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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Erica Smith
Follow the narrator as he takes us through the good and bad aspects of micro-organisms in this fun rhyming poem by Sam McBratney, explaining that while these unseen bugs can ruin food and make us ill, they also keep our world under control, by rotting food and plants that we no longer need. Lively illustrations by Eric Smith accompany the poem. Orange/Band 6 books offer varied text and characters, with action sustained over several pages.Text type: A poem.A comparison chart on pages 14 and 15 helps children recap the key pros and cons of bugs, and provides a wealth of speaking and listening opportunities.Curriculum links: Science: Micro-organisms; Geography: Improving the environment
Paradox Lost --- Tales from Hell: Opinion pieces and stories inspired by our collective reaction to the unknown
R. Eric Smith
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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Tuve una pesadilla anoche. Estaba pidiendo ayuda a gritos, PERO NADIE ESCUCHÓ MIS SILENCIOSOS GRITOS. Al crecer en el hogar de un padre ausente y una madre emocionalmente abusiva, Tom Stewart, era un blanco fácil para un depredador. Condicionado por la sumisión y desesperado por la afirmación de las figuras de autoridad, Tom cae presa de toda una década de abuso por parte de su líder Boy Scout. El trauma de su infancia robada lo persigue en su futuro, donde se encuentra aún con más pruebas de las esperadas. A través de una crisis de salud, relaciones rotas y la trágica pérdida de un hijo, Tom se aferra a su fe inquebrantable. Cuando una demanda histórica lo coloca en el largo camino hacia el perdón y la sanación, Tom comienza a ver el propósito de Dios para su dolor. En lugar de refugiarse en la amargura, Tom se enfrenta a su pasado, demostrando que incluso en las peores circunstancias, Dios puede convertir el mal en bien. En sus desgarradoras memorias, Tom transmite un mensaje de esperanza frente a un dolor impensable. En alas de guila es una historia de perseverancia y del poder del perd n, que nos recuerda que, por la gracia de Dios, es posible superar nuestro quebrantamiento. A lo largo de su infancia, Tom Stewart experiment una d cada de abuso sexual por parte de su l der Boy Scout. En este libro tan transparente, En alas de guila, no solo comparte su historia, sino que tambi n equipa al lector para reconocer las se ales de abuso y proporciona un camino hacia la sanaci n a trav s de la fe en Jes s. Una lectura obligada para todos los padres, para ayudar a proteger a sus hijos, y para todas las personas que sufrieron como lo hizo Tom. -Josh D. McDowell, autor
Kukulia kwenye nyumba isiyokuwa na baba wa kutegemewa na yenye mama anayekunyanyasa kihisia, ilikuwa rahisi kwa Tom Stewart kuingia kwenye mtego wa kundi la watu wabaya. Huku akizoea desturi ya kufuata ushawishi wa wengine na kutaka uthibitisho kutoka kwa wakubwa wake, Tom alijikuta amenaswa kwenye mwongo wa dhuluma kutoka kwa kiongozi wa kikundi chake cha Maskauti. Kiwewe cha utoto wake kuharibiwa kinamfuata hadi siku za baadaye, ambapo anakumbana na majaribu si haba. Kupitia janga la kiafya, mahusiano yaliyovunjika na kifo cha mtoto wake wa kiume, Tom anashikilia imani yake isiotetereka. Wakati kesi muhimu inapomweka kwenye barabara ndefu ya msamaha na uponyaji, Tom anaanza kuona kusudi la Mungu kwenye uchungu aliokuwa akiupitia. Badala ya kusalia kwenye uchungu, Tom anakabili siku zake za nyuma, akithibitisha kuwa hata katika hali mbaya, Mungu anaweza kugeuza mabaya kuwa mema. Katika kitabu chake cha kumbukumbu ya kuhuzunisha, Tom anawasilisha ujumbe wa tumaini katika mazingira ya madhara yasiyofikirika. Kupaa Kama Tai ni hadithi ya uvumilivu na nguvu ya msamaha, inayotukumbusha kuwa kutokana na neema ya Mungu, kuna uwezekano wa kuinuliwa juu zaidi ya hali zetu za kupondeka. "Katika utoto wake wote, Tom Stewart alikumbana na mwongo mzima wa dhuluma ya kingono kutoka kwa kiongozi wa kikundi chake cha Maskauti Wavulana. Katika kitabu chake dhahiri, Kupaa Kama Tai, anatusimulia siyo tu kisa chake, bali pia anampatia msomaji maarifa ya kutambua ishara za dhuluma na kutoa njia ya uponyaji kupitia imani katika Yesu. Kitabu hiki lazima kisomwe na kila mzazi ili kumsaidia kuwalinda watoto wake na vilevile lazima kisomwe na kila mtu aliyeteseka kama Tom alivyoteseka."- Josh D. McDowell, Mwandishi
Towards Analytical Techniques for Systems Engineering Applications
Griselda Acosta; Eric Smith; Vladik Kreinovich
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
2020
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This book is intended for specialists in systems engineering interested in new, general techniques and for students and practitioners interested in using these techniques for solving specific practical problems. For many real-world, complex systems, it is possible to create easy-to-compute explicit analytical models instead of time-consuming computer simulations. Usually, however, analytical models are designed on a case-by-case basis, and there is a scarcity of general techniques for designing such easy-to-compute models. This book fills this gap by providing general recommendations for using analytical techniques in all stages of system design, implementation, testing, and monitoring. It also illustrates these recommendations using applications in various domains, such as more traditional engineering systems, biological systems (e.g., systems for cattle management), and medical and social-related systems (e.g., recommender systems).
