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Presented are two case studies covering the barriers to be overcome to fully automate the production workflow for Open Access multi-format books, to produce and distribute the following – ebook, print-on-demand, screen PDF, webbook, website, and an interoperable source. The first case study involves producing eight book sprints for training manuals, some with MOOC modules, for the Academy of Public Health in Dusseldorf (Germany) which was run as a research cooperation with the Open Science Lab, TIB – German National Library of Science and Technology. The second case study involves converting the existing reports of Independent SAGE (UK) – as Open Access, multi-format, enabling multi-channel distribution, and deposing in academic repositories. The indie_SAGE project involved creating a volunteer academic working group to carry out the work. Here it is important to add that I am acting as a private individual. The Independent Science Advisory Group for Emergencies (indie_SAGE) was formed in May 2020 by the former chief Scientific Adviser to the UK government Sir David King, quote, 'on how to minimise deaths and support Britain's recovery from the COVID-19 crisis'. The working group is newly formed and welcomes help and volunteers! ; A version of the presentation was also posted to TIB blog for Open Access week 2020 - https://blogs.tib.eu/wp/tib/2020/10/19/the-future-open-book/

The Second Edition of Economics of Food and Agricultural Markets is written for applied intermediate microeconomics courses. The book showcases the power of economic principles to explain and predict issues and current events in the food, agricultural, agribusiness, international trade, labor markets, and natural resource sectors. The field of agricultural economics is relevant, important and interesting. The study of market structures, also called industrial organization, provides powerful, timely, and useful tools for any individual or group making personal choices, business decisions, or public policies in food and agricultural industries. Readers will benefit from a large number of real-world examples and applications of the economic concepts under discussion. The book introduces economic principles in a succinct and reader-friendly format, providing students and instructors with a clear, up-to-date, and straightforward approach to learning how a market-based economy functions, and how to use simple economic principles for improved decision making. The principles are applied to timely, interesting, and important real-world issues through words, graphs, and simple algebra and calculus. This book is intended for students who study agricultural economics, microeconomics, rural development and/or environmental policy. The goal of the book is to encourage students to learn to "think like an economist" through application of benefits and costs to every decision, idea, and strategic decision. This objective is accomplished by including extended examples that cover a broad range of topics including the analysis of consumer decisions, supply and demand, and market efficiency; the design of pricing strategies; advertising and marketing decisions; and public policy analysis. Contents The book begins with a review and introduction of economic principles, including markets, scarcity, and the scientific method. Supply and demand are examined carefully and completely, with numerous real-world examples. The power of the market model is employed to explain and predict economic phenomena and current events. Elasticities are defined, explained, and put to use in decision making for all individuals, businesses, and policy makers. Next, the motivation for and consequences of globalization, immigration, and international trade are explored. Government policies are surveyed, including taxes, subsidies, trade policies, and immigration policies. Monopoly and monopsony are presented, using numerous real-world examples and anecdotes. Pricing strategies are comprehensively discussed, including price discrimination, peak-load pricing, two-part pricing, bundling, and advertising. Monopolistic competition and oligopoly are defined, explained, and used to understand real-world markets. Game theory, or strategic decision making, is introduced and used to demonstrate how to make better decisions in numerous situations when other individuals and groups are affected by a choice or strategy. Repeated games, sequential games, and first-mover advantage are carefully presented and considered. ; https://newprairiepress.org/ebooks/1028/thumbnail.jpg

Introduction to Criminal Justice, Second Edition, provides you with balanced, comprehensive, and up-to-date coverage of all aspects of the criminal justice system. Authors Brian K. Payne, Willard M. Oliver, and Nancy E. Marion cover criminal justice from a student-centered perspective by identifying the key issues confronting today's criminal justice professionals. You are presented with objective, research-driven material through an accessible and concise writing style that makes the content easier to comprehend. By exploring criminal justice from a broad and balanced perspective, you will understand how decision making is critical to the criminal justice process and your future career. The fully updated Second Edition has been completely revised to include new studies and current examples that are relatable to today's students. Two new feature boxes have been added to this edition to help you comprehend and apply the content. "You Have the Right to…" gives insight into several Constitutional amendments and their relationship with criminal justice today; and "Politics and Criminal Justice" explores current political hot topics surrounding the justice system and the debates that occur on both sides of the political aisle. [From Amazon.com] ; https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/sociology_criminaljustice_books/1025/thumbnail.jpg

