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The Unequal Pandemic : COVID-19 and Health Inequalities / by Bambra, C. (Clare), Smith, Katherine E., Lynch, Julia, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Chapter Five, 'Pandemic politics: inequality through public policy' -- Chapter Six, 'Conclusion: health and inequality beyond COVID-19' -- TWO Pale rider: pandemic inequalities -- Introduction -- An unequal pandemic -- Deprivation and COVID-19 -- Occupational inequalities in COVID-19 -- Racial/ethnic inequalities in COVID-19 -- Intersectional inequalities in COVID-19 -- The ghost of pandemics past -- The syndemic of COVID-19 and inequality71 -- Conclusion -- THREE Collateral damage: inequalities in the lockdown -- Introduction -- Collateral health and wellbeing impacts…”
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Assessment of feigned cognitive impairment a neuropsychological perspective /

Table of Contents: “…Yantz -- The use of effort tests in ethnic minorities and in non-english-speaking and english as a second language populations / Xavier F. …”
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Assessment of feigned cognitive impairment a neuropsychological perspective /

Table of Contents: “…Yantz -- The use of effort tests in ethnic minorities and in non-english-speaking and english as a second language populations / Xavier F. …”
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Money laundering prevention deterring, detecting, and resolving financial fraud / by Turner, Jonathan E., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…-- Evolution of AML Controls -- Adjusting to Rapidly Increasing Scale -- A Highly Flexible Methodology Results in Processes that Are Difficult to Stop -- AML Is a Process, Not a Destination -- All Countries' Regulatory Programs Are Not Equal -- Technology and Offshore Havens Intersect -- The Cost vs. the Benefit -- Consider the Pace of Change and Progress -- Conclusion -- ch. 6 Discovery and Prevention -- Early Warning Is Essential to AML -- Proactive Means Active -- By the Numbers -- Paradigm Shift -- Testing Your Own AML Systems -- Expanding the Business Comparison -- The Regulatory Framework -- High-Risk Areas -- Money Laundering Meets Terror Financing -- Hiding in Plain Sight -- Criminalizing the Concealment Activities -- Creating Financial Fronts -- Keeping the Money Moving -- Keeping the Tax Man Happy -- Conclusion -- ch. 7 Terror Financing -- Terrorists Use Money Laundering Techniques -- Similarities and Distinctions -- Application of the Methodology to Terror Financing -- Global Impact of Financial Crimes -- Alternative Laundering Mechanisms -- Regulatory Responses -- Conclusion -- ch. 8 Identifying Risk Exposures -- AML Exposures: Assessing Financial Institution Risk -- Language, Culture, and Ethnicity -- The Legal Landscape -- Geography: Distance Matters -- The Goal of the Launderer Is to Hide -- The United States Takes a Different Approach -- Laundering Groups Seek to Evade Detection -- A Fractured Enforcement and Regulatory Picture -- The Regulatory Position on Cyber Risks -- Simple Fraud, Still Successful -- Conclusion -- ch. 9 Investigating Money Movement -- Money Laundering Is Now Transnational Organized Crime -- Succeeding in the Investigative Process -- Government Access to Information -- Mining Data for Money Laundering -- Some Products Help the Perpetrators -- Investigating Virtual Payment Technologies -- Looking to the Future Investigative Issues -- Putting an Investigative Plan in Motion -- People Are Essential to Proof -- Finding Money Laundering Abroad -- Money Laundering Exposure during the Financial Industry Consolidation -- Conclusion -- ch. 10 Reporting and Recovery -- Reporting to Law Enforcement -- Honest People Act Differently -- Anticipating Challenges with Cyber Recoveries -- Building Appropriate Controls into Online Payment Systems -- Global Coordination on Future Issues -- Weighing Access vs. …”
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Money laundering prevention deterring, detecting, and resolving financial fraud / by Turner, Jonathan E., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…-- Evolution of AML Controls -- Adjusting to Rapidly Increasing Scale -- A Highly Flexible Methodology Results in Processes that Are Difficult to Stop -- AML Is a Process, Not a Destination -- All Countries' Regulatory Programs Are Not Equal -- Technology and Offshore Havens Intersect -- The Cost vs. the Benefit -- Consider the Pace of Change and Progress -- Conclusion -- ch. 6 Discovery and Prevention -- Early Warning Is Essential to AML -- Proactive Means Active -- By the Numbers -- Paradigm Shift -- Testing Your Own AML Systems -- Expanding the Business Comparison -- The Regulatory Framework -- High-Risk Areas -- Money Laundering Meets Terror Financing -- Hiding in Plain Sight -- Criminalizing the Concealment Activities -- Creating Financial Fronts -- Keeping the Money Moving -- Keeping the Tax Man Happy -- Conclusion -- ch. 7 Terror Financing -- Terrorists Use Money Laundering Techniques -- Similarities and Distinctions -- Application of the Methodology to Terror Financing -- Global Impact of Financial Crimes -- Alternative Laundering Mechanisms -- Regulatory Responses -- Conclusion -- ch. 8 Identifying Risk Exposures -- AML Exposures: Assessing Financial Institution Risk -- Language, Culture, and Ethnicity -- The Legal Landscape -- Geography: Distance Matters -- The Goal of the Launderer Is to Hide -- The United States Takes a Different Approach -- Laundering Groups Seek to Evade Detection -- A Fractured Enforcement and Regulatory Picture -- The Regulatory Position on Cyber Risks -- Simple Fraud, Still Successful -- Conclusion -- ch. 9 Investigating Money Movement -- Money Laundering Is Now Transnational Organized Crime -- Succeeding in the Investigative Process -- Government Access to Information -- Mining Data for Money Laundering -- Some Products Help the Perpetrators -- Investigating Virtual Payment Technologies -- Looking to the Future Investigative Issues -- Putting an Investigative Plan in Motion -- People Are Essential to Proof -- Finding Money Laundering Abroad -- Money Laundering Exposure during the Financial Industry Consolidation -- Conclusion -- ch. 10 Reporting and Recovery -- Reporting to Law Enforcement -- Honest People Act Differently -- Anticipating Challenges with Cyber Recoveries -- Building Appropriate Controls into Online Payment Systems -- Global Coordination on Future Issues -- Weighing Access vs. …”
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Spatially integrated social science

