Advances and Current Trends in Language Teacher Identity Research By Yin Ling Cheung (editor), Selim Ben Said (editor), Kwanghyun Park (editor)
2014 | 284 Pages | ISBN: 1138025364 | PDF | 3 MB
This book presents the latest research on understanding language teacher identity and development for both novice and experienced researchers and educators, and introduces non-experts in language teacher education to key topics in teacher identity research. It covers a wide range of backgrounds, themes, and subjects pertaining to language teacher identity and development. Some of these include the effects of apprenticeship in doctoral training on novice teacher identity; the impacts of mid-career redundancy on the professional identities of teachers; challenges faced by teachers in the construction of their professional identities; the emerging professional identity of pre-service teachers; teacher identity development of beginning teachers; the role of emotions in the professional identities of non-native English speaking teachers; the negotiation of professional identities by female academics. Advances and Current Trends in Language Teacher Identity Research will appeal to academics in ELT/TESOL/applied linguistics. It will also be useful to those who are non-experts in language teacher education, yet still need to know about theories and recent advances in the area due to varying reasons including their affiliation to a teacher training institute; needs to participate in projects on language teacher education; and teaching a course for pre-service and in-service language teachers.

Advanced Machine Learning Technologies and Applications: Proceedings of AMLTA 2021 by Aboul-Ella Hassanien
English | EPUB/PDF | 2021 | 1144 Pages | ISBN : 3030697169 | 127/134.2 MB
This book presents the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Advanced Machine Learning Technologies and Applications (AMLTA 2021) held in Cairo, Egypt, during March 22-24, 2021, and organized by the Scientific Research Group of Egypt (SRGE).

Advanced Electromagnetic Theory
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811959439 | 503 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 12 MB
This textbook provides a comprehensive one-semester course on advanced electromagnetic theory written from the modern perspective covering all important topics that a professional physicist needs to know. Starting from Maxwell's equations, electrostatics and magnetostatics, this book goes on to discuss such topics as relativistic electrodynamics, emission of electromagnetic radiation and plasma physics. It contains solved examples and exercises for students to highlight the concepts in each chapter.

Acts of the Apostles (Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture) by William S. SJ Kurz, Peter Williamson, Mary Healy
English | February 18, 2014 | ISBN: 080103633X | 400 pages | EPUB | 14 Mb
What message was the author of Acts seeking to convey, and what would the original audience have understood? How is God speaking to believers today through Acts as it has been used by the church throughout the centuries? In this addition to the Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture, respected New Testament scholar William Kurz offers a close reading and explanation of the entire narrative of Acts, grounded in the original Greek but keyed to the NABRE for liturgical use. This volume, like each in the series, relates Scripture to life, is faithfully Catholic, and is supplemented by features designed to help readers understand the Bible more deeply and use it more effectively.

Active Power Decoupling Technology in Single-Phase Current-Source Converters
English | 2023 | ISBN: 303121269X | 260 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 51 MB
This book gives a comprehensive and in-depth introduction to the development of active power decoupling technology in single-phase current-source converters. It covers cutting-edge topics such as virtual-impedance control and harmonic state-space modeling and presents topology construction principles, specific decoupling topologies, advanced decoupling controls, and stability analysis. This book will be an invaluable tool for researchers, engineers, and designers in the field of power electronics involved in designing power converters with high power density and reliability.

Acoustic Invisibility for Elliptic Objects: Theory and Experiments for Underwater Sound
English | 2023 | ISBN: 303122602X | 200 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 20 MB
The book investigates acoustic cloaking for elliptical targets, starting from the development of a systematic approach to deal with such non-axisymmetrical shapes by adopting transformation acoustics in elliptic coordinates, and concluding with numerical and experimental validation of a microstructured cloak in the underwater environment. The book thus comprises all the steps from theory to practice that led to the first experimental validation of acoustic invisibility for non-cylindrical objects, whose results are presented in the last chapter. Indeed, despite Transformation Theory is now an established tool to design material distributions capable to unlock the design of invisibility devices, it is not trivial to apply it for shapes different than the sphere and the cylinder, which are thus the ones mainly addressed in the literature. This book paves the way for exploration of other shapes, demonstrating the effectiveness of a pentamode cloak in reducing the acoustic visibility of an elliptical target, and discussing design choices that can make the implementation of the required microstructure less cumbersome despite the lack of axial symmetry of the problem, from both the numerical and manufacturing point of views.

AETA 2017 - Recent Advances in Electrical Engineering and Related Sciences: Theory and Application By Vo Hoang Duy
English | PDF | 2018 | 1086 Pages | ISBN : 3319698133 | 189.6 MB
This proceedings book gathers papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Advanced Engineering Theory and Applications 2017 (AETA 2017), held on 7-9 December 2017 at Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It presents selected papers on 13 topical areas, including robotics, control systems, telecommunications, computer science and more.

A.Y. Jackson: The Life of a Landscape Painter By Wayne Larsen
2009 | 266 Pages | ISBN: 155488392X | PDF | 51 MB
Alexander Young Jackson (1882-1974) is a name that instantly conjures up images of our rugged northern landscape and the controversial Group of Seven. This is the first-ever full-length biography of one of Canada's most beloved characters, and the first to examine in one book the artist, outdoorsman, soldier, teacher, debater, writer, and outspoken defender of modern art. Jackson spent nearly seventy years travelling Canada on a lifelong quest to, rendering his impressions of its diverse character on canvas and promoting a vibrant, uniquely Canadian style of painting. From southern Alberta to Ellesmere Island, from Newfoundland to Northern British Columbia, he covered more ground than any other artist - scoffing at harsh weather and hostile criticism along the way. A.Y. Jackson takes readers on a journey through Jackson's struggles and triumphs, from his childhood in Victorian-era Montreal through his final years as a living legend of Canadian art who thought nothing of camping in a tent on Baffin Island at age 82.

A Methodology of the Heart: Evoking Academic and Daily Life By Ronald J. Pelias
2004 | 182 Pages | ISBN: 0759105944 | PDF | 8 MB
Education without ethics, without sentiments, without heart, is simply soulless, factual academics and nothing more. In his array of authentic essays, Ronald J. Pelias poetically evokes the spiritual aspects of life in a seemingly dispassionate field―the academy. A Methodology of the Heart presents a procession of situational compositions confronting matters such as family relationships, student/teacher communications, and general life at the university. In his comical yet candid book, Pelias depicts the emotional battle for understanding and honesty within the conventional boundaries of higher education. It introduces such subjects as autoethnography, autobiography, personal narratives, memoir, creative non-fiction, and performative writing. It is absolutely a crucial addition to all book collectors with autoethnographic or communication interests as well as to the general reader attracted to daily life and higher education.

A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945, Volume 5: From the Fall of Rome to the End of the War 1944-1945 by Christopher Shores, Giovanni Massimello, Russell Guest, Frank Olynyk, Winfried Bock, Andrew Thomas
English | January 4th, 2023 | ISBN: 1911621971 | 608 pages | True EPUB | 132.64 MB
During the final year of World War II, the defending Axis forces were steadily driven from southern skies by burgeoning Anglo-American power. This was despite the steady withdrawal of units to more demanding areas.