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Green Infrastructure and Climate Change Adaptation Function, Implementation and Governance /

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part 1: Concept and synthesis -- Chapter 2: Concept and application of hybrid infrastructure -- Chapter 3: An Economic Analysis of Optimal Hybrid Infrastructure: A Theoretical Approach in a Hydro-Economic Model -- Chapter 4: Flood Management Policy in Shiga Prefecture, Japan: Implementation Approach of a Risk-Based Flood Management System at Catchment Scale -- Chapter 5: Toward social infrastructure: typological idea for evaluating implementation potential of green infrastructure -- Part 2 : Forest ecosystem -- Chapter 6: Riparian Forests and Climate Change: Interactive Zone of Green and Blue Infrastructure -- Chapter 7: Improvement of the flood-reduction function of forests based on their interception evaporation and surface storage capacities -- Chapter 8: Forests for water: A step-by-step guide for payment schemes -- Part 3: River and floodplain ecosystem (including paddy field and other farmlands) -- Chapter 9: Wetland Paddy Fields as Green Infrastructure against Flood -- Chapter 10: Change in Floodwater Retention Function of a Paddy Field due to Cultivation Abandonment in a Depopulating Rural Region in Japan -- Chapter 11: Paddy field as a green inflastructure: their ecosystem services and threatening drivers -- Part 4: Wetland ecosystem (including flood-control pond) -- Chapter 12: Flood-control basins as green infrastructures: flood-risk reduction, biodiversity conservation and sustainable management in Japan -- Chapter 13: Natural Succession of Wetland Vegetation in a Flood-control Pond Constructed on Abandoned Farmland -- Chapter 14: Biodiversity Conservation through Various Citizen Activities in a Flood Control Basin -- Part 5: Urban and city ecosystem -- Chapter 15: Toward holistic Urban Green Infrastructure Implementation -- Chapter 16: Changes in the Use of Green Spaces by Citizens before and during the First COVID-19 Pandemic: A Big data analysis usingmobile-tracking GPS data in Kanazawa, Japan -- Chapter 17: Land Use Planning as a Green Infrastructure in a Rural Japanese Depopulated Town -- Chapter 16: Towards an Equitable Distribution of Urban Green Spaces for People and Landscapes; An opportunity for Portland's Green Grid -- Part 6: Coast and estuary ecosystem -- Chapter 19: "Effectiveness and Sustainability of Coastal Hybrid Infrastructures for Low-Frequency Large-Scale Disasters -- A Case Study of Coastal Disaster Assessment for a Complex Disaster" -- Chapter 20: Challenging a Hybrid between Green and Gray Infrastructure - Coastal Sand-covered Embankments -- Chapter 21: Green Infrastructures in Megacity Jakarta: Current Status and Possibilities of Mangroves for Flood Damage Mitigation -- Chapter 22: Implementation of Japanese Blue Carbon Offset Crediting Projects -- Part 7: Economic evaluation -- Chapter 23: Understanding Preference Differences among Individuals for the Reduction in Flood Risk by Green Infrastructure -- Chapter 24: Assessing Public Preference for Construction of Giant Seawalls Using the Best-Worst Scaling Approach -- Chapter 25: "Coastal communities' preferences of grey, green and hybrid infrastructure against unexpected catastrophes: A case study of Japan" -- Chapter 26: Carbon storage and substitution benefits of harvested wood products -- Part 8: Governance -- Chapter 27: Social System in Collaborative Activities for Conserving Coastal Pine Forest in Karatsu City, Kyusyu, Japan -- Chapter 28: Governance for realizing multifunctional floodplain; flood control, agriculture, and biodiversity in Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area, California, USA -- Chapter 29: Analysis of the description of the multifunctionality of farmland in the administrative plans of local municipalities.…”
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Operational Amplifiers & Linear Integrated Circuits Theory and Application by Fiore, James