Table of Contents: “…Too much of the wrong kind of data : implications for the practice of micro-scale spatial modeling / David O'Sullivan -- Neighborhood-level analysis. Identifying ethnic neighborhoods with census data : group concentration and spatial clustering / John R. …”
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Spatially integrated social science

Table of Contents: “…Too much of the wrong kind of data : implications for the practice of micro-scale spatial modeling / David O'Sullivan -- Neighborhood-level analysis. Identifying ethnic neighborhoods with census data : group concentration and spatial clustering / John R. …”
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Bayesian inference in the social sciences /

Table of Contents: “…Butts 1.1 Introduction 2 1.2 Statistical Models for Social Network Data 2 1.3 Dynamic Network Logistic Regression with Vertex Dynamics 11 1.4 Empirical Examples and Simulation Analysis 14 1.5 Discussion 29 1.6 Conclusion 30 2 Ethnic Minority Rule and Civil War: A Bayesian Dynamic Multilevel Analysis 39 Xun Pang 2.1 Introduction: Ethnic Minority Rule and Civil War 40 2.2 EMR: Grievance and Opportunities of Rebellion 41 2.3 Bayesian GLMM-AR(p) Model 42 2.4 Variables, Model and Data 47 2.5 Empirical Results and Interpretation 49 2.6 Civil War: Prediction 54 2.7 Robustness Checking: Alternative Measures of EMR 59 2.8 Conclusion 60 References 62 3 Bayesian Analysis of Treatment Effect Models 67 Mingliang Li and Justin L. …”
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Bayesian inference in the social sciences /

