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The purpose of this work is to advance understanding of intersectional theory and its application to research in education. The book illustrates how intersectional theory can be used in both quantitative and qualitative education research on college student access and success, faculty satisfaction and professional development, and K-12 educational issues such as high school dropouts and bullying.

This book serves as an introduction to using online teaching technologies and hybrid forms of teaching for experiential learning and civic engagement. Service-learning has kept pace neither with the rapid growth in e-learning in all its forms nor with the reality that an increasing number of students are learning online without exposure to the benefits of this powerful pedagogy.Eservice-learning (electronic service-learning) combines service-learning and on-line learning and enables the delivery of the instruction and/or the service to occur partially or fully online. Eservice-learning allows students anywhere, regardless of geography, physical constraints, work schedule, or other access limitations, to experience service-learning. It reciprocally also equips online learning with a powerful tool for engaging students.In eservice-learning, the core components of service, learning, and reflection may take a different form due to the online medium--for example, reflection often occurs through discussion board interactions, journals, wikis, or blogs in an eservice-learning course. Moreover, the service, though still community-based, creates a world of opportunities to connect students with communities across the globe--as well as at their very own doorstep.This book introduces the reader to the four emerging types of eservice-learning, from Extreme EService-Learning (XE-SL) classes where 100% of the instruction and 100% of the service occur online, to three distinct forms of hybrid where either the service or the instruction are delivered wholly on-line - with students, for instance, providing online products for far-away community partners - or in which both are delivered on-site and online. It considers the instructional potential of common mobile technologies - phones, tablets and mobile reading devices. The authors also address potential limitations, such as technology challenges, difficulties sustaining three-way communication among the instructor, community partner, and students, and added workload.The book includes research studies on effectiveness as well as examples of practice such drafting grants for a community partner, an informational technology class building online communities for an autism group, and an online education class providing virtual mentoring to at-risk students in New Orleans from across the country.

This latest edition addresses rape and sexual assaults from all clinical, pathological, medical, and legal aspects. The book focuses on the victim and covers contemporary issues in sexual violence, investigative aspects of rape and sexual assault, offender fantasy, the personality of the offender, collection of evidence, medical examinations, and treatment, as well as trial preparation issues. Special topics include pedophiles, female and juvenile offenders, drug-facilitated rape, sexual sadism, elder abuse, and sexual assault within the military.

How many IT books have you read that are long on theory and short on practical application? They are interesting, but not very impactful. They provide a framework from which to think and understand, but lack a process from which to act. Addressing this urgent need for the IT community, The Lean IT Field Guide explains how to initiate, execute, and sustain a lean IT transformation.Illuminating a clear path to lean IT, the authors integrate more than two decades of combined experience to provide you with a proven method for creating and sustaining a true lean IT workplace. This field guide not only highlights the organizational techniques of more agile and lean processes, but also the leadership work required to help management adopt these new approaches.Based on proven methods from different industries, including banking, manufacturing, insurance, food and beverage, and logistics, the book details a clear model that covers all the components you need to achieve and sustain a favorable work environment and culture in support of lean IT.Filled with anecdotes and case studies from actual businesses, the book includes pictures, templates, and examples that illustrate the application of the lean methods discussed.

This book focuses on mathematical thinking and problem solving, demonstrating how discrete probability, statistics, and elementary discrete mathematics can be applied in games, sports, and gambling situations. The text draws on numerous examples, questions, and problems to explain the application of mathematical theory to various real-life games.

This book covers the basic fundamentals of electronics and their applications in textiles and clothing product development. With increasing awareness about the e-textiles, researchers and scientists are finding ways to treat the textile materials integrating with electronics for communication/signal transferring applications. The book discusses wearable electronics, fabric production techniques for wearable electronics, design of circuits and integration into wearable electronic fabrics, product development using wearable electronic integrated fabrics, software development for wearable electronics, design and development of wearable electronic flexible solar tent, and garment integrated wearable electronic products.

This third edition of a bestseller incorporates a decade of new research and development to provide readers with a comprehensive and contemporary guide to the psychology of risk and workplace safety. It focuses on the concept of risk and recent developments in understanding workplace safety from a psychological perspective. This new edition provides readers with state-of-the-art theory reviews, research findings and practical applications to enhance their understanding of human psychology in the context of risk and safety.

This book deals with a hospital's struggle to secure and maintain financial stability. In the story, the leadership team of a fictional hospital adopts the tools and principles associated with the Toyota Production System or Lean. The story takes the reader through leadership's arduous journey from rejecting the methodology to embracing it, to successful implementation. This book is important because many of our nation's hospitals are besieged with financial difficulties with declining reimbursement and the public is losing confidence in our hospital's ability to provide quality care without error. Lean can provide relief from these issues but only if it is properly implemented.

This comprehensive guide to the design of foundations for tall buildings outlines various foundation options followed by the general principles of foundation design applied to tall buildings. It differentiates the preliminary, detailed and final design stages.

Metabolism impacts cellular functions and plays an integral role in human biology. This book presents metabolic regulation as a system, describing novel principles developed over the past several decades.

For metaphysicians who have imbibed the sober and inebriating teachings of Thomas Aquinas, existence is an act, the act which makes all things actually to be

This book describes the properties, characteristics, and uses of rare earth elements. It explains where, in what quantities, and how these elements occur in nature, as well as how they are processed from ores into marketable end materials. The second edition includes a new chapter on the recycling of rare earth elements from magnets, batteries, and phosphors among others, covering both manufacturing scrap or materials in end of life devices, and is updated throughout with important developments from the past ten years.