Table of Contents: “…-- 2.3 Simple Op Amp Comparator -- 2.4 Op Amp Manufacture -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Negative Feedback -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 What Negative Feedback Is and Why We Use It -- 3.3 Basic Concepts -- 3.4 The Four Variants of Negative Feedback -- 3.5 Limitations On The Use of Negative Feedback -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Basic Op Amp Circuits -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Inverting and Non-inverting Amplifiers -- 4.3 Single Supply Biasing -- 4.4 Current Boosting -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Practical Limitations of Op Amp Circuits -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Frequency Response -- 5.3 Gain-Bandwidth Product -- 5.4 Slew Rate and Power Bandwidth -- 5.5 Offsets -- 5.6 Drift -- 5.7 CMRR and PSRR -- 5.8 Noise -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Specialized Op Amps -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Instrumentation Amplifiers -- 6.3 Programmable Op Amps -- 6.4 Op Amps for High Current, Power, and Voltage Applications -- 6.5 High Speed Amplifiers -- 6.6 Voltage Followers and Buffers -- 6.7 Operational Transconductance Amplifier -- 6.8 Norton Amplifier -- 6.9 Current Feedback Amplifiers -- 6.10 Other Specialized Devices -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Non-Linear Circuits -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Precision Rectifiers -- 7.3 Wave Shaping -- 7.4 Function Generation -- 7.5 Comparators -- 7.6 Log and Anti-Log Amplifiers -- 7.7 Extended Topic: A Precision Log Amp -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Voltage Regulation -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The Need For Regulation -- 8.3 Linear Regulators -- 8.4 Switching Regulators -- 8.5 Heat Sink Usage -- 8.6 Extended Topic: Primary Switcher -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Oscillators and Frequency Generators -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Op Amp Oscillators -- 9.3 Single Chip Oscillators and Frequency Generators -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Integrators and Differentiators -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Integrators -- 10.3 Differentiators -- 10.4 Analog Computer -- 10.5 Alternatives to Integrators and Differentiators -- 10.6 Extended Topic: Other Integrator and Differentiator Circuits -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Active Filters -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Filter Types -- 11.3 The Use and Advantages of Active Filters -- 11.4 Filter Order and Poles -- 11.5 Filter Class or Alignment -- 11.6 Realizing Practical Filters -- 11.7 Band-Pass Filter Realizations -- 11.8 Notch Filter (Band-Reject) Realizations -- 11.9 Audio Equalizers -- 11.10 Switched-Capacitor Filters -- 11.11 Extended Topic: Voltage-Controlled Filters -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Analog-to-Digital-to-Analog Conversion -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 The Sampling Theorem -- 12.3 Resolution and Sampling Rate -- 12.4 Digital-to-Analog Conversion Techniques -- 12.5 Analog-to-Digital Conversion -- 12.6 Extended Topic: Digital Signal Processing -- Summary --…”
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The effectiveness of sharp end and rounded end bristle toothbrush by Paulus Januar, Anastasia Susetyo, Ratih Widyastuti

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Pelepasan ion nikel dan kromium kawat Australia dan stainless steel dalam saliva buatan (The release of nickel and chromium ions from Australian wire and stainless steel in artificial saliva) by Nolista Indah Rasyid, Pinandi Sri Pudyani, JCP Heryumani

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Selected Abstracts of the 13th International Workshop on Neonatology; Cagliari (Italy); October 25th-28th, 2017 by -

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Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture

Table of Contents: “…Partitioning Vulnerabilities: On the Paradoxes of Participatory Design in the City of Malmö -- Erling Björgvinsson & Mahmoud Keshavarz -- 13. …”
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Textbook of Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management

Table of Contents: “…Complexity science as a frame for understanding the management and delivery of high quality and safer care -- 28. Measuring clinical workflow to improve quality and safety -- 29. …”
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Integrating Science and Politics for Public Health

Table of Contents: “…Democratizing efforts to 'bridge' public health research and policy Kat Smith -- Part III. Reconciling Evidence and Politics in National and Local Policymaking -- Chapter 7. …”
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Challenging Mobilities in and to the EU during Times of Crises The Case of Greece /

Table of Contents: “…The 'Virtual Return' Option of the Highly Educated Immigrants: The Case of Greek PhD holders -- Chapter 4. …”
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5th Symposium on Terrestrial Gravimetry: Static and Mobile Measurements (TG-SMM 2019) Proceedings of the Symposium in Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 1 - 4, 2019 /

