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In light of recent sociological events and the COVID-19 pandemic, education has undergone an incredible change in both policy and delivery. As a result, many educators have sought different career paths. It is essential to maintain a concentrated effort to retain educators; however, recruiting teachers into the profession is only one area of focus; there must be intentional support for teacher development along the educator continuum in order to sustain the profession through institutional struggles. The Handbook of Research on the Educator Continuum and Development of Teachers expands on the body of research related to the educator continuum with a holistic view of teacher development. This book combines theory, concepts, and research studies that pinpoint facets of the educator continuum, providing researchers with scholarly contributions that advance the profession. Covering topics such as instructional coaching, special educator career development, and teacher retention, this major reference work is a valuable resource for educational faculty and administration, teacher colleges, educators of K-12 and higher education, pre-service teachers, government officials, teacher education administrators, libraries, researchers, and academicians.

Fresh insights into the pathogenic mechanisms by which hyperglycemia induces tissue and organ injurt are the basis for rapidly evolving promising therapies in diabetes. Especially promising as targets for intervention are products of oxidative stress, including kinins and growth factors. Improving results of renal replacement regimes now incorporating pancreatic islet transplants are able to delay and prevent end-organ damage in diabetic individuals. The evolving story of the taming of diabetes is of direct concern to nephrologists, endocrinologists, ophthalmologists, primary care physicians and medical students.

After a decade or longer, approximately one-third of individuals with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes commence a downhill course in which decreasing renal function and failing vision define a Renal-Retinal Syndrome, dominating all aspects of life and presaging early death. Only a generation ago, survival after onset of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in diabetes was limited because rehabilitation was preempted by blindness, limb amputation, stroke, and heart disease. By 1998, however, team management has improved the outlook, with preserved sight and return to work and home responsibilities, usually for a decade or longer, following kidney transplantation and laser photocoagulation. Recognition of the critical requirement for blood pressure regulation and metabolic control are central themes in management. In this unique book, the accomplishments of ophthalmologists, nephrologists, diabetologists, transplant surgeons, and basic scientists are blended into a strategic approach that may be readily applied by all those caring for diabetic patients. Each of twenty-one presentations suitable for primary care physicians, as well as for subspecialists concerned with macrovascular and microvascular complications of diabetes, is placed in perspective by an introductory editorial analysis. Promising near-term innovative therapies, including insertion of genetically engineered beta cells or polymer-coated islets of Langerhans, interdiction of kinins that promote retinal angiogenesis, and prevention of synthesis of advanced glycosylated endproducts (AGEs), are presented in detail. While comprehensive care of diabetic patients reflects multiple incremental advances that in sum afford major benefit, this text envisions further remarkable changes likely to suppress and possibly entirely prevent the Diabetic Renal-Retinal Syndrome.

After a decade or longer, approximately one-third of individuals with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes commence a downhill course in which decreasing renal function and failing vision define a Renal-Retinal Syndrome, dominating all aspects of life and presaging early death. Only a generation ago, survival after onset of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in diabetes was limited because rehabilitation was preempted by blindness, limb amputation, stroke, and heart disease. By 1998, however, team management has improved the outlook, with preserved sight and return to work and home responsibilities, usually for a decade or longer, following kidney transplantation and laser photocoagulation. Recognition of the critical requirement for blood pressure regulation and metabolic control are central themes in management. In this unique book, the accomplishments of ophthalmologists, nephrologists, diabetologists, transplant surgeons, and basic scientists are blended into a strategic approach that may be readily applied by all those caring for diabetic patients. Each of twenty-one presentations suitable for primary care physicians, as well as for subspecialists concerned with macrovascular and microvascular complications of diabetes, is placed in perspective by an introductory editorial analysis. Promising near-term innovative therapies, including insertion of genetically engineered beta cells or polymer-coated islets of Langerhans, interdiction of kinins that promote retinal angiogenesis, and prevention of synthesis of advanced glycosylated endproducts (AGEs), are presented in detail. While comprehensive care of diabetic patients reflects multiple incremental advances that in sum afford major benefit, this text envisions further remarkable changes likely to suppress and possibly entirely prevent the Diabetic Renal-Retinal Syndrome.

Fresh insights into the pathogenic mechanisms by which hyperglycemia induces tissue and organ injurt are the basis for rapidly evolving promising therapies in diabetes. Especially promising as targets for intervention are products of oxidative stress, including kinins and growth factors. Improving results of renal replacement regimes now incorporating pancreatic islet transplants are able to delay and prevent end-organ damage in diabetic individuals. The evolving story of the taming of diabetes is of direct concern to nephrologists, endocrinologists, ophthalmologists, primary care physicians and medical students.

Shadow Land is the personal history of Victorian spiritualist and celebrity medium Elizabeth d'Esperance, renown throughout Europe for the dramatic, full-form spirit manifestations she performed before astonished sitters. Weaving the events of her life into a thoroughly engaging narrative, she recounts the passage of her childhood in the company of otherworldly "shadow people," her early forays into automatic writing and the seance, and their attendant fears of madness and of the Devil. She describes in rich, absorbing detail the subjective experience of inhabiting the medium's altered state, as well as the horror of sensing one's own identity being subsumed by another. A uniquely introspective and powerfully-written memoir, Shadow Land is the story of an extraordinary, life-long quest for the truth that resolves in a passionate visionary experience and a message of hope.

To what extremes would you go to provide for your family? Would you turn to crime to keep the wolf from your door? Would you resort to an act of domestic terrorism that threatens the peace of an American city? In Terror from Within, Craig L'Esperance's explosive, authentic crime thriller, domestic terrorism is taken to a new level when the recent economic downturn hits a small suburb northwest of Detroit. Penetrating the thin blue line to shed eye-opening light on the criminal mind and the American justice system, Terror from Within follows the catastrophic course of one man in an all-too-imaginable contemporary predicament-as well as the detectives who must tap their considerable skill, wits, and dedication to respond to his ill-fated actions. Robert Whitlock, a down-and-out Michigan native has lost his job, and, along with it, his wife and children. Served with divorce papers and an order of protection, Robert finds himself banished from his own house. As he struggles to cope with the pending court battle, his resulting tailspin forces him to make some decisions that compromise his moral fiber. A mundane burglary quickly takes a terrorizing and unexpected twist into something more sinister, cunning, and even deadly. It's up to a true man in blue in the form of a self-sacrificing career cop to change this deadly chain of events. Detective Blake Talbot embraces a tenacious work ethic that allows the budget-strapped detective bureau to continue running smoothly despite recent cuts. In the exacting, gripping real detail that only a veteran law enforcement agent can provide, Terror from Within serves up a play-by-play of every loaded moment of the investigation, as Blake furiously gathers and analyzes events and evidence to thwart a terrifying local threat that is chillingly real for all of us. It's a must-read for anyone who craves the real deal in law enforcement, and relishes a suspense-driven read where only a few good men can secure a city.

Tratto da una storia vera accaduta circa 30 anni fa, ma ancora molto viva nel cuore dei suoi protagonisti. I nomi delle persone e dei luoghi sono di fantasia, ma i fatti raccontati sono reali, anche se sono soltanto la punta di iceberg di cio che hanno vissuto veramente per alcuni anni. L'autrice pone l'accento su quei percorsi emotivi e psicologici che hanno portato Esperance e gli altri a subire ogni tipo di violenza.