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APL: Developing more flexible colleges
The keystones for provision in the new era of Further Education will be flexibility of response, open access, equality of opportunity, and valuing and accrediting alternative ways of learning - all linked together within the concepts of providing life-long learning opportunities. The provision of APL, along with the support services needed to ensure its success, can be used as the `acid test' of whether a college is truly open and accessible to a variety of learners. Written by an experienced manager, this book offers invaluable advice for other managers and senior staff engaged in transforming their colleges to meet students' needs.
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Ergodic theory of equivariant diffeomorphisms : Markov partitions and stable ergodicity
We obtain stability and structural results for equivariant diffeomorphisms which are hyperbolic transverse to a compact (connected or finite) Lie group action and construct '$\\Gamma$-regular' Markov partitions which give symbolic dynamics on the orbit space. We apply these results to the situation where $\\Gamma$ is a compact connected Lie group acting smoothly on $M$ and $F$ is a smooth (at least $C^2$) $\\Gamma$-equivariant diffeomorphism of $M$ such that the restriction of $F$ to the $\\Gamma$- and $F$-invariant set $\\Lambda\\subset M$ is partially hyperbolic with center foliation given by $\\Gamma$-orbits.On the assumption that the $\\Gamma$-orbits all have dimension equal to that of $\\Gamma$, we show that there is a naturally defined $F$- and $\\Gamma$-invariant measure $\\nu$ of maximal entropy on $\\Lambda$ (it is not assumed that the action of $\\Gamma$ is free). In this setting we prove a version of the Livsic regularity theorem and extend results of Brin on the structure of the ergodic components of compact group extensions of Anosov diffeomorphisms. We show as our main result that generically $(F,\\Lambda,\\nu)$ is stably ergodic (openness in the $C^2$-topology). In the case when $\\Lambda$ is an attractor, we show that $\\Lambda$ is generically a stably SRB attractor within the class of $\\Gamma$-equivariant diffeomorphisms of $M$.
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Self-determination
This teacher-friendly guide presents research-proven instructional techniques that empower students with disabilities to become their own advocates and use effective choice-making, problem-solving, and goal-setting skills.
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Dynamics and symmetry
This book contains the first systematic exposition of the global and local theory of dynamics equivariant with respect to a (compact) Lie group. Aside from general genericity and normal form theorems on equivariant bifurcation, it describes many general families of examples of equivariant bifurcation and includes a number of novel geometric techniques, in particular, equivariant transversality. This important book forms a theoretical basis of future work on equivariant reversible and Hamiltonian systems.
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The Massachusetts General Hospital handbook of pain management
The Third Edition of this highly popular pocket guide presents the state-of-the-art approaches to pain management that are currently taught and practiced at the Massachusetts General Hospital. This edition has new chapters on chronic back pain, pain control in children with chronic and terminal disease, and diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, plus new illustrations of procedures and techniques. All chapters include the latest evidence-based information and coverage of fibromyalgia, psychosomatic complaints, headaches, and opioid cautions has been expanded. Tables and chapter-opening outlines enable readers to find information quickly. A drug appendix and seven other practical appendices are included.
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