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Terrestrial, Shipboard and Airborne Gravimetry -- Measurement of Absolute Gravity and Deflection of the Vertical at Sea -- Multi-scenario Evaluation of the Direct Method in Strapdown Airborne and Shipborne Gravimetry -- Improving Gravity Estimation Accuracy for the GT-2A Airborne Gravimeter Using Spline-Based Gravity Models -- Gravimetric Studies in the Sea of Japan -- About Identification of Instrument Error Parameters for a Gravity Gradiometer -- Numerical Model of Moving-Base Rotating Accelerometer Gravity Gradiometer -- New Algorithm for Gravity Vector Estimation from Airborne Data Using Spherical Scaling Functions -- Results of Astro-measurements of the Deflection of Vertical Using the New Observation Technique -- Observations with gPhone Gravimeter in Moscow -- Part II: Absolute Gravimetry -- On Uncertainties of Laser Interferometric Absolute Ballistic Gravimeters due to Magnetic Effects in the Free-Fall Gravity Measurements -- Evaluation of Systematic Errors in the Compact Absolute Gravimeter TAG-1 for Network Monitoring of Volcanic Activities -- Design of New Launch and Interferometer Systems for the IMGC-02 Absolute Gravimeter -- Twelve Years of High Frequency Absolute Gravity Measurements at the UK's Space Geodesy Facility: Systematic Signals and Comparison with SLR Heights -- Part III: Relative Gravimetry and Applications -- Studying the Evolution of Resolution Capabilities and Approximation Accuracy of Global Models by Spectral Characteristics -- The Role of Non-tidal Atmospheric Loading in the Task of Gravity Field Estimation by Inter-satellite Measurements -- Formation of Self-consistent Navigational Gravity Maps of Local Areas and Joint Assessment of Their Navigation Quality -- Methods of Bistatic GNSS-radio Altimetry for Determining Height Profile of the Ocean and Their Experimental Verification -- Absolute and Relative Gravity Measurements at Volcanoes: Current State and New Developments Under the NEWTON-g Project -- The Effect of Measurement Preprocessing in the Gravity-Aided Navigation -- Sensitivity of Algorithms for Estimating the Gravity Disturbance Vector to Its Model Uncertainty.…”
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Planning for Equitable Urban Agriculture in the United States Future Directions for a New Ethic in City Building /

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- II Theories and Foundations: Ethics, Urban agriculture, and Planning -- Chapter 2 Theoretical Foundations -- Chapter 3 The Food System: A Stranger to the Planning Field -- Chapter 4 From Theory to Practice: Reflections from planning practice -- Chapter 5 Urban agriculture: linking ethics and food -- Chapter 6 The Intersection of Planning, Urban Agriculture, and Food Justice -- Chapter 7 Systems thinking -- III Practical Ethics: Urban Agriculture in US Cities -- Chapter 8 Urban agriculture practice (National/Big Picture) -- Chapter 9 Experience from Detroit and Cleveland -- Chapter 10 Experience from Buffalo (North east) -- Chapter 11 Urban Agriculture as Public Good: Experience from Philly and Chicago -- Chapter 12 Experience from West (Las Cruces -- Chapter 13 Experience from South (Albany, GA) -- Chapter 14 NYC -- Chapter 15 Experience from Michigan county -- IV Public Policy Responses to Urban Agriculture -- Chapter 16 Public PolicyResponse (National/Big Picture) -- Chapter 17 Baltimore -- Chapter 18 Denver -- Chapter 19 Austin -- Chapter 20 Minneapolis -- Chapter 21 Seattle -- Chapter 22 Madison -- Chapter 23 The Relational Infrastructure of Food Systems Planning and Policy Development -- V Pedagogy of Capacity-Building through Urban Agriculture -- Chapter 24 UA as a Locus for Pedagogy -- Chapter 25 Studio-based education -- Chapter 26 Distance-based education -- Chapter 27 Community-university partnerships -- Chapter 28 Pedagogy of Urban Agriculture -- V Directions for the Future -- Chapter 29 From the outside in: European perspectives -- Chapter 30 Comparison of US-Global South -- Chapter 31 Conclusion: Ideas for the Future -- Bibliography.…”
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Managing Protected Areas People and Places /

Table of Contents: “…Managing a UNESCOWorld Heritage Site in a Post-Colonial, Post-Conflict and Post-Disaster Destination. …”
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Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing Enabling Intelligent, Flexible and Cost-Effective Production Through AI /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Part I Architectures and Knowledge Modelling for AI in Manufacturing -- Reference Architecture for AI-based Industry 5.0 Applications -- Designing a Marketplace to Exchange AI Models for Industry 4.0 -- Domain Ontology Enrichment through Human-AI Interaction -- Survey of Knowledge Graphs in Industrial Settings -- From Knowledge to Wisdom: Leveraging Semantic Representations via Knowledge Graph Embeddings -- Advancing high value-added networked production through Decentralized Technical Intelligence -- Part II AI-based Digital Twins for Manufacturing Applications -- Digital-Twin enabled framework for training and deploying AI agents for production scheduling -- Digital Twin for Human Machine Interaction -- Learning-based Collaborative Digital Twins -- A Manufacturing Digital Twin Framework -- Part III Agent based Approaches for AI in Manufacturing -- Reinforcement Learning based approaches in manufacturing environments -- A participatory modelling approach to Agents in Industry using AAS -- 4.0 Holonic Multi-Agent Testbed Enabling Shared Production -- Application of a Multi agent system on production and scheduling optimization -- Integrating Knowledge to Conversational Agents for Worker Upskilling -- Part IV Trusted AI for Industry 5.0 Applications -- Wearable sensor-based human activity recognition for worker safety in manufacturing line -- Object detection for human-robot interaction and worker assistance systems -- Application of autoML, XAI and differential privacy method into manufacturing -- Anomaly Detection in Manufacturing -- Towards Industry 5.0 by incorporation of Trustworthy and Human-Centric approaches -- How AI changes human roles in Industry 5.0-enabled environments: Human in the AI loop via xAI and Active Learning for Manufacturing Quality Control -- Multi-Stakeholder Perspective on Human-AI Collaboration in Industry 5.0 -- Conclusion.…”
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Gender and Cultural Mediation in the Long Eighteenth Century Women across Borders /

