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"En las últimas décadas, el mundo ha dado pasos impresionantes para mejorar la calidad de vida de millones de personas; sin embargo, todavía sigue inconclusa la tarea de garantizar la seguridad alimentaria a los más pobres de una manera sostenible. La explosión demográfica, la expansión urbana, la desnutrición y la mala salud persistentes, las tierras agrícolas degradadas y el agua escasa, la carencia de poder de las mujeres, la globalización acelerada y la rápida aparición de nuevas tecnologías – todos estos y muchos otros factores están influenciando este esfuerzo continuo. Este libro compila docenas de resúmenes y artículos para presentar las perspectivas de los expertos sobre estos tópicos vitales. Producidas como parte de la iniciativa “Visión de la alimentación, la agricultura y el medio ambiente en el año 2020”, del Instituto Internacional de Investigaciones sobre Políticas Alimentarias, las contribuciones aquí coleccionadas ofrecen una visión completa de los temas de política que el mundo debe abordar si ha de superar la pobreza, el hambre y la degradación ambiental; también señalan el camino hacia las acciones necesarias en materia de política para que se logren estos objetivos."

Have the lives of the world's poorest, neediest people improved over the past few decades? What policies have lifted some people out of the worst forms of poverty, and what conditions keep others mired within it? The Poorest and Hungry: Assessment, Analyses, and Actions answers such questions, bringing together studies of both what causes and what reduces severe poverty from a diverse group of development specialists. The book focuses on the poorest and hungry in society and identifies areas for action. Stable economic growth; targeted social programs and insurance that invest in and protect nutrition, health, and education; and political and social inclusion of previously marginalized groups emerge as the essential requirements for poverty reduction, and this book's contributors identify strategies for promoting all three. The Poorest and Hungry is an important resource for policymakers, development specialists, and others concerned with helping the world's poorest people.

BookPRIFPRI2DGO; CPAAgriculture's vast potential to improve nutrition is just beginning to be tapped. New ideas, research, and initiatives developed over the past decade have created an opportunity for reimagining and redesigning agricultural and food systems for the benefit of nutrition. To support this transformation, the book reviews the latest findings, results from on-the-ground programs and interventions, and recent policy experiences from countries around the world that are bringing the agriculture and nutrition sectors closer together. Drawing on IFPRI's own work and that of the growing agriculture-nutrition community, this book strengthens the evidence base for, and expands our vision of, how agriculture can contribute to nutrition. Chapters cover an array of issues that link agriculture and nutrition, including food value chains, nutrition-sensitive programs and policies, government policies, and private sector investments. By highlighting both achievements and setbacks, Agriculture for Improved Nutrition seeks to inspire those who want to scale up successes that can transform food systems and improve the nutrition of billions of people. Abstract: BookPRIFPRI2DGO; CPAAgriculture's vast potential to improve nutrition is just beginning to be tapped. New ideas, research, and initiatives developed over the past decade have created an opportunity for reimagining and redesigning agricultural and food systems for the benefit of nutrition. To support this transformation, the book reviews the latest findings, results from on-the-ground programs and interventions, and recent policy experiences from countries around the world that are bringing the agriculture and nutrition sectors closer together. Drawing on IFPRI's own work and that of the growing agriculture-nutrition community, this book strengthens the evidence base for, and expands our vision of, how agriculture can contribute to nutrition. Chapters cover an array of issues that link agriculture and nutrition, including food value chains, nutrition-sensitive programs and policies, government policies, and private sector investments. By highlighting both achievements and setbacks, Agriculture for Improved Nutrition seeks to inspire those who want to scale up successes that can transform food systems and improve the nutrition of billions of people

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In recent decades the world has made remarkable progress in improving the quality of life for millions of people, but the job of assuring sustainable food security for the world's poorest people remains unfinished. Booming populations, rapid urbanization,

