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The Ethics of Predator Control: A Scottish Case Study
by Andrew Linzey Clair Linzey Katie JavanaudThis book offers a timely contribution to the ethical discourse on predator control, particularly in the context of Scottish moor management. It provides a detailed examination of the moral arguments surrounding animal welfare and conservation, engaging with contemporary debates in environmental ethics, wildlife management, and animal rights.Organised into two parts, Part 1 comprises a report by the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics on the ethics of predator control for members of the Scottish Parliament. The central argument critically assesses the morality of predator control, aligning with broader discussions on sentience, suffering, and human responsibilities towards nonhuman animals. Part 1 also proposes the promulgation of a new charter for free-living animals. This legislation should begin with the recognition of sentiency and enshrine in law the value and dignity of free-living animals such that their right to live unmolested is respected. Part 2 contains detailed rebuttals of subsequent criticisms of the report. Over 120 scholars worldwide have endorsed the report.Given the growing interest in rewilding, biodiversity conservation, and ethical hunting debates, this book has the potential to be a significant resource for scholars, policymakers, and advocacy groups. It will also be of interest to students and academics in the fields of ethics, conservation, philosophy, ecology, and animal law.
Sustainable Organizational Change: The Social Change Model for Systems (Routledge Focus on Business and Management)
by Joshua D. Burton Barbara CarterThe Social Change Model for Systems (SCMS) is a robust system for facilitating organizational change. SCMS integrates technical and social controls to ensure organizational effectiveness. This book introduces SCMS as an alternative to traditional control systems, emphasizing the interplay between diagnostic and interactive social controls to shape organizational belief and boundary systems. SCMS promotes a structured, evidence-based method for assessing organizational climate, addressing challenges, incorporating social characteristics, and developing effective social strategies. The model highlights the importance of ongoing reassessment and iterative change management through frameworks such as Agile, ADKAR, and the Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle. Key benefits of SCMS include fostering trust, equity, and engagement; improving decision-making; and enhancing employee satisfaction. The study provides practical applications of SCMS through case studies, demonstrating SCMS’s role in improving work unit climates and organizational performance. By bridging the gap between hierarchical control and methods that include employee input, SCMS provides a flexible, adaptive strategy for leaders and HR managers to implement sustainable organizational changes.
Christian Realism and the Revival of Public Theology (Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics)
by Charles McDanielChristian Realism and the Revival of Public Theology analyzes Reinhold Niebuhr’s The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness 80 years after publication and argues that it provides pertinent lessons for the contemporary era. This book considers how Niebuhr’s book—as well as his other work—remains relevant and retains insights for an America which seems increasingly to be losing its moral bearings and political courage. The author examines the roots of political polarization in Niebuhr’s categories of the children of light and the children of darkness, finding it a more useful binary than liberalism vs. conservatism for understanding America’s culture wars and the growing sense that its political institutions are in terminal decay. This book seeks to show how public theology offers resources to foster democratic and moral renewal. It concludes by calling for a reinvigorated civil religion to promote unity rather than division. This book will appeal to scholars of American politics, Christian ethics, Christian Realism, public theology, and American religious history as well as historians of American Christianity.
Equitable and Innovative Teaching Practices for Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology Educators
by Amber M Shipherd Coumbe-Lilley, John EEquitable and Innovative Teaching Practices for Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology Educators addresses the need for a resource on practical learning and assessment activities for face-to-face and online instruction in sport, exercise, and performance psychology. Specifically, this book provides readers with evidence-based strategies for addressing classroom challenges, namely those that the COVID-19 pandemic brought to the forefront, including flexible yet equitable teaching practices, student engagement both in and outside of the classroom, building connections in the online or hybrid classroom, and innovative techniques, activities, assessments, and course design approaches. The sport, exercise, and performance psychology field demands that educators help learners translate evidence into practice and recognize relationships between science, application, and reflection. Tomorrow’s learners will require instructional approaches that engage them and increase their awareness, knowledge, and skill development so that their experience is rich, deep, and memorable.Equitable and Innovative Teaching Practices for Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology Educators bridges the gap between pre- and post-pandemic teaching and learning practices that provide educators with strategies and tools to equip them for tomorrow’s students and is key reading for graduate students, young professionals, or experienced educators in the field of sport, exercise, and performance psychology. Active professionals in the broader fields of psychology, kinesiology, coaching, counselling, or education who may teach sport, exercise, and performance psychology courses or students will also find this new book a valuable resource.
