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Pivar, Stuart. On the origin of form: Evolution by self-organization. North Atlantic Books, 2009.
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Behrens, Leila. Konservierung von Stereotypen mit Hilfe der Statistik: Geert Hofstede und sein kulturvergleichendes Modell. Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Institut für Linguistik, Universität zu Köln, 2007.
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Tüselmann, Heinz-Josef. Germ an multinationals in the UK and the German model of labour relations: Diffusion and reverse effects. Manchester Metropolitan University, Business School, 2001.
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Wostmann, Bernard S. Germfree and gnotobiotic animal models: Background and applications. CRC Press, 1996.
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1939-, Fischer Gerd, ed. Mathematische Modelle: Aus den Sammlungen von Universitäten und Museen / herausgegeben von Gerd Fischer = Mathematical models : from the collections of universities and museums. F. Vieweg & Sohn, 1986.
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Herwig, Henriette, and Mara Stuhlfauth-Trabert, eds. Alter(n) in der Populärkultur. transcript Verlag, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/9783839459928.
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Nur auf den ersten Blick scheinen Alter und Populärkultur gegensätzlichen Sphären anzugehören. Populärkultur beruht auf Konzepten wie Jugend, Dynamik, Aktualität und Schnelllebigkeit, strebt nach Grenzüberschreitungen, geht mit der Mode oder setzt sogar neue Trends. Gleichwohl bietet sie Raum für die Darstellung von Altersprozessen, die Reflexion von Stereotypen zu Alter und Altern sowie für die Entwicklung neuer Alterskonzepte. Die Beiträger*innen des Bandes loten die bisher kaum systematisch beachtete Kombination von Alter(n) und Populärkultur anhand verschiedener medialer Formate wie Film, Fernsehserie, Literatur, Comic oder Hörspiel aus.
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Bashkatov, Alexander. Modeling in OpenSCAD: examples. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/959073.
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The tutorial is an introductory course to the study of the basics of geometric modeling for 3D printing using the programming language OpenSCAD and is built on the basis of descriptions of instructions for creating primitives, determining their properties, carrying out transformations and other service operations. It contains a large number of examples with detailed comments and description of the performed actions, which allows you to get basic skills in creating three-dimensional and flat models, exporting and importing graphical data.
 Meets the requirements of the Federal state educational standards of higher education of the last generation.
 It can be useful for computer science teachers, students, students and anyone who is interested in three-dimensional modeling and preparation of products for 3D printing.
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Vlasov, Dmitriy, Nikolay Tihomirov, and Evgeniy Smirnov. Introduction to Game Theory. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1513124.
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The textbook discusses the basic concepts of classical game theory in a simple and accessible form and presents its applications in the practice of decision-making. Particular attention is paid to the logic of game-theoretic analysis of economic situations that require quantitative justification of decisions. The considered game models and methods of their research, including logical and mathematical apparatus, have distinct and understandable economic applications for undergraduate students.
 Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation.
 It is addressed to undergraduate students of economic and managerial fields who need to get acquainted with the basic concepts of game theory, but it can be useful to students of other fields of study, as well as to anyone who has a lack of competence in the field of decision-making techniques and methods.
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Ayanoglu, Umut Beylik Yildiz. Saglik Isletmelerinde Geri Odeme Modeli Olarak DRG. Gazi Kitabevi, 2014.
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Cultural Dimensions: The Five-Dimensions-Model According to Geert Hofstede. GRIN Verlag GmbH, 2014.
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Cultural Dimensions: The Five-Dimensions-Model According to Geert Hofstede. GRIN Verlag GmbH, 2014.
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Boland, Lawrence A. Equilibrium models intended to overcome limits. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190274320.003.0011.
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This chapter will critically examine today’s common ways to build equilibrium models. These specifically include Dynamic-Stochastic General Equilibrium models, game theoretical models and empirical GE models. Each of these types of equilibrium model try to address the issues of how a model’s decision makers get the information needed to guarantee the attainment of a state of equilibrium. The chapter addresses the alleged limits of general equilibrium models (particularly the issues of dynamics, time and expectations), the current attempts to overcome the limits of general equilibrium models, and three empirical alternatives to Walrasian general equilibrium models. These alternatives include the Computable General Equilibrium models and the Applied General Equilibrium models. The third model involves building econometric models only after evaluating the statistical properties of the data before using them in the model.
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Synagogue, Not the Temple, the Germ and Model of the Christian Church. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2023.
