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Book SynopsisBirds with Personalityis a fun gift book that takes you around the world through the eyes of some of the most charismatic bird species on the planet. Across Earth's diverse ecosystems from the deserts of Mexico to the rainforest-blanketed mountains of Papua New Guinea birds have found remarkable ways to survive against vast odds. Featuring author Georgia Angus'' stunning, lifelike illustrations, this book will introduce you to 50 such species, with information on each bird''ssize, diet, migration patterns, behaviors and conservation concerns, plus distribution maps. The featured birds vary from the tiny zunzuncito hummingbird, who weighs only two grams, to the enormous wandering albatross, who can circumnavigate the Southern Ocean three times in a single year. From dancing birds of paradise, to fish-beguiling herons, fiery Adelie penguins and fruit-loving Dracula parrots, this book will whisk you away to visit distant lands where you can observe the most iconic birds in the world, and appreciate them for their beauty and brilliance.

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Book SynopsisA beautiful book to record your family history, with space for family and individual records, ancestry charts, family traditions and achievements

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Book SynopsisResearch and development infrastructures are a critical success factor in the platform of science and technology. In turn, an R&D preliminary feasibility study is essential to establish fairness and social credibility of a plan, including expert review, information disclosure and alternative setting. Preliminary Feasibility for Public Research & Development Projects explains how to evaluate R&D business by exploring the five key features of policy implication, policy improvement, preliminary feasibility study, R&D evaluation, and R&D strategy. Presenting policy measures to ensure the sustainability of R&D projects, Preliminary Feasibility for Public Research & Development Projects will help develop strategic measures for R&D preliminary feasibility studies while proposing ways to enhance the effectiveness of these studies, promote efficiency in public investment projects, and enhance the financial efficiency of large investment projects.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction - R&D and R&D budget Chapter 2. Government R&D project Chapter 3. Technology innovation and government Chapter 4. Public decision making and policy analysis Chapter 5. Public investment analysis and theoretical debate Chapter 6. Social discount rate Chapter 7. Global sensation Chapter 8. Preliminary feasibility study trend Chapter 9. Discussing role of policy analysis in preliminary feasibility study Chapter 10. Economic feasibility analysis model Chapter 11. Policy feasibility analysis model Chapter 12. Technical feasibility analysis model Chapter 13. Comprehensive feasibility analysis model Chapter 14. Impact analysis model on public sector R&D investment Chapter 15. National large-scale research facilities and equipment Chapter 16. Policy discussion Chapter 17. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisFrom the familiar to the improbable, the gross to the endearing, The Modern Bestiary is a compendium of curious creatures. It includes both animals that have made headlines and those you''ve probably never heard of, such as skin-eating caecilians, harp sponges, or zombie worms - also known as bone-eating snot flowers. Arranged by elements (Earth, Water, Air), The Modern Bestiary contains well-known species told from new, unexpected angles (rats that drive cars; fish that communicate by passing wind), as well as stranger and lesser-known creatures, including carnivorous mice that howl at the moon, cross-dressing cuttlefish, and antechinuses - small marsupials that literally mate themselves to death. Finally, there are the ''aliens on Earth'' - the incredible, the surreal, the magical - such as tardigrades, tongue-eating lice and immortal jellyfish, creatures so astonishing that they make unicorns look rather commonplace.Written by a zoologist with a flair foTrade ReviewEveryone who loves wildlife - especially fantastically weird and cringingly gross wildlife - should read this masterful book. * Mark Carwardine, author/presenter of Last Chance to See *Even after half a century - and counting - as a professional zoologist, I encountered new and intriguing facts on every page, all conveyed in an easy, friendly style. If ever there was a book that highlighted the bewildering wonders of the natural world, and the need for their conservation, this is it. * Michael Brooke, author of Far from Land *If you love animals, especially ones with unsavoury habits, this book is for you. Entries are crafted with affection, cast-iron scholarship and an unyielding dedication to exposing as much hilarious weirdness as the animal kingdom can offer. And that, it appears, is rather a lot. This is a book to adore. * Tom Moorhouse, author of Elegy for a River *This modern bestiary is a magnificent miscellany that will amuse and amaze. From butterflies that make crocodiles cry and penis-fencing slugs to fish that live inside sea cucumbers' bottoms - the natural world is stranger than you could ever imagine. * George McGavin, entomologist, author and TV presenter *The Modern Bestiary provides a fascinating, accessible and humorous insight into the wonders of the natural world. Packed with incredible facts and jaw-dropping insights into wildlife ecology, anatomy and behaviour, it is a genuine delight. * Amy Dickman, director of Oxford University’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit *Just when you thought the natural world couldn't get any more bizarre, you turn the page and learn about a small marsupial that mates itself to death. There's plenty inside this beautifully written book to make you laugh, squirm and - perhaps most importantly - appreciate how lucky we are to not have to live inside an anus. * Yussef Rafik, zoologist and wildlife TV presenter *An illuminating compendium of some weird and wonderful creatures. * Observer *'Addictive ... The Modern Bestiary offers excitement on a grand scale' * Times Literary Supplement *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a well-organized, easy-to-read guide full of images and graphics for scientists in any discipline at any level of their careers. Whether you are a student who needs to present your research to your lab for the first time or a seasoned professor who has made several PowerPoint lectures, this guide provides useful examples for people to brainstorm and rethink how they want to communicate their ideas in a clear way. I have definitely been guilty of creating some of the "bad examples" (sometimes unknowingly), but the book gives many "good examples" that I hope to follow for future science presentations. Following this guide will definitely help people in the science and healthcare fields communicate their ideas to their target audiences more effectively." --© Doody’s Review Service, 2020, Lisa Lian, DMD, reviewer, expert opinionTable of ContentsPart 1: Designing Exceptional Science Presentations1. Scientists as Designers2. Design Goals for Different Presentation Formats3. Twenty-One Strategies Shared by Exceptional Presenters Part 2: Visual Elements in Science Presentations4. Color5. Typography6. Words7. Tables8. Charts9. Diagrams10. Photographs Part 3: Written Presentations11. Ten Techniques for Improving Scientific Writing12. Research Articles13. Review Articles14. Research Proposals Part 4: Slide Presentations15. The Use of Slides in Oral Presentations16. The Structure of a Slide Presentation17. Visual Elements in Slide Presentations18. Slide Layout19. Slide Animations and Transitions20. Delivering a Slide Presentation21. Using Technology to Present like a Professional22. Considerations for Different Categories of Slide Presentations Part 5: Oral Presentations Without Slides23. Presenting Without Slides24. Considerations for Different Categories of Oral Presentations without Slides Part 6: Poster Presentations25. The Structure of a Scientific Poster26. The Design and Layout of a Poster27. Presenting at a Poster Session AppendicesA. Recommendations for Further ReadingB. Learning to Use Illustration and Presentation SoftwareC. Thoughts on How to Design a Presentation from ScratchD. Thoughts on Using Design Principles to Market Yourself