Table of Contents: “…Butts 1.1 Introduction 2 1.2 Statistical Models for Social Network Data 2 1.3 Dynamic Network Logistic Regression with Vertex Dynamics 11 1.4 Empirical Examples and Simulation Analysis 14 1.5 Discussion 29 1.6 Conclusion 30 2 Ethnic Minority Rule and Civil War: A Bayesian Dynamic Multilevel Analysis 39 Xun Pang 2.1 Introduction: Ethnic Minority Rule and Civil War 40 2.2 EMR: Grievance and Opportunities of Rebellion 41 2.3 Bayesian GLMM-AR(p) Model 42 2.4 Variables, Model and Data 47 2.5 Empirical Results and Interpretation 49 2.6 Civil War: Prediction 54 2.7 Robustness Checking: Alternative Measures of EMR 59 2.8 Conclusion 60 References 62 3 Bayesian Analysis of Treatment Effect Models 67 Mingliang Li and Justin L. …”
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Feminisms redux an anthology of literary theory and criticism /

Table of Contents: “…Kauffman -- "Feminist and ethnic theories in Asian American literature" (1993) / Shirley Geok-Lin Lim -- "Four women's texts and a critique of imperialism" from A critique of postcolonial reason: toward a history of the vanishing present (1999) / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- "Introduction" from En-gendering India: woman and nation in colonial and postcolonial narratives (2000) / Sangeeta Ray -- "The laugh of the Medusa" (1975) / Hélêne Cixous -- "Visual pleasure and narrative cinema" (1975) / Laura Mulvey -- "Mama's baby, papa's maybe : an American grammar book" (1987) / Hortense J. …”
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Career development, employment, and disability in rehabilitation : from theory to practice /

Table of Contents: “…Conyers, Pia Smal, and Yung-Chen Chiu -- Essential knowledge to improve employment of ethnic minorities with disabilities in the United States / Jennifer L. …”
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Feminisms redux an anthology of literary theory and criticism /

Table of Contents: “…Kauffman -- "Feminist and ethnic theories in Asian American literature" (1993) / Shirley Geok-Lin Lim -- "Four women's texts and a critique of imperialism" from A critique of postcolonial reason: toward a history of the vanishing present (1999) / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- "Introduction" from En-gendering India: woman and nation in colonial and postcolonial narratives (2000) / Sangeeta Ray -- "The laugh of the Medusa" (1975) / Hélêne Cixous -- "Visual pleasure and narrative cinema" (1975) / Laura Mulvey -- "Mama's baby, papa's maybe : an American grammar book" (1987) / Hortense J. …”
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Career development, employment, and disability in rehabilitation : from theory to practice /

Table of Contents: “…Conyers, Pia Smal, and Yung-Chen Chiu -- Essential knowledge to improve employment of ethnic minorities with disabilities in the United States / Jennifer L. …”
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Cities in Asia by and for the People /

Table of Contents: “…10 Street Vending from the Right to the City Approach11 Surviving Existence through a Built Form; 12 Ethnic Place-Making in Cosmopolis; Index; List of Figures, Maps and Tables; Figure 2.1 Maps of (a) Jakarta, (b) Indonesia, (c) Kampung Pulo; Figure 3.1 Maps of (a) Thailand and (b) Bangkok with Pom Mahakan and Bang Bua; Figure 3.2 Tolerated spontaneous extensions on shophouses, around Ratchathewi BTS Station; Figure 3.3 Pom Mahakan's domestic architecture and traditions: Thai massage, cock fighting, fireworks, bird cages.…”
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Cities in Asia by and for the People /

Table of Contents: “…10 Street Vending from the Right to the City Approach11 Surviving Existence through a Built Form; 12 Ethnic Place-Making in Cosmopolis; Index; List of Figures, Maps and Tables; Figure 2.1 Maps of (a) Jakarta, (b) Indonesia, (c) Kampung Pulo; Figure 3.1 Maps of (a) Thailand and (b) Bangkok with Pom Mahakan and Bang Bua; Figure 3.2 Tolerated spontaneous extensions on shophouses, around Ratchathewi BTS Station; Figure 3.3 Pom Mahakan's domestic architecture and traditions: Thai massage, cock fighting, fireworks, bird cages.…”
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Information and liberation writings on the politics of information and librarianship / by Durrani, Shiraz

