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Local languages as a human right in education : comparative cases from Africa by Babaci-Wilhite, Zehlia

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Contouring human development : methods and applications using an Indian District as case study by Mishra, Mukunda, Chatterjee, Soumendu

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Case studies in environmental archaeology 2nd ed. by SpringerLink (Online service)

Contents: “…-- Summary -- 1.3 History and Theory in Environmental Archaeology -- History -- Theory -- 1.4 Ecological Concepts -- 1.5 The Disciplines of Environmental Archaeology -- 1.6 The Goals of Environmental Archaeology -- Environmental History: Climate, Landscapes, and Biogeography -- Human/environmental Relationships -- The Evolution of Human Social Institutions -- Improvements in Methodology -- 1.7 Goals of this Book -- 2 Factors Affecting the Composition of an Assemblage (New Chapter) -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Taphonomy -- 2.3 Archaeological Transformational Processes -- 2.4 Cultural Transformations -- Types of Sites -- Cultural Transformations -- Summary -- 2.5 Systemic Context Transformations -- Abiotic Transformations -- Soil Chemistry -- Climate -- Mechanical Damage (alluvial, coastal, fluvial, aeolian) -- Aerobic Environments -- Biotic Transformations -- Summary -- 2.6 Ethnoarchaeology and Experimental Archaeology -- 2.7 Summary -- 3 Research Designs and Field Methods (New Chapter) -- 3.1 Introduction -- The Role of the Environmental Archaeologist in Field Work -- 3.2 Research Designs -- 3.3 The Importance of Context -- What is a site? …”
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Theory into Practice : Case Stories for School Leaders by Gorlewski, Julie A.

Contents: “…CASE STORY 1B: BUILDING LEADERCASE STORY 1D: DISTRICT LEADER; WORKS CITED; CHAPTER 3: STANDARD 2: SCHOOL CULTURE; WHAT IS SCHOOL CULTURE?; SCHOOL CULTURE AND STUDENT LEARNING; DEVELOPING A POSITIVE SCHOOL CULTURE; CASE STORY 2T: TEACHER LEADER; CASE STORY 2B: BUILDING LEADER; CASE STORY 2D: DISTRICT LEADER; WORKS CITED; CHAPTER 4: STANDARD 3: MANAGEMENT OF ORGANIZATION, OPERATIONS, AND RESOURCES; CREATING A SAFE AND SUPPORTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; DECLINING FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR SCHOOLS; ALIGNING HUMAN RESOURCES WITH THE SCHOOL'S MISSION AND VISION; CASE STORY 3T: TEACHER LEADER.…”
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Visible learning into action : international case studies of impact by Hattie, John

People, parks, and power : the ethics of conservation-related resettlement by Sapignoli, Maria, Hitchcock, Robert K.

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Three women First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition. by Taddeo, Lisa

Fighting, loving, teaching : exploration of hope, armed love and critical urban pedagogies by Daniels, Emily A.

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Making it real : case stories for secondary teachers by Gorlewski, Julie A.

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Employee representation in multinational companies : the articulation of interests in multilevel action fields by Haipeter, Thomas, 1967-, Hertwig, Markus, Rosenbohm, Sophie

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The power of the terroir : the case study of prosecco wine by Tomasi, Diego

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Memory and forgetting in the post-Holocaust era : the ethics of never again by Baer, Alejandro, 1970-, Sznaider, Natan, 1954-

Behaviors of trace metals in environment : the pollution in regional and metropolis areas by Zhang, Hui

Contents: “…2.4.2 The Distribution of Trace Metals in the Resident Hair of the Hetao Area2.4.3 The Relationship Between the Trace Metals in the Resident Hair and that in the Water and Soil of the Hetao Area; 2.5 Study on the Isotope Tracing for Trace Metals in the Soil and Groundwater; 2.5.1 Samples; 2.5.2 The Distribution of Pb and Sr Isotope in the Soil and Groundwater; 2.5.3 The Discussion of the Pb and Sr Isotope in the Soil and Groundwater; 2.6 Discussion on the Distribution, Environmental Impacts, and Evolution Trends for Trace Metals in Soil and Groundwater.…”
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Contemporary research in accounting and finance : case studies from the MENA Region by SpringerLink (Online service)

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Farms with a future : creating and growing a sustainable farm business by Thistlethwaite, Rebecca

Problem-based behavioral science and psychiatry by SpringerLink (Online service)

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AiREAS : sustainocracy for a healthy city : the invisible made visible Phase 1 by Close, Jean-Paul, 1958-

Contents: “…A personal story of awareness and perception -- 2.1 My first awareness breakthrough -- 2.2 Layers of awareness -- 2.3 My second burst of awareness -- 2.4 Defining a new society for myself -- 2.5 Key human values -- 2.6 Inside = outside -- 2.7 To be and to do -- 2.7 Welfare or wellbeing? …”
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Environmental biotechnology : a biosystems approach 1st ed. by Vallero, Daniel A.

