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Staying Maasai?
by P. Trench Patti Kristjanson Katherine HomewoodThe area of eastern Africa, which includes Tanzania and Kenya, is known for its savannas, wildlife and tribal peoples. Alongside these iconic images lie concerns about environmental degradation, declining wildlife populations, and about worsening poverty of pastoral peoples. East Africa presents in microcosm the paradox so widely seen across sub Saharan Africa, where the world's poorest and most vulnerable populations live alongside some of the world's most outstanding biodiversity resources. Over the last decade or so, community conservation has emerged as a way out of poverty and environmental problems for these rural populations, focusing on the sustainable use of wildlife to generate income that could underpin equally sustainable development. Given the enduring interest in East African wildlife, and the very large tourist income it generates, these communities and ecosystems seem a natural case for green development based on community conservation. This volume is focused on the livelihoods of the Maasai in two different countries - Kenya and Tanzania. This cross-border comparative analysis looks at what people do, why they choose to do it, with what success and with what implications for wildlife. The comparative approach makes it possible to unpack the interaction of conservation and development, to identify the main drivers of livelihoods change and the main outcomes of wildlife conservation or other land use policies, while controlling for confounding factors in these semi-arid and perennially variable systems. This synthesis draws out lessons about the successes and failures of community conservation-based approach to development in Maasailand under different national political and economic contexts and different local social and historical particularities.
Steady Aircraft Flight and Performance
by N. Harris McClamrochThis undergraduate textbook offers a unique introduction to steady flight and performance for fixed-wing aircraft from a twenty-first-century flight systems perspective. Emphasizing the interplay between mathematics and engineering, it fully explains the fundamentals of aircraft flight and develops the basic algebraic equations needed to obtain the conditions for gliding flight, level flight, climbing and descending flight, and turning flight. It covers every aspect of flight performance, including maximum and minimum air speed, maximum climb rate, minimum turn radius, flight ceiling, maximum range, and maximum endurance. Steady Aircraft Flight and Performance features in-depth case studies of an executive jet and a general aviation propeller-driven aircraft, and uses MATLAB to compute and illustrate numerous flight performance measures and flight envelopes for each. Requiring only sophomore-level calculus and physics, it also includes a section on translational flight dynamics that makes a clear connection between steady flight and flight dynamics, thereby providing a bridge to further study. Offers the best introduction to steady aircraft flight and performance Provides a comprehensive treatment of the full range of steady flight conditions Covers steady flight performance and flight envelopes, including maximum and minimum air speed, maximum climb rate, minimum turn radius, and flight ceiling Uses mathematics and engineering to explain aircraft flight Features case studies of actual aircraft, illustrated using MATLAB Seamlessly bridges steady flight and translational flight dynamics
Steady Glide Dynamics and Guidance of Hypersonic Vehicle
by Wanchun Chen Hao Zhou Wenbin Yu Liang YangThis book presents the latest researches on hypersonic steady glide dynamics and guidance, including the concept of steady glide reentry trajectory and the stability of its regular perturbation solutions, trajectory damping control technique for hypersonic glide reentry, singular perturbation guidance of hypersonic glide reentry, trajectory optimization based on steady glide, linear pseudospectral generalized nominal effort miss distance guidance, analytical entry guidance and trajectory-shaping guidance with final speed and load factor constraints. They can be used to solve many new difficult problems in entry guidance. And many practical engineering cases are provided for the readers for better understanding. Researchers and students in the fields of flight vehicle design or flight dynamics, guidance and control could use the book as valuable reference.
The Steady Navier-Stokes System: Basics of the Theory and the Leray Problem (Advances in Mathematical Fluid Mechanics)
by Mikhail Korobkov Konstantin Pileckas Remigio RussoThis book provides a successful solution to one of the central problems of mathematical fluid mechanics: the Leray’s problem on existence of a solution to the boundary value problem for the stationary Navier—Stokes system in bounded domains under sole condition of zero total flux. This marks the culmination of the authors' work over the past few years on this under-explored topic within the study of the Navier—Stokes equations. This book will be the first major work on the Navier—Stokes equations to explore Leray’s problem in detail. The results are presented with detailed proofs, as are the history of the problem and the previous approaches to finding a solution to it. In addition, for the reader’s convenience and for the self-sufficiency of the text, the foundations of the mathematical theory for incompressible fluid flows described by the steady state Stokes and Navier—Stokes systems are presented. For researchers in this active area, this book will be a valuable resource.
