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The global theme park industry by Clavé, Salvador Anton

Table of Contents: “…The social origins of the theme park concept -- Development and categorisation -- Globalization of the theme park industry -- A profile of major theme park operators -- Theme parks and the commercialisation of leisure -- The urbanism of theme parks and spatial innovation -- The impact of theme parks -- The development of theme park destinations -- Factors influencing the development process -- Basic principles of theme park planning -- The architectonical design of a theme park -- Management strategies.…”
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Force and motion an illustrated guide to Newton's laws / by Zimba, Jason, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Graphing relationships -- Rates of change -- Introducing position and velocity -- Vectors -- Position and velocity, revisited -- Introducing acceleration -- Acceleration as a rate of change -- Focus on a-perp -- Case study : straight-line motion -- The concept of force -- Combining forces that act on the same target -- "Newton's little law" -- Newton's second law -- Dynamics -- Newton's third law -- Kinds of force -- Strategies for applying Newton's laws.…”
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Medical surge capacity workshop summary /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Goals and objectives -- The communications challenge : definitions, standards, and metrics -- Legal authorities and government support -- An integrated approach to alternate care -- Establishing alternate care facilities -- Creating situational awareness : a systems approach -- At-risk populations : behavioral health effects and medical needs -- Fatality management strategies -- Ramping down and recovery from a mass-casualty incident -- Financing surge capacity and preparedness -- Conclusions.…”
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Mirror of morality Chinese narrative illustration and Confucian ideology / by Murray, Julia K.

Table of Contents: “…The social status of narrative illustration in China -- Redrawing the concept of Chinese narrative illustration -- Early narrative illustration and moral suasion -- New strategies for narrative illustration in the post-Han period -- Institutionalizing narrative illustration under the Tang dynasty -- Turning points and competing values -- Later narrative illustration at court : legitimation -- Remonstrance, and indoctrination -- Narrative illustration outside the court : persuasion, pleasure, prestige, and piety -- Epilogue.…”
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From Jamestown to Jefferson the evolution of religious freedom in Virginia /

Table of Contents: “…Morgan -- Sectarians and strategies of dissent in colonial Virginia / Monica Najar -- Establishing new bases for religious authority / Thomas E. …”
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Represent and destroy rationalizing violence in the new racial capitalism / by Melamed, Jodi

Table of Contents: “…Making Global Citizens: Neoliberal Multiculturalism and Literary Value -- 4. Difference as Strategy in International Indigenous Peoples' Movements -- Epilogue: Rematerializing AntiracismAcknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Humanity's end why we should reject radical enhancement / by Agar, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…-- The therapist : Aubrey de Grey's strategies for engineered negligible senescence -- Who wants to live forever? …”
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Integrating clinical hypnosis and CBT : treating depression, anxiety, and fears / by Chapman, Robin A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : clinical hypnosis & cognitive behavioral therapy -- The clinical hypnosis and cognitive behavioral model of change -- Assessment for integrated treatment -- Introduction to mood check, relaxation & imagery -- Cognitive strategies -- Relaxation training -- Imagery -- Suggestion for change -- Self hypnosis and imagery -- Depression case study -- Anxiety (panic disorder) case study -- Anxiety, fears and phobias -- Thoughts about the future of cognitive behavioral therapy and hypnosis.…”
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From economics to political economy : the problems, promises and solutions of pluralist economics / by Thornton, Tim B.

Table of Contents: “…Reform from without -- 10. Hybrid strategies -- 11. The market for economic knowledge -- 12. …”
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Innate immunity in children

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Host defense in children is composed of non-specific, innate and adaptive limbs -- Innate immunity is critical in defense against infection in children -- Innate immunity is composed of cellular and humoral elements -- Defects in innate immunity provide powerful insights into the importance of this limb of the host defense system in defense against infection -- New therapeutic strategies are being developed based upon novel observations of innate immunodeficiencies in children.…”
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Viruses as anticancer weapons