Strengths-Based Approaches in Indigenous Education: Research and Practice
by Marnee Shay Grace SarraThis book brings together Indigenous thinkers and scholars with Western theories and practice frameworks to propose a theory for a strengths approach to knowledge production in Indigenous education.The text traverses disciplines and fields that have advanced strengths-based approaches in providing practitioners, researchers, and policy makers a way of reframing problems to start from a place of strength and capital. Strengths approaches have gained traction in various contexts in Indigenous education; however, this book is the first of its kind to explore the field more broadly and consider its potential for a way forward in Indigenous education. Using existing scholarship to consider how Indigenous education has been positioned in the past and present, it puts forward compelling reasons why new approaches grounded in strengths-based approaches are necessary for reimagining the possibilities for Indigenous education.Offering a theoretically robust framework, this is an essential resource for educators, researchers, and policy makers interested in transformative action in Indigenous education.
Equity-Driven Leadership in School Counseling: How to Champion Justice for All Students
by Caroline Lopez-Perry E.C.M. MasonDrawing from the authors’ experience as former school counselors, their research on school counselor leadership and advocacy, and their professional advocacy work, this book provides insights and strategies to develop school counselors’ leadership skills.This book is divided into two parts. The first part focuses on self-reflection and critical consciousness for school counselors. It challenges their understanding of leadership and urges them to critically examine whether their personal definition of leadership aligns with the needs of diverse students and the broader educational context. Chapter topics include leadership and liberation, the limits of traditional leadership theories, leading with emotional intelligence, and the courage to confront systems of oppression. The second part calls the reader toward critical action and engagement in social and political activity and advocacy with the intent to disrupt and change perceived inequalities. Specific topics include developing political skills, addressing resistance to change, and developing collaborative relationships.School counselors will find this book filled with the necessary knowledge and skills to effect change in schools, districts, and the public arena for the benefit of P-12 students, particularly those from historically marginalized populations.
Introduction to Optical Metrology (Optical Sciences and Applications of Light)
by Rajpal S. SirohiThis book describes both the theory and practice of optical techniques to measure various parameters encountered routinely in science and engineering.Introduction to Optical Metrology, Second Edition, examines the theory and practice of various measurement methodologies utilizing both the corpuscular and the wave nature of light. The book begins by introducing the subject of optics and then addresses the propagation of laser beams through free space and optical systems. It discusses interferometry, holography, speckle metrology, the moiré phenomenon, photoelasticity, and microscopy. The remaining chapters describe techniques and methods of measurements of refractive index, thickness, radii of curvature, angle, velocity, pressure, length, optical testing, and fiber-optic-based methods. Apart from these, this edition includes a chapter on temperature measurement, sections on fringe unwrapping methods, testing of free-form optics, shearography, etc. Featuring new and updated exercise problems at the end of each chapter, this edition provides an applied understanding of essential optical measurement concepts, techniques, and procedures.The primary audience for this book is undergraduate and graduate students who specialize in optics. It will also be useful to researchers and professionals working on optical testing and fiber-optic-based and MEMS-based measurements. A solutions manual and figure slides are available for adopting professors.
Onboarding in der Pflege: Ankommen – Wohlfühlen – Bleiben
by Andrea FischerIn der heutigen Zeit ist es wichtiger denn je, neue Mitarbeitende willkommen zu heißen und nachhaltig in das Team zu integrieren. Dieses Buch bietet Führungskräften im Pflegebereich praxisnahe Strategien und innovative Konzepte, um den Onboarding-Prozess erfolgreich zu gestalten. Eine strukturierte und wertschätzende Einarbeitung stärkt sowohl die neuen Mitarbeitenden, und fördert zudem die langfristige Bindung an das Team und trägt zu einem angenehmen Arbeitsklima bei. Nur wenn sich Pflegende selbst gut aufgehoben fühlen, können sie ihre Aufgabe mit Freude und Kompetenz erfüllen und bleiben der Einrichtung langfristig treu.
