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Regionalism and realism a study of governments in the New York metropolitan area / by Benjamin, Gerald

Table of Contents: “…The persistence of suburban localism -- Two approaches : bottom up and top down -- Part Five, The nation in the regional arena. …”
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Sustainable manufacturing : concepts, tools, methods, and case studies / by Vinodh, S.

Table of Contents: “…Concepts and Fundamentals of Sustainable Manufacturing, Triple Bottom Line Approach. 2. Sustainable Manufacturing Tools -- Environmental Conscious QFD. 3. …”
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Eye movement theory, interpretation, and disorders /

Table of Contents: “….] -- Eye-gaze input system based on image analysis under natural light / Kiyohiko Abe, Shoichi Ohi, Minoru Ohyama -- What we see and where we look : bottom-up and top-down / Laura Perez Zapata, Maria Sole Puig, Hans Supèr -- Characterizing eye movements for performance evaluation of software review / Hidetake Uwano -- The ontogenetic hypothesis of rapid eye movement sleep function revisited / James P. …”
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The business solution to poverty designing products and services for three billion new customers / by Polak, Paul

Table of Contents: “…-- Why business is best equipped to fight global poverty -- Zero-based design and the bottom billions -- What to do before you launch your business -- The ruthless pursuit of affordability -- Zero-based design in practice : low-cost drip irrigation -- Design for the market -- Zero-based design in practice : a cautionary tale -- Design for scale -- Zero-based design in practice: safe drinking water for small villages -- Design for delivery the last 500 feet -- Building a mission-driven global business -- Opportunities abound -- It's your turn now -- Resources : takeaways and what we say to critics -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- About the authors -- Index.…”
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Chinese Heritage in the Making : Experiences, Negotiations and Contestations /

Table of Contents: “…Mapping the Chinese heritage regime: ruptures, governmentality, and agency / Marina Svensson and Christina Maags -- Section I: Re-imagining the past: contested memories and contemporary issues -- Telling stories in a borderland: the evolving life of Ma Bufang's official residence / Susette Cooke -- From a symbol of imperialistic penetration to a site of cultural heritage: the 'Italian-style exotic district' in Tianjin / Hong Zhang -- Historic urban landscape in Beijing: the Gulou project and its contested memories / Florence Graezer Bideau and Haiming Yan -- Section II: Celebrating and experiencing the cultural heritage: top-down and bottom-up processes and negotiations -- Creating a race to the top: hierarchies and competition within the Chinese ICH transmitters system / Christina Maags -- Heritagizing the Chaozhou Hungry Ghosts Festival in Hong Kong / Selina Chan -- Recognition and misrecognition: the politics of intangible cultural heritage in Southwest China / Tami Blumenfield -- Holy heritage: identity and authenticity in a Tibetan village / Sonja Laukkanen -- Section III: Public debates in heritage work: possibilities and limitations for plural voices and new forms of engagements -- Heritage visions of Mayor Geng Yanbo: re-creating the city of Datong / Jinze Cui -- The revitalization of Zhizhu Temple: policies, actors, and debates / Lui Tam -- Heritage 2.0: maintaining affective engagements with the local heritage in Taishun / Marina Svensson.…”
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Behavioral dentistry /

Table of Contents: “…Giddon and Ruth Hertzman-Miller -- Appendix : brief relaxation training procedure for use in dentistry -- Ronald W. Botto.…”
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Nomads and sedentary peoples /

Table of Contents: “…Postgate -- Le nomadisme à l'Epoque Neo-assyrienne / Florence Malbran-Labat -- Communaute tribale et cession immobiliere / Elena Cassin -- Les Habiru, les nomades et les sedentaires / Jean Bottero -- Tribus pastorales et industrie textile à Mari / Jorge Silva Castillo -- Le nomadisme dans les Andes centrales du Perou / Antoinette Nellken Terner.…”
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Turbulence : A Corporate Perspective on Collaborating for Resilience /

Table of Contents: “…Resilience in a pressure cooker / Herman van der Meyden -- Getting to resilience from the bottom-up / Thekla Teunis -- Corporations and Resilience / Simone Arizzi, Maximilian Egger, Dawn Rittenhouse and Peter Williams.…”
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Toward an Earth Science Enterprise federation results from a workshop /

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A transformation gap? American innovations and European military change /

Table of Contents: “…Military transformation in NATO : a framework for analysis / Theo Farrell and Terry Terriff -- The rise of military transformation / Frans Osinga -- Innovating within cost and cultural constraints : the British approach to military transformation / Theo Farrell and Tim Bird -- From bottom-up to top-down transformation : military change in France / Sten Rynning -- The rocky road to networked and effects-based expeditionary forces : Bundeswehr transformation / Heiko Borchert -- Innovating on a shrinking playing field : military change in the Netherlands Armed Forces / Rob de Wijk and Frans Osinga -- The innovation imperative : the Spanish military transformation and NEC / Antonio Marquina Barrio and Gustavo Díaz -- Transformation through expeditionary warfare : military change in Poland / Olaf Osica -- Conclusion : the diffusion of military innovations to European militaries / Terry Terriff and Frans Osinga.…”
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Modular systems for energy usage management / by Shah, Yatish T.

