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A primer on cell and molecular biology / by Running, Mark P.

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Youth at risk in Latin America and the Caribbean understanding the causes, realizing the potential /

Table of Contents: “…-- Key messages -- Designing effective interventions -- Policy conclusions -- Introduction -- The motivation for the study -- Definitions, data, and methodologies -- The organization of the report -- Laying the groundwork -- Motivations for focusing on at-risk youth -- The youth cohort, particularly those considered at-risk, is growing -- The costs of not investing in at-risk youth is very high for young people, their families, and society -- A conceptual framework and its application for policymaking -- The conceptual framework and definitions -- Moving from the conceptual framework to policy -- Identifying at-risk youth for better programming and targeting -- A characterization of at-risk youth -- Using the risk typology for targeting prevention programs -- Using the risk typology for targeting for second chances -- Conclusions -- Informing policy by understanding of the trends and causes of risky behavior in LAC -- Understanding the nature and the magnitude of risky behavior -- Leaving school without learning -- Difficult integration into the labor market : joblessness and job turnover -- Risky sexual behavior -- Crime and violence -- Substance use -- Identifying the factors that put youth at risk -- Why do young people engage in risky behavior -- Key factors correlated with risky behaviors -- Cumulative effect of factors -- Conclusions -- Helping young people to make good choices : programming, policy, and implementation -- Principles for building an effective portfolio for youth at risk -- Investing in at-risk youth leads to lower demands on the public purse in the future -- Preventing risky behavior begins at birth -- At-risk youth need second chances -- Effective targeting is the key to results -- The most effective portfolio will prioritize policies and programs that affect multiple risks -- Include only effective policies in the portfolio -- Prioritizing what works -- Core policies : strategies that work and are recommended for implementation -- Nine promising approaches that ought to work and should be tried, accompanied by careful impact evaluation -- General policies with a surprisingly strong effect on youth at risk -- Moving from a wish list to action -- Improving the portfolio for at-risk youth in a budget-constrained environment : reallocate resources away from ineffective programs toward recommended programs -- Improving the portfolio for at-risk youth in a budget-constrained environment : collecting, analyzing, and using data -- Assign and coordinate institutional responsibilities based on comparative advantages -- Investing in youth in LAC : key messages and conclusions -- Key messages -- Defining an effective portfolio of policies and programs -- Moving forward -- Appendix A : Population in LAC by age and sex -- Appendix B : Methodology for estimating the cost of negative youth behavior -- Appendix C : Methodology for devising the typology of at-risk youth -- Appendix D : Measuring youth outcomes -- Appendix E : Estimated taxpayer costs and crime-reduction benefits of 16 crime prevention programs -- Appendix F : Sources of information for evaluated programs.…”
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A primer on cell and molecular biology / by Running, Mark P.

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Faulkner and the ecology of the South

Table of Contents: “…"Old man" : shackles, chains, and water water everywhere / Cecelia Tichi -- The land's turn / Philip Weinstein -- Environed blood : ecology and violence in The sound and the fury and Sanctuary / Eric Gary Anderson -- William Faulkner, Peter Mathiessen, and the environmental imagination / Ann Fisher-Wirth -- The enemy within : Faulkner's Snopes trilogy / Michael Wainwright -- Is Faulkner green? …”
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Democracy is a good thing essays on politics, society, and culture in contemporary China / by Yu, Keping

Table of Contents: “…Democracy is a good thing -- The study of political science and public administration in China : an overview -- The seventeenth Party Congress and the agenda for China's political reforms -- China's civil society : conceptual definitions, types, and background -- The characteristics of Chinese civil society : administrative regulations and institutional environment -- Civil society organizations : challenges and responses -- Culture and modernity in the Chinese intellectual discourse : a historical perspective -- The transformation of Chinese culture since the launching of reform : a historical perspective -- China's economic modernization and sustainability -- Harmony between man and nature : China's environmental practices and challenges -- Preserving China's autonomy in the era of globalization -- Federalism in modern China : concepts and experiments -- A harmonious world and global governance : a Chinese perspective.…”
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Clinical wisdom and interventions in acute and critical care a thinking-in-action approach / by Benner, Patricia E.