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Berg, Mario. Collaboration in Intercultural Organizations According to the Cultural Dimension Models of Geert Hofstede. GRIN Verlag GmbH, 2015.
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Buchler, Justin. A Unified Spatial Model of Congress. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190865580.003.0004.
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This chapter presents a unified model of legislative elections, parties, and roll call voting, built around a party leadership election. First, a legislative caucus selects a party leader who campaigns based on a platform of a disciplinary system. Once elected, that leader runs the legislative session, in which roll call votes occur. Then elections occur, and incumbents face re-election with the positions they incrementally adopted. When the caucus is ideologically homogeneous, electorally diverse, and policy motivated, members will elect a leader who solves the collective action problem of sincere voting with “preference-preserving influence.” That leader will threaten to punish legislators who bow to electoral pressure to vote as centrists. Consequently, legislators vote sincerely as extremists and get slightly lower vote shares, but they offset that lost utility with policy gains that they couldn’t have gotten without party influence. Party leaders will rarely pressure legislators to vote insincerely.
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Wostmann, Bernard S. Germfree and Gnotobiotic Animal Models: Background and Applications. Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
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Wostmann, Bernard S. Germfree and Gnotobiotic Animal Models: Background and Applications. Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
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Wostmann, Bernard S. Germfree and Gnotobiotic Animal Models: Background and Applications. Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
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Wostmann, Bernard S. Germfree and Gnotobiotic Animal Models: Background and Applications. Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
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Sawada, Tadamasa, Yunfeng Li, and Zygmunt Pizlo. Shape Perception. Edited by Jerome R. Busemeyer, Zheng Wang, James T. Townsend, and Ami Eidels. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199957996.013.12.
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This chapter provides a review of topics and concepts that are necessary to study and understand 3D shape perception. This includes group theory and their invariants; model-based invariants; Euclidean, affine, and projective geometry; symmetry; inverse problems; simplicity principle; Fechnerian psychophysics; regularization theory; Bayesian inference; shape constancy and shape veridicality; shape recovery; perspective and orthographic projections; camera models; as well as definitions of shape. All concepts are defined and illustrated, and the reader is provided with references providing mathematical and computational details. Material presented here will be a good starting point for students and researchers who plan to study shape, as well as for those who simply want to get prepared for reading the contemporary literature on the subject.
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Borsboom, Denny. Mental disorders, network models, and dynamical systems. Edited by Kenneth S. Kendler and Josef Parnas. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198796022.003.0011.
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Network approaches have been proposed as an alternative way of thinking about relations between symptoms of mental disorders. Unlike traditional psychometric approaches, network models view these associations as the result of direct interactions between symptoms. Disorders are defined as alternative stable states of a network due to increased connectivity between symptoms. This increased connectivity creates a pattern of reinforcement, so the system can get stuck in a state of prolonged activation. Mental health is defined as the stable state of a weakly connected network. Although symptomatology may be temporarily increased in a healthy network (e.g., due to adverse life events), as the influence of a shock wanes the network will spontaneously return to its healthy state. Strongly connected networks, however, may transition into disordered states upon similar external shocks, and may not naturally recover. Thus, the proposed definitions yield plausible conceptualizations of resilience and vulnerability.
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Kinyanjui, Mary Njeri. African Markets and the Utu-Ubuntu Business Model: A Perspective on Economic Informality in Nairobi. African Minds, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47622/9781928331780.
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The persistence of indigenous African markets in the context of a hostile or neglectful business and policy environment makes them worthy of analysis. An investigation of Afrocentric business ethics is long overdue. Attempting to understand the actions and efforts of informal traders and artisans from their own points of view, and analysing how they organise and get by, allows for viable approaches to be identified to integrate them into global urban models and cultures. Using the utu-ubuntu model to understand the activities of traders and artisans in Nairobi's markets, this book explores how, despite being consistently excluded and disadvantaged, they shape urban spaces in and around the city, and contribute to its development as a whole. With immense resilience, and without discarding their own socio-cultural or economic values, informal traders and artisans have created a territorial complex that can be described as the African metropolis. African Markets and the Utu-buntu Business Model sheds light on the ethics and values that underpin the work of traders and artisans in Nairobi, as well as their resilience and positive impact on urbanisation. This book makes an important contribution to the discourse on urban economics and planning in African cities.
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Prabjandee, Denchai. Teacher Education for Global Englishes Language Teaching. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350414792.
