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This collection attempts to incorporate cultural studies into the understanding of schooling, not simply addressing how students read themselves as "members" of a distinct culture, but how they, along with teachers and administrators, read popular texts in general. The purpose of this book is to suggest some alternative directions critical pedagogy can take in its critique of popular culture by inviting multiple reading of popular texts into its analysis of schooling and seeing many forms of popular culture as critical pedagogical texts.

Offers an understanding of the various facets of pneumatic conveying system selection, design, maintenance, and optimization. This work compares various conveying system types, components, and flow mechanisms and offers practical guidelines, diagrams, and procedures for expert guidance in plant maintenance, operation and control.

Explores the scope of food mycology. This book discusses post-harvest problems including fungal infection of living crops and techniques used to detect a fungal invasion. It addresses the fungal spore as an important vehicle for fungi distribution and presents a coverage of mycotoxins, fungi as hyperproducers of enzymes, and fungal spoilage.

Presents the research findings in new strains of antimicrobials with extraordinarily broad resistance. This book features a historical introduction and contains chapters on biofilms and the mechanism of multidrug tolerance as well as strategies for the development of new antibiotics.

With contributions from scholars and practitioners, this volume focuses on the practical applications of multilateralism and how global issues, governance, and institutions are changing the practice and character of diplomacy.

In this work, the author has compiled 13 essays that discuss the various aspects of Latin American music. The essays cover the social and political impact the music generated as well as the rhythmic development of various genres. Divergent musical styles are analyzed such as reggae and the tango.

This text explores how memory, communication and social cognition function in the development of romantic relationships, and describes the stages of their development. Topics discussed include emotion and cognition about relationships and memory structures for developing relationships.

A comparative introduction to the three great Islamic empires - the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals - illuminating their unique characters as well as their shared experiences of rise to power, expansion, transformation, and decline.

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This volume provides a summary of current measures used in quantitative communication research. It is appropriate for researchers and graduate students in the communication field.

Combines the research and theory related to technology-based instructional design for children's literacy development. This book shows how technology can be used to build literacy learning environments that are compatible with students' cognitive and social processes.

Taking a distinctive behind-the-scenes look at how children's television is created, programmed, and sold, this book presents an analysis of the children's television community - the organizations, major players, and approaches to programming. It also gives an overview of the history and the future of children's programming.

This book is a comprehensive, critical examination of the theory and pedagogy of the field of social foundations of education and its relevance and role within teacher education.

Offers detailed advice on the journal article publication process, describing each step of the process and providing insights for improving the presentation of work intended for publication in communication journals. This guide focuses on the issues and procedures associated with the publication process.

Over the past four decades, many scientists have made notable advancements in both the theory and application of ion exchange. Pioneers continue to break new ground by synthesizing novel materials and creating interdisciplinary connections across science and engineering. The seven chapters assembled in this latest volume reflect contributions from researchers across the globe. This volume testifies to the growth in the field and the synergies it has created with a myriad of scientific endeavors, from decontamination to deionization, mining to microelectronics, drug delivery to desalination, and more.

Functional equations form a modern branch of mathematics. This book provides an elementary yet comprehensive introduction to the field of functional equations and stabilities. Concentrating on functional equations that are real or complex, the authors present many fundamental techniques for solving these functional equations. Topics covered in the text include Cauchy equations, additive functions, functional equations for distance measures, and Pexider¿s functional equations. Each chapter points to various developments in abstract domains, such as semigroups, groups, or Banach spaces, and includes exercises for both self-study and classroom use.

Introducing the technology and emerging systems for the quantitative evaluation and definite measurement of food quality and safety, this book presents a review of the concept and scope of food quality parameters such as color, texture, chemical compositions, and flavor.

This is the first book that comprehensively and systematically describes the new technology of hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC). Hydrophilic interaction chromatography is a separation technique suitable for polar and hydrophilic compounds and orthogonal to reversed phase liquid chromatography. From small organic molecules to proteins, the text explores the many applications of HILIC in the analytical field. Winner of the President's Award for Excellence, the author explains how HILIC can significantly improve analytical throughput by shortening sample preparation procedure, which is one of the bottlenecks for drug discovery and development in the pharmaceutical industry.