Contents: “…-- The Science of Environmental Biotechnology -- Boxes and Envelopes -- Review Questions -- Notes and Commentary -- Chapter 2: A Question of Balance: Using versus Abusing Biological Systems -- €Environmental Biomimicry -- €Engineered Systems Inspired by Biology -- Environmental Biochemodynamics -- €Biophile Cycling -- Sequestration -- €€Carbon Sequestration in Soil -- €€Active Sequestration -- Nitrogen and Sulfur Biochemodynamics -- Review Questions -- Notes and Resources -- Chapter 3: Environmental Biochemodynamic Processes -- Cellular Thermodynamics -- €€Importance of Free Energy in Microbial Metabolism -- Dissolution -- €€Phase Partitioning -- €Thermodynamics in Abiotic and Biotic Systems -- €€Volatility/Solubility/Density Relationships -- €€Environmental Balances -- €€Fugacity -- €Sorption -- €Volatilization -- €Bioavailability -- €€Persistent Bioaccumulating Toxic Substances -- €€Discussion Box: The Inuit and Persistent Organic Pollutants -- €€€Extrinsic Factors -- €Biochemodynamic Persistence and Half-Life -- €Fugacity, Z Values, and Henry's Law -- €Advection -- €Dispersion -- €€Aerodynamic and Hydrodynamic Dispersion -- €Diffusion -- €Overall Effect of the Fluxes, Sinks and Sources -- €Biochemodynamic Transport Models -- €Level 1 Model -- Level 2 Model -- Level 3 Model -- Review Questions -- Notes and Commentary -- Chapter 4: Systems -- €Biotechnological Systems -- €Putting Biology to Work -- €Scale -- €Systems Synergies: Biotechnological Analysis -- €Using Bioindicators -- €Biosensors -- €Relationship between Green Engineering and Biotechnology -- €Review Questions -- €Notes -- Chapter 5: Environmental Risks of Biotechnologies -- Estimating Biotechnological Risks -- Dose-Response -- Exposure Estimation -- €€Discussion Box: Exposure Calculation -- €Direct Bioengineering Risk Calculations -- Discussion Box: Cancer Risk Calculation -- Discussion Box: Non-cancer Risk Calculation -- Risk-based cleanup standards -- Discussion Box: Treatment by Genetic Modification -- €€Discussion Box: Risk-Based Contaminant Cleanup -- €€Discussion Box: Biotechnical Communications -- Review Questions -- Notes and Commentary -- Chapter 6: Reducing Biotechnological Risks -- €€Case Study Box: Genetic Biocontrols of Invaders -- €Discussion Box: Discussion Box: Biochemodynamics of Pharmaceuticals -- €Risk Causes -- €€Biographical Box: Sir Bradford Hill -- €Case Study Box: Managing Risks by Distinguishing between Progenitor and Genetically Modified Microbes -- €Failure: Human Factors Engineering -- €€Utility as a Measure of Success -- €€Failure Type 1: Mistakes and Miscalculations -- Failure Type 2: Extraordinary Natural Circumstances -- Failure Type 3: Critical Path -- Failure Type 4: Negligence -- Failure Type 5: Lack of Imagination -- Bioterrorism: Bad Biotechnology -- Review Questions -- Notes and Commentary -- Chapter 7: Applied Microbial Ecology: Bioremediation -- Systematic View of Oxygen -- Biodegradation and Bioremediation -- Biochemodynamics of Biodegradation -- €€Off-site Treatment -- Digestion -- Discussion Box: Biochemodynamic Films -- Aerobic Biodegradation -- €€Trickling Filter -- Activated Sludge -- Aeration Ponds -- Anaerobic Biodegradation -- Multimedia-Multiphase Bioremediation -- Phytoremediation -- Biomarkers -- Bioengineering Considerations for Genetically Modified Organisms -- €Discussion Box: Measuring Biodegradation Success -- €€€Nitric Oxide as an Indicator of Degradation -- €€€Humility in Biotechnological Modeling -- €Developing an Indirect, Chemical Model of Microbial Activity -- Model Comparison to Laboratory Study for Toluene Degradation -- Review Questions -- Notes and Commentary -- Chapter 8: Biotechnological Implications: A Systems Approach -- €Systematic View of Biotechnological Risks -- €Applied Thermodynamics -- €Predicting Environmental Implications -- €Environmental Implications of Engineering Organisms -- €Genetic Engineering Basics -- €€Conventional Breeding Approaches -- €€Modification of Organisms without Introducing Foreign DNA -- Modification