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Returning to the source : the final stage of the Caribbean migration circuit /

Table of Contents: “…Lucia: a comparative analysis / Francis K. Abenaty -- Building home: being and becoming a return resident / Heather A Horst -- Second-generation "Returnee" migration to Jamaica and Barbados: pursuing Happiness and Mobility / Dwaine E. …”
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The view from the ground experiences of Civil War soldiers /

Table of Contents: “…Brooks -- "Is not the glory enough to give us all a share?" : an analysis of competing memories of the Battle of the Crater / Kevin M. …”
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Generating middle range theory : from evidence to practice / by Roy, Callista

Table of Contents: “…Overview of processes for creating knowledge for practice / Callista Roy -- Processes for description and critical analysis of research / Callista Roy -- Qualitative studies / Martha Whetsell and Kathy Lauchner -- Quantitative studies/descriptive designs / Kathy Lauchner and Martha Whetsell -- Quantitative studies/explaining, predicting, and prescribing designs / Martha Whetsell and Kathy Lauchner -- Quantitative studies/intervention designs / Kathy Lauchner and Martha Whetsell -- Synthesis of middle range theory of coping / Callista Roy -- Synthesis of middle range theory of adapting to life events / Callista Roy -- Synthesis of middle range theories of adapting to loss / Marjorie Dobratz -- Synthesis of middle range theories of adapting to chronic health conditions / Ellen Buckner and Susan Hayden -- Synthesis of middle range theories of the adapting family / Susan Hayden and Ellen Buckner -- Evidence-based practice based on the levels of readiness for practice / Carolyn Padovano -- Review of Roy adaptation model-based research globally / Martha Whetsell, Anne Harrington and Callista Roy.…”
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Clinical management of binocular vision : heterophoric, accommodative, and eye movement disorders / by Scheiman, Mitchell

Table of Contents: “…Diagnostic testing -- Case analysis and classification -- General treatment modalities, guidelines, and prognosis -- Primary care of binocular vision, accommodative, and eye movement disorders -- Introduction and general concepts -- Fusional vergence, voluntary convergence, and antisuppression -- Accommodative techniques -- Ocular motility procedures -- Low AC/A conditions : convergence insuffi ciency and divergence insufficiency -- High AC/A conditions : convergence excess and divergence excess -- Normal AC/A conditions : fusional vergence dysfunction, basic esophoria, and basic exophoria -- Accommodative dysfunction -- Eye movement disorders -- Cyclovertical heterophoria -- Fixation disparity -- Interactions between accommodation and vergence -- Refractive amblyopia -- Nystagmus -- Aniseikonia -- Binocular and accommodative problems associated with computer use -- Binocular and accommodative problems associated with acquired brain injury -- Binocular and accommodative problems associated with learning problems -- Development and management of refractive error : treatment based on a binocular vision-based model -- Binocular vision problems associated with refractive surgery -- Patient and practice management issues in vision therapy.…”
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Mastering informatics : a healthcare handbook for success /

Table of Contents: “…The widening field of healthcare informatics / Patricia Sengstack -- Healthcare informatics planning and analysis / Marcy Stoots -- Designing a usable healthcare information system / Christy St. …”
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Strategic management / by Lynch, Richard L.

Table of Contents: “…A review of theory and practice -- Part 2: Strategic analysis and purpose -- 3. Analysing the strategic environment -- 4. …”

Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World

Table of Contents: “…Bats in the Anthropocene -- Urbanisation and its effects on bats – a global meta-analysis -- Bats and roads -- Responses of tropical bats to habitat fragmentation, logging, and deforestation -- Insectivorous bats and silviculture: balancing timber production and bat conservation -- Bats in the anthropogenic matrix: Challenges and opportunities for the conservation of Chiroptera and their ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes -- Dark matters: the effects of artificial lighting on bats -- Bats and water: anthropogenic alterations threaten global bat populations -- White-nose syndrome in bats -- Zoonotic viruses and conservation of bats -- Impacts of Wind Energy Development on Bats: a Global Perspective -- Exploitation of Bats for Bushmeat and Medicine -- The conflict between pteropodid bats and fruit growers: species, legislation and mitigation -- Bats and buildings: The conservation of synanthropic bats -- Conservation ecology of cave bats -- The roles of taxonomy and systematics in bat conservation -- Networking networks for global bat conservation -- Cute, Creepy, or Crispy – how values, attitudes and norms shape human behavior toward bats. .…”
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Handbook of dynein /