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This book presents a model of transformative, empowering and critically oriented language teacher education to prepare English teachers to implement Global Englishes Language Teaching (GELT). GELT’s importance to learners’ needs for communication in the globalized world means that it receives tremendous interest from language teacher educators worldwide, underlining the risks posed by gaps in teachers’ knowledge of how to implement it. This book fills in those gaps, with accessible theoretical foundations and practical examples drawn from the successful work of the M.Ed. in Teaching English as a Global Language (TEGL) at Burapha University, Thailand. Through critically oriented frameworks, the TEGL program equips in-service English teachers with a critical lens to examine their current practices, challenge the sociocultural and educational backgrounds that teachers bring into teacher education, and empower them in transforming their classroom practices to correspond with the GELT paradigm. The book highlights how the global spread of English impacts language teacher education, discusses the theoretical foundations underlying the design of teacher education for GELT, addresses the knowledge base for preparing teachers to use GELT and examines the applications of teacher education for GELT. It is vital reading for graduate students, teacher educators, and researchers in language teacher education and beyond.
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Harding, Courtenay M. Recovery from Schizophrenia. Oxford University PressNew York, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195380095.001.0001.
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Abstract This book tells the amazing story of significant improvement and recovery of 538 people once severely and chronically disabled with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. They were “hopeless cases” in state hospitals in Vermont and Maine. As part of two studies three decades-long funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Vermonters received a pioneering rehabilitation program and the Mainers did not. Against all expectations, 68% of Vermont patients were able to reclaim their lives, while the Maine patients achieved improvement at 49%. Nine other very long-term studies from across the world also revealed similar findings on improvement and recovery in schizophrenia. These data provide impetus for a paradigm shift in psychiatry as well as significant implications for the redesign of public policy and programs. Most clinicians believe they are already doing recovery work, but old treatment models abound. The primary biomedical model uses maintenance, stabilization, medications, and entitlements, in an inpatient model that maintains chronicity for outpatients. This book is written for a wide audience, using mostly nonacademic language and many stories. Current and past patients, family members, medical students, residents, professors, and clinical researchers, as well as program administrators and public policymakers, should find this book helpful. The author has been working with clinicians all system components for 40 years and knows their concerns. They are hardworking but tired and often disheartened. They need new ideas and methods, and patients need new avenues to get their lives back.
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Johns, Alana, and Ivona Kucerova. On the Morphosyntactic Reflexes of Information Structure in the Ergative Patterning of Inuit Language. Edited by Jessica Coon, Diane Massam, and Lisa Demena Travis. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198739371.013.17.
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This chapter argues – closely following the insights of Berge (2011) – that the ergative clause structure of the Inuit language is conditioned by information structure properties, more precisely by its topic comment properties. It articulates a formal model where the morphosyntactic properties result from this information structure trigger. Furthermore it shows that not only does the model correctly account for the split case and agreement properties of the Inuit language, but also other relevant properties discussed in the literature, i.e., scope properties of objects and aspect. It is also argued that objects in this language are introduced through an applicative head (Basilico 2012), after which they either topicalize or get assigned oblique case.
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Gelman, Andrew, and Deborah Nolan. Teaching statistics to social scientists. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198785699.003.0014.
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This chapter provides advice on how to teach applied regression and multilevel models to students from a broad set of fields, especially the social sciences. These students typically want to fit and understand models beyond what they get from computer output. They tend to be highly motivated because they are trying to solve real problems in their applied fields. The course has little mathematics, and instead employs the computer to fit and simulate models. The chapter provides a step-by-step plan of the first two weeks of classroom activities in this applied regression course.
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Luo, Jing. Business and Technology in China. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400622458.
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Get an insightful, expert look at the inner workings of China’s business world, highlighting the country’s attempts to develop the scientific and technological base for a greener economic model. Business and Technology in China offers a perceptive look at China’s economic wonder and the science/business partnership that is pointing the way to its future. In a series of narrative chapters, the book marks China’s astonishing transformation into a global manufacturing powerhouse, with specific coverage of the devastating human and environmental impact of that growth, the effects of the 2008 global financial crisis, and China’s new Initiatives for creating a more sustainable economic model. Business and Technology in China shows why China’s renewed focus on scientific and technological innovation as an economic driver is so important. Drawing on extensive research, author Jing Luo makes the case that China’s new model can still produce significant growth, even as it sets the stage for improved living standards and smarter environmental stewardship.
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Christensen, Ole Bøssing, and Erik Kjellström. Projections for Temperature, Precipitation, Wind, and Snow in the Baltic Sea Region until 2100. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.695.
