*"This book works to give teachers a tool for understanding how to examine their teaching methods and refine those methods to maximize student learning...Galton is a well known researcher...and he has valuable insights into tailoring teaching methods in ways to meet specific learning goals. This book is recommended for all elementary teachers looking for ways to maximize learning in their classroom." —*EDUCATION LIBRARIES*"Building on Student Diversity can be used ...

This book discusses the best research roadmaps, strategies, and challenges in data-centric approach of artificial intelligence (AI) in various domains. It presents comparative studies of model-centric and data-centric AI. It also highlights different phases in data-centric approach and data-centric principles. The book presents prominent use cases of data-centric AI. It serves as a reference guide for researchers and practitioners in academia and industry.

Human cloning.Technology evolves faster than we do.The law shields us from our worst temptations.But the opportunity is there, dangling just out of reach—perfection and ascension… or delusion and destruction.In this collection of clone-themed stories, ten of today’s top speculative fiction writers explore our morality, our built-in societal restraints, and reflect upon our state of grace.Similar is not necessarily the same.“CLONES: The Antholog...

“It is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears.We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea--whether it is to sail or to watch it--we are going back from whence we came.”- John F. KennedyUnderwater cities, lost civilizations, crops, climate change, and dead zones.In this collection of o...

Amino acids play a role in the defence mechanisms and stress responses of plants, as well as in food quality and safety for humans and animals. Recent advances in the field make a comprehensive overview of the information a necessity; this book collates chapters on plant enzymes and metabolism, modulation, molecular aspects and secondary products. Also including information on ecology, the environment and mammalian nutrition and toxicology, it provides an authoritative resource.

In the last two decades, there has been a major increase in the actual numbers of women diagnosed with breast cancer (from 65000 new cases 20 years ago in the United States to 183000 in 1993). Concomitant with this has been a shift toward making the diagnosis earlier and toward diagnosing an earlier stage ofthe disease (more than 70% of diagnoses were of advanced-stage disease two decades ago, whereas more than 70% of diagnoses are now earlier-stage disease in 1992). These changes are clea...

Gene expression in cells follows a prescribed pathway that conforms to the Central Dogma; where the genetic information stored in DNA is transcribed into RNA and then expressed into proteins, which influences most plant traits. Plant salt tolerance research is directed towards identifying nucleotide variants that could contribute to tolerant phenotypes. This book comprehensively presents the current state of knowledge on plant salt tolerance through meticulous analysis of the processes ope...

Life in Sherwood Forest has never been livelier than with this selection of tales of the fun-loving outlaw and his merry men. A fast-moving adaptation of the classic adventure will delight older slow readers as well as kids reading on grade level.

Andrew Jenkins had been deserted by his mother and living in an unhappy atmosphere, he befriends fellow loner Gunari Bosworth, a boy from a nearby gypsy camp. The story is of their friendship and the many adventures they share from the age of twelve into their early twenties. It’s a story of humour, violence, tragedy, sex and love. Andrew has good and bad fortune along the way, meeting a host of diverse and wonderful character; all shared by his surrogate Romany family.

Magda Lewis is on the run. After the disastrous events that ended her previous job, she struggles to stay afloat far from home. Still, her telepathy certainly makes it easier to convince everyone who she is not, even herself. Despite her many guises, someone has found her, and her precarious existence is about to crash right back down – into the paths of her rivals Evie, Danny, Chloe and Ben – while the consequences of the recent past threaten to consume everyone's lives. “Subject Beta” is...

Mestoph and Leviticus are the oddest pair of friends in the Afterlife. One is a Demon, the other is an Angel, and wherever they go chaos isn't far behind. Follow the duo as they become embroiled in a conspiracy to kill the Pope in 13th century Italy at the behest of the enigmatic Hermes Trismegistus and his influential cult. Live or die, history won't be the same.

When the chips are down you have to step forward, speak up and take action – or sink.Matthew Ingle, Yorkshire born and bred, left school in 1971 with four O levels. He went to work at a timber yard in Huddersfield, before joining the management training programme at Magnet. When he was made redundant in 1994, he had an idea for a business, jotted down on a single sheet of paper but no name, no products, no buildings and no backers. Howdens was founded in 1995, and ...