Texas' economic growth has consistently outpaced that of the United States as a whole over the past quarter century. What accounts for the state's economic success? And does it come at a price to be paid in the future? Ten-Gallon Economy features new research on regional economic growth and some surprising findings on Texas' unique tax and banking institutions, booming energy and export sectors, vibrant labor market, expanding demographics and human capital, and growing border economy. Texas has a dynamic economy, large yet flexible, but it is still subject to the booms and busts of the energy sector, which exercises an outsized influence. Taxes are low but regressive relative to national benchmarks, which fuels growth but can inhibit investment in education and health. Meanwhile, Texas, as one of only five minority-majority states, is poised to reap a big demographic dividend if it invests wisely in the coming generation of mostly Latino workers. Taken together, the chapters in this volume provide unique insight into the economy of the nation's second-largest state, laying out some of the choices facing policymakers charged with safeguarding the Texas growth premium for future generations.

In this engaging text, Michael Weiss offers an advanced view of the secondary mathematics curriculum through the prism of theory, analysis, and history, aiming to take an intellectually and mathematically mature perspective on the content normally taught in high school mathematics courses. Rather than a secondary mathematics textbook, Weiss presents here a textbook about the secondary mathematics curriculum, written for mathematics educators and mathematicians and presenting a long-overdue modern-day integration of the disparate topics and methods of secondary mathematics into a coherent mathematical theory. Areas covered include: Polynomials and polynomial functions; Geometry, graphs, and symmetry; Abstract algebra, linear algebra, and solving equations; Exponential and logarithmic functions; Complex numbers; The historical development of the secondary mathematics curriculum. Written using precise definitions and proofs throughout on a foundation of advanced content knowledge, Weiss offers a compelling and timely investigation into the secondary mathematics curriculum, relevant for preservice secondary teachers as well as graduate students and scholars in both mathematics and mathematics education.

The current volume constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference in Algebraic Topology, held on the Isle of Skye, Scotland in June 200l. Many of the the talks at the conference focused on categorical decomposition techniques currently used in algebraic topology, such as Goodwillie's "calculus of functors" and the various approximation techniques that have proved so useful for the study of classifying spaces. The contents represent these, and other themes in algebraic toplogy, as they are being developed by experts in the field. For instance, the homotopy theory of classifying spaces is represented by the articles of Aguade-Broto-Saumell, Davis and Iwase-Mimura. The papers by Betley, Kuhn and Panov-Ray-Vogt deal with general categorical decomposition techniques. The papers of Anton, Goerss-Henn Mahowald and Hodgkin-Ostvaer bring us to the forefront of computational homo topy theory. Other papers deal with assorted topics of current interest in algebraic topology. Progress in Mathematics, Vol. 215 Algebraic Topology: Categorical Decomposition Techniques, 1-20 (c) 2003 Birkhiiuser Verlag Basel/Switzerland The Functor T and the Cohomology of Mapping Spaces Jaume Aguade, Carles Broto, and Laia Saumell 1. Introduction In his fundamental work 15] Lannes has introduced a functor T defined in the category K (resp. U) of unstable algebras (resp. modules) over the Steenrod algebra which has many important applications in homotopy theory. This functor is, in some sense, the algebraic analogue of the mapping space functor Map(BV, -) for an elementary abelian group V."

This celebrated work by one of the foremost experts in Indo-European and Classical linguistics is now available in a fully revised second edition, thoroughly updated and corrected with over fifty pages of new material. The Outline's forty-five chapters offer a wealth of knowledge for both the generalist and the specialist in their treatment of the development of Latin from its earliest prehistoric origins down to the modern Romance languages. Not only covering the language's phonological, morphological, and syntactic prehistory in great depth, they also include important subsidiary topics like language contact and Etruscan. Basic information is presented in concise outline format in the main text and is augmented by countless additional details that populate the footnotes. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography followed by complete indices of forms, ancient sources, and subjects. 

What role might geometry play in the mathematical education of adolescents during the next century, and how might teachers and researchers contribute to explore those opportunities and challenges?

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The Teaching and Learning of Geometry" provides an initial consideration of these questions and a primer for teachers and young scholars to get involved in addressing them. Geometry has long been a mainstay of the secondary school curriculum internationally, charged with the responsibility of introducing students to the practices of theoretical mathematics. This book provides a pedagogical framework for the teaching and learning of geometry grounded in theory and research. It can support teacher preparation and professional development, and orient classroom research by teachers and development efforts directed to teachers.

Areas covered include: -

• Curricular perspectives in teaching and learning geometry
• Cognition in geometry
• Teacher knowledge, thinking and beliefs
• Instructional exchanges and classroom interventions
• Ideas for classroom research

Curriculum developers can use this book as a resource for textbook writing, and teacher developers can use this book as a resource for inservice and preservice teacher education course development. Graduate students and teacher-researchers will find in this book both a framework to orient them to the research literature and a guide for short-term classroom research projects.