Despite substantial advances in family health and family planning over the past 30 years, global population has continued to grow by about 80 million people each year, with the total surpassing 6 billion people in 1999. Six Billion and Counting examines the consequences of continuing population growth for the world's resource systems and for national and global food security. The authors offer a sober analysis of a complex and alarming situation. They assess the progress the world has made in controlling population growth and point to the areas where future difficulties will lie. They describe the effects of rapid population growth on social and economic conditions and on natural resources, and they consider what population growth will mean for the food security of poor people and poor countries. In addition, they address how sociocultural norms and the roles of women and children in traditional societies affect birth rates. According to the authors, neither the population "pessimists," who predict that population growth will lead to a catastrophic exhaustion of natural resources, nor the population "optimists," who predict that technological advances can solve all of the problems raised by population growth, offer the most useful approach to this problem. Instead, Leisinger and his coauthors argue that new technologies mitigating the harmful effects of rapid population growth can give the world valuable time to take the complex and multifaceted steps needed to reduce population growth rates to sustainable levels.

With a long history and deep connection to the Earth’s resources, indigenous peoples have an intimate understanding and ability to observe the impacts linked to climate change. Traditional ecological knowledge and tribal experience play a key role in developing future scientific solutions for adaptation to the impacts. The book explores climate-related issues for indigenous communities in the United States, including loss of traditional knowledge, forests and ecosystems, food security and traditional foods, as well as water, Arctic sea ice loss, permafrost thaw and relocation. The book also highlights how tribal communities and programs are responding to the changing environments. Fifty authors from tribal communities, academia, government agencies and NGOs contributed to the book. Previously published in __Climatic Change,__ Volume 120, Issue 3, 2013.

'The beauty of a game of chess is usually appraised, and with good reason, according to the sacrifices it contains. On principle we incline to rate a sacrificial game more highly than a positional game. Instinctively we place the moral value above the scientific. We honor Capablanca, but our hearts beat higher when Morphy's name is mentioned.'— Introduction.Perhaps the strongest Austrian-born grandmaster of the20th century, Rudolf Spielmann (1883–1942) defeated such world-class opponents as Nimzovich, Tartakower, Bogoljubov — and even the great Capablanca. Among the reasons for his success was his mastery of the art of sacrifice. In this ground-breaking classic, distilled from 40 years of tournament play, he outlines the hard-won lessons that enable a player to win games by giving up pieces!Drawing on dozens of his own games against such topflight players as Schlechter, Tartakower, Bogoljubov, Reti, Rubinstein and Tarrasch, Spielmann describes and analysis various type of sacrifices: (positional, for gain, mating) and real sacrifices: (for development, obstructive, preventive, line-clearance, vacating, deflecting and more). The result was the first systematic attempt to explain and exploit the theory of chess sacrifice; it remains an extremely helpful and useful weapon in the arsenal of chess players at every level.

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The economic and political situation of cities has shifted in recent years in light of rapid growth amidst infrastructure decline, the suburbanization of poverty and inner city revitalization. At the same time, the way that data are used to understand urban systems has changed dramatically. Urban Analytics offers a field-defining look at the challenges and opportunities of using new and emerging data to study contemporary and future cities through methods including GIS, Remote Sensing, Big Data and Geodemographics. Written in an accessible style and packed with illustrations and interviews from key urban analysts, this is a groundbreaking new textbook for students of urban planning, urban design, geography, and the information sciences.

Can the Pakistan's agricultural sector and rural economy once again play a significant role in growth and development? __Agriculture and the Rural Economy in Pakistan: Issues, Outlooks, and Policy Priorities__ identifies several measures that can promote agricultural productivity growth as well as wider economic and social development.

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The economic and political situation of cities has shifted in recent years in light of rapid growth amidst infrastructure decline, the suburbanization of poverty and inner city revitalization. At the same time, the way that data are used to understand urban systems has changed dramatically. Urban Analytics offers a field-defining look at the challenges and opportunities of using new and emerging data to study contemporary and future cities through methods including GIS, Remote Sensing, Big Data and Geodemographics. Written in an accessible style and packed with illustrations and interviews from key urban analysts, this is a groundbreaking new textbook for students of urban planning, urban design, geography, and the information sciences.