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Modified viruses as friends -- Most licensed vaccines are live-attenuated viruses -- Natural oncolytic properties of viruses -- Preferential replication, efficient tumor access -- Clinical trials with oncolytic viruses -- Licensed therapeutics -- Added oncolytic properties -- Targeting: entry and post-entry -- Arming strategies -- Shielding from neutralizing antibodies -- Monitoring oncolytic virus replication in tumors -- From bench to clinic: the measles paradigm.…”
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Immunotherapy insights from advanced disease /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Checkpoint inhibitor therapy in breast cancer: focus on TNBC -- Limited activity for checkpoint inhibitor monotherapy in metastatic TNBC -- Atezolizumab + Nab-Paclitaxel: standard first line therapy for patients with metastatic PDL1 and -- Combination treatment with checkpoint inhibitor therapy in HR+ and HER2+ breast cancer -- Ongoing studies evaluating other strategies in breast cancer -- The future: combination of checkpoint inhibitors and chemotherapy.…”
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Reputation, image and influence of the pharmaceutical industry rebuilding the trust /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Challenging times -- Negative perceptions -- Profiteering -- Intensive sales and marketing activities -- Poor research and development strategies -- Poor productivity and lack of innovation -- Safety concerns -- Lack of transparency and credible information -- Facing the issues -- Perception is reality -- Rebuilding trust -- Creating a single voice -- Restoring the industry's image and enhancing the effectiveness of our industry's voice -- Innovation -- Research and development -- Impact -- Industry as resource leader.…”
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Rhetoric and theology figural reading of John 9 / by Wright, William M., IV

Table of Contents: “…Louis Martyn's analysis of John 9 in history and theology in the Fourth Gospel -- The starting point for history and theology in the Fourth Gospel -- John 9 as a two-level drama -- Setting a new course for Johannine studies -- Martyn's contribution in context -- Martyn's influence in historical studies -- Martyn's influence in social oriented studies -- Martyn's influence in literary critical studies -- The critique of Martyn's hypothesis -- Historical critique -- Hermeneutical critique -- The critique of the two-level reading strategy as allegory -- Substance of the critique -- Deficiencies in the allegory critique -- Coclusions -- The two-level reading strategy as figural exegesis -- Improving the allegory critique -- Recent scholarship on premodern Christian exegesis : a resource for new categories -- Figural reading -- Grammatical reading -- Reframing the allegory critique -- Augustine and J. …”
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Handbook of exchange rates

Table of Contents: “…Algorithmic Execution in Foreign Exchange 22. Foreign Exchange Strategy Based Products 23. Foreign exchange futures, forwards and swaps 24. …”
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Facilitating trade through competitive, low-carbon transport : the case for Vietnam's inland and coastal waterways / by Blancas, Luis C.

Table of Contents: “…Context -- Objectives of the report -- Scope and methodology -- Key data sources -- Structure of the report -- Demand for waterborne and multimodal transport -- Size and historical growth patterns of IWT and coastal shipping -- Growth projections for IWT and coastal shipping -- Commodity tonnage and tonnage distribution by mode -- Inland and coastal shipping lengths of haul -- Main freight flows -- Regional routes and modal competition -- Primary intra- and interregional corridors -- Red River delta region -- Mekong delta -- Coastal shipping -- Corridor 1: Hanoi, Haiphong, Quang Ninh -- Corridor 2: Quang Ninh, Ninh Binh -- Corridor 3: Hanoi, Ninh Binh -- Corridor 1: HCMC northwest -- Corridor 3: HCMC southwest --Container transport in the Mekong delta -- IWT market structure -- Shipping companies -- Coastal shipping -- Shipping volumes -- Container flows -- Containerized cargo (domestic cargo) -- Ccontainerized cargo (feeder cargo) -- Sea-river transport -- Market structure for coastal shipping -- Vinalines -- Competitive position of IWT and coastal shipping -- Competitive position of IWT -- Competitive position of coastal shipping -- Supply chains and logistics costs in Vietnam -- Conclusions on demand -- Supply-side considerations: waterways, ports, and fleet -- Institutional framework for the waterway and port sectors -- Waterway infrastructure -- Northern waterways -- Southern waterways -- Central region waterways -- Technical classification of the waterways -- Planned investments in waterways -- The IWT master plan for 2020 -- Major channel projects -- Ports -- River ports -- Planned investments in river ports -- Seaports -- Fleet -- Fleet of river-going vessels -- Fleet of sea-going vessels -- Fleet of sea-river vessels -- Modernization of IWT fleet -- Conclusions on waterways, ports, and fleet -- Modal differences in fuel efficiency and GHG emissions -- Relative carbon intensity among transport modes -- Main challenges and recommendations -- Planning -- Institutional/regulatory environment -- Phsical bottlenecks -- Lack of IWT hinders market development -- Financing -- Strategy and action plan -- Estimated impact of public sector interventions in IWT and coastal shipping -- Translating the IWT/coastal shipping strategy into tangible interventions -- Methodology: translating interventions into impacts -- Modal shift and emissions impact of the proposed interventions -- CBA results -- References -- Appendix A: list of stakeholders interviewed -- Appendix B: major waterway routes in the north and south -- Appendix C: general considerations on DWT capacity increases in the national IWT fleet -- Appendix D: cargo data and modal split model -- Cargo flows for northern provinces: road transport in tons per day -- Cargo flows for northern provinces: iwt in tons per day -- Cargo flows for southern provinces: road transport in tons per day -- Cargo flows for southern provinces: IWT in tons per day -- Appendix E: detailed description of proposed interventions -- Appendix F: detailed impacts of proposed interventions.…”
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Business process improvement toolbox / by Andersen, Bjørn

