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Operation ‘Fox Hunt’
by SiddharthaThoratAn army addicted to power, a soldier prepared for the ultimate sacrifice and a spy who will go to any length to stop him - Operation Fox-Hunt is a tale of sacrifice, camaraderie and betrayal. The Pakistani army, mauled by the Abbottabad raid, decides to create and execute an operation that will get the Pakistani public opinion firmly behind them. Major Shezad Khan, a much decorated officer from the Pakistani army’s elite Special Service Group (SSG) embarks on a mission to attack a strategic target in India. His comrades-in-arms are five ferocious Lashakar-e-Taiba militants. Though he crosses into India through Kashmir, there is one man who has been tasked with the job of ensuring that they don't reach their target. RAW’s Senior Field Agent Sanjay Khanna teams up with Military Intelligence and NSG to thwart the attack. The narrative sweeps across the vast expanses of Tajikistan, the malarial jungles of Bengal, through conflict zones in Baluchistan and the Vale of Kashmir as the two men and their teams race against time. A thrilling finale awaits in the maximum city, Mumbai. Will the Fox-Hunt succeed?
Operations Research for 8th Sem B.E Mechanical Engineering and 6th Sem CSE-ISE
by Ranganatha Swamy L. B. K. NarendraThe author of the book by Dr. Ranganatha Swamy. L. and Dr. B.K. Narendra and published by Sunstar Publisher. This book elucidates the concepts and applications of operations research. Written in a lucid, well-structured and easy-to-understand language, the key topics are explained with adequate depth and details. It is divided into 5 modules. A wide range of solved examples and end-of-chapter exercises makes this book an ideal companion for active learners.
Ophelia After All
by Racquel Marie"Queer delight through and through" - Leah Johnson, author of You Should See Me in a CrownA teen girl navigates friendship drama, the end of high school, and discovering her queerness in Ophelia After All, the hilarious and heartfelt contemporary YA debut by Racquel Marie.Ophelia Rojas knows what she likes: her best friends, Cuban food, rose-gardening, and boys – way too many boys. Her friends and parents make fun of her endless stream of crushes, but Ophelia is a romantic at heart. She couldn’t change, even if she wanted to.So when she finds herself thinking more about cute, quiet Talia Sanchez than the loss of a perfect prom with her ex-boyfriend, seeds of doubt take root in Ophelia’s firm image of herself. Add to that the impending end of high school and the fracturing of her once-solid friend group, and things are spiraling a little out of control. But the course of love - and sexuality - never did run smooth. As her secrets begin to unravel, Ophelia must make a choice between clinging to the fantasy version of herself she’s always imagined or upending everyone’s expectations to rediscover who she really is, after all.
Ophthalmic Imaging: Posterior Segment Imaging, Anterior Eye Photography, and Slit Lamp Biomicrography (Applications in Scientific Photography)
by Christye SissonOphthalmic Imaging serves as a reference for the practicing ophthalmic imager. Ophthalmic imaging combines photography and diagnostic imaging to provide insight into not only the health of the eye, but also the health of the human body as a whole. Ophthalmic photographers are specialists in imaging through and in the human eye, one of the only parts of the body where the circulation and nervous system is visible non-invasively. With technical perspective as context, this book will provide instructional techniques as well as the background needed for problem solving in this exciting field. The book covers all aspects of contemporary ophthalmic imaging and provides image support to ophthalmologists and sub-specialties including retinal specialists, corneal specialists, neuro-ophthalmologists, and ocular oncologists. This text serves as a reference for the practicing ophthalmic imager, or to imagers just getting started in the field.
Ophthalmic Imaging: Posterior Segment Imaging, Anterior Eye Photography, and Slit Lamp Biomicrography (Applications in Scientific Photography)
by Christye SissonOphthalmic Imaging serves as a reference for the practicing ophthalmic imager. Ophthalmic imaging combines photography and diagnostic imaging to provide insight into not only the health of the eye, but also the health of the human body as a whole. Ophthalmic photographers are specialists in imaging through and in the human eye, one of the only parts of the body where the circulation and nervous system is visible non-invasively. With technical perspective as context, this book will provide instructional techniques as well as the background needed for problem solving in this exciting field. The book covers all aspects of contemporary ophthalmic imaging and provides image support to ophthalmologists and sub-specialties including retinal specialists, corneal specialists, neuro-ophthalmologists, and ocular oncologists. This text serves as a reference for the practicing ophthalmic imager, or to imagers just getting started in the field.
