"What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect. Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic progress and prosperity, and scientists fear that we may be in the midst of a mass extinction event. Brian R. Chapman and William I. Lutterschmidt m ..."
" During the last decade, contemporary German and Austrian cinema has grappled with new social and economic realities. The “cinema of consensus,” a term coined to describe the popular and commercially oriented filmmaking of the 1990s, has given way to a more heterogeneous and critical cinema culture. Making the greatest artistic impact since the 1970s, contemporary cinema is responding to questions of globalization and the effects of soc ..."
"With the Spanish-speaking population growing larger, pharmacists wishing to provide patient-centered care must be able to communicate medication information effectively and safely to Spanish-speaking patients. Spanish Conversation Guide Using the Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process serves English-speaking pharmacists who wish to follow the consistent, systematic Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process (PPCP) in Spanish. The publication provides ..."
"The AFLS School Skills Protocol assesses more than 330 skills within 8 different functional skill areas including: Classroom Mechanics, Meals at School, Routines & Expectations, Social Skills, Technology, Common Knowledge, Core Academics, and Applied Academics."
"The AFLS Basic Living Skills Protocol assesses 225 skills in 8 different areas necessary for independence including: Self-Management, Basic Communication, Dressing, Toileting, Grooming, Bathing, Health, Safety and First-aid, and Nighttime Routines"
The AFLS Guide (The Assessment of Functional Living Skills) by James W. Partington, Michael M. Mueller Paperback, 60 Pages, Published 2012 by Behavior Analysts Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-9847048-0-4, ISBN: 0-9847048-0-9
"The AFLS Guide provides information about the features of the AFLS,
how to correctly score items, and how to develop program goals and
objectives that clearly define and target the needs of the learner.
• The AFLS Guide provides assessment and scoring instructions for each module
• Includes recommendations for creating a unique, functional skills' program
• Functional, adaptive, self-help, practical life skills to maximize independe ..."
"The Assessment of Functional Living Skills (AFLS) has the ease, look, and familiarity of the ABLLS®-R extended to necessary skills of independence in home, school, and community settings. The Assessment of Functional Living Skills (AFLS) consists of three different components: . The AFLS Guide . Four individually available assessment modules . A teaching companion for each module that contains task analyses, teaching suggestions, and pr ..."
"The AFLS Community Participation Skills Protocol assesses more than 250 functional skills in 8 different areas necessary for independence community settings including: Basic Mobility, Community Knowledge, Shopping, Eating in Public, Money, Phone, Time, and Social Awareness and Manners."
"Case Study 3: Unser täglich Brot (Our Daily Bread, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 2005)
This film is an example for an internationally successful documentary, made quite
obviously for the big screen and with a clear aesthetic standard. Our Daily Bread
is a glimpse into the world of industrialized food production and hightech
agriculture. It gives an insight into the places where food is produced, describing
a system that is the basis for Wes ..."
"Along with the foundational AFLS Guide, six additional Protocols assess functional, practical, and essential skills of independent everyday life for persons with social and developmental issues. Each assessment protocol can be used alone, but the protocols are conceptualized as parts of an extended assessment spanning a continuum throughout a learner's life in home, school, and community settings. Each distinct module is connected by un ..."
"Preface. Combinations of hydrogen with metals provide a widely divergent group
of materials that run the gamut from extremely unstable compounds to quite
stable alloy-like materials. In this book considerable ... the field of metal hydrides.
D. T. Hurd, in An Introduction to the Chemistry of Hydrides, John Wiley & Sons,
Inc., New York, 1952, and D. P. Smith, in Hydrogen in Metals, The University of
Chicago Press, Chicago, 1948, did ..."
"4.3, 9. 11–12: Beyond the partial stripping off of flesh in circumcision, baptism
causes one to be totally divested of the old nature (lit. the body of flesh). 15: Since
the angelic powers were thought to be the guardians of the law (compare Gal.
3.19), its nullification means the end of their dominion. Captives were paraded in
a public victory celebration; compare Eph. 4.8. 16–18: The false teaching
specified in these verses inclu ..."
"/.letallography is much more than taking striking pictures at high magnifications or polishing and etching specimens in such a way that no scratches can be seen. Basically, metallography is the physical metallurgist's most useful and most used tool for studying metals. Although it is perhaps his oldest tool, it certainly is not likely to become obsolete. Rather, the continued demands that have been placed upon materials have required mo ..."
"This complete revision of the acclaimed New English Bible/Oxford Study Edition is the first one-volume resource introduce readers to the Bible by giving a complete overview of biblical history and scholarship as well as direct commentary on the text. Its features include 23 indispensable articles on the history, literary background, and cultural influences of the Bible, the complete text of the acclaimed Revised English Bible with the ..."
"In the early 1970s, a multidisciplinary team of forest biologists began a study of Hawaiian ecosystems under the International Biological Program (IBP). Research focus was on the intact native ecosystems in and around Hawai?i Volcanoes National Park, in particular the ?Ohi?a lehua rainforest. Patches of dead `ohi`a stands had been reported from the windward slopes of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea. Subsequent air photo analyses by a team of US ..."
Onboarding Champions The Seven Recruiting Principles of Highly Effective Nonprofit Boards (Hardback) by JamesMueller Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2021 by JamesMueller & Associates Llc, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-73429-731-7, ISBN: 1-73429-731-X
"James asks incredibly insightful questions throughout the book that can unlock strategic conversations around recruitment, selection, and onboarding of new directors-and provides practical exercises that can give insight into your own ..."
Onboarding Champions The Seven Recruiting Principles of Highly Effective Nonprofit Boards (Paperback) by JamesMueller Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2021 by JamesMueller & Associates Llc, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-73429-734-8, ISBN: 1-73429-734-4
"James asks incredibly insightful questions throughout the book that can unlock strategic conversations around recruitment, selection, and onboarding of new directors-and provides practical exercises that can give insight into your own ..."
Lyrics of a Broken Heart A Father's Journey Toward Wholeness by JamesMueller Hardcover, 70 Pages, Published 2020 by JamesMueller & Associates Llc ISBN-13: 978-1-73429-730-0, ISBN: 1-73429-730-1
"In Lyrics of a Broken Heart, James Mueller writes: The loss of Luke was dissociating and unhinging. I was groping in the darkness, in sadness, with no sense of how to move forward in a life without my son. The writing was the key to my sanity. As I continued to write, I discovered I was creating a pathway through grief toward emotional wholeness.Turning his private journaling into a book, Mueller shares with the reader the deepest emot ..."