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Education as Cultivation in Chinese Culture
Given the increasing global interest in Chinese culture, this book uses case studies to describe and interpret Chinese cultivation in contemporary Taiwanese schools. Cultivation is a concept unique to Chinese culture and is characterized by different attitudes towards teaching and learning compared to Western models of education. The book starts with a discussion of human nature in Chinese scho…
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- 978-981-287-223-4
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- 20 b/w illustrations
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- VIII, 288
Law, Language and Translation: From Concepts to Conflicts
This book is a survey of how law, language and translation overlap with concepts, crimes and conflicts. It is a transdisciplinary survey exploring the dynamics of colonialism and the globalization of crime. Concepts and conflicts are used here to mean ‘conflicting interpretations’ engendering real conflicts. Beginning with theoretical issues and hermeneutics in chapter 2, the study moves on…
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- 978-3-319-14271-5
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Tracking Extended Objects with Active Models and Negative Measurements
Extended object tracking deals with estimating the shape and pose of an object based on noisy point measurements. This task is not straightforward, as we may be faced with scarce low-quality measurements, little a priori information, or we may be unable to observe the entire target. This work aims to address these challenges by incorporating ideas from active contours and exploiting information…
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- 978-3-7315-0877-9
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- 530.8 COB t
Lattice Theory: Special Topics and Applications: Volume 2
George Grätzer's Lattice Theory: Foundation is his third book on lattice theory (General Lattice Theory, 1978, second edition, 1998). In 2009, Grätzer considered updating the second edition to reflect some exciting and deep developments. He soon realized that to lay the foundation, to survey the contemporary field, to pose research problems, would require more than one volume and more than on…
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- 978-3-319-44236-5
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Education Reform in the Obama Era
This book offers a sophisticated overview of President Obama’s education agenda, exploring how and why education policy became national and ultimately presidential over the past seven decades. The authors argue that the Obama education agenda, though more ambitious, is broadly in line with those of recent presidencies, reflecting elite views that since substantial increases in spending have f…
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- 978-1-137-58211-9
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- XI, 117
Edge-to-Edge Mitral Repair
This is the first comprehensive review of the edge-to-edge technique for mitral repair, which was introduced into the surgical armamentarium in 1991 by one of the authors, Ottavio Alfieri. The surgical technique employed in edge-to-edge repair today provides the basis for the only reliable method of percutaneous correction of degenerative mitral regurgitation. The book traces the evolution of t…
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- 978-3-319-19892-7
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- 28 b/w illustrations, 66 illustrations in colour
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- VIII, 166
Ectopic Pregnancy
Comprised exclusively of clinical cases covering ectopic pregnancy, this concise, practical casebook will provide clinicians in reproductive medicine and obstetrics/gynecology with the best real-world strategies to properly diagnose and treat the various forms of the condition they may encounter. Each chapter is a case that opens with a unique clinical presentation, followed by a description of…
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- 978-3-319-11139-1
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- 4 b/w illustrations, 29 illustrations in colour
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- XIV, 165
Advanced ActionScript 3
Advanced ActionScript 3 is a fresh look and new approach to utilizing valuable, structural techniques and methods that are commonly used in the field of rich interactive application development. With each method broken down into different strategized explanations, you'll find the approach most suitable for you. Whether it is an example you can utilize as-is, or one you can start with and develo…
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- Ed. 2
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- 978-1-4842-0671-3
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- XVI, 408
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- 005.1 SMI a
Introduction to Entrepreneurship
Learn about entrepreneurship and what makes entrepreneurs successful, all while developing your entrepreneurial skills
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Globalizing Domain-Specific Languages
The development of modern complex software-intensive systems often involves the use of multiple DSMLs that capture different system aspects. Supporting coordinated use of DSMLs leads to what we call the globalization of modeling languages, that is, the use of multiple modeling languages to support coordinated development of diverse aspects of a system. In this book, a number of articles desc…
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- 978-3-319-26171-3
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- XV, 89
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- 005.369 GLO
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