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Change.edu
It's no wonder American higher education is facing a crisis.While low-income students can't find a spot in their local community colleges for lack of funding, public four-year universities are spending staggering sums on luxurious residence halls, ever-bigger football stadiums, and obscure research ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Harvard Envy
Harvard Envy is a chapter excerpt from Change.edu coming out October 18, 2011.Exploring the limitations of the exclusive, tradition-bound world of higher education, innovator Andrew S. Rosen, chairman and CEO of Kaplan, Inc., delivers a vision for making a world-class college experience available to... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Club College
Club College is a chapter excerpt from Change.edu coming out October 18, 2011.On college campuses nationwide, luxury and learning go hand-in-hand, keeping the price tag for higher education out of reach for many Americans. Education innovator, and chairman and CEO of Kaplan, Inc., Andrew S. Rosen ex... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Improving the U.S. Military's Understanding of Unstable Environments Vulnerable to Violent Extremist Groups: Insights from Social Science
For over a decade, operations associated with irregular warfare have placed large demands on U. S. ground forces and have led to development of new Army and Joint doctrine. This report helps analysts identify and assess twelve key factors that create and perpetuate environments susceptible to insu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Hypertext and Cognition
The recent evolution of western societies has been characterized by an increasing emphasis on information and communication. As the amount of available information increases, however, the user -- worker, student, citizen -- faces a new problem: selecting and accessing relevant information. More than... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1996 -
Integrating Social Media into Information Systems: Requirements, Gaps, and Potential Solutions (G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects)
by Parisa Roshan • Isaac R. Porche • Ryan Andrew Brown • Astrid Stuth Cevallos • Osonde A. Osoba • Joshua Mendelsohn • Douglas Douglas Yeung • John Bordeaux • Timothy R. Gulden • Laura Kupe • Luke J. Matthews • Katharine Sieck • Sarah SolimanThis report examines the technical challenges associated with incorporating bulk, automated analysis of social media information into procedures for vetting people seeking entry into the United States. The authors identify functional requirements and a framework for operational metrics for the propo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Teaching as if Learning Matters: Pedagogies of Becoming by Next-Generation Faculty (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning)
by Keely Cassidy • Jonathan P. Rossing • Laura J. Carpenter • Jacquelyn Petzold • Barbie Klein • Andrew M. Koke • Rachel La Touche • Natalie Christian • Sarah Socorro Hurtado • Juliane Wuensch • Elizabeth Konwest • Kristen Hengtgen • Alyssa M. Lederer • Lauren Miller Griffith • Silja Weber • Adam Coombs • Carol Subiño Sullivan • Leslie E. Drane • Ryan G. Erbe • Polly A. Graham • Jing Yang • Javier Ramirez • Sarah M. Keesom • Kristyn E. Sylvia • Laura Clapper • Jessica Leach • Lisa Wiltbank • Michelle R. Marasco • Mark S. Nagle • Mack Hagood • Letizia Montroni • Maksymilian Szostalo • J. Christopher Upton • Maureen Chinwe Onyeziri • Francesca A. Williamson • Tyler B. ChristensenTeaching is an essential skill in becoming a faculty member in any institution of higher education. Yet how is that skill actually acquired by graduate students? Teaching as if Learning Matters collects first-person narratives from graduate students and new PhDs that explore how the skills required ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Writers of the Future Volume 30