Table of Contents: “…Printed Portraits Galleries and the Construction and Circulation of Images of Learned Women in the Republic of Letters; Lieke van Deinsen -- 6. A Woman of Two Cities: Louise d'Épinay, Paris and Geneva; Anthony J. …”
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The 3 Dimensions of Digitalised Archaeology State-of-the-Art, Data Management and Current Challenges in Archaeological 3D-Documentation /

Table of Contents: “…Christoph Rummel and Clemens Brünenberg: Bathing in the Pompeian Light - Integrating SFM technology in excavation and standing remains assessment -- Part 5. …”
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Innovations in Quantitative Risk Management TU München, September 2013 /

Table of Contents: “…Part I Markets, Regulation, and Model Risk -- A Random Holding Period Approach for Liquidity-Inclusive Risk Management -- Regulatory Developments in Risk Management: Restoring Confidence in Internal Models -- Model Risk in Incomplete Markets with Jumps -- Part II Financial Engineering -- Bid-Ask Spread for Exotic Options Under Conic Finance -- Derivative Pricing Under the Possibility of Long Memory in the supOU Stochastic Volatility Model -- A Two-Sided BNS Model for Multicurrency FX Markets -- Modeling the Price of Natural Gas with Temperature and Oil Price as Exogenous Factors -- Copula-Specific Credit Portfolio Modeling -- Implied Recovery Rates-Auctions and Models -- Upside and Downside Risk Exposures of Currency Carry Trades via Tail Dependence -- Part III Insurance Risk and Asset Management -- Participating Life Insurance Contracts Under Risk Based Solvency Frameworks: How to Increase Capital Efficiency by Product Design -- Reducing Surrender Incentives Through Fee Structure in Variable Annuities -- A Variational Approach for Mean-Variance-Optimal Deterministic Consumption and Investment -- Risk Control in Asset Management: Motives and Concepts -- Worst-Case Scenario Portfolio Optimization Given the Probability of a Crash -- Improving Optimal Terminal Value Replicating Portfolios -- Part IV Computational Methods for Risk Management -- Risk and Computation -- Extreme Value Importance Sampling for Rare Event Risk Measurement -- A Note on the Numerical Evaluation of the Hartman-Watson Density and Distribution Function -- Computation of Copulas by Fourier Methods -- Part V Dependence Modelling -- Goodness-of-fit Tests for Archimedean Copulas in High Dimensions -- Duality in Risk Aggregation -- Some Consequences of the Markov Kernel Perspective of Copulas -- Copula Representations for Invariant Dependence Functions -- Nonparametric Copula Density Estimation Using a Petrov-Galerkin Projection.…”
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Technological and Institutional Innovations for Marginalized Smallholders in Agricultural Development

Table of Contents: “…More than cereal based cropping innovations for improving food and livelihood security of poor small holders in marginal areas of Bangladesh -- 17. Integrated Rice-fish Farming System in Bangladesh: An Ex-Ante Value Chain Evaluation Framework -- 18. …”
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Tacitus, Annals, 15.20­-23, 33­-45. Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary by Owen, Mathew, Gildenhard, Ingo