The article focuses on one of the unknown aspect from the reform of A-Level courses, which took place during the second period of school massification. It highlights the determining role of the teachers in the implementation of educational policies and more particularly the range of options offered. Based on the example of the A-level Drama studies (Baccalaureat option Drama), and supported by an ethnographical survey carried on in the "Region" of Pays de la Loire (West side of France), the text shows that this new offer of options in school is not only promoted by The Authorities, but originates also from the important mobilisation of some teachers involved in activist and cultural spheres. This is the occasion to underline in what extent the success of a public action can lie on the use and appropriation of field people those who have practical experience. Adapted from the source document.

This article uses archival research to analyze the role of the New York School of Philanthropy as a precursor to the Bureau of Municipal Research (BMR) Training School, which is generally considered the first professional public administration program in America. The article argues that the two organizations had similar curricula and aspirations in the early Progressive period, particularly from 1907 to 1912, but that subsequently their paths diverged; the School of Philanthropy became associated with social work education rather than public administration and policy development. The argument is made that the subsequent divergence aided enforcing stereotypical gender assumptions in both fields and the disappearance of female pioneers from public administration history and textbooks between 1920 and the 1990s. As donor pressure sparked the divergence, the article also contributes to understanding the role of funding agents in setting public administration's research agenda.

Ainda que sua 'morte' tenha sido freqüentemente certificada, os livros continuam sendo relevantes para muitas profissões e disciplinas acadêmicas. Análises de citações recebidas por textos epidemiológicos podem complementar outras visões em epidemiologia. O objetivo do estudo foi avaliar o número de citações recebidas por alguns livros de epidemiologia e saúde pública, como um primeiro passo para estudar a influência do pensamento epidemiológico e o pensar da academia. Para este propósito, a base de dados do Institute for Scientific Information/ Thomson Scientific - Web of Science/ Web of Knowledge foi consultada em maio de 2006. O livro de Rothman & Greenland recebeu o maior número de citações no total (mais de 8.000) e por ano. Os livros de Kleinbaum et al, e de Breslow & Day tiveram em torno de 5.000 citações. Em termos de citações por ano, o livro de Sackett et al ocupou o terceiro lugar, e o de Rose, o quarto entre os incluídos no estudo. Outros livros que tiveram influência em salas de aula, comparativamente, tiveram menos citações. Os achados oferecem um rico retrato das influências acadêmicas e tendências de métodos epidemiológicos e interpretação em saúde pública, medicina clínica e outras ciências da saúde, da vida, e sociais. Eles podem contribuir para avaliar os esforços dos epidemiologistas para demarcar a epidemiologia e afirmar sua autoridade epistemológica, e para analisar algumas influências históricas de forças econômicas, sociais e políticas sobre as pesquisas epidemiológicas. ; Whilst their 'death' has often been certified, books remain highly important to most professions and academic disciplines. Analyses of citations received by epidemiologic texts may complement other views on epidemiology. The objective was to assess the number of citations received by some books of epidemiology and public health, as a first step towards studying the influence of epidemiological thought and thinking in academia. For this purpose, Institute for Scientific Information/ Thomson Scientific - Web of Science/ Web of Knowledgedatabase was consulted, in May 2006. The book by Rothman & Greenland appeared to have received the highest number of citations overall (over 8,000) and per year. The books by Kleinbaum et al, and by Breslow & Day received around 5,000 citations. In terms of citations per year the book by Sackett et al ranks 3rd, and the one by Rose, 4th of those included in this preliminary study. Other books which were influential in the classrooms collected comparatively less citations. Results offer a rich picture of the academic influences and trends of epidemiologic methods and reasoning on public health, clinical medicine and the other health, life and social sciences. They may contribute to assess epidemiologists' efforts to demarcate epidemiology and to assert epistemic authority, and to analyze some historical influences of economic, social and political forces on epidemiological research.

