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In entertaining stories of teachers, children, parents and principals Ackerly shows leadership in action and defines the elements of educational cultures, how culture is the delivery system for education, and how individuals can be leaders and create the culture of whatever group they are in.

This edited volume examines how COVID-19 impacted political inequality, social inequality, and the wellbeing of people in the United States. Various theories, methods, outcomes, and potential solutions are discussed to create a cross-discipline narrative on this topic.

This book is the result of 25 years of studying over 300 schools and districts struggling to overturn the longstanding pattern of under achievement of the same demographic groups. It is a reveal of the five most common systemic inequity traps identified through the Study of Studies and ways for leaders to ameliorate them.

The fifteenth volume of a new, well-received and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure, Emergency Services Sector Protection and Homeland Security is an eye-opening account which discusses the challenges this industry faces and the deadly consequences that could result if there was a failure or disruption in the emergency services sector.

In this book, autoethnographies reflect a wide range of perspectives on grief and loss to reflect the unique and individual experiences of each contributor's story while also analyzing broader cultural themes and discussing how we communicate about these experiences.

This book looks at Chinese society fifteen years after the Wenchuan Earthquake from various perspectives ranging from reconstruction policy, mental care for disaster victims, tourism in disaster areas, ethnic minorities, and disaster prevention education from a medium-to long-term perspective.

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Editor and Contributors -- Small/Large-Scale Production, Cost-Benefit Analysis, and Marketing of Button Mushroom -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Taxonomical Classification and Botanical Description of Button Mushroom -- 3 Small/Large-Scale Cultivation -- 3.1 The Mushroom Cultivation Process Can Be Divided into Six Following Steps (Source: http://nhb.gov.in/report_files/button_mu... -- Spawn Production -- Compost Preparation -- Short Method of Composting -- Long Method of Composting -- Spawning -- Spawn Running -- Casing -- Fruiting -- 3.2 Pest and Diseases -- 3.3 Harvesting and Yield -- 3.4 Post-harvest Management -- Packing and Storage -- Short-Term Storage -- Long-Term Storage -- 3.5 Global and Indian Scenario in Button Mushroom Production -- 3.6 Constraints of Button Mushroom Production -- 4 Cost-Benefit Analysis -- 5 Marketing Strategies -- 6 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Large-Scale Production and Cost-Benefit Analysis of Mushroom Spawn -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Why Mushrooms? -- 3 Commonly Cultivated Mushrooms across India -- 4 Spawn -- 5 Spawn Production -- 6 Oyster Mushroom Grain Spawn Cultivation -- 6.1 Materials Required -- Equipment and Miscellaneous Items in Spawn Lab -- Glassware -- Chemicals -- 6.2 Procedure -- Basic Steps of Mushroom Spawn Production -- Selection of Healthy Pleurotus ostreatus -- Preparation of Potato Dextrose Agar/Malt Extract Agar Media: (Hsu, 2018) -- PDA Preparation (200 mL) -- Malt Extract Agar Media (200 mL) -- Pure Culture of Selected Mushroom Should Be Obtained -- Multi-Spore Culture -- Tissue Culture -- Preparation of Substrate for Spawn Culture -- Grain Substrate Preparation Procedure -- Mother Spawn Preparation -- Multiplication of Spawn at the Commercial Level -- 7 Layout of Mushroom Spawn Laboratory -- 8 Cost-Benefit Analysis -- 9 Summary -- References.

Intro -- Preface -- Organization -- Services Society -- Services Conference Federation (SCF) -- Contents -- Network Risk Assessment Method Based on Residual Risk Analysis -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Related work -- 3 Model -- 3.1 Formation Definition of Attack Graphs -- 3.2 Construction of Attack Graph Structure -- 3.3 Attack Maps to the Ring Algorithm -- 3.4 Attack Figure Parameters Construction -- 4 Experiment -- 5 Summary -- References -- EIMDC: A New Model for Designing Digital Twin Applications -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Related Works -- 3 EIMDC Model for Digital Twin Applications -- 3.1 Entity -- 3.2 Infrastructure -- 3.3 Data -- 3.4 Model -- 3.5 Context -- 4 Case Study -- 4.1 Entity -- 4.2 Infrastructure -- 4.3 Data -- 4.4 Model -- 4.5 Context -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Penetration Testing: Smart Home IoT Devices -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Literature Review -- 3 Methodology -- 4 Experiments and Results -- 4.1 Network Scan Result -- 4.2 Exploit Attempt -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- A Comparative Analysis of User's Concerns and Government Policies on Autonomous Vehicles -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Literature Review -- 3 Data Acquisition and Pre-processing -- 3.1 Social Media Scraping -- 3.2 Government Policies Scraping -- 3.3 Data Pre-processing -- 3.4 Data Categorization -- 4 Data Analysis: Methods and Results -- 4.1 Tri-gram and Word Frequency Analysis -- 4.2 Sentiment Analysis -- 4.3 Topic Modeling -- 4.4 Comparative Analysis: User Concerns VS Government Policies -- 5 Future Directions -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Design of Multi-data Sources Based Forest Fire Monitoring and Early Warning System -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Related Works -- 3 Top-Level Design -- 3.1 Data Source -- 3.2 System Design Process -- 3.3 Functional Design -- 4 Algorithm Design -- 4.1 Forest Fire Point Satellite Monitoring -- 4.2 Forest Fire Point Video Monitoring.

