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Understanding the factors that encourage young people to become
active agents in their own learning is critical. Positive
psychology is one lens that can be used to investigate the factors
that facilitate a student's sense of agency and active school
engagement. In the second edition of this groundbreaking handbook,
the editors draw together the latest work on the field, identifying
major issues and providing a wealth of descriptive knowledge from
renowned contributors. Major topics include: the ways that positive
emotions, traits, and institutions promote school achievement and
healthy social and emotional development; how specific
positive-psychological constructs relate to students and schools
and support the delivery of school-based services; and the
application of positive psychology to educational policy making.
With thirteen new chapters, this edition provides a long-needed
centerpiece around which the field can continue to grow,
incorporating a new focus on international applications of the
field.
This book invites the reader to think about collaborative research
differently. Using the concepts of ‘letting go’ (the
recognition that research is always in a state of becoming) and
'poetics’ (using an approach that might interrupt and remake the
conventions of research), it envisions collaborative research as a
space where relationships are forged with the use of arts-based and
multimodal ways of seeing, inquiring and representing ideas. The
book's chapters are interwoven with ‘Interludes’ which provide
alternative forms to think with and another vantage point from
which to regard phenomena, pose a question and seek insights or
openings for further inquiry, rather than answers. Altogether, the
book celebrates collaboration in complex, exploratory, literary and
artistic ways within university and community research.
How do issues end up on the agenda? Why do lawmakers routinely
invest in program oversight and broad policy development? What
considerations drive legislative policy change? For many, Congress
is an institution consumed by partisan bickering and gridlock. Yet
the institution's long history of addressing significant societal
problems - even in recent years - seems to contradict this view.
Congress and the Politics of Problem Solving argues that the
willingness of many voters to hold elected officials accountable
for societal conditions is central to appreciating why Congress
responds to problems despite the many reasons mustered for why it
cannot. The authors show that, across decades of policy making,
problem-solving motivations explain why bipartisanship is a common
pattern of congressional behavior and offer the best explanation
for legislative issue attention and policy change.
This book invites the reader to think about collaborative research
differently. Using the concepts of 'letting go' (the recognition
that research is always in a state of becoming) and 'poetics'
(using an approach that might interrupt and remake the conventions
of research), it envisions collaborative research as a space where
relationships are forged with the use of arts-based and multimodal
ways of seeing, inquiring and representing ideas. The book's
chapters are interwoven with 'Interludes' which provide alternative
forms to think with and another vantage point from which to regard
phenomena, pose a question and seek insights or openings for
further inquiry, rather than answers. Altogether, the book
celebrates collaboration in complex, exploratory, literary and
artistic ways within university and community research.
In most schools you will probably see one, if not all of the
following: Metal detectors to prevent handguns and other weapons
from being brought onto school property Students in standardized
uniforms to prevent the appearance of gang affiliations Police
officers patrolling the property to deter violent activity as well
as respond to incidents Such evolutions have forever changed how we
view the safety of our students. However, the phrase "school
safety" goes beyond these issues of security put in place to
protect students, faculty, and staff. Environmental factors also
play a role. The Comprehensive Handbook of School Safety expands
the dialogue on school safety to comprehensively address the
spectrum of safety risks such as bullying, fire safety, playground
and transportation safety, and more. Based on research and
practical experience, it helps school administrators develop
appropriate programs that protect all individuals from harm. Author
E. Scott Dunlap brings his experience in OSHA and DOT compliance,
behavior-based safety, and organizational safety culture to bear on
the issue of school safety. He presents school safety from a
holistic perspective and details vulnerability assessment tools and
incident investigation forms to help schools develop a
comprehensive safety program. By focusing on this range of issues,
the book's dynamic perspective puts the keys to achieving an
effective safety program within easy reach.
This book, originally published in 1994, explores the effects of
federal policies on the US auto industry in the 1970s and 80s which
were designed to save jobs and help the domestic industry become
more competitive. The author develops a new model based on modern
oliopoly theory to estimate the effects of the voluntary Restraint
Agreements (which limited Japanese imports) on the US auto market.
The results demonstrate that VRAs caused price increases which
adversely affected the comptitiveness of US producers. On the eve
of a new Trump administration, and the likelihood of new
restrictions on imports to boost US manufacturing, this book has
particular enduring relevance.
This book, originally published in 1994, explores the effects of
federal policies on the US auto industry in the 1970s and 80s which
were designed to save jobs and help the domestic industry become
more competitive. The author develops a new model based on modern
oliopoly theory to estimate the effects of the voluntary Restraint
Agreements (which limited Japanese imports) on the US auto market.
The results demonstrate that VRAs caused price increases which
adversely affected the comptitiveness of US producers. On the eve
of a new Trump administration, and the likelihood of new
restrictions on imports to boost US manufacturing, this book has
particular enduring relevance.
Understanding the factors that encourage young people to become
active agents in their own learning is critical. Positive
psychology is one lens that can be used to investigate the factors
that facilitate a student's sense of agency and active school
engagement. In the second edition of this groundbreaking handbook,
the editors draw together the latest work on the field, identifying
major issues and providing a wealth of descriptive knowledge from
renowned contributors. Major topics include: the ways that positive
emotions, traits, and institutions promote school achievement and
healthy social and emotional development; how specific
positive-psychological constructs relate to students and schools
and support the delivery of school-based services; and the
application of positive psychology to educational policy making.
