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Free Download Rosemary M. Caron, "Building Community Capacity: Minority and Immigrant Populations "
English | ISBN: 1620810220 | 2012 | 196 pages | PDF | 7 MB
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Free Download Kevin Behan, "Your Dog Is Your Mirror: The Emotional Capacity of Our Dogs and Ourselves"
English | ISBN: 1608680886 | 2022 | 246 pages | EPUB | 490 KB
In Your Dog Is Your Mirror, dog trainer Kevin Behan proposes a radical new model for understanding canine behavior: a dog’s behavior and emotion, indeed its very cognition, are driven by our emotion. The dog doesn’t respond to what the owner thinks, says, or does; it responds to what the owner feels. And in this way, dogs can actually put people back in touch with their own emotions. Behan demonstrates that dogs and humans are connected more profoundly than has ever been imagined; by heart; and that this approach to dog cognition can help us understand many of dogs’ most inscrutable behaviors. This groundbreaking, provocative book opens the door to a whole new understanding between species, and perhaps a whole new understanding of ourselves.

Free Download Assessment of Mental Capacity: Guidance for Doctors and Lawyers, Second Edition By
2004 | 244 Pages | ISBN: 0727916718 | PDF | 2 MB
This guide on assessment of people with some sort of mental impairment is a broad ranging report produced jointly by the British Medical Association and the Law Society. It is an authoritative statement on an important area. Its wide ranging coverage makes it essential reading for these groups. The second edition has been revised throughout to bring it right up to date with present requirements. Content: Chapter 1 The Law, Practice, and This Book (pages 3-12): Chapter 2 Professional and Ethical Issues (pages 13-24): Chapter 3 What are the Legal Principles? (pages 27-37): Chapter 4 Capacity to Deal With Financial Affairs (pages 41-60): Chapter 5 Capacity to Make a Will (pages 61-70): Chapter 6 Capacity to Make a Gift (pages 71-75): Chapter 7 Capacity to Litigate (pages 76-83): Chapter 8 Capacity to Enter into a Contract (pages 84-88): Chapter 9 Capacity to Vote (pages 89-94): Chapter 10 Capacity and Personal Relationships (pages 95-106): Chapter 11 Capacity to Consent: The Criminal Law and Sexual Offences (pages 107-115): Chapter 12 Capacity to Consent to and Refuse Medical Treatment (pages 116-135): Chapter 13 Capacity to Consent to Research and Innovative Treatment (pages 136-144): Chapter 14 Practical Guidelines for Doctors (pages 147-163): Chapter 15 Practical Guidelines for Lawyers (pages 164-173):

Free Download World Bank, "Using Training to Build Capacity: An Evalution of the World Bank’s Project-Based and WBI Training"
English | 2008 | pages: 148 | ISBN: 0821373781 | PDF | 1,5 mb
The World Bank finances about US$720 million in training every year, through both its lending projects and its in-house World Bank Institute (WBI). The evaluation found that while most of the training reviewed resulted in demonstrable participant learning, this learning frequently did not lead to real change in participants’ workplace performance. Poor training outcomes most often resulted from training content that wasn’t relevant to the needs and goals of the target institutions, or from the trainees’ lack of incentives or resources to apply learning in their workplaces. These findings highlight how important it is for training to be embedded in broader capacity-building programs that identify and address organizational and institutional capacity constraints alongside human ones.

Free Download Li Niu, "Chemical Analysis of Antioxidant Capacity: Mechanisms and Techniques"
English | ISBN: 3110573148 | 2020 | 182 pages | EPUB | 10 MB
The book discusses the present strategies towards antioxidant capacity evaluation including optical, chromatography, methods as well as photoelectrochemical technique, where the advantages, limitations and different applications are analyzed and compared. Subsequently, the corresponding analysis instruments are introduced and interpreted combining with their technical characteristics, scope and performance indicators.

Free Download Lutz Mez, Lila Okamura, Helmut Weidner, "The Ecological Modernization Capacity of Japan and Germany: Comparing Nuclear Energy, Renewables, Automobility and Rare Earth Policy"
English | 2019 | pages: 212 | ISBN: 3658274042 | PDF | 4,6 mb
Cognitive-strategic capabilities of a country are decisive for overcoming the strong path dependence in climate-related policies and to achieve ecological and economic modernization. This is the result of a unique comparison approach focusing on four highly intertwined policy areas (Automobiles, Nuclear Energy, Renewables and Rare Earth) in Japan and Germany. Both countries have in principle sufficient economic, technological and institutional capacities for an ecological transformation, but they are lacking an integrated policy strategy to mobilize and organize the existing capacities in favor of structural changes. The focused four policy areas are analyzed in depth and compared by experts from political science.