Towards Analytical Techniques for Systems Engineering Applications
Griselda Acosta; Eric Smith; Vladik Kreinovich
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
2021
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This book is intended for specialists in systems engineering interested in new, general techniques and for students and practitioners interested in using these techniques for solving specific practical problems. For many real-world, complex systems, it is possible to create easy-to-compute explicit analytical models instead of time-consuming computer simulations. Usually, however, analytical models are designed on a case-by-case basis, and there is a scarcity of general techniques for designing such easy-to-compute models. This book fills this gap by providing general recommendations for using analytical techniques in all stages of system design, implementation, testing, and monitoring. It also illustrates these recommendations using applications in various domains, such as more traditional engineering systems, biological systems (e.g., systems for cattle management), and medical and social-related systems (e.g., recommender systems).
Transionospheric Synthetic Aperture Imaging
Mikhail Gilman; Erick Smith; Semyon Tsynkov
Birkhauser Verlag AG
2017
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This landmark monograph presents the most recent mathematical developments in the analysis of ionospheric distortions of SAR images and offers innovative new strategies for their mitigation. As a prerequisite to addressing these topics, the book also discusses the radar ambiguity theory as it applies to synthetic aperture imaging and the propagation of radio waves through the ionospheric plasma, including the anisotropic and turbulent cases. In addition, it covers a host of related subjects, such as the mathematical modeling of extended radar targets (as opposed to point-wise targets) and the scattering of radio waves off those targets, as well as the theoretical analysis of the start-stop approximation, which is used routinely in SAR signal processing but often without proper justification.The mathematics in this volume is clean and rigorous – no assumptions are hidden or ambiguously stated. The resulting work is truly interdisciplinary, providing both a comprehensive and thorough exposition of the field, as well as an accurate account of a range of relevant physical processes and phenomena. The book is intended for applied mathematicians interested in the area of radar imaging or, more generally, remote sensing, as well as physicists and electrical/electronic engineers who develop/operate spaceborne SAR sensors and perform the data processing. The methods in the book are also useful for researchers and practitioners working on other types of imaging. Moreover, the book is accessible to graduate students in applied mathematics, physics, engineering, and related disciplines. Praise for Transionospheric Synthetic Aperture Imaging: “I perceive that this text will mark a turning point in the field of synthetic aperture radar research and practice. I believe this text will instigate a new era of more rigorous image formation relieving the research, development and practitioner communities of inconsistent physical assumptions and numerical approaches.” – Richard Albanese, Senior Scientist, Albanese Defense and Energy Development LLC
Transionospheric Synthetic Aperture Imaging
Mikhail Gilman; Erick Smith; Semyon Tsynkov
Birkhauser Verlag AG
2018
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This landmark monograph presents the most recent mathematical developments in the analysis of ionospheric distortions of SAR images and offers innovative new strategies for their mitigation. As a prerequisite to addressing these topics, the book also discusses the radar ambiguity theory as it applies to synthetic aperture imaging and the propagation of radio waves through the ionospheric plasma, including the anisotropic and turbulent cases. In addition, it covers a host of related subjects, such as the mathematical modeling of extended radar targets (as opposed to point-wise targets) and the scattering of radio waves off those targets, as well as the theoretical analysis of the start-stop approximation, which is used routinely in SAR signal processing but often without proper justification.The mathematics in this volume is clean and rigorous – no assumptions are hidden or ambiguously stated. The resulting work is truly interdisciplinary, providing both a comprehensive and thorough exposition of the field, as well as an accurate account of a range of relevant physical processes and phenomena. The book is intended for applied mathematicians interested in the area of radar imaging or, more generally, remote sensing, as well as physicists and electrical/electronic engineers who develop/operate spaceborne SAR sensors and perform the data processing. The methods in the book are also useful for researchers and practitioners working on other types of imaging. Moreover, the book is accessible to graduate students in applied mathematics, physics, engineering, and related disciplines. Praise for Transionospheric Synthetic Aperture Imaging: “I perceive that this text will mark a turning point in the field of synthetic aperture radar research and practice. I believe this text will instigate a new era of more rigorous image formation relieving the research, development and practitioner communities of inconsistent physical assumptions and numerical approaches.” – Richard Albanese, Senior Scientist, Albanese Defense and Energy Development LLC
