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Remittances as Social Practices and Agents of Change The Future of Transnational Society /

Table of Contents: “…Receiving the Gift of the Master's Voice: How White, Western Academic Paradigms Shape Knowledge Exchange -- Chapter 21. …”
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Bridging Educational Leadership, Curriculum Theory and Didaktik Non-affirmative Theory of Education /

Table of Contents: “…The Didaktik/Curriculum Dialogue - what did we learn?; Walter Doyle -- 6. School Leadership as Gap Management - Curriculum Traditions, Changing Evaluation Parameters, and School Leadership Pathways; Mariella Knapp and Stefan Hopmann -- 7. …”
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Skills Development for Inclusive and Sustainable Growth in Developing Asia-Pacific

Table of Contents: “…Rupert Maclean -- PART 1: MAJOR TRENDS AND CONCERNS IN SKILLS DEVELOPMENT -- Skills Development Issues, Challenges and Strategies in Asia and the Pacific, Rupert Maclean, Shanti Jagannathan and Jouko Sarvi -- Lifelong Learning: meaning, challenges and opportunities, Colin Power and Rupert Maclean -- Vocationalisation of secondary and tertiary education: what next?, Margarita Pavlova and Rupert Maclean -- Education, Employability Employment and Entrepreneurship; Meeting the Challenge of the 4Es, Manish Sabharwal -- Coping with Rural Transformation and the Movement of Workers from Rural Areas to Cities: the China Sunshine Project, Li Wang and Greg Shaw -- TVET and ICT Acquisition Process, Tapio Varis -- From TVET to Workforce Development, Robin Shreeve, Jennifer Gibb and Shayla Ribeiro -- Qualifications, skills and workforce effectiveness: the relevance of the OECD's Survey of Adult Skills to Asia, William Thorn and Andreas Schleicher -- Skills Development Pathways in Asia, Cristina Martinez-Fernandez and Kyungsoo Choi -- Private Public Partnership to meet the skills challenges in India, Dilip Chenoy -- Skill training and workforce development with reference to underemployment and migration, Brajesh Panth -- Rural Transformation Index - Measuring Rural-Urban Disparities, Li Wang, Qutub Khan and Dian Zhang -- Retire or Rehire: Learning from the Singapore Story, James Yonghwee Lim -- PART 3: TVET AND THE GREENING OF ECONOMIES -- Skills for a Green Economy: Practice, Possibilities and Prospects, John Fien and Jose Roberto Guevara -- Education and Skills in Asia - Responding to Greening Economies, Shanti Jagannathan -- Redesigning of Curriculum and Training for Skills for Green Jobs in Korea, Namchul Lee -- Hong Kong Employers' Perspectives on a Carbon Constrained Economy and How Technical and Vocational Education and Training Should Respond, Rupert Maclean, Eric Tsang and John Fien -- Advancing employability and green skills development: Values education in TVET in China, Margarita Pavlova and Chun Lin Huang -- Schooling's Contribution to a Sustainable Future in Asia: Can Schools Develop 'Green' Citizens?…”
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Technical Writing and Simple Statistics for laboratory classes by Wettstein, Stephanie G.

Table of Contents: “…Statistics -- Descriptive Statistics -- Mean, Median, and Mode -- Outliers -- Standard Deviation -- Sample Variance -- Standard Error -- Confidence Interval -- Percent Error and Percent Difference -- Excel Tutorial: Performing Descriptive Statistics Using Excel -- Using Graphs to Display Data -- Line Graphs -- Bar Graphs -- Box Plots -- Error Bars -- Charts – What Not to Do -- Statistical Process Control & Process Control Charts -- Process Variation -- Making the Process Control Chart -- Example #1: Bullet Speeds All Data -- Example #2: Bullet Speeds with Narrower Specifications -- Linear Regression -- Performing Linear Regression -- Excel Tutorials: Performing Regression Analysis Using Excel -- Method 1: Using Excel Formulas -- Method 2: Using Excel Trendlines -- Method 3: Using Excel Data Analysis -- Example: Regression Analysis of Diameter Data -- Statistical Comparison of Two Regressed Slopes -- General Approach for Comparing Two Linearly Regressed Slopes -- Analysis Steps -- Example: Two Regressed Slopes that are Statistically Different -- Example Analysis: Regression Slope Comparison -- Example Two Regressed Slopes that are Not Statistically Different -- t-Tests -- Hypotheses -- Sample Collection and Determining Alpha -- Performing a t-test using Excel -- Interpret the Data -- References -- Writing -- The Writing Process -- Team Writing Strategies -- Meeting agendas and notes -- Agenda -- Notes -- Communication Components -- Abstract (or Summary) -- Background/Introduction -- Objective Statement -- Theory -- Methods -- Apparatus (or Equipment) -- Safety -- Experimental Protocol, Design, and Analysis -- Experimental Protocol -- Experimental Design -- Methods of Analysis -- Data Collection -- Results and Discussion -- Conclusions and Recommendations -- Sample Conclusion Paragraph -- References: Citing the work of others -- Citation Location -- Numerical Formatting -- Alphabetical Formatting -- Reference list/Bibliography -- Appendices -- Appendix -- Excel Tutorial: Using Equation Editor in Microsoft Word -- Step 1: Insert an Equation Region -- Step 2: Use Equation Tools Structures to Create Basic Equation Layout -- Step 3: Fill in the placeholders to complete the equation -- Cliff Notes/Shortcuts -- Excel Tutorial: Using Text Boxes -- Text Box Management: Three Examples -- VERSION 1: Textboxes Near Text Description -- VERSION 2: Textboxes at Bottom of Page -- VERSION 3: No Textboxes -- Excel Tutorial: Formatting Excel Charts for a Professional Look -- Templates -- Captions -- Inserting Symbols in Captions…”
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Konnektiver Zynismus Politik und Kultur im digitalen Zeitalter by Schäfer, Fabian

