Search Results - "orienteering"

Managing civil-military cooperation a 24/7 joint effort for stability / by Rietjens, S. J. H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction and external orientation -- pt. 2. Civil-military cooperation during humanitarian missions -- pt. 3. …”
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New possibilities for the past shaping history education in Canada /

Table of Contents: “…History education : contested terrain -- pt. 2. Orientations toward historical thinking -- pt. 3. Classroom contexts for historical thinking -- pt. 4. …”
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Experimental life : vitalism in Romantic science and literature / by Mitchell, Robert, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Romanticism, art, and experiments -- Suspended animation, slow time, and the poetics of trance -- A cold northern breeze: life, orientation, and abandoned experiments -- Chylopoeisis: nausea, digestion, and the collapsurgence of system -- The media of life -- Cryptogamia -- Conclusion: biopolitics and experimental vitalism.…”
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Digital signal processing for RFID / by Zheng, Feng, 1963-, Kaiser, Thomas, Prof. Dr.-Ing

Table of Contents: “…Fundamentals of RFID systems -- Basic signal processing for RFID -- RFID-oriented modulation schemes -- MIMO for RFID -- Blind signal processing for RFID -- Anti-collision of multiple-tag RFID systems -- Localization with RFID -- Some future perspectives for RFID.…”
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Homicide : a forensic psychology casebook /

Table of Contents: “…Reactive and belief-oriented offenders -- Section II. Sexual homicide offenders -- Section III. …”
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Contemporary Japanese thought

Table of Contents: “…The politics of teasing ; A feminist view of Maruyama Masao's modernity / Ehara Yumiko -- The imaginary geography of a nation and denationalized narrative ; The discovery of the "Orient" and Orientalism / Kang Sangjung -- Overcoming modernity ; Sōseki's diversity: on Kokoro / Karatani Kōjin -- The wonderland of "immortality" / Nishitani Osamu -- Two negations: the fear of being excluded and the logic of self-esteem / Naoki Sakai -- Japanese neo-nationalism: a critique of Katō Norihiro's "After the defeat" discourse ; From the Hinomaru and Kimagayo to the symbolic emperor system / Takahashi Tetsuya -- In the feminine guise: a trap of reverse Orientanlism ; Collapse of "Japanese mothers" / Ueno Chizuko -- Colonialism and modernity ; Reflections beyond the flag: Why is the Hinomaru flag "auspicious/foolish"? …”
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Knut Hamsun the dark side of literary brilliance / by Žagar, Monika

Table of Contents: “…Discourses of race and primitivism in Scandinavia -- Hamsun's women as scapegoats for modernity's sins -- Imagining the Indians -- Imagining black and white -- A taste of the Orient -- Imagining the sly magic "lapps" -- Imagining degeneration and revolution -- The rhetoric of defense in Hamsun's Paa gjengrodde stier.…”
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Sweating saris Indian dance as transnational labor / by Srinivasan, Priya, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Performing ethnographic failure -- Transnational hauntings of the oriental dancing girl -- St. Denis and the Nachwalis -- Entering the archive -- Between 1924 and 1965 Immigration Acts -- Negotiating cultural nationalism and minority citizenship -- Manufacturing of the Indian dancer through off-shore labor.…”
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The shepherd-flock motif in the Miletus discourse (Acts 20:17-38) against its historical background by Aubert, Bernard

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Motifs and methodology -- Perspectives on Luke-Acts -- Orientation in the Miletus speech -- The background of the shepherd-flock motif : ancient period -- The background of the shepherd-flock motif : Hellenistic period -- The shepherd-flock in the Miletus speech -- The Miletus speech and the kingship motif -- Conclusion.…”
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Western biomedicine and Eastern therapeutics an integrative strategy for personalized and preventive healthcare / by Wang, Sun-Chong, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Evidence-based practice -- Modern Western biomedicine -- Traditional oriental ethnomedicine -- Integrative medicine -- Safety and regulation of herbal products -- Cancer -- Common fatal disease -- Common nonfatal disease -- Condition of the reproductive system -- Theories of ageing -- Regenerative medicine -- Longevity.…”
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Basic concepts of Aristotelian philosophy / by Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976

Table of Contents: “…Preliminary Understanding as to the Indigenous Character of Conceptuality by Way of an Explication of Being-There as Being-in-the-World : An Orientation toward Aristotelian Basic Concepts -- 2. …”
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MATLAB handbook with applications to mathematics, science, engineering, and finance / by Báez López, David, Báez Villegas, David Alfredo

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to MATLAB -- Plotting with MATLAB -- Variables and functions -- Matrices and linear algebra -- Calculus -- Programming in MATLAB -- Object-oriented programming -- Graphical user interfaces -- Simulink -- MATLAB applications to engineering -- MATLAB applications to physics -- Applications to finance -- Image processing in MATLAB.…”
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Desiring Arabs by Massad, Joseph Andoni, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Anxiety in civilization -- Remembrances of desires past -- Re-orienting desire: the gay international and the Arab world -- Sin, crimes, and disease: taxonomies of desires present -- Deviant fictions -- The truth of fictional desires -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Name index -- Subject index.…”
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The story of libraries : from the invention of writing to the computer age / by Lerner, Frederick Andrew, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The earliest libraries -- Libraries of Classical -- Lanterns of the Dark Ages -- Libraries of the Orient -- Libraries of the Islamic world -- The High Middle Ages -- Gutenberg's legacy -- Treasuries of the book -- The repositories of knowledge -- Libraries of the people -- The rising generation -- Putting knowledge to work -- The craft of librarianship -- The science of information.…”

Regulating bioprospecting institutions for drug research, access, and benefit-sharing / by Sampath, Padmashree Gehl

Table of Contents: “…Bioprospecting for drug research : an overview -- Drug R&D and the structure of the industry -- International policy dimensions of bioprospecting -- Transaction costs and their impact on the market for bioprospecting -- Intellectual property rights on traditional medicinal knowledge : a process oriented perspective -- The scope of the right to regulate access.…”
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Mental health and violent youth a developmental/lifecourse perspective / by Boots, Denise Paquette, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Violence and chronic offending as a social phenomenon -- Exploring the relationship between childhood mental health problems and violent behaviors -- Developmental modeling of DSM-oriented problems and serious offending behaviors in youth -- Findings regarding youth violence and property crime -- Implications and conclusions.…”
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Scientific and technical translation

Table of Contents: “…Text analysis and text typology as tools for technical translators -- section 5. Translation-oriented terminology activities.…”
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Ants, Galileo, and Gandhi designing the future of business through nature, genius, and compassion /

Table of Contents: “…The transition to sustainability-oriented enterprises -- pt. 2. Case studies of evolving business initiatives -- pt. 3. …”
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Berlin replayed : cinema and urban nostalgia in the postwall era / by Wagner, Brigitta B., 1978-

Table of Contents: “…-- Remake: Berlin symphonies and the myth of the weltstadt -- Generation: a 1950s place for us -- Virtuality: cinema, archive, and the interactive map of Potsdamer Platz -- Orientation: geographical didacticism and the X-films of new Berlin -- Epilogue: Berlin returns, again.…”
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A practical guide to searching LGBTQIA historical records / by Shopland, Norena

Table of Contents: “…Dictionaries, word books and encyclopaedias -- Lesbian and gay terminology -- Bisexual other sexual orientations terminology -- Gender diversity terminology -- Researching in newspaper archives -- Researching in genealogy, auction and social media sites -- Researching in libraries, books, and journals -- Researching in archives -- Researching in museums.…”
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