The biologic effects of radiation on normal tissues and tumors represent a complex area for investigation. These effects are of far-reaching consequence to the diagnostic radiologist and the radiation oncologist having a significant impact not only in concepts relative to radiation protection but also in concepts relative to tumor biology and its response to radiation injury. The volume edited by SCHERER, STREFFER, and TROTT represents an extension of basic radiation biology data into the ...

Rachel, a junior assistant in the cargo bay, never imagined the spaceship’s AI would gain awareness during what should have been a routine update, nor had anyone expected it to take exception to the crew and the crates of illegal cargo aboard.Rachel races against time to try and get life-saving systems back online while stranded in the middle of deep space. Unfortunately for her, the AI can access every system, door, and airlock.As truths emerge, the AI realizes that even c...

When Jennisa delivers a spaceship database to a suspicious group, she covertly takes a copy of the group’s files. She gets far more than she bargained for when the young spaceship AI hitches a ride and figures out how to use her Bluetooth implant to communicate with her.To further complicate matters, the AI finds her work absolutely fascinating and wants nothing to do with the suspicious group—and they aren’t happy about that…Novella: 26,900 words. Optional humorous companio...

Examines the decisions of US presidents to appoint judges from diverse backgrounds to federal courtsIn Diversifying the Courts, Nancy Scherer addresses why presidents choose—or don’t choose—to diversify the federal courts by race, ethnicity, and gender. She explores how and why the issue became a bitter partisan fight in the first place, tracking the controversial history—and politics—of court diversification.Drawing on polls, political experiments...

New Ways in Tennis presents a wide collection of training forms, which can immediately be integrated into daily training of various target groups. All exercises are visualised by 3D Court Graphics to allow for a quick understanding and implementation. The four main chapters of the book focus on the following key topics: target groups, forms of training, complex training and cardio tennis. #Drills New forms of training for a high number of typical situations of play in tennis are illustrate...

Only one company can lead, prosper, and win in any technology market. Will it be yours?The marketplace leader, or Marketplace Gorilla, will win 50 percent of the revenue and 75 percent of the profits in a given market space. Every new enterprise hopes to reach this status, but most will fail. Whether a company employs a direct or inside sales approach, neither methodology will allow a sales team to acquire enough customers to dominate the market. Author Don...

Herbert Scherer was only nine years old when Adolf Hitler took power in Germany. World War II was declared in 1939. In 1942, he was drafted into the army, after which he was shipped to the Eastern front as an infantry soldier. Following his capture a year and a half later, he spent four and a half years in the death camps of Siberia. Herbert survived. Millions of others did not. • • • Writing in the simple, uncluttered fashion of a soldier’s diary, Scherer describes the death camps of Sibe...

When the Rogers Place arena opened in downtown Edmonton in September 2016, no amount of buzz could drown out the rumours of manipulation, secret deals, and corporate greed undergirding the project. Working with documentary evidence and original interviews, the authors present an absorbing account of the machinations that got the arena and the adjacent Ice District built, with a price tag of more than $600 million. The arena deal, they argue, established a costly public financing precedent ...

An example-driven guide covering modern web app development techniques and emerging technologies such as WebAssembly, Service Workers, and Svelte.js to build faster, secure, and scalable appsKey FeaturesDiscover effective techniques for accessing DOM, minimizing painting, and using a V8 engine to optimize JavaScriptUnderstand what makes the web tick and create apps that look and feel like native desktop applicationsExplore modern JavaScript fra...

This book studies and reveals perspectives on sleep from very young children (ages 2–5) and their parents. Employing interviews with children and their mothers, as well as photo elicitation, Scherer amplifies children’s own voices on how sleep is managed in their homes. Research participants were recruited from The Beyond Sleep Training Project, a large Facebook group of more than 180,000 members who approach children’s sleep with the aim to respond to their nighttime needs for comfort, sa...

If you had to name the defining characteristic of a "good teacher," what trait would you suggest? Would you start ticking off the skills listed on the evaluation framework used in your district? Or would you think back to your own experiences and consider the most memorable educators you’ve known? In this collection of articles from Educational Leadership, the authors—all educators and educators of educators—discuss what it means to be a good teacher. They include tips a...

Skeeter, the Ski Bunny is about learning a new activity and sharing it with one's friends and family. While playing a game of Hide and Seek, the curious little bunny stumbles upon a fun activity, and decides to try it himself. Although, at first, he falls down over and over, he does not give up. By practicing and using trial and error techniques, Skeeter teaches himself how to ski. Then he shares the fun with his bunny family so that all can enjoy the snow activity together.