Table of Contents: “…Thinking-in-action and reasoning-in-transition : an overview -- Clinical grasp and clinical inquiry : problem identification and clinical problem solving -- Clinical imagination and clinical forethought : anticipating and preventing potential problems -- Diagnosing and managing life-sustaining physiologic functions in acutely ill and unstable patients -- The skilled know-how of managing a crisis -- Providing comfort measures for the critically and acutely ill -- Caring for patients' families -- Preventing hazards in a technological environment -- Facing death : end-of-life care and decision making -- Making a case : communicating clinical assessment and improving teamwork -- Patient safety : monitoring quality, preventing, and managing practice breakdown -- The skilled know-how of clinical and moral leadership and the coaching and mentoring of others -- Educational strategies and implications.…”
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Connecting with nature a naturalist's perspective / by Stebbins, Robert C. (Robert Cyril), 1915-

Table of Contents: “…Connecting with Nature, an Ecological Approach : Goals, Activities, Field Trips, Nature Stories, Nature's Driving Force for Change -- Early Memories and the Nature Connection -- Goals of an Ecological Approach -- Developing Awareness and Exciting Interest -- Learning from Successful Cooperative Models -- Listening in on a Naturalist's Experiences : Nature Walks, Interacting with Plants and Animals in the Field, Nature Stories -- Evolution, Nature's Driving Force for Change : How Organisms Adapt to Their Environments -- pt. 2. Nature Bonding : Impediments and Hopeful Prospects -- The High Cost of Ecological Illiteracy : Isolation of Ecology, Attitudes Toward Nature, Population Explosion -- Hopeful Prospects : an Historic Message that Almost Succeeded, Some Reasons for Hope.…”
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Democracy is a good thing essays on politics, society, and culture in contemporary China / by Yu, Keping

Table of Contents: “…Democracy is a good thing -- The study of political science and public administration in China : an overview -- The seventeenth Party Congress and the agenda for China's political reforms -- China's civil society : conceptual definitions, types, and background -- The characteristics of Chinese civil society : administrative regulations and institutional environment -- Civil society organizations : challenges and responses -- Culture and modernity in the Chinese intellectual discourse : a historical perspective -- The transformation of Chinese culture since the launching of reform : a historical perspective -- China's economic modernization and sustainability -- Harmony between man and nature : China's environmental practices and challenges -- Preserving China's autonomy in the era of globalization -- Federalism in modern China : concepts and experiments -- A harmonious world and global governance : a Chinese perspective.…”
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Clinical wisdom and interventions in acute and critical care a thinking-in-action approach / by Benner, Patricia E.

Table of Contents: “…Thinking-in-action and reasoning-in-transition : an overview -- Clinical grasp and clinical inquiry : problem identification and clinical problem solving -- Clinical imagination and clinical forethought : anticipating and preventing potential problems -- Diagnosing and managing life-sustaining physiologic functions in acutely ill and unstable patients -- The skilled know-how of managing a crisis -- Providing comfort measures for the critically and acutely ill -- Caring for patients' families -- Preventing hazards in a technological environment -- Facing death : end-of-life care and decision making -- Making a case : communicating clinical assessment and improving teamwork -- Patient safety : monitoring quality, preventing, and managing practice breakdown -- The skilled know-how of clinical and moral leadership and the coaching and mentoring of others -- Educational strategies and implications.…”
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Connecting with nature a naturalist's perspective / by Stebbins, Robert C. (Robert Cyril), 1915-

Table of Contents: “…Connecting with Nature, an Ecological Approach : Goals, Activities, Field Trips, Nature Stories, Nature's Driving Force for Change -- Early Memories and the Nature Connection -- Goals of an Ecological Approach -- Developing Awareness and Exciting Interest -- Learning from Successful Cooperative Models -- Listening in on a Naturalist's Experiences : Nature Walks, Interacting with Plants and Animals in the Field, Nature Stories -- Evolution, Nature's Driving Force for Change : How Organisms Adapt to Their Environments -- pt. 2. Nature Bonding : Impediments and Hopeful Prospects -- The High Cost of Ecological Illiteracy : Isolation of Ecology, Attitudes Toward Nature, Population Explosion -- Hopeful Prospects : an Historic Message that Almost Succeeded, Some Reasons for Hope.…”
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The Marine Corps War College Strategy Primer /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The purpose of the Marine Corps War College Strategy Primer -- The strategic environment -- Sources and drivers of policy -- Ends and problem framing -- Ways and means -- Compare, test, and select, Part I : Limitations and validation -- Compare, test, and select, Part II : Strategy option assessment -- Strategy implementation, evaluation, and revision -- Appendix A: Assumptions -- Appendix B: Heuristics and cognitive biases in decision making -- Appendix C: Strength of interest comparison -- Appendix D: Additional strategic approaches -- Appendix E: Expanded information on diplomatic and economic instruments -- Appendix F: Additional subject areas for comparative analysis of potential strategies -- Appendix G: Additional strategy assessment tools -- Appendix H: Structured analytic techniques and tools.…”
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Faulkner and the ecology of the South

