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Poetry, History, Memory : Wang Jingwei and China in Dark Times by YANG, ZHIYI

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Postcolonial green environmental politics & world narratives /

Table of Contents: “…Narrative currency in a changing climate: grounding the arctic amid shifting terrain / Pavel Cenkl; Wild madness: the Makah whale hunt and its aftermath / Caskey Russell; bad seed: imperiled biological and social diversity in Ruth Ozeki's All over creation / Rachel Stein -- South America and the Caribbean. …”
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Developing public-private partnerships in Liberia

Table of Contents: “…Experience in PPP transactions and natural resource concessions in Liberia since 2003 -- Some trends in PPP experience in post-conflict countries -- Liberia's PPP experience -- Freeport of Monrovia experience-- LEC-MHI management contract -- Buchanan renewables IPP -- Solid waste contracts for Monrovia -- Natural resource concession in Liberia -- Themes useful in PPP project structuring based on experiences and lessons learned -- Phased risk-based approach preference from private sector towards the development of PPPs -- Preference by the private sector for remuneration by user charges -- Need to address low capacity to develop, monitor and evaluate -- Avoid additional missed opportunities for joint infrastructure development by natural resource concessionaires -- Establish clear principles for selecting and prioritizing PPPs in Liberia -- Deepening PPP development through legal and institutional reform -- Overview of legal and institutional enabling environment -- Weaknesses to the legal and institutional enabling environment detailed -- Problems with definitions of PPP and natural resource concession -- Unclear institutional roles and responsibilities -- Incomplete PPP and concession legal framework -- The PPCA -- The proposed NBC Act -- Legislative and institutional options to deepen the links between natural resource concessions, and PPPs and expand PPP development -- Recommendations for implementing strengthened PPP framework -- Recommendations for additional framework support -- Generating the next set of PPP transactions in Liberia -- The PPP short list -- Buchanan and Greenville Ports -- HFO facilities at Freeport -- Power projects -- Mt. …”
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Genotoxicity evaluation, testing and prediction /

Table of Contents: “…Impact assessment and evaluation of cadmium-induced genotoxicity and clastogenicity in mice / Malay Chatterjee and Mary Chatterjee -- Loss of heterozygosity and/or microsatellite instability in multiple critical regions of 3p and 9p chromosomes in human epithelial lung cells (L132) exposed to air pollution particulate matter (Pm2.5) / Françoise Saint-Georges -- Prediction of the human radiosensitivity : what is the most relevant endpoint? …”
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Higher Education Reforms in Romania Between the Bologna Process and National Challenges /

Table of Contents: “…Equity from an institutional perspective in the Romanian HE: Jamil Salmi, Cezar Mihai Haj, Daniela Alexe -- 5. Evaluation capacity building as a means to improving policy making and public services in higher education: Nicolae Toderas, Ana-Maria Stăvaru -- 6. …”
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Philosophic values and world citizenship Locke to Obama and beyond /

Table of Contents: “…Tolerance -- A functional view of value ultimates / Alain Locke -- A functional peace in this world : Farmer and Locke on the challenges of a truly post-war hope / Greg Moses -- Beyond repressive tolerance : Alain Locke's hermeneutics of democracy and tolerance in conversation with Herbert Marcuse and H.G. Gadamer / Arnold L. Farr -- Multicultural education, metaphysics, and Alain Locke's post-metaphysical alternative / Christopher J. …”
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The Cambridge handbook of endangered languages

Table of Contents: “…Researcher training and capacity development in language documentation Anthony Jukes; 22. …”
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Assumptions inhibiting progress in comparative biology /

Table of Contents: “…The inhibition of scientific progress : perceptions of biological units / Christopher M. Murray, Caleb D. McMahan, Brian I. Crother, and Craig Guyer -- Chapter 7. …”
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LDC external debt and the world economy /

Table of Contents: “…Müller, David Moore and Robert Cohen -- Integrating financial planning with macroeconomic planning for efficient foreign debt management / Clark W. Reynolds -- Private lending to LDC's by Great Britain in the nineteenth century: a guide to the future? …”
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LDC external debt and the world economy /

Table of Contents: “…Müller, David Moore and Robert Cohen -- Integrating financial planning with macroeconomic planning for efficient foreign debt management / Clark W. Reynolds -- Private lending to LDC's by Great Britain in the nineteenth century: a guide to the future? …”
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Deliberation and democracy : innovative processes and institutions /

Table of Contents: “…: some evidences from a deliberative poll on reframing regional governments held at Kanagawa prefecture, Japan / Tatsuro Sakano -- The deliberation quality -- How to measure the quality of deliberation? …”
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The Greater Middle East in global politics social science perspectives on the changing geography of the world politics /

Table of Contents: “…Radtke -- Indian power projection in the Greater Middle East : tools and objectives / Prithvi Ram Mudiam -- The changing face of the Russian Far East : cooperation and resource competition between Japan, Korea, and China in Northeast Asia / Roger Kangas -- India-Pakistan engagement with the Greater Middle East : implications and options / B.M. …”
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Tales from the expat harem foreign women in modern Turkey /