During the last 20 years, there has been an enormous amount of research examining sources of coherence in reading. A major tenet of this work has been the distinction between two major sources of coherence. "Text-based" sources of coherence are contained within the text itself -- use of headings to indicate aspects of a text's macrostructure; "reader-based" sources of coherence encompass the information and strategies that the reader brings to the comprehension process. Many early models of reading comprehension emphasized text-based sources of coherence as a way of understanding how a representation of the text is constructed in memory. However, during the last decade, there has been a clear shift of theoretical perspective away from viewing reading comprehension as a process of representing a text to viewing comprehension as a process of representing what a text is about. This has led to a greater emphasis on reader-based sources of coherence. The purpose of this book is to bring together the large body of evidence addressing the roles of text-based and reader-based sources of coherence in reading comprehension. The contributors present the current state of cognitive theory and research on comprehension of discourse.

These are the tales of Jim, an average dead guy on a trip through the devil's paradise. His unexamined life runs up against the existential weirdness of an eternal free-for-all, and a newfound hard-on for the Truth points him toward adventure. A secular wet dream, a Christian's cautionary tale, a Jewish psychedelic nightmare - the Book of Jim is a bad answer to questions that were never asked. ** Formats : EPUB

Eye Movements And Discourse Processing / Keith Rayner, Gary E. Raney, Alexander Pollatsek -- The Role Of Word-based Priming In Inference Research / Janice M. Keenan, Tracy M. Jennings -- Response Processes In Cognitive Models / William K. Estes -- Perceptual Similarity And Salience In The Accessing Of Lexical Meaning / Albrecht Werner Inhoff, Cynthia Connine -- Inferencing Upside Down / Susan A. Duffy, Andrew F. Hundley, Paul A. Baligian -- Logical Connectives And Local Coherence / John D. Murray. The Effect Of Connectives And Causal Relatedness On Text Comprehension / Jonathan . Golding, Keith M. Millis, Jerry Hauselt, Sandra A. Sego -- Processes Of Anaphor Resolution -- Stephen Dopkins, Johanna Nordlie -- Automatic Components Of Discourse Comprehension / Edward J. O'brien -- The Role Of Familiarity In Cognitive Processing / Elleen N. Kamas, Lynne M. Reder -- The Role Of Co-occurrence, Coreference, And Causality In The Coherence Of Conjoined Sentences / Charles R. Fletcher [and Others]. Explanatory Inferences And Other Strategies During Comprehension And Their Effect On Recall / Tom Trabasso [and Others] -- Causal Validation And Causal Comprehension / Murray Singer -- Goal Processing And The Maintenance Of Global Coherence / Jason E. Albrecht, Edward J. O'brien -- Integration Of Topic Information During Reading / Robert F. Lrch, Jr. -- Inference Generation During The Comprehension Of Narrative Text / Arthur C. Graesser, Eugenie L. Bertus, Joseph P. Magliano. The Role Of Background Knowledge In The Recall Of A News Story / Walter Kintsch, Marita Franzke -- Construction Of A Mental Model / Caren M. Jones -- The Role Of Readers' Standards For Coherence In The Generation Of Inferences During Reading / Paul Van Den Broek, Kirsten Risden, Elizabeth Husebye-hartmann -- Distinctions Among Reading Situations / Robert F. Lorch, Jr., Madeline A. Klusewitz, Elizabeth Pugzies Lorch. Edited By Robert F. Lorch, Jr., Edward J. O'brien. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.