Table of Contents: “…(1992) -- Returning a stare : people's struggles for political and social inclusion (2000) -- The professional is political : redefining the social role of public libraries (2004, SD-ES) -- The role of the Library Association (2007) -- Never be silent : launch, Nairobi (2006) -- Communications for liberation : launch of Never be silent, London (2006) -- Trade union movement in Kenya & their communications system (2006) -- Politics of information & knowledge in Africa (2007) -- Setting the scene (4) : need for active involvement -- Explaining the stand -- Three questions from bis (2001) -- Interview with Shiraz Durrani, 11th May 2004 (Anna Goulding) -- Breaking the culture of silence (2006) -- Three questions from bis (2006) -- Information activism -- Library Association motions on race and class (1996) -- Comprehensive and efficient : standards for modern public libraries, a response (2000) -- Progressive librarians & activists campaign to save CRE Library (2004) -- Study, teaching and learning -- The educational role of public libraries in combating racism and xenophobia (1999) -- Incorporating reflective learning-- in information management (2007) -- Learning by doing : lifelong learning through innovations projects at DASS (2007) -- Changing course content to meet changing needs (2007) -- Ideas into action -- The facts behind the Three Continents Liberation Collection (1993) -- The Black and Minority Ethnic Stock Group in Hackney libraries (1999) -- Young people in control (SD-DB, 2004) -- Quality Leaders Project-Youth : a search for a relevant information service (2005-06) -- Progressive librarianship in Africa : the PALIAct story (2006) -- Quality Leaders Project (Youth) : report 4 to PHF (2006) -- QLP-Y on a journey of a thousand kilometres (2007) -- Filling the youth shaped hole (2007) -- Book reviews -- Sturges, Paul and Neill, Richard (1990) : The quiet struggle. …”
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Figures of Southeast Asian modernity

Table of Contents: “…Malaysia / Yeoh Seng Guan -- National leader / Sven Alexander Schottmann -- Reactionary / Gerhard Hoffstaedter -- Scholar-musician / Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied -- Hang Tuah, revisited / Rusaslina Idrus -- Supra-ethnic Malaysian / Julian C. H. Lee -- Political satirist / Khoo Gaik Cheng -- Squatter / Yeoh Seng Guan -- Returning urbanite / Matthew Amster -- Timber entrepreneur / Michael Eilenberg --…”
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Information and liberation writings on the politics of information and librarianship / by Durrani, Shiraz

Table of Contents: “…(1992) -- Returning a stare : people's struggles for political and social inclusion (2000) -- The professional is political : redefining the social role of public libraries (2004, SD-ES) -- The role of the Library Association (2007) -- Never be silent : launch, Nairobi (2006) -- Communications for liberation : launch of Never be silent, London (2006) -- Trade union movement in Kenya & their communications system (2006) -- Politics of information & knowledge in Africa (2007) -- Setting the scene (4) : need for active involvement -- Explaining the stand -- Three questions from bis (2001) -- Interview with Shiraz Durrani, 11th May 2004 (Anna Goulding) -- Breaking the culture of silence (2006) -- Three questions from bis (2006) -- Information activism -- Library Association motions on race and class (1996) -- Comprehensive and efficient : standards for modern public libraries, a response (2000) -- Progressive librarians & activists campaign to save CRE Library (2004) -- Study, teaching and learning -- The educational role of public libraries in combating racism and xenophobia (1999) -- Incorporating reflective learning-- in information management (2007) -- Learning by doing : lifelong learning through innovations projects at DASS (2007) -- Changing course content to meet changing needs (2007) -- Ideas into action -- The facts behind the Three Continents Liberation Collection (1993) -- The Black and Minority Ethnic Stock Group in Hackney libraries (1999) -- Young people in control (SD-DB, 2004) -- Quality Leaders Project-Youth : a search for a relevant information service (2005-06) -- Progressive librarianship in Africa : the PALIAct story (2006) -- Quality Leaders Project (Youth) : report 4 to PHF (2006) -- QLP-Y on a journey of a thousand kilometres (2007) -- Filling the youth shaped hole (2007) -- Book reviews -- Sturges, Paul and Neill, Richard (1990) : The quiet struggle. …”
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Figures of Southeast Asian modernity