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Pro TBB C++ Parallel Programming with Threading Building Blocks / by Voss, Michael, Asenjo, Rafael, Reinders, James

Table of Contents: “…-- Chapter 2: Generic Parallel Algorithms -- Chapter 3: Flow Graphs -- Chapter 4: TBB and the C++ Parallel Standard Template Library -- Chapter 5: Synchronization: why and how to avoid it -- Chapter 6: Data Structures for Concurrency -- Chapter 7: Scalable Memory Allocation -- Chapter 8: Mapping Parallel Patterns to TBB -- Part II -- Chapter 9: The Pillars of Composability -- Chapter 10: Using tasks to create your own algorithms -- Chapter 11: Controlling the Number of Threads Used for Execution -- Chapter 12: Using Work Isolation for Correctness and Performance -- Chapter 13: Creating Thread-to-core and Task-to-thread Affinity -- Chapter 14: Using Task Priorities -- Chapter 15: Cancellation and Exception Handling -- Chapter 16: Tuning TBB Algorithms: Granularity, Locality, Parallelism and Determinism -- Chapter 17: Flow Graphs: Beyond the Basics -- Chapter 18: Beef up Flow Graphs with Async Nodes -- Chapter 19: Flow Graphs on steroids: OpenCL Nodes -- Chapter 20: TBB on NUMA architectures -- Appendix A: History and Inspiration -- Appendix B: TBB Précis -- Glossary. .…”
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The Palgrave Handbook of Development Cooperation for Achieving the 2030 Agenda Contested Collaboration /

Table of Contents: “…The Asian century": The transformational potential of Asian-led development cooperation -- 25.South-South development cooperation as a modality: Brazil's cooperation with Mozambique -- 26.South Africa as a development partner: An empirical analysis of the African Renaissance and International Cooperation Fund -- 27.Triangular cooperation: Enabling policy spaces -- 28.Achieving the SDGs in Africa through South-South cooperation on climate change with China -- 29.India as a partner in triangular development cooperation -- 30.Partnerships with the private sector:Success factors and levels of engagement in development cooperation -- 31.The role and contributions of development NGOs to development cooperation: What do we know? -- 32.Southern think tank partnerships in the era of the 2030 Agenda -- 33.Conclusion:Leveraging development cooperation experiences for the 2030 Agenda: Key messages and the way forward.…”
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Equity, Equality and Diversity in the Nordic Model of Education

Table of Contents: “…Björnsson -- Section 2 -- Teaching culturally diverse student groups in the Nordic countries: What can the TALIS 2018 data tell us? Julius K. Bjørnsson -- Exploring diversity in the relationships between teacher quality and job satisfaction in the Nordic countries: Insights from TALIS 2013 and 2018. …”
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Dialogue for Intercultural Understanding Placing Cultural Literacy at the Heart of Learning /

Table of Contents: “…Fiona Maine (Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge) and Maria Vrikki (University of Nicosia) -- 1. What is intercultural education for the 21st century? …”
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History Education and Conflict Transformation Social Psychological Theories, History Teaching and Reconciliation /

Table of Contents: “…Power Struggles in the Remembering of Historical Intergroup Conflict: Hegemonic and Counter-Narratives about the Argentine "Conquest of the Desert"; Alicia Barreiro, Cecilia Wainryb & Mario Carretero -- Chapter 6. When History Teaching Turns into Parrhesia: The Case of Italian Colonial Crimes; Giovanna Leone -- Chapter 7. …”
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Remedies against Immunity? Reconciling International and Domestic Law after the Italian Constitutional Court's Sentenza 238/2014 /