Table of Contents: “…Hirose -- Structural and functional analysis of the dynein motor domain / T. Shima & T. …”
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Smart cyber physical systems : advances, challenges and opportunities /

Table of Contents: “…Building Cyber Physical Systems -- Design Challenges, Techniques. SWOT Analysis of Cyber Physical Systems (CPS). Building Cyber physical Systems -- Context -- Wireless Sensor Networks. …”
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Colorectal cancer and the rare variant hypothesis

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Cancer: a somatic evolutionary process -- Colorectal cancer: a good model to study -- Two clear cut familial forms: FAP and HNPCC -- Mutation selection balance for dominants and recessives: application to FAP -- APC gene found by positional cloning -- Loss of heterozygosity proved its role in sporadic cancers -- Selection for mutations in the APC "mutation cluster region" -- HNPCC mismatch repair genes found by candidate guess -- Mutated genes in colorectal cancer include p53 and wnt pathway, occur in adenoma to carcinoma sequence -- Arguments for and against need for genomic instability in cancers -- Epigenetic changes -- Mathematical model of normal and cancerous crypt -- Types of familial cancers: mostly rarer than FAP and HNPCC -- Approaches to studying multifactorial inherited susceptibility -- HLA and disease: the model -- Role of linkage disequilbrium -- Principles of SNP association analysis -- Rare missense variants in the APC gene confer susceptibility -- The "rare variant hypothesis" for multifactorial inherited susceptibility: exemplified by study of colorectal adenomas.…”
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Intercultural communication for managers / by Goodman, Michael B.

Table of Contents: “…Understanding and working in specific cultures: country analysis and planning for an overseas assignment -- 14. …”
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Global mergers and acquisitions : combining companies across borders / by Soofi, Abdol S., Zhang, Yuqin

Table of Contents: “…Cost of capital -- Chapter 9. Real option analysis in valuation of a company -- Chapter 10. Valuation of the target company using the Black-Scholes model -- Chapter 11. …”
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Emerging Memory : Photographs of Colonial Atrocity in Dutch Cultural Remembrance / by Bijl, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Emerging memory, 1966-2010 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- List of where the 1904 photographs have appeared -- Index -- Icons of Memory and Forgetting -- Dutch Colonial Memory -- Dutch Colonial Forgetting -- Forgetting in Cultural Memory Studies -- Objects: The 1904 Photographs as Portable Monuments -- Method: Frame Analysis -- Emerging Memory: Between Semanticization and Cultural Aphasia -- A Lack of Interest? …”
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Hoein' the Short Rows /

Table of Contents: “…Rowland -- The rules of cockfighting / Jim Harris -- The family saga : an interpretive analysis / Lawrence Clayton -- Showdown at sunup / Paul Patterson -- Elephant ears in the churchyard / Al Lowman -- Hog drovers : the why and how of hog drives / Lora B. …”
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Multicriteria decision aid and artificial intelligence links, theory and applications / by Doumpos, Michael

