Statistics and probability are fascinating fields, tightly interwoven with the context of the problems which have to be modelled. The authors demonstrate how investigations and experiments provide promising teaching strategies to help high-school students acquire statistical and probabilistic literacy. In the first chapter the authors put into practice the following educational principles, refl…
1. Introduction -- 2. Current Trends -- 3. Coming Out and Being Out -- 4. Religion and Spirituality -- 5. Family Life -- 6. The SJS Project: Phases of Research.This book utilizes personal narratives and survey data from over 2,100 respondents to explore the diversity of experiences across Black LGBT communities within the United States. The authors document and celebrate many of the everyday st…
Background for a Theory of Personality Socialization in Intimate Relationships and Psychopathology -- Background for a Theory of Personality Socialization in Intimate Relationships and Psychopathology -- Requirements for the Theory -- Reducibility to Known Psychological Constructs -- Verifiability and Accountability -- Metatheoretical Assumptions -- The Horizontality of Relationships -- The Ver…
Core Concepts -- Introducing ASP.NET -- Internet Information Services -- Visual Studio .NET -- The ASP.NET Page -- ASP.NET Controls -- ASP.NET Applications -- State Management -- Data Access -- ADO.NET Fundamentals -- Disconnected Data -- Data Binding -- Advanced ADO.NET -- XML -- Files and Streams -- Security -- The ASP.NET Security Infrastructure -- Forms Authentication -- Windows Authenticat…
Essentials of Sperm Biology -- Endocrinology of Male Infertility -- Sperm Preparation for Insemination -- Specialized Sperm Testing -- Genetic Testing for Male Infertility -- Optimizing Success in a Donor Insemination Program -- Ethical and Legal Considerations of Donor Insemination in the United States -- Laboratory Accreditation -- Office Evaluaton of Male Infertility -- Varicocele and Infert…
An Introduction to the Incremental-Iterative Solution of Nonlinear Structural Problems -- Fundamental Notions of Metal Plasticity -- A General Procedure for Stress Integration and Applications in Metal Plasticity -- Creep and Viscoplasticity -- Plasticity of Geological Materials -- Large Strain Elastic-Plastic Analysis.This book presents computational procedures for the stress integration of in…
Language and Discourse -- Catégorisation, Grammatication et Lexicalisation -- Parsing Forms with Identical Consonants: Hebrew Reduplication -- Linear First-Time Derivation of Verbs and Consonant Cluster Preservation in Israeli Hebrew -- Modern Hebrew Consonant Clusters -- Transcribing Spoken Israeli Hebrew: Preliminary Notes -- From Vanity to Grace -- Language Rights in the Multilingual Societ…
Review of Production Economics -- Productivity and Efficiency Measurement Concepts -- Index Numbers and Productivity Measurement -- Data and Measurement Issues -- Data Envelopment Analysis -- Additional Topics on Data Envelopment Analysis -- Econometric Estimation of Production Technologies -- Stochastic Frontier Analysis -- Additional Topics on Stochastic Frontier Analysis -- The Calculation a…