Table of Contents: “…by Filippo Fontanelli -- Part IV - European Perspectives: 9 Waiting for Negotiations: An Italian Way to Get Out of the Deadlock by Alessandro Bufalini -- 10 Sentenza 238/2014: EU Law and EU Values by Bernardo Giorgio Mattarella -- 11 The Consequences of Sentenza 238/2014: What to Do Now? by Doris König -- 12 Would the World Be a Better Place If One Were to Adopt a 'European' Approach to State Immunity? …”
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Low-Dose Radiation Effects on Animals and Ecosystems Long-Term Study on the Fukushima Nuclear Accident /

Table of Contents: “…The Pale Grass Blue Butterfly as an Indicator for the Biological Effect of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident -- 20. What We Learned and are Learning from the Affected Animal Dose Assessment Project. .…”
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Health Dimensions of COVID-19 in India and Beyond

Table of Contents: “…Commentary-"I Just Want To Go Home": What The Lockdown Meant for India's Inter-state Migrants Workers (Ms. …”
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Astronomy 2e by Fraknoi, Andrew, Morrison, David, Wolff, Sidney C.

Table of Contents: “…The Sun: A Nuclear Powerhouse -- 16.1 Sources of Sunshine: Thermal and Gravitational Energy -- 16.2 Mass, Energy, and the Theory of Relativity -- 16.3 The Solar Interior: Theory -- 16.4 The Solar Interior: Observations -- Chapter 17 Analyzing Starlight -- 17.1 The Brightness of Stars -- 17.2 Colors of Stars -- 17.3 The Spectra of Stars (and Brown Dwarfs) -- 17.4 Using Spectra to Measure Stellar Radius, Composition, and Motion -- Chapter 18 The Stars: A Celestial Census -- 18.1 A Stellar Census -- 18.2 Measuring Stellar Masses -- 18.3 Diameters of Stars -- 18.4 The H–R Diagram -- Chapter 19 Celestial Distances -- 19.1 Fundamental Units of Distance -- 19.2 Surveying the Stars -- 19.3 Variable Stars: One Key to Cosmic Distances -- 19.4 The H–R Diagram and Cosmic Distances -- Chapter 20 Between the Stars: Gas and Dust in Space -- 20.1 The Interstellar Medium -- 20.2 Interstellar Gas -- 20.3 Cosmic Dust -- 20.4 Cosmic Rays -- 20.5 The Life Cycle of Cosmic Material -- 20.6 Interstellar Matter around the Sun -- Chapter 21 The Birth of Stars and the Discovery of Planets outside the Solar System -- 21.1 Star Formation -- 21.2 The H–R Diagram and the Study of Stellar Evolution -- 21.3 Evidence That Planets Form around Other Stars -- 21.4 Planets beyond the Solar System: Search and Discovery -- 21.5 Exoplanets Everywhere: What We Are Learning -- 21.6 New Perspectives on Planet Formation -- Chapter 22 Stars from Adolescence to Old Age -- 22.1 Evolution from the Main Sequence to Red Giants -- 22.2 Star Clusters -- 22.3 Checking Out the Theory -- 22.4 Further Evolution of Stars -- 22.5 The Evolution of More Massive Stars -- Chapter 23 The Death of Stars -- 23.1 The Death of Low-Mass Stars -- 23.2 Evolution of Massive Stars: An Explosive Finish -- 23.3 Supernova Observations -- 23.4 Pulsars and the Discovery of Neutron Stars -- 23.5 The Evolution of Binary Star Systems -- 23.6 The Mystery of the Gamma-Ray Bursts -- Chapter 24 Black Holes and Curved Spacetime -- 24.1 Introducing General Relativity -- 24.2 Spacetime and Gravity -- 24.3 Tests of General Relativity -- 24.4 Time in General Relativity -- 24.5 Black Holes -- 24.6 Evidence for Black Holes -- 24.7 Gravitational Wave Astronomy -- Chapter 25 The Milky Way Galaxy -- 25.1 The Architecture of the Galaxy -- 25.2 Spiral Structure -- 25.3 The Mass of the Galaxy -- 25.4 The Center of the Galaxy -- 25.5 Stellar Populations in the Galaxy -- 25.6 The Formation of the Galaxy -- Chapter 26 Galaxies -- 26.1 The Discovery of Galaxies -- 26.2 Types of Galaxies -- 26.3 Properties of Galaxies -- 26.4 The Extragalactic Distance Scale -- 26.5 The Expanding Universe -- Chapter 27 Active Galaxies, Quasars, and Supermassive Black Holes -- 27.1 Quasars -- 27.2 Supermassive Black Holes: What Quasars Really Are -- 27.3 Quasars as Probes of Evolution in the Universe -- Chapter 28 The Evolution and Distribution of Galaxies -- 28.1 Observations of Distant Galaxies -- 28.2 Galaxy Mergers and Active Galactic Nuclei -- 28.3 The Distribution of Galaxies in Space -- 28.4 The Challenge of Dark Matter -- 28.5 The Formation and Evolution of Galaxies and Structure in the Universe -- Chapter 29 The Big Bang -- 29.1 The Age of the Universe -- 29.2 A Model of the Universe -- 29.3 The Beginning of the Universe -- 29.4 The Cosmic Microwave Background -- 29.5 What Is the Universe Really Made Of? …”
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Brain and Human Body Modeling 2020 Computational Human Models Presented at EMBC 2019 and the BRAIN Initiative® 2019 Meeting /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Tumor Treating Fields Dosimetry and Treatment Planning -- A Theory of Mechanisms Underlying 200 kHz AC Electric Fields Effects on Tumor Cell Structures -- A thermal study of Tumor Treating Fields for glioblastoma therapy -- Improving Tumor Treating Fields with Skull Remodeling Surgery. …”
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Media Studies 101 by Pearson, Erika

