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This book identifies and emphasizes the need for a holistic approach to school improvement when it comes to both the development of the whole child and the relationships among student, family, and community development. In recent years, the emphasis in PK-12 education in the United States has been on the measurement of student and school performance by high-stakes achievement tests. This emphasis has resulted in a narrowed curriculum emphasizi...

This book identifies and emphasizes the need for a holistic approach to school improvement when it comes to both the development of the whole child and the relationships among student, family, and community development. In recent years, the emphasis in PK-12 education in the United States has been on the measurement of student and school performance by high-stakes achievement tests. This emphasis has resulted in a narrowed curriculum emphasizi...

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Gidon Aronson, an American who has served in the Israeli military, has made a promise - to check up on Noa, a Mossad officer's niece, a college student in Baltimore. The uncle is concerned about Noa's welfare, given rampant anti-Israel sentiment on many college campuses. What begins as a simple favor, develops into a murder investigation when Noa's room is vandalized and two young men are subsequently killed. Gidon and the police uncover a f...

Heterogeneity, or mixtures, are ubiquitous in genetics. Even for data as simple as mono-genic diseases, populations are a mixture of affected and unaffected individuals. Still, most statistical genetic association analyses, designed to map genes for diseases and other genetic traits, ignore this phenomenon.In this book, we document methods that incorporate heterogeneity into the design and analysis of genetic and genomic association data. Amon...

Gidon Aronson, an American who has served in the Israeli military, has made a promise - to check up on Noa, a Mossad officer's niece, a college student in Baltimore. The uncle is concerned about Noa's welfare, given rampant anti-Israel sentiment on many college campuses. What begins as a simple favor, develops into a murder investigation when Noa's room is vandalized and two young men are subsequently killed. Gidon and the police uncover a f...

This book takes an in-depth look at the current status and future direction of treatment predictive markers in personalized medicine for the brain, from the perspectives of the researchers and those involved in healthcare implementation. The contents provide a comprehensive text suitable as both an introduction to, and a clear summary of, the 'science to solutions' continuum in this developing field.

The belief in the reality of demons and the restless dead formed a central facet of the medieval worldview. In this volume, Stephen Gordon explores the ways in which conflicting ideas about the intention and agency of supernatural entities were understood and articulated in different social and literary contexts.

Heterogeneity, or mixtures, are ubiquitous in genetics. Even for data as simple as mono-genic diseases, populations are a mixture of affected and unaffected individuals. Still, most statistical genetic association analyses, designed to map genes for diseases and other genetic traits, ignore this phenomenon.In this book, we document methods that incorporate heterogeneity into the design and analysis of genetic and genomic association data. Amon...

März 1938. Auf der berüchtigten Gefängnisinsel Alcatraz wird ein Mann in ein dunkles Kellerloch gestoßen. In dieser Hölle muss Henri Young (Kevin Bacon) drei Jahre dahinvegetieren. Der einzige Kontakt zur Außenwelt sind die grausamen Folterungen des sadistischen Gefängnisdirektors Glenn (Gary Oldman). Im Juni 1941 wird Young plötzlich in die Helligkeit gezerrt und kommt zurück in den Gefängnisalltag. Kaum mehr als Mensch zu bezeichnen, tötet e...

The belief in the reality of demons and the restless dead formed a central facet of the medieval worldview. In this volume, Stephen Gordon explores the ways in which conflicting ideas about the intention and agency of supernatural entities were understood and articulated in different social and literary contexts.

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This book is a first-hand account of Stephen A. Gordon and his family's dislocation from their homestead on the Allegany Territory of the Seneca Nation violated the 1794 Treaty between the United States and the Hodin?hs?:ni' (Iroquois) which the On?ndowa'ga:' (Seneca)are original members.

This book is contemporary, topical and global in its approach, and provides an essential, comprehensive treatise on bovine tuberculosis and the bacterium that causes it, Mycobacterium bovis. Bovine tuberculosis remains a major cause of economic loss in cattle industries worldwide, exacerbated in some countries by the presence of a substantial wildlife reservoir. It is a major zoonosis, causing human infection through consumption of unpasteuris...

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Describing the role of both the university and the school, this book explores critical aspects of collaborative action, including establishing relationships, using critical friends, developing leadership teams, and implementation. It provides lessons learned from successful and unsuccessful programs, to show schools what to do and what to avoid.

The two men came at dinnertime on friday night to murder a young rabbi and his family.They didn't say why. They didn't say who sent them. Fortunately, Gidon Aronson was at the right place at the right time. Gidon, a former member of an elite Israeli special operations unit, must not only protect the clergyman, but also peel back the layers of the man's personal and professional lives to get at a secret not even the target knows, or admits. Gid...

Gidon Aronson just wants to be left alone. His training as a special forces operative makes him unique, but now he just wants solace. When the Guardians of Heaven set their sights on an Israeli diplomat, Gidon does just enough to save their target. But when they kill a friend, he steps into a conspiracy that runs from upscale neighborhoods of Baltimore to the ancient streets of Jerusalem and the West Bank."I literally didn't want to put it dow...

Gidon Aronson just wants to be left alone. His training as a special forces operative makes him unique, but now he just wants solace. When the Guardians of Heaven set their sights on an Israeli diplomat, Gidon does just enough to save their target. But when they kill a friend, he steps into a conspiracy that runs from upscale neighborhoods of Baltimore to the ancient streets of Jerusalem and the West Bank."I literally didn't want to put it dow...

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