A Visual Basic 6 Programmer’s Toolkit
Hank Marquis; Eric Smith
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH Co. K
2000
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Every gravestone in every graveyard can frame a story far more complex than the dates engraved upon it. It's common for spouses to be memorialized together as a final affirmation of the commitments made in life, or for bereaved parents to be buried with children who tragically preceded them in death. Close proximity burials of seemingly unrelated figures can similarly reveal the tales of people who otherwise walked together in life, by choice or by chance. For example, the Confederate burial of Union Col. Robert Gould Shaw was certainly meant as a dishonor as Shaw was buried in an unmarked, low-lying coastal trench alongside the fallen African American members of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment he had commanded at Fort Wagner. After the war, however, the men's remains were recovered and reinterred--meaningfully, still together--at the newly commissioned Beaufort National Cemetery. This book explores a dozen unique examples of such side-by-side burials over the course of U.S. history. It begins by describing each of the protagonists' final chapters, before spooling out the tales and significance of their actual journeys to such interwoven endpoints. The evolution of funerary practices and observances in the United States is interspersed throughout, with a special focus on military honors and burials.
Spatially Correlated Model Selection Method
Ciro Velasco-Cruz; Scotland Leman; Eric Smith
Lap Lambert Academic Publishing
2017
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When We Become Ours
Shannon Gibney; Nicole Chung; Mariama J. Lockington; Meredith Ireland; Mark Oshiro; Stefany Valentine; Eric Smith; Kelley Baker; MeMe Collier; Susan Harness; Lisa Nopachai; Matthew Salesses; Sun Yung Shin; Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom; Jenny Heijun Wills
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS INC
2023
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"An emotion-filled collection." —Kirkus ReviewsA CCBC 2024 Choices for the Fiction for Young Adult category!Two teens take the stage and find their voice . . .A girl learns about her heritage and begins to find her community . . .A sister is haunted by the ghosts of loved ones lost . . .There is no universal adoption experience, and no two adoptees have the same story. This anthology for teens edited by Shannon Gibney and Nicole Chung contains a wide range of powerful, poignant, and evocative stories in a variety of genres.These tales from fifteen bestselling, acclaimed, and emerging adoptee authors genuinely and authentically reflect the complexity, breadth, and depth of adoptee experiences.This groundbreaking collection centers what it’s like growing up as an adoptee. These are stories by adoptees, for adoptees, reclaiming their own narratives. With stories by:Kelley BakerNicole ChungShannon GibneyMark OshiroMeMe CollierSusan Harness Meredith IrelandMariama J. LockingtonLisa NopachaiStefany ValentineMatthew SalessesLisa Wool-Rim SjöblomEric SmithJenny Heijun WillsSun Yung ShinForeword by Rebecca CarrollAfterword by JaeRan Kim, MSW, PhD
What do ancient Shaolin monks, NASA astronauts, and the Mafia have in common? How did the rites of passage that have shaped groups ranging from the U.S. Marines to the Swiss Guard influence the way those elite organizations operate today? And what can modern leaders learn from the crucibles that shape the members of the world’s most formidable organizations?In Crucibles: How Rites of Passage Shape the World’s Most Elite Organizations, readers will encounter the unique initiation rituals of fourteen elite groups—both historical and contemporary—that have shaped civilizations, fortified leaders, and made lasting impacts on culture and power dynamics in societies around the globe and across time. From the grueling physical trials of traditional warrior castes to the intellectual challenges faced by members of secret societies, Crucibles delves deep into the tests such groups design and deploy to separate aspirants from the chosen few.Why are people willing to endure such demanding trials? What do these crucible experiences reveal about human nature and commitment? And how do these crucibles shape the organizations that require them—both for better and worse? This book uncovers the universal principles behind these rites of passage and offers insights that modern organizations can use to design their own rigorous processes, fostering excellence while remaining ethical and relevant in today’s world.With practical lessons for leaders in business, education, and beyond, Crucibles is an in-depth journey into understanding how elite groups are forged. Readers will discover how these time-honored practices can inform and inspire the next generation of leaders. If you are curious about how elite groups have marshaled these experiences to shape human excellence as they define it, Crucibles offers a provocative exploration of the unique and sometimes hidden role played by such initiation rituals.
"à required reading for anyone interested in the economy, ecology, and demography of human societies." --American Journal of Human Biology "This excellent book can serve both as a text¼book and as a scholarly reference." --American Scientist