Table of Contents: “…"Old man" : shackles, chains, and water water everywhere / Cecelia Tichi -- The land's turn / Philip Weinstein -- Environed blood : ecology and violence in The sound and the fury and Sanctuary / Eric Gary Anderson -- William Faulkner, Peter Mathiessen, and the environmental imagination / Ann Fisher-Wirth -- The enemy within : Faulkner's Snopes trilogy / Michael Wainwright -- Is Faulkner green? …”
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The Marine Corps War College Strategy Primer /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The purpose of the Marine Corps War College Strategy Primer -- The strategic environment -- Sources and drivers of policy -- Ends and problem framing -- Ways and means -- Compare, test, and select, Part I : Limitations and validation -- Compare, test, and select, Part II : Strategy option assessment -- Strategy implementation, evaluation, and revision -- Appendix A: Assumptions -- Appendix B: Heuristics and cognitive biases in decision making -- Appendix C: Strength of interest comparison -- Appendix D: Additional strategic approaches -- Appendix E: Expanded information on diplomatic and economic instruments -- Appendix F: Additional subject areas for comparative analysis of potential strategies -- Appendix G: Additional strategy assessment tools -- Appendix H: Structured analytic techniques and tools.…”
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Journalists, sources and credibility : new perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…journalism and unnamed sources in a changing media environment / Matt Carlson -- Journalists as "unwilling" sources: transparency and the new ethics of journalism / Angela Phillips -- Activist media as mainstream model: what can professional journalists learn from indymedia? …”
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The investment climate in Brazil, India, and South Africa a comparison of approaches for sustaining economic growth in emerging economies /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Assessing the investment climate of Brazil, India, and South Africa -- Macroeconomic and trade policy -- Macroeconomic performance -- Taxation -- Foreign trade and exchange -- The benefits of exporting : the case of Brazil -- Microeconomic framework -- Regulation -- Enforcement -- Enabling environment for growth -- Investment climate and firm location -- Access to finance -- Physical infrastructure -- Cost and availability of skilled labor -- Crime -- Potential reforms and their estimated effects -- Investment climate reform and productivity -- Examining options for microeconomic reform : access to credit -- Lessons from country experience -- A flat tax for micro and small firms : the SIMPLES reform in Brazil -- The emergence of India's software sector -- Building a respected corporate tax system in South Africa -- South Africa's accelerated and shared growth initiative -- Conclusions -- Appendix A: Concept of the investment climate --Appendix B: Data sources.…”
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Access to environmental justice a comparative study /

Table of Contents: “…Read -- Access to environmental justice in India's Garden City (Bangalore) / Amanda Perry-Kessaris -- Access to environmental justice in Indonesia / Adriaan Bedner -- Access to environmental justice in Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) / Andrew Harding and Azmi Sharom -- Access to Environmental justice in a politically unstable environment : a case study of Nepal / Surya Subedi -- Access to environmental justice : Karachi's urban poor and the law / Martin Lau --Towards a greener China? …”
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Cincinnati Police Department traffic stops applying RAND's framework to analyze racial disparities / by Ridgeway, Greg, 1973-

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Dynamic economic decision making strategies for financial risk, capital markets, and monetary policy / by Silvia, John

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Research tools in natural resource and environmental economics

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to research tools in natural resouce and environmental economics / Batabyal and Nijkamp -- Dynamic analysis / Huffaker -- Stochastic analysis : tools for environmental and resource economics modeling / Xepapadeas -- Game theory : static and dynamic games / Benchekroun and Long -- Introduction to economic valuation methods / Abdullah, Markandya and Nunes -- Hedonic method: value of statistical life, wage compensation, and property value compensation -- Environmental valuation : the sum of specific damages approach / Graves -- Economic estimation of non-linear continuous-time models of intertemporally optimizing agents / Donaghy and Wymer -- Computable general equilibrium models for the analysis of economy-environment interactions / Wing -- Experimental methods and environmental and natural resource policy / Cherry and McKee -- Modeling the economics of ecosystem services at watershed scale : a spatial model of land use externalities and the regulating functions of wetalnds / Simonit and Perrings -- Geographical infromation systems models and spatial data analysis / Haining and Law -- Materials balance models / Ayres and Méndez -- Industrial ecology : reflections of an environmental economist / Førsund.…”
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Handbook of loss prevention and crime prevention

Table of Contents: “…Fennelly -- Crime prevention through environmental design in the twenty first century / Timothy Crowe -- Environment crime control / Glen Kitteringham -- Community policing/problem solving policing / Marianna Perry -- Neighborhood watch guidelines for the 21 st century / Marianna Perry -- Situational crime prevention and opportunity blocking / Severin L. …”
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