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The dramatic growth of the Latino population in the US requires a considerably deeper understanding of individuals that share this multifaceted identity. This timely book synthesizes new research and its implications for practice that is critical for professionals working with Latinos in educational and counseling contexts.

Provides educational developers and community engagement professionals an analysis of approaches to faculty development around service-learning and community engagement. Using an openly self-reflective approach, contributors offer examples, models, and realistic strategies, to empower readers to evolve their faculty development efforts in service-learning and community engagement.

Provides educational developers and community engagement professionals an analysis of approaches to faculty development around service-learning and community engagement. Using an openly self-reflective approach, contributors offer examples, models, and realistic strategies, to empower readers to evolve their faculty development efforts in service-learning and community engagement.

Focuses on partnerships at the most basic level of interaction - between two people as they work toward common goals. Interpersonal dynamics described in this book are intended to guide formal and institutional relationships between members of a community or community organisation on the one hand and representatives from campus on the other.

Xenobiotics are chemical compounds foreign to a given biological system. This reference will help the analyst develop effective and validated analytical strategies for the analysis of hundreds of different xenobiotics on hundreds of different sample types, quickly, accurately and at acceptable cost.

This book provides an up-to-date survey of the most important and widely used full-field optical metrology and inspection technologies. Techniques such as interference microscopy, laser Doppler vibrometry, holography, speckle metrology, spectroscopy and deflectrometry and digital holographic microscropy for the inspection of MEMS.

This book highlights the efficacy of molecular data in inferring phylogeny. References throughout the book illuminate the taxonomic terminology and literature. The book includes a range of topics beginning from gene to phylogenomics and provides an up-to-date information about plant molecular systematics.

This book presents the chemical properties of lignocellulosic fibers and makes a case for why it is important to understand chemical properties of lignocellulosic resources if one wants to innovate and respect sustainable development principles.

This book is intended to be a pictorial atlas of the morphology of the vertebrate skull. The volume will include high-quality images of skulls from all the major groups of vertebrates. Images will be accompanied by explanatory text, and will be supplemented with literature citations to the voluminous literature on the vertebrate skull.

Brings together the literature in main stream finance and the tools presented in quantitative finance with a focus on what is being practiced in industry. The author begins with the economic theory behind price formation and tests the model that results from the theory and suggests algorithms to detect and exploit the anomalies.

This book covers current knowledge on uses of marine algae to obtain bulk and fine chemicals, coupled with optimization of the underlying production and purification processes. Major gaps and potential opportunities in this field are discussed in a critical manner.

Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA) is a powerful technique for understanding the viscoelastic properties of materials. It has become a powerful tool for chemists, polymer and material scientists, and engineers.

Introduction to Forensic Chemistry introduces chemical tests, spectroscopy, advanced spectroscopy, and chromatography. The second half of the book addresses applications and methods to analyze and interpret controlled substances, trace evidence, questioned documents, firearms, explosives, environmental contaminants, toxins, and other topics.

This much-needed text brings the treatment of optical pattern recognition up-to-date in one comprehensive resource. Optical pattern recognition, one of the first implementations of Fourier Optics, is now widely used, and this text provides an accessible introduction for readers who wish to get to grips with how holography is applied in a practical context.

Drawing on recent research by scholars of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century art, this volume reconsiders the art and architecture produced after 1563. As the first text to cover this formative period from an international perspective, this volume casts new light on the aftermath of the Renaissance and the beginnings of "Baroque."

This book explores various facets of the transition to renewable energy in the Arctic region. With a focus on specific case studies that represent the most relevant energy projects in the region, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy policy and transitions, climate change, and sustainable development.

This book takes a close look into the way Indian managers work, their inner struggles, and forces that shape their behaviour. It presents an original framework developed by the author - the Existential Universe Mapper (EUM), a pluralistic and non-reductionist model of management.

This edited book is aimed at researchers, graduate students, educators and engineers with interest in mathematics in general, and in mathematical analysis in particular. The book aims to present theory, methods, and applications of the selected topics that have recent research importance and use.

Elastic garments have tremendous scope in the field of tight-fit sportswear and healthcare application. Research towards improvement in the elasticity of fibre, yarn and fabrics and development in testing methods for elastic garments is the current requirement for the industrial product development. This proposed book is about the elastane fibre, elastane yarn and fabric production methods, new attempts in yarn production, commercial ways of fabric manufacturing techniques and the fabric properties, new testing methods to test the elastic products and their application of elastic garments in sports and healthcare.

This third edition contains the most current coverage of the question of chemical warfare agent use in battle or in terrorism. Chemical Warfare Agents: Biomedical and Psychological Effects, Medical Countermeasures, and Emergency Response describes the medical interventions, technologies deployed in the field, international response to chemical use.

This book covers fundamental processes to commercialized products of sugar palm. It covers mechanical, physical, thermal, chemical, environmental, morphological and optimal design of the sugar palm's fibres, polymers and biocomposites. It also discusses methods of fibre and composite treatments and enhancements.

This book describes the next evolution of mobile wireless communications, Fifth Generation, explained both from network and device perspective. Chapters and sections are dedicated to illustrate the key stages involved in the development of new generation.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the subject of polaron and a thorough account of the sophisticated theories of the polaron. It explains the concept of the polaron physics in as simple a manner as possible and presents the theoretical techniques and mathematical derivations in great detail.

This book provides a social history of the relationship between religion and America's international health policy and practice from the latter 19th century to the present, uncovering the synergies and tensions between the two fields. This ambitious study will be of interest to researchers in global health, politics, religion and development.

This third edition is the product of the combined efforts of many professionals - obstetricians, pediatric cardiologists, sonographers, molecular biologists, and medical physicists - and is a comprehensive and state of the art guide intended for anyone interested in scanning the fetal heart.

Arguing that writing teachers need to enable students to recognize, negotiate with, deconstruct, and transcend national, racial, ethnic, and linguistic boundaries, this volume proposes a "transnational" framework as an alternative approach to literacy education and as a vital component to cultivating students as global citizens.

Arguing that writing teachers need to enable students to recognize, negotiate with, deconstruct, and transcend national, racial, ethnic, and linguistic boundaries, this volume proposes a "transnational" framework as an alternative approach to literacy education and as a vital component to cultivating students as global citizens.

Many of the current debates about economic development leading to industrialization fail to directly engage with labor. This collection of essays strives to correct this oversight and to reintroduce labor into the great debates about capitalist development and economic growth before the Industrial Revolution.

Computer technology has transformed modern society, yet curators wishing to reflect those changes face difficult challenges in terms of both collecting and exhibiting. This book examines how curators at the Smithsonian Institution have met these challenges. It makes useful reading for curators, scholars, and students.