IMPACT (Interweaving Mathematics Pedagogy and Content for Teaching) is an exciting new series of advanced textbooks for teacher education which aims to advance the teaching of maths by integrating mathematics content teaching with the broader research and theoretical base of mathematics education.

In this engaging text, Michael Weiss offers an advanced view of the secondary mathematics curriculum through the prism of theory, analysis, and history, aiming to take an intellectually and mathematically mature perspective on the content normally taught in high school mathematics courses. Rather than a secondary mathematics textbook, Weiss presents here a textbook about the secondary mathematics curriculum, written for mathematics educators and mathematicians and presenting a long-overdue modern-day integration of the disparate topics and methods of secondary mathematics into a coherent mathematical theory. Areas covered include: Polynomials and polynomial functions; Geometry, graphs, and symmetry; Abstract algebra, linear algebra, and solving equations; Exponential and logarithmic functions; Complex numbers; The historical development of the secondary mathematics curriculum. Written using precise definitions and proofs throughout on a foundation of advanced content knowledge, Weiss offers a compelling and timely investigation into the secondary mathematics curriculum, relevant for preservice secondary teachers as well as graduate students and scholars in both mathematics and mathematics education.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on E-Technologies, MCETECH 2017, held in Ottawa, ON, Canada, in May 2017. This year's conference drew special attention to the ever-increasing role of the Internet of Things (IoT); and the contributions span a variety of application domains such as e-Commerce, e-Health, e-Learning, and e-Justice, comprising research from models and architectures, methodology proposals, prototype implementations, and empirical validation of theoretical models. The 19 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: pervasive computing and smart applications; security, privacy and trust; process modeling and adaptation; data analytics and machine learning; and e-health and e-commerce.

What role might geometry play in the mathematical education of adolescents during the next century, and how might teachers and researchers contribute to explore those opportunities and challenges?

"

The Teaching and Learning of Geometry" provides an initial consideration of these questions and a primer for teachers and young scholars to get involved in addressing them. Geometry has long been a mainstay of the secondary school curriculum internationally, charged with the responsibility of introducing students to the practices of theoretical mathematics. This book provides a pedagogical framework for the teaching and learning of geometry grounded in theory and research. It can support teacher preparation and professional development, and orient classroom research by teachers and development efforts directed to teachers.

Areas covered include: -

• Curricular perspectives in teaching and learning geometry
• Cognition in geometry
• Teacher knowledge, thinking and beliefs
• Instructional exchanges and classroom interventions
• Ideas for classroom research

Curriculum developers can use this book as a resource for textbook writing, and teacher developers can use this book as a resource for inservice and preservice teacher education course development. Graduate students and teacher-researchers will find in this book both a framework to orient them to the research literature and a guide for short-term classroom research projects.

IMPACT (Interweaving Mathematics Pedagogy and Content for Teaching) is an exciting new series of advanced textbooks for teacher education which aims to advance the teaching of maths by integrating mathematics content teaching with the broader research and theoretical base of mathematics education.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on E-Technologies, MCETECH 2015, held in Montreal, Canada, in May 2015. The 18 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. They have been organized in topical sections on process adaptation; legal issues; social computing; eHealth; and eBusiness, eEducation and eLogistics.

The book consists of articles at the frontier of current research in Algebraic Topology. It presents recent results by top notch experts, and is intended primarily for researchers and graduate students working in the field of algebraic topology. Included is an important article by Cohen, Johnes and Yan on the homology of the space of smooth loops on a manifold M, endowed with the Chas-Sullivan intersection product, as well as an article by Goerss, Henn and Mahowald on stable homotopy groups of spheres, which uses the cutting edge technology of "topological modular forms."

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on E-Technologies, MCETECH 2009, held in Ottawa, Canada, during May 4-6, 2009.

The 23 full and 4 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 42 submissions. They cover topics such as inter-organzational processes, service-oriented architectures, security and trust, middleware infrastructures, open source and open environments, and applications including eGovernment, eEducation, and eHealth.

Electodiagnosis is a method in which diagnostic information is obtained by testing and recording the electrical activities of body parts. It has been used in PMR medicine increasingly in recent years as technology has advanced, and is currently the most common way to diagnose a patient for neuromuscular disorders.