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Book SynopsisResearch impact is increasingly expected within academia, but does the pressure to ‘do impact’ risk an unhealthy focus on what can be counted rather than what counts? Creating Meaningful Impact: The Essential Guide to Developing an Impact-Literate Mindset looks at impact from inside the research sector, celebrating the opportunity to make a difference whilst recognising the challenges this brings. Taking you from basic concepts through to principles of practice, impact expert Julie Bayley demystifies impact and guides you on the path to understanding the why, what, who and how of research-led change. What do unicorns tell us about what matters? Or strip clubs tell us about failure? And what can Murder She Wrote teach us about assembling evidence? Whether you’re a researcher, research lead or research manager, Creating Meaningful Impact will help you realign your impact sat-nav and develop an authentic, critical and healthy approach within the wider pressures of academia.Trade ReviewJulie Bayley’s book, Creating Meaningful Impact, is an enlightening romp through the excitement, the pressures, the demands of doing impact well, both in terms of institutional success and in terms of a researcher’s personal and professional development. As book blurbs often suggest, the book is a rollercoaster, but one very much aimed at the fainthearted, who stand to learn a lot from Julie’s immense expertise, warmth, wit and superlative use of imagery. So, if you are tickled by the idea of becoming a more mindfully impactful researcher, swipe right on ‘Impact Tinder’ and read this book! -- Professor Ele Belfiore, Professor in Cultural Policy & Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Inclusion and Cultural Diversity, University of Aberdeen, UKJulie Bayley never fails to achieve impact on impact. If you are already on your journey to impact literacy this book will help you grow roots into impact healthy practices. And if you are just starting out, this book will help you sow the seeds that will grow into those roots to sustain your career of research with an impact on society. 'Creating meaningful impact' isn’t just the title, it is the goal that Julie achieves in this important book. -- Dr David Phipps, Assistant VP Research Strategy & Impact, York University, Canada, and Director of Research Impact CanadaThere are many books available to advise researchers how to ‘do’ impact but none as accessible as this. The sheer joy and enthusiasm that Julie brings to the field shines through every word which, along with insights from other researchers and partners in the field, ensures that every reader will emerge from this book enlightened, and excited about the prospect of pursuing their own ‘societal impact’. -- Dr Gemma Derrick, Associate Professor, Research Policy & Culture, University of Bristol, UKAbsolutely brilliant. Cuts through the impact BS incisively but with wit, focusing on the (social) purpose throughout. Should be a must read for all PhD students and frankly all academics. -- Jonathan Grant, Founding Director of Different Angles Ltd, a consultancy that focuses on the social impact of universities and researchI adored this book and will give it to every young academic on my Christmas present list [...] As the author intended, I found my 'impact mojo' in this book. -- Christopher Walker, Communications Strategist, Thought Leadership Columnist & WriterTable of ContentsChapter 1. What is research impact? Chapter 2. Impact literacy Chapter 3. Impact, values and power Principle 1. Chase meaning not unicorns Principle 2. Work out what your research powers up Principle 3. Think directionally not linearly Principle 4. Evidence? Think ‘What would Jessica Fletcher do?’ Principle 5. Create a healthy space Principle 6. Own your expertise but don’t be a jerk Principle 7. Be an impact lighthouse Principle 8. Be you Final words

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Book SynopsisScience has the potential to do much good. But it can also be misused and cause harm. How can researchers become aware of the risks and share their insights responsibly? This volume gathers a premier group of scholars and practitioners to address cutting-edge dilemmas of responsible policy engagement. The authors reflect on their own experiences and provide guidance on how to constructively communicate with policymakers - while also being transparent about the uncertainty and subtleties of the research process.The case studies cover tricky policy engagements on topics ranging from post-conflict power-sharing, atrocities prevention, NATO enlargement, economic crises, business and human rights, counterinsurgency and state-building, census data and polling, and intelligence analysis. To avoid pitfalls, the analyses offer a mix of ethical principles and practical advice, including setting cautionary ethical redlines, reflecting on one''s position and values, and describing areas of consens

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Book SynopsisEPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Written by a leading expert in the field, this practical and accessible book is an essential guide to knowledge exchange, impact and research dissemination in health and social care.Table of ContentsIntroducing this book WHY researchers should spend time on this WHAT counts as evidence WHO you want to reach – practitioners WHO you want to reach – patients, public, service users WHO you want to reach – policymakers and managers WHEN you could have most impact HOW to reach people – use of stories and the media HOW to reach people – finding the right language and style Last thoughts

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Book SynopsisAvoiding both over-simplification and jargon-riddled complexity, this book is an invaluable, straightforward guide to participatory research for you and your fellow practitioners working with community groups and organisations.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Just what is participatory research? 2. How do we begin to plan our participatory research project? 3. What do we want to explore and why? 4. What ideas are the foundations of our research? 5. How will we go about exploring our questions? 6. Who can get involved to explore our questions? 7. How shall we collect our data? 8. What do we do with our data? 9. How do we get our messages out there? 10. How do we keep everyone safe? 11. Doing and reviewing participatory research Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis clear and concise guide provides the introduction to descriptive statistical analysis that all students need to draw insightful conclusions from their data. Assuming no prior expertise, it presents jargon-free and practical advice for analysing and presenting numbers.Trade Review"This book provides a great introduction for students who want to undertake quantitative or mixed-methods research for their dissertation. Many are not well versed in mathematics and statistics, and this book provides a gentle introduction. Chapters 9 and 10 are especially helpful, as they cover how to present numerical information and analysis, which some other textbooks do not do as well." Carrie Philips, University of SunderlandTable of ContentsIntroduction: Why this book actually is different 1. Everybody’s talking about it: important terms explained in everyday language 2. What are numbers really about? 3. Absolute beginnings: starting statistical analysis one variable at a time 4. What you see is only half the story: why you need more than averages to describe distributions 5. How the tables turn: examining relationships between categorical variables 6. What does it all mean? Comparing distributions between groups 7. You’re so predictable: using correlations 8. Where do we draw the line? How regression analysis can tell you more than correlation 9. A graph is like a joke: if you have to explain it, it isn’t any good 10. Telling statistical stories: how to present your findings and conclusions

