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For students taking courses in early childhood special education. A
practical, activity-based approach to early childhood special
education built on a foundation of theory and research. This
comprehensive text on early childhood special education emphasizes
a developmental focus over a disability focus. The authors believe
that children are more alike than different in their developmental
processes and avoids the negative impact of labeling children with
disability categorical names. The authors have produced a book that
offers educators a practical and effective guide to finding
learning opportunities within daily curriculum activities and
routine. The current edition maintains the focus on inclusive,
family-centered, real-world approaches that are also theoretically
based. The text also provides ample detail related to specific
intervention strategies that enhance teachers' ability to work with
young children with special needs and their families. Readable and
practical, the illustrations of techniques and strategies
throughout make this text a valuable resource long after students
leave their formal education.
When Emperor Constantine triggered the rise of a Christian state,
he opened a new chapter in the history of Constantinople and
Jerusalem. In the centuries that followed, the two cities were
formed and transformed into powerful symbols of Empire and Church.
For the first time, this book investigates the increasingly dense
and complex net of reciprocal dependencies between the imperial
center and the navel of the Christian world. Imperial influence,
initiatives by the Church, and projects of individuals turned
Constantinople and Jerusalem into important realms of
identification and spaces of representation. Distinguished
international scholars investigate this fascinating development,
focusing on aspects of art, ceremony, religion, ideology, and
imperial rule. In enriching our understanding of the entangled
history of Constantinople and Jerusalem in Late Antiquity, City of
Caesar, City of God illuminates the transition between Antiquity,
Byzantium, and the Middle Ages.
It was in the course of 1980 that it dawned upon several friends
and colleagues of Manfred Bierwisch that a half century had passed
since his birth in 1930. Manfred's youthful appearance had
prevented a timely appreciation of this fact, and these friends and
co11eagues are, therefore, not at ali embarrassed to be presenting
him, almost a year late, with a Festschrift which willleave a trace
of this noteworthy occasion in the archives of linguistics. It
should be realized, however, that the deIay would have easily
extended to 1990 if alI those who had wanted to contribute to this
book had in fact written their chapters. Under the pressure of
actuality, several co11eagues who had genu ineIy hoped or even
promised to contribute, just couIdn't make it in time. Still, their
greetings and best wishes are also, be it tacitly, expressed by
this volume. Especia11y important for the archives would be a
record of the celebrated one's works and physical appearance. For
the convenience of present and future generations this Festschrift
contains a bibliography of Manfred Bierwisch's scientific
publications, which forms a chapter in itself. The frontispiece
photograph was taken unawares by one of our accomplices. The title
of this Festschrift may alIow for free associations of various
sorts."
Translated from the French, this book is an introduction to
first-order model theory. Starting from scratch, it quickly reaches
the essentials, namely, the back-and-forth method and compactness,
which are illustrated with examples taken from algebra. It also
introduces logic via the study of the models of arithmetic, and it
gives complete but accessible exposition of stability theory.
I fancy that many of you, like myself, have woken up in the night
with a "sleeping" arm or leg. It is a very peculiar feeling to have
that arm or leg, cold and lifeless, hanging there at your side as
if it were something which does not belong to you. In such
situations you recover some of the motor functions before the
sensory functions, which en ables you to move the limb like a
pendulum. For a few sec onds the arm functions as an artificial
limb - a prosthesis without sensors. In general we are not aware of
the importance of our sensory organs until we lose them. You do not
feel the pressure of your clothes on the skin or the ring on your
finger. In the nineteenth century such phenomena generally named
adaptation, were studied to a great extent, partic ularly in
vision, as well as in the so-called lower senses. The question
whether sensory adaptation was due to changes in the peripheral
sensory receptors or in the central nervous structure remained in
general open until the 1920s. Then the development of the
electronic arsenal gave us the means to attack the problem by
direct observations of the electrical events in the peripheral as
well as the central nervous system. But even today there are still
some blank areas in our knowledge of adaptation."