Ophthalmology Secrets E-Book: Ophthalmology Secrets E-Book (Secrets)
by Janice GaultFor more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review. Ophthalmology Secrets, 5th Edition, offers practical, up-to-date coverage of the full range of essential topics in this dynamic field. This highly regarded resource features the Secrets' popular question-and-answer format that also includes lists, tables, pearls, memory aids, and an easy-to-read style – making inquiry, reference, and review quick, easy, and enjoyable. - The proven Secrets Series® format gives you the most return for your time – succinct, easy to read, engaging, and highly effective. - Coverage includes the full range of topics in this broad specialty, from basic science to problems of the aging eye. - Fully revised and updated, including protocols and guidelines that are continuously evolving and that increasingly dictate best practices. - Key clinical images are presented in full-color. - Top 100 Secrets and Key Points boxes provide a fast overview of the secrets you must know for success in practice and on exams. - Bulleted lists, mnemonics, practical tips from global leaders in the field – all providing a concise overview of important board-relevant content. - Portable size makes it easy to carry with you for quick reference or review anywhere, anytime.
Ophthalmology Secrets in Color E-Book: Ophthalmology Secrets in Color E-Book (Secrets)
by Janice Gault James F. VanderPortable and high yield, Ophthalmology Secrets in Color is perfect for use in clerkships, for exam prep, or as a handy clinical reference. From basic science to problems of the aging eye, it covers everything you need to stay abreast of the latest in this broad specialty. A bestselling volume in the popular Secret Series®, its Q&A format, helpful lists and tables, and informal tone combine to make reference fast, easy, and enjoyable. - A question-and-answer format, bulleted lists, mnemonics, and practical tips from the authors expedite reference and review. - "Key Points" boxes and lists of useful websites enhance your reference power. - Top 100 Secrets section combines the top 100, high-yield facts into one chapter, providing a concise overview of the latest issues in ophthalmology. - High-yield content is ideal for exam preparation. - Key clinical images are presented in full-color. - Updated chapters reflect the latest advances in ophthalmology. - Expert Consult eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience gives access to the text, figures, and references on a variety of devices.
The Opponents of Third Isaiah: Reconstructing the Cultic History of the Restoration (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies)
by Brooks SchrammIn several places in Isaiah 56-66 a group of Israelites is accused of engaging in various forms of aberrant religious practice: the sacrifice of children, the eating of swine, participation in fertility rites, the practice of necromancy, offering sacrifice to deities known as Gad and Meni, and a host of other things. Who are these people? Certainly not the Zadokite priesthood, as Paul Hanson claimed in his The Dawn of Apocalyptic. More likely argues Schramm, they are simply traditional syncretistic Yahwists.
Opportunities and Challenges at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
by Marybeth Gasman Felecia CommodoreIn this edited collection, the authors grapple with both the strengths and challenges that HBCUs face as the nation's demographics change, from their place in American society and growing diversity on HBCU campuses to class and elitism issues to study abroad and honors programs.
Opportunities and Challenges for New and Peripheral Political Science Communities: A Consolidated Discipline?
by Gabriella Ilonszki Christophe RouxThis open access book offers an updated examination of the institutionalisation of political science in sixteen latecomer or peripheral countries in Europe. Its main theme is how political science as a science of democracy is influenced and how it responds to the challenges of the new millennium. The chapters, built upon a common theoretical framework of institutionalisation, are evidence-based and comparative. Overall, the book diagnoses diversity among the country cases due to their take-off points and varied political and economic trajectories.