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Book SynopsisThe history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information The ubiquity of the filing cabinet in the twentieth-century office space, along with its noticeable absence of style, has obscured its transformative role in the histories of both information technology and work. In the first in-depth history of this neglected artifact, Craig Robertson explores how the filing cabinet profoundly shaped the way that information and data have been sorted, stored, retrieved, and used.Invented in the 1890s, the filing cabinet was a result of the nineteenth-century faith in efficiency. Previously, paper records were arranged haphazardly: bound into books, stacked in piles, curled into slots, or impaled on spindles. The filing cabinet organized loose papers in tabbed folders that could be sorted alphanumerically, radically changing how people accessed, circulated, and structured information.Robertson’s unconventional history of the origins of the information age posits the filing cabinet as an information storage container, an “automatic memory” machine that contributed to a new type of information labor privileging manual dexterity over mental deliberation. Gendered assumptions about women’s nimble fingers helped to naturalize the changes that brought women into the workforce as low-level clerical workers. The filing cabinet emerges from this unexpected account as a sophisticated piece of information technology and a site of gendered labor that with its folders, files, and tabs continues to shape how we interact with information and data in today’s digital world.Trade Review"How we store information reflects the aspirations we have about what to remember. Taking this idea to heart, Craig Robertson's essential history of the filing cabinet is the definitive account of verticality and efficiency as guiding principles for corporate capitalism."—Melissa Gregg, senior principal engineer, Client Computing Group, Intel"Craig Robertson’s book offers a fascinating account of how the humble file cabinet and the associated practice of filing shaped the emergence of modern conceptions of information. These influences continue to reverberate—from the organization of our computer desktops to our assumptions about ‘information’ as a discrete entity that can be stored, manipulated, and retrieved. A significant contribution to media studies and information studies."—Jennifer S. Light, Massachusetts Institute of Technology*"In this fascinating history, Craig Robertson shows how a seemingly mundane thing was central to the rise of modern bureaucracies, information society, and the gendered relations of office labor. Wonderfully researched and full of surprises, The Filing Cabinet explores an object and a system that orchestrated new ways of knowing, remembering, and experiencing the world."—Lynn Spigel, Northwestern University "[The filing cabinet] worked to blur the past into the present with active storage; and the future into the present by encouraging forethought. The Filing Cabinet would be particularly helpful for researchers who want to write about media materialism without getting lost in the minutiae of model numbers."—LSE Review of Books "[Robertson’s] prowess for raiding an archive is formidable, and he has a talent for cherry-picking unusual details."—Washington Examiner "Captivating . . . the filing cabinet, despite its deep roots in our contemporary information architecture, is just one step in our epistemological journey, not its end."—The Atlantic "Timely, incisive, and impressively imaginative."—The New Rambler "If you’re a reader who relishes the unconventional, if you’ve pondered arcane subjects at odd times, or if you want a conversation-breaker at the water cooler, find The Filing Cabinet. Yep, this is the book you need now."—Idaho Press "Robertson persuasively sets out the ways in which domestic furniture and organising practices were reshaped to mirror those found in offices."—Literary Review "A useful and thought-provoking text for those of us dependent on the filing cabinet and the subsequent technologies they inspire, this book deserves a wider readership in both the art historical and cultural studies fields."—College & Research Libraries "Robertson eloquently describes the historical account of the filing cabinet."—International Journal of Communication "Robertson deconstructs and situates the filing cabinet in its historical contexts of use, with the support of a rich apparatus of beautiful images."—H-Net Reviews Table of ContentsContentsPreface: Discovering the Power of the Filing CabinetIntroduction: Making Paper Work EfficientlyPart 1. The Cabinet1. Verticality: A Skyscraper for the Office2. Integrity: A Steel Container for Paper3. Cabinet Logic: A Structure for Efficiency and Information Part II. Filing4. Granular Certainty: Bringing System to the Office5. Automatic Filing: Delegating Memory to a Machine6. The Ideal File Clerk: Controlling Work in the Office7. Planned Storage: Domesticating Cabinet LogicAfterword: File Cabinets, Out of Time and Out of PlaceAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Over past decades, scholars and practitioners around the world observed an emergence of professionals, research managers and administrators (RMAs) who play an essential role in the advancement of academic research. RMAs have extensive knowledge of the research ecosystem, including funding opportunities, proposals, budgeting and pricing, ethics, open research, project management, finance, negotiation, strategy, systems, and assessment. Until now, limited efforts have been made to investigate RMAs in a cross-regional, comparative manner, or to understand the recent surge of the profession in a larger policy context. Addressing this gap, an international group of experts share diverse perspectives to provide a comprehensive account of RMA as a profession, offer an analytical framework to understand their role in higher education and academic science. Covering countries in Africa, Australasia, East Asia and India, Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, North America, and South America, the work provides trans-cultural coverage of the profession. Drawing on theories from related fields, it also provides insights and understanding of RMAs as a social phenomenon. The Emerald Handbook of Research Management and Administration Around the World is the most comprehensive book about practitioners working in research management and administration. The book provides basic knowledge for students and professionals considering a career in this field, and serves as reference material for policymakers as well as academic researchers. By presenting evidence-based observations from around the world and discussing global trends, this text promotes social awareness of RMAs, shares state-of-the-art knowledge on the profession, and offers insights into the future of academic research.Table of ContentsPreface; Celia Whitchurch and Nik Claesen Introduction and Structure of the Book; Simon Kerridge, Susi Poli, and Mariko Yang-Yoshihara PART 1: History and Theory Section 1: History Chapter 1: Introduction to Part 1; Mariko Yang-Yoshihara, and Susi Poli Chapter 1.1. The Contribution of International Donors to African Research Management; John Kirkland Chapter 1.2. History of Research Administration/Management in North America; Kris Monahan, Toni Shaklee, and Deborah Zornes Chapter 1.3. Research Managers and Administrators in Asia: History and Future Expectations; Makiko Takahashi Chapter 1.4. History of Research Management in Australia and New Zealand; Mark B M Hochman, Tania Tambiah, and Campbell J Thomson Chapter 1.5. History of RMA Central and Eastern European Countries; Virág Zsár Chapter 1.6. The development of research and innovation in Europe: a short history; Anna Groeninx van Zoelen Chapter 1.7. The Establishment and History of the International Network of Research Management Societies; Elliott Kulakowski Section 2: Context Chapter 2.1. A novel definition of professional staff; Stefan de Jong Chapter 2.2. The Research Administration as a Profession (RAAAP) Survey; Cristina Oliveira, Melinda Fischer, Simon Kerridge, and Madhuri Dutta Chapter 2.3. Routes into Research Management and Administration; Madhuri Dutta, Cristina Oliveira, Melinda Fischer, and Simon Kerridge Chapter 2.4. Research management as labyrinthine - How and why people become and remain research managers and administrators around the world; Susi Poli, Simon Kerridge, Patrice Ajai-Ajagbe, and Deborah Zornes