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The ecosystems and the societies of the Baltic Sea region are quite sensitive to fluctuations in climate, and therefore it is expected that anthropogenic climate change will affect the region considerably. With numerical climate models, a large amount of projections of meteorological variables affected by anthropogenic climate change have been performed in the Baltic Sea region for periods reaching the end of this century.Existing global and regional climate model studies suggest that:• The future Baltic climate will get warmer, mostly so in winter. Changes increase with time or increasing emissions of greenhouse gases. There is a large spread between different models, but they all project warming. In the northern part of the region, temperature change will be higher than the global average warming.• Daily minimum temperatures will increase more than average temperature, particularly in winter.• Future average precipitation amounts will be larger than today. The relative increase is largest in winter. In summer, increases in the far north and decreases in the south are seen in most simulations. In the intermediate region, the sign of change is uncertain.• Precipitation extremes are expected to increase, though with a higher degree of uncertainty in magnitude compared to projected changes in temperature extremes.• Future changes in wind speed are highly dependent on changes in the large-scale circulation simulated by global climate models (GCMs). The results do not all agree, and it is not possible to assess whether there will be a general increase or decrease in wind speed in the future.• Only very small high-altitude mountain areas in a few simulations are projected to experience a reduction in winter snow amount of less than 50%. The southern half of the Baltic Sea region is projected to experience significant reductions in snow amount, with median reductions of around 75%.
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Mitchem, Stephanie Y., and Emilie M. Townes, eds. Faith, Health, and Healing in African American Life. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400649646.
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Black Americans are more likely than Whites to die of cancer and heart disease, more likely to get diabetes and asthma, and less likely to get preventive care and screening. Some of this greater morbidity results from education, income level, and environment as well as access to health care. But the traditional medical model does not always allow for a more holistic approach that takes into account the body, the mind, the spirit, the family, and the community. This book offers a better understanding of the varieties of religiously-based approaches to healing and alternative models of healing and health found in Black communities in the United States. Contributors address the communal aspects of faith and health and explore the contexts in which individuals make choices about their health, the roles that institutions play in shaping these decisions, and the practices individuals engage in seeking better health or coping with the health they have. By paying attention to the role of faith, spirit, and health, this book offers a fuller sense of the varieties of ways Black health and health care are perceived and addressed from an inter-religious perspective. Community and religion-based initiatives have emerged as one key way to address the health challenges found in the African American community. In cities such as Atlanta, Baltimore, Dallas, and Oakland, residents organize exercise groups, teach one another how to cook with healthy ingredients, and encourage neighbors to get regular checkups. Churches have become key sites for health education, screening, and testing. Another set of responses to the challenge of Black health and healthcare in the United States comes from those who emphasize the body as a whole—body, mind, soul, and spirit, often drawing on religious traditions such as Islam and African-based religions such as Spiritism, Santeria, Vodun (aka Voodoo), Candomblé, and others. Understanding the issues and the various approaches is essential to combating the problems, and this unique volume sheds light on areas often overlooked when considering the issues.
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Paris, Joel. Integrating Psychotherapy into Practice. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190601010.003.0007.
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Psychotherapy can be integrated into the practice of psychiatry, but doing so requires changes in how mental health services are currently delivered. The delivery of psychiatric services may not be ideally accomplished in solo office practice but often requires multidisciplinary teams that include psychologists and social workers. This model of health care requires structures and planning that focuses on the needs of the sickest patients in the mental health system. Psychiatrists should reserve providing direct care for this population. Applying a stepped care model, one can offer less intensive treatment as a first step, reserving resource-intensive rehabilitation methods as a second step for those who do not improve. The benefits of this approach are that it avoids using specialized resources on patients who will get better with less intensive and briefer interventions and it supports clinical psychologists in the treatment of common mental disorders.
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Green-Pedersen, Christoffer. The Reshaping of West European Party Politics. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198842897.001.0001.
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Long gone are the times when class-based political parties with extensive membership dominated politics. Instead, party politics has become issue-based. Surprisingly few studies have focused on how the issue content of West European party politics has developed over the past decades. Empirically, this books studies party politics in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the UK from 1980 and onwards. The book highlights the more complex party system agenda with the decline, but not disappearance, of macroeconomic issues as well as the rise in ‘new politics’ issues together with education and health care. Moreover, various ‘new politics’ issues such as immigration, the environment, and European integration have seen very different trajectories. To explain the development of the individual issues, the book develops a new theoretical model labelled the ‘issue incentive model’ of party system attention. The aim of the model is to explain how much attention issues get throughout the party system, which is labelled ‘the party system agenda’. To explain the development of the party system agenda, one needs to focus on the incentives that individual policy issues offer to large, mainstream parties, i.e. the typical Social Democratic, Christian Democratic, or Conservative/Liberal parties that have dominated West European governments for decades. The core idea of the model is that the incentives that individual policy issues offer to these vote- and office-seeking parties depend on three factors, namely issue characteristics, issue ownership, and coalition considerations. The issue incentive model builds on and develops a top-down perspective on which the issue content of party politics is determined by the strategic considerations of political parties and their competition with each other.
