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This edited volume interrogates the trade-offs made between the three arenas of sustainability in the implementation of innovative solutions in cities, and in doing so offers a new perspective on the politics of urban planning innovation and urban sustainability.

Guía práctica de pragmática del español es un texto introductorio en español. Ofrece introducciones accesibles a una importante variedad de teorías y conceptos imprescindibles en el campo de la pragmática del español.

This edited volume interrogates the trade-offs made between the three arenas of sustainability in the implementation of innovative solutions in cities, and in doing so offers a new perspective on the politics of urban planning innovation and urban sustainability.

This book presents a framework to model the main activities of information security management and governance. The same model can be used for any security sub-domain such as cybersecurity, data protection, access rights management, business continuity, etc.

By investigating silver hoards and the context of their deposition, Viking Silver, Hoards and Containers seeks to understand the variety of functions performed by hoards; the differences in function within regions; the hoards¿ relationship with trade; and the nature and function of emporia.

This important volume explores how racism operates at various levels of school and society, while also unpacking larger patterns of racist ideology and white privilege as it manifests across various levels of schooling.

This important volume explores how racism operates at various levels of school and society, while also unpacking larger patterns of racist ideology and white privilege as it manifests across various levels of schooling.

Breaking new intellectual and theoretical ground, leading literacy scholars to re-examine how educational and sociocultural contexts frame and define literacy events and practices. Drawing from Brian V. Street¿s work, this volume offers insights into fractures, tensions, and developments in literacy for scholars, students, and researchers.

This book gives a voice to the residents of East Jerusalem, addressing educational issues and revealing implicit layers in Israeli policy and attitude affecting the education system. In this close examination of school life under occupation, the book presents criticism of the system from within, and calls for teachers to prioritise pupils¿ needs.

Covers material typically presented in an intermediate statistics course at the undergraduate level and a first course in applied statistics at the graduate level. Topics include basic statistical inference, regression, and ANOVA. Advanced topics include non-parametric statistics, logistic regression, and goodness-of-fit tests.

This book is an experiment and reference book for algorithm design courses, as well as a training manual for programming contests. It contains 247 problems selected from ACM-ICPC programming contests and other programming contests.

More clinics and large practices are investing in CT equipment, meaning veterinary surgeons are often confronted with unfamiliar technical challenges like positioning and handling of the equipment. Even after obtaining the CT images, the interpretation can often be confusing when surgeons are not used to reading axial and transverse images. This book will provide much needed support in choosing the right equipment, providing the exact protocol and finally coming to a diagnosis.

The reader through this book will learn nanotechnology (NT) fundamentals, be introduced to important NT products and applications from other industries and learn about the current state of development of various NT applications in the upstream oil industry.

Strategic Security provides security managers, and those aspiring to the position, to think strategically about their job, the culture of their workplace, and the nature of security planning and implementation.

This book looks at how conditional cash transfer programmes have affected the lives of rural communities in Latin America since the schemes appeared on the scene twenty years ago. With case studies ranging from Chile, Mexico, Peru, Brazil and Colombia, this book will interest scholars of anthropology, sociology, development, economics and politics.

This text offers innovative, multi-disciplinary perspectives on the subject of play in a range of environments: the classroom, playground, home, and local community. Extensively revised, this third edition explores the theory and clearly demonstrates how to take the theory from the academic classroom and apply it to practice in a child's setting.

Museums and the Culture of Copies aims to make the copying practices of museums visible and to discuss, from a range of interrelated perspectives, precisely what function copies fulfil in the heritage field and in museums today.

This book provides an overview of poverty and well-being in Russia. Increasing poverty rates during the 1990s were followed by greater attention to social policies in the 2000s.What impact did these developments have on the prevalence of poverty in contemporary Russian society?

Provides the fundamentals of distribution emergency operation using graph-theoretic approach and exploration of subsystem(s) that address the operational aspects of fault occurrence to determine the possible feeder reconfiguration.

The first book on the design and analysis of not only clinical trials but also how observational non-interventional data using clinical data is applied to economic evaluation and re-imbursement in the context of Cancer. This book is a non technical exposition of economic evaluation and no knowledge of advanced statistical methods is assumed.

A fundamental challenge when using machine learning is connecting the abstract mathematics of a machine learning technique to real world problems. This book tackles this challenge through model-based machine learning, focusing on understanding the assumptions encoded in a machine learning system.

This book provides insight into the world of pharmaceutical quality systems and the key elements that must be in place to change the business and organizational dynamics from task-oriented procedure-based cultures to truly integrated quality business systems that are self-detecting and correcting. Chapter flow has been changed to adopt a quality systems organization approach, and supporting chapters have been updated based on current hot topics including the impact of the worldwide supply chain complexity and current regulatory trends.

This book responds to a growing interest among early childhood professionals and scholars for more nature and sustainability focused programs. Doing so rewards the reader with opportunities to critically reflect on their own practice and explore new pedagogical pathways. It will be essential reading for practitioners and scholars alike.