Engendering difference : sexism, power and politics

Table of Contents: “…/ Karolina Lendák-Kabók -- The female face of academia in Kazakhstan: attrition among male staff / Anastassiya Lipovka -- Gender fluidity in Ruby Rose's "break free" / Matea Lacmanović -- The absence of grey-haired women / Nataša Pivec -- Beyond patriarchal historiography: Swiss literary history before and after 1971 / Vesna Kondrič Horvat -- "Liebe is immer gut": lesbian identities and sexuality in GDR literature / Sina Meissgeier -- Body and aging: (re)lighting old age stereotypes in Dubravka Ugrešić's Baba Yaga laid an egg / Ana Penjak -- The role of women in fictional terrorist organizations / Špela Logar -- Gender issues in Roald Dahl's novel Matilda / Ester Vidović and Silvia Vidović -- Gender and political correctness in Slovenian translation / Barbara Majcenovič Kline -- Alternative personal pronouns: progress for transgender people or regression for all? …”
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Pride aside & other poems by Ndi, Bill F.

Table of Contents: “…Pride's Dwelling PlaceMy Incontrovertible Choice; The Foe's Flash; Light on My Stance; Dreamer in Trance; Of Little and Big Things; My Sentinel vs. the Blower; Put it Off; Dejected Delight; Of Grass and Class; Gentle knocks; Not Fallen; Hoody Hoodlums; Laced Pavements; Bandless Music; This Gilded Smile; Of Humiliation, not Simulation; Wisdom at Eighteen; By His Might; My Choice to Climb Down; Why Hurry?…”
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Medical Optical Imaging and Virtual Microscopy Image Analysis First International Workshop, MOVI 2022, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2022, Singapore, September 18, 2022, Proceedi...

Table of Contents: “…Cell counting with inverse distance kernel and self-supervised learning -- Predicting the visual attention of pathologists evaluating whole slide images of cancer -- Edge-Based Self-Supervision for Semi-Supervised Few-Shot Microscopy Image Cell Segmentation -- Joint Denoising and Super-resolution for Fluorescence Microscopy using Weakly-supervised Deep Learning -- MxIF Q-score: Biology-informed Quality Assurance for Multiplexed Immunofluorescence Imaging -- A Pathologist-Informed Workflow for Classification of Prostate Glands in Histopathology -- Leukocyte Classification using Multimodal Architecture Enhanced by Knowledge Distillation -- Deep learning on lossily compressed pathology images: adverse effects for ImageNet pre-trained models -- Profiling DNA damage in 3D Histology Samples -- Few-shot segmentation of microscopy images using Gaussian process -- Adversarial Stain Transfer to Study the Effect of Color Variation on Cell Instance Segmentation -- Constrained self-supervised method with temporal ensembling for fiber bundle detection on anatomic tracing data -- Sequential multi-task learning for histopathology-based prediction of genetic mutations with extremely imbalanced labels -- Morph-Net: End-to-End Prediction of Nuclear Morphological Features from Histology Images -- A Light-weight Interpretable Model for Nuclei Detection and Weakly-supervised Segmentation -- A coarse-to-fine segmentation methodology based on deep networks for automated analysis of Cryptosporidium parasite from fluorescence microscopic images -- Swin Faster R-CNN for Senescence Detection of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Bright-field Images -- Characterizing Continual Learning Scenarios for Tumor Classification in Histopathology Images.…”
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The centrality of agriculture : between humankind and the rest of nature by Duncan, Colin A. M. (Colin Adrien MacKinley), 1954-

Table of Contents: “…(Fabular) Agriculture Privileged and Benign: English Capitalism in its Light-Industrial Prime. Sect. 1. (Sociotheoretical) The Relevance of the English Case for Understanding the Place of Agriculture in Modern Society. …”
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The museum is open : towards a transnational history of museums 1750-1940

Table of Contents: “…Early Photographic Campaigns in European Collections -- Cross-border Transfers of Architectural Models and Display Principles -- Top Lighting from Paris in 1750 -- Sabine Skott A European Museum-Cocktail around 1900. …”
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From artefacts to atoms : the BIPM and the search for ultimate measurement standards by Quinn, T. J. (Terry J.)

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: The origins of the Metre Convention 1851 to 1869 -- Chapter 2: The creation of the International Metre Commission 1869 -- Chapter 3: The International Metre Commission, meetings of 1872/73 -- Chapter 4: The casting of 1874 and the first steps in the fabrication of the new metric standards -- Chapter 5: The Diplomatic Conference of the Metre 1875 -- Chapter 6: The creation of the BIPM and the beginning of the construction of the new metric prototypes; problems with the French Section -- Chapter 7: 1879 to 1889, the first decade of scientific work at the International Bureau Progress with metres and instruments -- Chapter 8: New Member States and the first General Conference on Weights and Measures, 1889 -- Chapter 9: The development of the scientific work at the BIPM, the General Conferences of 1895 and 1901 -- Chapter 10: The creation of the Grands Laboratoires Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (PTR) National Physical Laboratory (NPL) -- Chapter 11: The story of invar and the extension of the role of the International Bureau at the 6th General Conference 1921 -- Chapter 12: The 7th and 8th General Conferences 1927 and 1933, practical metrology and the Bureau during the Second World War -- Chapter 13: The SI, absolute electrical units, the International Committee and the creation of the ionizing radiation section -- Chapter 14: The adoption of the SI, revising the Metre Convention, new definitions of the metre and second at the 11th General Conference 1960 -- Chapter 15: The mole, the speed of light and more about the Metre Convention -- Chapter 16: New science at the BIPM and the Recognition of National measurement Standards -- Chapter 17: The redefinition of the kilogram and the move towards the New SI -- Epilogue: The new SI and the future role of the BIPM -- Appendix English text of the Metre Convention.…”
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Plasma by Paul, Bradley

