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About 90 percent of this excessive heat is due to buildings and pavements that absorb and store solar heat (According to the Green Buildings Council). The only reference that focuses specifically on pavements, Pavement Materials for Heat Island Mitigation: Design and Management Strategies explores different advanced paving materials, their properties, and their associated advantages and disadvantages. Relevant properties of pavement materials (e.g. albedo, permeability, thermal conductivity, heat capacity and evaporation rate) are measured in many cases using newly developed methods. Include

Pavements --- Road materials. --- Design and construction. --- Materials --- Roads --- Bituminous materials --- Equipment and supplies --- Road materials --- Design and construction

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Educació cívica --- Xina --- Hong Kong (Xina) --- Taiwan --- Educació per a la ciutadania --- Ensenyament cívic --- Educació --- Ciutadania --- Civisme --- Educació en valors --- Educació moral --- Educació per a la pau --- Chung-hua Min-kuo --- Formosa --- República de la Xina --- T'ai-wan --- Xina Nacionalista --- Àsia oriental --- Hsiang-kang (Xina) --- Xianggang (Xina) --- Cathay --- China --- República de la Xina (1912-1949) --- República Popular de la Xina --- República Popular Xina --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Xina (República : 1912-1949) --- Canton (Xina) --- Guangdong (Xina) --- Hainan (Xina : Sheng) --- Henan (Xina : Sheng) --- Macau (Xina : Regió administrativa especial) --- Iang-Tsé (Xina : Curs d'aigua) --- Manxúria (Xina : Regió) --- Mongòlia Interior (Xina : Zizhiqu) --- Pequín (Xina) --- Sichuan (Xina : Sheng) --- Xinjiang (Xina : Regió) --- Xangai (Xina) --- Yunnan (Xina : Sheng) --- Civics --- Study and teaching --- Civics, American --- Political science --- Social ethics --- Citizenship --- Political ethics

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Using comparative qualitative methodology, this book examines three Chinese societies, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Mainland China, as specific cases of democratic, hybrid and authoritarian regimes, presenting the theoretical underpinnings of civic education in contexts other than liberal democracy. It highlights on the concept of 'good citizens' in these three regime contexts and explores how these concepts are reflected in civic education and perceived by students in the three societies. The book focuses on three levels of comparison to ensure that all relevant issues can be identified: Level 1: regime "type"; Level 2: curriculum and policy formulations; Level 3: students' personal experiences. These three levels are linked with each other and form a continuous process of civic education implementation in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Mainland China.

Sociology of education --- Curriculum development --- Teaching --- Educational sciences --- vergelijkende pedagogiek --- onderwijspolitiek --- onderwijs --- curriculumontwikkeling --- onderwijsonderzoek

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This book presents an investigation of language contact, focusing on Northwestern China. It breaks down the barrier between human sciences and natural sciences in order to reconsider the diversity of languages on the basis of the latest research findings from genetics, linguistics, and other domains, offering valuable insights into when and how the divergence of languages and genes began and language and gene admixture and replacement occurred. The book focuses on language evolution between the border of Gansu and Qinghai Province in China, but the research doesn’t neglect the area beyond China’s northern borders. Manchu, a dying language belonging to the Tungusic group, is also studied to enhance our understanding of language replacement. This work is the result of a four-year collaboration between teams of geneticists and linguists in France and China.

Linguistics. --- Human genetics. --- Languages. --- Language and languages. --- Historical linguistics. --- Physical anthropology. --- Historical Linguistics. --- Asian Languages. --- Human Genetics. --- Biological Anthropology. --- Language and languages --- Comparative linguistics. --- Study and teaching. --- Comparative philology --- Philology, Comparative --- Foreign language study --- Historical linguistics --- Language and education --- Language schools --- South Asian Languages. --- Biological and Physical Anthropology. --- Biological anthropology --- Somatology --- Anthropology --- Human biology --- Genetics --- Heredity, Human --- Physical anthropology --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Linguistics --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and history --- History

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This book provides numerous methods for identification, validation, and functional characterization of chimeric RNAs, herein described as any transcript which contains the nucleotide sequence of two distinct parental genes. Beginning with identification and characterization through bioinformatics tools, the book continues with experimental validation using RT-PCR, hybridization methods for RNA, and the use of mass spectrometry data for fusion protein validation, as well as functional and mechanistic studies of chimeric RNAs and translational applications. Written for the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Authoritative and practical, Chimeric RNA: Methods and Protocols is an ideal guide to this expansive field and an inspiration to researchers seeking to further our knowledge of these remarkable features of the transcriptome.

RNA --- Àcid ribonucleic --- ARN --- Àcids nucleics --- Micro RNAs --- Genetics. --- Medical genetics. --- Cancer. --- Genetics and Genomics. --- Medical Genetics. --- Cancer Biology. --- Cancers --- Carcinoma --- Malignancy (Cancer) --- Malignant tumors --- Tumors --- Clinical genetics --- Diseases --- Heredity of disease --- Human genetics --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Genetic disorders --- Biology --- Embryology --- Mendel's law --- Adaptation (Biology) --- Breeding --- Chromosomes --- Heredity --- Mutation (Biology) --- Variation (Biology) --- Genetic aspects