Free Download Grace Ngai, "Service-Learning Capacity Enhancement in Hong Kong Higher Education "
English | ISBN: 9811924368 | 2022 | 333 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book provides an in-depth, multi-faceted look into capacity building for service-learning, using the case of the higher education landscape in Hong Kong. Service-learning has been proven to be an effective pedagogy for the holistic development of students, as well as promotion of their well-being. It also attempts to promote the well-being of the service recipients and the community. While service-learning is becoming increasingly popular in many higher educational institutions around the world, the learning gains that can be attained from service-learning are only as good as the learning experience allows, and poorly-developed or motivated service-learning may potentially do adverse harm to students and the community. This book reinforces the imperative to enhance the capacity of the institution, teachers, students and community partners by exploring a diverse range of methods for achieving capacity building among different stakeholders. Examples of the methods explored include formal course-based professional development, scale development, action research, and communities of practice. Furthermore, the book includes a series of detailed, qualitative case studies that are aimed at embodying good practice, unpacking "what matters" from service-learning. Aa a useful resource for scholars and educators who are passionate about holistic youth leadership development, this book is also relevant to researchers in the intersection between well-being and higher education.

Free Download Evaluation of Parenting Capacity in Child Protection By Karen S. Budd, Mary Connell, Jennifer R. Clark
2011 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 0195333608 | PDF | 1 MB
Forensic mental health assessment (FMHA) has grown into a specialization informed by research and professional guidelines. This series presents up-to-date information on the most important and frequently conducted forms of FMHA. The 19 topical volumes address best approaches to practice for particular types of evaluation in the criminal, civil, and juvenile/family areas. Each volume contains a thorough discussion of the relevant legal and psychological concepts, followed by a step-by-step description of the assessment process from preparing for the evaluation to writing the report and testifying in court. Volumes include the following helpful features: – Boxes that zero in on important information for use in evaluations – Tips for best practice and cautions against common pitfalls – Highlighting of relevant case law and statutes – Separate list of assessment tools for easy reference – Helpful glossary of key terms for the particular topic In making recommendations for best practice, authors consider empirical support, legal relevance, and consistency with ethical and professional standards. These volumes offer invaluable guidance for anyone involved in conducting or using forensic evaluations. This book addresses evaluations for child protection, one of the most delicate legal arenas in which forensic mental examiners play a part. The evaluations are highly specialized, requiring child clinical specialization, a knowledge of the legal and social context, and a thorough understanding of the professional and ethical guidelines for child protection evaluations. This volume provides the foundation that any mental health professional needs when pursuing specialization in evaluating children and parents before the court in child abuse and neglect cases.

Free Download M. Painter, J. Pierre, "Challenges to State Policy Capacity: Global Trends and Comparative Perspectives"
English | 2004 | pages: 298 | ISBN: 1403935831 | PDF | 1,0 mb
Globalization and New Public Management pose major challenges to the policy capacity of the state. Challenges to State Policy Capacity offers the most timely and comprehensive coverage of contemporary state policy capacity. Drawing on the work by international leading scholars in political science and public administration, the book is indispensable to anyone interested in policy capacity, administrative reform and the state.

Free Download Anubha Verma, "Building Science, Technology and Innovation Capacity in Rwanda"
English | 2008 | pages: 153 | ISBN: 0821373560 | PDF | 0,9 mb
‘Building Science, Technology, and Innovation Capacity in Rwanda’ presents the methodology, policy conclusions, and detailed action plans that emerged from a World Bank science, technology, and innovation (STI) capacity-building program in Rwanda in 2006-07. This book illustrates that even an economy dominated by subsistence agriculture such as Rwanda’s needs to develop STI capacity to address everyday issues such as providing energy and clean water to rural areas, and to compete in the global economy. This book provides new insights into the STI capacity-building process and shows that this process is not an activity solely for wealthy countries, but is, in fact, a necessity for poorer countries that want to improve their economy. The methodology presented can be used to help poor countries achieve the Millennium Development Goals and increase their competitiveness, while helping middle-income countries to compete on the basis of innovation and quality. ‘Building Science, Technology, and Innovation Capacity in Rwanda’ will be useful for policy makers and those in nongovernmental organizations in developing countries working to promote agribusiness, economic policy, and education, to reduce poverty, and to develop rural economic strategies.