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Free Download Timothy M. Shaw, "Commonwealth: Inter- and Non-state Contributions to Global Governance"
English | 2007 | pages: 177 | ISBN: 0415351200 | PDF | 1,2 mb
The Commonwealth consists of only a quarter of the world’s states and yet the Commonwealth Secretariat and Foundation have made and continue to make a significant contribution to global politics.

Free Download David R. Smock, "Religious Contributions to Peacemaking "
English | ISBN: 160876060X | 2010 | 63 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Presents an analysis of the keys of success in interfaith dialogue as a mechanism for resolving violent conflicts. This book covers the elements of religious peacebuilding, focusing on apology and forgiveness. It also emphasizes the importance of keeping issues of social justice front and centre.

Free Download Penser L’espace En Mesopotamie: Contributions a La Comprehension Spatiale a Travers Les Amenagements: Scripta Memoriae Jean-claude Margueron Dedicata (French Edition) by Laura Battini
French | May 2, 2024 | ISBN: 1803277572 | 226 pages | PDF | 23 Mb
Les recherches sur les amenagements n’ont pas ete au centre de l’attention des archeologues. Parfois, elles sont conduites sans la rigueur necessaire et manquent de definitions claires, l’identification des amenagements restant largement subjective, inexpliquee et dependante de l’interpretation des espaces que les amenagements auraient du aider a identifier. La serie des workshops dont est issu ce livre s’est penchee sur des questions essentielles, telles que la perception des espaces, leur fonctionnalite eu egard aux amenagements, la multifonctionnalite, la question de l’etage. Les reponses a ces questions peuvent etre encore partielles, mais a present la necessite d’analyses plus rigoureuses et moins guidees par des aprioris s’impose, me semble-t-il. De meme, l’analyse archeologique a tout interet a discuter avec les textes qui, pour ces questions d’architecture, s’averent tout a la fois episodiques, riches et complexes. Le livre est dedie a Jean-Claude Margueron, qui n’a cesse d’encourager les archeologues a travailler rigoureusement sur l’architecture. Il se compose de deux parties, precedees par une biographie de Jean Margueron par Beatrice Muller et la liste presque definitive des ses ecrits. La premiere partie (Force, defaillances et problematiques des amenagements) comprend trois chapitres generaux, qui posent les problematiques, tentent de definir ce qu’on entend par amenagement, montrent la methode et soulignent les difficultes de la recherche. La deuxieme partie (Etude de cas) comprend sept chapitres, qui partent de l’etude de cas precis pour essayer de montrer l’importance de l’etude des amenagements et l’utilite d’une confrontation avec les donnees textuelles.

Free Download Contributions of Chemical Engineering to Sustainability by Juan Gabriel Segovia-Hernandez, Nelly Ramírez-Corona, Valentina Aristizábal-Marulanda
English | May 3, 2024 | ISBN: 3031555937 | 437 pages | MOBI | 19 Mb
This book discusses the recent advancements in chemical engineering and their role in achieving the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Addressing these goals involves tackling intricate and interdisciplinary challenges.

Free Download Jos Schaeken Peter Houtzagers,Janneke Kalsbeek, "Dutch Contributions to the Fourteenth International Congress of Slavists: Ohrid, September 10-16, 2008. Linguistics"
English | 2008 | pages: 579 | ISBN: 9042024429 | PDF | 5,0 mb
This volume contains articles by 17 slavists from the Low Countries. Although they are all about Slavic linguistics, they cover a wide range of subjects and their theoretical implications are often not restricted to slavistics alone. Most contributions deal with Russian or Slavic in general, but South and West Slavic are also represented. The reader who knows the strong points for which Dutch slavistics is traditionally known and appreciated will not be disappointed: s/he will find papers on syntax and semantics (Fortuin, Van Helden, Honselaar, Keijsper, Tribušinina), aspectology (Barentsen, Genis), philology (Veder), historical Slavic phonology and morphology (Derksen, Kortlandt, Vermeer), dialectology (Houtzagers, Pronk), the study of sentence intonation (Odé) and papers representing crossroads between these disciplines: philology and historical linguistics (Hendriks, Schaeken), aspectology and philology (Kalsbeek). Apart from its quality in the linguistic fields enumerated here, Dutch Slavic linguistics is known for its empirical approach: the main goal is to find explanations for linguistic reality. Theory is relevant inasmuch as it helps us to find such explanations and not for its own sake. Though each and every paper in this volume exemplifies this empirical attitude, it might be especially illustrative to mention that almost all authors who studied the larger contemporary Slavic languages made extensive use of language corpus resources, part of which were collected at the University of Amsterdam.

Free Download Theoretical, Experimental, and Numerical Contributions to the Mechanics of Fluids and Solids: A collection of papers in honor of Paul M. Naghdi By James Casey, Marcel J. Crochet (auth.), James Casey, Marcel J. Crochet (eds.)
1995 | 852 Pages | ISBN: 3034899548 | PDF | 19 MB
This special issue of ZAMP is published to honor Paul M. Naghdi for his contributions to mechanics over the last forty years and more. It is offered in celebration of his long, productive career in continuum mechan ics; a career which has been marked by a passion for the intrinsic beauty of the subject, an uncompromising adherence to academic standards, and an untiring devotion to our profession. Originally, this issue was planned in celebration of Naghdi’s 70th birthday, which occurred on 29 March 1994. But, as the papers were being prepared for the press, it became evident that the illness from which Professor Naghdi had been suffering during recent months was extremely serious. On 26 May 1994, a reception took place in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Berkeley, at which Naghdi received The Berkeley Citation (which is given in lieu of an honorary degree) and where he was also presented with the Table of Contents of the present collection. Subse quently, he had the opportunity to read the papers in manuscript form. He was very touched that his colleagues had chosen to honor him with their fine contributions. The knowledge that he was held in such high esteem by his fellow scientists brought a special pleasure and consolation to him in his last weeks. On Saturday evening, 9 July 1994, Paul Naghdi succumbed to the lung cancer which he had so courageously endured.