Table of Contents: “…AboutIntroduction, and How To Use This TextPart One: Reading Media Texts -- Analysing Texts: Media and Theory -- Communication & Culture -- Intercultural Communication -- Semiotics -- Signs and Signifiers -- Sign Systems -- Semiotics and Communication Processes -- Codes -- Two-step flow of communication -- Gender and politics -- Limitations of minimal effects model -- Part Two: Culture and Contexts -- Ideology -- Discourse, Institutions, and Power -- Institutions -- Discourse and Institutions -- Media and Democracy -- Habermas' Public Sphere -- Who is 'the Public'? -- Media Effects - introduction -- The Hypodermic Needle -- Minimal effects models - the post WWII years -- Agenda Setting -- Uses and gratifications model -- Post-Cold War: strong effects model -- Framing -- Part Three: Production and Structures -- Political Economies -- Political Economies of Mass Culture -- The Audience Commodity -- The Propaganda Model -- Political Economies of Digital media -- Commons and P2P Production -- Political Ecologies of Media -- Technologies -- Technology and Agency -- Technology and the Body -- Technology, Time, and Space -- Technology and Politics -- Globalisation and Convergence -- Convergence -- Part Four: Audiences & Identity -- Audiences and Audience Research -- Researching Audiences -- Consumer Cultures -- Consumerism and Subjectivity -- Identity and Fan Cultures -- Impressions Management -- Looking-Glass Self -- Dramaturgy -- Fandom -- Postcolonialism Race and Ethnicity -- Gender -- A History of Modern Political Economy -- Glossary…”
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Creating Resilient Futures Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction, Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Change Adaptation Agendas /

Table of Contents: “…-- Section 1 Best practice approaches -- 2 Why making connections through resilience indicators matters? …”
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High Mountain Conservation in a Changing World

Table of Contents: “…High soil carbon stocks in mountain grasslands may be compromised by land use changes -- 13. Why recovering large carnivore populations in high mountains? …”
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Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems 24th International Conference, TACAS 2018, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice o...

Table of Contents: “…Theorem Proving -- Unification with Abstraction and Theory Instantiation in Saturation-based Reasoning -- Efficient verification of imperative programs using auto2 -- Frame Inference for Inductive Entailment Proofs in Separation Logic -- Verified Model Checking of Timed Automata -- SAT and SMT I -- Chain Reduction for Binary and Zero-Suppressed Decision Diagrams -- CDCLSym: Introducing E_ective Symmetry Breaking in SAT Solving -- Automatic Generation of Precise and Useful Commutativity Conditions -- Bit-Vector Model Counting using Statistical Estimation -- Deductive Verification -- Hoare Logics for Time Bounds -- A Verified Implementation of the Bounded List Container -- Automating Deductive Verification for Weak-Memory Programs -- Software Verification and Optimisation -- Property Checking Array Programs Using Loop Shrinking -- Invariant Synthesis for Incomplete Verification Engines -- Accelerating Syntax-Guided Invariant Synthesis -- Daisy - Framework for Analysis and Optimization of Numerical Programs -- Model Checking -- Oink: an Implementation and Evaluation of Modern Parity Game Solvers -- More Scalable LTL Model Checking via Discovering Design-Space Dependencies (D^3) -- Generation of Minimum Tree-like Witnesses for Existential CTL -- From Natural Projection to Partial Model Checking and Back -- Machine Learning -- ICE-based Refinement Type Discovery for Higher-Order Functional Programs -- Strategy Representation by Decision Trees in Reactive Synthesis -- Feature-Guided Black-Box Safety Testing of Deep Neural Networks. .…”
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New Music and Institutional Critique

Table of Contents: “…Sheltering Each Other from the Storms to Come. Why we need to become allies rather than critics of liberal cultural institutions -- 9. …”
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