Opportunity to Learn, Curriculum Alignment and Test Preparation: A Research Review (SpringerBriefs in Education)
by Jaap ScheerensThis book provides a review of the effectiveness of Opportunity to Learn (OTL) operationalized as the association between OTL and student achievement. In addition, it presents an elaborate conceptual map in which OTL is regarded as part of a larger concept of curriculum alignment. Major components of this framework are national goals and standards, school curricula, formative tests, textbooks, actual delivery of content as part of teaching, and summative tests and examinations.Alignment between educational goals, intended and implemented curricula, and educational outcomes is considered an important prerequisite for effective education. The expectation is that better alignment leads to better student performance. The concept of OTL is commonly used to compare content covered, as part of the implemented curriculum, with student achievement. As such it is to be seen as a facet of the broader concept of “alignment”. As it comes to enhancing OTL in educational policy and practice, proactive curriculum development is compared to a more retroactive orientation. Legitimate forms of test and examination preparation belong to this retroactive orientation, and are seen as favorable conditions for optimizing OTL. This book reviews the research evidence on the effects of OTL on student achievement by means of detailed descriptions of key-empirical studies, a review of meta-analyses, a “vote count” syntheses of 51 empirical studies, conducted between 1995 and 2015, and a secondary analysis based on TIMSS 2011, and PISA 2012 data. It concludes that the effect size of OTL, at about .30, is modest, but comparable in size to other effectiveness-enhancing conditions in schooling. The final chapter of the book provides suggestions for educational policy and practice to further optimize OTL.
Opposing Censorship in Public Schools: Religion, Morality, and Literature
by June EdwardsIn the past several years, hundreds of challenges a year to books used in public schools have been reported across the nation. Most of these have come from the Religious Right. This book confronts the attacks on public education and commonly used literature books by challenging the religious assumptions, the biblical interpretations, and the intimidation tactics of the Religious Right. Part I counters the claims of these censors by presenting opposing views on democracy, secular humanism, religion, the Bible, morality, and the purposes of literature. In Part II, six books frequently taught in high school classes are analyzed. Edwards shows why they have been challenged by the Religious Right, and presents a case for their moral and religious virtues as well as their literary worth. The book differs from other anti-censorship works because it deals primarily and directly with the religious and moral aspects that educators often tend to avoid. This book offers teachers and school administrators scholarly conterarguments that can help confront with literature challenges from the Religious Right.
Opposing Censorship in Public Schools: Religion, Morality, and Literature
by June EdwardsIn the past several years, hundreds of challenges a year to books used in public schools have been reported across the nation. Most of these have come from the Religious Right. This book confronts the attacks on public education and commonly used literature books by challenging the religious assumptions, the biblical interpretations, and the intimidation tactics of the Religious Right. Part I counters the claims of these censors by presenting opposing views on democracy, secular humanism, religion, the Bible, morality, and the purposes of literature. In Part II, six books frequently taught in high school classes are analyzed. Edwards shows why they have been challenged by the Religious Right, and presents a case for their moral and religious virtues as well as their literary worth. The book differs from other anti-censorship works because it deals primarily and directly with the religious and moral aspects that educators often tend to avoid. This book offers teachers and school administrators scholarly conterarguments that can help confront with literature challenges from the Religious Right.
The Opposite of Falling Apart (A Wattpad Novel)
by Micah GoodJonas had done two things when he'd come home from the hospital for the first time after The Accident.1. He'd taken a permanent marker and scribbled out the lower half of the left leg on his Bones of the Human Skeleton poster, which had hung on his closet door since fifth grade.2. He'd looked at the newly altered poster and cried, for the first time after and the only time since.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------AN UNMISSABLE and UPLIFTING DEBUT NOVEL for fans of JOHN GREEN and JENNIFER NIVEN.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Jonas Avery has lost his leg in a terrible car accident. All he wants is to leave for college, where he can finally start over.Brennan Davis is dreading leaving home. It is the only place she can manage her anxiety.When Jonas and Brennan meet by chance the summer before they move away, can they push each other to overcome what's holding them back? And will allowing themselves to fall in love be the most daring thing of all?
Oppression and Resistance in Southern Higher and Adult Education: Mississippi and the Dynamics of Equity and Social Justice (Palgrave Studies in Global Citizenship Education and Democracy)
by Kamden K. Strunk Leslie Ann Locke Georgianna L. MartinThis book explores the long history of oppression and resistance in adult and higher education, situated in Mississippi. The state serves as a unique site in which intersecting narratives around race, ethnicity, social class, opportunity, democracy, and equity have played out over the past several decades. In this book, the authors highlight the experiences of students and adults in Mississippi who provide both covert, subtle resistance to the dominant, oppressive educational narrative in the state, as well as those who provide active, visible resistance. Using critical pedagogy and critical theory to drive their analysis, the authors highlight the systematic and continuous nature of oppression, and theorize ways forward toward liberation in Mississippi, the South, and the nation.
