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Catatonia: A Practical Guide to a Clinical and Scientific Conundrum
by Georg Northoff Dusan HirjakCatatonia is a complex neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by motor, affective and cognitive-behavioral symptoms, presenting significant challenges for both psychiatrists and neurologists. It occurs in 5–18% of patients in inpatient psychiatric units and in 3.3% of those in neurology or neuropsychiatric tertiary care inpatient settings. Despite its relatively high prevalence, catatonia is often underdiagnosed and inadequately treated, which can lead to substantial disadvantages for patients and may be associated with potentially life-threatening conditions. This comprehensive guide is designed to assist clinicians, researchers, and students in understanding and treating catatonia. It navigates through the history of the condition, exploring its phenomenology, clinical manifestations and pathophysiology, before delving into effective treatment strategies. By providing a clear and thorough overview, this guide simplifies the recognition of catatonia and promotes prompt and accurate treatment, encouraging future research endeavours in catatonia.
Cats and Lions
by Dionna L. MannCats and lions can seem very much alike, from their behavior to their physical features. They both communicate using sounds. They both run, jump, and climb, and they both sleep a lot. But lions hunt with prides in the wild, while cats play with toys and strings at home. Can they possibly be related? Through easy-to-read text, colorful photos, and a comprehension quiz, readers will learn about the life cycles, skills and senses, and habitats of these feline relatives by exploring their similarities and differences.
Causal Analysis with Event History Data Using Stata
by Hans-Peter Blossfeld Götz Rohwer Gwendolin J. BlossfeldThis third edition of Causal Analysis with Event History Data Using Stata provides an updated introduction to event history modeling along with many instructive Stata examples. Using the latest Stata software, each of these practical examples develops a research question, points to useful contextual background information, gives a brief account of the underlying statistical concepts, describes the organization of input data and the application of Stata statistical procedures, and assists the reader in interpreting the content of the results obtained. Emphasizing the strengths and limitations of continuous-time event history analysis in different fields of social science applications, this book demonstrates that event history models provide a useful approach to uncover causal relation- ships or to map a system of causal relationships. In particular, this book demonstrates how long-term processes can be studied, how different forms of duration dependencies can be estimated using nonparametric, parametric and semiparametric models, and how parallel and interdependent dynamic systems can be analyzed from a causal-analytical point of view using the method of episode splitting. The book also shows how changing contextual information at the micro, meso and macro levels can be easily integrated into a dynamic analysis of longitudinal data. Finally, the book addresses the problem of unobserved heterogeneity of time-constant and time-dependent omitted variables and makes suggestions for dealing with these sometimes difficult methodological problems.Causal Analysis with Event History Data Using Stata is an invaluable resource for both novice and experienced researchers from a variety of fields (e.g. sociology, economics, political science, education, psychology, demography, epidemiology, management research and organizational studies, as well as medicine and clinical applications) who need an introductory textbook on continuous-time event history analysis and who are looking for a practical handbook for their longitudinal research.
Cause and Effect Business Analytics and Data Science (Chapman and Hall/CRC Series on Statistics in Business and Economics)
by Jonathan Haughton Dominique Haughton Victor S. LoAmong the most important questions that businesses ask are some very simple ones: If I decide to do something, will it work? And if so, how large are the effects? To answer these predictive questions, and later base decisions on them, we need to establish causal relationships.Establishing and measuring causality can be difficult. This book explains the most useful techniques for discerning causality and illustrates the principles with numerous examples from business. It discusses randomized experiments (aka A/B testing) and techniques such as propensity score matching, synthetic controls, double differences, and instrumental variables. There is a chapter on the powerful AI approach of Directed Acyclic Graphs (aka Bayesian Networks), another on structural equation models, and one on time-series techniques, including Granger causality.At the heart of the book are four chapters on uplift modeling, where the goal is to help firms determine how best to deploy their resources for marketing or other interventions. We start by modeling uplift, discuss the test-and-learn process, and provide an overview of the prescriptive analytics of uplift.The book is written in an accessible style and will be of interest to data analysts and strategists in business, to students and instructors of business and analytics who have a solid foundation in statistics, and to data scientists who recognize the need to take seriously the need for causality as an essential input into effective decision-making.