STEAM Concepts for Infants and Toddlers
by Nichole A. Baumgart Linda R. KrollThis book is about using Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics with very young children. STEAM is an extension of the original STEM efforts to develop scientific and mathematical thinking for use in technology and engineering with the addition of the arts and the goal to support the native creativity and innovation that all children possess. This book is organized into three sections. The first section introduces the book and discusses infant and toddler learning and development in relationship to STEAM concepts. The second section (chapters 2-6) is a series of examples of STEAM curricula in infant and toddler classrooms. The final section (chapters 7-9) focuses on classroom environments and setting up a context for effective development of STEAM curricula for teachers and effective STEAM concept learning for infants and toddlers.
STEAM Teaching and Learning Through the Arts and Design: A Practical Guide for PK–12 Educators
by Debrah C. Sickler-VoigtIn this book, award-winning art educator Debrah C. Sickler-Voigt offers user-friendly, approachable strategies for STEAM planning, instruction, and assessment to help cultivate PK-12 students’ full potential, and draws from wide-ranging artists and designers to help you develop inspired, creative approaches to teaching STEAM in your classroom. Beginning with the basics and best practices of STEAM planning, instruction, and assessment, Sickler-Voigt then encourages readers to move full steam ahead with chapters based around diverse contemporary and historical artists and designers. In helping you to explore the interdisciplinary connections between Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics, Sickler-Voigt identifies strategies to build off from STEM subjects to form authentic, well-designed, and age-appropriate learning tasks that encourage your students to make deep connections and learn subject matter in context through art media and technologies. Each chapter includes flexible, choice-based classroom resources—with tips for adapting to different grade levels—and STEAM amplifiers, which fuse contextual learning on artists and designers with real-world STEAM topics to spark student learning and ignite creative approaches to planning, instruction, and assessment. Featuring 150 visually stunning, full-color images, this book fuses tried-and-true best practices with highly applicable instructional models inspired by artists and STEAM professionals, ideal for PK-12 teachers and STEAM specialists.
The Steam Team Explains: More Than 100 Amazing Science Facts
by Robert WinstonHave you ever wondered what makes electricity? Or what's inside an atom? Or how high the Moon really is? Or what light is made of and why you need it?The STEAM team provides all the answers in this colorful, fact-packed, and informative book, explaining more than 100 key STEAM concepts in a clear way that will appeal to children aged five and above.This is the perfect visual introduction to the key concepts children need to know about all things STEAM. Each topic is explained using illustrated characters that represent science, technology, engineering, art, and maths. The second book in The STEAM Team series, The STEAM Team Explains is an essential read for young STEAM fans.
Steck-Vaughn Mathematical Reasoning: Test Preparation For The 2014 GED Test: Student Book
by Paxen Learning Corporation Staff"Algebraic problem solving, quantitative problem solving, mathematical practices"--Cover.
Steck-Vaughn Working With Numbers: Level D
by Steck-Vaughn Staff<p>Working With Numbers: Level D <p>A best-selling classic, Working with Numbers is a straightforward series offering solid coverage and extra practice for grade-level math-skills an ideal alternative curriculum for struggling students or those requiring remediation</p>
Steck-Vaughn Working with Numbers: Student Edition, Level F
by Steck-VaughnA best-selling classic, Working with Numbers is a straightforward series offering solid coverage and extra practice for grade-level math-skills an ideal alternative curriculum for struggling students or those requiring remediation.
Steck-Vaughn Working with Numbers: Level C
by Weatherly Steck-Vaughn StaffA best-selling classic, Working with Numbers is a straightforward series offering solid coverage and extra practice for grade-level math-skills an ideal alternative curriculum for struggling students or those requiring remediation.
Steel Informatics: Analysing Data of a Complex Materials System
by Shubhabrata Datta Subhas GangulySteel Informatics aims to review the application of data-driven computing techniques related to the design of steel, including phase transformation, composition-process-property correlation, and different processing techniques, particularly deformation and joining. This book initiates with fundamentals of informatics followed by a description of applications of statistical analyses in defining the different attributes of steel. The proceeding chapters of this book cover recent applications of statistical, machine learning, expert systems, and optimization algorithms in the domains of iron and steel making, casting, deformation, phase transformation and heat treatment, microstructure analysis, and design of steel.Features:• Exclusive title focussing on informatics in steel design.• Covers related statistics as well as artificial intelligence and machine learning aspects.• Explains metallurgical aspects lucidly for the data scientists, steel researchers, and industries.• Discusses all aspects of steel technology.• Describes pertinent tools used for related computations.This book is useful for researchers, professionals, and graduate students in metallurgy, materials science, steel and welding, and computational materials science.
