- Comparing Translations of Iphigenia at Aulis -- In Conclusion -- References -- Camilla Herculiana (Erculiani): Private Practices of Knowledge Production -- Herculiana's Private Life and Connections: Biographical and Contextual Framework -- Camilla Herculiana é Gregetta, Lettere di philosophia naturale (1584) -- Inquisitional Trial -- Conclusion -- References -- From Behind the Folding Screen to the Collège de France: Victorine de Chastenay's Privacy Dynamics for Knowledge in the Making -- Note-Taking and Knowledge Acquisition as Private Practices -- Adapting the Household's Privacy to Reconcile Writing and Social Obligations -- Privacy in Institutional Spaces -- Conclusion -- References -- "Fait à mes heures de loisir": Women's Private Libraries as Spaces of Learning and Knowledge Production -- The Ducal Libraries: Private Collections? …”
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People or Property Legal Contradictions, Climate Resettlement, and the View from Shifting Ground /
Published 2024Table of Contents: “…Part I: Conceptualizing Property and Its Contradictions: A Challenge for Climate Justice -- Chapter 1: Pulling at the Thread -- Chapter 2: Property Law and Its Contradictions -- Part II: Proof of Harm -- Chapter 3: Market Orientation as an Environmental Hazard for Resettling Communities -- Chapter 4: Flood Buyout Relocations and Community Action -- Chapter 5: Displacing a Right to Act Communally within Community Relocation -- Chapter 6: Precarious Possessors and "the Right to (rebuilding) the City" -- Chapter 7: Interrogating "Just Compensation" and Flexibility: Details on the Inadequacy (and Importance) of Voluntary Buyouts for Relocation in Alaska -- Part III: The Legal Framework -- Chapter 8: A Primer of Laws, Legal Concepts, and Tools that Structure Relocation -- Chapter 9: Discretion and the Roles People Play in Interpreting and Applying the Law -- Chapter 10: Concluding Thoughts.…”
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Kantianism for Animals A Radical Kantian Animal Ethic /
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…-- 6.2 Adopting Another's Ends as Our Own -- 6.3 Kant's Denial of End-Directed Animal Agency -- 6.4 Animal 'Ends': Conceptual, Non-conceptual, 'Obscure' -- References -- 7 Kantianism for Animals: The Framework in Five Claims -- 7.1 Duties from Autonomy -- 7.2 The Primacy of Duties over Rights and Claims -- 7.3 Duties to Self and Others -- 7.4 Practical Love and Non-exaltation -- 7.5 Motives Matter -- References -- Part III Using the Framework -- 8 A Kantian Argument Against Using Animals -- 8.1 'External' Arguments Against Using Animals -- 8.2 A Kantian-for-Animals 'Internal' Argument Against Animal Use -- References -- 9 A Kantian Argument Against Eating Animals -- 9.1 The Philosophical Stalemate Regarding Vegetarianism -- 9.2 A Kantian-for-Animals Argument Against Eating Animals -- References -- 10 A Kantian Argument Against Environmental Destruction -- 10.1 Kant and the Environment: Previous Approaches -- 10.2 A Kantian-for-Animals Perspective on the Environment -- References -- 11 Animal Ethics and the Philosophical Canon: A Proposal -- References -- Index.…”
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Introduction to Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Unit I: An Introduction to Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies: Grounding Theoretical Frameworks and Concepts -- Critical Introduction to the Field -- Theorizing Lived Experiences -- Identity Terms -- Conceptualizing Structures of Power -- Social Constructionism -- Intersectionality -- References: Unit I -- Unit II: Challenging Binary Systems and Constructions of Difference -- Introduction: Binary Systems -- The Sex/Gender/Sexuality System -- Gender and Sex - Transgender and Intersex -- Sexualities -- Masculinities -- Race -- Class -- Alternatives to Binary Systems -- References: Unit II -- Unit III: Institutions, Culture, and Structures -- Introduction: Institutions, Cultures, and Structures -- The Family -- Media -- Medicine, Health, and Reproductive Justice -- The State, Law, and the Prison System -- Intersecting Institutions Case Study: The Struggle to End Gendered Violence and Violence Against Women -- References: Unit III -- Unit IV: Gender and Work in the Global Economy -- Introduction: Gender and Work in the Global Economy -- Gender and Work in the US -- Gender and the US Welfare State -- Transnational Production and Globalization -- Racialized, Gendered, and Sexualized Labor in the Global Economy -- References: Unit IV -- Unit V: Historical and Contemporary Feminist Social Movements -- Introduction: Feminist Movements -- 19th Century Feminist Movements -- Early to Late 20th Century Feminist Movements -- Third Wave and Queer Feminist Movements -- References: Unit V…”
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Leading Change in Health Systems Strategies for RN-BSN Students
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Optimal Surface Fitting of Point Clouds Using Local Refinement Application to GIS Data /
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Locally Refined Splines -- Adaptive surface Fitting with Local Refinement: LR B-spline Surfaces -- A Statistical Criterion to Judge the Goodness of Fit of LR B-splines Surface Approximation -- LR B-splines for Representation of Terrain and Seabed: Data Fusion, Outliers, and Voids -- LR B-spline Surfaces and Volumes for Deformation Analysis of Terrain Data -- Conclusion.…”
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Alternatives to Animal Testing Proceedings of Asian Congress 2016 /
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…1. Zebrafish, Danio rerio as a replacement alternative model useful in CKDu experiments -- 2. …”
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