Diversitätsprozesse in interkulturellen Projektteams: Eine qualitative, explorative Analyse (Intercultural Communication and Global Cultural Dynamics – Interkulturelle Kommunikation und globale kulturelle Dynamiken)
by Lisa NowakDiese Open-Access-Publikation greift den aktuellen Forschungsstand zu kultureller Diversität in der Teamarbeit auf und vertieft die Prozessperspektive. Teamprozesse werden als zusammenhängende, strukturbildende Aktivitäten verstanden und als ausschlaggebend für die Diversitätsmanifestation erachtet. Die Ergebnisse der qualitativen, explorativen Feldstudie zeigen, dass Diversität sich in spezifischen Teamprozessen manifestiert. Sechzehn Prozesse in sieben Gruppen werden vorgestellt, die parallel und mehrzyklisch verlaufen. Die Ergebnisse implizieren, dass Teamprozesse die Grundlagen für Diversitätsuntersuchung bieten sollten und der prozessuale Kontext bei Diversitätserhebungen berücksichtigt werden muss. Eine Forschungslogik wird vorgeschlagen, die die Salienz von Prozessen über einen Zeitraum hinweg fokussiert, um Dynamiken und Abhängigkeiten der Diversitätsmanifestation weiter zu analysieren.
Education Censorship: Elite Capture of the Public Educational System
by Brandon D. MitchellThis book encompasses a historical approach to understanding the trends of education censorship. The author examines how we got here, exploring network influences, the inextricable role of the mainstream media in manufacturing social and political divides, the policy impact of censorship, and the implications on schools and youth development. Analysis includes the legislative efforts to undermine Critical Race Theory, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Social-Emotional Learning, as well as the trends to restrict youth rights, including trans and gender-expansive rights related to gender-affirming care, sports bans, and restroom bans. Subsequent chapters provide an overview of the educational system, trends of neoliberalism, standards-based movement, inequities, punitive disciplinary systems – contextualized by the strengths and limitations of the progressive reform movement. Weaving together the effects of the neoliberal education movement, the relationship to education censorship, and the unique connections to political polarization – can help to re-orient us toward solutions, unity, and healing.
Sustainability, Care, Play and the Zone of Proximal Development: A Developmental Perspective on Childhood (Perspectives in Cultural-Historical Research #15)
by Marilyn Fleer Mariane Hedegaard Ditte Winther-Lindqvist Louise BøttcherThis book addresses the central issue of children’s social situation of development in relation to sustainability, care and imagination. The concept of sustainability is topical in current societal discussions, but much in need of further elaboration, which is provided by this book as an integrated aspect of childcare and child development. It provides an exploration of whether and how sustainability can contribute relevantly to conceptual development within the cultural-historical framework with relation to child development more broadly and care and imagination more specifically. A central question in the book is how the concept of sustainability is related to Vygotsky’s writings on the zone of proximal development and the social situation of development. It takes on the current need to understand the problem of creating more sustainable societies and practices as interconnected practices for supporting the development of children as present and future sustainability-responsible citizens. This book provides a much needed theoretical elaboration of child care as a scientific concept, the practice context of care, and a wholistic conceptual approach to care.
Induction, Science, and Morality (Synthese Library #520)
by Seungbae ParkThis book offers new insights into Hume&’s problem of induction. In addition to that, it argues against the coherentist justification of induction, refuting Hume's initial problem of induction and develops counter-inductions to defend scientific realism from pessimists and advocates a realist theory of scientific development. In doing so, this book enriches the moral realism debate with the scientific realism debate and is of great value to researchers and advanced students in philosophy of science.
