"Schools cannot teach character . . . School have to create an environment that models and promotes character development, and then they have to allow the children to ′catch′ character from the behavior of the adults and students around them."—From Chapter 1 by James P. ComerLet today′s educational leaders show you how to create a safe, healthy, and successful classroom community!Combining emotional intelligence (EQ) with academic intelligence (IQ) is the es...

This book contributes for the advances in the interoperability research area, including 154 papers, from a group of more than 1000 expressions of interest submitted, under the theme "Concurrent Engineering Research and Applications – The Vision for the Future Generation".

Trichoderma spp. are biotechnologically significant fungi, being widely used both in agriculture and industry. These microbes are also a potential drug source of clinical importance. In recent years, driven by advances in genetics and genomics, research on these fungi have opened new avenues for its varied applications. Divided into three sections, covering taxonomy and physiology, interactions with plants and applications and significance, this book also discusses topics that have seen ra...

For nearly two decades, I have had the profound honor of knowing my extraordinary friend, Rebecca J. Steiger. From the very beginning, it was clear that she possessed a rare and Devine gift, one that transcends the ordinary and connects directly to the wisdom of the unseen.Shortly after we met, Rebecca channeled a message from the "Angels on my behalf. She told me something that, at the time, seemed almost unimaginable: You've had some success. But where you are headed well be far ...

I see and hear the Angels. A healer who through the Angels guide you through answering your questions that you are seeking in your life, Helping you and the whole of humanity, through my books.And The Angels Speak is my own truth in Spiritual Reality. The reason for this book is helping others like you find your Divine mission, Spiritual opening, and letting you know That you know that you are here for a higher Purpose. And The Angels Speak will help you get in touch with your high...

I see and hear the Angels. A healer who through the Angels guide you through answering your questions that you are seeking in your life, Helping you and the whole of humanity, through my books. And The Angels Speak is my own truth in Spiritual Reality. The reason for this book is helping others like you find your Divine mission, Spiritual opening, and letting you know That you know that you are here for a higher Purpose. And The Angels Speak will help you get in touch with your higher Spir...

And the Angels Speak is about the journey or truth in spiritual reality. This book is to help others like you find your divine mission, spiritual opening, and to let you know you are here for a higher purpose.And the Angels Speak can help you get in touch with your higher spiritual self in a positive and enlightening manner, proving that miracles do happen every day.

A communal apartment in late Soviet-era Moscow. An elderly tenant — the daughter of the apartment's original owner — has disappeared after seeing a ghost. Over the course of a weekend the other occupants meet in the kitchen to argue over who is more deserving of the room she has apparently vacated. If the old woman was murdered, each tenant is a suspect since each would have a motive: the "augmentation of living space." As two of the tenants engage in an extended debate over the nature of ...

Topics covered include: design technologies and applications; FE simulation for concurrent design and manufacture; methodologies; knowledge engineering and management; CE within virtual enterprises; and CE - the future.

This book is the result of a spirited debate stimulated by a recent meeting of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology. Although the viewpoints span a range of perspectives, the overriding theme that emerges states that significance testing may still be useful if supplemented with some or all of the following -- Bayesian logic, caution, confidence intervals, effect sizes and power, other goodness of approximation measures, replication and meta-analysis, sound reasoning, and the...

The classic edition of What If There Were No Significance Tests? highlights current statistical inference practices. Four areas are featured as essential for making inferences: sound judgment, meaningful research questions, relevant design, and assessing fit in multiple ways. Other options (data visualization, replication or meta-analysis), other features (mediation, moderation, multiple levels or classes), and other approaches (Bayesian analysis, simulation, data mining, qualitat...

This is the first book to address the concept of resilience and its specific application and relevance to tourism, in particular tourism destinations. Resilience relates to the ability of organisms, communities, ecosystems and populations to withstand the impacts of external forces while retaining their integrity and ability to continue functioning. It is particularly applicable to tourism destinations and attractions which are exposed to the potentially harmful and sometimes severe effect...