Steigerung der Intelligenz mechatronischer Systeme (Intelligente Technische Systeme – Lösungen aus dem Spitzencluster it’s OWL)
by Ansgar Trächtler Jürgen GausemeierDas Buch beschreibt die Ergebnisse des Querschnittsprojekts „Selbstoptimierung“ des vom BMBF geförderten Spitzencluster-Projekts „Intelligente Technische Systeme OstWestfalenLippe“ (kurz: it’s OWL).Die Entwicklung der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik eröffnet neue Perspektiven für intelligente technische Systeme, die hohen Kundennutzen stiften. Diese Systeme sind in der Lage, sich ihrer Umgebung und den Wünschen ihrer Anwender im Betrieb anzupassen. Für den Innovationssprung von der Mechatronik hin zu selbstoptimierenden Systemen wird Expertise aus den Gebieten Maschinelles Lernen, mathematische Optimierungsverfahren, Regelungstechnik und Condition Monitoring benötigt.Zielsetzung des Cluster-Querschnittsprojekts Selbstoptimierung war ein Instrumentarium zur Planung und Entwicklung von selbstoptimierenden Produkten und Produktionssystemen. Dieses soll die Entwickler in den Unternehmen bei der Realisierung von Ansätzen der Selbstoptimierung praxisgerecht unterstützen. Das vorliegende Buch stellt das erarbeitete Instrumentarium mit den entsprechenden Schwerpunkten im Detail vor. Dabei werden die wesentlichen Grundlagen der jeweiligen Fachgebiete gezeigt und die methodische Umsetzung anhand von Praxisbeispielen aus dem Spitzencluster erläutert.
Stein Estimation (SpringerBriefs in Statistics)
by Yuzo Maruyama Tatsuya Kubokawa William E. StrawdermanThis book provides a self-contained introduction of Stein/shrinkage estimation for the mean vector of a multivariate normal distribution. The book begins with a brief discussion of basic notions and results from decision theory such as admissibility, minimaxity, and (generalized) Bayes estimation. It also presents Stein's unbiased risk estimator and the James-Stein estimator in the first chapter. In the following chapters, the authors consider estimation of the mean vector of a multivariate normal distribution in the known and unknown scale case when the covariance matrix is a multiple of the identity matrix and the loss is scaled squared error. The focus is on admissibility, inadmissibility, and minimaxity of (generalized) Bayes estimators, where particular attention is paid to the class of (generalized) Bayes estimators with respect to an extended Strawderman-type prior. For almost all results of this book, the authors present a self-contained proof. The book is helpful for researchers and graduate students in various fields requiring data analysis skills as well as in mathematical statistics.
Stein Manifolds and Holomorphic Mappings
by Franc ForstneričThe main theme of this book is the homotopy principle for holomorphic mappings from Stein manifolds to the newly introduced class of Oka manifolds. The book contains the first complete account of Oka-Grauert theory and its modern extensions, initiated by Mikhail Gromov and developed in the last decade by the author and his collaborators. Included is the first systematic presentation of the theory of holomorphic automorphisms of complex Euclidean spaces, a survey on Stein neighborhoods, connections between the geometry of Stein surfaces and Seiberg-Witten theory, and a wide variety of applications ranging from classical to contemporary.
Stellar Evolution
by Amos HarpazThis book addresses the fascinating subject of astrophysics from its theoretical basis to predominant research conducted in the field today. An accomplished researcher in the field and a well-known expositor, the author strikes a balance that allows the serious reader to appreciate the current issues without previous knowledge of the subject.Astron
STEM by Design: Strategies and Activities for Grades 4-8
by Anne JollyHow do you create effective STEM classrooms that energize students, help them grow into creative thinkers and collaborators, and prepare them for their futures? This practical book from expert Anne Jolly has all the answers and tools you need to get started or enhance your current program. Based on the author’s popular MiddleWeb blog of the same name, STEM by Design reveals the secrets to successful lessons in which students use science, math, and technology to solve real-world engineering design problems. You’ll learn how to: Select and adapt quality existing STEM lessons that present authentic problems, allow for creative approaches, and engage students in meaningful teamwork; Create your own student-centered STEM lessons based on the Engineering Design Process; Assess students’ understanding of basic STEM concepts, their problem-solving abilities, and their level of engagement with the material; Teach STEM in after-school programs to further build on concepts covered in class; Empower girls to aspire to careers in STEM and break down the barriers of gender bias; Tap into STEM's project-based learning style to attract and engage all students. Throughout this user-friendly book, you’ll find design tools such as checklists, activities, and assessments to aid you in developing or adapting STEM lessons. These tools, as well as additional teacher resources, are also available as free downloads from the book’s website, http://www.stem-by-design.com.