Cave Spiders
by Lisa J. AmstutzThe world’s biggest spider is a cave spider! But that's not the only kind of cave spider. These arachnids live in damp, dark homes. Readers will be fascinated by these spider facts, including body parts, web-spinning, and how it hunts for prey. Achievable text, stunning photographs, spider jokes, and an activity round out the learning.
Central Asia: Geopolitics, Security and Stability
by Ajay PatnaikThroughout history, Central Asia has served as an important strategic link between the East and the West. This book locates Central Asia within the broader geopolitics of the Eurasian region, which has witnessed many significant shifts, conflicts and events, while tracing its strategic importance. The book looks at the relations between the Central Asian states and major external powers and shows how it has kept away from the so-called New Great Game. It evaluates the roles of major powers such as Russia, the United States, China, Iran and Turkey, as well as India and its ‘Silk Road’ strategy. It also compares the regional geopolitics of Central Asia with its neighbour Caucasus. The author highlights how, despite limited interstate cooperation, the region has balanced foreign powers and has largely prevented conflicts, thereby enjoying greater strategic autonomy in dealing with other countries. This new revised edition with additional chapters explores new developments, the Russia–Ukraine war and the future of Central Asian geopolitics. The book will benefit scholars and researchers of international relations, political and strategic studies, area studies and Central Asian studies.
Cereal Grains: Processing Methods for Preserving Nutritional Value
by Sukhvinder Singh PurewalCereal grains are a major part of the global diet, but their nutritional benefits depend on how they are processed. This book explores how various techniques influence nutrient content, bioavailability, and food quality. It provides a clear understanding of traditional and modern processing methods, helping professionals optimize grain-based products. This book provides updated information on innovative grain processing techniques and demonstrates how different methods affect dietary value. Helpful for the industrial sector as well as serving as a reliable source for food science and nutrition studies, this book bridges the gap between research and real-world applications, ultimately offering practical and meaningful information for improving cereal-based, health-benefiting food products.Key Features Provides comprehensive knowledge on different kinds of cereal processing methods Presents the latest information on the effect of processing methods on the specific nutrients (macro as well as micro) of cereal grains Includes techniques to minimize nutrients loss
Challenges in Primary Mental Health Care: Models for Interdisciplinary Collaboration
by Christopher Dowrick Christos LionisThis insightful and timely book equips family doctors and other primary healthcare professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to address a diverse range of new and important challenges in the field of primary mental health care, including ongoing impacts from the COVID pandemic, thanatophobia, and end-of life care, humanitarian and geopolitical catastrophes, and the effects of climate change.There is an emphasis throughout on the need to encourage and so reap the benefits of interdisciplinary collaboration between family doctors and mental health specialists, and across the range of primary care and community workers. Effective primary healthcare relies increasingly on the use of remote consultations, and the book explains how the potential of remote working can be maximized in low-resource settings. The book concludes with a consideration of how to protect and enhance the mental health of primary care workers in the face of these ongoing challenges in care.Key Features: Global and inclusive, providing practical guidance and direction across low-, middle-, and high-income settings, satisfying the needs of all primary care practitioners regardless of geography Focused on key and immediate challenges for primary care practitioners arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, poverty, and social inequality, migration, and climate change Addresses the vital importance of self-care by and of primary healthcare workers facing unprecedented work and emotional pressures Reflecting the expertise of the WONCA Working Party for Mental Health (WWPMH), building on the foundations laid in the 2020 WONCA volume Global Primary Mental Health Care, the editors and contributors all have expertise in primary mental health care at the frontline, with backgrounds in family medicine, psychiatry, psychology, and nursing.
Change Leadership Cases for District and School Leaders
by Coby V. Meyers Tiffany S. Aaron Dallas Hambrick HittThis course book is designed to empower educational leaders to make effective leadership decisions and take successful action in response to dynamic scenarios in their schools and districts. This insightful book presents real cases from successful school leaders—and the district leaders who supported them—that strategically navigated their way through change processes. Topics include culturally responsive leadership, leading for SEL, championing data use, improving instruction, crisis leadership, and more. Designed for aspiring educational leaders in leadership preparation programs, this book is full of guiding questions, tools, and practical activities to help deepen learning and translate student understanding to strategic change in their own school contexts.
