Tag: Adaptable

Young, Well-Educated, and Adaptable Chilean Exiles in Ontario and Quebec, 1973-2010 (Studies in Immigration and Culture


Free Download Francis Peddie, "Young, Well-Educated, and Adaptable: Chilean Exiles in Ontario and Quebec, 1973-2010 (Studies in Immigration and Culture"
English | ISBN: 0887557716 | 2014 | 208 pages | EPUB | 708 KB
Between 1973 and 1978, six thousand Chileans leftists took refuge in central Canada after the Pinochet coup d’état. Once resettled at the northern extreme of the Americas, these political exiles had to find ways of coping with an abrupt and violent separation from their homeland that had deep material and emotional repercussions. In Young, Well-Educated, and Adaptable, Francis Peddie documents the experiences of twenty-one Chileans as they navigate their newfound identity as exiles. Peddie also considers how the admission of people from the wrong side of the Cold War ideological divide had an effect on Canadian immigration and refugee policy, establishing a precedent for the admission of political exiles over the decades that followed.

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Adaptable English Language Teaching Advances and Frameworks for Responding to New Circumstances


Free Download Nima A. Nazari, "Adaptable English Language Teaching: Advances and Frameworks for Responding to New Circumstances "
English | ISBN: 1032414294 | 2024 | 276 pages | PDF | 8 MB
In an age of rapid technological transformation and evolving teaching settings, the ELT community must adapt to the needs of emerging situations and a diverse range of learners. Adaptable English Language Teaching addresses this need by bringing together contributions from renowned scholars around the world with insights on all major areas of English language teaching with an emphasis on adaptability―of teaching method, context, skills, and priorities.

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Developing Adaptable Teams (beta)


Free Download Developing Adaptable Teams (beta)
Released 5/2024
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Skill Level: Advanced | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + srt | Duration: 39m | Size: 238 MB
Please note that this is an experiment using AI-generated audio for this course, which was originally produced in Spanish. This is a pilot course and our plan is to retire it in July. The exercise files and in-course quizzes are available in the course’s original language only. Please let us know what you think by leaving a review.

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Adaptable Design Methods and Applications


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 9819958687 | 297 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 57 MB
This book provides a comprehensive discussion of Adaptable Design (AD). It covers the conception, method, and application of AD to the real-world product design. AD’s benefits are substantial as it upgrades, reuses, remanufactures and recycles products throughout the product lifecycle. It rapidly adapts the existing design in development of new designs. Key elements of AD include rationalized function structures, adaptable product architectures, adaptable interfaces, and adaptability evaluations. The main feature of AD is adaptability in design methods and product applications with general and specific adaptability. AD has also modeling and evaluating adaptabilities.

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