Optimal Learning Environments to Promote Student Engagement (Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development)
by David J. ShernoffOptimal Learning Environments to Promote Student Engagement analyzes the psychological, social, and academic phenomena comprising engagement, framing it as critical to learning and development. Drawing on positive psychology, flow studies, and theories of motivation, the book conceptualizes engagement as a learning experience, explaining how it occurs (or not) and how schools can adapt to maximize it among adolescents. Examples of empirically supported environments promoting engagement are provided, representing alternative high schools, Montessori schools, and extracurricular programs. The book identifies key innovations including community-school partnerships, technology-supported learning, and the potential for engaging learning opportunities during an expanded school day. Among the topics covered:Engagement as a primary framework for understanding educational and motivational outcomes.Measuring the malleability, complexity, multidimensionality, and sources of engagement.The relationship between engagement and achievement.Supporting and challenging: the instructor’s role in promoting engagement.Engagement within and beyond core academic subjects.Technological innovations on the engagement horizon.Optimal Learning Environments to Promote Student Engagement is an essential resource for researchers, professionals, and graduate students in child and school psychology; social work; educational psychology; positive psychology; family studies; and teaching/teacher education.
Optimierung in der Adoleszenz: Eine fallrekonstruktive Analyse gegenwärtiger Formen des Erwachsenwerdens (Adoleszenzforschung #12)
by Katarina BuschKatarina Busch untersucht in ihrer qualitativ-rekonstruktiven Studie die Folgen von Optimierungsanforderungen für adoleszente Entwicklungen und geht dabei der Frage nach, welche Bedeutungen Optimierungsbestrebungen bei der Bewältigung des Übergangs ins Erwachsenenalter erlangen können. Im Zentrum der Analyse narrativ-biographischer Interviews mit jungen Erwachsenen stehen die Zusammenhänge zwischen Optimierungszwängen, Bedingungen des Aufwachsens und individuellen Erlebens- und Verarbeitungsformen der Heranwachsenden.Die Dissertation wurde über die Universität Hamburg mit dem Karl H. Ditze-Preis ausgezeichnet.
Optimierungsdruck im Kontext von Migration: Eine diskurs- und biographieanalytische Untersuchung zu Subjektivationsprozessen (Adoleszenzforschung #6)
by Niels UhlendorfNiels Uhlendorf untersucht den Optimierungsdruck auf Migrantinnen und Migranten, dem diese sich nach ihrer Ankunft in Deutschland ausgesetzt sehen. Am Fallbeispiel von jungen, bildungserfolgreichen Deutsch-Iranerinnen und -Iranern arbeitet er mit einer Verbindung aus Diskursanalyse und Biographieforschung die teils widersprüchlichen Optimierungsanforderungen und ihre individuell-biographischen Verarbeitungen heraus. Während einerseits oft hohe Erwartungen seitens der Ankunftsgesellschaft an Migrantinnen und Migranten formuliert werden, ist es aufgrund von Diskriminierungserfahrungen zugleich häufig schwierig, sich erfolgreich zu etablieren.
Optimising New Modes of Assessment: In Search of Qualities and Standards (Innovation and Change in Professional Education #1)
by Mien Segers F. Dochy E. CascallarThis is an essential book for all those concerned with the field of assessment. It addresses relevant and timely conceptual and practical issues from a research perspective and, based on research results, clearly provides solutions to practical applications at the cutting edge of the emerging area of new modes of assessment. In a clear and rigorous manner, the authors explore new methods and study the various quality aspects of innovative approaches.
Optimising the Third Space in Higher Education: Case Studies of Intercultural and Cross-Boundary Collaboration (Routledge Research in Higher Education)
by Natalia VelesDrawing on an empirical study of the cross-boundary, cross-campus, and intercultural collaborations between professional and academic staff, at both an Australian and a Singaporean university, this book demonstrates the potential of third space collaboration in higher education. Through a multi-case study methodology, the author draws on the antecedent resources of spatial theory to investigate how staff working together, crossing, and transcending various traditional and imaginary boundaries created innovative boundary practices while successfully completing the university projects. The third space projects under investigation range from increasing the academic research visibility and commercialisation of a research solution to expanding the educational choices for students in one geographical region and developing a research culture in one international campus. The findings present practical approaches to strengthening collegiality and professional partnering, challenging the reader to reflect on potential strategies that will apply to their own work environments. This book will be a useful resource for researchers in higher education, particularly those interested in the third space theory and practice, university collaboration, collaborative capital, and impacts of diversification of university staff roles and identities.