Change Point Analysis: Theory and Application
by Jialiang Li Baisuo JinChange point analysis is a crucial statistical technique for detecting structural breaks within datasets, applicable in diverse fields such as finance and weather forecasting. The authors of this book aim to consolidate recent advancements and broaden the scope beyond traditional time series applications to include biostatistics, longitudinal data analysis, high-dimensional data, and network analysis.The book introduces foundational concepts with practical data examples from literature, alongside discussions of related machine learning topics. Subsequent chapters focus on mathematical tools for single- and multiple-change point detection along with statistical inference issues, which provide rigorous proofs to enhance understanding but assume readers have foundational knowledge in graduate-level probability and statistics. The book also expands the discussion into threshold regression frameworks linked to subgroup identification in modern statistical learning and apply change point analysis to functional data and dynamic networks—areas not comprehensively covered elsewhere.Key Features: Comprehensive Coverage of Diverse Applications: This book expands the scope of change point analysis to include biostatistics, longitudinal data, high-dimensional data, and network analysis. This broad applicability makes it a valuable resource for researchers and students across various disciplines Integration of Theory and Practice: The book balances rigorous mathematical theory with practical applications by providing extensive computational examples using R. Each chapter features real-world data illustrations and discussions of relevant machine learning topics, ensuring that readers can see the relevance of theoretical concepts in applied settings Accessibility for Students: The content is designed with graduate-level students in mind, providing clear explanations and structured guidance through complex mathematical tools. Rigorous proofs are included to facilitate understanding without overwhelming readers with overly advanced theories early on The book incorporates computational results using R, showcasing various packages tailored for specific methods or problem domains while providing references for further exploration. By offering a selection of widely adopted methodologies relevant in scientific research as well as business contexts, this text aims to equip junior researchers with essential tools needed for their work in change point analysis.
Change Starts Here: What if Everything Your School Needed Was Right in Front of You?
by Shane Leaning Efraim LernerIn education, change is inevitable. But despite this, most school change projects falter because they miss what matters most: the human element. Change Starts Here revolutionises how we think about educational change by putting people back at the heart of the process.This groundbreaking book unveils a practical approach that transforms how schools navigate change. At its core lies the innovative double diamond model, a powerful framework that helps school communities discover what truly matters to them and co-create solutions that stick. Through 40 carefully crafted questions and real-world case studies from schools across the world, the authors demonstrate how to replace rigid, top-down directives with authentic, community-driven change.Whether you're wrestling with curriculum reform, teaching development, or new technology, Change Starts Here will help you build consensus, honour diverse perspectives, and create lasting impact. Essential reading for school leaders, teachers, and anyone passionate about making meaningful change in education.
Chaplaincy for a Plural World: Humanistic Perspectives
by Joanna Wojtkowiak Carmen Schuhmann Annelieke Damen Gaby Jacobs Marishelle LieberwerthChaplaincy for a Plural World provides a theoretical foundation for an inclusive understanding of chaplaincy and lays out key chaplaincy methods for providing spiritual care in a modern context. Inspired by recent humanist chaplaincy in the Netherlands and based on the interdisciplinary science of humanistic studies, the book explains chaplaincy as a multifaceted profession in which supporting people’s search for meaning in life is intertwined with the pursuit of humanizing organizations and society.The book offers a wide range of methods and practical tools for use by a diverse group of readers: chaplains, other professionals or volunteers, and students in higher education who prepare themselves for spiritual care work in secularizing and pluralizing societies. These methods include such key areas of work as individual counseling, group work, ritual, educational activities, supporting the moral development of individuals, teams, and organizations, conducting research, and doing sociopolitical work. The book fills the meaning gap that secularization has left in Western societies and offers a hopeful perspective for all who strive for a humane and meaningful world.