With thirteen new chapters, this edition provides a long-needed
centerpiece around which the field can continue to grow,
incorporating a new focus on international applications of the
field.
Telecommunications bring the potential to improve both the quality
of and access to health care in the remotest areas of the
developing world. Telemedicine offers solutions for emergency
medical assistance, long distance consultation, administration and
logistics, supervision and quality assurance and education and
training for health-care professionals and providers. Telehealth in
the Developing World aims to balance the relative lack of published
information on successful telehealth solutions in the developing
world. It is written for all e-health and telehealth proponents
interested in learning about, or contributing to the implementation
of, appropriate solutions for 80% of the world's population. Topics
featured include: Teledermatology in Cambodia Telepediatrics in
Chechnya Telepathology in India - using digital cameras and email
HealthNet networks in Nepal Medical missions for Children in
Mongolia International HIV/AIDS discussion lists The Aga Khan
Telehealth Network in Pakistan Access to mobile phones and internet
in the Philippines Exchanging X-ray images in Ghana Web-based
oncology registries and a virtual oncology hospital in Brazil
Surgical training in the developing world The iPath international
email network
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This volume demonstrates how readers can become more effective
parents, teachers, students, coaches, managers, or work
supervisors, while also gaining practical skills to enhance their
self-motivation, communication skills, and intervention acumen. The
first eight chapters explain evidence-based principles from applied
behavioral science (ABS) that can be used to improve the human
dynamics of any situation involving behavior. Fundamentals from
humanism are integrated strategically to show how an ABS
intervention can be more acceptable, influential, and sustainable.
The following twelve chapters detail the deployment of ABS
interventions to optimize performance in a wide variety of fields,
including occupational and transportation safety, quantity and
quality of organizational work behavior, healthcare, athletic
coaching, parenting, pre-school and college education,
environmental sustainability, and the control of obesity and
alcohol abuse. Applied Psychology provides a thorough review of the
latest research in relation to these domains and explores issues
for future investigation.
Research indicates change is complex and difficult, and requires
considerable time to achieve, sometimes years or even decades. This
book presents major findings from a research study exploring the
leadership needed to enact rapid change - defined as three years or
less - in various school contexts, overtly including the
perspectives of leaders, teachers, students, parents, community
members, and district leaders. We challenge many of the assumptions
in current scholarly literature about how fast, complex change can
or should be wrought within educational environments; indeed, our
premise is that rapid, complex change is not only possible but may
be highly desirable and successful given the right leadership
approach. We present a pragmatic 'rapid change' model emerging from
in-depth explorations of successful leadership approaches that
accelerated the change agenda in these schools. We outline the
theoretical underpinnings to the model and overtly articulate the
pragmatic approaches leaders found to be effective in implementing
fast-paced change. We also present case studies of successful
change in schools with descriptions and advice elicited from
leaders and stakeholders.
Josh Emett, holder of three Michelin stars and best known for
opening Gordon Ramsay s restaurant at the London Hotel in New York,
has collected the most important classic recipes from the world s
most acclaimed chefs to create a kind of Larousse Gastronomique of
the 21st century. These are the best new classics that have emerged
during the last 50 years from culinary stars. Each recipe has been
tested by Emett in his home kitchen, and he includes guidance and
advice for the home cook discussing complexity, preparation, key
elements, complements for planning a larger menu, and tips of the
trade. Featuring specially commissioned photographs, the book is
organized into 12 easy-to-follow sections from basics (stocks,
sauces, and dressings), to grains and vegetables, meats, seafood,
baking, and more. Each section includes a dedicated introduction
with key knowledge elements.
Forests and vegetation emit biogenic volatile organic compounds
(BVOCs) into the atmosphere which, once oxidized, can partition
into the particle phase, forming secondary organic aerosols (SOAs).
This thesis reports on a unique and comprehensive analysis of the
impact of BVOC emissions on atmospheric aerosols and climate. A
state-of-the-art global aerosol microphysics model is used to make
the first detailed assessment of the impact of BVOC emissions on
aerosol microphysical properties, improving our understanding of
the role of these emissions in affecting the Earth’s
climate. The thesis also reports on the implications for the
climate impact of forests. Accounting for the climate impacts of
SOAs, taken together with the carbon cycle and surface albedo
effects that have been studied in previous work, increases the
total warming effect of global deforestation by roughly 20%.
This book provides pragmatic strategies and models for student
assessment and ameliorates the heightened sense of confusion that
too many educators and leaders experience around the complexities
associated with assessment. In particular, it offers guidance to
school and district personnel charged with fair and appropriate
assessment of students who represent a wide variety of abilities
and cultures. Chapters focus on issues that directly impact the
educational lives of teachers, students, parents, and caregivers.
