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Written by one of the original MARSSIM authors, this second edition incorporates all of the requisite technical aspects of planning and executing radiological surveys in support of decommissioning. It covers survey instrumentation, detection sensitivity, statistics, dose modeling, survey procedures, and release criteria. Along with more case studies and examples, this edition includes new chapters on hot spot assessment and the clearance or release of materials, revises the chapters on statistics and characterization survey design, and updates the regulations and guidance documents.

For teachers in higher education who haven't been able to catch up with developments in teaching and learning, James Davis and Bridget Arend offer an introduction that focusses on seven coherent and proven evidence-based strategies. The underlying rationale is to provide a framework to match teaching goals to distinct ways of learning, based on well-established theories of learning.

This book is a comprehensive resource on using mass spectrometry proteomics (MSP), a powerful new technique combining hardware and software, as a highly accurate means for the detection, identification, and classification of microbes including unknown or unsequenced bacteria, viruses, and fungi. Chapters describe various mass analyzers, methods for analyzing MS data files, genomic approaches, sample collection and processing, software and bioinformatics, and examples of application of the method. This book also surveys commercially available MS-based platforms suitable for MSP and discusses future trends in these groundbreaking techniques.

This book presents an up-to-date, thorough volume devoted to the chemistry, pathobiology, visual science, and medical and public health significance of the macular carotenoids. With contributions from leading experts around the world, this book covers a range of topics, from macular anatomy and molecular genetics to retinal disease epidemiology, pathogenesis, risk factors, and carotenoid supplementation clinical trials. Advancing our understanding of how the macular carotenoids prevent vision loss, this book provides a valuable reference for researchers and clinicians involved in the treatment and prevention of retinal disease.

An evidence-based guide, this book presents an in-depth analysis of the independent and positive effects of resistance training on the prevention, management, and treatment of many chronic conditions. Written by some of the world¿s leading exercise physiologists and resistance training experts, the chapters provide detailed descriptions of the benefits of resistance training for specific clinical populations, including guidelines on how to construct a tailored resistance training prescription. Chapters cover resistance training to treat cardiovascular disease, metabolic diseases, cancer, orthopedic diseases, neuromuscular disorders, and more.

Research indicates that of the pedagogies recognized as "high impact", learning communities - one approach to which, the linked course, is the subject of this book - lead to an increased level of student engagement in the freshman year that persists through the senior year, and improve retention. This book focuses on the learning community model that is the most flexible to implement in terms of scheduling, teacher collaboration, and design: the linked course. The faculty may teach independently or together, coordinating syllabi and assignments so that the classes complement each other, and often these courses are linked around a particular interdisciplinary theme. Creating a cohort that works together for two paired courses motivates students, while the course structure promotes integrative learning as students make connections between disciplines.This volume covers both "linked courses" in which faculty may work to coordinate syllabi and assignments, but teach most of their courses separately, as well as well as "paired courses" in which two or more courses are team taught in an integrated program in which faculty participate as learners as well as teachers. Part One, Linked Course Pedagogies, includes several case studies of specific linked courses, including a study skills course paired with a worldview course; a community college course that challenges students' compartmentalized thinking; and a paired course whose outcomes can be directly compared to parallel stand-alone coursesPart Two, Linked Course Programs, includes a description of several institutional programs representing a variety of linked course program models. Each chapter includes information about program implementation, staffing logistics and concerns, curriculum development, pedagogical strategies, and faculty development.Part Three, Assessing Linked Courses, highlights the role of assessment in supporting, maintaining, and improving linked course programs by sharing assessment models and describing how faculty and administrators have used particular assessment practices in order to improve their linked course programs.

Presents a set of resources to guide students of education, faculty, higher education administrators, and student affairs leaders in creating an inclusive environment for under-represented groups on campus. It provides a deeper understanding of the various multicultural groups on college campuses for faculty and professional staff who want to understand the complexity of the students they serve.

Describes and analyzes the ideological, social, and political motives that led to the creation of community colleges in the US, and that have shaped their subsequent development. This history examines the institutionalization process of the community college in the US, casting light on how this educational institution was formed, for what purposes, and how has it evolved.

Addresses and explores the characteristics and experiences of 'Millennial' college students from an array of perspectives, taking into account not only racial and ethnic identity but also cultural background, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status differences, all factors contributing to how these students interface with academe.

This book comprehensively critiques existing models and views of doctoral student socialization, and offers a new model that incorporates concepts of identity development, adult learning, and epistemological development.

Explores the dimensions of student voices in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) as power and authority in the classroom, collaborative meaning-making, and the role of students as both learners and experts on their own learning. This book opens up the process of knowledge-building to a wider group of participants.

Brings together scholarship that expands and refines the concept of self-authorship across cultures. This title adopts a constructive-developmental approach to self-evolution that emphasizes the interaction of personal characteristics and contextual influences on individuals' construction of knowledge, identities, and relationships.

This book explores the importance, and construction, of ethnic identity among college students, and how ethnicity interfaces with students interactions on campus, and the communities in which they live.

The impact of changing demographics in higher education, and the importance of family-friendly policies, is well documented. There is an urgent need to keep PhDs in the higher education sector, to recruit talented scholars into academia, and retain them over the course of their academic careers. The key is instituting policies to enable all constituencies to balance work and personal responsibilities.

An introduction for the faculty contemplating using cooperative learning approaches in his or her classes. It describes the application of cooperative learning in disciplines such as biology, economics, educational psychology, financial accounting, general chemistry, and literature. It includes examples of practice in varied settings.

Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) is a pedagogical approach that requires students to answer questions related to an upcoming class a few hours beforehand, using an online course management system. This book offers an overview of JiTT, introducing the pedagogy and exploring various dimensions of its use without regard to discipline.

Presents an account of the actual lived experiences of graduate students of color and their perception of the campus climate. This book examines issues of access, retention, and transition; and explores the personal experiences of students of color in advanced-degree programs.

How do we educate our students about cultural diversity and cultural differences, and eliminate cultural ignorance, stereotyping, and prejudice? What are the conceptual issues involved in reaching this goal? How can we integrate these perspectives in disciplinary and diversity courses, and the curriculum? This book answers these questions.

Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are at the same time the least studied and the least understood institutions of higher education and the most maligned and the most endangered. This book examines the mission of four-year HBCUs from the perspective of the campus president.

Are cultural centers ethnic enclaves of segregation, or safe havens that provide minority students with social support that promotes persistence and retention? This book provides perspectives on culture centers from the point of view of various racial/ethnic identity groups, Latina/o, Asian, American Indian, and African American.

This book is written for engineering faculty and department chairs as a practical guide to improving the assessment processes for undergraduate and graduate engineering education in the service of improved student learning. This book concludes with a vision for the future of assessment for engineering education.

Provides an in-depth examination of the challenges and opportunities inherent in conducting cross-state higher education policy research. Here, each chapter demonstrates the array of methodological, theoretical, analytical, and political challenges inherent in conducting comparative state-level policy research.

To many college professors the words student evaluations trigger mental images of the 'shower scene' from ""Psycho"", with those bloodcurdling screams. This book takes off from the premise that student ratings are a necessary, but not sufficient source of evidence for measuring teaching effectiveness.

Provides insights into the teaching and learning experiences of diversity educators and their students. This book is useful for college teachers who teach courses with a diversity-focused content, and to instructors who plan to incorporate diversity content within an existing course.

Demonstrates how a participatory approach to assessment and accreditation creates a synergy for learner-centered education. This guide to approaching the accreditation process from a campus-wide perspective of ownership also provides guidelines for the documentation process that accreditation demands.