Chapter 2.5. Where do RMAs Work?; José M. R. C. A. Santos, Carolina Varela, Simon Kerridge, and Melinda Fischer Chapter 2.6. The establishment of a Research Project Management Office at a Medical School in University of São Paulo, FMRP-USP, Brazil; Michele Aparecida Dela Ricci Junqueira and Regina Célia da Rocha Bezerra Chapter 2.7. RMA Education, Training and Professional Development in North America and Europe; Jeff Ritchie, Emma Lythgoe, and John Donovan Chapter 2.8. Pathways towards the creation of RMA associations ; Jan Andersen and Valentina Romano Section 3: Identity Chapter 3.1. From conceptualisation to action - The quest for understanding attitudes of research managers and administrators in the wider world; Susi Poli, Cristina Oliveira, and Virág Zsár Chapter 3.2. Exploring forms of knowledge and professionalism in RMA in a global context; Susi Poli, Fernanda Oliveira, and Alice Trentini Chapter 3.3. Understanding organisational structures in RMA – An overview of structures and cases in a global context; Fernanda Oliveira, Alice Trentini, and Susi Poli Chapter 3.4. Research-related Information Management: reflections from Southern African practitioners; Maryke Hunter-Hüsselmann, Dalene Pieterse, and Changu Batisani Chapter 3.5. Empirical and Empathetic Approaches: Science, Technology and Innovation Coordinators and Area Studies in Southeast Asia; Taro Sonobe and Chisato Saito Chapter 3.6. The influence of RMA associations on identity and policymaking internationally; Virág Zsár Chapter 3.7. Evolution of Professional Identity in Research Management and Administration; Mariko Yang-Yoshihara, Susi Poli, and Simon Kerridge Section 4: Professionalism Chapter 4.1. Professionalisation of Research Management in Southern Africa–a case study; Karin Dyason and Pamisha Pillay Chapter 4.2. Professionalisation of research support in Hungary through the lens of the non-research specific requirements of Horizon Europe; Virág Zsár and Zsuzsanna Mária Balázs Chapter 4.3. Professional staff in support services in education and research – How to connect research with practice; Susi Poli and Daniela Taccone Chapter 4.4. Professional Associations and Professional Development Frameworks; Valentina Romano, Adele Del Bello, and Annalisa Albanesi Chapter 4.5. RASPerS: Prevalence of occupational stress and associated factors in RMA professionals; Jennifer Shambrook Chapter 4.6. A profession in the making: insights from Western Balkan countries; Siniša Marčić and Anđela Pepić Chapter 4.7. Meaningful relationships between long-term career, perspective, and skill for RMAs - Statistical analysis of international data for a new profession; Shin Ito and Makiko Takahashi Chapter 4.8. Diversity and internationalisation: A new core competence for research managers?; Jakob Feldtfos Christensen and Lachlan Smith PART 2 Section 5: Country Specific Chapters Chapter 5.01: Introduction to the RMA by Country Chapters; Simon Kerridge Africa Chapter 5.02. Research Management and Administration in Kenya in a challenging research environment; Patrizia Rampioni and Carol Wangui Hunja Chapter 5.03. The Profession of Research Management and Administration in Nigeria; Abiodun Akindele and Makinde Opeyemi Chapter 5.04. The Profession of Research Management and Administration in South Africa; Les Labuschagne North America Chapter 5.05. The Profession of Research Management and Administration in Canada; Deborah Zornes Chapter 5.06. The Profession of Research Management and Administration in the Caribbean Community; Paul W. Ivey Chapter 5.07. Research Administration in the United States; Toni Shaklee South America Chapter 5.08. Research Management and Administration in Brazil; Juliana Juk and Renata Ben Baisch Chapter 5.09. Maturity in the professionalisation of the research managers and administrators in Colombia; Salim Chalela Naffah and Andrea Navas Calixo Asia Chapter 5.10. Development of RMA in China; Xu Fang and Wenjie Lu Chapter 5.11. The Profession of Research Management and Administration in India; Savita Ayyar Chapter 5.12. The Profession of Research Management and Administration in Japan; Makiko Takahashi and Shin Ito Chapter 5.13. Development of Research Management in Malaysia; Shaliza Ibrahim and Tan Hsiao Wei Chapter 5.14. Research Management and Administration in Pakistan’s Context; Mir Asghar Ali Khan Chapter 5.15. Research Management and Administration (RMA) in Singapore: Development of RMA Capability in Nanyang Technological University (NTU); Alana M. Soehartono and Khiam Aik Khor Chapter 5.16. Research Management and Administration in VietNam; Dao Thanh Truong and Nguyen Thi Quynh Anh Australasia Chapter 5.17. The Emergence of the Research Management Profession in Australia; Campbell J Thomson, Tania Tambiah and Mark B M Hochman Chapter 5.18. The Profession of Research Management and Administration in Aotearoa New Zealand; Heather Thomas Central and Eastern Europe Chapter 5.19. The Profession of Research Management and Administration in the Baltic countries: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania; Aurelija Povilaike Chapter 5.20. RMA in Belarus: Not Yet a Full-fledged Profession but an Important Part of R&D Activities; Olga Meerovskaya Chapter 5.21. Research Management and Administration in Cyprus; Andri Charalambous and Pierantonios Papazoglou Chapter 5.22. The profession of RMA in the Czechia; Jaroslav Sip Chapter 5.23. RMA - Case study from Poland; Zygmunt Krasinsky and Cyprian Tomasik Chapter 5.24. The Profession of Research Management and Administration in Romania; Toró Tibor, Szenkovics Dezső and Varga Szilvia Chapter 5.25. Evolution of RMA in Slovenia; Primož Petek, Tjaša Baloh and Vanda Baloh Chapter 5.26. Research Management and Administration in the Western Balkans; Siniša Marčić and Anđela Pepić Western Europe Chapter 5.27. Areas of Research Management and Administration in Austria; Bruno Woeran, Elisabeth Denk, and Michael Parik Chapter 5.28. The Profession of Research Management and Administration in Denmark; John Westensee, Annedorte Vad, Olaf Svenningsen, and Jan Andersen Chapter 5.29. The Profession of Research Management and Administration in Finland; Jaana Backman, Soile Haverinen, and Ella Bingham Chapter 5.30. The Profession of Research Management and Administration in France; Eleonora Zuolo, Géraldine Sauty, and Sandra Mereu Chapter 5.31. The Profession of Research Management and Administration in Germany; Paul Winkler, Jens-Peter Krüger, and Katrin Steinack Chapter 5.32. The Profession of Research Management and Administration in Iceland; Gréta Björk Kristjánsdóttir, Úlfar Kristinn Gíslason, and Ásta Sif Erlingsdóttir Chapter 5.33. The Profession of Research Management and Administration in Ireland; John Donovan, Susie Cullinane, Doris Alexander, Peter Scott, and Jean van Sinderen Law Chapter 5.34. The Profession of Research Management and Administration in Italy; Valentina Romano, Annalisa Albanesi, Danilo Aceto Zumbo, Mirella Collini, Adele Del Bello, Daniela Grisi, and Francesca Mura Chapter 5.35. The Profession of Research Management and Administration in the Netherlands; Anna Groeninx van Zoelen and Edwin Kanters Chapter 5.36. The Profession of Research Management and Administration in Norway; Nichole Elgueta Silva and Hege Nedberg Chapter 5.37. The Profession of Research Management and Administration in Portugal; Cláudia Barbosa, Filipa Borrego, Teresa Costa, Ana Ferreira, Madalena Martins, Susana Moreira, José M. R. C. A. Santos, and José Avelino Silva Chapter 5.38. The Development of the RMA Profession in Catalonia (Spain); Cristina Borras and Aïda Díaz Chapter 5.39. The Profession of Research Management and Administration in Sweden; Eva-Lisa Ahnström, Evelina Brännvall, Ylva Hultman and Anders Jonsson Chapter 5.40. The Profession of Research Management and Administration in the UK; Simon Kerridge Middle East Chapter 5.41. Research Management and Administration in Qatar; Fikria El Kaouakibi Chapter 5.42. Research Management and Administration in Saudi Arabia: Transitioning from an oil to a knowledge-based economy; Silke Blohm Chapter 5.43. Research Management and Administration: An Emerging Profession in the UAE; Cira Mathis Summary Chapter 5.44. Reflections on Research Management and Administration in Various Countries around the World; Simon Kerridge, Jan Andersen, Melinda Fischer, Mark B M Hochman, Fernanda Oliveira, Makiko Takahashi, Therina Theron, and Virág Zsár Section 6: Reflections Chapter 6. Emerging Trends and Insights in Research Management and Administration; Mariko Yang-Yoshihara, Simon Kerridge, and Susi Poli

