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Effective, intentional teaching begins with a strong set of beliefs, but even the best teachers -- including Debbie Miller -- struggle to make sure that their classroom practice consistently reflects their core convictions. In Teaching with Intention, Debbie shares her process of defining beliefs, aligning practice, and taking action to ensure that children are the true beneficiaries of her teaching. As Peter Johnston writes, ""Through this book we have Debbie's teaching mind on loan. She engages us in the details of a teaching life from inside her mind, showing the thinking behind her teaching and the consequences of her actions.""

This book will help teachers solve the dilemma: What does the rest of my class do while I'm working with a small reading group? Debbie Diller offers practical suggestions for over a dozen literacy work stations that link to instruction and make preparation and management easy for teachers. Learn how to set up work stations, how to manage them, and how to keep them going throughout the year.

Co-published with This timely volume addresses the urgent need for new strategies and better ways to serve community colleges' present and future students at a time of rapid diversification, not just racially and ethnically, but including such groups as the undocumented, international students, older adult learners and veterans, all of whom come with varied levels of academic and technical skillsThe contributing researchers, higher education faculty, college presidents, and community college administrators provide thorough understanding of student groups who have received scant attention in the higher education literature. They address the often unconscious barriers to access our institutions have erected and describe emerging strategies, frameworks, and pilot projects that can ease students' transition into college and through the maze of the college experience to completion. They offer advice on organizational culture, on defining institutional outcomes, on aligning shifting demographics with the multiple missions of the community college, on strengthening the collaboration of student and academic affairs to leverage their respective roles and resources, and on engaging with the opportunities afforded by technology.Divided into three parts - understanding today's community college campuses; supporting today's community college learners; and specialized populations and communities - this book offers a vision and solutions that should inform the work of faculty, administrators, presidents, and board members.

Reproductive biology is the basis of species improvement and a thorough understanding of this is needed for plant improvement, whether by conventional or biotechnological methods. This book presents an up to date and comprehensive description of reproduction in lower plants, gymnosperms and higher plants. It covers general plant biology, pollination, pollen-pistil interaction, post-fertilization changes, and seed dormancy.

Reprint of the Oxford University Press edition of 1930, with a long new introduction by Clark Kerr

Completely updated, this second edition explains how to use the interconnectedness of social networks to make "stickier," more compelling games on all types of devices. Through the book¿s many design and marketing techniques, strategies, and examples, readers will acquire a better understanding of the design and monetization mechanics of mobile and social games as well as working knowledge of industry practices and terminology. Each chapter includes an interview with industry leaders who share their insight on designing and producing games, analyzing metrics, and much more.

This book explores current trends in seafood science and examines various related topics including isolation aspects and different methodologies involved in seafood production. It provides detailed explanations about marine species such as fish, seaweed, and crustaceans and discusses their health benefits as well as the health risk for consumption. These topics provide a platform to develop various aquaculture/biotechnology studies. The book is essential reading for the novice and expert in marine-related fields such as aquaculture, as well as those in biotechnology, chemical sciences, natural products, materials science, pharmaceutical science, and nutraceutical science.

An essential guide for owners, consulting and construction engineers, this new edition provides a review of field experience and deteriorating processes, and outlines procedures for durability analysis and selection of additional protective strategies and measures. It also details performance-based concrete quality control and quality assurance with documentation of achieved construction quality, and compliance with specified durability. The text includes calculation of life cycle costs and life cycle assessment, as well as new recommended job specifications.

The Death Penalty, Third Edition, brings together all the legal issues related to the death penalty and provides case briefs for the most important United States Supreme Court death penalty cases. No other book available brings together a discussion of the major constitutional issues surrounding the death penalty with a broad array of associated case briefs. The authors classify cases according to legal issues and provide a commentary on the various sub-topics, presenting legal materials in an easily understood form. Though the primary audiences of the book are undergraduates in criminal justice programs and practitioners in the corrections and justice systems, the book will also prove useful to anyone who has an interest in the death penalty, the criminal justice system, or the United States Constitution. Every chapter starts with commentaries regarding general case law in a sub-topic, such as aggravating and mitigating factors, followed by a chart of the cases briefed in the chapter, and then the case briefs. These case briefs acquaint the reader with Supreme Court cases by summarizing facts, issues, reasons, and holdings. The Death Penalty, Third Edition , is a succinct, trusted guide to the law of capital punishment in the United States.

Successful thermal modeling of the human eye helps in the early diagnosis of eye abnormalities such as inflammation, cataracts, diabetic retinopathy, and glaucomäall leading causes of blindness. This book presents a unified work of eye imaging and modeling techniques that have been proposed and applied to ophthalmologic problems. It delves into various morphological, texture, higher order spectra, and wavelet transformation techniques used to extract important diagnostic features from images, which can then be analyzed by a data scientist for automated diagnosis.

This book provides a comprehensive account of laser beam propagation, reflecting the major impact of new characterization methods, computational approaches, and fabrication techniques. It highlights new discoveries on laser beams and their propagation properties, including orbital angular momentum of light, the non-diffracting nature of light, and light that propagates along curved paths and reconstructs after obstacles. Chapters by expert researchers demonstrate how laser beams propagate, explain the generation of custom laser beams with modern techniques, describe beam properties, and showcase their application across various disciplines.