Table of Contents: “…Obituaries and Other Pastimes; Office; Wide Is the Gate, Narrow the Way; Samuel Beckett Driving Andre the Giant to School; This and Every Election; Nuisance Crime; Shut Up, Poem; Bone Graft; Victorian Death Photograph; The Light on My Arm; I Saw a Highway Sign in Ohio; Noir; The Depths of Our Stupidity; I Want to Think but the TV's On…”
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Proceedings of the 4th Global Summit of Research Institutes for Disaster Risk Reduction Increasing the Effectiveness and Relevance of Our Institutes

Table of Contents: “…Report on the 4th Global Summit of Research Institutes for Disaster Risk Reduction (4thGSRIDRR2019) -- Enhancing disaster preparedness and building resilience: UNESCO's multi-hazard, multi-disciplinary, and multi-stakeholder approach on Disaster Risk Reduction -- Presentation on “The Sendai Framework and Science Advice to Governments to Support Implementation – Suggestion on What Works” -- Presenting the “Global Risk Assessment Framework (GRAF), UNISDR – Emphasising the Relevance of Disaster Research Institutes” -- DRMKC: A collaborative approach to foster resilience -- INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCE: A FRAMEWORK FOR ASSESSMENT, MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE -- Harnessing Scientific Knowledge and Technological Innovation for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in Sub-Saharan Africa-Case of Social Media -- Concept Notes for Group Discussion Sessions -- Community resilience against flood: the case of the LIFE PRIMES project -- Yonmenkaigi System Method as an Educational Framework for Climate Change within the United Kingdom: A Pilot Study -- Personalizing a Low cost weather forecasting system -- Transforming Flood Risk Management: A Case of Kakching, Manipur, India -- Adaptive Architecture- A Pathway to Resilient Communities -- RETURN PERIOD ANALYSIS OF MAJOR FLOOD EVENTS CONSIDERING HOMOGENEOUS REGIONS -- Conceptual Design for Flood Warning Study at Recreational Area – Case study Gunung Pulai Mountain, Johor, Malaysia -- IMPACT OF VIBRATION AND MOISTURE CONTENT TO LIGHT NON-AQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID MIGRATION IN DOUBLE POROSITY MEDIA -- Resolution of the 4th Global Summit of Research Institutes for Disaster Risk Reduction: Increasing the Effectiveness and Relevance of our Institutes Held at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan from 13th to 15th March 2019 -- Closing Ceremony. .…”
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Rural Teacher Education Connecting Land and People

Table of Contents: “…Part 1 Why Rural Matters in Education -- 1 Introduction -- Part 2 The Rural Education Landscape in Canada -- 2 Setting the Stage: Overview of Data on Teachers and Students in Rural and Urban Canada -- 3 "You can't get there from here": Mapping Access to Canada's Teacher Education programs -- 4 On the Educational Ethics of Outmigration: Liberal Legitimacy, Personal Autonomy, and Rural Education -- 5 Reconsidering Rural Education in Light of Canada's Indigenous Reality -- Part 3 Rural Identity and Relationality -- 6 "Growing Our Own Teachers": Rural Individuals Becoming Certified Teachers -- 7 "Where Love Prevails": Student Resilience and Resistance in Precarious Spaces -- 8 Rural Schools as Sites for Ongoing Teacher Education: Co-making Relational Inquiry Spaces between a Principal and a Beginning Teacher -- 9 Becoming a Teacher in a Rural or Remote Community: The Experiences of Educational Assistants -- 10 Rural Secondary School Parents' Discourses about Feeling in Community in their Children's Schools: Insights to Shape Teachers' and Principals' Questions -- Part 4 Place-based and Land-based Pedagogies -- 11 Land and Critical Place-based Education in Canadian Teacher Preparation: Complementary Pedagogies for Complex Futures -- 12 Onikaniwak: Land-based Learning as ReconcilACTION -- 13 Developing a STEAM Curriculum of Place for Teacher Candidates: Integrating Environmental Field Studies and Indigenous Knowledge Systems -- 14 Place-based Education: A Critical Appraisal from a Rural Perspective -- Part 5 Conclusion -- 15 Insights and Provocations for the Future of Rural Education: Reclaiming the Conversation for Rural Education. 16 Afterword.…”
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Something I said? : innuendo and out the other by Feldman, Michael, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…-- My Daughter Says Hello -- Nora Has a Problem -- Kinder, Not Gentler, Garten -- The Guinness Method -- My Religious Instruction -- Sometimes a Great Ape -- Home Alone -- Jews Close Lower in Light Trading.…”
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Introduction to the physics of the cryosphere by Sandells, Melody, Flocco, Daniela