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Physical Aspects and Coastal Features -- 1.1 Coastal Features -- 1.2 Beach -- 1.3 Estuary -- 1.4 Coastal Divisions -- 1.5 West Bengal Coast -- 1.6 South 24 Parganas Coastal Division -- 1.7 Purba Medinipur Coastal Division -- 1.8 Coastal Sectors -- 1.9 Digha-Shankarpur Coastal Sector -- 1.10 Bakkhali-Fraserganj Coastal Sector -- 1.11 Ganga Sagar-Chuksar Island Coastal Sector -- 1.12 Sunderbans Coastal Sector -- 1.13 Geology -- 1.14 Climate and Hydrology -- 1.15 Coastal Processes -- 1.16 Coastal Waters -- 1.17 Wave Parameters -- 1.18 Types of Breakers -- 1.19 Beach Width and Beach Slope -- 1.20 Coastal Sediment Components -- 1.21 Lithogenic and Biogenic Components -- 1.22 Source Rock -- 1.23 Composition of Coastal Sediments -- 1.24 Nature of Beach Materials -- 1.25 Grain Size Analysis -- 1.26 Trace Metals and Metal Oxides -- 1.27 Sedimentary Structures -- 1.28 Summary -- References -- 2 Coastal Geomorphology -- 2.1 Coastal Geomorphic Characteristics -- 2.2 Physiographic Set Up -- 2.3 Coastline Configurations -- 2.4 Sediment Transport and Shoreline Progradation -- 2.5 Coastal Geomorphic Features -- 2.6 Coastal Dunes -- 2.7 Islands -- 2.8 Creeks and Water Bodies -- 2.9 Geomorphic Environments -- 2.10 Mudflat Morphology -- 2.11 Significance of Mudflat Morphology -- 2.12 Bioturbation Structures -- 2.13 Tidal Creek Systems -- 2.14 Creek Morphology -- 2.15 Sandy Beaches -- 2.16 Depositional and Erosional Features -- 2.17 Erosional Features -- 2.18 Subsidence -- 2.19 Depositional Features -- 2.20 Tidal Shoal -- 2.21 Marginal Point Bars -- 2.22 Wash Over Flat -- 2.23 Summary -- References -- 3 Coastal Environment-Case Studies -- 3.1 Coastal Features of Kasaragod and Harnai -- 3.2 Coastal Environments of Kasaragod.

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Utility, Principle, Virtue -- 2 Particularism -- 3 Perception and Representation -- 4 Imagination and Metaphor -- 5 Aesthetic Illumination -- 6 Art and Truth -- 7 Literary Expression -- 8 Aristotle and Jane Austen -- 9 Directions -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index.

Intro -- Preface -- Organization -- Contents -- Healthcare: Medical Imaging and Informatics -- Data Characterization for Reliable AI in Medicine -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Data Characteristics: Definitions -- 3 Recent Works Addressing Data Characteristics -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Alzheimer's Disease Detection Using Ensemble Learning and Artificial Neural Networks -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Context -- 1.2 Related Works -- 1.3 Problem Identification -- 1.4 Contribution Outline -- 2 Experiments -- 2.1 Data and Pre-processing -- 2.2 Abbreviations -- 2.3 Model Architectures -- 2.4 Evaluation Protocol and Performance Metrics -- 2.5 Results Analysis -- 3 Conclusion -- References -- Semi-supervised Multi-domain Learning for Medical Image Classification -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methods -- 2.1 Preliminaries -- 2.2 Residual Adapters -- 2.3 Multi-domain Semi-supervised Training -- 3 Experimental Setup -- 4 Results and Discussion -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Significant CC400 Functional Brain Parcellations Based LeNet5 Convolutional Neural Network for Autism Spectrum Disorder Detection -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Related Work -- 3 Motivations and Contributions -- 4 Proposed Approach -- 4.1 Preprocessing -- 4.2 Regions of Interest (ROI) Selection -- 4.3 Data Augmentation -- 4.4 LeNet-5 Based Deep Neural Network for ASD Detection -- 5 Results and Experiments -- 5.1 Dataset -- 5.2 Implementation Details -- 5.3 Performances -- 5.4 Comparison with State of Art Methods -- 6 Conclusion and Future Work -- References -- 2D Respiratory Sound Analysis to Detect Lung Abnormalities -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Related Works -- 3 Experiments -- 3.1 Dataset -- 3.2 Model Architecture and Implementation -- 3.3 Inception-V3 Architecture -- 3.4 Results and Analysis -- 4 Conclusion -- References.