Table of Contents: “…s Method 7.5 Discussion 7.6 Conclusion References Part Four Multiobjective Optimization 8 Interactive Approaches Applied to Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms 8.1 Introduction 8.1.1 Methods Analyzed in this Chapter 8.2 Basic Concepts and Notation 8.2.1 Multiobjective Optimization Problems 8.2.2 Classical Interactive Methods 8.3 MOEAs Based on Reference Point Methods 8.3.1 A Weighted Distance Metric 8.3.2 Light Beam Search Combined with NSGA-II 8.3.3 Controlling the Accuracy of the Pareto Front Approximation 8.3.4 Light Beam Search Combined with PSO 8.3.5 A Preference Relation Based on a Weighted Distance Metric 8.3.6 The Chebyshev Preference Relation 8.4 MOEAs Based on Value Function Methods 8.4.1 Progressive Approximation of a Value Function 8.4.2 Value Function by Ordinal Regression 8.5 Miscellaneous Methods 8.5.1 Desirability Functions 8.6 Conclusions and Future Work References 9 Generalized DEA and Computational Intelligence in Multiple Criteria Decision Making 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Generalized Data Envelopment Analysis 9.2.1 Basic DEA Models: CCR, BCC and FDH Models 9.2.2 GDEA Model 9.3 Generation of Pareto Optimal Solutions using Generalized DEA and Computational Intelligence 9.3.1 GDEA in Fitness Evaluation 9.3.2 GDEA in Deciding the Parameters of Multi-objective PSO 9.3.3 Expected Improvement for Multi-objective Optimization Using GDEA 9.4 Summary References 10 Fuzzy Multiobjective Optimization 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Solution Concepts for Multiobjective Programming 10.3 Interactive Multiobjective Linear Programming 10.4 Fuzzy Multiobjective Linear Programming 10.5 Interactive Fuzzy Multiobjective Linear Programming 10.6 Interactive Fuzzy Multiobjective Linear Programming with Fuzzy Parameters 10.7 Interactive Fuzzy Stochastic Multiobjective Linear Programming 10.8 Related Works and Applications References Part Five Applications in Management and Engineering 11 MCDA & Agents: Supporting Effective Resource Federation in Virtual Organizations 11.1 Introduction 11.2 The Intuition of Multiple Criteria Decision Aid in Multi-agent Systems 11.3 Resource Federation Applied 11.3.1 Describing the Problem in a Cloud Computing Context 11.3.2 Problem Modeling 11.3.3 Assessing Agents' Value Function for Resource Federation 11.4 An Illustrative Example 11.5 Conclusions References 12 Fuzzy AHP Using Type II Fuzzy Sets: An Application to Warehouse Location Selection 12.1 Introduction 12.2 Multicriteria Selection 12.2.1 The ELECTRE (Élimination Et Choix Traduisant la Realite) Method 12.2.2 PROMETHEE (Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluations) 12.2.3 TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Situation) 12.2.4 The WSM (Weighted Sum Model) Method 12.2.5 MAUT (Multi-attribute Utility Theory) 12.2.6 AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) 12.3 Literature Review on Fuzzy AHP 12.4 Buckley's Type-1 Fuzzy AHP 12.5 Type-2 Fuzzy Sets 12.6 Type-2 Fuzzy AHP 12.7 An Application: Warehouse Location Selection 12.8 Conclusion References 13 Applying Genetic Algorithms to Optimize Energy Efficiency in Buildings 13.1 Introduction 13.2 State-of-the-Art Review 13.3 An Example Case Study 13.3.1 Basic Principles and Problem Definition 13.3.2 Decision Variables 13.3.3 Decision Criteria 13.3.4 Decision Model 13.4 Development and Application of a Genetic Algorithm for the Example Case Study 13.4.1 Development of the Genetic Algorithm 13.4.2 Application of the Genetic Algorithm, Analysis of Results and Discussion 13.5 Conclusions References 14 Nature-Inspired Intelligence for Pareto Optimality Analysis in Portfolio Optimization 14.1 Introduction 14.2 Literature Review 14.3 Methodological Issues 14.4 Pareto Optimal Sets in Portfolio Optimization 14.4.1 Pareto Efficiency 14.4.2 Mathematical Formulation of the Portfolio Optimization Problem 14.5 Computational Results 14.5.1 Experimental Setup 14.5.2 Efficient Frontier 14.6 Conclusion References Index.…”
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The Wiley Blackwell companion to political geography /

Table of Contents: “…Jacobsen -- The imperative of biopolitics / Claudio Minca -- Spatial analysis / Andrew M. Linke and John O'Loughlin -- Radical political geographies / Simon Springer -- Geopolitics/critical geopolitics -- Sami Moisio -- Feminist political geographies / Jennifer L. …”

Agricultural investment and productivity : building sustainability in East Africa /

Table of Contents: “…Bluffstone and Gunnar Köhlin -- Determinants of sustainable land management investments -- Stimulating smallholder investments in sustainable land management : overcoming market, policy, and institutional challenges / Bekele Shiferaw and Julius Okello -- The role of social capital in sustainable development : an analysis of soil conservation in rural Kenya / Wilfred Nyangena -- Tenure security and incentives for sustainable land management : a case study from Kenya / Jane Kabubo-Mariara and Vincent Linderhof -- The effect of risk on investments -- Risk preferences and technology adoption : case studies from Ethiopian highlands / Mahmud Yesuf and Hailemariam Teklewold -- Fertilizer use by smallholder households in northern Ethiopia : does risk aversion matter? …”

Imperiled innocents Anthony Comstock and family reproduction in Victorian America / by Beisel, Nicola Kay

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Imperial desire dissident sexualities and colonial literature /

Table of Contents: “…Boone -- Coda : rethinking colonial discourse analysis and queer studies / Philip Holden.…”
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Governing environmental flows global challenges to social theory /

Table of Contents: “…Mol -- Environment, mobility, and the accleration of time : a sociological analysis of transport flows in modern life / Mette Jensen -- Epilogue : Environmental flows and twenty-first-century environmental social sciences / Frederick H. …”
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