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Book SynopsisThis book calls for a re-imagining of global picture book history: with the former Soviet Union at the centre of this narrative web. The result of an unusual collaboration between India and Lithuania, the book looks at two different global impacts of the Soviet picture book enterprise. At a particular period in Indian history, cheaply available Soviet picture books, in English and vernacular translations, changed the way Indian children read. This was part of the Soviet Union's efforts to spread 'socialist' culture across the world. Meanwhile, a different and more problematic kind of cultural 'globalization' was underway in the regions governed by the Soviet State, and Lithuania is a rich case in point.A sumptuous and unusual archive of art has been mined to go with this history: from socialist realist art to classic examples of the Lithuanian primitive-modern, many of the images in the book are featured in an English language publication for the first time.

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Book SynopsisFrom the author of APPLE TREE YARD, now a major BBC drama starring Emily Watson Can you write a novel in a year? If you simply sit back and think about the enormity of writing a book, it will seem like a vast and unconquerable task, impossibly daunting. The way to make it less daunting is to break it down into its constituent parts, to do it bit by bit. Over the chapters herein, different aspects of technique are divided up into bite size chunks, the better to aid digestion. The book will look at different aspects of writing, with set exercises to help the reader along in their confidence and technique. It is designed to be read a chapter aweek, with the aim of the fledgling writer having a body of material at the year's end which should form a solid start to their novel. Deeply practical, with sound advice at every stage, A NOVEL IN A YEAR is essential reading for any would-be novelist.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Lively and pithy, suitable for students. . . . Engaging, insightful, and useful.” * American Biology Teacher *"Fortunately, a new book from two leading academics has arrived to help arm us against the flood of deliberate attempts to sow distrust and separate us from our own senses of what’s real and not.” * Chicago Tribune *“A much-anticipated book by two leading experts of the field, Verified goes beyond defining the problem and offers readers clear advice on how to navigate a world of spin, trolls, and lies. Wonderful to see this guide published!” -- Maria Ressa, winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for work to safeguard freedom of expression“Verified is the book and mindset that society needs right now. This is, of course, assuming that you want society to survive." -- Guy Kawasaki, Host of "Remarkable People and author of The Art of the Start“As the value of information literacy becomes increasingly clear, Verified offers timely, research-based solutions to the ever-present and elusive problem of misinformation run amok.” -- Daniel Willingham, Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia, author of Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning is Hard and How You Can Make it Easy"Verified is a sorely needed intervention into today’s chaotic, often deceitful, information environment of influencers, ChatGPT, deepfakes, viral videos, and distrust. Offering ways to combat the mindset of knee-jerk cynicism, it responds to a world in which political power, not truth seeking, has too often become the ultimate arbiter of truth. Verified will be a treasured resource for debunking internet disinformation to instructors, students, and for you (to hand to parents and skeptics)." -- André Brock, author of Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures“An indispensable guide for students and citizens of all ages and backgrounds.” -- Francis Fukuyama, Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University, and author of The End of History and the Last Man and Liberalism and its Discontents“This book should be required reading for students, journalists, content creators, and anyone else who regularly consumes and shares information (i.e. pretty much everyone). Rich with actionable guidance and real-world examples, Verified helps readers learn the skills to stay out of the weeds of online misinformation and find the best available evidence for any claim. I’m so grateful to Caulfield and Wineburg for creating this resource.” -- Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, author of The Wellness Trap“Verified offers an ethos that can help all of us understand and confidently use what we find online. This book belongs in every backpack, classroom, library, workplace, and home.” -- Phillip Jones, Grinnell College Libraries“Verified does more than preach against the dangers of misinformation and online mischief, it provides clear, focused strategies for navigating and researching online that should become part of every literate person’s repertoire of skills. Every educator whose students touch the web—which is to say all of us—needs this book.” -- Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, Executive Director, National Writing Project“Verified is a lifeline. With research-verified and surprisingly simple techniques, the authors show us, step-by-step, how to sift the real, useful, true information from the tsunami of online bogosity. Read it, give it to parents and their high school-age children, give it as high school graduation gifts, and please teach it at colleges and universities.” -- Howard Rheingold, internet futurist and author of "Net Smart: How to Thrive Online"“Anyone who wants to avoid being duped by all the fake news, distorted videos, and stealth ads that populate today's online universe needs this book. Verified offers a multitude of user-friendly tools for navigating our digital new world in which we cannot always trust the seemingly trustworthy sources we encounter.” -- Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, authors of "They Say, I Say" “The internet accelerated the spread of misinformation but has also given us veritable superpowers for vetting the information that we encounter. This is the genius of Caulfield and Wineburg’s approach. We don’t have to be passive dupes of online misinformation. We can use the wonders of an online world to become better information consumers than ever before.” -- Carl Bergstrom, coauthor, Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World “Caulfield and Wineburg have gone remarkably deep into how our children—and all the rest of us in America—think and learn. At the moment we are losing the battle against ignorance and misplaced assumptions, but this wonderfully written book could save us. Among many wise pieces of advice, they recommend we not only be critical thinkers, but savvy critical IGNORERS. That means learning how to detect crappy sources of information quickly and efficiently. We all need to read this.” -- Jay Mathews, education journalist“Under a deluge of disinformation and conspiracism, our modern world faces an epistemological crisis— an inability to parse reality from fiction, truth from lies. Verified offers readers the invaluable tools they need to navigate the flood; to regain clarity and attachment to the real world of facts, logic, and reason; and to restore the foundations of democratic discourse. It's essential reading for our chaotic times.” -- David Neiwert, author of The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy“With humor, clarity, and real-world examples, the authors illustrate both simple and nuanced strategies for making sense of an increasingly complex digital realm. Students, everyday citizens, and educators at all levels will find their varied examples relevant and applicable.” -- Andrea Baer and Daniel Kipnis, Librarians at Rowan University“As the value of information literacy becomes increasingly clear to society at large, Verified offers timely, research-based solutions to the ever-present and often elusive problem of misinformation run amok.” -- Rob Detmering and Amber Willenborg, University of Louisville“Verified will help librarians, students, and anyone else move beyond well-meaning but oversimplified checklists to be better at sifting the wheat from the chaff when looking for good information online.” -- Brad Sietz, Director LOEXTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Get Quick Context: It Can Take as Little as Thirty Seconds—Seriously! The Three Contexts “Do I Know What I’m Looking At?” Introducing SIFT Stop! (Or, How to Fail at Source-Checking Even If You’re the New York Times) Investigate the Source Find Better Coverage Trace Claims, Quotes, and Media to Their Original Context Takeaways 2 Cheap Signals: Or, How Not to Get Duped Easily Fakeable Questions Gameable Signals of Credibility First Impressions Matter . . . Except When They Don’t URLs Matter . . . Except When They Don’t What about Dot-Coms? Going Deeper: The “Org” of Dot-Org Is Big Business Nonprofit Status: “Nearly Anything Goes” Numbers That Bamboozle Links That Lead Astray Takeaways 3 Google: The Bestie You Thought You Knew Interpreting and Mining Search Results Why Seeing on the Internet Isn’t Believing Decoding Google’s Knowledge Panel Different Sources, Different Purposes Going Deeper: What Arsonist Birds Teach Us about Different Sources When Featured Snippets Get It Wrong Going Deeper: Google’s Three Vertical Dots Are a Great Hack for Lateral Reading Keywords and Inferred Intent: How to Think like Your Search Engine Keywords: The Underlying Architecture of Search Inferred Intent: Providing Google with a “Tell” Google Is a Mirror Reflecting Back What You Give It A Search Engine, Not a “Truth Engine” Takeaways 4 Lateral Reading: Using the Web to Read the Web Get off the Page! Lateral Reading: Checking Information like a Fact-Checker Why Lateral Reading Works Little Shift, Big Payoff Lateral Reading Puts You in Control Avoid Promiscuous Clicking: Practice Click Restraint The “Vibe” of the Search Engine Results Page Takeaways 5 Reading the Room: Benefiting from Expertise When You Have Only a Bit Yourself Why You Can’t “Just Do the Math” Reading the Room: Quick Assessment of a Range of Expert Views Going Deeper: Why We Call This “Reading the Room” Trust Compression, or How to Avoid Info-Cynicism Reading the Room on the Mask Issue The Perils of the Single Academic Contrarian Going Deeper: What Makes a Good Summary Source? Takeaways 6 Show Me the Evidence: Why Scholarly Sources Are Better than Promotional Materials, Newsletters, and Random Tweets What’s Peer Review? Peer Review: “The Worst Way to Judge Research, Except for All the Others” The Problem of the Single Study Literature Reviews: A Bird’s-Eye View of Multiple Studies Going Deeper: Journals That Prey on Unsuspecting Victims Real History, Fake History: How to Tell the Difference Using Google Scholar to Find Scholarly Sources The Vibe of Google Scholar’s Results Page Using Google Scholar as a Quick Reputation Check Takeaways 7 Wikipedia: Not What Your Middle School Teacher Told You What about the Mistakes? Going Deeper: Wikipedia to Britannica: “He That Is without Sin . . .” Anyone Can Change Wikipedia, Can’t They? Isn’t Wikipedia Biased? Wikipedia as a Tool for Research Using Wikipedia to Validate Sources Going Deeper: Quickly Validating a Reference from a Book Using Wikipedia for Quick Checks of Unfamiliar Websites Quick Investigation of a Claim Quick Checks of an Unfamiliar Academic Source Using Wikipedia to “Read the Scholarly Room” Using Wikipedia to Jump-Start Your Research Going Deeper: Deciphering the Hieroglyphics of a Bibliographical Reference The Messiness of Making Knowledge Takeaways 8 Video Games: The Dirty Tricks of Deceptive Video False Context Exploiting “Seeing Is Believing” Going Deeper: Online News Is Often More Credible Than You Think Falsely Implied Date Connect My Dots, or Creating a False Sense of “Research” Deceptively Cropped Video Takeaways 9 Stealth Advertising: When Ads Masquerade as News The Problem: Stealth Advertising Works A Con Is Born Newspapers Become Ad Agencies The Problem in Three Words: Conflict of Interest Disappearing Warning Labels Sponsored Propaganda Half Truths Are Not Whole Truths When Stealth Ads Move to Social Media Going Deeper: How Stealth Ads Lose Their Warning Labels Protecting Yourself in an Age of Slimy Advertising Takeaways 10 Once More with Feeling: Using Your Emotions to Find the Truth Emotion Doesn’t Know the Truth, But It Knows What You Care About Going Deeper: Man versus Machine “Compellingness” Tells Us What’s Important to Check Surprise Is a Sign Our Assumptions Might Be Wrong Why Compellingness and Surprise Beat the Checklist Going Deeper: Mutant Flowers Feeling Overwhelmed? Rethink Your Approach Takeaways 11 Conclusion: Critical Ignoring Postscript: Large Language Models, ChatGPT, and the Future of Verification Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a theoretically grounded introduction to new and emerging approaches to public engagement and research communication. -- .Trade Review‘This is an excellent book that can be read from cover to cover or used as a reference text.’Paul Webb, September 2016 in LSE review of books -- .Table of ContentsPart I: Introduction1. Creative research communication2. History3. ParticipantsPart II: Approach4. Face-to-Face5. Art6. Digital7. Social media8. Political9. Crowd-sourced researchPart III: Conclusion10. Impact11. Ethics12. DisseminationIndex