STEM by Design: Tools and Strategies to Help Students in Grades 4–8 Solve Real-World Problems
by Anne JollyThe second edition of this practical, how-to guide from expert STEM teacher Anne Jolly reveals the secrets behind designing projects that involve students in using science, math, and technology to engineer solutions for real-world problems. Fully revised and updated from the first edition, each chapter is packed with tools and strategies to help you design and lead exciting STEM projects and lessons and help your students grow into creative thinkers, innovators, and collaborators prepared for life in the 21st century. You’ll learn how to: Select engaging and relevant STEM challenges. Design your own STEM projects using the engineering design process and other acknowledged STEM criteria. Convert existing lessons into quality STEM projects. Include students of different ethnicities and other underrepresented children. Build students’ abilities to work successfully in teams and practice important life skills. Integrate technology into your projects in authentic ways. Assess students’ understanding of STEM concepts and procedures, problem-solving progress, and level of engagement in the project. Involve students in assessing and adjusting their own progress throughout the project. Throughout this user-friendly book you’ll find design tools such as checklists, activities, and assessments to aid you in designing and adapting energizing STEM lessons with your students in Grades 4–8. These tools, as well as other teacher resources, are also available as free downloads from the book website, www.stem-by-design.com.
STEM Education Across the Learning Continuum: Early Childhood to Senior Secondary
by Steve Murphy Amy MacDonald Lena DanaiaThis is the first comprehensive book to consider STEM education from early childhood through to senior secondary education. It approaches STEM as a form of real-world, problem-based education that draws on the knowledge and skills of the science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines. Rather than presenting each of the separate disciplines to an equal extent, it focuses on STEM researchers’ perspectives on how their work contributes to effective STEM education in terms of building knowledge, skills and engagement. Gathering contributions by authors from various countries, the book explores effective STEM education from a range of perspectives within the international context. Moreover, it addresses critical issues in STEM education, including transition and trajectories, gender, rurality, socioeconomic status and cultural diversity. By doing so, it not only shares the current state of knowledge in this field, but also offers a source of inspiration for future research.
STEM Education by Design: Opening Horizons of Possibility
by Sharon Friesen Brent Davis Krista FrancisAn accessible text that assumes no prior knowledge, this book is grounded in the realization that "STEM" and "STEM Education" have not yet evolved into fully coherent fields of study, and fills this gap by offering an original model and strategy for developing coherences in a way that both honors the integrity of each of STEM’s constituent disciplines and explores the ways they can amplify one another when used together to address complex contemporary issues. This book demonstrates how STEM can and should be understood as more than a collection of disciplines; it is a transdisciplinary, possibility-rich domain that is much more than the sum of its parts. Building on the actual work of scientists, engineers, and other professionals, the authors disrupt preconceptions about STEM domains, and provide the tools and evidence-based approaches to create new possibilities for all learners. Covering historical influences, theoretical frameworks, and current debates and challenges, this book positions teachers and students as agents of change. Each chapter features In Brief openers to introduce the topic; Opening Anecdotes to reflect the chapter’s key themes; Sidebars to put core principles in context; Consolidating Key Points activities to summarize and highlight important details; and Challenges to build upon and extend topics explored in the chapter from different angles.
STEM Education by Design: Opening Horizons of Possibility
by Sharon Friesen Brent Davis Krista FrancisAn accessible text that assumes no prior knowledge, this book is grounded in the realization that "STEM" and "STEM Education" have not yet evolved into fully coherent fields of study, and fills this gap by offering an original model and strategy for developing coherences in a way that both honors the integrity of each of STEM’s constituent disciplines and explores the ways they can amplify one another when used together to address complex contemporary issues. This book demonstrates how STEM can and should be understood as more than a collection of disciplines; it is a transdisciplinary, possibility-rich domain that is much more than the sum of its parts. Building on the actual work of scientists, engineers, and other professionals, the authors disrupt preconceptions about STEM domains, and provide the tools and evidence-based approaches to create new possibilities for all learners. Covering historical influences, theoretical frameworks, and current debates and challenges, this book positions teachers and students as agents of change. Each chapter features In Brief openers to introduce the topic; Opening Anecdotes to reflect the chapter’s key themes; Sidebars to put core principles in context; Consolidating Key Points activities to summarize and highlight important details; and Challenges to build upon and extend topics explored in the chapter from different angles.
