This book offers 19 detailed protocols on the use of induced mutations in crop breeding and functional genomics studies, which cover topics including chemical and physical mutagenesis, phenotypic screening methods, traditional TILLING and TILLING by sequencing, doubled haploidy, targeted genome editing, and low-cost methods for the molecular characterization of mutant plants that are suitable f…
This chapter documents and examines the extensive and diverse range of work the mothers do to support their children’s education. Participating in educational activities at home requires mothers to deploy a range of strategies to generate different types of capital for their children in relation to their education at home and their role and status within the family. This chapter examines how …
Historical burial grounds are an enormous archaeological resource and have the potential to inform studies not only of demography or the history of disease and mortality, but also histories of the body, of religious and other beliefs about death, of changing social relationships, values and aspirations.In the last decades, the intensive urban development and a widespread legal requirement to un…
When complex IT systems are being developed, the usage of several programming and modelling languages can lead to inconsistencies that yield faulty designs and implementations. To address this problem, this work contributes a classification of consistency preservation challenges and an approach for preserving consistency. It is formalized using set theory and monitors changes to avoid matching …
The world is faced with an epidemic of metabolic diseases such as obesity and type 2 diabetes. This is due to changes in dietary habits and the decrease in physical activity. Exercise is usually part of the prescription, the first line of defense, to prevent or treat metabolic disorders. However, we are still learning how and why exercise provides metabolic benefits in human health. This open a…
With the recent advances in remote sensing technologies for Earth observation, many different remote sensors are collecting data with distinctive properties. The obtained data are so large and complex that analyzing them manually becomes impractical or even impossible. Therefore, understanding remote sensing images effectively, in connection with physics, has been the primary concern of the rem…
Making available massive amounts of data that are generated, distributed, and modeled, digital media provide us with the possibility of abundant information and knowledge. This possibility has been attracting various scenarios in which technology either eliminates non-knowledge or plants it deep within contemporary cultures through the universal power and opacity of algorithms. This volume comp…
The decentralization policy and school-based management in Hong Kong has elevated the issue of home–school cooperation to the agenda of educational reform, and has since fueled a growing interest in promoting parental involvement as one of the strategies in enhancing children’s education and improving accountability of schools to communities (Epstein 1990; Ho and Willms 1996; Jeynes 2005, 2…
This paper mainly introduces the creative design of a children’s cognitive system based on RFID. The electronic tag is affixed to the real learning object, and the card reader is carried by the children. The main functions to be realized are vivid images, which give children quick and vivid knowledge of objects. Through the education of physical objects that can be touched, they can be vividl…
Having grown up in a small town and having strong ties within the community, I found it a challenge to balance the personal/professional balance needed by educators when dealing with children and their families inside and outside of the school context. By observing my mentor teachers, I slowly began to identify key principles needed to handle the teacher/parent relationship, which led me to inv…