Table of Contents: “…Malaysia / Yeoh Seng Guan -- National leader / Sven Alexander Schottmann -- Reactionary / Gerhard Hoffstaedter -- Scholar-musician / Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied -- Hang Tuah, revisited / Rusaslina Idrus -- Supra-ethnic Malaysian / Julian C. H. Lee -- Political satirist / Khoo Gaik Cheng -- Squatter / Yeoh Seng Guan -- Returning urbanite / Matthew Amster -- Timber entrepreneur / Michael Eilenberg --…”
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Recent social trends in Bulgaria, 1960-1995

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: 0.1 Demographic Trends 33 -- 0.2 Macro-economic Trends 42 -- 0.3 Macro-technological Trends 54 -- 1 Age Groups -- 1.1 Youth 62 -- 1.2 Elders 68 -- 2 Microsocial -- 2.1 Self-identification 72 -- 2.2 Kinship Networks 77 -- 2.3 Community and Neighbourhood Types 83 -- 2.4 Local Autonomy 91 -- 2.5 Voluntary Associations 99 -- 2.6 Sociability Networks 104 -- 3 Women -- 3.1 Female Roles 107 -- 3.2 Childbearing 112 -- 3.3 Matrimonial Models 116 -- 3.4 Women's Employment 122 -- 3.5 Reproductive Technologies 136 -- 4 Labour Market -- 4.1 Unemployment 138 -- 4.2 Skills and Occupational Levels 142 -- 4.3 Types of Employment 147 -- 4.4 Sectors of the Labour Force 153 -- 4.5 Computerization of Work 158 -- 5 Labour and Management -- 5.1 Work Organization 162 -- 5.2 Personnel Administration 166 -- 5.3 Sizes and Types of Enterprises 173 -- 6 Social Stratification -- 6.1 Occupational Status 180 -- 6.2 Social Mobility 192 -- 6.3 Economic Inequality 198 -- 6.4 Social Inequality 206 -- 7 Social Relations -- 7.1 Conflict 218 -- 7.2 Negotiation 224 -- 7.3 Norms of Conduct 230 -- 7.4 Authority 235 -- 7.5 Public Opinion 243 -- 8 State and Service Institutions -- 8.1 Educational System 247 -- 8.2 Health System 254 -- 8.3 Welfare System 259 -- 8.4 The State 265 -- 9 Mobilizing Institutions -- 9.1 Labour Unions 269 -- 9.2 Religious Institutions 276 -- 9.3 The Military 281 -- 9.4 Political Parties 289 -- 9.5 Mass Media 294 -- 10 Institutionalization of Social Forces -- 10.1 Dispute Settlement 302 -- 10.2 Institutionalization of Labour Unions 307 -- 10.3 Social Movements 311 -- 10.4 Interest Groups 317 -- 11 Ideologies and Beliefs -- 11.1 Political Differentiation 325 -- 11.2 Confidence in Institutions 331 -- 11.3 Economic Orientations 336 -- 11.4 Radicalism 341 -- 11.5 Religious Beliefs 347 -- 12 Household Resources -- 12.1 Personal and Family Income 353 -- 12.2 Informal Economy 359 -- 12.3 Personal and Family Wealth 362 -- 13 Life-Style -- 13.1 Market Goods and Services 367 -- 13.2 Mass Information 375 -- 13.3 Personal Health and Beauty Practices 382 -- 13.4 Time Use 386 -- 13.5 Daily Mobility 389 -- 13.6 Household Production 392 -- 13.7 Forms of Erotic Expression 395 -- 13.8 Mood-altering Substances 401 -- 14 Leisure -- 14.1 Amount and Use of Free Time 409 -- 14.2 Vacation Patterns 413 -- 14.3 Athletics and Sports 415 -- 14.4 Cultural Activities and Practices 418 -- 15 Educational Attainment -- 15.1 General Education 426 -- 15.2 Vocational and Professional Education 431 -- 15.3 Continuing Education 439 -- 16 Integration and Marginalization -- 16.1 Ethnic Minorities 440 -- 16.2 Crime and Punishment 448 -- 16.3 Emotional Disorders and Self-destructive Behaviour 459 -- 16.4 Poverty 465 -- 17 Attitudes and Values -- 17.1 Satisfaction 470 -- 17.2 Perceptions of Social Problems 476 -- 17.3 Orientations to the Future 479 -- 17.4 Values 483 -- 17.5 National Identity 489.…”
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