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It is becoming increasingly common for psychiatrists to be among the first responders when disaster strikes. More than 800 psychiatrists are believed to have responded to the 9/11 attacks. The first clinical manual on the best practices for helping those affected by disaster, Disaster Psychiatry: Readiness, Evaluation, and Treatment offers an explicit and practical discussion of the evidence base for recommendations for psychiatric evaluation and interventions for disaster survivors.Disaster is defined by the World Health Organization as a severe disruption, ecological and psychosocial, that greatly exceeds a community's capacity to cope. This manual takes an'all-hazards'approach to disasters and has application to natural occurrences such as earthquakes and hurricanes; accidental technological events such as airplane crashes; and willful human acts such as terrorism. The field of disaster psychiatry is more important than ever, in response to disasters such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Today, disaster psychiatry encompasses a wide spectrum of clinical interests, ranging from public health preparations and early psychological interventions to psychiatric consultation to surgical units and psychotherapeutic interventions to alleviate stress in children and families after school shootings, hurricanes, or civil conflict. Although disaster mental health is still a young field, research is gradually yielding methods for accurately identifying valid relationships among preexisting risk factors, postdisaster mental health problems, and effective interventions.With its practical approach to readiness, response, and intervention and its focus on evidence-based recommendations for psychiatric evaluation and interventions, Disaster Psychiatry: Readiness, Evaluation, and Treatment is an invaluable manual for educator and student alike. The manual draws on a variety of sources, including the peer-reviewed scientific literature, the clinical wisdom imparted by front-line psychiatrists and other mental health professionals, and the experiences of those who have organized disaster mental health services, including the American Psychiatric Association and Disaster Psychiatry Outreach. Each chapter provides clear and concise information and in-depth review, followed by helpful study questions and answers. This book has been developed to give professionals the knowledge they need to respond swiftly and appropriately when disaster strikes.