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Basu, Sanjay. Practicing Techniques in Context. Edited by Sanjay Basu. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190667924.003.0006.
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Four major types of modeling were detailed in the preceding chapters. (1) The problem of resource allocation, which was extended to deal with the allocation of multiple resources in the context of multiple constraints. (2) Value of information problems, which ask how much should be paid to get more information to help with decision-making. (3) Queuing problems, which ask how to minimize waiting times for a service when demand is higher than supply. And (4), extending the simple “one-box” queuing model to a multibox Markov model, which determines how to estimate the incidence and prevalence of disease in a population given complex probabilities of getting the disease or being treated for it, and compares the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of programs to address that disease. In this chapter, all four of these key modeling techniques will be examined in a common context: designing and evaluating a program to address a famine.
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McDaniel, Kris. Ways of Being. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198719656.003.0002.
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This chapter develops a version of ontological pluralism that appeals to semantically primitive restricted quantification and naturalness. It also articulate different ways of formulating versions of ontological pluralism. Although the author defends ontological pluralism from some objections, the main goals of this chapter are to get some versions of ontological pluralism on the table, show that they are intelligible and worthy of consideration, and show how concerns about ontological pluralism connect up with historical and contemporary meta-metaphysical issues. The chapter considers versions of ontological pluralism that say that substances have a different mode of being than attributes, that things in time have a different mode of being than atemporal objects, that stuff has a different mode of being than things, and many others.
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Décosterd, Mary Lou. Right Brain/Left Brain Leadership. Praeger, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216008927.
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Leaders of all kinds, in all fields, need to be methodical and logical, but also strategic, innovative, and intuitive. Yet the two different styles require different modes of thinking, or what author Mary Lou Décosterd describes as shifts to right brain, or left brain, thinking. Those who operate in what she explains as the left brain mode develop strong logical, rational, and analytical abilities, but they may downplay the value of right brain thinking, which spurs intuition, subjectivity, and creativity. And those who operate primarily in the latter mode lose the value of the former. A leader who is habitually a right-brainer sees only the big picture, rather than its parts, is creative but not usually analytical, is an emotional far more than logical. So who is more effective? Veteran consultant Décosterd shows how those with maximum success are leaders who understand both styles and have the ability to switch between the two at certain key moments to broaden their overall effectiveness. In the language of leadership, this pragmatic guide provides an all-encompassing view of how to maximize brain power and get to next-level leadership impact. Through case examples, simple assessment and unique learning tools, this book takes the reader through a new process for examining his or her current leadership style and skill sets, and framing a plan for greater success. Décosterd explains how, through use of popular leader exemplars, leadership examples and concise steps and summaries, every person can, at virtually any stage of personal and professional accomplishment, become a more consummate leader.
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Wohlrab-Sahr, Monika, and Levent Tezcan, eds. Islam in Europa. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783748931607.
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The presence of Islam in Europe is accompanied by contradictory dynamics. While on the one hand institutions are gradually accommodating Muslim demands and vice versa, on the other hand tendencies of Islamist and anti-Muslim radicalisation are reinforcing each other. In addition to analyses of institutionalisation processes that entail modes of a new normality, this volume offers contributions on political Islam, anti-Muslim policies as well as on social negotiations on conflict and integration. Finally, scholarly and literary reflections are examined with regard to their normative underpinnings. The volume brings together contributions from sociologists, Islamic scholars and literary scholars. With contributions by Asligüel Aysel, Sana Chavoshian, Aletta Diefenbach, Lena Dreier, Johannes Ebner, Özkan Ezli, Anja Frank, Lisa Harms, Jörg Hüttermann, Sarah Kaboğan, Ines Michalowski, Olaf Müller, Cemal Öztürk, Gert Pickel, Detlef Pollack, Anna Felicitas Scholz, Reinhard Schulze, Mustafa Şen, Levent Tezcan and Monika Wohlrab-Sahr.
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Lavers, Tom. Dams, Power, and the Politics of Ethiopia's Renaissance. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192871213.001.0001.
