“…Despite being distinct from Protestantism and Catholicism in both theology and practice, it remains an underused setting for academic inquiry into current lived religious practice. …”

“…The papers explore changes and continuities in policy, the governance of rural spaces, technological developments relating to rural areas and populations, and social forms of subjectivation and participation in increasingly diverse rural settings…”

“…In the last years, important advances have occurred in our understanding of the mechanisms underlying cerebral activation, neuroglial coupling and the associated neurovascular response. …”

“…Presently, gyrotrons are actively used for electron cyclotron resonance plasma heating and current drive in various controlled fusion reactors. …”

“…De doorbraakpogingen van de Boerenbond in Wallonië, de liquidatie van zijn Middenkredietkas, zijn aandeel in de Katholieke Actie, de bedreiging door de Nationale Landbouw en Voedingscorporatie tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog, de argwanende houding tegenover Benelux en E E G: elementen genoeg om dit vlot geschreven, onthullende boek een niet te missen aanwinst te noemen…”

“…Written by leading experts in police science and based on extensive interviews and focus groups with law enforcement, media, and community representatives, the book offers: A comparative database on terror control strategies in, among others, Ireland, Turkey, Sweden, Spain, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands Analysis of the interaction between the community and local law enforcement in response to terrorist activities. Insights into the relationships between home-grown terrorists, the preventive role of the community, and the proactive role of local law enforcement. …”

“…Exploring one of the central themes in science education theory, this volume examines how science education can be considered as a scientific activity within a broad post-positivist notion of science. …”

“…Despite the variety of organizations, methods, and actors involved in the evaluation and regulation of emerging nanotechnologies, the assessment activities comply with an overarching scientific and political imperative: Innovations are only welcome if they are assessed against the criteria of safety, sustainability, desirability, and acceptability. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Understanding Children as Mathematical Subjects: Theories and Methods -- Of Subjects, Subjectivity, and Subjectification: Subjects Made Visible -- Of Archaeology, and Genealogy: Choosing Sites and Tools -- The Art of Being Mathematical: The Primary Years -- Children at Work -- Tests and Contests -- Error and Correction -- The Emergence of Ability -- Subjects of Choice: The Secondary Years -- Form and Formula -- Measures of Success -- Keeping Up -- The Shape of Life -- Mathematical Futures: Life After School -- Girl Time and Boys’ Clubs: Mathematical Genderfication -- Background or Foreground? …”

“…She views the classroom through various theoretical perspectives: social constructivism, cultural-historical activity theory, and a theory that involves the dialectic between the structure of the learning environment and the agency of the learners (a group among whom she includes herself). …”

“…Currently, in the United States there are about 700,000 people reentering the society after serving time in state and federal prisons. These numbers are much higher for jail inmates who are estimated by the millions each year. …”

“…Among other things, chapter authors look at the growing importance placed on activities to "professionalize" school leaders, such as training and development programs and selection procedures. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction -- Railroad Transportation of Hazardous Materials: Models for Risk Assessment & Management -- Operations Research Models for Global Route Planning in Hazardous Materials Transportation -- The Effect of Weather Systems in Hazmat Transportation Modeling -- Value-at-Risk and Conditional Value-at-Risk Models in Hazardous Materials Transportation -- Hazardous Facility Location Models on Networks -- Network Interdiction Methods and Approximations in a Hazmat Setting -- Optimal Emergency Resources Deployment under a Terrorist Threat: The Hazmat Case and Beyond -- The Role of OR in Emergency Evacuation from Hazmat Incidents…”

“…This book is drawn from across many active fields of mathematics and physics, and has connections to atmospheric dynamics, spherical codes, graph theory, constrained optimization problems, Markov Chains, and Monte Carlo methods. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Prelude: Poincaré, Wittgenstein, Peirce, and the use of concepts -- Category theory in Algebraic Topology -- Category theory in Homological Algebra -- Category theory in Algebraic Geometry -- From tool to object: full-fledged category theory -- Categories as sets: problems and solutions -- Categorial foundations -- Pragmatism and category theory…”

“…This book looks at the history of the American banking system, including the passage of the Federal Reserve Act in 1913, the implementation of deposit insurance, along with certain other provisions of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, the Bretton-Woods agreements, the forces of technological innovation and the Dodd-Frank Act, passed by Congress in 2010 for regulatory reform. …”

“…Therefore, universities with an active program in operations research sometimes will have an entire course devoted mainly or entirely to queueing theory, and the course is also taught in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, and industrial engineering programs. …”

“…Investigating scholars’ diverse practices of knowledge, the volume’s six sections are organised around central scholarly activities: rising and advancing, reading and judging, perceiving and reacting, printing and communicating, observing and experimenting, as well as advising and serving. …”

“…However, because of the combinatorial characteristics of form perception, we are also observing the opposite tendency: from single-cell activity to population coding, and from static receptive field structures to system dynamics and integration and, ultimately, a synthetic form of psychophysics of color and form perception. …”

“…The third chapter (included here) zeros in on the various political performances of Slobodan Milosevic, including his courtroom testimony at the ICTY, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. …”