Emerging Contaminants in Water (Emerging Contaminants and Associated Treatment Technologies)
by Manoj Kumar Jindal Bhumika Das Parul BaranwalThis book provides comprehensive information on emerging contaminants in water, their sources, detection techniques, ecological and health impacts, and sustainable mitigation strategies. It emphasizes the urgent need for research and global collaboration to ensure the safety and sustainability of water resources. These emerging contaminants include per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), microplastics, pharmaceuticals, personal care products, pesticides, industrial and household products, metals, surfactants, industrial additives, radioactive elements and many more which pose potential risks to ecosystems and human health. While extensive research has explored their individual effects, there remains a critical gap in understanding their combined ecological impacts. Recent research underscores various contaminants' harmful effects, prompting efforts to develop new and more efficient removal techniques. While methods like adsorption and filtration show promise, biological methods offer a promising alternative with greater degradation efficiency. This book comprises all such information related to emerging contaminants in water systems and what could be the next step to mitigate their harmful impact in a sustainable manner. The book is structured into seven parts, covering the classification, sources, detection techniques, occurrence, ecological and health effects, and fate of key contaminants like microplastics and PFAS in aquatic ecosystems. It also explores mitigation strategies, including setting safe thresholds and implementing sustainable removal approaches. Through an in-depth review of current research and future directions, this book serves as a valuable resource for scientists, policymakers, and environmental professionals working toward mitigating the harmful impact of emerging contaminants on water systems. Chapter 5 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Communicating and Organizing in Complex Operational Situations: An Empirical Study of Communication Structures in Staff Work
by Jana M. CeliklerJana M. Celikler examines the creation, maintenance, and design of communication structures and processes within situation briefings in the staff work of civil and disaster protection organizations. Based on a conversation analysis of 45 situation briefings, which the author documented through participant observation, she develops a phase model that represents the individual phases in the communication process of a situation briefing, taking into account phase-specific communication patterns. Based on her findings, she formulates design recommendations for conducting situation briefings.
Der Businessplan: Start-ups erfolgreich gründen – Mit Checklisten und Fallbeispielen
by Anna NaglDieser bewährte Leitfaden ermöglicht es den Lesern, einen maßgeschneiderten Businessplan zu erstellen, der strengsten Anforderungen genügt. Laut Prof. Dr. Schönenberger von der TU München sind die einzelnen Elemente eines Businessplans sehr gut beschrieben, klar strukturiert und durch Fallbeispiele veranschaulicht. Dieses Buch deckt in der nun 11. Auflage die komplette Bandbreite an Businessplänen ab, von dem auf Nachhaltigkeit ausgerichteten one-woman-Start-up über einen mehrfach prämierten Businessplan eines mittelständischen Technologieunternehmens bis hin zu einem sog. Einhorn der Biotechnologie. Ein besonderes neues Highlight dieses Buches ist das Kapitel von dem erfahrenen und erfolgreichen Gründer, Forscher und Visionär der Biotech-Branche, Dr. Karsten Henco, der mit seinen detaillierten Einblicken in Unternehmensgründungen viele wertvolle Tipps und Hilfestellungen gibt.
Green Nanotechnology Applications for Ecosystem Sustainability (Nanotechnology in Plant Sciences #4)
by Shri Mohan Jain Jameel M. Al-Khayri T. R. AnjuGreen nanotechnology holds the key to transforming industries and addressing global challenges with sustainable solutions. This book explores the applications of green nanotechnology across diverse domains, from ecosystem sustainability and sustainable agriculture to cutting-edge manufacturing processes and advanced environmental monitoring. It explores innovative approaches for water purification, oil spill remediation, and wastewater treatment, along with advanced techniques for food preservation, energy harnessing, and controlling air and ocean pollution. Applications, including drug delivery and health monitoring using nanosensors, are discussed in detail, alongside critical perspectives on eco-nanotoxicology to ensure responsible and sustainable implementation. Authored by a team of 67 renowned scientists from five countries and featuring 18 meticulously reviewed chapters supported by 23 tables and 116 color figures, this book is a comprehensive guide for researchers, policymakers, and professionals striving for a sustainable future powered by nanotechnology.
Voice-Marketing kompakt: Der Siegeszug der digitalen Assistenten
by Ralf T. Kreutzer Franziska JägerDieses Buch zeigt, wie Sie Ihr Unternehmen auf den Einsatz von Voice und der digitalen Assistenten vorbereiten können. Denn der Siegeszug der Steuerung durch Sprache – auch von komplexen Systemen und Prozessen – ist nicht zu stoppen. Voice-Marketing wird zu einem zentralen Bestandteil der digitalen Kundenansprache. Unternehmen sollten jetzt prüfen, wie sich Sprache und Sprachassistenten strategisch in ihre Marketing- und Service-Landschaft integrieren lassen und welche Anforderungen zu berücksichtigen sind. Der Autor und die Autorin zeigen nicht nur die Chancen des Voice-Marketings und Handlungsnotwendigkeiten, sondern vermitteln auch konkrete How-to-Ideen.Die zweite Auflage wurde komplett überarbeitet und erweitert. Franziska Jäger ist als neue Co-Autorin hinzugekommen.