Free Download Refereed and selected contributions from International Conference on Quark Nuclear Physics: QNP 2002. June 9-14, 2002. Jülich, Germany By K. S. Kumar (auth.), Prof. Charlotte Elster, Prof. Josef Speth, Prof. Thomas Walcher (eds.)
2004 | 440 Pages | ISBN: 3642058434 | PDF | 18 MB
This volume contains the refereed and selected contributions from the International Conference on Quark Nuclear Physics (QNP2002), held from 9 to 14 June 2002 in Jülich, Germany.It covered the following topics:- Structure and Spectroscopy of Hadrons- QCD-Inspired Quark Models of Hadrons and Nuclei- Effective Theories- Lattice Gauge Theories- Soft and Hard Hadronic Processes- Soft and Hard Electroweak Processes- Medium Modifications of Hadrons- Matter Under Extreme Conditions and Quark-Gluon Plasma- Heavy-Quark Physics

Free Download Quantum Technology for Economists (Contributions to Economics) by Isaiah Hull, Or Sattath, Eleni Diamanti
English | March 20, 2024 | ISBN: 3031507797 | 146 pages | MOBI | 8.40 Mb
This book offers an introduction to quantum technology that is specifically tailored to economists, students of economics, and professionals in the financial and payments industries. The book reviews quantum speedups that have been identified for algorithms used to solve and estimate economic models, including function approximation, linear systems analysis, graphical modeling, Monte Carlo simulation, matrix inversion, principal component analysis, linear regression, dynamic programming, interpolation, numerical differentiation, and true random number generation. It also provides an overview of quantum financial technology and its potential applications in economics and finance. Written by an interdisciplinary team with backgrounds in economics, computer science, and physics, this book offers a valuable guide for researchers and practitioners who want to understand the implications and possibilities of quantum technology for the field of economics.

Free Download The SimCalc Vision and Contributions: Democratizing Access to Important Mathematics By Jeremy Roschelle, Stephen Hegedus (auth.), Stephen J. Hegedus, Jeremy Roschelle (eds.)
2013 | 480 Pages | ISBN: 940075695X | PDF | 12 MB
This volume provides essential guidance for transforming mathematics learning in schools through the use of innovative technology, pedagogy, and curriculum. It presents clear, rigorous evidence of the impact technology can have in improving students learning of important yet complex mathematical concepts — and goes beyond a focus on technology alone to clearly explain how teacher professional development, pedagogy, curriculum, and student participation and identity each play an essential role in transforming mathematics classrooms with technology. Further, evidence of effectiveness is complemented by insightful case studies of how key factors lead to enhancing learning, including the contributions of design research, classroom discourse, and meaningful assessment. The volume organizes over 15 years of sustained research by multiple investigators in different states and countries who together developed an approach called "SimCalc" that radically transforms how Algebra and Calculus are taught. The SimCalc program engages students around simulated motions, such as races on a soccer field, and builds understanding using visual representations such as graphs, and familiar representations such as stories to help students to develop meaning for more abstract mathematical symbols. Further, the SimCalc program leverages classroom wireless networks to increase participation by all students in doing, talking about, and reflecting on mathematics. Unlike many technology programs, SimCalc research shows the benefits of balanced attention to curriculum, pedagogy, teacher professional development, assessment and technology — and has proven effectiveness results at the scale of hundreds of schools and classrooms. Combining the findings of multiple investigators in one accessible volume reveals the depth and breadth of the research program, and engages readers interested in:* Engaging students in deeply learning the important concepts in mathematics* Designing innovative curriculum, software, and professional development· Effective uses of technology to improve mathematics education* Creating integrated systems of teaching that transform mathematics classrooms* Scaling up new pedagogies to hundreds of schools and classrooms* Conducting research that really matters for the future of mathematics learning​* Engaging students in deeply learning the important concepts in mathematics* Designing innovative curriculum, software, and professional development· Effective uses of technology to improve mathematics education* Creating integrated systems of teaching that transform mathematics classrooms* Scaling up new pedagogies to hundreds of schools and classrooms* Conducting research that really matters for the future of mathematics learning​​

Free Download Rainer Arnold, "The Responsibility of a Constitution for the Future: Contributions to the World Congress of the International Associatio"
English | ISBN: 3031652959 | 2024 | 175 pages | EPUB, PDF | 402 KB + 2 MB
A constitution has the task of realizing its regulatory objective for the entire duration of its existence. In doing so, it bears responsibility for the present, but also for the future. It must ensure that the legitimate interests of future generations are also taken into account in today’s decision-making and policies. The concept of intertemporal protection of fundamental rights developed by German constitutional jurisprudence and the jurisprudence in other countries have particularly stimulated the discussion on the constitution’s responsibility for the future, which is important in numerous areas.