Table of Contents: “…Commentary -- Section 1: Annals 15.20–23 -- (i) 20.1–22.1: The Meeting of the Senate -- (ii) 22.2: Review of striking prodigies that occurred in AD 62 -- (iii) 23.1–4: Start of Tacitus' account of AD 63: the birth and death of Nero's daughter by Sabina Poppaea, Claudia Augusta -- Section 2: Annals 15.33–45 (AD 64) -- (i) 33.1–34.1: Nero's coming-out party as stage performer -- (ii) 34.2–35.3: A look at the kind of creatures that populate Nero's court – and the killing of an alleged rival -- (iii) 36: Nero considers, but then reconsiders, going on tour to Egypt -- (iv) 37: To show his love for Rome, Nero celebrates a huge public orgy that segues into a mock-wedding with his freedman Pythagoras -- (v) 38–41: The fire of Rome -- (vi) 42–43: Reconstructing the Capital: Nero's New Palace -- (vii) 44: Appeasing the Gods, and Christians as Scapegoats -- (viii) 45: Raising of Funds for Buildings -- 5. …”
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Building Maintenance & Construction Tools and Maintenance Tasks by Rutherford, Clifford

Table of Contents: “…Part 1: Safety -- 1.1 First Aid & Personal Protective Equipment -- 1.2 Eye and Face Protection -- 1.3 Hearing Protection -- 1.4 Head Protection -- 1.5 Hand Protection -- 1.6 Respiratory Protection -- 1.7 Foot Protection -- 1.8 Tool & Shop Safety -- 1.9 Ladder Safety & Fall Protection -- Part 2: Hand & Power Tools -- 2.1 Tool Choices and Applications -- 2.2 Measuring, Marking, Leveling & Layout Tools -- 2.3 Nails, Hammers & Pneumatic Nailers -- 2.4 Threaded Fasteners, Drivers, Pliers & Wrenches -- 2.5 Saws -- 2.6 Drills & Accessories -- 2.7 Grinders, Sanders, & Accessories -- Part 3: Mathematics for Maintenance Techs -- 3.1 Required Math Concepts -- 3.2 Ohm's Law, Joules Law, and Series/Parallel Formulas -- Part 4: Plumbing Systems -- 4.1 Piping & Fittings -- 4.2 Domestic Water Service -- 4.3 Drain, Waste, and Vent (DMV) -- 4.4 Valves & Prevention Devices -- 4.5 Faucets, Fixtures, & Fixture Drains -- 4.6 Plumbing for Appliances -- 4.7 Water Heating -- Part 5: Electrical Systems -- 5.1 Electrical Safety -- 5.2 Electrical Tools & Testing Equipment -- 5.3 Electrical Terminology & Lighting -- 5.4 Conduit, Boxes, & Wiring -- 5.5 Fuses & Breakers -- 5.6 Receptacle & Switch Wiring -- 5.7 Outdoor Wiring Considerations -- Part 6: Maintenance Management Systems -- 6.1 Maintenance Categories -- 6.2 Work Order Process -- 6.3 Parts and Material Resources…”
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OER A Field Guide for Academic Librarians by Wesolek, Andrew, Lashley, Jonathan, Langley, Anne

Table of Contents: “…-- Section 2: The Pedagogical Implications of OER -- From Textbook Affordability to Transformative Pedagogy: Growing an OER Community -- Creating Opportunities in Open Education: An Exploration of the Intersections of Information Literacy and Scholarly Communication -- Experiential Learning and Open Education: Partnering with Students to Evaluate OER Accessibility -- Course Material Decisions and Factors: Unpacking the Opaque Box -- An Open Athenaeum: Creating an Institutional Home for Open Pedagogy -- Section 3: OER Advocacy, Partnerships, Sustainability, and Student Engagement -- Open Partnerships: Identifying and Recruiting Allies for Open Educational Resources Initiatives -- Getting to Know You: How We Turned Community Knowledge into Open Advocacy -- Advancing Access for First-Generation College Students: OER Advocacy at UT San Antonio -- Student-Driven OER: Championing the Student Voice in Campus-Wide Efforts -- From Conversation to Cultural Change: Strategies for Connecting with Students and Faculty to Promote OER Adoption -- Making the Connections: The Role of Professional Development in Advocating for OER -- Advocacy in OER: A Statewide Strategy for Building a Sustainable Library Effort -- Interinstitutional Collaborations to Forge Intracampus Connections: A Case Study from the Duke Endowment Libraries -- Section 4: Library-Supported Adoption and Creation Programs -- Seeking Alternatives to High-Cost Textbooks: Six Years of The Open Education Initiative at the University of Massachusetts Amherst -- From Start-Up to Adolescence: University of Oklahoma's OER Efforts -- A Grassroots Approach to OER Adoption: The University of Saskatchewan Experience -- Bringing OER to the Liberal Arts: An Innovative Grant Program -- Transforming Publishing with a Little Help From Our Friends: Supporting an Open Textbook Pilot Project with Friends of the Libraries Grant Funding -- Closing Reflections…”
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