Table of Contents: “…-- A business process improvement framework -- Understanding the organization's stakeholders and strategic direction -- Stakeholder expectations of improvement -- Reviewing the organization's strategy -- SWOT analysis -- Competitive forces analysis -- Strategy map -- Understanding your current business processes -- From processes to departments to business processes -- Definition of a business process -- Classification of business processes -- Identifying the organization's business processes -- Business process modeling -- Relationship mapping -- Traditional flowchart -- Cross-functional flowchart -- Flowchart divided into process segments -- Several-leveled flowchart -- Flowchart with statistics -- Paper-and-pencil or PC? …”
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Reactive Separation for Process Intensification and Sustainability by Cardona Alzate, Carlos Ariel

Table of Contents: “…1.5 Advantages and Disadvantages -- References -- 2: Basic Aspects of Reactive Separation Processes: Classification, Range of Applications, Reactive Separation Processes in the Industry, Design Methods and Strategies, Successful Cases Improving Process Sustainability -- 2.1 Classification of Reactive Separation Processes -- 2.2 Range of Applications -- 2.3 Design Methods and Strategies -- 2.3.1 Process Synthesis -- 2.3.2 Modeling and Simulation -- 2.4 Successful Cases Improving Process Sustainability -- 2.4.1 Ethanol Production -- 2.4.2 Biodiesel Through Reactive Absorption…”
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The Façade of Excellence Defining a New Normal of Leadership. by Dyer, John

Table of Contents: “…The Story of Frank SmithPractical Applications; Style 2 -- The Idea Gathering Leader; Mission, Vision, Strategy, and Values; Style 1 -- Crisis Leader and Mission; Style 2 -- Idea Gathering Leader and Vision; Style 3 -- Team Forming Leader and Strategy; Style 4 -- Empowerment Leader and Values; Mission and Vision; 7: Style Three Leadership -- Team Forming Leader; The Story of Jim Brown; The Story of Frank Smith; Practical Applications; 8: Flexing Back to Style One Crisis Leader; The Story of Jim Brown; The Story of Frank Smith; Practical Applications; Flexing Leadership Styles…”
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Collaborative intervention in early childhood consulting with parents and teachers of 3- to 7-year-olds / by Hirschland, Deborah

Table of Contents: “…-- Seven building blocks of development: understanding core emotional, behavioral, and social competencies -- The contribution of constitution: understanding a child's temperament and neurodevelopmental profile -- The contribution of family life: understanding a family's history and patterns of interaction -- Setting the stage for mastery: developing a working hypothesis, goals for growth, and a plan of action -- Home-based strategies: helping parents set effective behavioral expectations -- Classroom-based strategies: mentoring teachers in the skills of developmental scaffolding -- Helping the shy, cautious, or withdrawn child -- Helping the child with language and information processing issues -- Helping the high energy and/or inattentive child -- Helping the easily frustrated, impulsive child -- Helping the anxious child -- Helping the disengaged, offbeat, or gifted but rigid child -- Additional issues: addressing trauma and loss, monitoring media choices, providing guidance during crises, and more -- Elementary school and beyond: perspectives for the long haul.…”
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