of Organisms by Introducing Foreign DNA -- Transfected DNA -- Vector-borne DNA -- Environmental Aspects of Cisgenic and Transgenic Organisms -- Foreign DNA in Plants -- Biochemodynamic Flow of Modified Genetic Material -- Review Questions -- Notes and Commentary -- Chapter 9: Environmental Risks of Biotechnologies: Economic Sector Perspectives -- €Industrial Biotechnology -- €€Production of Enzymes -- €€The Organism -- €€Health and Safety Regulations -- €€Environmental Implications -- €Medical Biotechnology -- €€Discussion Box: Patenting Life -- €€Bio-Uptake and Bioaccumulation -- €€Discussion Box: Hormonally Active Agents -- €€€Determining Estrogenicity -- €€€Environmental Fate of Endocrine Disrupting Compounds -- €€€Treatment of EDCs in Drinking Water -- UV applications -- €€€Modeling the UV/H2O2 Process -- €€Environmental Implications -- €€Animal Biotechnology -- €Agricultural Biotechnology -- Discussion Box: "King Corn or Frankencorn" -- €€€Genetic Modification -- €€Gene Flow -- Review Questions -- Notes and Commentary -- Chapter 10: Addressing Biotechnological Pollutants -- €Cleaning Up Biotechnological Operations -- Intervention at the Source of Contamination -- Intervention at the Point of Release -- Intervention during Transport -- Intervention to Control the Exposure -- Intervention at the Point of Response -- Thermal Treatment of Biotechnological Wastes -- Calculating Destruction Removal -- Other Thermal Strategies -- Nitrogen and Sulfur Problems -- Review Questions -- Notes and Commentary -- Chapter 11: Analyzing the Environmental Implications of Biotechnologies -- €€€Discussion Box: Biological Agent: Stachybotrys -- Life Cycle as an Analytical Methodology -- €Revisiting Failure and Blame -- €Environmental Accountability -- €Life Cycle Applications -- Utility and the Benefit/Cost Analysis -- Predicting Environmental Damage -- €€Analysis of Biotechnological Implications -- €€Checklist for Ethical Decision Making -- Review Questions -- Notes and Commentary -- Chapter 12: Managing Biotechnologies -- €Bioengineering Perspectives -- €Systematic Biotechnology and the Status Quo -- €A Few Words about Environmental Ethics -- €Biotechnology Decision Tools -- €€Accountability -- €€Value -- €€Informing Decisions -- €Green Engineering and Biotechnology -- €Green Engineering and Biotechnology -- €€Discussion Box: Probability and Biotechnology -- €Risk Homeostasis and the Theory of Offsetting Behavior -- €Artifacts -- €Review Questions -- €Notes and Commentary -- Glossary -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Index.…”
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Nuclear decommissioning case studies : the people side by Laraia, M.

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Clinical pharmacology : current topics and case studies by SpringerLink (Online service)

Contents: “…Cover13; -- Table of Contents -- List Of Contributors -- Section 1 Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Discipline of Clinical Pharmacology -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Chapter 2 Current Issues in Drug Development -- 1 Historical Success -- 2 The Dawn of a Molecular Era, the "Druggable Genome" and Market Fragmentation -- 3 Innovation and Stagnation -- 4 The Development of Ebm Methodology -- 5 Issues in Preclinical and Clinical Drug Development -- 6 The Role of Academic Medicine -- 7 Confidence Crisis and Public Opinion -- 8 Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 3 Current Issues in Drug Regulation -- 1 The Drug Regulators' Decision-Making -- 2 Authorizing a Medicinal Product in the Eu -- 3 Regulatory Life-Cycle Management of Medicinal Products -- Disclaimer -- References -- Chapter 4 Current Issues in Drug Reimbursement -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Reimbursement Principles in General -- 3 Relative Effectiveness -- Background -- 4 Relative Effectiveness Case Study -- Data Submitted for Reimbursement in Austria -- 5 Medev -- Local Payers Vs. …”
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