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Abstract After more than a decade, Ethiopia is filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a controversial dam with the potential to transform the hydrology and politics of the Nile Basin. The GERD is the culmination of a dam-building boom carried out over three decades and a key pillar of the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front’s (EPRDF’s) efforts to bring about an Ethiopian ‘Renaissance’. This book provides the first detailed examination of the domestic and international political dynamics that shaped Ethiopia’s dam building, drawing on extensive primary research including more than 100 interviews with politicians, technocrats, consultants, and donors. In doing so, the book reflects on Ethiopia’s implications for broader debates about the role of the state in late development, the dynamics of twenty-first-century dam building, and the political economy of renewable energy transitions. A central argument of the book is that Ethiopia’s dam building is symbolic of the successes and failures of the EPRDF’s ‘developmental state’. On the one hand, this dams boom enhanced electricity generation capacity, while constituting a key element of the state infrastructure investment that turned Ethiopia into one of the world’s fastest-growing economies. On the other hand, a politically driven decision-making process undermined electricity planning, contributed to an unsustainable debt burden, and, ultimately, failed to provide reliable electricity access to key users. Following the EPRDF’s collapse, the subsequent Prosperity Party Government has taken steps away from the state-led development model of its predecessor, while labouring towards the final completion of the GERD.
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Tran, Jonathan. Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197587904.001.0001.
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Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism contrasts two approaches to antiracist theory and practice. The first emphasizes racial identity to the exclusion of political economy. This approach’s prevalence, in the academy and beyond, now rises to the level of established doctrine. The second approach views racial identity as the function of a particular political economy—what is called racial capitalism—and therefore analytically subordinates racial identity to political economy. The book develops arguments in favor of the second approach. It does so by employing case studies of two Asian American communities: a Chinese migrant settlement in the Mississippi Delta (1868–1969) and a religious base community in the Bayview/Hunters Point section of San Francisco (1969–present). While focused on groups and persons (i.e., the Delta Chinese and Redeemer Community Church) the book more broadly examines racial capitalism’s processes and commitments (i.e., the Delta Chinese business model and Redeemer’s “deep economy”) at the sites of their structural and systemic unfolding. Constructively, the book proposes reframing antiracism in terms of a theologically salient account of political economy. In pursuing a research agenda that pushes beyond the narrow confines of racial identity, the book reaches back to trusted modes of analysis that have been obscured by the prevailing antiracist orthodoxy. Approaching race through political economy will not get at everything that racism is, and does, but it gets at what can be managed, and in the last resort lived. Accordingly, the book invites readers into a different life with race and racism, reimagining what they are and are doing.
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Kockelman, Paul. Lines Crossed and Circles Breached. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190636531.003.0001.
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This chapter lays out the key moves, and organizational logic, of the entire book. It argues that, rather than privileging mere ‘relations’, our analysis must foreground a particular ensemble of relations between relations if we are to properly understand the following modes of mediation: semiotic processes, semiological structures, agentive practices, environment-organism interfaces, communicative channels, social relations, and parasitic encounters. And it shows the ways such modes of mediation get computationally enclosed through processes that automate, format and network them, such that their meaningfulness is made to seem relatively portable: applicable to many contents and applicable across many contexts. It reviews and reworks several key ideas of Charles Sanders Peirce, the founder of American pragmatism. And it summarizes each of the chapters, highlighting key themes, arguments, and interlocutors.
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Martin, Philip. The Prosperity Paradox. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198867845.001.0001.
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Why do farm workers become more vulnerable as countries get richer? As countries get richer, the share of workers employed in agriculture falls. In richer countries, hired farm workers do ever more of the work on the fewer and larger farms that produce most farm commodities. These hired workers include local workers who lack the skills and contacts needed to get nonfarm jobs that usually offer higher wages and more opportunities as well as legal and unauthorized migrants from poorer countries who may not know or exercise their labor-related rights. Government enforcement of labor laws depends on complaints, and vulnerable workers rarely complain. The Prosperity Paradox explains why farm-worker problems often worsen as the agricultural sector shrinks and lays out options to help vulnerable workers. Analysis of farm labor markets in the US, Mexico, and other countries shows that unions and fair trade efforts to protect farm workers cover a very small share of all workers and are unlikely to expand quickly. Most labor-intensive fruits and vegetables are eaten fresh. Unsafe food that sickened consumers led to voluntary industry and later government-mandated food-safety programs to ensure that food is safe when it leaves the farm, with protocols enforced by both government inspectors and buyers who refused to buy from noncompliant farms. This food-safety model offers the most promise for a new era in protective labor policies.