Chassis-Domain-Oriented Dynamic Control for Autonomous Vehicles: Estimation, Modeling, Motion Planning and Execution
by Peng Dong Shuo Cheng Xiangyang Xu Shuhan Wang Yanfang LiuOver seven detail-rich chapters, this book comprehensively describes autonomous vehicle chassis modeling and control, chassis domain dynamic control, the estimation of essential dynamic states, research on motion planning, the development of chassis coordinated control, and related topics.This book first summarizes vehicle dynamic modeling and control and provides the background and related topics for chassis domain dynamic control. It then presents the motivations of chassis domain control and introduces its conceptual framework. The book then focuses on the identification of tire–road interactions, which contain lateral, longitudinal, and vertical tire forces, before then discussing the estimation of essential dynamic states, which represent vehicle handling stability status, and the observation of road surface coefficient. The quantitative evaluation of vehicle chassis domain performance is then provided, with the rigorous definition and design of a comprehensive metric for assessing chassis dynamic performance. Next, the book instructs readers on the chassis-domain dynamic-aware motion planning for autonomous vehicles and the multi-objective multi-subsystem coordinated control. Finally, the authors present their conclusions and future recommendations for the advanced control of autonomous vehicles. The content and structure of this book will enable readers to address the high complexity and unpredictability of traffic conditions, along with the strong nonlinearity of vehicle dynamics during maneuvers, to facilitate the safe and coordinated operations of chassis subsystems. This will further the advancement of autonomous vehicles as the automobile industry transitions into the intelligent age.This is a vital guide for readers from various expertise backgrounds. Advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students who study vehicle engineering will benefit from the descriptions of theoretical foundations and practical methodologies. Engineers and researchers will also benefit from the unique insights into modeling and control technologies for autonomous vehicles.
Chatbot Therapy: A Critical Analysis of AI Mental Health Treatment (Concepts for Critical Psychology)
by Eoin FullamChatbot Therapy: A Critical Analysis of AI Mental Health Treatment examines automated mental health therapy in the form of therapy chatbots, taking a critical analysis of this new technology.Drawing on historical and emerging scholarship on critical theory, science and technology studies, and critical psychology, this project investigates the social life of mental health therapy applications. The book unearths the assumptions about subjectivity, consciousness, and mental health that underpin these applications, looking predominantly at Wysa and Woebot, but also at other chatbot and non-chatbot mental health applications. It explores the historical emergence of this technology, the technical and design aspects of chatbot therapy apps, the therapeutic methods employed, and the economic context within which therapy chatbots have developed. It centres around the questions of what it means to automate mental health treatment and of how automated interventions alter our understanding of mental suffering and well-being.This highly topical and interdisciplinary study will be of great interest to postgraduate students and researchers in the fields of critical psychology, mental health, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, science and technology studies, and critical theory. It will also be relevant reading for mental health professionals.
Child Sexual Abuse: Why Children Disclose or Deny Being Abused
by Michael E. Lamb Irit Hershkowitz Margaret-Ellen PipeThis fully revised volume provides a rigorous assessment of the latest research relating to the disclosure of childhood sexual abuse, along with the practical and policy implications of the findings.Leading researchers and practitioners from diverse and international backgrounds offer critical commentary on these findings gathered from both field and laboratory research. Building on the first edition, this book presents the research from the past twenty years on why delayed disclosure or denial is so common and what we can do about it. Chapters focus on field research interviewing reluctant children, including suspected victims of sexual abuse and other crimes, victims of trafficking, as well as young, suspected perpetrators of sexual abuse. Adding emphasis on research‑based methods for overcoming reluctance, it also explores the different dynamics and circumstances which affect disclosure patterns and the ways in which interviewers can facilitate disclosures.Child Sexual Abuse is for researchers and practitioners from child, forensic, and clinical psychology, social work, and all legal professionals who need to understand this crime. It will also be of interest to trainee social workers specializing in child welfare and intervention.