AI-Driven Cybersecurity: Revolutionizing Threat Detection and Defence Systems
by Ahmed Abdelgawad Mariya Ouaissa Mariyam Ouaissa Hooman Razavi Haïfa NakouriThis book delves into the revolutionary ways in which AI-driven innovations are enhancing every aspect of cybersecurity, from threat detection and response automation to risk management and endpoint protection. As AI continues to evolve, the synergy between cybersecurity and artificial intelligence promises to reshape the landscape of digital defence, providing the tools needed to tackle complex, ever-evolving cyber threats. Designed for professionals, researchers, and decision-makers, this book emphasizes that understanding and leveraging AI in cybersecurity is not just advantageous—it is essential for building robust, future-proof defences in a world where digital security is paramount.
Mentoring Music Teachers in the Secondary School: A Practical Guide (Mentoring Trainee and Early Career Teachers)
by Sarah Younie Nikki Booth Motje WolfMentoring Music Teachers in the Secondary School helps mentors of trainee and newly qualified music teachers in both developing their own mentoring skills and providing the essential guidance their beginning teachers need as they navigate the roller-coaster of the first years of teaching. Offering tried and tested strategies based on research and evidence, this book covers the knowledge, skills, understanding, and practical tools every mentor needs.This book is a vital source of support and inspiration for mentors involved in developing the next generation of outstanding music education teachers. Key topics explained include: What is meant by mentoring What a mentor does Supporting specific aspects of beginning music teachers’ knowledge, skills, and understanding Moving beginning music teachers on in their professional practice Filled with key tools for the mentor’s individual development, this essential text offers an accessible guide to mentoring early career music education teachers with ready-to-use strategies that support and inspire both mentors and beginning teachers alike.
The Great Psychology Delusion: Missteps, Pitfalls and How to Make a More Successful Psychological Science
by Craig Speelman Marek McGannThe Great Psychology Delusion takes an unflinching look at some of the foundational assumptions of psychological science. Exploring long-standing unanswered critiques of psychological research in a way that is detailed but accessible, the book brings together a wealth of material that challenges our understanding of what the science of psychology really is, and how the subject matter of that science should be conceived.Identifying a Great Delusion (that there is a coherent discipline of psychology with sound foundations), the authors explore a number of more specific delusions regarding scientific practice in psychology. These include the problematic assumptions of core statistical analyses, questionable aspects of frequently used experimental designs and continued frictions regarding the much-aspired-to scientist-practitioner model. The delusions produce the uncomfortable state in which we find much of modern psychological science – theoretically challenged, poorly replicated and with questionable real-world value.This unsentimental examination of the state of things nevertheless allows the authors to identify concrete steps that the scientific community can take to re-ground psychological research and move forward to a successful science studying the richest and most complex phenomena we know of: us.This book will interest all people interested in psychological science, from undergraduate students to researchers.
Narratives of Transformative Reconciliation: Exploring Contours of Happiness (Social Movements and Transformative Dissent)
by Gopi Devdutt Tripathy Anurita JalanThis book looks at ethnographies of survival, reconciliation, and resilience in communities and individuals. It interrogates the definition of happiness, hope and despair and explores how communities and individuals navigate life when besieged by trauma and the processes they must go through to enable healing.Devastations caused by violence force people to look for ways to deal with seemingly irreconcilable life circumstances. Sometimes these efforts are individual and sometimes collective. People draw on a variety of resources, such as religion, culture, family and kinship networks, friends, literature, storytelling, art, theatre, and counselling to come to grips with their circumstances. This volume discusses such efforts through a multidisciplinary lens. It looks at ethnographic accounts of communities and individuals that showcase methods used to renegotiate, reconfigure the pain and to enable a life of dignity, healing and social transformation. It also looks at violence, memory, trauma, dislocation through different prisms.Part of the Social Movements and Transformative Dissent series, this book will be of interest to students, academicians, activists, and all those engaged with the study of trauma studies, mental health, philosophy of psychology, behavioural sciences, philosophy, humanities, clinical psychology, gender and peace and conflict studies.