Preface Contents Notation I Introduction and Background Introduction Graphs Matrices for Graphs A spreadsheet An operator A quadratic form Spectral Theory Some examples Paths Highlights Spectral Graph Drawing Graph Isomorphism Platonic Solids The Fiedler Value Bounding Eigenvalues Planar Graphs Random Walks on Graphs Expanders Approximations of Graphs Solving equations in and computing eigenvalues of Laplacians Exercises Eigenvalues and Optimization: The Courant-Fischer Theorem The First Proof Proof of the Spectral Theorem Notes Exercise The Laplacian and Graph Drawing The Laplacian Matrix Drawing with Laplacian Eigenvalues Adjacency matrices, Eigenvalue Interlacing, and the Perron-Frobenius Theorem The Adjacency Matrix The Largest Eigenvalue, mu1 Eigenvalue Interlacing Wilf's Theorem Perron-Frobenius Theory for symmetric matrices Comparing Graphs Overview The Loewner order Approximations of Graphs The Path Inequality Bounding lambda2 of a Path Graph The Complete Binary Tree The weighted path Exercises II The Zoo of Graphs Fundamental Graphs The complete graph The star graphs Products of graphs The Hypercube Bounds on lambda2 by test vectors The Ring Graph The Path Graph Cayley Graphs Cayley Graphs Paley Graphs Eigenvalues of the Paley Graphs Generalizing Hypercubes A random set of generators Conclusion Non-Abelian Groups Eigenvectors of Cayley Graphs of Abelian Groups Eigenvalues of Random Graphs Transformation and Moments The extreme eigenvalues Expectation of the trace of a power The number of walks Notes Exercise Strongly Regular Graphs Introduction Definitions The Pentagon Lattice Graphs Latin Square Graphs The Eigenvalues of Strongly Regular Graphs Regular graphs with three eigenvalues Integrality of the eigenvalues The Eigenspaces of Strongly Regular Graphs Triangular Graphs Paley Graphs Two-distance point sets III Physical Metaphors Random Walks on Graphs Random Walks Spectra of Walk Matrices The stable distribution The Rate of Convergence Relation to the Normalized Laplacian Examples The Path The Complete Binary Tree The Dumbbell The Bolas Graph Diffusion Final Notes Walks, Springs, and Resistor Networks Overview Harmonic Functions Random Walks on Graphs Spring Networks Laplacian linear equations Energy Resistor Networks Solving for currents Exercise Effective Resistance and Schur Complements Electrical Flows and Effective Resistance Effective Resistance through Energy Minimization Monotonicity Examples: Series and Parallel Equivalent Networks, Elimination, and Schur Complements In matrix form by energy Eliminating Many Vertices An interpretation of Gaussian elimination Effective Resistance is a Distance Random Spanning Trees Introduction Determinants Characteristic Polynomials The Matrix Tree Theorem Leverage Scores and Marginal Probabilities Approximating Effective Resistances Representing Effective Resistances Computing Effective Resistances Properties of Gaussian random variables Proof of Johnson-Lindenstrauss Tutte's Theorem: How to draw a graph 3-Connected, Planar Graphs Strictly Convex Polygons Possible Degeneracies All faces are convex Notes The Lovàsz - Simonovits Approach to Random Walks Introduction Definitions and Elementary Observations Warm up The proof Andersen's proof of Cheeger's inequality Monotonicity and its Failures Disclaimer Overview Effective Spring Constants Monotonicity Effective Resistance Examples Breakdown of Monotonicity Traffic Networks Braes's Paradox The Price of Anarchy Nash optimum Social optimum Dynamic and Nonlinear Networks Disclaimer Overview Non-Linear Networks Energy Uses in Semi-Supervised Learning Dual Energy Thermistor Networks Low Temperatures IV Spectra and Graph Structure Independent Sets and Coloring Overview Graph Coloring and Independent Sets Hoffman's Bound Application to Paley graphs Lower Bound on the chromatic number Proofs for Hoffman's lower bound on chromatic number Graph Partitioning Isoperimetry and lambda2 Conductance The Normalized Laplacian Notes Cheeger's Inequality Cheeger's Inequality Local Graph Clustering The Algorithm Good choices for a Bounding the D-norm Bounding the Generalized Rayleigh Quotient Rounding Notes Spectral Partitioning in a Stochastic Block Model The Perturbation Approach Perturbation Theory for Eigenvectors Partitioning Proof of the Davis-Kahan