“…Accessibility and Active Offer thus combines theory and empirical data to help future professionals understand the workplace issues of accessibility and active offer of minority-language services.This English-language adaptation of Accessibilité et offre active features an additional chapter by Richard Bourhis on issues specific to Anglophone communities in Québec.This multidisciplinary collective work is the first to unite researchers in health, social work, sociology, political science, public administration, law and education, in order to gain more thorough knowledge of linguistic issues in health and social services, as well as of active offer of French-language services.Published in English, with a French counterpart…”

“…Key themes that emerge include the structural and relative nature of "smallholder" as a category, the dynamic reality of smallholder livelihoods, the importance of smallholder farming and land-use practices to questions of environmental sustainability, and the challenges of vulnerability and adaptation in contemporary human-environment systems. …”

“…This book contains three parts that focus on the biophysical and social consequences of changing climates and progress toward adaptation and mitigation to change. There are studies on evapotranspiration rates in North Africa, precipitation extremes in Asia, coral bleaching in the Indian Ocean, the patterns of humid-region flood risk and hazards in Asia, the implications of climate change for Zimbabwe's horticultural sector, agricultural vulnerability in Uganda, mitigation and adaptation on palm-oil plantations in Indonesia, the value of farmer's knowledge for mitigating precipitation variability in eastern and southern Africa, sustainable carbon management in paddy rice-growing regions, adaptation to changing patterns of hazards in India, river flooding and temporary displacement of women and children of Nigerian villages, and management and mitigation of ecological impacts and diversity in Nepal…”

“…Children who participate in group interventions may experience less anxiety symptoms and improved adaptation to the situation surrounding family break up compared with children who did not attend. …”

“…The collection includes contributions from distinguished Ovidians as well as leading specialists in medieval Latin and vernacular literature, clerical and extra-clerical culture and medieval art, and addresses questions of manuscript and textual transmission, translation, adaptation and imitation. It also explores the intersecting cultural contexts of the schools (monastic and secular), courts and the literate lay households. …”

“…There is a particularly urgent need to disentangle the specific experience of women who are critically involved in the process of adaptation to new worlds and ways of life. Most of the women studied in this volume hoped to retain their original culture and lifestyle at least to some extent but found that the exigencies of being migrants and refugees forced them to examine their preconceptions and to adopt roles, both social and economic, which they would have rejected at home. …”
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“…Although the fundamental nature of war has not altered over the centuries, constant change, innovation, and adaptation have repeatedly reshaped how wars are fought in the West. …”

“…In "Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon", Stewart Davenport explores this paradoxical partnership of transcendent religious values and earthly, pragmatic objectives, ultimately concluding that religious and ethical commitments, rather than political or social forces, shaped responses to market capitalism in the northern states in the antebellum period.Drawing on diverse primary sources, Davenport identifies three distinct Christian responses to market capitalism: assurance from clerical economists who believed in the righteousness of economic development; opposition from contrarians who resisted the changes around them; and adaptation by the pastoral moralists who modified their faith to meet the ethical challenges of the changing economy. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Wavelet-based filtering -- ch. 5. Adaptive filtering -- ch. 6. Deformable models and active contours -- ch. 7. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Priority Ethical Issues -- Ethical Problems with Cost Arguments -- Ethics and Scientific Uncertainty Arguments -- Atmospheric Targets -- Allocating National Emissions Targets -- Climate Change Damages and Adaptation Costs -- Obligations of Sub-national Governments, Organizations, Businesses, and Individuals -- Independent Responsibility to Act -- Part 3. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cuando muere el día = Sundown / director, Henry Hathaway ; screenplay, Barré Lyndon, adaptation, Charles G. Booth ; director of photography, Charles Lang ; music, Miklos Rozsa. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Galileo / director, Joseph Losey ; producer, Ely Landau ; adapted for the screen by Barbara Bray and Joseph Losey ; director of photography, Michael Reed ; original music, Hanns Eisler. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…39 escalones = The 39 steps / directed by Alfred Hitchcock ; adaptation, Charles Bennett, dialogue, Ian Hay ; photography, Bernard Knowles. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…rith as Mass Organization, 1875â€?1900""; ""5. Adapting to New Challenges, 1900â€?1914""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Learning from Biblical models -- Preparing a basic story set -- Choosing suitable stories -- Preparing stories from the Biblical text -- Sow and tell: getting out and using storying -- Getting started telling your story -- Leading discussion: the why and how -- Discussion dynamics -- Pass it on: training others -- Basics -- Motivating trainees -- Adapting for specific contexts -- Evangelistic storying with different audiences -- Storying for Christian teaching -- Further discussion questions for basic story set -- Different kinds of Bible storying -- Checklist for training others -- Links so you can listen to sample stories…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…El largo viaje / d'après le roman de Jorge Semprun ; adapté par Jean Prat. -- INA, cop. 1975. -- (98 min). -- País i any de producció: França, 1969. -- Intèrprets: Roland Dubillard, Jean Le Mouël, Roger Ibañez. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…""Front Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Editors""; ""Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1: Multichannel, Multipath-Enabled, Quality-of-Service-Aware Routing for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks""; ""Chapter 2: Adaptation Techniques for Multimedia Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks""; ""Chapter 3: Multimedia Communication in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks""; ""Chapter 4: Multimedia Streaming in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks""; ""Chapter 5: Coverage Problems for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks""…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Improving the Computational Efficiency of Adaptive Audits of IRV Elections. -- A Framework for Voters’ Trust Repair in Internet Voting. -- Efficient Cleansing in Coercion-Resistant Voting. -- Absentee Online Voters in the Northwest Territories: Attitudes and Impacts on Participation. -- ZK-SNARKs for Ballot Validity: A Feasibility Study. -- Direct and Transparent Voter Verification with Everlasting Receipt-Freeness. -- Expanding the Toolbox: Coercion and Vote-Selling at Vote-Casting Revisited. -- Intelligo ut Confido: Understanding, Trust and User Experience in Verifiable Receipt-Free E-Voting…”