STEM Education for High-Ability Learners
by Bronwyn MacfarlaneSTEM Education for High-Ability Learners: Designing and Implementing Programming focuses on the rigorous articulation of quality STEM education programming to develop STEM talent among high-ability and gifted learners. The intent of this book is to provide a comprehensive resource for educators designing and implementing each of the supports within STEM education by providing a discussion of each critical component for inclusion in a planned, coherent, and high-quality sequenced system. This edited volume provides a cutting-edge discussion of best practices for delivering STEM education by experts in the field. The contributing authors provide a differentiated discussion and recommendations for the learning experiences of gifted students in STEM education programs.
STEM Education for the 21st Century (Springerbriefs In Education Ser.)
by Bryan Edward PenpraseThis book chronicles the revolution in STEM teaching and learning that has arisen from a convergence of educational research, emerging technologies, and innovative ways of structuring both the physical space and classroom activities in STEM higher education. Beginning with a historical overview of US higher education and an overview of diversity in STEM in the US, the book sets a context in which our present-day innovation in science and technology urgently needs to provide more diversity and inclusion within STEM fields. Research-validated pedagogies using active learning and new types of research-based curriculum is transforming how physics, biology and other fields are taught in leading universities, and the book gives profiles of leading innovators in science education and examples of exciting new research-based courses taking root in US institutions. The book includes interviews with leading scientists and educators, case studies of new courses and new institutions, and descriptions of site visits where new trends in 21st STEM education are being developed. The book also takes the reader into innovative learning environments in engineering where students are empowered by emerging technologies to develop new creative capacity in their STEM education, through new centers for design thinking and liberal arts-based engineering. Equally innovative are new conceptual frameworks for course design and learning, and the book explores the concepts of Scientific Teaching, Backward Course Design, Threshold Concepts and Learning Taxonomies in a systematic way with examples from diverse scientific fields. Finally, the book takes the reader inside the leading centers for online education, including Udacity, Coursera and EdX, interviews the leaders and founders of MOOC technology, and gives a sense of how online education is evolving and what this means for STEM education. This book provides a broad and deep exploration into the historical context of science education and into some of the cutting-edge innovations that are reshaping how leading universities teach science and engineering. The emergence of exponentially advancing technologies such as synthetic biology, artificial intelligence and materials sciences has been described as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and the book explores how these technologies will shape our future will bring a transformation of STEM curriculum that can help students solve many the most urgent problems facing our world and society.
STEM Education in the Early Years: Thinking About Tomorrow
by Kevin Larkin Thomas LowrieThis book analyses and synthesises past and current approaches to STEM Education in the Early Years, particularly the role of digital technologies and play based pedagogies, and provides a look forward to a new way of conceiving STEM Education. It presents a literature review of existing best practice in STEM education, both in Australia and internationally. It also presents theoretical and pedagogical discussions that outlines a new approach to STEM Education, based on a four-year, longitudinal, Early Years project. It provides educational frameworks for educators' use to enhance student learning in STEM, both in formal school contexts and beyond. This book focuses on a number of core themes in the research literature, including STEM education policy (nationally and internationally); the economic, social and political implication of STEM Education; the nexus between digital technologies, STEM, and play based pedagogies; the confidence and competence of early childhood educators and their professional development requirements; STEM education beyond formal schooling; and a new pedagogical approach to STEM education.
STEM for All: How to Connect, Create, and Cultivate STEM Education for All Learners
by Leena Bakshi McLeanHelp close the STEM gap through theory and practical tools Containing all of the practical tools needed to put theory into practice, STEM for All by Leena Bakshi McLean provides a roadmap for teachers, instructional coaches, and leaders to better understand the challenges that create low engagement and scores in STEM subjects and implement exciting and culturally relevant teaching plans. This book covers a wealth of key topics surrounding the subject, including classroom culture, discourse, identity, and belonging, family and community participation, and justice-centered core learning. This book uses the Connect, Create, and Cultivate framework from STEM4Real, an organization that provides socially just and culturally relevant STEM teaching and standards-based learning strategies, combined with stories and case studies of real students throughout to provide context for key concepts. In this book, readers will learn about: Six pillars that can throw off the foundation of a classroom, including non-inclusive curriculum and lack of equal access Moments of triumph and resilience that can be used to navigate rocky and recalcitrant relationships Implicit and unconscious biases that can unravel our impact despite our best intentions STEM for All earns a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of all educators motivated to close the STEM gap and better prepare their students for future college and career opportunities in math and science fields.