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January 20, 2024

Enhancing Digital Equity Connecting The Digital Underclass

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Free Download Enhancing Digital Equity: Connecting The Digital Underclass By Massimo Ragnedda
2020 | 117 Pages | ISBN: 3030490785 | PDF | 2 MB
This book highlights how, in principle, digital technologies present an opportunity to reduce social disparities, tackle social exclusion, enhance social and civil rights, and promote equity. However, to achieve these goals, it is necessary to promote digital equity and connect the digital underclass. The book focuses on how the advent of technologies may become a barrier to social mobility and how, by concentrating resources and wealth in few hands, the digital revolution is giving rise to the digital oligarchy, further penalizing the digital underclass. Socially-disadvantaged people, living at the margins of digital society, are penalized both in terms of accessing-using-benefits (three levels of digital divide) but also in understanding-programming-treatment of new digital technologies (three levels of algorithms divide). The advent and implementation of tools that rely on algorithms to make decisions has further penalized specific social categories by normalizing inequalities in the name of efficiency and rationalization.

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January 13, 2024

Fuzzy Data Matching with SQL Enhancing Data Quality and Query Performance

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Free Download Fuzzy Data Matching with SQL: Enhancing Data Quality and Query Performance by Jim Lehmer
English | November 7, 2023 | ISBN: 1098152271 | 282 pages | MOBI | 1.12 Mb
If you were handed two different but related sets of data, what tools would you use to find the matches? What if all you had was SQL SELECT access to a database? In this practical book, author Jim Lehmer provides best practices, techniques, and tricks to help you import, clean, match, score, and think about heterogeneous data using SQL.

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January 8, 2024

The Power of Peers in the Classroom Enhancing Learning and Social Skills

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Free Download Karen R. Harris, Lynn Meltzer, "The Power of Peers in the Classroom: Enhancing Learning and Social Skills"
English | 2015 | pages: 338 | ISBN: 1462521061, 146252107X | PDF | 9,1 mb
Peer support and social relationships have a tremendous influence on development, motivation, and achievement for all students, including struggling learners and those with disabilities. This highly practical book is one of the few resources available to guide classroom teachers and special educators in the application of peer-assisted instructional strategies in grades K-12. Expert contributors describe evidence-based approaches for building students’ skills in reading, writing, math, and other content areas, as well as social competence and executive functioning. Sample lessons and more than a dozen reproducible tools are provided. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials.

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January 8, 2024

Enhancing Evolution The Ethical Case for Making Better People (2024)

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Free Download John Harris, "Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People"
English | 2010 | pages: 242 | ISBN: 0691148163, 0691128448 | EPUB | 1,1 mb
In Enhancing Evolution, leading bioethicist John Harris dismantles objections to genetic engineering, stem-cell research, designer babies, and cloning and makes an ethical case for biotechnology that is both forthright and rigorous. Human enhancement, Harris argues, is a good thing-good morally, good for individuals, good as social policy, and good for a genetic heritage that needs serious improvement. Enhancing Evolution defends biotechnological interventions that could allow us to live longer, healthier, and even happier lives by, for example, providing us with immunity from cancer and HIV/AIDS. Further, Harris champions the possibility of influencing the very course of evolution to give us increased mental and physical powers-from reasoning, concentration, and memory to strength, stamina, and reaction speed. Indeed, he says, it’s not only morally defensible to enhance ourselves; in some cases, it’s morally obligatory.

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January 4, 2024

Polymers Enhancing Bioavailability in Drug Delivery

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Free Download Ana Isabel Fernandes, "Polymers Enhancing Bioavailability in Drug Delivery"
English | ISBN: 3036556842 | 2022 | 260 pages | PDF | 40 MB
This Special Issue provides an update on the state of the art and current trends in polymeric drug-delivery systems specifically designed for improving drug bioavailability. The multiple contributions received further strengthen the role of polymers in modern drug delivery and targeting, illustrating the different approaches possible and unveiling what the future may bring.

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January 1, 2024

Mutation Breeding and Efficiency Enhancing Technologies for Resistance to Striga in Cereals

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Free Download Mutation Breeding and Efficiency Enhancing Technologies for Resistance to Striga in Cereals by Abdelbagi M. A. Ghanim, Shoba Sivasankar, Patrick J. Rich
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 184 Pages | ISBN : 3662681803 | 82.4 MB
This book is a compilation of protocols developed through a Coordinated Research Project of the Joint FAO/IAEA Center of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, specifically focused on mutation breeding for resistance to Striga. The book consists of three sections; (i) a general introduction on Striga biology and impact and mutagenesis in cereal crops; (ii) protocol chapters focusing on field, screenhouse and laboratory screening and diagnostic for resistance to Striga asiatica and S. hermonthica in sorghum, upland rice and maize, and; (iii) efficiency enhancing technologies such as rapid crop cycling, doubled haploid production and genomics for mutation discovery and marker development. These chapters were written by well recognized experts in Striga biology and physiology, and cereal breeders. The book is intended to serve as a unique reference and guide for plant breeders and geneticists engaged in breeding for resistance to Striga in cereals.

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