BOOKS with Alphabet P (Pa, Pb,Pc, Pd, Pe…... )

Overview: The first international comparative study that investigates the ways in which young people are developing computer and information literacy to support their capacity to participate in the digital age..Ability to use information and communication technologies (ICT) is an imperative for effective participation in today’s digital age. Schools worldwide are responding to the need to provide young people with that ability. But how effective are they in this regard? The IEA International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS) responded to this question by studying the extent to wh

Overview: Wide-ranging coverage of recent evidence on the prevention of prostate cancer, of interest for both clinicians and researchers.Detailed discussion of risk prediction biomarkers.Evaluation of the potenProstate cancer is by far the most common cancer in men and the second leading cause of death due to cancer. It comprises a mixed group of tumours displaying varying clinical behaviour: while some have a very aggressive course, others are rather indolent. Prevention of prostate cancer and discrimination between aggressive and indolent forms are important clinical goals and the acquisitio

Overview: Introduces and pioneers a new concept—the use of backfires to manage scandal—unique to the existing scholarship on politics and scandal.Provides a distinctive approach to the study of presidential pow.This book explores presidential power through an analysis of the ways that U.S. presidents attempt to manage scandals. While presidents routinely stonewall to block or limit investigations into their alleged transgressions or, in some cases, cooperate with investigators, this book proposes the existence of a third way of responding to scandals—a “backfire” or the creation of a counter-s

Overview: Mit dem kleinen Hamster in die große Welt des ProgrammierensProgrammieranfänger leiden häufig darunter, daß sie beim Programmieren ihre normale Gedankenwelt verlassen und in eher technisch-orientierten Kategorien denken müssen, die ihnen von den Programmiersprachen vorgegeben werden. Gerade am Anfang strömen häufig so viele Neuigkeiten inhaltlicher und methodischer Art auf sie ein, daß sie leicht das Wesentliche der Programmierung, nämlich das Lösen von Problemen, aus den Augen verlieren und sich in syntaktischen und technischen Einzelheiten verirren. Das Hamster-Modell ist mit dem Z

Overview: Each volume of Topics in Organometallic Chemistry provides the broad scientific readership with comprehensive summary and critical overview of a topic in organometallic chemistry.Research in this rapi.Material synthesis by the transformation of organometallic compounds (precursors) by vapor deposition techniques such as chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and atomic layer deposition (ALD) has been in the forefront of modern day research and development of new materials. There exists a need for new routes for designing and synthesizing new precursors as well as the application of establis

Overview: Presents an experimental framework to ascribe functions to plant genes in model and crop plants.Describes methods for generating mutants in model and specific target plants.Includes detailed protocolsAfter the generation of genome sequence data from a wide variety of plants, databases are filled with sequence information of genes with no known biological function, and while bioinformatics tools can help analyze genome sequences and predict gene structures, experimental approaches to discover gene functions need to be widely implemented.In Plant Reverse Genetics: Methods and Protocols

Overview: Focusses on the police officer perspective.Draws on a rich source of data and provides policy recommendations.Explores the language and practices surrounding this type of abuse.Fills a global gap in t.This book examines the different forms that honour-based abuse crimes take and analyses the discretionary police practices employed when responding to these incidents. Honour-based abuse is an incident or crime involving violence, threats of violence, intimidation, coercion or abuse committed in order to protect or defend the honour of an individual, family and or community for a percei

Overview: Offers a concise up-to-date summary of the science and practice of PET/CT in lung cancer.Includes a pictorial atlas with images of each type of lung cancer.Depicts normal variants, pitfalls, and artifThis concise, excellently illustrated pocket book provides an up-to-date summary of the science and practice of PET/CT imaging in lung cancer. The coverage encompasses the entire spectrum of lung cancer – pathology, radiological and PET/CT imaging, and management. Readers will also find information on the physics of PET and its use in respiratory gating and radiotherapy planning. The hig

Overview: Many theatres host post-show discussions, or talkbacks, as part of their season. This book is a critical examination of what has/has not worked with post-show discussions utilized in new play development, providing a framework for understanding discussions, steps for building the foundation of them, and various strategies for structuring them.978-1-137-41096-2