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Levy, Benjamin R. Discontent and Early Experiments (1950–56). Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199381999.003.0002.
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At the outset of the 1950s Ligeti began to compose secret musical experiments that would not get past the censors of the communist regime in Hungary. Musica ricercata can be seen as an initial attempt to move past the compositional model of Bartók, and in turn, this piano piece worked as a study for the String Quartet no. 1, Métamorphoses nocturnes. Alongside this, however, is a series of unpublished and unfinished projects including the Chromatische Phantasie, Variations concertantes, an unfinished Requiem movement that parallels the choral works Éjszaka and Reggel, and a setting of Sándor Weöres’s Istar pokoljárása. These all show the influence of Schoenberg’s twelve-tone composition at a time when Ligeti claimed to have had only a desultory knowledge of the concept.
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Yang, Jingduan, and Daniel A. Monti. Modern Studies of Acupuncture. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190210052.003.0019.
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This chapter presents some examples of modern research on acupuncture. They include studies on the physiological nature of acupuncture points and of acupuncture’s impact on the functions of the immune, endocrine, nerve, cardiovascular, digestive, respiratory, and reproductive systems. It also includes examples of clinical studies on the safety and efficacy of acupuncture on various clinical medical and psychiatric conditions such as asthma, infertility, gastroesophageal reflux disorder (GERD), endometriosis, chronic pain, depression, anxiety, and insomnia. It discusses the confusion in research conclusions caused by methodological deficits in study designs and interventions, and it initiates a discussion on the future direction of studies that benefit advances in modern medicine rather than judging acupuncture using pharmaceutical models of research that are unable to visualize and measure human energy.
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Ready, Jonathan L. The Spectrum of Distribution. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198802556.003.0003.
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This chapter details the model underlying the examination of similes in subsequent chapters. In order to investigate how an oral performer shows his competence, one can talk about the sources a performer utilizes without employing the concepts of tradition and innovation. This is a good thing because these terms get in the Homerist’s way. Here those words are set aside, and, taking a geographic approach to the elements an oral performer uses, the chapter speaks of the idiolectal, dialectal, and pan-traditional. These three categories constitute a spectrum of distribution. A performer reveals his competence by moving around on the spectrum of distribution and especially by deploying elements that falls on the shared (dialectal and pan-traditional) end of the spectrum. The chapter concludes by hypothesizing that similes help performers show off their movements on the spectrum of distribution.
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Hermans, Hubert J. M. Positioning and Democracy in the Self. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190687793.003.0003.
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An expanded position model is presented that enables to study the following features of the self as society: meta-positions as “leadership” positions in the self, offering a broad and long-term scope in a multipositioned, democratically organized self; promoter positions stimulating its further development; power distance and emotional distance as basic dimensions in the mini-society of the self; the accessibility of I-positions allowing a free entrance so that they can be experienced in their inside qualities; their exit providing a way to leave a position and preventing the feeling of being locked up in an I-prison; a procedure to get in touch with “shadow” positions as undesirable or rejected parts of the self; and different types of boundaries of positions (soft, rigid, spongy, and flexible), with flexible ones as optimal for the communication between I-positions in complex social and societal situations.
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Pedrotti, Jennifer Teramoto. The Will and the Ways in School. Edited by Matthew W. Gallagher and Shane J. Lopez. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199399314.013.9.
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The school environment is a key place in which to address development of numerous positive traits and characteristics. Hope is a one construct that addresses goal-setting and progress and is linked to many other positive behaviors and characteristics including resilience, optimism, school and athletic achievement, and well-being in general. Grounding today’s children in skills and mindsets that assist them in determining how to get the things they what they want in life may help them to stay on healthy tracks academically throughout their scholastic career. Past and current research has shown that hope is easily instilled and that it can be increased through simple interventions in a variety of different populations. School personnel such as teachers, counselors, and administrators can all play a role in the development of this trait and can help to direct parents in using the hope model with children as well.
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McIntosh, Jane R. The Ancient Indus Valley. ABC-CLIO, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400612787.
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This work is a revealing study of the enigmatic Indus civilization and how a rich repertoire of archaeological tools is being used to probe its puzzles. The Ancient Indus Valley: New Perspectives takes readers back to a civilization as complex as its contemporaries in Mesopotamia and Egypt, one that covered a far larger region, yet lasted a much briefer time (less than a millennium) and left few visible traces. Researchers have tentatively reconstructed a model of Indus life based on limited material remains and despite its virtually indecipherable written record. This volume describes what is known about the roots of Indus civilization in farming culture, as well as its far-flung trading network, sophisticated crafts and architecture, and surprisingly war-free way of life. Readers will get a glimpse of both a remarkable piece of the past and the extraordinary methods that have brought it back to life.
