he objective of this introductory chapter is to explain the common rationalebehind the papers of this volume. The structure is as follows.The first section shows that learning environments are a natural way to addressteachers in their main role, teaching, and that therefore this approach is promisingfor improving mathematics teaching in an effective way. The section ends with ateaching model ba…
Caroline Barron leads the field on medieval London and her work on its politics, governance, economy and fabric has greatly enhanced our understanding of the late medieval city. It is, however, her interest in and enthusiasm for the men and women who lived and worked in, or were visitors to, the capital, and her ability to inspire that interest and enthusiasm …
Wildlife trafficking includes the taking, trading, importing, exporting,processing, possessing, obtaining, and purchasing of wild animals, animalparts, and plants in contravention of international or national law. Wildlifetrafficking threatens the existence of many animal and plant species. Themore endangered a species becomes, the greater is the value of theremaining specime…
After cutting into small fragments of their DNA, millions of reads of 100 bases in length and in both directions of reading (forward and reverse) were performed for each of the sixteen plants, also called accessions. Thus, for each accession, a library of short sequences of its genome was obtained. We could compare them to bags containing the pieces of a puzzle that must be assembled…
The world food crisis (1972–1975) gave rise to new development concepts. To eradicate world hunger, small peasants were supposed to use ‘modern’ inputs like high-yielding seeds, fertilizer, pesticides and irrigation. This would turn subsistence producers into business owners, transform rural areas, invigorate national economies and the crisis-stricken world economy and thus stabilize capi…
With a multi-perspective approach and transdisciplinary methods (humanities and sciences), this book offers an in-depth and systematic study of hand-drawn and hand-coloured maps from East Asia. Map colouring provides an insight into past societies, landscapes and territories. Colour is an important key to a more precise understanding of the map’s content, purposes and uses; moreover, colours …
Historically, national borders have evolved in ways that serve the interests of central states in security and the regulation of trade. This volume explores Canada–US border and security policies that have evolved from successive trade agreements since the 1950s, punctuated by new and emerging challenges to security in the twenty-first century. The sectoral and geographical diversity of cross…
The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960-2000 combines digital cartography with close readings of representative films to write a history of twentieth century Hollywood narrative cinema at the intersection of the geographies of narrative location, production, consumption and taste in the post-classical era, before the rise of digital cinema. This text reorients and redraws the boundarie…
Fermented foods have been produced for many centuries with the basic aim of increasing the storage stability of processed foods and modifying the organoleptic and textural properties of raw materials. Fermented foods are very popular even today as a substantial percentage of daily-consumed foods are fermented. Notable examples include dairy products, such as yogurt, cheese, buttermilk, and sour…