Overview: Fast-track conference proceedings.State-of-the-art research.Up-to-date resultsThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Passive and Active Measurement, PAM 2012, held in Vienna, Austria, in March 2012. The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 83 submissions. The papers were arranged into eight sessions traffic evolution and analysis, large scale monitoring, evaluation methodology, malicious behavior, new measurement initiatives, reassessing tools and methods, perspectives on internet structure and serv

Overview: Written by recognized authorities in their fields.Provides comprehensive and up-to-date review in topic.Well-known series.Includes supplementary material: The volumes of this classic series, now referred to simply as "Zechmeister" after its founder, Laszlo Zechmeister, have appeared under the Springer Imprint ever since the series‘ inauguration in 1938. The series has featured contributions by seven Nobel laureates: D.H.R. Barton, D. Crowfoot Hodgkin, L. Pauling, K. Alder, O. Diels, P. Karrer, and H. von Euler-Chelpin. The volumes contain contributions on various topics related to th

Overview: Presents recent advances in the areas of AI, robotics, computing, electronics, security, and communications.Provides the proceedings of Future Technologies Conference 2023 (FTC 2022).Written by expert.This book is a collection of thoroughly well-researched studies presented at the Eighth Future Technologies Conference. This annual conference aims to seek submissions from the wide arena of studies like Computing, Communication, Machine Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Ambient Intelligence, Security, and e-Learning. .. ..With an impressive 490 paper submissions, FTC emerged as a hybrid

Overview: Focuses on religious institutions and organizations within megacities in Asia as well as smaller urban areas within India.Describes the changing contours of religiosity as part of the processes of urbThis book discusses Asia’s rapid pace of urbanization, with a particular focus on new spaces created by and for everyday religiosity. The essays in this volume – covering topics from the global metropolises of Singapore, Bangalore, Seoul, Beijing, and Hong Kong to the regional centers of Gwalior, Pune, Jahazpur, and sites like Wudang Mountain – examine in detail the spaces created by new

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Overview: Practising Identities is a collection of papers about how identities - gender, bodily, racial, ethnic and national - are practised in the contemporary world. Identities are actively constructed, chosen, created and performed by people in their daily lives, and this book focuses on a variety of identity practices, in a range of different settings, from the gym and the piercing studio, to the further education college and the National Health Service. Drawing on detailed empirical studies and recent social and cultural theory about identity this book makes an important intervention in c

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Overview: Provides evidence-based practical strategies ("toolbox") to promote treatment engagement.Each chapter includes a systematic literature reviewClinical chapters present stepped-care framework, from leas.This practice-building resource examines the psychology behind non-adherence and the importance of building commitment to treatment as the foundation of successful therapy. Coverage starts by illustrating the complex phenomena of non-adherence at different stages of intervention—including mechanisms and situations that may prevent even initial engagement. From there, experts from divers

Overview: Includes detailed first hand accounts an analysis of key performances by one of the leading scholars in the field.Offers an accessible and highly readable introduction to Korean theatre.Takes a multid.This book offers an exploration of the intersection of Korean theatre practice with Western literary theatre. Gangnam Style, K-Pop, the Korean Wave : who hasn‘t heard of these recent Korean phenomena? Having spent two years in Korea as a theatrical and cultural ‘tourist’, Patrice Pavis was granted an unparalleled look at contemporary Korean culture. As well as analyzing these pop cultur

Overview: Summaries of recent major changes in ovarian pathology.Chapters on clinical manifestations of ovarian tumors.Incorporates revised staging systems for ovarian cancer.Lavishly illustrated throughout.As the second volume in the .Essentials of Diagnostic Gynecological Pathology. series sponsored by the British Association of Gynecological Pathologists, .Pathology of the Ovary, Fallopian Tube and Peritoneum. is one of the very few dealing wholly with this subject. .Pathology of the Ovary, Fallopian Tube and Peritoneum. introduces the topic with a discussion of the anatomy, development, hi