Table of Contents: “…Taking part in a traditional bridal bath in 1995, a New Jersey scholar finds aspects of the ancient gddess culture alive and well in a Turkish hamam in central Anatolia -- Femin-Istanbul / Dana Gonzalez. …”
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AIChE equipment testing procedure. a guide to performance evaluation /

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: 100.0 PURPOSE & SCOPE 1 101.0 Purpose 1 102.0 Scope 1 200.0 DEFINITION AND DESCRIPTION OF TERMS 2 201.0 Flow Quantities 2 202.0 Key Components 3 203.0 Mass Transfer Efficiency 4 203.1 Theoretical Trays or Plates or Stages 4 203.2 Overall Column Efficiency 4 203.3 Apparent Murphree Tray Efficiency 4 203.4 Ideal Murphree Tray Efficiency 4 203.5 Murphree Point Efficiency 4 203.6 HETP 4 203.7 HTU 4 203.8 NTU 4 204.0 Operating Lines 5 205.0 Pinch 5 206.0 Maximum Throughput 5 206.1 Maximum Hydraulic Throughput 5 206.2 Maximum Operational Capacity 5 206.3 Maximum Efficient Capacity 5 207.0 Minimum Operating Rate 5 208.0 Operating Section 5 209.0 Hardware 6 209.1 Components of a Trayed Column 6 209.2 Components of a Packed Column 7 300.0 TEST PLANNING 9 301.0 Preliminary Preparation 9 301.1 Safety 10 301.2 Environmental Considerations 10 301.3 Test Objectives 10 301.4 Organizational Resources 10 301.5 Schedule 10 301.6 Review of Historic Operating Data 10 302.0 Column Control and Instrumentation 11 303.0 Peripheral Equipment 11 304.0 Pre-test Calculations 11 304.1 Process Simulation 11 304.2 Dry Run 11 305.0 Types of Tests 12 305.1 Performance Tests 12 305.2 Acceptance Tests 12 306.0 Specific Areas of Interest 12 306.1 Packing Efficiencies 12 306.2 Tray Efficiencies 12 306.3 Overall Column Efficiency 13 306.4 Capacity Limitations 13 307.0 Energy Consumption 14 308.0 Pressure Drop Restrictions 15 309.0 Data Collection Requirements 15 309.1 Process Operating Data 15 309.2 Gamma Scan Data 15 310.0 Conditions of External Streams 18 310.1 Overall and Component Material Balances 18 310.2 Overall Enthalpy Balances 18 311.0 Internal Temperatures 18 311.1 Heat Balances 18 311.2 Internal Profiles 18 312.0 Internal Samples 20 312.1 Internal Samples for Efficiency Checks 20 312.2 Internal Samples for Overall Performance 20 313.0 Pressure Profiles 20 314.0 Data Requirements-Physical Properties 20 314.1 Test Mixtures 20 314.2 Essential Data 21 315.0 Auxiliary Data 21 316.0 Test Procedure Documentation 21 400.0 METHODS OF MEASUREMENT AND SAMPLING 22 401.0 System Controls and Operating Stability 22 402.0 Measurement of Temperatures 22 402.1 Accuracy 22 402.2 Errors 22 403.0 Measurement of Flow Rates 24 403.1 Orifice Meters 24 403.2 Rotameters 25 403.3 Vortex Flow Meters 25 403.4 Coriolis Flow Meters 25 403.5 Magnetic Flow Meters 25 403.6 Pitot Tube (or Annubar) 25 403.7 Direct Volume or Weight Measurement 26 404.0 Measurement of Column Pressure Drop 26 404.1 Instrument 26 404.2 Pressure Taps 26 404.3 Seal Pots 33 404.4 Leakage Check 33 404.5 Accuracy 33 405.0 Sampling Procedure 34 405.1 General 34 405.2 Selection of Sampling Points 34 405.3 Sample Connections 35 405.4 Containers 35 405.5 Sampling of High Boiling Materials 36 405.6 Sampling of Intermediate Boiling Materials 37 405.7 Sampling of Materials Having Boiling Points Below -50°F (-46°C) 40 405.8 Leakage Check 41 405.9 Labeling and Handling the Samples 41 500.0 TEST PROCEDURE 43 501.0 Preliminary 43 502.0 Test Procedure for Maximum Hydraulic Throughput 43 502.1 Flood Symptoms 44 502.2 Performing Capacity Tests 45 502.3 Optional Test Technique - Gamma Scanning 48 503.0 Considerations Affecting Efficiency Test Procedure 48 503.1 Rigorous Versus Shortcut Efficiency Tests 48 503.2 Strategy of Efficiency Testing 49 503.3 Early Preparation for Efficiency Tests 50 503.4 Last-minute Preparations for Efficiency Tests 53 503.5 Establishment of Steady State Conditions 55 503.6 The Test Day 56 503.7 Concluding Test 56 600.0 COMPUTATION OF RESULTS 601.0 Verification of Test Data and Simulation Models 58 602.0 Material Balance 59 602.1 End Effects 59 603.0 Enthalpy Balance 59 603.1 Overall Balance 59 603.2 Internal Flow Rates 60 604.0 Hydraulic Performance 60 604.1 Trayed Column 60 604.2 Packed Column 61 605.0 Efficiency Performance 61 605.1 Trayed Column 62 605.2 Packed Column 69 700.0 INTERPRETATION OF RESULTS 76 701.0 Sources of Experimental Error 76 701.1 Material and Enthalpy Balances 77 702.0 Effects of Experimental Error 78 703.0 Design versus Performance 78 703.1 Mechanical/Tower Equipment 78 703.2 Process Conditions 78 704.0 Hydraulic Performance 79 704.1 Mechanical/Tower Equipment 79 704.2 Tray 79 704.3 Packing 80 704.4 Process Conditions 80 705.0 Mass Transfer Performance 81 705.1 Mechanical/Tower Equipment 81 705.2 Tray 81 705.3 Packing 82 705.4 Maldistribution 82 705.5 Process 84 706.0 Test Troubleshooting 85 706.1 Analysis Procedure 85 706.2 Sampling 85 706.3 Equilibrium Data 85 706.4 Temperature Measurements 85 706.5 Heat and Material Balances 86 706.6 Fluctuation of Process Conditions 86 706.7 Pressure Drop Measurements 86 706.8 Incorrect Prediction of Pressure Drop 86 706.9 Errors in Assumptions in Modeling Mass Transfer 86 706.10 Multicomponent Systems Deviate from Binary Data 87 706.11 High Purity Separation 87 706.12 Test and Design Conditions 87 800.0 APPENDIX 88 801.0 Notation 88 801.1 Greek Symbols 90 802.0 Sample Calculations 90 802.1 General Analysis of Test Data 90 802.2 Packed Column 91 802.3 Trayed Column 107 803.0 References 126.…”
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Comparative Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality Fathers on Leave Alone /