Child-Adolescent Behaviour: A Psychological Perspective
by Veena NandagiriThis book briefly outlines psychological perspectives of the values, attitudes and behaviour of parents in influencing a child’s personality. The volume discusses important factors and family surroundings that influence a growing child’s development and various techniques that parents and teachers may use to inculcate children’s growth and well-being. Various discipline techniques that parents can use with the child and ways in which they can enhance their child’s creativity and achievement levels are explained. It also discusses the causes, signs and types of learning disabilities, such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia and developmental coordination disorder (dyspraxia), and behaviour disorders like anxiety disorders, conduct disorders, oppositional defiant disorder, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), aggressive behaviour in children and the speech disorder stuttering. The volume gives an elaborate understanding of the diverse changes, conflicts, emotional turmoil and identity crises that adolescent children go through and how parents and teachers can help them to handle this transitional stage.This book will be of interest to psychologists, parents, students and teachers of psychology and scholars of child development, as well as professionals involved in working with children and adolescents, such as teachers, counsellors, doctors, nurses and social workers.
Children and Youth with Extensive Support Needs: Preparation for Adult Life
by Tom Smith Suzanne KucharczykChildren and Youth with Extensive Support Needs: Preparation for Adult Life, by Tom E. C. Smith and Suzanne Kucharczyk, takes a practical approach to prepare educators who will work with students with low incidence or complex disabilities. This text uniquely addresses the importance of preparing youth with significant support needs, starting earlier in their school years, for a high quality of life as adults. Smith and Kucharczyk stress the role of special education teachers in leading collaborative, interdisciplinary decision-making teams—including paraprofessionals, general educators, and families—to achieve better outcomes for students previously labeled as having severe disabilities. Equipped with evidence-based practices, in-depth exploration of essential skills for student success, and strategies for programmatic, technological, and interpersonal support, this text enables educators to better serve students with complex needs.
Children and Youth with Extensive Support Needs: Preparation for Adult Life
by Tom Smith Suzanne KucharczykChildren and Youth with Extensive Support Needs: Preparation for Adult Life, by Tom E. C. Smith and Suzanne Kucharczyk, takes a practical approach to prepare educators who will work with students with low incidence or complex disabilities. This text uniquely addresses the importance of preparing youth with significant support needs, starting earlier in their school years, for a high quality of life as adults. Smith and Kucharczyk stress the role of special education teachers in leading collaborative, interdisciplinary decision-making teams—including paraprofessionals, general educators, and families—to achieve better outcomes for students previously labeled as having severe disabilities. Equipped with evidence-based practices, in-depth exploration of essential skills for student success, and strategies for programmatic, technological, and interpersonal support, this text enables educators to better serve students with complex needs.
Children in Context: A Topical Approach
by Tara L. KutherIn the topically organized Children in Context, award-winning author Tara L. Kuther emphasizes three core themes of child development: the importance of context, the relevance of research, and the applied value of developmental science. By examining child development through real-life contexts—such as gender, race and ethnicity, and socioeconomic status—Kuther engages students with up-to-date data, relatable examples, and cross-cultural stories, offering insights that directly connect to their own experiences and future professions.
Children in Context: A Topical Approach
by Tara L. KutherIn the topically organized Children in Context, award-winning author Tara L. Kuther emphasizes three core themes of child development: the importance of context, the relevance of research, and the applied value of developmental science. By examining child development through real-life contexts—such as gender, race and ethnicity, and socioeconomic status—Kuther engages students with up-to-date data, relatable examples, and cross-cultural stories, offering insights that directly connect to their own experiences and future professions.
Children's Literacy Development: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Learning to Read and Write (International Texts in Developmental Psychology)
by Catherine McBrideIn the updated third edition of this unique book, Catherine McBride looks at reading and writing development and impairment across a range of languages, scripts, and contexts. This new edition highlights multiliteracy and multilingualism and broadly explores the science of reading.A timely and important contribution to our understanding of literacy around the world, the book includes a new chapter covering the impact of digital technology on children’s literacy development, and covers other issues including: The importance of phonological sensitivity for learning to read and to write The first units, or building blocks, of literacy learning in different scripts such as Chinese, English, Korean Hangul, Hindi and Arabic The role of visual processing in reading and writing skills How the latest research can inform the teaching of reading and writing An overview of of dyslexia and dysgraphia, including recent neuroscientific research The developmental process of becoming biliterate What is special about writing for beginners and later for comprehensive writing Basics of reading comprehension Written by an eminent scholar in the field, it provides an overview of how children learn to read and write and is essential reading for students and scholars of Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology, Psycholinguistics and Speech Therapy.