Volume 9 in this series consists of four chapters on vectors that
affect human or animal health and six chapters on plant pathogens
and their vectors. In Chapter 1, Alex S. Raikhel discusses
vitellogenesis in mosquitoes: the cornerstone of the reproductive
cycle involving massive production of yolk precursors by the fat
body and their accumulation in developing oocytes. In anautogeneous
mosquitoes, vitellogenesis is dependent on the availability of a
blood meal and, as a consequence, is linked to transmission of
pathogens. Therefore, elucidation of mechanisms governing the
mosquito vitellogenesis is critical for the successful development
of novel strategies in vector and disease management. Previous
reviews on mosquito vitellogenesis have dealt predominantly with
hormonal control. The goal of this review, however, is to summarize
significant progress which has been achieved in understanding
mosquito vitellogenesis at the cellular, biochemical and molecular
levels. It is with these disciplines that we expect to fully
understand the mechanisms governing this key process in mosquito
reproduction.
This study deals with variation in grammar both from a theoretical
and an empirical point of view. In Part I (Chaps. 1-4), an attempt
is made to char acterize this phenomenon within the broader context
of what might be called the "fluctuating character of natu'ral
language," and to develop suitable and precise descriptive
techniques that account for it. The method which is pro posed here
is called "variety grammar" - roughly speaking, this is a formal
grammar with probabilistic weighting for an ordered set of
varieties, such as dialects, sociolects, registers, or
developmental stages. In Part II (Chaps. 5-8), this technique is
applied to an important area of grammatical variation - to the
process of second language acquisition in social context, based on
a large investigation of the language behavior of foreign migrant
workers acquiring German through everyday contacts. We have tried
to characterize their "developing grammars" and to relate this
complex developmental process to social and individual factors that
determine it."
X Kochendorffer, L.A. Kalu: lnin and their students in the 50s and
60s. Nowadays the most deeply developed is the theory of binary
invariant relations and their combinatorial approximations. These
combinatorial approximations arose repeatedly during this century
under various names (Hecke algebras, centralizer rings, association
schemes, coherent configurations, cellular rings, etc.-see the
first paper of the collection for details) andin various branches
of mathematics, both pure and applied. One of these approximations,
the theory of cellular rings (cellular algebras), was developed at
the end of the 60s by B. Yu. Weisfeiler and A.A. Leman in the
course of the first serious attempt to study the complexity of the
graph isomorphism problem, one of the central problems in the
modern theory of combinatorial algorithms. At roughly the same time
G.M. Adelson-Velskir, V.L. Arlazarov, I.A. Faradtev and their
colleagues had developed a rather efficient tool for the
constructive enumeration of combinatorial objects based on the
branch and bound method. By means of this tool a number of
"sports-like" results were obtained. Some of these results are
still unsurpassed."
Adapting Early Childhood Curricula for Children with Disabilities
and Special Needs uses a developmental focus, rather than a
disability orientation, to discuss typical and atypical child
development and curricular adaptations. The integrated,
non-categorical approach assumes that children are more alike than
different in their development. The inclusive focus assumes that
attitudes, environments, and intervention strategies can be adapted
so that all young children with disabilities or other special needs
can be included. An essential text for today, and a valuable
resource to take into the classroom tomorrow, this practical guide
provides daily activities, evidence-based how-to strategies, and
realistic lesson modifications that help facilitate truly inclusive
classrooms. Aspiring educators will also learn to develop their
collaboration and problem-solving skills to effectively work with
families, colleagues, and paraprofessionals in supporting every
child's positive development. The 10th Edition is updated to
include enhanced discussions on working with families, children,
and professionals of diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds
and lifestyles; new tips for integrating Division for Early
Childhood Recommended Practices; updated requirements for writing
IEP goals and recommendations; and more.