Apartheid and Fragmented Protest in Contemporary Southern Africa: Life Goes On (Routledge Contemporary Africa)
by Cuthbeth TagwireiApartheid and Fragmented Protest in Contemporary Southern Africa examines protest movements through the lens of Apartheid Studies, the first general theory of apartheid which explores how oppression, harm, injustice, poverty, loss, and inequality persist.The book argues that apartheid, which breaks the world of the oppressed into fragments, fomenting diverse experiences of oppression among its victims, frames the nature and course of protests by making them subject to its fragmentation. Protest is thus redefined as good neighbourly and demoted on account of its symbiotic relationship to apartheid. It is observed that the proliferation of protests does not preclude the persistence of apartheid. Rather, protest and apartheid are seen to be compatible. By examining protest hashtags on X from South Africa and Zimbabwe, the book explores and identifies the forms, relations, meanings, trajectories, and effects protests take, evoke, and embody as fragments subsisting in a fractured apartheid universe. It demonstrates how and why life goes on amidst protest, sheds light on the contradictions, paradoxes and complexities that characterise protest movements and invites conversations around protest as a paradigm in the context of apartheid.The book will be of interest to researchers across the fields of social movements, protests, sociology, African Studies, and communication and media studies.
Matrixial Breath: Aesthetically Respiring into the Trauma of the Present (Routledge Critical Perspectives on Breath and Breathing)
by Christoph Solstreif-PirkerDay by day, the global climate crisis intensifies, yet there are little changes in the behavior of privileged societies. This book reveals that such paradoxical behavior is due to the prevalence of a narrative that considers planet Earth as a self-sustaining system, driven by a circular respiration pattern from one actor to the next. It argues that transforming this prevailing planetary breathing pattern is necessary to change humans’ destructive behavior towards the morethan- human environment. The volume, in particular, references the feminine Matrixial Theory of psychoanalyst and philosopher Bracha L. Ettinger. In linking the Matrixial Theory to environmental issues for the first time, it explores the rhythms and scopes of a Matrixial breath and what alternative forms of relationship between humans and nature might emerge from it. It lays the foundation for an urgently needed subversion of thought and action toward novel ethics of breathing-with beyond homeostatic reductionism.The first of its kind, this volume will be indispensable for students and researchers of environmental ethics, feminist thought, climate studies, social change, or critical theory. It will also be useful to cultural scientists, artists, philosophers, ecologists, theologians, architects, therapists, social workers, educators, and politicians.
The Special Status of Muhammad: Shihab al-Din al-Qastallani’s The Divine Bounties (Routledge Sufi Series)
by Sigalit ChachamThis book examines the special status of the Prophet Muḥammad, as described by the Cairene Sufi mystic Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qasṭallānī (d. 1517). It examines spiritual, material, and theological aspects of love for the Prophet as expressed in his al-Mawāhib al-laduniyya bil-minaḥ al-muḥammadiyya (“The Divine Bounties [Granted] Through the Gifts of Muḥammad”).Discussing an unknown layer in the religious literature written in the late Mamluk period, the author explores the vast intellectual legacy of a scholar hitherto ignored. Using intertextuality, the book delves into his complex insights and relationships with contemporaries and scholars in the post-classical period, as well as locating him within the debates and developments of post-classical Islamic theory and theology. This study joins previous ones arguing that literary activity within the Mamluk sultanate was vibrant and dynamic.Offering valuable insights, this work will be of interest to researchers and scholars of Middle East History, Mysticism, Sufi Studies, Religion, Islam and Theology.
Skin and Systemic Disease: A Clinician's Guide
by Joseph C. English III Timothy J. PattonSkin and Systemic Disease: A Clinician's Guide, Second Edition is a revised and updated new edition of an essential clinical guide for health care providers to diagnose and treat patients presenting with skin symptoms that may indicate systemic disease. Information on each disorder’s etiopathogenesis and clinical and systemic manifestations is presented, with guidance on evaluation and management of the disorder. This edition includes new entries, additional differential diagnoses and workups, improved images and new images from patients with different skin types.