Theorem Further Reading Nodal Domains Overview Sylverter's Law of Interia Weighted Trees More linear algebra The Perron-Frobenius Theorem for Laplacians Eigenvalue Interlacing Fiedler's Nodal Domain Theorem The Second Eigenvalue of Planar Graphs Overview Geometric Embeddings The center of gravity Further progress Planar Graphs 2, the Colin de Verdière Number Introduction Colin de Verdière invariant Polytopes and Planar Graphs The Colin de Verdière Matrix Minors of Planar Graphs cdvG V Expander Graphs Properties of Expander Graphs Overview Expanders as Approximations of the Complete Graph Quasi-Random Properties of Expanders Vertex Expansion How well can a graph approximate the complete graph? Open Problems A brief introduction to Coding Theory Coding Notation Connection with Generalized Hypercubes Hamming Codes Terminology and Linear Codes Random Linear Codes Reed-Solomon Codes Caution Expander Codes Bipartite Expander Graphs Building Codes Encoding Minimum Distance Decoding Historical Notes A simple construction of expander graphs Overview Squaring Graphs The Relative Spectral Gap Line Graphs The Spectrum of the Line Graph Approximations of Line Graphs The whole construction Better Constructions PSRGs via Random Walks on Graphs Overview Why Study PSRGs? Expander Graphs Today's Application : repeating an experiment The Random Walk Generator Formalizing the problem Matrix Norms The norm of DXW Conclusion Notes VI Algorithms Sparsification by Random Sampling Overview Sparsification Matrix Chernoff Bounds The key transformation The probabilities The analysis Open Problem Linear Sized Sparsifiers Overview Turning edges into vectors The main theorem Rank-1 updates Barrier Function Arguments Barrier Function Updates The inductive argument Progress and Open Problems Iterative solvers for linear equations Why iterative methods? First-Order Richardson Iteration Expanders The norm of the residual A polynomial approximation of the inverse Better Polynomials Chebyshev Polynomials Proof of Theorem 34.6.1 Laplacian Systems Warning The Conjugate Gradient and Diameter The Matrix Norm Application: Approximating Fiedler Vectors Optimality in the A-norm How Good is CG? Laplacian Systems, again Bounds on the Diameter Preconditioning Laplacians Approximate Solutions Iterative Refinement Iterative Methods in the Matrix Norm Preconditioned Iterative Methods Preconditioning by Trees Improving the Bound on the Running Time Further Improvements Questions Augmented Spanning Tree Preconditioners Recursion Heavy Trees Saving a log Fast Laplacian Solvers by Sparsification Overview Today's notion of approximation The Idea A symmetric expansion D and A Sketch of the construction Making the construction efficient Improvements Testing Isomorphism of Graphs with Distinct Eigenvalues Introduction Graph Isomorphism Using Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors An easy case All the Automorphisms Equivalence Classes of Vertices The first partition Unbalanced vectors The structure of the balanced classes Algorithms Testing Isomorphism of Strongly Regular Graphs Introduction Definitions Paley Graphs and The Pentagon Lattice Graphs Latin Square Graphs The Eigenvalues of Strongly Regular Graphs Testing Isomorphism by Individualization and Refinement Distinguishing Sets for Strongly Regular Graphs Notes VII Interlacing Families Bipartite Ramanujan Graphs Overview 2-Lifts Random 2-Lifts Laplacianized Polynomials Interlacing Families of Polynomials Common Interlacings Real Rootedness Conclusion Overview 2dm-1 The Matching Polynomial Properties of the Matching Polynomial The Path Tree Expected Characteristic Polynomials Overview Random sums of graphs Interlacing Sums of polynomials Random Swaps Quadrature for the Finite Free Convolution Overview The Finite Free Convolution Quadrature Quadrature by Invariance Structure of the Orthogonal Group The Formula Question Ramanujan Graphs of Every Size Overview The Approach Interlacing Families of Polynomials Root Bounds for Finite Free Convolutions The Calculation Some explanation of Theorem 44.4.1 Some thoughts Matching Polynomials of Graphs Overview The Matching Polynomial Properties of the Matching Polynomial The Path Tree Root bounds Bipartite Ramanujan Graphs of Every Degree Overview 2-Lifts Random 2-Lifts Bibliography Index