Optimising the Third Space in Higher Education: Case Studies of Intercultural and Cross-Boundary Collaboration (Routledge Research in Higher Education)
by Natalia VelesDrawing on an empirical study of the cross-boundary, cross-campus, and intercultural collaborations between professional and academic staff, at both an Australian and a Singaporean university, this book demonstrates the potential of third space collaboration in higher education. Through a multi-case study methodology, the author draws on the antecedent resources of spatial theory to investigate how staff working together, crossing, and transcending various traditional and imaginary boundaries created innovative boundary practices while successfully completing the university projects. The third space projects under investigation range from increasing the academic research visibility and commercialisation of a research solution to expanding the educational choices for students in one geographical region and developing a research culture in one international campus. The findings present practical approaches to strengthening collegiality and professional partnering, challenging the reader to reflect on potential strategies that will apply to their own work environments. This book will be a useful resource for researchers in higher education, particularly those interested in the third space theory and practice, university collaboration, collaborative capital, and impacts of diversification of university staff roles and identities.
Optimization and Learning: Third International Conference, OLA 2020, Cádiz, Spain, February 17–19, 2020, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1173)
by Bernabé Dorronsoro Patricia Ruiz Juan Carlos de la Torre Daniel Urda El-Ghazali TalbiThis volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Optimization and Learning, OLA 2020, held in Cádiz, Spain, in February 2020. The 23 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The papers presented in the volume focus on the future challenges of optimization and learning methods, identifying and exploiting their synergies,and analyzing their applications in different fields, such as health, industry 4.0, games, logistics, etc.
Optimizing a Lexical Approach to Instructed Second Language Acquisition
by F. Boers S. LindstrombergEmpirically validated techniques to accelerate learners' uptake of 'chunks' demonstrate that pathways for insightful chunk-learning become available if one is willing to question the assumption that lexis is arbitrary. Care is taken to ensure that the pedagogical proposals are in accordance with insights from vocabulary research generally.
Optimizing Online English Language Learning and Teaching (English Language Education #31)
by Maria-del-Mar Suárez Walaa M. El-HenawyThis book focuses on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and provides advice on how to approach EFL teaching in the online context. Coronavirus has accelerated e-learning significantly and has highlighted the need of appropriate web tools that will allow teachers to present their material either synchronously or asynchronously, while also adequately assess their students. At the same time, there is a need of tools that can engage the students and motivate them to actively participate in the lesson. With e-learning being a rather new challenge for both teachers and students, this book provides research- and practice- based chapters with strategies, techniques, approaches, and methods which have proven to be successful in e-learning environments, maximizing their impact . Apart from presenting research results with strong pedagogical implications on online or blended English language learning and teaching, the book also trains educators on utilizing online tools and managing online learning environments and platforms.
The Optimum Imperative: Czech Architecture for the Socialist Lifestyle, 1938–1968 (Architext)
by Ana MiljackiThe Optimum Imperative examines architecture’s multiple entanglements within the problematics of Socialist lifestyle in postwar Czechoslovakia. Situated in the period loosely bracketed by the signing of the Munich accords in 1938, which affected Czechoslovakia’s entrance into World War II, and the Warsaw Pact troops’ occupation of Prague in 1968, the book investigates three decades of Czech architecture, highlighting a diverse cast of protagonists. Key among them are the theorist and architect Karel Honzík and a small group of his colleagues in the Club for the Study of Consumption; the award-winning Czechoslovak Pavilion at the 1958 World Expo in Brussels; and SIAL, a group of architects from Liberec that emerged from the national network of Stavoprojekt offices during the reform years, only to be subsumed back into it in the wake of Czechoslovak normalization. This episodic approach enables a long view of the way that the project of constructing Socialism was made disciplinarily specific for architecture, through the constant interpretation of Socialist lifestyle, both as a narrative framework and as a historical goal. Without sanitizing history of its absurd contortions in discourse and in daily life, the book takes as its subject the complex and dynamic relationships between Cold War politics, state power, disciplinary legitimating narratives, and Czech architects’ optimism for Socialism. It proposes that these key dimensions of practicing architecture and building Socialism were intertwined, and even commensurate at times, through the framework of Socialist lifestyle.