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Book SynopsisThis timely handbook brings academic excellence to international advertising research in the form of 28 contributions from over 40 leading scholars. The handbook s comprehensive treatment highlights existing knowledge, reports major findings across the subject, and recommends directions and agendas for future research.Trade Review“The Handbook of International Advertising Research, ably edited by Hong Cheng of Virginia Commonwealth University, is a welcome addition to Wiley Blackwell’s series, Handbooks in Communication and Media." (Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 1 February 2015)Table of ContentsList of Figures x List of Tables xi Notes on Editor and Contributors xiii Preface xxvi Part I Historical and Methodological Underpinnings 1 1 International Advertising Research: A Historical Review 3 Gordon E. Miracle 2 Research Methods for International Advertising Studies: A Practical Guide 32 Charles R. Taylor and John B. Ford Part II International Advertising Industry 49 3 The Economic Effects of Advertising: How Research Can Untangle Them 51 John Philip Jones 4 Research on Transnational Advertising Agencies: Management, Structure, and Entry Strategies 78 Kwangmi Ko Kim 5 Account Planning: International Perspectives 95 Padmini Patwardhan and Hemant Patwardhan 6 The State of Research on Media Planning, Buying, and Selling 111 Yunjae Cheong Part III International Advertising Audience and Media 125 7 International and Cross-Cultural Consumer Behavior 127 Marieke de Mooij 8 Magazines and International Advertising 149 Katherine Frith and Kavita Karan 9 New Media and International Advertising 161 Ran Wei 10 Viral Advertising: A Conceptualization 184 Petya Eckler and Shelly Rodgers Part IV International Advertising Creativity and Strategy 203 11 International Advertising Creativity 205 Sheila L. Sasser 12 Visual Rhetoric and International Advertising 238 Barbara J. Phillips and Edward F. McQuarrie 13 International Advertising Strategy 251 Stephen W. Marshall and Marilyn S. Roberts Part V International Advertising Content 271 14 Cultural Messages in International Advertisements 273 Yuan Zhang 15 Gender-Role Portrayals in International Advertising 299 Ping Shaw, Martin Eisend, and Yue Tan Part VI International Advertising Effects 313 16 Attention and Memory Effects of Advertising in an International Context 315 Mahdi Rajabi, Nathalie Dens, and Patrick De Pelsmacker 17 A Close Look at Research on Sex Appeal Advertising 338 Fang Liu 18 Celebrity Endorsement and International Advertising 353 Wei-Na Lee and Nam-Hyun Um 19 International Branding: Findings, Shifts, and Challenges 375 Fengru Li Part VII International Advertising Law, Regulation, and Ethics 393 20 International Advertising Law and Regulation: A Research Review and Agenda – the Devil Is in the Details 395 Ross D. Petty 21 International Research on Advertising and Children 414 Kara Chan 22 Social Responsibility in International Advertising 434 Xiaoli Nan and Hye-Jin Paek Part VIII Beyond International Commercial Advertising 455 23 Integrated Marketing Communication Research: Its Limited Past and Huge Potential 457 Don E. Schultz, Ilchul Kim, and Kyoungsoo Kang 24 Sibling Rivalry: How Public Relations and Advertising Continue to Grow and Live Together 484 Barbara DeSanto and Curtis B. Matthews 25 Now Starring Brand X: Product Placement as a Local, Global, and Glocal Branding Communication Tool 510 Michelle R. Nelson and Alexandra M. Vilela 26 International Sponsorship Research 529 Ellen L. Bloxsome, Mark R. Brown, Nigel K. Ll. Pope, and Kevin E. Voges 27 Political Advertising in International Comparison 554 Christina Holtz-Bacha 28 International Advertising Education: Curriculum and Pedagogy 575 Frauke Hachtmann Name Index 593 Subject Index 612

