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Thinking of starting a postdoc? Want to know how to move on from a postdoc? Or simply want to make the best of your postdoc years? Being a postdoc is not a career ... but it can be the pivotal point in the making of one. This friendly, practical, and occasionally humorous guide to all things postdoc combines the three authors' vast experience of postdoc careers and personal development.This is a guide to developing, advancing and furthering yo...

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This book concentrates on a range of currently popular styles in the folk genre, looking at specific repertories and ways of approaching them. It also looks at the current musical outlets that are available to singers and aims to help the fledgling singer better understand the scope of folk music and find their voice in the genre.

An examination of the connections between modernist writers and editorial activities, Making Canada New draws links among new and old media, collaborative labour, emergent scholars and scholarships, and digital modernisms.

Bruce J. Schulman is the William E. Huntington Professor of History at Boston University. Julian E. Zelizer is the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University, a CNN contributor, and a fellow at New America.

Ruanda gehört zu den wenigen afrikanischen Ländern, deren Einwohner alle die gleiche Muttersprache sprechen: Kinyarwanda. Französisch ist neben Englisch zwar Amtssprache, aber der Grundschulunterricht findet ausschließlich auf Kinyarwanda statt. Und viele besuchen nie eine weitergehende Schule. Außerdem wird Kinyarwanda in Teilen von Uganda, dem Kongos und auch Tansania gesprochen. Zusätzlich enthält dieser Kinyarwanda-Sprachführer ein Zusatzk...

Ein Sprachführer speziell für Australien-Reisende! Wer sich schon einmal mit einem Australier unterhalten hat, weiß, dass es leicht zu Verständigungsschwierigkeiten kommen kann, wenn der Australier ganz selbstverständlich ocker terms in den Mund nimmt. Dabei handelt es sich um rein australische Begriffe, die auch Amerikaner und Briten nicht kennen, geschweige denn wir, deren Muttersprache nicht Englisch ist. +++ Kauderwelsch Sprachführer biet...

This book discusses efficient prediction techniques for the current state-of-the-art High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard, focusing on the compression of a wide range of video signals, such as 3D video, Light Fields and natural images. The authors begin with a review of the state-of-the-art predictive coding methods and compression technologies for both 2D and 3D multimedia contents, which provides a good starting point for new researc...

This book explores a range of challenges teachers face in dealing with situations of disadvantage, and explores different ways of thinking about these situations. Starting with a variety of incidents written by teachers in schools in disadvantaged settings, the book provides a range of ways of thinking about these - some more psychological, others more sociological - and chapters develop conversations between teachers and academics. These 'con...

This is the proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Computing: Theory and Practice, WCTP 2015 devoted to theoretical and practical approaches to computation. This workshop was organized by four top universities in Japan and the Philippines: Tokyo Institute of Technology, Osaka University, University of the Philippines - Diliman, and De La Salle University. The proceedings provides a view of the current movement in research in these two countries...

Now in his nineties, James Gunn remains a major voice in science fiction. Michael Page's study is the first to examine the life, career, and writing of this science fiction grandmaster. Drawing on materials from Gunn's archives and from personal interviews and providing detailed analysis and commentary on his fiction, Page provides a much-needed exploration of one of science fiction's important figures.

Written for undergraduates, this book is dedicated to fixed income fundamentals that do not require modeling the dynamics of interest rates. The book concentrates on understanding and explaining the pillars of fixed income markets, using the modern finance approach implied by the "no free lunch" condition. It focuses on conceptual understanding so that novice readers will be familiar with tools needed to analyze bond markets. Institutional inf...

Written for undergraduates, this book is dedicated to fixed income fundamentals that do not require modeling the dynamics of interest rates. The book concentrates on understanding and explaining the pillars of fixed income markets, using the modern finance approach implied by the "no free lunch" condition. It focuses on conceptual understanding so that novice readers will be familiar with tools needed to analyze bond markets. Institutional inf...

This multi-authored text provides information on the pathophysiology of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD), appropriate medical management, and proper indications for and performance of surgical and endoscopic procedures.The Editors look at the current understanding of this disease, and present new information regarding tissue susceptibility, the role of bile and digestive enzymes, and cyclic changes in LES tone. Chapters are devoted to st...

Today, surveillance and regulation of employees are pervasive at all levels (except the highest) in a wide variety of American workplaces. Digital information systems have become important tools of managerial control. The constraints built into these systems by so-called "business process reengineering" are a continuation of scientific management principles developed during the late 19th century. Additional means of control have included emplo...

In an ideal world policy makers would never consider implementing an evaluation scheme that had generated no supportive research base. We don't live in an ideal world as evidenced by the various state teacher evaluation schemes, none of which has been found to provide reliable evidence of effective teaching or learning. Luckily, Gabriel and Woulfin offer us an informed alternative, one that allows us to evaluate literacy teachers' performance ...

This second edition volume provides an overview of some of the types of nanostructures commonly used in nanobiomedicine. The chapters in this book discuss practical information on the synthesis and characterization of a variety of solution-phase and surface-bound nanomaterials, with examples of how they can be used in sensing, imaging, and therapeutics. Specific topics include the synthesis and characterization of molecule and biomolecule-func...

Digital Filmmaking has been called the bible for professional filmmakers in the digital age. It details all of the procedural, creative, and technical aspects of pre-production, production, and post-production within a digital filmmaking environment. It examines the new digital methods and techniques that are redefining the filmmaking process, and how the evolution into digital filmmaking can be used to achieve greater creative flexibility as ...

This book aims to provide a general overview of heuristic search, to present the basic steps of the most popular heuristics, and to stress their hidden difficulties as well as their opportunities. It provides a comprehensive understanding of Heuristic search, the applications of which are now widely used in a variety of industries including engineering, finance, sport, management and medicine. It intends to aid researchers and practitioners in...