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The leader's guide to speaking with presence : how to project confidence, conviction, and authority / by Baldoni, John

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to authentic communication -- The sound of your leadership speech -- Present as a leader -- Make the audience feel welcome (and banish stage fright) -- Stand up straight (and don't forget to breathe) -- Lead your presentation, don't have it lead you -- Turn power point into performance art -- "Tell me a story" -- How to present optimism the right way -- Mastering the art of meeting and mingling -- Leveraging the energy of the room -- Avoid nuance when you speak out loud -- Developing your leadership presentation -- Handbook on leadership presence.…”
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Terrorists on Trial : A Performative Perspective / by Graaf, Beatrice de (Ed.)

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Photography, early cinema, and colonial modernity Frank Hurley's synchronized lecture entertainments / by Dixon, Robert, 1954-

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A profile of the performing arts industry : culture and commerce / by Gaylin, David H.

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Persuasion in society / by Simons, Herbert W., 1935-

Table of Contents: “…Going public. Planning campaigns. Staging political campaigns. Analyzing product advertising. …”

Fieldwork, participation and practice ethics and dilemmas in qualitative research / by Laine, Marlene de

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: 1 -- Introduction -- 2 -- The moral career of the qualitative fieldworker -- 3 -- Scripts and staging the self -- 4 -- Back regions and sensitive methods -- 5 -- Roles and role performance -- 6 -- Ethical dilemmas: the demands and expectations -- of various audiences -- 7 -- Field notes: ethics and the emotional self -- 8 -- Textual 'impression management' of self and others -- 9 -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.…”
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The scar of visibility medical performances and contemporary art / by Kuppers, Petra

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: bodily fantasies -- Visions of anatomy: space, exhibitions, and dense bodies -- Living bodies: staging knowledge, fantasy, and temporality -- The collaborative arts: pain and performance -- Intersections: blood, laughter, and the space-off -- Monsters, cyborgs, animals: crashes, cuttings, and migraines -- Medical museums and art display: the discourses of AIDS -- Reaching out: outsider art, specialists, and positions in between -- Epilogue: fantasies in the sand.…”
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The argumentative theatre of Joe Penhall by Boles, William C., 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : from the raves to the stages of London -- Wild turkey and the new man, The new lad and the Penhall male -- Some voices and the failure of care -- Pale horse and the struggle to mourn -- Love and understanding and the demise of relationships -- The bullet and the stigma of redundancy -- Blue/orange and racism within the National Health Service -- Dumb show and Penhall's women -- Landscape with weapon and post-September 11 drama -- Afterword.…”
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Lars von Trier / by Badley, Linda

Table of Contents: “…Making the waves : cinema as performance -- Prescient affects : student films -- Hypnotic virtuosity : the Europe trilogy -- Subverting the kingdom : television -- Performative politics : Dogme95 and The idiots -- Performing the feminine : Breaking the waves and Dancer in the dark -- (Up)staging the American dream : the USA trilogy (minus one) -- Comedy, automavision, and The boss of it all -- Theatre of cruelty : Antichrist (an epilogue) -- Interviews with Lars von Trier.…”
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Questioning for classroom discussion : purposeful speaking, engaged listening, deep thinking / by Walsh, Jackie A., Sattes, Beth D. (Beth Dankert)

Table of Contents: “…Quality questioning: the heart of thoughtful discussion -- The DNA of productive discussion: social, cognitive, and use-of-knowledge skills and companion -- Dispositions -- Teacher-guided discussion: teachers as coaches during five stages of discussion -- Structured small-group discussion: using protocols to scaffold skills for discussion -- Student-driven discussion: putting students in the driver's seat -- Questioning for discussion: creating your own designs.…”
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An introduction to supply chain management a global supply chain support perspective / by Prater, Edmund

Table of Contents: “…Getting on the same page -- 2. The global stage -- 3. Supply chain strategy -- Section II. …”
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Risk Criticism : Precautionary Reading in an Age of Environmental Uncertainty / by Wallace, Molly

Table of Contents: “…: literary criticism in an age of global risk -- The second nuclear age and its wagers : archival reflexions -- We all live in Bhopal? : staging global risk -- Discomfort food : analogy and biotechnology -- Letting plastic have its say; or, plastic's tell -- The Port Radium paradigm; or, Fukushima in a changing climate -- Afterword: Writing "the bomb" : inheritances in the anthropocene.…”
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Advances in surgical pathology.

Table of Contents: “…Yantiss -- Pathologic staging issues : implementation of the TNM staging system / Rhonda K. …”
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Nurse as educator : principles of teaching and learning for nursing practice / by Bastable, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Overview of education in health care -- Ethical, legal, and economic foundations of the educational process -- Applying learning theories to healthcare practice -- Determinants of learning -- Developmental stages of the learner -- Compliance, motivation, and health behaviors of the learner -- Literacy in the adult client population -- Gender, socioeconomic, and cultural attributes of the learner -- Educating learners with disabilities -- Behavioral objectives -- Instructional methods and settings -- Instructional materials -- Technology in education -- Evaluation in healthcare education.…”

The power of strategy innovation a new way of linking creativity and strategic planning to discover great business opportunities / by Johnston, Robert E.