Presents the voices of a new generation of scholars, educators, and practitioners who are committed to civic renewal and the public purposes of higher education. They question existing policies, structures, and practices, and put forward new forms of engagement that can help to shape and transform higher education to align it with societal needs.

Just because a problem is invisible doesn¿t mean it¿s not affecting your operation. While communication, distance, and culture are often ignored as real threats to your results, these unnoticed forces are negatively affecting companies that operate internationally. Globalization has amplified a series of obstacles we not have paid enough attention to in our organizations. Ultimately, it¿s humans that solve problems in coordination with other humans, and this requires excellent communication. Currently, people must coordinate actions and collaborate with teams sitting in geographically separated places. Misunderstandings and lack of clarity, however, cause high, unbudgeted costs. Global Lean: Seeing the New Waste Rooted in Communication, Distance, and Culture highlights the waste created by these interactions and adopts Lean thinking to provide methods, approaches, and real case studies to eliminate these problems at the source. As organizations evolve into global networks, Lean initiatives must now meet new needs. The book follows the story of a CEO and his company that, while successful in their local environment, are heavily impacted by new obstacles as they expand internationally. It illustrates how they adopt Lean methodologies to bring hidden problems to the surface.

This book highlights the unique problems shared by all technologists across knowledge-intensive fields, and how to overcome the most predictable obstacles faced by technology entrepreneurs. It demystifies the process of commercializing advanced products that require a high degree of specialized knowledge. Typically, these are "disruptive technologies" with the potential to revolutionize whole industries. This book will simplify the launch of high-tech ventures such as pharmaceuticals, genetic and biotechnology products, wireless devices, fuel cells, and minimally invasive medical devices.

The study of nanostructures has become, in recent years, a theme common to many disciplines, in which scientists and engineers manipulate matter at the atomic and molecular level in order to obtain materials and systems with significantly improved properties. Carbon nanomaterials have a unique place in nanoscience owing to their exceptional thermal, electrical, chemical, and mechanical properties, finding application in areas as diverse as super strong composite materials, energy storage and conversion, supercapacitors, smart sensors, targeted drug delivery, paints, and nanoelectronics. This book is the first to cover a broad spectrum of carbon nanomaterials, namely carbon nanofibers, vapor-grown carbon fibers, different forms of amorphous nanocarbons besides carbon nanotubes, fullerenes, graphene, graphene nanoribbons, graphene quantum dots, etc. in a single volume.

The first of two volumes in the sourcebook, this text focuses on graphene, fullerenes, nanotubes, and nanodiamonds, showcasing carbon nanomaterials with exceptional qualities and prospects. It describes the fundamental properties, growth mechanisms, and processing of each nanomaterial discussed, as well as explores functionalization for electronic, energy, biomedical, and environmental applications. The text provides the tools necessary for understanding current and future technology developments, including important equations, tables, and graphs. Each chapter is dedicated to a different type of nanomaterial, allowing for quick and easy search.

This classic work marks the culmination of a definite stage in the socio-economic historiography from the late Middle Ages to the rise of the haute bourgeoisie in the early Renaissance

The presence of concentrations of organic substances and cations in seawater is a matter of increasing concern to the water industry, environmentalists and the general public alike. Until fairly recently, seawater analysis was limited to a number of major constituents such as chloride and alkalinity. This reference draws attention to the methods available for analysing sediments in seawater. It covers classical methods and the most advanced and recently introduced physical techniques as well as their sensitivities and limitations.

Medicinal plants have been used in the prevention, diagnosis, and elimination of diseases based on the practical experience of thousands of years.

Planning, measurement, and paying attending to details form the basis for all successful engineering operations. Using a systems framework, this handbook presents a comprehensive all-encompassing guide to measurements.

If evolution has changed humans physically, has it also affected human behavior? Drawing on evolutionary psychology, sociobiology, and human behavioral ecology, Human Nature and the Evolution of Society explores the evolutionary dynamics underlying social life.

This book discusses effective, humane animal use program management. It offers practical advice on how to work within current regulations by providing best practices and guidance on how to design a program of animal care and use that fits within the context of federal policies and regulations. The authors also document proven and successful strategies for managing the IACUC, which will assist all administrators and institutions with the development and enhancement of animal care and use programs.

In this follow-up to the author's bestselling classic, "The Lady Tasting Tea," David Salsburg takes a fresh and insightful look at the history of statistical development by examing errors, blunders and outright lies in many different models taken from a variety of fields including economics, biology, physics and sports.

This essential textbook presents the basics of dental statistics in an accessible way, combining explanation in non-technical language with key messages, practical examples, suggestions for further reading and exercises complete with detailed solutions. There is an emphasis on the principles and application of statistics without the use of algebra. The intended audience includes dental students and practitioners, those engaged in dental research and other health care professionals.

How many mRNAs are in a cell? How genetically similar are two random people? What is faster, transcription or translation?Cell Biology by the Numbers explores these questions¿and dozens of others¿providing a richly illustrated and handy reference for students and researchers in molecular and cell biology, chemistry, and biophysics.The book features question-driven vignettes and "back of the envelope" calculations that investigate some of the key numbers in cell biology. Readers will learn about the sizes, concentrations, rates, energies, and other numbers that describe and drive the living world.

Through state-society relations, this book offers a compelling and fascinating comparison of Brazil and China, two emerging powers on the international stage.

A comprehensive exploration of diplomacy in the era of globalization, Global Diplomacy looks at both the theory and practice of diplomacy in today's networked world.