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This edited collection provides unprecedented insight into the emerging field of multilingual education in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Multilingual education is claimed to have many benefits, amongst which are that it can improve both content and language learning, especially for learners who may have low ability in the medium of instruction and are consequently struggling to learn. The book represents a range of Sub-Saharan school contexts and describes how multilingual strategies have been developed and implemented within them to support the learning of content and language. It looks at multilingual learning from several points of view, including ‘translanguaging’, or the use of multiple languages – and especially African languages – for learning and language-supportive pedagogy, or the implementation of a distinct pedagogy to support learners working through the medium of a second language.The book puts forward strategies for creating materials, classroom environments and teacher education programmes which support the use of all of a student’s languages to improve language and content learning. The contexts which the book describes are challenging, including low school resourcing, poverty and low literacy in the home, and school policy which militates against the use of African languages in school. The volume also draws on multilingual education approaches which have been successfully carried out in higher resource countries and lend themselves to being adapted for use in SSA. It shows how multilingual learning can bring about transformation in education and provides inspiration for how these strategies might spread and be further developed to improve learning in schools in SSA and beyond.

First published in 2012, this catalogue presents fifty-six Etruscan, Greek, and Italic carved ambers from the Getty Museum's collectionthe second largest body of this material in the United States and one of the most important in the world. The ambers date from about 650 to 300 BC. The catalogue offers full description of the pieces, including typology, style, chronology, condition, and iconography. Each piece is illustrated.

This Special Issue of Energies on “Advances in Combustion of Gases, Liquid Fuels, Coal and Biomass” includes five manuscripts on combustion research related to energy production. Both fundamental and applied research is included. The papers contain state-of-the-art experiments, computations, and theory. Combustion provides an estimated 85% of the world’s energy consumption. Advances in combustion research can benefit society in three main ways. Improving energy efficiency can reduce fuel consumption. Improving emissions can reduce climate change and adverse health effects. Improving fire and explosion safety can protect people, property, and the environment. The topical areas covered by this Special Issue are broad. It is hoped that this breadth will lead to a better understanding of combustion and improved diagnostic and numerical tools. This, in turn, may result in improved combustors, a cleaner environment, novel fuels, and improved safety and energy security.

W publikacji zrekonstruowano przestrzenny wymiar karier ludzi biznesu, szczególnie predysponowanych do roli kreatorów przestrzeni, gdzie realizują swoje ambicje zawodowe i pasje życiowe. Zmiany, jakich dokonują w środowisku pracy i poza nią, dotyczą nie tylko ich samych czy najbliższych im osób, lecz także mają duże znaczenie dla członków organizacji, partnerów, konkurentów i kooperantów. W monografii przedstawiono powiązane ze sobą, ale i jakościowo rozróżnialne etapy postrzegania przez nich przestrzeni oraz działań wobec niej – od traktowania przestrzeni jako zasobu, poprzez przejmowanie jej w zarząd, aż do panowania nad nią. Skuteczność owej kontroli łączy się z dominującym i charakterystycznym dla ludzi odgrywających kluczowe role organizacyjne modelem kariery-konstrukcji, czyli z intencjonalnym i pragmatycznym zarządzaniem własną ścieżką zawodową oraz planem życiowym. Książka jest adresowana do teoretyków i praktyków zarządzania organizacjami, a także do badaczy społecznych oraz wszystkich zainteresowanych paradygmatem interpretatywnym i jakościowymi metodologiami badawczymi, zwłaszcza teorią ugruntowaną.

Most of us think of punishment as an ugly display of power. But punishment also tells us something about the ideals and aspirations of a people and their government. How a state punishes reveals whether or not it is confident in its own legitimacy and sovereignty. Punishment and Political Order examines the questions raised by the state’s exercise of punitive power—from what it is about human psychology that desires sanction and order to how the state can administer pain while calling for justice. Keally McBride's book demonstrates punishment's place at the core of political administration and the stated ideals of the polity.

The idea of sharing a medium between signals originated sometime in the late 18th century and first appeared in wired telephone systems in the United States in the early 19th century. Multiplexing (MUX), a method by which multiple analog or digital signals are combined into one signal over a shared medium, increases the capacity of the communication channel by dividing it into several logical channels, one for each message signal or data stream to be transferred. On the receiver side, the reverse process known as de-multiplexing (DEMUX) helps to extract the original channel. This book examines recent advances and novel applications in MUX and DEMUX. It discusses how MUX is applied in free-space optics (FSO) applications and how 5G and 6G signals benefit from MUX, among other topics.

The aim of this Special Issue on Landscape Heritage: Geomorphology, Geoheritage and Geoparks is to expose to the international scientific community the most innovative studies that are being developed in the field of applied geomorphology, especially those related to the conservation, protection and sustainable management of abiotic heritage and its relationship with other territorial aspects (ecosystemic, historical–cultural, educational and divulgation) and exceptional landscapes. Activities such as geotourism should take advantage of current studies to promote sustainable development based on the land planning of areas with exceptional geomorphology and geoheritage worldwide, especially in protected natural areas (national or natural parks) and UNESCO global geoparks (declared, aspiring or in project).