Importantly, the confluence of assessment practices and community
expectations also are highlighted. Assessment is highly politicised
in contemporary society and this book will both confirm and
challenge readers' beliefs and practices. Indeed, discerning
readers will understand that the chapters offer them a bridge from
many established assessment paradigms to pragmatic, ethical
solutions that align with current expectations for schools and
districts. In Part One, readers engage with concepts and skills
needed by school learning leaders to guide optimal assessment
practices. Part Two delves into student assessment within and
across disciplines. Part Three provides pragmatic approaches that
address assessment in the context of inclusive intercultural
education, pluralism, and globalisation.
This book provides pragmatic strategies and models for student
assessment and ameliorates the heightened sense of confusion that
too many educators and leaders experience around the complexities
associated with assessment. In particular, it offers guidance to
school and district personnel charged with fair and appropriate
assessment of students who represent a wide variety of abilities
and cultures. Chapters focus on issues that directly impact the
educational lives of teachers, students, parents, and caregivers.
Importantly, the confluence of assessment practices and community
expectations also are highlighted. Assessment is highly politicised
in contemporary society and this book will both confirm and
challenge readers' beliefs and practices. Indeed, discerning
readers will understand that the chapters offer them a bridge from
many established assessment paradigms to pragmatic, ethical
solutions that align with current expectations for schools and
districts. In Part One, readers engage with concepts and skills
needed by school learning leaders to guide optimal assessment
practices. Part Two delves into student assessment within and
across disciplines. Part Three provides pragmatic approaches that
address assessment in the context of inclusive intercultural
education, pluralism, and globalisation.
Intended for readers with a background in fertility medicine as
well as those less familiar with IVF, this comprehensive work
presents an update on preimplantation genetic testing to enable
single embryo transfer (SET). An international cast of contributors
explains the treatment sequence-from ovulation induction to luteal
support-aiming to transfer only one euploid embryo. Applications of
molecular techniques for gamete and embryo assessment are fully
detailed, with a focus on the strengths and limitations of each. In
addition, expert commentary is shared across a range of regulatory
challenges associated with embryo screening and cryopreservation.
As access to advanced reproductive technology increases against a
sharper background of healthcare reform, clinicians, economists,
bioethicists and legislators alike will find this new volume
relevant and highly accessible.
How do issues end up on the agenda? Why do lawmakers routinely
invest in program oversight and broad policy development? What
considerations drive legislative policy change? For many, Congress
is an institution consumed by partisan bickering and gridlock. Yet
the institution's long history of addressing significant societal
problems - even in recent years - seems to contradict this view.
Congress and the Politics of Problem Solving argues that the
willingness of many voters to hold elected officials accountable
for societal conditions is central to appreciating why Congress
responds to problems despite the many reasons mustered for why it
cannot. The authors show that, across decades of policy making,
problem-solving motivations explain why bipartisanship is a common
pattern of congressional behavior and offer the best explanation
for legislative issue attention and policy change.
Forests and vegetation emit biogenic volatile organic compounds
(BVOCs) into the atmosphere which, once oxidized, can partition
into the particle phase, forming secondary organic aerosols (SOAs).
This thesis reports on a unique and comprehensive analysis of the
impact of BVOC emissions on atmospheric aerosols and climate. A
state-of-the-art global aerosol microphysics model is used to make
the first detailed assessment of the impact of BVOC emissions on
aerosol microphysical properties, improving our understanding of
the role of these emissions in affecting the Earth's climate. The
thesis also reports on the implications for the climate impact of
forests. Accounting for the climate impacts of SOAs, taken together
with the carbon cycle and surface albedo effects that have been
studied in previous work, increases the total warming effect of
global deforestation by roughly 20%.
Much of international law, like much of contract, is enforced not
by independent sanctions but rather through cooperative interaction
among the parties, with repeat dealings, reputation, and a
preference for reciprocity doing most of the enforcement work.
Originally published in 2006, The Limits of Leviathan identifies
areas in international law where formal enforcement provides the
most promising means of promoting cooperation and where it does
not. In particular, it looks at the International Criminal Court,
the rules for world trade, efforts to enlist domestic courts to
enforce orders of the International Court of Justice, domestic
judicial enforcement of the Geneva Convention, the domain of
international commercial agreements, and the question of odious
debt incurred by sovereigns. This book explains how international
law, like contract, depends largely on the willingness of
responsible parties to make commitments.
Much of international law, like much of contract, is enforced not
by independent sanctions but rather through cooperative interaction
among the parties, with repeat dealings, reputation, and a
preference for reciprocity doing most of the enforcement work.
Originally published in 2006, The Limits of Leviathan identifies
areas in international law where formal enforcement provides the
most promising means of promoting cooperation and where it does
not. In particular, it looks at the International Criminal Court,
the rules for world trade, efforts to enlist domestic courts to
enforce orders of the International Court of Justice, domestic
judicial enforcement of the Geneva Convention, the domain of
international commercial agreements, and the question of odious
debt incurred by sovereigns. This book explains how international
law, like contract, depends largely on the willingness of
responsible parties to make commitments.
This collection of essay by leading scholars in the field reveals
the major contribution of puritan women to the intellectual culture
of the early modern period, showing that women's roles with puritan
and broader communities encompassed translating and disseminating
key texts and producing an impressive body of original
writing.
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