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Looks at school-university partnerships from sociocultural perspectives of learning that view participation in social practice as fundamental to the process of learning. This volume considers two themes - school-university partnership and sociocultural and social theories of learning - that have both been treated in the literature.

An anthology that helps technical communicators make better sense of technology's impact on their work. Suitable for scholars, students, and practitioners, it illuminates technology's impact on their work and prepares them to respond to the constant changes and challenges in the digital universe.

The contribution of this book to the literature on peer learning is its focus on approaches to peer learning that are concerned with its underlying cognitive processes.

American Voices of World War I recalls the experiences of Americans who fought in the First World War. Individual chapters cover different periods, from Enlistment to Victory, in a chronological fashion.

The high level of genetic complexity in sugarcane creates challenges when applying either conventional or molecular breeding to the genetic improvement of sugarcane as a food or energy crop. Recent and emerging developments in genomic technologies offer the potential to greatly increase our understanding of the sugarcane plant. Describing those technologies that support the continued use and improvement of sugarcane as source of food and energy, this book provides scientists and researchers with the tools necessary to continue to improve sugarcane crop management, yield, and production for human use.

Written by scientists and experts in their fields of research, this book examines the tools available for the analysis of safety parameters in food of animal origin. It covers safety aspects of biological agents and products of different organisms and methods to control the presence of bacteria, viruses, or parasites.

Dealing with digital human modeling, this book covers the following subject areas: Applications; Mobility and Universal Access; Physical and Physiological Aspects; Product and Process Design; Motion Analysis; Cognitive Aspects; Human Response and Behavioral Aspects; and, Novel Systems Approaches.

Based on research, this book discusses how to improve quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness in patient care through the application of human factors and ergonomics principles. It provides guidance for those involved with the design and application of systems and devices for effective and safe healthcare delivery.

Provides an introduction to MATLAB[registered] that can be used at the undergraduate level. This book features the use of MATLAB 8.0. It covers object-oriented programming in MATLAB and the improvements that have been made to the MATLAB desktop and programming tools.

A comprehensive survey covering the main topics of mobile radio systems. It considers concepts including the theory of patterns and symmetry and how it impacts hexagonal cell tessellation, long-term fading and log-normal distribution, short-term fading and Rayleigh distribution, indoor propagation and Rice distribution, and Suzuki distribution.

First Published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Explores the complex shore environment. This title covers the ways in which representative species have adapted to life in a constantly changing environment in terms of their interactions, the control of community structure, and how energy and materials are cycled in different ecosystems.

Presents systematic methods for achieving stable, agile, and efficient locomotion in bipedal machines. This book describes dynamic locomotion in planar bipedal robots, from both theoretical and practical points of view. It is suitable for researchers and practitioners seeking to move beyond the quasi-static walking of powered bipedal robots.

In this fascinating book, leading international experts in gerontology and social work examine the conditions of older people in their respective native landsAustralia, Canada, West Germany, Great Britain, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, and Sweden. In response to the need for world-wide sharing of information and research on one of the most dramatic developments of the twentieth century in the United States and throughout the western worldthe aging of the populationsthese professionals offer an international dimension and cross-cultural knowledge to social gerontology and gerontological social work.

Covering the various aspects of photodynamic therapy, this work provides multidisciplinary discussions on photodynamic therapy - an approach to the treatment of solid tumours. It describes the molecular and cellular effects of photodynamic treatment. It discusses the principles of light penetration through tissues and optical dosimetry.

Part I, studies an injective module E and chain conditions on the set A^(E,R) of right ideals annihilated by subsets of E. Part II is on the subject of (F)PF, or (finitely) pseudo-Frobenius, rings [i.e., all (finitely generated) faithful modules generate the category mod-R of all R-modules].

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book examines turn-taking in English and Japanese conversations and political news interviews to investigate the relationship between language and interaction.

This significant critical anthology explores the life of Anne Komnene, the Byzantine context in which she wrote, and the impact of the Alexiad on her times and on subsequent historical works of literature.

Each volume treating a key discipline of study, this is a collection of the best scholarship on challenges faced by the region in adapting to the post-Cold War environment of globalization and increasing democratization.

Each volume treating a key discipline of study, this is a collection of the best scholarship on challenges faced by the region in adapting to the post-Cold War environment of globalization and increasing democratization.

Each volume treating a key discipline of study, this is a collection of the best scholarship on challenges faced by the region in adapting to the post-Cold War environment of globalization and increasing democratization.

This book includes essays on writers from the 1840s to the 1890s. The contributors explore important thematic concerns such as the relations between private and public realms, gender and social class and sexuality in the marketplace.

This text is an anthology of medieval children's literature, arranged in various categories and interspersed with scholarly commentary.

These five volumes concern one of the most important institutions in human history, the military, and the interactions of that institution with the greater society. Military systems "serve" nations; they may also "reflect" them. Soldiers are "enlisted"; they may also be said to "self-select." Military units have "missions"; they also have "interests." In an older, more traditional military history, while the second reflects a newer approach. Although each statement in the pairs may be said to be true, the former speak from the framework of the military sciences; the latter, from the framework of the social and behavioral sciences. The military systems of our past differ from one another over time, in political origins, size, missions, and technological and tactical fashions, but to a great extent their historical experiences have been more noticeably similar than they were different. When we ask questions about the recruiting, training, or motivating of military systems, or of those systems' interactionswith civilian governments and with the greater society, as do the essays in these five volumes of reading on "The Military and Society" we are struck by the almost timeless patterns of continuity and similarity of experience. In each of these volumes approximately half of the essays selected deal with the experience in the United States; the other half, with the experiences of other states and times, enabling the reader to engage in comparative analysis.

A collection of essays which consider the recent changes in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden brought about by the problems in implementing a democratic educational policy given the political, religious and economic changes Scandinavia is currently undergoing. This is volume 39 in the REFERENCE BOOKS IN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION series.

Surveys important issues in the history of medicine Although there is substantial literature on childbirth, it typically lacks the full medical, historical, and social context that these volumes provide. This series fills the gap in many institutions' libraries by bringing together key articles on the expectant mother, the attendants of her delivery, and the health of the newborn infant. The articles are from British and American publications that focus upon childbirth practices over the past 300 years and are selected from both primary and secondary sources. Some are classic works in medical literature; others are from historical, sociological, anthropological and feminist literature that present a wider range of scholarly perspectives on childbirth issues. Charts the progress of childbirth, midwifery, and obstetrics The series provides readers with key primary sources that illuminate the history of childbirth, midwifery and obstetrics. For example, general historical texts note that childbed (puerperal) fever claimed hundreds of thousands of maternal lives, and provoked much fear in Britain and America. The articles in this series, in addition to historical facts, also provide discussion of the causes and consequences of particular fever cases taken from the medical literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, and reveal what a challenge this disorder was to the medical profession. Includes more primary sources than other collections The articles serve as a resource for students and teachers in various fields including history, women's studies, human biology, sociology and anthropology. They also meet the educational needs of pre-medical and nursing students andaid pre-professional, allied health, and midwifery instructors in lesson preparations. The series examines a wide range of practical experience and offers a historical perspective on the most important developments in the history of British and American childbirth, midwifery, a

A collection of ten essays advocating the important link between social justice and education and pointing out the threats posed to both by internal policy and budgeting. The contributors include a selection of international scholars and program administrators presenting their views on Third World

This special issue is based on a workshop which began with a description and examination of the current National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) standard-setting model, then looked to standard-setting applications outside of education.

This special issue of "Journal of Latinos and Education" contains essays on various issues on Latinos, education and media.