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Khumalo, Linda S., Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa, Candice Morkel, Steven Masvaure, and Matshidiso Kgothatso Semela. African Parliaments Volume 2: Systems of Evidence in Practice. African Sun Media, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.52779/9781991201539.
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The role parliaments play in governance is fundamentally political and, as a result, the institutional side of parliamentary organisations is often overlooked. This volume, together with the theoretical volume African Parliaments: Evidence systems for governance and development, takes a practical look at African parliaments as institutions, and explores the ways in which their structures and processes influence the use of evidence for decision making. A comparative approach helps the reader get a practical view of how this governance interplay is enacted within portfolio committees, on chamber floors, and on the campaign trail. The volume looks at various models parliaments have used to institutionalise evidence use, and considers the implications this has for governance.
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Ready, Jonathan L. Shared Similes in the Homeric Epics. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198802556.003.0006.
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Our Homeric poets strove to display their competence by doing what their predecessors and peers did. To discover the shared similes in the Iliad and the Odyssey, the chapter first reviews the (nearly) verbatim short vehicle portions and similar long vehicle portions found (a) in the Iliad and Odyssey or (b) in the Iliad or Odyssey and in other archaic Greek hexameter poems or lyric poems. The chapter then discusses “scenarios” to get at the mental templates underlying many of our Homeric poets’ vehicle portions, templates that reveal the extent of their use of shared vehicle portions. By linking this model of scenarios with an approach from cognitive linguistics known as Frame Semantics, one can detect the ease with which a Homeric poet learned the scenarios. Our poets’ demonstrations of their use of shared elements also comes to the fore when one examines their similes as two-part equations, each composed of a tenor and a vehicle.
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Pruss, Alexander R., and Joshua L. Rasmussen. Metaphysical Possibility and Necessity. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198746898.003.0002.
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A highly technical defense of a standard interpretation of “possible” and of “necessary” is given. Specifically, arguments are made for the S5 system of modal logic as background for many of the arguments in the rest of the book. These begin with arguments against analyzing metaphysical necessity in terms of narrow logical necessity (or provability). It is shown, for example, that if metaphysical necessity were narrow logical necessity, then, given Gödel's incompleteness theorems, you get absurd possibilities, like the possibility that 1 = 0 is necessary. Independent arguments are also supplied for the characteristic axioms of S4 and S5. All these arguments help motivate the minimal claim that S5 implicitly defines a coherent concept of “possibility” and of “necessity” relevant to the arguments presented.
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Cutler, David. The Savvy Musician 2.0. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197795965.001.0001.
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Abstract David Cutler’s book The Savvy Musician shaped a generation of artists. Now, The Savvy Musician 2.0 explodes the realm of possibility. In a world where constant change is the only guarantee, innovative problem solving is at least as important as excellence. This comprehensive, inspirational resource—showcasing 150+ case studies of diverse performers, creators, educators, and institutions—unveils actionable strategies to make a living doing what you love, create demand in any environment, design profitable business/career models, raise capital and influence, grow powerhouse networks, balance artistry with relevance, and get things done. Whether readers seek to earn more money, stand out from the competition, transform an organization, or leave a legacy, The Savvy Musician 2.0 will guide them toward unprecedented success. Isn’t it time YOU got savvy?
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Crowther, Janet L. Partnering with Purpose. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400695391.
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Learn how to maximize your library's resources, gain access to more resources in your community, promote services, and reach new segments of the population through partnerships—with businesses, with schools, with other nonprofit organizations. Drawing on their experiences in developing successful partnerships with a variety of organizations, these authors show you how to go about creating productive and mutually beneficial community partnerships. They also explain how to avoid some of the common partnership pitfalls along the way. Based on what has become widely known as the WRL model, the guide begins with the rationale for partnerships and the organizational library structures needed; and then shows you how and with whom to form partnerships, how to handle challenges that may arise, how to meet partners, and how to create and maintain mechanisms for tracking and evaluating partnerships. The authors use the analogy of courtship to clarify the various phases of partnership development: glances, dating, engagement, and marriage. Brimming with samples and reproducible forms, this practical hands-on guide contains everything you need to get started on the partnership path.