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Bridging the High School-College Gap
The Role of Concurrent Enrollment Programs
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Concurrent enrollment programs offer high-achieving high school students the opportunity to take college credit-bearing courses taught by college-approved high school teachers. This low-cost, scalable model brings accelerated coursework to urban, suburban, and rural students. In this book, scholars...
Nonlinear Guided Wave Optics
A testbed for extreme waves
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
Experiments and theory have rapidly progressed on nonlinear optical extreme waves, showing that guided wave nonlinear optics and fiber lasers provide a relatively simple, accessible and controllable test bed for the observations and accurate statistical studies of extreme wave phenomena that obey...
by Nurudeen A. Oladoja, Emmanuel I. Unuabonah, OMOTAYO S. AMUDA
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
This brief critically reviews the structure and applications of polysaccharide based materials as a green and sustainable resource in water and water treatment operations.
The authors present a fascinating insight into the application of this renewable resource in water and wastewater treatment...
Self-adjoint Extensions in Quantum Mechanics
General Theory and Applications to Schrödinger and Dirac Equations with Singular Potentials
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
This exposition is devoted to a consistent treatment of quantization problems, based on appealing to some nontrivial items of functional analysis concerning the theory of linear operators in Hilbert spaces. The authors begin by considering quantization problems in general, emphasizing the nontriviality...
Managing Health, Safety and Well-Being
Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
To achieve sustainable progress in workplace and societal functioning and development, it is essential to align perspectives for the management of health, safety and well-being. Employers are responsible for providing every individual with a working environment that is safe and does not harm their...
by U Satyanarayana, M.Sc., Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Genetics
Genetics
Genome-Scale Algorithm Design
Biological Sequence Analysis in the Era of High-Throughput Sequencing
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
High-throughput sequencing has revolutionised the field of biological sequence analysis. Its application has enabled researchers to address important biological questions, often for the first time. This book provides an integrated presentation of the fundamental algorithms and data structures that...
by Thomas Pogge, Amélia Bastos, Stefanos Papanastasiou
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Worldwide child and youth poverty and deprivation remain the biggest barrier to achieving a better life in adulthood. Progress in lifting children out of poverty in the last decades has been slow and limited in the developing world, while the recent global economic crisis has exacerbated child poverty,...
by Epsten Grinnell Howell, Susan M. Hawks McClintic, Esq.
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
This booklet contains the 2015 Davis-Stirling Act which adds all the amendments enacted during the 2014 Legislative session. We have again included the cross-reference / conversion tables for both the pre- and post-January 1, 2014 versions of the Act in Appendix A of this booklet to assist those of...
by Gerrit H. Vonkeman, I. Thornton, Z. Makuch
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Although this is a handbook for policy and regulation, the major part of it is filled with data on the three heavy metals that served as examples: mercury, cadmium and lead. Their stocks, productions, prices, trade flows, uses and applications, recovery and recycling, as well as their (eco)toxicological...
Biodemography of Aging
Determinants of Healthy Life Span and Longevity
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
This volume is a critical exposition of the data and analyses from a full decade of rigorous research into how age-related changes at the individual level, along with other factors, contribute to morbidity, disability and mortality risks at the broader population level. After summarizing the state...
by M. Kaplan, I. Hamati-Ataya
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Contemporary philosophy is torn between a reliance on the pragmatic meanings of designated objects and a foundation based on formal theory. This book shows that philosophical knowledge, which no more has a terminal state than an infinite set has a last term, advances when the dialectical relationship...
The European Union beyond the Crisis
Evolving Governance, Contested Policies, and Disenchanted Publics
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
This volume explores institutional and policy developments in the EU and its member states in a parallel examination of citizens’ views of the effectiveness of crisis response reflected in public trust, output legitimacy, and satisfaction with democracy. Our approach to understanding the crisis...
Short-Range Optical Wireless
Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
This book discusses the fundamental aspects of multiple-source Optical Wireless Applications, including Visible Light Communications (VLC). Moreover, the authors explore VLC performance in several conventional household layouts and investigate the impact of these layouts on VLC. Multiple sources increase...