Tabla de Contenidos: “…Genetics, "natural rights," and the preservation of biodiversity / Brian Tokar -- The right to biodiversity: a concept rooted in international law and understanding / Philip Bereano -- Life patents and democratic values / Matthew Albright -- New enclosures: why civil society and governments should look beyond life patents / Hope Shand -- Life patents undermine the exchange of technology and scientific ideas / Jonathan King and Doreen Stabinsky --…”

“…It is thus, also, our hope that therapy helps improve psychic digestion. …”

“…The chapters in this volume are grounded in the latest research making this book useful to both experts of discourse studies and computational linguistics, as well as advanced students with an interest in these disciplines. We hope that this volume will serve as a catalyst to other researchers and will facilitate further advances in the development of cost-effective annotation procedures, the application of statistical techniques for the analysis of linguistic phenomena and the elaboration of new methods for data interpretation in multilingual corpus linguistics and machine translation…”

“…During decades of forced sociopolitical and economic upheaval in Tsang Province of China's Tibetan Autonomous Region--with medical texts destroyed or hidden, teachers and lamas imprisoned or otherwise silenced, and almost all trade in medicinal ingredients halted--they had little hope that their 'science of healing' (Sowa Rigpa) would again flourish. …”

“…The book demystifies the whole process of understanding how new software or hardware works and introduces techniques to make the reader comfortable with classroom technologies. I hope that you enjoy it and find it useful. Dr. Diana Pérez Marín received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid in 2007. …”

“…Thus, successive generations of cultists have seen a long, steady stream of curious outsiders coming to their temples with notebooks and cameras, questions and inquisitive gazes, or ogling eyes and the hope of inclusion. This study asks what seduced these outsiders to seek access to the Afro-Brazilian religious universe and, conversely, how did cultists respond to the overwhelming interest in their creed and to becoming an object of the outsiders? …”

“…While the authors of these papers dealt with very different modeling questions, they were all motivated by specific applications in biology and medicine and employed innovative mathematical and computational methods to study the complex dynamics of their models. We hope that these papers detail case studies that will inspire many additional mathematical modeling efforts in biology and medicine…”

“…The horizon of the All no longer beacons, for our hope of attaining it seems ever to recede. Yet, challenging the mistrust of reason that pursuit is precisely engaged in what is undertaken here. …”

“…We strongly believe that there is a need for more work to be carried out, and we hope this issue provides a useful open-access platform for the dissemination of new ideas…”

“…Is there any hope for those who despair at the state of the world and the powerlessness of governments to find a way forward? …”

“…With this volume the editors hope to further stimulate the notable increase of interest in the history of Swedish and not least in the study of various language contacts Den femtonde volymen i serien Studier i svensk språkhistoria består av 21 utvalda artiklar som återgår på föredrag vid konferensen Svenska språkets historia 15, arrangerad av Institutionen för skandinavistik vid Tartu universitet 13–15 juni 2018. …”

“…The Sun, our star, has inspired the research of many scientists and engineers and brings hope to many of us for a paradigm shift in energy. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Becoming mutually vulnerable -- An armour of something -- I don't want your hope -- Is digital circulation the master's tool? …”

“…It is the reflective result of a work, carried out for 4 years, funded by the Catholic University Luis Amigó, and carried out in eight localities of Antioquia in face-to-face and in some countries of the region in a virtual way; where technical advice and support has been provided in order to strengthen the institutional competences of these localities with regard to suicide; the book, presents this process of action research. We hope that its content will be useful for any person or institution interested in knowing how to deal with and contain this human problem Este segundo libro enmarcado en la investigación sobre el comportamiento suicida, contiene estrategias de intervención y de posvención, tanto a nivel de la prevención como ante la ocurrencia de un evento. …”

“…Of The Effable and The Ineffable, Archbishop Rowan Williams says: 'Christos Yannaras is one of the most original and revolutionary thinkers of modern Europe, and in this arresting, demanding book he sets out his vision of how a post-truth society might rediscover the reality of shared meaning and the hope of authentic life. Bringing the Greek Fathers into dialogue with the foremost thinkers of modernity, he gives us a comprehensive picture of what "logos" really means and why it matters.' …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Overview and History of Positive Behavior Support -- The Intellectual Roots of Positive Behavior Support and Their Implications for Its Development -- Early Childhood, Family, And Community -- Positive Behavior Support and Early Intervention -- Toward an Ecological Unit of Analysis in Behavioral Assessment and Intervention With Families of Children With Developmental Disabilities -- Positive Behavior Support and Early Intervention for Young Children With Autism: Case Studies on the Efficacy of Proactive Treatment of Problem Behavior -- Integrating a Positive behavior Support Approach Within Head Start -- Empirically Supported Intervention Practices for Autism Spectrum Disorders in School and Community Settings: Issues and Practices -- A Programwide Model for Supporting Social Emotional Development and Addressing Challenging Behavior in Early Childhood Settings -- Integrating PBS, Mental Health Services, and Family-Driven Care -- Optimistic Parenting: Hope and Help for Parents With Challenging Children -- Families Facing Extraordinary Challenges in Urban Communities: Systems-Level Application of Positive Behavior Support -- Delivering behavior Support in the Foster Care System -- Schoolwide -- Defining and Describing Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support -- Sustainability of Systems-Level Evidence-Based Practices in Schools: Current Knowledge and Future Directions -- Increasing Family Participation Through Schoolwide Positive Behavior Supports -- Primary-Tier Interventions and Supports -- Secondary-Tier Interventions and Supports -- Function-Based Supports for Individual Students in School Settings -- Implementation of Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support in Urban Settings -- Positive Behavior Support in Alternative Education, Community-Based Mental Health, and Juvenile Justice Settings -- Behavior Supports in Nonclassroom Settings -- Facilitating Academic Achievement Through Schoolwide Positive behavior Support -- Using a Problem-Solving Model to Enhance Data-Based Decision Making in Schools -- Finding a direction for High School Positive Behavior Support -- Systems Change and the Complementary Roles of In-Service and Preservice Training in Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support -- New Directions -- Sustaining Positive behavior Support in a Context of Comprehensive School Reform -- Completing the Continuum of Schoolwide Positive behavior Support: Wraparound as a Tertiary-Level Intervention -- Implementing Function-Based Support Within Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support -- Response to Intervention and Positive Behavior Support -- Erratum…”

“…This Special Issue reprint, "Advanced Polymer Nanocomposites II", addresses high-quality original and review papers, focused on the scientific discussion and practical application in the field of functional polymer nanocomposites, including: (a) optoelectronic materials (papers 1-9); (b) biomedical materials (papers 10-14); and (c) other functional polymer nanocomposites (papers 15-23). We hope that this Special Issue reprint can promote academic research exchanges and identify and respond to tremendous challenges of research in this burgeoning field…”

“…This was also a time of hope and ambition in which local actors seized upon the opportunity presented by the revolution to reshape their society. …”

“…The book does not propose one single "theory of knowledge" but steps towards a more diverse and open attitude to the meaning of knowledge.We hope that the texts will be of interest and useful in both discipline-based and professional education: in philosophy, art schools, teacher education, and in other programmes where tacit and practical knowledge are essential for the (future) practitioners. …”