Children’s Boards in Museums: New Approaches to Working with Children in Museums (Global Perspectives on Children in Museums)
by José Antonio Gordillo MartorellChildren’s Boards in Museums outlines the innovative concept of a “Children’s Board”, in which children actively participate in a museum by sharing perspectives that expand the typical circle of voices and decision-makers.Drawing on research conducted with children between the ages of 7 and 12 from diverse socio-economic contexts, and cultures over the last decade, the author presents some of the most inspiring examples of children-centred museums around the world. This book describes the many ways in which children can improve the museum, explaining how they can help to transform it into a friendlier place that is closer to the needs of the community, more respectful of nature, and capable of listening to and valuing every visitor. This book offers an innovative way of thinking about children in museums and explains how children's participation in areas of the museum that have otherwise been considered exclusive to its staff - such as strategy, human resources, funding, management, and evaluation - can enhance those areas, making the museum a significantly better place.Children’s Boards in Museums is essential reading for academics and students who are engaged in the study of museums, heritage, culture, and children. It will also be of interest to professionals who are looking to facilitate a new kind of relationship between their institution and the children who visit it.
Children’s Literature and Culture: An Introduction (Routledge Introductions to Young Adult and Children's Literature)
by Rebecca RoweChildren’s Literature and Culture: An Introduction guides readers in the study of culture in, around, and through children’s literature. Children’s literature has long been used as a mechanism by which a culture passes its values from one generation to the next. Because of this culturally didactic purpose, children’s literature can be viewed as one of the most fruitful areas of study of any given culture. At the same time, studying the cultures from which works of children’s literature emerge and in which they circulate can also help better understand not only the ideas of childhood that underpin individual texts for children but the role they play in the construction and transmission of different cultural ideologies. This book teaches readers this double work of using culture to understand children’s literature and vice versa. This volume traces the scholarly methodologies and histories that have attended the study of each of the 20 chapters’ given subject—from the representation of race in and around children’s literature to questions of censorship to how libraries can and do shape children’s literature. In the process, it prepares readers to confidently enter and forward scholarly debates and to teach such debates to their own students.
China and Climate Leadership: A Role Theory Analysis (Role Theory and International Relations)
by Kim VenderIn this book, Kim Vender examines China’s leadership in climate change governance. International climate change negotiations were supposed to achieve an agreement at two summits: in 2009 in Copenhagen and again in 2015 in Paris. China’s part in the negotiations has elicited a narrative of ‘obstructor’ first and ‘climate leader’ later. Vender challenges this view of China and investigates why it is still persisting today despite a steady leadership recognition of China found by a long-term survey of negotiation participants.In its design, the book explores China’s relationship with the main narrators of the story, i.e., powerful industrialised countries, but also with so far under-explored to both scrutinise China’s performance in the climate change negotiations and show how socialisation and the political context have shaped China’s relationship with others. The book furthermore illuminates Chinese understandings of China’s role in climate change as well as contestation of, and support for, an international climate leadership role at home.China and Climate Leadership offers an in-depth exploration of China’s behaviour and motivations, and contributes to the ongoing debate on China’s rise and integration into international society. It will be of interest to both academics and practitioners with an interest in International Relations, role theory and Foreign Policy Analysis, China, and climate change governance.
China’s Anti-monopoly Law in the Digital Era: How China Tames the Digital Behemoth
by Jingmeng CaiThe book aims to depict the whole picture of China's Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) in the digital sector and reveals the three key factors that shape AML enforcement.The author introduces the legal revolution and a major enforcement campaign in the digital sector. She focuses on three typical monopolistic behaviours—abuse of dominant position, merger control, and monopoly agreements. High-profile cases—such as administrative penalties against Alibaba and Tencent and private lawsuits against Apple and Didi Chuxing—are discussed in detail. She also identifies three underlying factors that have influenced AML enforcement reform: the political factor, the legal factor, and the academic factor. Finally, the book raises open questions and challenges that are relevant not only to China but to a wide range of jurisdictions.The book will appeal to competition law (antitrust) and Chinese law academics, practitioners, and officials, as well as general readers interested in the subject.