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Ethics and Values in Social Work Ed 5


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English | ISBN: 1137607181 | 2020 | 315 pages | PDF | 3 MB
With over 40,000 copies sold across its lifetime, this is social work classic from a leading international author. Synthesizing the complex ideas and concepts that characterize social work’s value base, Sarah Banks expertly provides a clear and systematic account of professional ethics in relation to social work practice, framed within a global context. Ethics and Values in Social Work is co-published with the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) and this fifth edition provides revised and updated analysis of professional regulation and codes of practice.

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East Asian Architecture in Globalization Values, Inheritance and Dissemination (2024)


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English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2021 | 634 Pages | ISBN : 3030759369 | 383 MB
This book collects a selected list of peer-reviewed papers presented at EAAC 2017, International Conference on East Asian Architectural Culture, the leading conference on architectural history and built heritage conservation in the East Asia region.

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Visualization and Imputation of Missing Values


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031300726 | 479 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 76 MB
This book explores visualization and imputation techniques for missing values and presents practical applications using the statistical software R. It explains the concepts of common imputation methods with a focus on visualization, description of data problems and practical solutions using R, including modern methods of robust imputation, imputation based on deep learning and imputation for complex data. By describing the advantages, disadvantages and pitfalls of each method, the book presents a clear picture of which imputation methods are applicable given a specific data set at hand.

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Values Why We Need Them Although They Don’t Exist


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031421582 | 223 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB
In his book, Andreas Urs Sommer reflects on the question of what it really means when everybody’s appealing to values, all the time – the question, fundamentally, of what values actually are. Values explores both of these points, arriving at two intriguing suggestions: Maybe what we call values are just a set of elaborate fictions. And maybe those fictions serve some very important purposes.

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Second International Research Handbook on Values Education and Student Wellbeing


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031244192 | 2147 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 26 MB
This collection applies the principles underlying values education to addressing the many social and learning challenges that impinge on education today . Insights in the fields of social and emotional learning, student wellbeing, and, increasingly, educational neuroscience have demonstrated that values education represents an efficacious pedagogy with holistic effects on students across a range of measures, including social, emotional, and intellectual outcomes. With schools in the 21st century confronting issues such as gender identity, stemming radicalism, mental health, equity for disadvantaged groups, bullying, respect, and the meaning of consent, values education offers a way of teaching and learning that integrates and enhances student’s affective and cognitive functioning.

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Festivals and Values


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031397517 | 378 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 24 MB
This is an original book, covering all the past areas of research anyone would need to know about festivals and ‘event-based culture’. It is based on academic research but written in a way relevant for cultural professionals – uniquely explaining the cultural power of festivals, and with original empirical research, the realities of organisation and management, and social and economic value.

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The Values in Numbers Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age


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English | June 15, 2021 | ISBN: 0231193513 | 376 pages | PDF | 9.19 Mb
Ideas about how to study and understand cultural history―particularly literature―are rapidly changing as new digital archives and tools for searching them become available. This is not the first information age, however, to challenge ideas about how and why we value literature and the role numbers might play in this process. The Values in Numbers tells the longer history of this evolving global conversation from the perspective of Japan and maps its potential futures for the study of Japanese literature and world literature more broadly.

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Implementing Policy for Missing Values in Python


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Released 11/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Level: Beginner | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + vtt | Duration: 54m | Size: 136 MB
This course offers a deep dive into addressing dataset incompleteness. From basic drop methods to intricate regression imputations, emerge equipped to tackle any missing data challenge with confidence.

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