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Book SynopsisA rich guide for understanding the evolvingresearchlandscapein psychology, including changes to coreresearch ethics concepts such as informed consent, privacy, and risk of harm. This handbook offers a thorough and authoritative discussion ofthe ethical issues in conducting research with human participants. Each chapter poses an important ethical question, considers the relevant factors for addressing the question, and presents guidance for investigators. Topics include: informed consent, deception, risk/benefit ratio, data security, authorship, conflicts of interest, fairness and equity when collaboratingwith researchers in resource-poor settings, and more. While psychological research with humans still takes place in the investigator’s laboratory and field, there is an increasing trend toward multiple investigators and interdisciplinary research projects owing to the compTrade ReviewThis scholarly yet accessible edited volume is essential reading for social/behavioral scientists at any career level, and is particularly valuable during our current time of social change, as technological advances, team science, and data-sharing promise to enhance research capabilities while policy and regulation begin to bend toward a more just society. A defining feature of the book—and what sets it apart from others in this space—is the recognition that, while the fundamental principles of ethical research are constant, the application of those principles to respectful, just, and beneficent science requires ongoing, honest, and vigilant interrogation by all of those involved in the process of knowledge generation. -- Thomas Eissenberg, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Co-Director, Center for the Study of Tobacco Products, Department of Psychology (Health Program), College of Humanities and Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University, RichmondA must-have resource for new and seasoned researchers alike, written by some of today’s preeminent thinkers in research ethics. -- Tracy S. Arwood, MS, Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, Clemson University, Clemson, SCThis excellent book assists researchers and institutional review board/ethics committee members in addressing challenging ethical, regulatory, and scientific issues impacting protection of human participants in research. I recommend it! -- Ada Sue Selwitz, MA, Executive Integrity/Compliance Advisor, Office of the Vice President for Research & Center for Clinical and Translational Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington

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Book SynopsisThis collection highlights the contributions of women writers, editors and critics to periodical culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This timely Research Agenda provides in-depth analysis of emerging threats posed to academic integrity, alongside practical, evidence-based recommendations for creating cultures of integrity, demonstrating their importance within the commercialised field of higher education. Analysing the latest research on contract cheating, and how to identify and respond to it, this book explores the potential role of cyber-security research as arguably the next academic integrity frontier. Internationally renowned scholars from a range of disciplines and countries examine challenges surrounding academic integrity, offering advice to all higher education stakeholders. Chapters discuss the role of quality assurance, moving through specific cultural contexts and academic disciplines to provide insights into how to identify serious academic integrity breaches. This Research Agenda also looks at how to foster cultures of integrity, calling for further research on plagiarism, cheating and all forms of academic misconduct. The opportunities for future research in the book will make this a useful read for scholars examining higher education policy and practice. It will also be helpful to higher education teachers and professionals, policy-makers, and staff working directly with students, as the sector deals with growing concerns about breaches of academic integrity. Contributors include: P. Ayala-Enríquez, T. Bretag, J. Clare, G. Curtis, P. Dawson, D. Dlabolová, R. Dressler, S. Eaton, C. Ellis, T. Foltynek, N. Franco-Pérez, T.B. Gallant, I. Glendinning, J. Guerrero-Dib, R. Harper, D. House, E. Morris, G. Pizarro-Puccio, F. Prentice, A. Rogerson, K. Rundle, K. Seaton, K. van Haeringen, A. WhiteTrade Review‘In the acknowledgments, Tracey Bretag thanks “the hundreds of researchers from all over the world who have made academic integrity the focus of their research and scholarship”. She herself has contributed enormously to this topic and deserves extra credit for making academic integrity a “central to every aspect of education”.’ -- E. Denisova-Schmidt, Academy of Management Learning & Education'This book should be essential reading for everyone with an interest in authentic learning. By conceiving of academic integrity research as more than just self-reports by students, this collection will provide a research agenda and food for thought for scholars in a vast range of disciplines. Administrators, regulators, scholars of pedagogy, teachers, and everyone with an interest in civil society can find important lessons in this volume.' --David Rettinger, University of Mary Washington, US'With the massification of higher education and the burgeoning role of the internet, academic integrity has become one of the key issues faced by higher education practitioners and managers. This book offers a welcome and international overview of developments - from contract cheating to multilingual essay mills to cybersecurity - and responses to them.' --Malcolm Tight, Lancaster University, United KingdomTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Emerging issues in academic integrity research Tracey Bretag 2. The role of quality assurance and regulatory organisations to promote academic integrity Irene Glendinning 3. From moral awareness to academic integrity in Latin America Pablo Ayala-Enríquez, Nathalia Franco-Pérez, Jean G. Guerrero-Dib 4. Academic Integrity in Eastern Europe: Beyond Corruption and Plagiarism Tomáš Foltýnek and Dita Dlabolová 5. Leveraging the teachable moment: What, if anything, can students learn from cheating? Tricia Bertram Gallant 6. Impediments to reporting contract cheating: Exploring the role of emotions Felicity Prentice 7. Interactive approaches to learning about academic integrity: The role of fun and games Amanda White 8. Why students choose not to cheat Kiata Rundle, Guy Curtis, Joseph Clare 9. A changing focus: Re-considering research on contract cheating Erica Morris 10. Contract cheating at colleges and other non-university higher education providers Tracey Bretag and Rowena Harper 11. Technology, policy and research: Establishing evidentiary standards for managing contract cheating cases Cath Ellis, Karen van Haeringen and David House 12. Multilingual essay mills: The need for research beyond English language commercial providers Sarah Eaton and Roswita Dressler 13. The use and misuse of online paraphrasing, editing and translation software Ann M. Rogerson 14. Academic integrity in mathematics education: Breaking the silence Katherine Seaton 15. Cyber-security: The next academic integrity frontier Phillip Dawson Index

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Book SynopsisA new and important contribution to the re-emergent field of comparative anthropology, this book argues that comparative ethnographic methods are essential for more contextually sophisticated accounts of a number of pressing human concerns today. The book includes expert accounts from an international team of scholars, showing how these methods can be used to illuminate important theoretical and practical projects. Illustrated with examples of successful inter-disciplinary projects, it highlights the challenges, benefits, and innovative strategies involved in working collaboratively across disciplines. Through its focus on practical methodological and logistical accounts, it will be of value to both seasoned researchers who seek practical models for conducting their own cutting-edge comparative research, and to teachers and students who are looking for first-person accounts of comparative ethnographic research.Trade Review'Comparison is almost as fundamental to the human mind as air and water is to the body. It is therefore puzzling and paradoxical that anthropology, which was founded as an explicitly comparative discipline, has often been ambivalent, reluctant and even hostile to comparative research. This extremely timely book reinstates comparison as a key element in anthropological theory and methodology, demonstrating a variety in comparative strategies which reflect the diversity of anthropology itself and, indeed, the human world. Highly recommended.' Thomas Hylland Eriksen, University of Oslo'This book engages with a welcome and timely project: restoring comparative perspectives to anthropology. By exploring the challenges, dimensions, and complexities of comparative methodologies, it illustrates how critical comparisons can inform theory and illuminate underlying political economic and institutional processes.' Nina Glick Schiller, Max Planck Institute for Social AnthropologyTable of ContentsIntroduction. Comparative ethnography: its promise, process, and successful implementations Edward D. Lowe and Michael Schnegg; Part I. Binary Comparisons: 1. Thinking with comparison in the anthropology/historical anthropology of migration Caroline B. Brettell; 2. Comparing tangerines: Dorothy Lee and the search for an authentic individualism Richard Handler; 3. A comparative ethnographic study of suicide epidemics in two Pacific Island societies Edward D. Lowe; Part II. Regional Comparisons: 4. The comparison of structures and the comparison of systems: Lévi-Strauss, Dumont, Luhmann Guido Sprenger; 5. Regional comparison in historical anthropology: three case examples from South Arabia Andre Gingrich; 6. Scaling ethnography up Michael Schnegg; Part III. Distant and Fluid Comparisons: 7. Best, worst, and good enough: lessons learned from multi-sited comparative ethnography Jennifer S. Hirsch, Holly Wardlow, Daniel Jordan Smith, Harriet Phinney, Shanti Parikh and Constance A. Nathanson; 8. Research across cultures and disciplines: methodological challenges in an interdisciplinary and comparative research project on emotion socialization Birgitt Röttger-Rössler; 9. Global sport industries, comparison, and economics of scales Niko Besnier and Daniel Guinness.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents and discusses new developments in the study of evolution equations. Topics discussed include global attractors for semi-linear parabolic equations with delays; exact controllability for the vibrating plate equation in a non smooth domain; weighted pseudo almost automorphic solutions for some partial functional differential equations in fading memory spaces; periodic solutions to the non-linear parabolic equation; and infinite-time admissibility of observation operators for volterra systems.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a continuation of the book Physics Researcher Biographical Sketches and Research Summaries which compiles biographical sketches of top professionals in the field of physics research, as well as research summaries from a number of different focuses in this important field.