This book, translated from the French, is an introduction to first-order model theory. The first six chapters are very basic: starting from scratch, they quickly reach the essential, namely, the back-and-forth method and compactness, which are illustrated with examples taken from algebra. The next chapter introduces logic via the study of the models of arithmetic, and the following is a combinatorial tool-box preparing for the chapters on saturated and prime models. The last ten chapters form a rather complete but nevertheless accessible exposition of stability theory, which is the core of the subject.
X Kochendorffer, L.A. Kalu: lnin and their students in the 50s and
60s. Nowadays the most deeply developed is the theory of binary
invariant relations and their combinatorial approximations. These
combinatorial approximations arose repeatedly during this century
under various names (Hecke algebras, centralizer rings, association
schemes, coherent configurations, cellular rings, etc.-see the
first paper of the collection for details) andin various branches
of mathematics, both pure and applied. One of these approximations,
the theory of cellular rings (cellular algebras), was developed at
the end of the 60s by B. Yu. Weisfeiler and A.A. Leman in the
course of the first serious attempt to study the complexity of the
graph isomorphism problem, one of the central problems in the
modern theory of combinatorial algorithms. At roughly the same time
G.M. Adelson-Velskir, V.L. Arlazarov, I.A. Faradtev and their
colleagues had developed a rather efficient tool for the
constructive enumeration of combinatorial objects based on the
branch and bound method. By means of this tool a number of
"sports-like" results were obtained. Some of these results are
still unsurpassed."
It was in the course of 1980 that it dawned upon several friends
and colleagues of Manfred Bierwisch that a half century had passed
since his birth in 1930. Manfred's youthful appearance had
prevented a timely appreciation of this fact, and these friends and
co11eagues are, therefore, not at ali embarrassed to be presenting
him, almost a year late, with a Festschrift which willleave a trace
of this noteworthy occasion in the archives of linguistics. It
should be realized, however, that the deIay would have easily
extended to 1990 if alI those who had wanted to contribute to this
book had in fact written their chapters. Under the pressure of
actuality, several co11eagues who had genu ineIy hoped or even
promised to contribute, just couIdn't make it in time. Still, their
greetings and best wishes are also, be it tacitly, expressed by
this volume. Especia11y important for the archives would be a
record of the celebrated one's works and physical appearance. For
the convenience of present and future generations this Festschrift
contains a bibliography of Manfred Bierwisch's scientific
publications, which forms a chapter in itself. The frontispiece
photograph was taken unawares by one of our accomplices. The title
of this Festschrift may alIow for free associations of various
sorts."
A significant study of the educational system of the German
Democratic Republic as a case study of communist education by a
distinguished specialist on the subject.
Seven Minutes is a social and aesthetic history of the "controlled
anarchy" of the cartoon, from the first talking Mickeys to the
demise of Warners and MGM theatrical productions in 1960. Norman M.
Klein follows the scrambling graphics and upside-down ballet of
Fleischer's Betty Boop, Popeye, Superman of the Wolfie cartoons by
Tex Avery, of the Bugs and Daffy, Tweetie and Roadrunner cartoons
from Warners, of full animation at Disney, of the "whiteness of
Snow White", and of how Mickey Mouse became a logo. Reviewing the
graphics, scripts and marketing of each era, he discovers the links
between cartoons and live action movies, newspapers, popular
illustration, and the entertainment architecture coming out of
Disneyland. Klein shows that the cartoon was a perverse juggling
act, invaded constantly by economic and political pressures, by
marketing for sound, by licensing characters to stave off
bankruptcies, by Prohibition, the Great Depression, World War II
and the first wave of television.
From 1985 to 1994 there existed a significant but unheralded
experiment in professional baseball. For ten seasons, the Tecolotes
de los Dos Laredos (The Owls of the Two Laredos) were the only team
in professional sports to represent two nations. Playing in the
storied Mexican League (an AAA affiliate of major league baseball),
the "Tecos" had home parks on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border,
in Laredo, Texas and in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. In true border
fashion, Mexican and American national anthems were played before
each game, and the Tecos were operated by interests in both cities.