Cover 1 Title 4 Table of Contents 6 Acknowledgements 8 Abbreviations 10 Introduction 12 Section One: The Herodian Period 26 Chapter One: Departing from Native Customs: Josephan Rhetoric on Herodian Games 28 Chapter Two: The Background of the Jerusalem Games: Were Greek and Roman Spectacles Really Foreign to Jewish Custom? 46 Chapter Three: Playing Roman in Jerusalem: Symbols of Power and the Past 64 Section Two: Theaters, Amphitheaters and Stadia in Roman Palestine 80 Chapter Four: In the Wake of the Wars: Becoming Spectators in Roman Palestine 82 Chapter Five: Spectacle and Identity in Roman Palestine and the Jewish Diaspora 98 Section Three: Rabbis and Roman Spectacle 136 Chapter Six: Sitting with Scorners: Early Rabbinic Attitudes to Roman Spectacle 138 Chapter Seven: Still Sitting with Scorners: Later Rabbinic Attitudes Towards Roman Spectacle 189 Chapter Eight: Performance and Piety: Theaters and Synagogues in Later Rabbinic Culture 231 Conclusion 270 Bibliography 280 Index of Ancient Texts 302 Modern Authors 312 Subject Index 316

Historically, agriculture has been crucial to Pakistan's economic growth and development and remains so even today. The sector employs almost half of the country's labor force, supplies key inputs to the country's manufacturing sector, generates a significant share of export earnings, and nourishes a rapidly growing population. Further, beyond agriculture is the wider rural economy, including nonfarm economic activities such as small enterprises, transport services, village retail shops, local schools, and clinics, all of which account for an estimated 40 to 57 percent of total rural household income. Given the importance of these rural activities, the slow growth of agriculture in recent years—averaging just 2.8 percent during the period 2010-2014—should be a source of concern for Pakistan. Can the country's agricultural sector and rural economy once again play a significant role in growth and development? Can it contribute to poverty reduction? Agriculture and the Rural Economy in Pakistan: Issues, Outlooks, and Policy Priorities seeks to answer these questions by examining the performance of both agriculture and the rural economy. The authors identify several measures that can promote agricultural productivity growth as well as wider economic and social development. These include increasing the efficiency of water use in the Indus river basin irrigation system, especially in the face of climate change; reforming policies and regulations that govern markets for agricultural inputs and commodities; and improving the provision of rural public services for health, education, women's empowerment, and community development. The analyses and conclusions in Agriculture and the Rural Economy in Pakistan will be of use to policy makers, development specialists, and others concerned with Pakistan's development. Contributors: Madiha Afzal, Nuzhat Ahmad, Faryal Ahmed, Mubarik Ali, Shujat Ali, Elena Briones Alonso, Hira Channa, Stephen Davies, Paul Dorosh, Gisselle Gajate Garrido, Arthur Gueneau, Madeeha Hameed, Brian Holtemeyer, Huma Khan, Katrina Kosec, Mehrab Malek, Sohail J. Malik, Shuaib Malik, Amina Mehmood, Dawit Mekonnen, Hina Nazli, Sara Rafi, Muhammad Ahsan Rana, Abdul Wajid Rana, Danielle Resnick, Khalid Riaz, Abdul Salam, Emily Schmidt, Asma Shahzad, David J. Spielman, James Thurlow, Ahmad Waqas, Edward Whitney, Fatima Zaidi.

"Preventing Prison Violence introduces the idea of 'prison ecologies' - a multi-layered perspective to understanding prison violence as a 'product' of human, environment (social and physical), systemic, and societal influences - and how an ecological approach is helpful to prevention efforts. Interpersonal violence is a global concern and a significant cause of death around the world. In prisons, the human, financial, and health burden of violence presents a significant social issue - as well as a 'wicked problem' that does not permit of simplistic solutions. Recent innovations in data capture means that questions about violence, gang-affiliations, and prisons that could not be answered previously can now be explored. The central theme of this book is that prisons are 'ecologies' - spaces where people, resources, and the built environment are interrelated - and that violence is a product of a complex of interpersonal and environmental factors that increase the likelihood of assault - but also provide opportunities for solutions. Drawing on psychology, geography, indigenous knowledge, gang culture, and predictive modelling, this book expands beyond the conventional individual-focused 'assessment-intervention-prevention' approach to research in this field, towards a holistic and ecological way of thinking that recognises individual, organisational, and cultural factors, as well as the role of the physical environment itself in the facilitation and prohibition of aggression. Providing a comprehensive resource for those who are interested in making prisons safer; firmly based in contemporary research and theory, Preventing Prison Violence will be of great interest to students and scholars of Penology, Violence and Forensic Psychology, as well as to professionals working in criminal justice settings"--

Now in paperback. . . . What outstanding leaders do, and how they do it. Building corporate culture that can withstand anything. Reinventing your business: when it's time, how to do it. Key attributes of lasting leadership. The greatest business leaders of our generation. How they achieved the impossible. What you can learn from them. How to use those lessons to supercharge your career. Two of the world's leaders in business knowledge and insight come together to select and profile the 25 most influential businesspeople of the past quarter century. The team: Nightly Business Report, the United States' #1 daily TV business news program, and Knowledge@Wharton, The Wharton School's online journal of research and business analysis. The book's incisive profiles show exactly how each business leader became so influential. They teach lessons you can use to discover, refine, and nurture your own leadership style - and gain powerful influence in your own career. You'll gain new insights into familiar faces (Jack Welch, Lou Gerstner, Bill Gates). But you'll also gain greater appreciation for less heralded individuals - from Mary Kay's Mary Kay Ash to Mohammed Yunus, whose 'microlending' revolution is helping millions of poor people around the world transform themselves into entrepreneurs. No other book offers this much actionable insight into this many extraordinary business leaders.