A lo largo de los años, los manuales escolares han sido uno de los recursos didácticos más utilizados por el profesorado. El libro escolar es, además de un soporte curricular a través del cual se transmite el conocimiento académico que las instituciones han de propagar, un reflejo de la sociedad que lo produce en cuanto a que en él se vehiculan valores, actitudes, estereotipos e ideologías que caracterizan la mentalidad dominante de una determinada época o, lo que es lo mismo, el imaginario colectivo que configura el currículum explícito, y también el oculto. Dicho imaginario ha sostenido la persistencia de una sociedad patriarcal, en la que la mujer aparece en un lugar secundario con respecto al hombre, y con unos roles prefijados conectados a una visión esencialista de la condición femenina. Cabría pensar que España, tras el fin de la dictadura franquista, ha experimentado una evolución significativa en la forma de concebir las funciones políticas, económicas y sociales adjudicadas a ambos sexos, intentando evitar desigualdades perniciosas. Dicha evolución debería verse reflejada en los libros de texto que el alumnado maneja en las aulas. A través de este trabajo, y mediante análisis tanto cuantitativo como cualitativo tanto de las imágenes como de los textos verbales, queremos observar si dicha evolución ha existido, sobre todo desde el punto de vista de la denominada «cultura económica», analizando manuales escolares utilizados en la etapa de obligatoriedad escolar en dos períodos: la Transición y los primeros años del siglo XXI. Se trata de establecer cambios y permanencias, lo que nos permitirá dar recomendaciones de cara a la confección y/o uso de este tipo de recurso en la escuela. ; Over the years, textbooks have dominated over other resources at school. Textbooks are also a conduit for the academic content that institutions want to deliver, a reflection of society in that the mainstream social attitudes, values and stereotypes and ideologies are reflected in their pages. It is a well-known fact that the established mindset is disseminated with them, hence shaping an overt and covert curriculum. Textbooks therefore reproduce the collective imagination dominated by a patriarchal society, one in which women play a second position and play traditional female roles. Altogether, it paints the essentialist female condition.Post-Franco Spain put an end to dictatorial manners and now new social, economic and political reality should prevail and harmful sex inequality should have vanished too. Textbooks should replicate this new lifestyle. This paper presents a content analysis of textbooks, both of the illustrations and the text itself. We want to test if this change has taken place a tall, with a particular analysis of the economic culture. We therefore compare textbooks of the time right after the dictatorship, some forty years ago with the textbooks in use now at the turn of the century. We explore differences and similarities which may inspire new textbooks for the present time.

"This book attempts to identify change and continuity in PRC grand strategy, and the extent to which Chinese imperial history complicates PRC global outreach in the Xi Jinping era. Empires convey the wish to make the world a better place - even in the midst of oppression - and are eschatological in their rhetoric. However, empires that last longer have been more pragmatic in their grand strategy; sometimes appropriating the aura of past golden ages, and at other times learning from the mistakes of their predecessors. To date, Chinese strategic thinkers are preoccupied with learning lessons from the disintegration of the USSR and fascinated by the secrets of American power. Interdisciplinary in its reach, analysing grand strategy through both rhetoric and praxis, this book unpacks the Chinese world view through critical examination of the latest history textbooks currently in use in PRC middle schools. It also brings new evidence to bear on the debate in the West about Chinese strategic culture. Finally, it compares historical Japanese OFDI patterns with China in order to understand what makes the Chinese economy unique. China's Grand Strategy Under Xi Jinping is aimed towards students and scholars of history, international business and wider Chinese studies"--