"Baseball on the Border" is the story of the rise and unexpected
demise of this surprising team.
For Alan Klein, a cultural anthropologist specializing in sport,
"the border" is almost a nation of its own. Having formed teams of
players from both sides of the Rio Grande for almost a century,
organizers and followers of the "Border Birds" often join forces
but just as frequently squabble with each other in a chronic border
tension. Throughout the book, Klein includes firsthand observations
of the team and descriptions of its players. Readers will meet Dan
Firova, the Tecos' beleaguered manager, a border-region native who
nevertheless finds himself a target of the Mexican media. The "Ugly
American," Willie Waite, is a young pitcher whose stunning success
does nothing to diminish the disdain he has for his Mexican
teammates. Ernesto Barraza, "The Trickster," once threw a no-hitter
on only seventy-three pitches (on April Fool's Day, appropriately
enough), but occasionally shows up at the park missing part of his
uniform. And then there is Andres Mora, an aged slugger who,
despite three seasons in major league baseball and a life of
personal excesses, came within a few home runs of setting the
all-time Mexican League record.
This is just part of the roster of the Tecos and only a fraction
of the lineup of "Baseball on the Border." Anyone with an interest
in baseball will be enlightened and entertained by this informative
book.
Das Thema Ernahrung kommt angesichts der steigenden Zahl der
Erkrankungen und der damit zusammenhangenden Kosten auch in der
arztlichen Praxis ein immer grosserer Stellenwert zu. Patienten
fragen, der Arzt muss antworten. Dieses Buch ist fur die Praxis der
arztlichen Ernahrungsberatung konzipiert. Wissenschaftler und
Kliniker stellen klare und konkrete Handlungsanweisungen zusammen,
beantworten Fragen kurz und schlussig und verzichten dabei auf
theoretische Hintergrunde. Das Buch geht Seite fur Seite auf die
verschiedenen ernahrungsabhangigen Krankheiten ein, nennt die
wichtigsten Ernahrungsempfehlungen und erlautert die Funktion von
Vitaminen und Mineralstoffen. Methodische Fragen der
Ernahrungsberatung werden ebenso angesprochen wie (fast) alle
Diaten, nach denen Patienten oft fragen.
Das Buch zieht eine Bilanz aller Forschungsvorhaben des
Bundesforschungsministeriums im FArderschwerpunkt
"A-kotoxikologie." Es spiegelt die Ergebnisse und Wirkungen bei
Zielgruppen und Anwendern aus Wissenschaft, BehArden und Industrie
an den ursprA1/4nglichen Zielsetzungen und Rahmenbedingungen.
BerA1/4cksichtigt werden Kriterien wie Erkenntnisgewinn,
Entwicklung von Themenfeldern, Positionierung im internationalen
Vergleich, AktualitAt und FlexibilitAt der FArderung angewandter
Forschung sowie die Effizienz in der Mittelvergabe. Neben der
rA1/4ckblickenden Analyse enthAlt das Buch eine zukunftsorientierte
Vorausschau, verbunden mit Empfehlungen fA1/4r die kA1/4nftige
ForschungsfArderung des BMBF.
Los Angeles is a city which has long thrived on the continual
re-creation of own myth. In this extraordinary and original work,
Norman Klein examines the process of memory erasure in LA. Using a
provocative mixture of fact and fiction, the book takes us on an
'anti-tour' of downtown LA, examines life for Vietnamese immigrants
in the City of Dreams, imagines Walter Benjamin as a Los Angeleno,
and finally looks at the way information technology has recreated
the city, turning cyberspace into the last suburb. In this new
edition, Norman Klein examines new models for erasure in LA. He
explores the evolution of the Latino majority, how the Pacific
economy is changing the structure of urban life, the impact of
collapsing infrastructure in the city, and the restructuring of
those very districts that had been 'forgotten'.
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