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Book SynopsisResearch with children is an invaluable way to tell their story in their own words. Research documenting ideas about children from parent and teacher perspectives is valuable, but in itself, does not tell the story from the child''s point of view. Thus, the purpose of this book is to develop a book for those interested in conducting research with children, to document their voices and perceptions. Each chapter in this book is intended to provide a summary of ideas that will help the reader in thinking about research for children, from their perspective and telling their story. The author spent time during graduate school wondering why so much information about children was presented from the adult perspective. This observation has lead to a research track for this author, wherein she has tried to focus the "knowledge camera" if you will on children''s perspectives of their development and their world. This is the foundational idea for the development of this book.

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Book SynopsisText in Arabic. How do you begin a career to ensure that it is driven by passion and purpose? And if youre already down a certain career path and could start all over again, would you? In both cases, how do you distinguish yourself from other employees and rise to the top? How can you actively participate in shaping your career based on your personal goals, instead of blindly following the path set before you? As a management consultant who has worked in several senior managerial positions in numerous major companies within various industries, author Maryam Ibrahim Al Mansoori has collected various pearls of wisdom that can enlighten anyone looking to evaluate their own career choices. Her impressive CV more than qualifies her as an inspiring mentor to anyone at the onset or at a crossroads in their career. The 4ourth Floor is a must-read book that offers expert career counsel based on years of experience that can help you critically consider your own career and how the choices that you are making today are defining your future.

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Book SynopsisAn essential part of studying to become a physical scientist or engineer is learning how to solve problems. This book contains over 200 appropriate physics problems with hints and full solutions. The author demonstrates how to break down a problem into its essential components, and how to chart a course through them to a solution. With problem-solving skills being essential for any physical scientist or engineer, this book will be invaluable to potential and current undergraduates seeking a career in these fields. The book is divided into three parts: questions, hints and solutions. The questions section is subdivided into 15 chapters, each centred on a different area of physics, from elementary particles, through classical physics, to cosmology. The second section provides brief hints, whilst the third sets out full and explicit solutions to each problem. Most begin with thoughts that students might have after reading a problem, allowing the reader to understand which questions they sTrade Review'Useful to both students and teachers of physics at introductory levels, this book is a compendium of some 200 problems with some questions on physical concepts … Students preparing for entrance examinations or teachers looking for interesting questions will find this compendium useful and enjoyable.' N. Sadanand, Choice'I am personally convinced since some time that this is just the right way to train motivated students … I decided to prove the effectiveness of [this approach] … once a week I gave two or three problems from Riley's book to selected final years college students … Some problems were solved (not always closely following the solution presented in the book) with no hint supplied … Some of them (few) effectively required the hint supplied in the second part of the book … Finally, few problems were left unsolved. I gave the students the solution proposed in the third part of the book, without any explanation or presentation on my part … Good students interested in becoming scientific innovators and developers of the future (as well as good teachers looking to the future) wanted.' Salvatore Esposito, Contemporary PhysicsTable of ContentsPreface; How to use this book; 1. Dimensions; 2. Statics; 3. Dynamics; 4. Rotation; 5. Gravity; 6. SHM; 7. Waves; 8. Solids and liquids; 9. Electrical circuits; 10. Electrostatics; 11. Magnetic fields; 12. Electromagnetism; 13. Heat transfer; 14. Gases; 15. Particles and atoms; Hints; Solutions; Physical constants.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a diverse read offering chapters covering multiple subjects, but all linked into the same theme. It explores many of the things we have been misinformed about in mainstream media, education and religion. A chapter by chapter in depth look at various subjects that challenge what we think we know. It ultimately proposes an alternative way of thinking, and assessing what we have all been informed of through different platforms. The book explores the author and some of the key things that have affected his life, guiding him to this point now where he wants to share some of his experiences. This includes his love of spirituality and the guidance that has been provided to him throughout his life. It's an often-humorous story with honest snippets from youth through to adulthood. It explores all the good and bad aspects of the human experience and his acceptance that it is all part of the journey. The second chapter covers our recent technological boom. This explores the authors thoughts on how we have progressed so quickly over the last 100 years with a thought-provoking challenge as an explanation. A look at our history and all the many holes in what we have been informed about through education and religion, that frankly do not hold up now with science- throwing curve balls into our previous understanding of our past. The chapter covers such things as structural anomalies around the world, our true origins and the various differing species of humanity that have occupied this planet, and many more issues the author has found through his investigations. Through Government disclosure and personal accounts, the next chapter looks at the subject of ‘are we alone in this universe’? Starting way back in history and finishing right up to date it looks at the overwhelming evidence that would suggest we are not alone, from witness reports, abduction cases to crop circles. This chapter provides some compelling and fact-based evidence to support the authors ideas. Following on from the previous chapter the author looks at our planet and its place in the universe, covering the mind-boggling numbers that are attached to the incredible size of the known universe, and our tiny insignificant place within it. It further highlights the facts presented in the previous chapter that discusses are we truly alone in a universe that is difficult to comprehend with its true and enormous size. Moving away from historical information the author comes right up to date with a chapter about the modern world. He questions that have we really got it right? , and has life truly improved with all the stress and mental health issues being highlighted these days. An example being emails. Emails were meant to make life quicker and easier, yet in reality they have had a negative effect. Regardless of whether you work in an office or a building site, you have to factor into your daily life time to look at and respond to emails. It's something twenty-five years ago did not exist, but the world still worked, giving us something else to factor into what is not enough time in most people’s day. It was meant to improve and ease our existence, but does it?

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Book SynopsisThis book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. The massive expansion of the internet into every aspect of our lives creates a challenge for social researchers: can they simply transfer their traditional methods and techniques online or do they need to reinvent research methods for the new environment? As online research becomes increasingly prevalent it becomes more important for researchers to have an answer to these questions and an approach to conducting research online. This book is a straightforward, accessible introduction to social research online. It covers the key issues and concerns for social scientists: online surveys, focus groups, interviews, ethnographies and experiments, as well as discussing the implications of social media, and of online research ethics. It provides a detailed, up-to-date glossary and bibliography for those new to the area. Short, clear case studies throughout allow students to see examples of the research in practice. Wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, What is Online Research? shows social scientists of all levels - from undergraduates to established researchers - how to engage in the online environment in appropriate ways, and points the way forward for future research.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of tables (see below) NO List of figures Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. A brief history of online research methods Chapter 3. Dealing with ethical issues in online research Chapter 4. Online surveys chapter 5. Online interviews and focus groups Chapter 6. Online ethnographies Chapter 7. Online experiments Chapter 8. Where next for online methods? Glossary Bibliography Normal 0 false false false /* Style Definitions */

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