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To inform decisions about whether community college baccalaureate degree programs should be expanded in Texas, this report summarizes findings on unmet workforce-development needs in nursing and four applied science occupations: computer and information technology, management of fire sciences, management of production/operations technicians, and health information technology.

Cet ouvrage propose des outils élaborés et testés dans le cadre du projet Quarité (Qualité des soins, gestion du risque et techniques obstétricales dans les pays en développement) pour mettre en œuvre une revue systématique des décès maternels. En s’appuyant sur des exemples concrets en Afrique, en France et au Royaume-Uni, et sur différentes expériences de terrain, il passe en revue les défis que soulève cette démarche. Ce guide est destiné aux cliniciens, gestionnaires et décideurs œuvrant dans le domaine de la santé maternelle et néonatale pour améliorer la qualité des soins fournis aux femmes enceintes. Il présente les outils indispensables pour collecter et analyser les informations, élaborer des recommandations pertinentes, technologiquement adaptées et potentiellement efficaces pour réduire la mortalité maternelle.

Creating a Policed Society? Provides an analysis of the evolution of policing and its impact on society in the West Riding of Yorkshire during the Victorian era. Unlike many previous police histories, which have focussed on specific (mainly urban) forces, it looks at developments across a region and brings out the complex and ongoing debates about policing, the diversity of police provision and the varied impact and responses that took place. As well as drawing on earlier works devoted to specific towns, the book offers a wide-ranging approach that utilises a range of hitherto underused sources that provide important insights into the details of police experience, both individual and collective. The book is structured around three major problem areas that have a relevance beyond the bounds of the West Riding. They are: (1) the extent to which the various police forces can be seen to be efficient; (2) the extent to which the Victorian West Riding can be seen as a policed society; and (3) the extent to which the policing in the county can be described as consensual. The author argues, firstly, that, despite ongoing problems retention, discipline and ill-health, most late-Victorian forces in the West Riding satisfied their local and national masters of their efficiency and were significantly less inefficient than their mid-century counterparts. Secondly, it is argued that notwithstanding the limitations to police powers, the Victorian West Riding was recognisably a policed society (or more accurately, a collection of policed societies), not least in the eyes of the majority of the local community. Finally, despite clear demonstrations of popular hostility to the police, in towns and country, in the third quarter of the nineteenth century and the persistence of anti-police sentiments, particularly in certain districts and among certain social groups, it is argued that, by a realistic and dynamic (rather than absolutist) definition of policing by consent, the Victorian West Riding was policed more by consensus than coercion. David Taylor is emeritus professor of history at the University of Huddersfield and is the author of numerous books and articles on Victorian policing, including Policing the Victorian Town: The Development of the Police in Middlesbrough, c.1840-1914, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002 and Beerhouses, Brothels and Bobbies: Policing by consent in Huddersfield and the Huddersfield District in the mid-nineteenth century, Huddersfield University Press, 2016.

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact

This chapter reviews the current canons of educational research and considers how they can be uncoupled from hegemonic knowledge paradigms which privilege Northern contexts. It outlines contributions from decolonial thinking and Southern theory and shows what must change if new epistemologies and ontologies are to emerge. It focuses on Southern epistemologies that illuminate ways of researching education in Southern contexts by students from the South researching their own contexts, and those trained in the North but researching Southern contexts. We consider critically the ways in which qualitative and quantitative research into structures, processes, and interactions have been challenged historically and the contemporary debates about whether, and if so how, such ethical and practical approaches can be transferred and be of value within Global South societies. Important insights are provided by experienced education researchers tackling the challenge of creating, identifying, or adapting research ethics, methods of data collection, and forms of data analysis.

During 2007 and 2008, the Belgian School at Athens undertook its first ever excavation on Crete, at the Minoan site of Sissi on the north coast of the island. Located at a few kilometres from the palatial site of Malia, the Sissi settlement presents aique test caSe to examine the relationship between a palace site and its hinterland during the Bronze Age (2600-1250BC). This volume gives some preliminary results of the two first excavation campaigns as well as an introduction on earlier explor...

Der deutsche Diplomat Carl von Schubert (1882–1947), seit 1906 im Auswärtigen Dienste des Kaiserreichs, gehörte nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg zu den versiertesten und einflussreichsten deutschen Außenpolitikern. Im Auswärtigen Amt seit Anfang der 1920er Jahre zuerst für die Beziehungen Deutschlands zu Großbritannien zuständig, berief ihn Gustav Stresemann schon 1924 in das Amt des Staatssekretärs, das Schubert bis 1930 innehatte. Während der sechs Jahre seiner Amtszeit gehörte er zu den engsten Vertrauten des bedeutendsten deutschen Außenministers seit der Bismarckzeit; alle wichtigen Entwicklungen und Entscheidungen – vom Locarnovertrag über den Eintritt Deutschlands in den Völkerbund bis hin zu den mehrjährigen Verhandlungen über Reparationsfragen und Rheinlandbesetzung – wurden von ihm mit geprägt. Mit dem plötzlichen Tod seines politischen Mentors Stresemann im Oktober 1929 verlor auch Schubert rasch an Einfluss; schon 1930 wechselte er als deutscher Botschafter nach Rom. Zwei Jahre später verließ er das Auswärtige Amt. Die neue Quellenedition zu Schubert, viele Jahre lang erarbeitet durch den Marburger Historiker Peter Krüger († 2011), präsentiert erstmals eine Fülle bislang zumeist unbekannter Dokumente zur deutschen Außenpolitik der Weimarer Zeit aus den Beständen des Politischen Archivs des Auswärtigen Amts und aus dem Nachlass Schuberts. Diese Quellentexte erhellen und präzisieren wesentliche Vorgänge der deutschen Außenpolitik nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg und lassen den bedeutenden Anteil Schuberts an den diplomatisch-politischen Weichenstellungen der Ära Gustav Stresemanns zwischen 1924 und 1929 erkennen.