Dieses Buch ist eine Festschrift, jedoch keine im iiblichen Sinne, wie schon die Thematik andeutet. Zu Ehren von Prof Dr. Helmut Weicker geht es uns nicht urn die Sammlung qualifizierter Beitrtige von Schillem, Kollegen, Freunden aus dem Fachgebiet und angrenzenden Wissenschaften, die unter Oberbegriffen Teile des sehr breit gewordenen Fachgebietes "Sportmedi zin" reprasentieren und interdisziplinare sowie internationale Kontakte ausweisen konnen. Die Idee zu dieser Schrift lieferte H. Weicker selbst durch seine offentliche Vorlesung im Mai 1990: "Die Sportmedizin unter dem Aspekt des wissenschaftlichen Paradigmawechsels," die als richtung weisender Beitrag an erster Stelle unseres Sammelwerks steht. Die Ver dichtung von wissenschaftlichen Teilergebnissen zu iibergeordneten Kon zepten, die zur Verbesserung oder Uberwindung gangiger Theorien und Ansichten fiihren, ist das Besondere daran. Weicker's Leitidee, bezogen auf einen Vortrag von Gerok und auf den sportmedizinischen Bereich ange wendet, ist "die gefahrliche Balance zwischen Ordnung und Chaos im men schlichen Organismus." Weil in der Medizin ein strenger Determinismus sehen zu konstatieren sei, konne man einen hohen Ordnungsgrad der Or ganfunktion nicht generell als Gesundheit, chaotische Abweichungen nicht generell als pathologisch bezeichnen. Die lJberzeugung, daB Teilaspekte der Forschung nieht die Gesamtfra gestellung aufklaren konnen, muB die Einsicht starken, daB die arztliche Intuition gegeniiber den Labordaten eine wesentliche Erkenntnisfunktion behalt. Wir mochten eine geschlossene Biographie von H. Weicker nicht wie derholen (vgl."

A Presentation is not a meeting; ita s a Performance Ita s your time to stand up, shine and win over your audience with your ideas and your stories. This book is for anyone who has to present their ideas to internal teams, clients, the board of directors or who aspires to give a TED talk. Too often the fear of vulnerability stands in the way of delivering a rock solid presentation. We get hung up on how we talk, how we look, how we move and we forget that we are given the chance to educate and entertain. With the tools included in Presentation Elevation you will soon be the presenter you always wanted to be How? By focusing on YOU and your style, how to win THEM over finally HOW to create a presentation slide deck that will make you a rock star in the eyes of your audience. If you find yourself opening old Powerpoint Slide decks when creating a new presentation, then this book is for you If you often find your audience reaching for their smart phones, then this book is for you. If you want to educate, inspire and entertain your audiences of 5 or 500 people then Presentation Elevation is for you There are many books on HOW to become a better presenter. And many of them are very good yet exhaustive. The goal of this book is for you to be able to read it on the plane from New York to LA and step off inspired and ready to rock and roll your next presentation

In 1990 Doctor Benny Mizrachi, the Jewish dentist from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, immigrates to Israel, but does not tell the authorities that in the crate marked Medical Supplies is an atomic bomb.

Years before, at the onset of the Six Day war, in the Jabalya refugee camp in Gaza, Mahmud ibn Salim ibn Faruk, at the age of ten, witnesses the horrifying death of his father. Mahmud goes into shock and falls into a long dreamless sleep.

When the Palestinian Sleeper is awakened by the PLO, Mahmud learns that Benny and he is to immigrate to Israel, to deliver an atomic bomb for the cause of liberating Palestine. On October 9, 1990 the atomic bomb is placed on the Dome of the Rock to hold Israel hostage, but is seized by another PLO faction group at the orders of Saddam Hussein, at which time Mahmud escapes to his origins, to Gaza.

In Gaza Lieutenant Colonel Kfir Peled, commander of the elite Israeli Shimshonite Forces, captures Mahmud and learns that a W82 tactical nuclear warhead is on a journey to Tel-Aviv to be detonated.

Mahmud and Kfir, one Palestinian and one Israeli, one the captor and the other the captive, unite to combat the impeding obliteration on 10/11

"The Bomb on the Rock" is meticulously intertwined with historical events that actually happened. This story too... may have actually happened.

Tocharian B, an Indo-European language spoken in the first millennium C.E. in western China, is of great importance to numerous disciplines, from Indo-European historical linguistics to the study of Central Asia, the Silk Road, and Buddhism. This first-ever textbook in the language makes Tocharian B, hitherto familiar mostly to specialists, readily accessible to a broad audience. In twenty graduated lessons, the student is introduced to all the language's grammar, with translation exercises between English and Tocharian in both directions and numerous passages taken from original texts. The book assumes no familiarity with the scholarly disciplines above, but simultaneously contains much information useful to specialists by virtue of the author's broad knowledge and full familiarity with the most up-to-date literature. A full glossary, together with tables of declensions and conjugations, key to the exercises, and bibliography round out the volume.