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Living with mental illness in a globalised world : combating stigma and barriers to healthcare / by Ikwuka, Ugo

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Transforming government and empowering communities the Sri lankan experience with e-development / by Hanna, Nagy

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Introduction -- E-development as a holistic vision -- The eSri Lanka program -- Learning from eSri Lanka -- Developing e-leadership institutions -- An institutional innovation in e-leadership: the ICT Agency of Sri lanka -- The institutional model -- Evolution of the authorizing environment and governance model -- Mandate -- Paths to sustainability -- Core competencies -- Partnerships -- A learning organization -- Role of aid agencies -- Lessons and conclusions -- Annex 2.1 The ICT agency in search of a corporate identity -- Annex 2.2 The ICT policy framework & the organizational structure of the ICT agency -- Annex 2.3 Internal and external risks facing the ICT agency at inception -- Managing results -- Objectives of monitoring and evaluation for eSri Lanka -- Framework for monitoring and evaluation -- Arrangements for monitoring and evaluation -- Emerging lessons -- Annex 3.1 Results framework for monitoring and evaluation -- Outcome indicator -- ICT human resource development and industry promotion -- Transforming government -- Best practices and options for planning and implementing e-government -- Approaches to planning e-government -- Implementation of e-government: four phases -- Leadership, partnership, and change management -- Providing leadership, building partnerships -- Conclusions and implications -- Readiness for e-government: a historical perspective -- History of e-government in Sri Lanka -- Analysis of the situation -- Findings and recommendations -- A vision of e-government -- Motivations and aspirations -- Challenges to realizing the vision -- Lessons learned: a postscript -- A strategy for e-government: initial priorities and lessons -- Planning for e-services -- Building e-governance -- Implementation agenda -- Early experience and lessons -- Annex 7.1 Criteria for determining impact & feasibility of offering services online -- Determining impact -- Determining feasibility -- Empowering communities -- Innovation in ICT use for poverty reduction -- Bottom-up planning and participatory development -- Serving the bottom of the pyramid -- The user innovation revolution -- Demand-driven ICT-enabled development -- Financing ICT innovation: lessons from InfoDev -- Conditions for ensuring impact by small grants -- Strategies for soliciting and funding good proposals -- Evaluating proposals and making funding decisions -- Good practices in managing a small-grant program -- E-society: design and early experience -- Overview of the fund -- Practices in soliciting and funding proposals -- Arrangements for implementation and monitoring -- Early operation and lessons learned -- Key lessons of eSri Lanka -- Designing and implementing a holistic framework for e-development -- Developing e-leadership institutions -- Transforming government -- Empowering communities -- Appendix 1 Main program components of eSri Lanka -- ICT policy, leadership, and institutional development program -- Information infrastructure program -- Reengineering government program -- ICT human resource capacity-building program -- ICT investment and private sector development program -- E-society program -- Appendix 2 Selected indicators for Sri Lanka and comparators -- Bibliography -- About the author.…”
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Specific ion effects

Table of Contents: “…Netz and Nadine Schwierz -- HNC calculations of specific ion effects / Luc Belloni and Ioulia Chikina -- Modifying the Poisson-Boltzmann approach to model specific ion effects / Mathias Boström, Eduardo R.A. Lima, Evaristo C. Biscaia, Jr., Frederico W. …”
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The ultimate online customer service guide how to connect with your customers to sell more! / by Collier, Marsha

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Telemetry research, technology and applications /

Table of Contents: “….] -- Bio-telemetry of inshore fish in polar regions / Hamish Campbell, Stuart Egginton -- Reproductive state-specific habitat use by adult Japanese fluvial sculpin Cottus pollux (Pisces: Cottidae), in relation to bottom substrate condition / Takaharu Natsumeda, Yoshikazu Nagata -- A novel telemetric system for recording Brain activity in small animals / Damien Lapray ... …”
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The politics of education reform in the Middle East self and other in textbooks and curricula /

Table of Contents: “…Educational reform in the Arab world: directives, mechanisms, and challenges in Lebanon, Syria, and Oman / Nemer Mansur Frayha -- Education reform in Oman: evolution of secondary school curricula / Salha Abdullah Issan -- Educational developments in Jordan from the 1950s until today: stages and characteristics / Mohammad Khalil Abbas -- Major trends of educational reform in Egypt / Iman Farag -- On the impossibility of teaching history in Lebanon: notes on a textbook controversy / Massoud Daher -- History textbooks in Egyptian schools: a tool for the representation of collective memory / Atef Botros -- Different layers of identity in Lebanese textbooks / Jonathan Kriener -- The philosophical foundations of education and the range of its implications for the content of civic education textbooks in Jordan / Mustafa Abu al-Sheikh and Yasser al-Khalailah -- Gender images in Jordanian textbooks in the subject field of social education / Naseema al-Khalidi -- Images of Europeans in Jordanian textbooks / Qasem al-Newashi -- History curricula and textbooks in Palestine: between nation building and quality education / Samira Alayan -- Bridging conflicts through history education?…”
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Studies on Asia and Africa from Latin America /

Table of Contents: “…Zhang Boling: educator and patriot / Flora Botton - On utopia and its limits in China / Romer Cornejo Bustamante - The Ping Liu Li uprising / Marisela Connelly - The tale of Zhou Chu: an early medieval Sino-Tibetan precursor of Beowulf? …”
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FROM ATOMS TO HIGGS BOSONS : voyages in quasi spacetime.

Table of Contents: “…The Reductionist Vision of Physics; 1.1 Reductionism; 1.2 Our View of the World; 1.3 Democritus' Atoms; 1.4 Properties of Atoms in Early Physics; 1.5 The Descent into the Quark Model; 1.6 Contemporary Catalogue of Physical Things; 1.7 Have We Reached the Bottom?; 1.8 Defining the Bottom Rung of the Ladder; 1.9 Are Quarks Really at the Bottom?…”
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