This reprint focuses on applied research on growth traits, fat reserves, fatty acid profiles and enriched diets and their effects on reproduction, health status and welfare. The studies contained in the volume have been carried out in both monogastric organisms and ruminants, fish, broilers or pigeons. Fundamental studies with rats or mice are also presented. The reader will find novel research about the effects of the degree of fatness and muscularity determined by ultrasound method on sows´ reproductive performance, genetic studies on fatty acid profiles and growth traits in rabbits and Gilthead Seabream; nutritional studies addressing diets enriched with bee pollen in rats, postbiotics in male rabbits, concentrate and bypass supplementations in buffaloes; and interesting studies on the welfare assessment of meat sheep, rabbits, racing pigeons, broilers, alpacas and llamas using body condition measurements.

À la chute de la dictature des Duvalier, tous les espoirs étaient permis : élections démocratiques, assainissement et modernisation de l’administration publique, rationalisation de la gestion du pouvoir et renforcement des structures économique et sociale. Mais l’instabilité politique chronique, le marasme économique, l’anarchie et le chaos généralisé ont conduit à l’effondrement de l’État dans ce pays, qui est pourtant la première république noire au monde. En parcourant de façon originale l’histoire d’Haïti, de la colonisation à nos jours, d’un point de vue sociopolitique, Sauveur Pierre Étienne explique les sources de sa non-évolution vers l’État moderne, de son sous-développement et de la succession de régimes dictatoriaux. Cet ouvrage, remarquable état des lieux de la société haïtienne, permet de comprendre les élites politiques, l’État et les rapports transnationaux de pouvoir (gestion de conflits, amalgame races/classes, relations entre Mulâtres et Noirs, etc.), enfin la dégradation des relations entre l’État et la société, relations qui ont fait échec à la construction d’un État moderne en Haïti.

Rennes - 1826 - le jardin du Thabor - deux étudiants en droit se rencontrent, se prennent d'amitié, rêvent de poésie et de célébrité parisienne, se séparent, s'écrivent, se perdent enfin de vue, non sans, au préalable, à travers leurs lettres échangées, s'être confié leurs drames d'amour et de mort, s'être dit leur projet : contribuer au renouveau de la culture bretonne… C'est ici, dans le cadre de l'histoire littéraire de Rennes et de Nantes, de Morlaix aussi, la chronique de deux apprentissages littéraires, où revivent les figures de Camille Mellinet et de son Lycée armoricain, d'Édouard Turquéty et sa poésie catholique, mais celle, surtout, d'un jeune Émile Souvestre, poète, dramaturge, journaliste - romancier bientôt - vibrant d'ambition, de souffrance et de solidarité humaine.

Noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) are an attractive research field in the RNA world. ncRNAs play important roles in regulating gene expression in animals, plants, and various human diseases. It is clear that current and further research on ncRNAs will change our knowledge of the nature of genome composition by editing previous dogmas. This book provides an overview of current knowledge on ncRNA research by dealing with miRNA and ncRNA-related human diseases, plant miRNA markers, and the roles of lncRNAs in cancer and epigenetics.

Néerlandais ? hollandais ? flamand ? dialecte allemand ? Mais de quelle langue parlons-nous ? Où se parle le néerlandais ? De quel type de langue s'agit-il ? Comment cette langue s'est-elle développée ? Quels rapports le néerlandais entretient-il avec son grand frère l'allemand ? Quel néerlandais parle-t-on en Belgique ? Quelles sont les caractéristiques majeures de cette langue ? Le néerlandais a-t-il un avenir dans la nouvelle Europe ? Il s'agit de lever les nombreux malentendus sur cette langue encore trop peu connue en France. Le néerlandais, la troisième langue germanique après l'anglais et l'allemand, réserve dans cet ouvrage de bonnes surprises au lecteur francophone.

This book is based on Special Issue "Artificial Intelligence Methods Applied to Urban Remote Sensing and GIS" from early 2020 to 2021. This book includes seven papers related to the application of artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning algorithms using remote sensing and GIS techniques in urban areas.

The region of Ptuj lies on one of the central traffic axes within the broader margins of the Eastern Alps, and already in the distant past represented an important settlement centre. This monograph incorporates the knowledge hitherto gained abouth settlement history, from the Eneolithic to the Early Middle Ages in the eastern area of Ptuj, in Rabelčja vas. The emphasis is on the Roman Period, when the eastern district of the Roman town of Poetovio was beginning to spread here.Within the area of Rabelčja vas, which comprises nearly one-third of the Roman town of Poetovio, over a period of two centuries more than 160 discoveries and researches have taken place. During the past four decades, extensive rescue excavations have been carried out here, which have revealed numerous prehistorical remains, and also the eastern, crafts quarter of the ancient town, together with the main road and extensive burial sites.

Sexual dysfunctions have recently recognized as one of the major public health problems. This book enhances our scientific understanding of sexual function and dysfunction from different perspectives. It presents evidence-based interventions for sexual dysfunctions in difficult medical situations such as cancer, and gives a valuable overview of recent experimental researches on the topic. Published in collaboration with InTech - Open Access Publisher, this imperative work will be a practical resource for health care providers and researchers who are involved in the study of sexual health.