by Orson Scott Card • Robert Silverberg • L. Ron Hubbard • Mike Resnick • Dave Wolverton • Michael Talbot • Shauna O'Meara • Kristie Kim • C. Stuart Hardwick • Liz Colter • Cassandre Bolan • Andrew Sonea • K. C. Norton • Kirbi Fagan • Randy Henderson • Val Lindahn • Oleg Kazantsev • Terry Madden • Vanessa Golitz • Amanda E. Forrest • Megan E. O'Keefe • Vicent-Michael Coviello • Trevor Smith • Leena Likitalo • Adam Brewster • Timothy Jordan • Seonhee Lim • Bernardo Mota • Stephen Hickman • Paul Eckheart • Anaea Lay • Sarah WebbCelebrate New WritersNew WinnersNew WorldsWriters of the Future: Volume 30This is your window into incredible worlds of wizardry, warfare and wonder.This is your escape into fantastic realms of the human mind lurking just beyond your imagination...and reaching deep into your wildest dreams.This is ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Animal Welfare
by Richard Bennett • Paul Thompson • David Fraser • Georgia Mason • Clare Palmer • Peter Sandøe • Christine Nicol • Daniel Weary • Michael Appleby • Anna Olsson • Ignacio Viñuela-Fernández • Michael Cockram • Paul Hemsworth • Joy Mench • Ilias Kyriazakis • Linda Keeling • Marek Spinka • Birte Nielsen • Francisco Galindo • Barry Hughes • Dominique Blache • Alain Boissy • Bryan Jones • Andrew Butterworth • Charlotte C. Burn • Grahame J. Coleman • Richard B. D’Eath • Ian J.H. Duncan • Cathy M. Dwyer • Paul Flecknell • Paul M. Hocking • Stella Maris Huertas • Joergen B. Kjaer • Ute Knierim • Shane K. Maloney • Professor Michael Mendl • Ruth C. Newberry • Edmond A. Pajor • Jeff Rushen • Sally L. Sherwen • Claudia Terlouw • Bert Tolkamp • Natalie K. Waran • Francoise Wemelsfelder • Nadja Wielebnowski • Hanno WürbelUpdated and revised, this bestselling textbook continues to provide a broad introduction to the key topics in the welfare of animals both large and small, farm and companion, wild and zoo. It retains all the popular features of the previous editions with coverage of key issues such as ethics, anima... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Transgenic Insects: Techniques and Applications (CABI Biotechnology Series #3)
by Brian L. Weiss • Arvind Sharma • Andrew Hammond • Nicole Klein • John Mumford • Ricardo Pereira • Lucy Carter • Claudia Emerson • Guy Smagghe • Ravi V. Durvasula • Tony Nolan • Serap Aksoy • Aaron Roberts • Hassan M. Ahmed • Omar S. Akbar • Yehonatan Alcalay • Luke Alphey • Yael Arien • Rotem Daniel Avraham • Camilla Beech • Nicholas J. Bongio • Vanessa Bottino-Rojas • L. Roman Carrasco • Jackson Champer • Isabelle Coche • Carolina Concha • Rocco D’Amato • Brinda Dass • Jason A. Delborne • Ellen M. Dotson • Matthew P. Edgington • Guido Favia • Adam P. Forshaw • Alexander W.E. Franz • Marisa L. Guido • Monika Gulia-Nuss • Daniella An Haber • Alfred M. Handler • Keith R. Hayes • Ivy Hurwitz • Anthony A. James • Thomas P. Kelly • Ana Kormos • Lee Benjamin Lamdan • David J. Lampe • Rosemary S. Lees • Maria Vittoria Mancini • Aditi Mankad • Andrew Nuss • David A. O’Brochta • Riccardo Papa • Philippos Aris Papathanos • Michael Pham • Megan Quinlan • Robyn Raban • Jason L. Rasgon • Yasha Rohwer • Nathan Rose • Marc F. Schetelig • Kristof De Schutter • Hideki Sezutsu • Gregory S. Simmons • Toshiki Tamura • Delphine Thizy • Lea Pare Toe • Ernst A. Wimmer • Liu YangTechnology for modifying the genotypes and phenotypes of insects and other arthropods has steadily progressed with the development of more precise and powerful methods, most prominently transgenic modification. For many insect pests, there is now almost unlimited ability to modify phenotypes to bene... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Invasive Birds: Global Trends and Impacts
by Matthew Burnett • Bill Pranty • Diederik Strubbe • Erik Matthysen • Matthieu Guillemain • Johan Elmberg • Iain Henderson • Ding Li Yong • Juan Carlos Reboreda • Alexander Cruz • Tim Adriaens • Craig R Allen • Michael L Avery • Alexander V Badyaev • Fabrice M Brescia • Sarah E Britton • Daniel M Brooks • Jessica L. Burnett • Corey T Callaghan • César Capinha • Jen Cele • Jameson F Chace • Jocelyn Champagnon • Alice Cibois • Andrew Close • Alyssa R Conn • Richard T Corlett • Adrian J Craig • Amy E Dunham • James A Eaton • David A Smith • Yvette C Smith • Mike W Eichholz • Cyril Eraud • Chris L Feare • Jason M Gleditsch • Guillaume G Gayet • Carlos Gutiérrez-Expósito • Haley E Hanson • Frank Huysentruyt • John G Innes • Salit Kark • Michael R Leven • Ricardo J Lopes • Jean-Francois Maillard • Ndivhuwo Maligana • Chloe I Marcheli • Lynn B Martin • Blake A Mathys • Myriam E Mermoz • Jean-Yves Meyer • Dai K Morgan • Katherine G Ohman • Claire Pernollet • Murray A Potter • Eileen C Rees • Luís Reino • Joana Ribeiro • Peter A Robertson • Andrew M Rogers • Philip D Round • Joana Santana • Cavin T Shivambu • Neftalí Sillero • Preshnee Singh • Pär Söderquist • Karina L Speziale • Martin J Sullivan • Jean-Claude Thibault • Martin Thibault • Berndt J van Rensburg • Eric Vidal • Joseph R Waas • Amy-Leigh Wilson • Katherine Winston • Kevin A Wood • Pierre Yésou • Jaime E ZolikExamining globally invasive alien birds, the first part of this book provides an account of 32 global avian invasive species (as listed by the Invasive Species Specialist Group, ISSG). It acts as a one stop reference volume; it assesses current invasive status for each bird species, including detail... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Climate, Ticks and Disease (CABI Climate Change Series #18)
by Charles Hart • Peter Cox • A. Townsend Peterson • Nicholas Johnson • Wei Liu • Jianhong Wu • Richard Wall • Domenico Otranto • Agustín Estrada-Peña • Jeremy Gray • Abdul Jabbar • Jolyon M. Medlock • Sunit Kumar Singh • Giovanni Benelli • Peter Irwin • Richard Bishop • Xue Zhang • Hao Li • DeMar Taylor • Deborah Hemming • Saeed Alasmari • Neil Alexander • Abdelghafar Alkishe • Reiko Arai • Armanda Bastos • Gervasio Henrique Bechara • John Beier • Joshua Benoit • Dennis Bente • Adrien Blisnick • René Bødker • Fernando Boinas • Sarah Bonnet • Nathalie Boulanger • Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz • Alexandre Rodrigues Caetano • Cyril Caminade • Jirí Cerny´ • Roxanne Albertha Charles • Ali Reza Chavshin • Rosalind Cornforth • Neil Coughlan • Lauren Culler • Milan Daniel • Vlasta Danielova • Mona Dehhaghi • Maria Diuk-Wasser • James P Duffy • Olivier Duron • Lars Eisen • Rebecca Eisen • Jana Elsterová • Koray Ergünay • Li-Qun Fang • Natalia Fernández-Ruiz • Erol Fikrig • Serhii Filatov • Durland Fish • Janet Foley • José De Fuente • Roman Ganta • Aysen Gargili Keles • Robin Beat Gasser • Abdul Ghafar • Naftaly Githaka • Lucy Gilbert • Maryna Golovchenko • Yuval Gottlieb • Ernest Gould • Libor Grubhoffer • Gilles J. Guillemin • Kayleigh M. Hansford • John E. Healy • Stephen Higgs • Andrew Hoodless • Yan-Jang S. Huang • Bernard Hudson • Chris Huntingford • Esther Kanduma • Sirri Kar • Maria Kazimirova • Neil Kaye • Thomas C. Kelly • Lene Jung Kjaer • Agatha Onyemowo Kolo • Eduard Korenberg • Nina Król • Chi-Chien Kuo • Timothy J. Kurtti • Xavier De Lamballerie • Patrick A. Leighton • L. Robbin Lindsay • Geoffrey E. Lynn • Ilya Maclean • Ben J. Mans • Maristela Martins de Camargo • Karen D. McCoy • Ulrike G. Munderloh • Atle Mysterud • Sukanya Narasimhan • Anna Obiegala • Dasiel Obregón Alvarez • Nick H. Ogden • Mari H. Ogihara • Stefan Vilges Oliveira • Charlotte Oskam • Kennan J. Oyen • Neha Pandey • Hamed Kazemi Panahi • John H. Pettersson • Martin Pfeffer • L. Paul Phipps • Heather J. Plumpton • Tatjana Pustahija • Ram Raghavan • Ryan O.M Rego • Annapaola Rizzoli • Isobel Ronai • Franz Rubel • Natalie Rudenko • Benjamin Ruiwen • Rufus Sage • Abdallah M. Samy • Gustavo Seron Sanches • Isabel Kinney Santos • Marcello Otake Sato • Megumi Sato • Richard Schloeffel • Seyyed Javad Seyyed-Zadeh • Ladislav Šimo • Daniel E. Sonenshine • Morgan Sparey • Frederic Stachurski • Snorre Stuen • Matias Pablo Szabó • Mike Teglas • Sam R. • Saravanan Thangamani • Georgia Titcomb • Attila J. Trájer • Michael Turell • Rika Umemiya-Shirafuji • Dana L. Vanlandingham • Laurence Vial • Margarita Villar • André B. Wilke • G. R. Wint • Zbigniew ZajacThis book brings together expert opinions from scientists to consider the evidence for climate change and its impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections. It considers what is meant by 'climate change', how effective climate models are in relation to ecosystems, and provides predictions for changes i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022