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"The subject for this book is multiple linear regression. It will cover very basic applications of multiple linear regression all the way up through more complex regression applications and extensions. This book will be written for graduate level students in social science disciplines. This book will provide examples using real data and R software"--

This article introduces the National Science Foundation as a potential funding source for social work researchers and describes the experience of one faculty member in seeking funding from this source. The author provides an overview of the foundation, discusses its programmatic structure, proposal preparation, selection criteria, and review process, and presents a summary of a successfully funded proposal.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Methamphetamine Imaginary -- 1. Walter White's Death Wish -- 2. This Is Your Race on Meth -- 3. Governing through Meth -- 4. The War Out There -- 5. Imagining Methland -- 6. Drug War, Terror War, Street Corner, Battlefield -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author

"Murdering Animals confronts the speciesism underlying the disparate social censures of homicide and "theriocide" (the killing of animals by humans), and as such, is a plea to take animal rights seriously. Its substantive topics include the criminal prosecution and execution of justiciable animals in early modern Europe; images of hunters put on trial by their prey in the upside-down world of the Dutch Golden Age; the artist William Hogarth's patriotic depictions of animals in 18th century London; and the playwright J.M. Synge's representation of parricide in fin de siècle Ireland. Combining insights from intellectual history, the history of the fine and performing arts, and what is known about today's invisibilised sites of animal killing, Murdering Animals inevitably asks: should theriocide be considered murder? With its strong multi- and interdisciplinary approach, this work of collaboration will appeal to scholars of social and species justice in animal studies, criminology, sociology and law"--

Cover -- Copyright information -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Secreteria -- Referees -- Russian Information Warfare: The Case of the White Helmets in Syria -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Information Warfare vs. Russia -- 4 The Russian Information Warfare Against the White Helmets -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- On "The Human" and Behavioral Economics 1 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Return of the Human to Economics: The Emergence and Development of Behavioral Economics -- 3 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Profitability of Turkish Manufacturing Firms: Efficiency or Market Power? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Literature -- 3 Model -- 4 Methodology -- 4.1 The Stochastic Profit Frontier -- 4.2 Bayesian Estimation -- 5 Data -- 6 Results -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- The Relationship Between the Vertical Specialization of Exports and Employment 1 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Data, Methodology and Results -- 2.1 Data -- 2.2 Methodology -- 2.3 Empirical Results -- 3 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Is Brexit a Transaction Cost Problem? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Transaction Cost Economics -- 2.1 Importance of Transaction Costs -- 2.2 Williamson's Transaction Cost Economy -- 3 Governance and Transaction Costs -- 4 Political Transaction Costs -- 5 Brexit and Political Transaction Costs -- 6 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Clustering Approach as a Regional Development Tool and Turkish Automotive Sector Clustering Analysis -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Definition and Overview of the Automotive Industry -- 3 Development and Current Situation of Turkish Automotive Sector -- 4 Cluster Analysis of Turkish Automotive Sector -- 5 Results and Discussions -- Bibliography -- The Use of Spatial Models: Examples from Financial Market Applications -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Spatial Effects -- 3 Spatial Model Family and Model Selection Process -- 4 Criticisms Towards Spatial Models.

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