Table of Contents: “…: Isabel Valarino -- Chapter 13: Fathers on Leave Alone in Japan: Lived Experiences of the Pioneers: Hideki Nakazato -- Chapter 14: Discussion and Conclusions: Karin Wall and Margaret O’Brien.…”
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Amerindian socio-cosmologies between the Andes, Amazonia and Mesoamerica : toward an anthropological understanding of the Isthmo-Colombian Area /

Table of Contents: “…Case studies: Change and continuity in shamanic and priestly practices and the conception of things, humans, plants and animals -- Parents who own lives: Relations and persons among a Chibchan group in Colombia / Jose Arenas Gómez -- Tuwancha, "the One Who Knows": Specialists and specialized knowledge in transhuman communication among the Sokorpa Yukpa of the Serranía del Perijá, Colombia / Anne Goletz -- The Wounaan haaihí jëeu nam ritual with the K'ugwiu: reinforcing benevolence and preventing calamity / Chindío Peña Ismare, Julia Velásquez Runk, Rito Ismare Peña and Chenier Carpio Opua -- Things, life, and humans in Gunayala (Panama): Talking about Molas and Nuchus inside and outside Guna Society / Mònica Martínez Mauri -- Plant ontologies among the Bribri of Talamanca, Costa Rica / Schabnam Kaviany -- The place of livestock in human-nonhuman relationship among the Wayuu / Alessandro Mancuso -- Murderous spirits: Shamanic Interpretation of Armed violence, suicide, and exhumation in the economy of death of the Emberá (Chocó, Antioquia, Colombia) / Anne-Marie Losonczy.…”
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Energy Storage : Systems and Components. by Rufer, Alfred

Table of Contents: “…""1.2.3 About the Distribution of Energy """"1.2.4 Storage Form of Energy ""; ""1.2.5 Intermediary Conversion ""; ""1.2.6 Control and Diagnostic ""; ""1.3 Technical Definitions ""; ""1.3.1 C: Capacity ""; ""1.3.2 DoD: Depth of Discharge ""; ""1.3.3 SoC: State of Charge ""…”
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Can Language be Planned? : Sociolinguistic Theory for Developing Nations /

Table of Contents: “…Gallagher -- Some planning processes in the development of the Indonesian-Malay language / S. Takdir Alisjahbana -- The development of Bengali since the establishment of Pakistan / Muhammad Abdul Hai -- A general approach to language planning : towards a theory of language planning / Björn H. …”
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Can Language be Planned? : Sociolinguistic Theory for Developing Nations /

Table of Contents: “…Gallagher -- Some planning processes in the development of the Indonesian-Malay language / S. Takdir Alisjahbana -- The development of Bengali since the establishment of Pakistan / Muhammad Abdul Hai -- A general approach to language planning : towards a theory of language planning / Björn H. …”
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Breakthrough communities sustainability and justice in the next American metropolis /

Table of Contents: “…/ David Rusk -- Farms to schools: promoting urban health, combating sprawl, and advancing community food systems (Southern California) / Robert Gottlieb, Mark Vallianatos, and Anupama Joshi -- Regional equity and the future of sustainable metropolitan communities -- Building the capacity of the regional equity movement -- Building the capacity of the regional equity movement / Angela Glover Blackwell and L. …”
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