This fully updated fourth edition of Research Design and Statistical Analysis provides comprehensive coverage of the design principles and statistical concepts necessary to make sense of real data. The guiding philosophy is to provide a strong conceptual foundation so that readers can generalize to new situations they encounter in their research, including new developments in data analysis. Key features include: Emphasis on basic concepts such as sampling distributions, design efficiency, and expected mean squares, relating the research designs and data analyses to the statistical models that underlie the analyses. Detailed instructions on performing analysis using both R and SPSS. Pedagogical exercises mapped to key topic areas to support students as they review their understanding and strive to reach their higher learning goals. Incorporating the analyses of both experimental and observational data, and with coverage that is broad and deep enough to serve a two-semester sequence, this textbook is suitable for researchers, graduate students and advanced undergraduates in psychology, education, and other behavioral, social, and health sciences. The book is supported by a robust set of digital resources, including data files and exercises from the book in an Excel format for easy import into R or SPSS; R scripts for running example analysis and generating figures; and a solutions manual.

Cover 1 Title 4 Table of Contents 6 Acknowledgements 8 Abbreviations 10 Introduction 12 Section One: The Herodian Period 26 Chapter One: Departing from Native Customs: Josephan Rhetoric on Herodian Games 28 Chapter Two: The Background of the Jerusalem Games: Were Greek and Roman Spectacles Really Foreign to Jewish Custom? 46 Chapter Three: Playing Roman in Jerusalem: Symbols of Power and the Past 64 Section Two: Theaters, Amphitheaters and Stadia in Roman Palestine 80 Chapter Four: In the Wake of the Wars: Becoming Spectators in Roman Palestine 82 Chapter Five: Spectacle and Identity in Roman Palestine and the Jewish Diaspora 98 Section Three: Rabbis and Roman Spectacle 136 Chapter Six: Sitting with Scorners: Early Rabbinic Attitudes to Roman Spectacle 138 Chapter Seven: Still Sitting with Scorners: Later Rabbinic Attitudes Towards Roman Spectacle 189 Chapter Eight: Performance and Piety: Theaters and Synagogues in Later Rabbinic Culture 231 Conclusion 270 Bibliography 280 Index of Ancient Texts 302 Modern Authors 312 Subject Index 316

Книга предназначена для любителей выпиливать лобзиком, а также ее можно использовать как пособие для создания украшений или художественного оформления различных праздников (новый год, рождество, Валентинов день, хеллуин и.т.д.). В ней содержится большое количество чертежей лесных зверят, пасхальных зайчиков, яичек, леприконов, дедов морозев, елочек, снеговиков, елочных украшений, есть даже алфавит с зайчиками и еще много, много идей для подарков...

This handy compact user-friendly book is aimed to provide easy to use, up-to-date practical guidelines about fluid, electrolyte and acid-base disorders to all students, physicians, intensivists, anesthetists, pediatricians, surgeons and all clinicians. This complete monogram will provide a practical and easy approach to fluid, electrolytes and acid-base disorders with ready to use guidelines for its management. Instead of a complex confusing discussion of pathophysiology, this book will provide you a basic understanding of fluid electrolyte and acid-base disturbances in different common clinical problems in simple and easy language. To provide clear, quick and ready to use practical guidelines disorders in medical, surgical and pediatric patients are discussed separately. A special chapter on intravenous preparations will help to understand the composition of fluids and on its bases correct selection of fluid for a given patient. A special chapter on parenteral nutrition provides basic understanding of nutritional requirements, PN in specific problems faced in day to day practice and practical tips for its administration. This is the first and only book that provides ready to use simple guidelines for actual selection of PN preparations commercially available in the market for a given patient.

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