Argues that as the world becomes more complex, people as 'networked individuals' become central to the course of events.

Concrete is the second most common commodity in the world, and by far the most common building material. This book demonstrates the importance of sustainable thinking, examines the range of challenges facing the concrete engineer, and outlines how they can be addressed. It balances resource availability, technical viability, economical feasibility, environmental sustainability, and social responsibility. It presents a holistic view of the environmental challenges and conveys the complexity of the topic while giving examples of good practice in various aspects from around the world.

This book describes the arrangement, mode of action, and problems of secondary power supplies of digital protective relays, stationary accumulator batteries, battery chargers, uninterruptible power supplies, and auxiliary AC and DC power supply systems of substations and power plants. It also tackles the issues of insulation monitoring in DC systems, the problems of monitoring the integrity of a substation battery circuit, problems of voltage dips, and a number of other questions that engineers and technicians may face in working with auxiliary power systems.

Soil diversity (pedodiversity) is part of our natural and cultural heritage. The preservation of the pedosphere is essential for the protection of the biosphere and the Earth¿s systems, the regulation of climate, and for world food security. In this book, reputed international experts discuss the state of the art of pedodiversity analysis¿analyzing the relationships among biodiversity, pedodiversity, landform diversity, lithodiversity, and land use diversity. The first of its kind, the book is intended to be a combined handbook, historical account of pedodiversity research, and essay on its future challenges.

Increasing interest in oceanography and marine biology and its relevance to global environmental issues continues to create a demand for authoritative reviews summarizing recent research. Now in its 51st volume, Oceanography and Marine Biology has addressed this demand for more than 50 years. This annual review considers the basics of marine research, special topics, and emerging new areas. Regarding the marine sciences as a unified field, the text features contributors who are actively engaged in biological, chemical, geological, and physical aspects of marine science.

With contributions by leading experts, this book covers a wide range of topics. It describes highlights in nanotechnology based on state-of-the-art principles in colloid and interface science, demonstrating how great progress in the various branches of nanotechnology can be achieved. The application of these principles allows for the development of new experimental and theoretical tools. The chapters give examples of the synthesis of nanoparticles for specific applications as well as their characterization in bulk phases and at interfaces.

Microsystems technologies have found their way into an impressive variety of applications, from mobile phones and displays to smart grids and electric cars. This book explores the state of the art and the applications of microelectronics technologies. It covers a wide range of topics, including organic and flexible electronics, imaging and display technologies, sensing, and biomedical microsystems. The book serves as a source of inspiration for anyone who wants to further develop the technologies, create new applications, or get a better understanding of this multidisciplinary field.

Covering the technical and professional skills needed by analysts in the academic, private, and public sectors, this text systematically teaches novices how to apply algorithms to real data and how to recognize potential pitfalls. It concentrates on the interpretation, strengths, and weaknesses of analytical techniques, along with challenges encountered by analysts in their daily work. The author also shares various lessons learned from applying analytics in the real world. Example data sets used in the text are available for download online so that readers can test their own analytic routines.

Survival analysis is an area of statistics that deals with time-to-event data that is complicated by censoring and the dynamic nature of events occurring in time. With chapters written by leading researchers in the field, this handbook presents modern techniques and research problems in lifetime data analysis. The book focuses on advances in survival analysis techniques, covering classical and Bayesian approaches. It gives a complete overview of the current status of survival analysis and should inspire further research in the field.

This book focuses on the role of nutraceuticals in human health, disease prevention, health promotion, and as an adjunct to disease treatment. This epidemiological focus is very crucial because it will address whether, and what kinds of, evidence exist to support a role for nutraceuticals in disease prevention and treatment. Cutting-edge summaries highlight both the biological and epidemiological findings of relevant studies of nutraceuticals in health and disease.

Offers an overview of operations research methods and applications. This book is suitable for those who use analytical techniques in decision making.

Offers an understanding of the behavior of transmission lines and their advantages and limitations. This text includes a chapter on coupled transmission lines, material on fiber optic cables, discussions, and references. It reviews the principles of electromagnetic field theory.