Table of Contents: “…The poles and the changing climate -- 7.5. Polar lights : Aurora Borealis and Australis -- 7.6. Ecology and sea ice -- 8. …”
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The art of Cistercian persuasion in the Middle Ages and beyond Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogue on miracles and its reception

Table of Contents: “…9 On a Former Mayor of Deventer: Derick van den Wiel, the Devotio moderna and the Middle Dutch Translation of the Dialogus miraculorum10 The Dialogus miraculorum in the Light of Its Fifteenth-century German Translation by Johannes Hartlieb; 11 Caesarius of Heisterbach in the New Spain (1570-1770); Part 6 Roundtable: "Making Believe. …”
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Moving image theory : ecological considerations

Table of Contents: “…Coupling of Perception and Emotion: 9. Film Lighting and Mood / Torben Kragh Grodal ; 10. Cinematic Creation of Emotion / Dolf Zillmann -- Part Six. …”
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Artists under Vichy : a case of prejudice and persecution

Artists under Vichy : a case of prejudice and persecution /

by Cone, Michèle C., 1932-

Table of Contents: “…Avengers of decadence : An epoch ends in disarray -- Middle-of-the-road romantic realists nab the light : Profile of a "Judenrein" art world ; Middle-of-the-road art ; The scapegoats of Lucien Rebatet ; Avengers of decadence -- Converts to "patriotic" abstraction : Awkward auspices for painting in the French tradition ; Opportune conversions ; German leniency toward French "decadent" painting ; Primitivism and politics -- No victory for salon artists : Salon artists court Vichy ; Salon images against decadence ; The Vichy agenda: a revival of folk and decorative art -- Part II. …”


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Global Manufacturing Management From Excellent Plants Toward Network Optimization

Table of Contents: “…Holistic Manufacturing Network Management Approach at Jenoptik AG: Light and Production Division -- 23. Global Traceability as a Competitive Advantage: The Model-Based Approach of a Tier-1 Automotive Supplier.…”
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Organic and printed electronics : fundamentals and applications

Table of Contents: “…The basics of organic light-emitting diodes / Mathias Mydlak and Daniel Volz -- 7. …”
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The Oxford handbook of film and media studies

Table of Contents: “…Digital media and the future of filmic narrative / Jay David Bolter -- The latest Laocoön: medium specificity and the history of film theory / Brian Price -- Visual media and the tyranny of the real / Devin Orgeron -- Radical aspirations historicized: the European commitment to political documentary / Frances Guerin -- Loss of light: the long shadow of photography in the digital age /Jeannene M. …”


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Towards a Competence-Based View on Models and Modeling in Science Education

Table of Contents: “…Part 1: Theoretical approaches to Models and Modeling -- Chapter 1: Introducing a Framework for Modeling Competence -- Chapter 2: Semantic Views on Models: An Appraisal for Science Education -- Chapter 3: A Framework for Modeling-based Learning, Teaching, and Assessment -- Chapter 4: Modeling Competence in the Light of Nature of Science -- Part 2: Assessing and Diagnosing Modeling Competence -- Chapter 5: Illuminating Scientists’ Modeling Competence -- Chapter 6: Combining Visual and Verbal Data to Diagnose and Assess Modeling Competence -- Chapter 7: Assessing Modeling Competence with Questionnaires -- Chapter 8: Drawing-based Modeling in Teaching Elementary Biology as a Diagnostic Tool -- Chapter 9: The Blackbox Approach: Analyzing Modeling Strategies -- Part 3: Educating Teachers for Competence-based Teaching of Models and Modeling -- Chapter 10: Teachers´ Views about Models and Modeling Competence towards Developing Scientic Literacy in Young People -- Chapter 11: Using Epistemic Considerations in Teaching: Fostering Students’ Meaningful Engagement in Scientific Modeling -- Chapter 12: A Responsive Methodological Construct for Supporting Learners’ Developing Modeling Competence in Modeling-based Learning Environments -- Part 4: Developing Students´ Modeling Competence -- Chapter 13: Learning to Play the Modeling Game -- Chapter 14: Towards an Epistemology of Modeling-based Learning in Early Science Education -- Chapter 15: Supporting Primary Students’ Developing Modeling Competence for Water Systems -- Chapter 16: Designing Technology Environments to Support System Modeling Competence -- Chapter 17: Learning Abstraction as a Modeling Competence -- Part 5: Attainments and Challenges -- Chapter 18: Attainments and Challenges for Research on Models and Modeling Competence.…”
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Hands-On Exploratory Data Analysis with R : Become an Expert in Exploratory Data Analysis Using R Packages. by Datar, Radhika

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The Doreen Massey reader by Massey, Doreen B.

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