The second edition of this bestselling handbook covers virtually all the information an engineer would need to know about any type of bridge¿from planning to construction to maintenance. It contains more than 2,500 tables, charts, and illustrations in a practical, ready-to-use format and an abundance of worked-out examples give readers numerous step-by-step design procedures. Extensively updated and featuring several new chapters, this volume, Fundamentals, covers conceptual design, aesthetics, planning, design specifications, modeling, design, wind effects, impact loading, fatigue and fracture, and much more.

Without a full-scale history of US higher education, this guide describes the rise to power of professional scholars and scientists in US universities and society. The text also looks at some of the revolution's consequences and outlines a theory about the development and status of this phenomenon.

There is an invisible army of people deep inside the world's biggest and best-known companies, pushing for safer and more responsible practices. They are trying to prevent the next Rana Plaza factory collapse, the next Deepwater Horizon explosion, the next Foxconn labor abuses. Obviously, they don't always succeed. Christine Bader is one of those people.

A reference on the workings of Modern Lean Six Sigma techniques, this book presents the background on quality and lean six sigma techniques and tools. It reviews the previous history of lean six sigma in manufacturing, current applications of lean six sigma in operations, which projects should be selected and prioritized, and what to do with non-lean six sigma projects. It also describes the different six sigma certitications, and closes with future directions.

Written by an esteemed list of international authors, this book presents timely reviews relating to some of the most important aspects of gestational diabetes, specifically its causes, consequences, and treatments. Divided into five sections, the book covers metabolism in pregnancy and gestational diabetes, environmental and genetic risk factors and causes, potential complications, and treatments for improving the outcome for both mother and baby. It also addresses future prospects in diagnosing and screening, prevention, pathophysiology, and treatment of gestational diabetes.

Batch processes are widely used in pharmaceutical, food, and specialty chemicals where high value, low volume products are manufactured. Designing these processes and unit operations can be an onerous task that requires computational efforts. With examples, case studies, and more than 100 homework problems, this book presents an overview of computer-aided design packages and describes the unit operations in batch and bioprocessing. Providing students with a thorough grounding in the numerical methods necessary to solve design problems, it discusses the basics of design, modeling, and optimization. Figure slides are available upon qualifying course adoption.

Presents an approach to sensors and sensing technologies. This title discusses the modern sensor technologies and examines their applications in various industries. It covers electronic circuitry, signal analysis, and material and manufacturing methods. It also includes problems, worked examples, exercises, and solutions.

Each chapter in Christianity and Political Philosophyaddresses a philosophical problem generated by history

The assumption that rewards and punishments influence our choices between different courses of action underlies economic, sociological, psychological, and legal thinking about human action

Fingerprint identification is the most efficient, rapid, and cost-effective forensic identification modality. This title presents a guide to the recovery, identification, and management of unidentified postmortem fingerprint records - topics from postmortem fingerprint processing to database submission and case management that are discussed.

This book provides a structured account of the existing knowledge of toxic algae, the chemistry of the toxins they produce, the effects these substances exert in humans and wildlife, as well as the strategies envisaged to protect public health and the environment. It covers recent advances in the understanding of the biology of toxin producers and the factors involved in the appearance and dynamics of harmful algae blooms, the factors affecting toxin production, the synthesis of toxins both in natural producers and by chemical means in a lab, and the toxin groups posing continuing and novel hazards to living systems.

This book reviews methods of analysis and detection in the area of food science and technology. Each chapter deals with determination/quantification analyses of quality parameters in food, covering topics such as lipids, color, texture, and rheological properties in different food products. The book focuses on the most common methods of analysis, presenting methodologies for specific work conditions. It provides a reference for food engineers and researchers working in the area of food science and technology as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students.

The postharvest handling of fresh fruits and vegetables plays a critical role in facilitating a continuous supply of high-quality fresh produce to the consumer. Many new technologies developed and refined in recent years continue to make possible an ever-expanding supply of fresh products. This volume examines a range of recently developed technologies and systems that will help the horticulture industry to become more environmentally sustainable and economically competitive, and to minimize postharvest quality loss and generate products that are appealing and acceptable to consumers.

Presenting topics according to the conventional process used by most mining houses, this book covers the design and operation of sublevel open stoping. Summarizing state-of-the-art practices encountered during his 25+ years of experience, the author discusses increases in sublevel spacing, improvements in slot rising, and rock mass characterization, as well as methodologies to design open spans and pillars, rock reinforcement, and fill masses. He also addresses in situ stress concentration minimization, dilution control action plans, and techniques to back-analyze and optimize stope wall performance.

This book provides comprehensive and up to date information about tree characterization, biological understanding, and improvement through biotechnological and molecular tools.

A number of methods currently exist for the analysis and design of slopes. This book provides a critical review of these and offers more approaches for overcoming numerical non-convergence and the location of critical failure surfaces in two-dimensional and three-dimensional cases. It also addresses new concepts in three-dimensional stability analysis, finite element analysis, and the extension of slope stability problems to lateral earth pressure problems. It offers advice and design resources in the form of recommendations for analysis and design practice, design charts, and tables.

Broad in scope, this book provides a complete reference of techniques, algorithms, and solutions for the design and implementation of contemporary multimedia systems. Detailing the latest advances in semantic indexing, retrieval, analysis, and processing of multimedia, the text is based on four fundamental thematic pillars: 1) information and content retrieval, 2) semantic knowledge exploitation paradigms, 3) multimedia personalization, and 4) human-computer affective multimedia interaction. Its 15 chapters cover key topics such as content creation, annotation and modeling for the semantic web, and efficiency and scalability.