Table of Contents: “…Strategy meets innovation -- Strategy innovation is managing the future -- Strategy innovation is not strategic planning -- The discovery process -- The discovery process : the Moen story -- The discovery process : staging phase -- The discovery process : aligning phase -- The discovery process : exploring phase -- The discovery process : creating phase -- The discovery process : mapping phase -- Maximizing the discovery process -- Formalizing a strategy innovation system -- Epilogue: the future of strategy innovation.…”
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What ever happened to the faculty? drift and decision in higher education / by Burgan, Mary

Table of Contents: “…Bricks and mortar : the American campus -- The myth of the bloviating professor : sages and guides -- Getting the "liberal" out of education : the curriculum -- Absence makes the heart grow colder : online education -- A more perfect union : college and university governance -- Rookies of the year and superstars : academic competition -- The case of the firecracker boys : academic science and academic freedom -- The disposable faculty : tenure now -- Staging a comeback : exemplary cases.…”
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Paris dreams, Paris memories the city and its mystique / by Rearick, Charles, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Paris : praised, modernized, remembered, staged, and loved : nineteenth-century foundations -- The memory of a certain "belle-epoque" (1914-c.1960) : or how the turn-of-the-century lived on beyond its time -- Postwar modernizing and the resistance of memory (1945-c.1980) -- New varieties of a "nouveau Paris" (1974-2008) -- Paris in comparison -- Contemporary Paris : images, spirit, soul, and sites -- Conclusion : to know Paris.…”
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Statistical disclosure control