The phytochemicals, particularly bioactive compounds such as alkaloids, flavonoids, terpenoids, and polyphenols, have revealed their diverse roles in human health, from antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties to anticancer and antimicrobial effects. This book explores how the latest genomics, metabolomics, and bioinformatics methodologies enhance our understanding of plant secondary metabolites and their pharmacological potential. Through these technological innovations, researchers can now identify new bioactive molecules more efficiently and accurately than ever before. This volume highlights the intersections between traditional knowledge and modern scientific advancements. Many of the discoveries discussed here build upon ancient wisdom, validating the therapeutic potential of plants used for centuries in indigenous and folk medicine.

Ak'é Nýdzin, or Navajo Oshley, was born sometime between 1879 and 1893. His oral memoir is set on the northern frontier of Navajo land, principally the San Juan River basin in southeastern Utah, and tells the story of his early life near Dennehetso and his travels, before there were roads or many towns, from Monument Valley north along Comb Ridge to Blue Mountain. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Anglos and Navajos expanded their use and settlement of lands north of the San Juan. Grazing lands and the Anglo wage economy drew many Navajos across the river. Oshley, a sheepherder, was among the first to settle there. He cared for the herds of his extended family, while also taking supplemental jobs with the growing livestock industry in the area. His narrative is woven with vivid and detailed portraits of Navajo culture: clan relationships, marriages and children, domestic life, the importance of livestock, complex relations with the natural world, ceremonies, trading, and hand trembling.

Al-Andalus, telle est l'expression qui désigna très tôt, sous la plume des auteurs arabes, les territoires de l'Espagne soumis à la domination musulmane. Depuis la fin du xxe siècle, qui a vu la publication de synthèses d'historiens éminents, les travaux sur le royaume d'al-Andalus ont pris un nouvel essor. Les chercheurs s'appuient principalement sur les résultats des explorations archéologiques, sur la publication de nouvelles sources ou sur la rigoureuse déconstruction des anciennes. Les ...

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Well Played is a concept of providing in-depth close readings of games that parse out the various meanings found in the experience of playing a game. Around Halloween in 2020, the Well Played Journal started its 10th volume. Looking back, the first “well played” presentation and article was in 2003, the first book came out in 2009, and the first journal issue was released in 2011. Thinking of Well Played during the pandemic underscored how games have been a part of our experiences and the value and role games have had in people’s lives this past year or so. This Well Played retrospective and companion essays on games during the pandemic capture a critical history of Well Played and highlight how much games can matter in our lives. The retrospective and pandemic essays have resonant themes, so we’ve woven them together to share a written tapestry of Well Played and games, value, and meaning.

In the Federal Republic of Germany the number of asylum seekers has fallen considerably in recent years. The recognition rate lies at around one percent. What has happened to the refugees? Are there no longer any reasons to apply for asylum? In order to find asylum seekers, one must look in the new EU member states on the external borders, and to the countries immediately beyond the borders: because of regulations about jurisdiction, more and more refugees become stranded on the edges of the EU and can only reach other European target countries by irregular means. The study shows, using Germany and Poland as examples, how the significance of asylum law has changed over the last 20 years, how this change can be explained, and how it relates to migrants’ strategies. Inthis manner the study offers new insight into the field of asylum policy in three respects: on the one hand, asylum policy is analysed in the context of category construction related to migration policy. In this way the significance of the categorization and hierarchization of ‘desirable and ‘undesirable’ migrants as a central component of ‘migration management’ is revealed. On the other hand, the two studies of individual countries provide an extensive picture of asylum policy in Germany and Poland. By embedding the two case studies in developments at EU level, and relating them to each other, the study offers a new and comprehensive insight into the dynamics which have determined the changes in the European asylum regime in the last two decades.

Chemical engineering and technology are the basis of mineral processing and extractive metallurgy. In the long history of human civilization, with the development of science and technology, chemical engineering, mineral processing, metallurgical engineering, and other process technologies have coexisted and mutually benefited each other. More than 100 years ago, chemical engineers summarized the common laws in the process industry and built up the basic theory of unit operations. It is undoubtedly of great significance to study the chemical engineering principles in mineral processing and extractive metallurgy to profoundly understand the essence of mineral separation and extraction, optimizing the technological flow of mineral processing and improving the utilization level of mineral resources. The purpose of this book is to discuss chemical engineering principles in mineral processing and extractive metallurgy to improve the utilization of mineral resources. Experts, technicians, and students in the fields of chemical engineering, metallurgy, and mineral processing are welcome to read this book.

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