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Preface vii Acknowledgements ix 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Concepts and Definitions 2 1.1.1 Disclosure 2 1.1.2 Statistical disclosure control 2 1.1.3 Tabular data 3 1.1.4 Microdata 3 1.1.5 Risk and utility 4 1.2 An approach to Statistical Disclosure Control 6 1.3 The chapters of the handbook 8 2 Ethics, Principles, Guidelines and Regulations, a general background 9 2.1 Introduction 9 2.2 Ethical codes and the new ISI code 9 2.2.1 ISI Declaration on Professional Ethics 10 2.2.2 New ISI Declaration on Professional Ethics 10 2.2.3 European Statistics Code of Practice 14 2.3 UNECE Principles and guidelines 14 2.4 Laws 17 2.4.1 Committee on Statistical Confidentiality 18 2.4.2 European Statistical System Committee 18 3 Microdata 21 3.1 Introduction 21 3.2 Microdata Concepts 22 3.2.1 Stage 1: Assess need for confidentiality protection 22 3.2.2 Stage 2: Key characteristics and uses of microdata 24 3.2.3 Stage 3: Disclosure risk 27 3.2.4 Stage 4: Protection methods 29 3.2.5 Stage 5: Implementation 30 3.3 Definitions of disclosure 32 3.3.1 Definitions of disclosure scenarios 33 3.4 Definitions of Disclosure Risk 34 3.4.1 Disclosure risk for categorical quasi-identifiers 35 3.4.2 Disclosure risk for continuous quasi-identifiers 37 3.5 Estimating Re-identification Risk 39 3.5.1 Individual risk based on the sample: threshold rule 39 3.5.2 Estimating individual risk using sampling weights 39 3.5.3 Estimating individual risk by Poisson model 42 3.5.4 Further models that borrow information from other sources 43 3.5.5 Estimating per record risk via heuristics 44 3.5.6 Assessing risk via record linkage 45 3.6 Non-Perturbative Microdata Masking 45 3.6.1 Sampling 46 3.6.2 Global recoding 46 3.6.3 Top and bottom coding 47 3.6.4 Local suppression 47 3.7 Perturbative Microdata Masking 48 3.7.1 Additive noise masking 48 3.7.2 Multiplicative noise masking 52 3.7.3 Microaggregation 54 3.7.4 Data swapping and rank swapping 66 3.7.5 Data shuffling 66 3.7.6 Rounding 67 3.7.7 Resampling 67 3.7.8 PRAM 67 3.7.9 MASSC 71 3.8 Synthetic and Hybrid Data 71 3.8.1 Fully synthetic data 72 3.8.2 Partially synthetic data 77 3.8.3 Hybrid data 79 3.8.4 Pros and cons of synthetic and hybrid data 88 3.9 Information Loss in Microdata 91 3.9.1 Information loss measures for continuous data 92 3.9.2 Information loss measures for categorical data 99 3.10 Release of multiple files from the same microdata set 101 3.11 Software 102 3.11.1 _-ARGUS 102 3.11.2 sdcMicro 103 3.11.3 IVEware 106 3.12 Case Studies 106 3.12.1 Microdata files at Statistics Netherlands 106 3.12.2 The European Labour Force Survey Microdata for Research Purposes 108 3.12.3 The European Structure of Earnings Survey Microdata for Research Purposes 111 3.12.4 NHIS Linked Mortality Data Public Use File, USA 117 3.12.5 Other real case instances 119 4 Magnitude tabular data 121 4.1 Introduction 121 4.1.1 Magnitude Tabular Data: Basic Terminology 121 4.1.2 Complex tabular data structures: hierarchical and linked tables 122 4.1.3 Risk Concepts 124 4.1.4 Protection Concepts 127 4.1.5 Information Loss Concepts 127 4.1.6 Implementation: Software, Guidelines and Case Study 127 4.2 Disclosure Risk Assessment I: Primary Sensitive Cells 128 4.2.1 Intruder Scenarios 128 4.2.2 Sensitivity rules 129 4.3 Disclosure Risk Assessment II: Secondary risk assessment 140 4.3.1 Feasibility Interval 141 4.3.2 Protection Level 142 4.3.3 Singleton and multi cell disclosure 143 4.3.4 Risk models for hierarchical and linked tables 144 4.4 Non-Perturbative Protection Methods 145 4.4.1 Global Recoding 145 4.4.2 The Concept of Cell Suppression 145 4.4.3 Algorithms for Secondary Cell Suppression 146 4.4.4 Secondary Cell Suppression in Hierarchical and Linked Tables 149 4.5 Perturbative Protection Methods 151 4.5.1 A pre-tabular method: Multiplicative Noise 152 4.5.2 A Post-tabular Method: Controlled Tabular Adjustment 153 4.6 Information Loss Measures for Tabular Data 153 4.6.1 Cell Costs for Cell Suppression 153 4.6.2 Cell Costs for CTA 154 4.6.3 Information Loss Measures to Evaluate the Outcome of Table Protection 155 4.7 Software for Tabular Data Protection 155 4.7.1 Empirical comparison of cell suppression algorithms 156 4.8 Guidelines: Setting up an efficient table model systematically 160 4.8.1 Defining Spanning Variables 161 4.8.2 Response Variables and Mapping Rules 162 4.9 Case Studies 164 4.9.1 Response Variables and Mapping Rules of the Case Study 164 4.9.2 Spanning Variables of the Case Study 165 4.9.3 Analysing the Tables of the Case Study 165 4.9.4 Software Issues of the Case Study 167 5 Frequency tables 169 5.1 Introduction 169 5.2 Disclosure risks 169 5.3 Methods 176 5.4 Post-tabular methods 178 5.4.1 Cell Suppression 178 5.4.2 ABS Cell Perturbation 179 5.4.3 Rounding 179 5.5 Information loss 184 5.6 Software 186 5.6.1 Introduction 186 5.7 Case Studies 188 5.7.1 UK Census 188 5.7.2 Australian and New Zealand Censuses 190 6 Data Access Issues 193 6.1 Introduction 193 6.2 Research Data Centres 193 6.3 Remote Execution 194 6.4 Remote Access 195 6.5 Licensing 196 6.6 Guidelines on output checking 196 6.6.1 Introduction 196 6.6.2 General approach 197 6.6.3 Rules for output checking 199 6.6.4 Organizational/procedural aspects of output checking 208 6.6.5 Researcher training 215 6.7 Additional issues concerning data access 218 6.7.1 Examples of disclaimers 218 6.7.2 Output description 218 6.8 Case Studies 219 6.8.1 The U.S. …”
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Bladder pathology by Cheng, Liang

Table of Contents: “…Normal anatomy and histology -- Inflammatory and infectious conditions -- Urothelial metaplasia and hyperplasia -- Polyps and other non-neoplastic benign conditions -- Benign epithelial tumors -- Flat urothelial lesions with atypia and urothelial dysplasia -- Urothelial carcinoma in situ -- Bladder cancer: general features -- Grading of bladder cancer -- Stage pT1 urothelial carcinoma -- Staging of bladder cancer -- Histologic variants of urothelial carcinoma -- Adenocarcinoma and its putative precursors and variants -- Squamous cell carcinoma and other squamous lesions -- Neuroendocrine tumors -- Sarcomatoid carcinoma (carcinosarcoma) -- Bladder tumors with inverted growth -- Congenital disorders and pediatric pathology -- Soft tissue tumors -- Lymphoid and hematopoeitic tumors -- Urothelial carcinoma following augmentation cystoplasty -- Other rare tumors -- Secondary tumors -- Treatment effects -- Handling and reporting of bladder specimens -- Diagnostic immunohistochemistry -- Pathology of the urachus -- Pathology of renal pelvis, ureter, and urethra -- Molecular determinants of tumor recurrence -- Urinary cytology -- Evaluation of hematuria and urianalysis -- Urine based biomarkers -- Tissue based biomarkers -- Molecular pathology of bladder cancer.…”
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Nature and history in American political development a debate / by Ceaser, James W.

Table of Contents: “…Rakove -- Replacing foundations with staging: "second-story" concepts and American political development / Nancy L. …”
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