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Student Engagement Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty, 2nd Edition


 

Practical Strategies and Winning Techniques to Engage and Enhance Student Learning

The revised and updated second edition of Student Engagement Techniques is a much-needed guide to engaging today's information-overloaded students. The book is a comprehensive resource that offers college teachers a dynamic model for engaging students and includes over one hundred tips, strategies, and techniques that have been proven to help teachers across all disciplines



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Classroom Management: Creating a Successful K-12 Learning Community, 7th Edition


 

ENABLES K-12 EDUCATORS TO CREATE SUCCESSFUL LEARNING COMMUNITIES — THE FULLY UPDATED NEW EDITION

Effective classroom management plans are essential for creating environments that foster appropriate social interactions and engaged learning for students in K-12 settings. New and early-career teachers often face difficulties addressing student discipline, upholding classroom rules and procedures, and establishing positive teacher-student relationships



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The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use Content Marketing, Podcasting, Social Media, AI, Live Video, and Newsjacking to Reach Buyers Directly, 7th Edition


 

The seventh edition of the pioneering guide to generating attention for your idea or business, packed with new and updated information

In the Digital Age, marketing tactics seem to change on a day-to-day basis. As the ways we communicate continue to evolve, keeping pace with the latest trends in social media, the newest online videos, the latest mobile apps, and all the other high-tech influences can seem an almost impossible task. How can you keep



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Kinematics of General Spatial Mechanical Systems


 

Guide to kinematic theory for the analysis of spatial mechanisms and manipulators

Kinematics of General Spatial Mechanical Systems is an effective and proficient guide to the kinematic description and analysis of the spatial mechanical systems such as serial manipulators, parallel manipulators and spatial mechanisms. The author highlights the analytical and semi-analytical methods for solving the relevant equations and considers four main elements:



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Straightforward path to linear alkylbenzenes identified

Nickel catalyst provides a route to the cleaning product chemicals with high yields and selectivity




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Chemistry in Pictures: Violets are blue, and roses are black




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How to make a sweat sensor for drugs

Guidelines include how to deal with pesky interfering signals when making voltammetric sensors




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Is it OK to renege on an offer letter?

Chemjobber on what you shouldn't accept unless you're sure you want the job




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Bacteria producing checkpoint inhibitors shrink tumors in mice

After being injected into tumors, the bacteria self-destruct to release their therapeutic cargo




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Video: Why the glowing rocks under New Jersey fascinate geochemists

The complex mineral collection beneath northern New Jersey may offer clues to how Earth formed and how soil affects water purity and plant growth




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Ineos is poised to make bio-PVC in Germany

Plastic maker will replace naphtha feedstock with tall oil from trees




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Biotech firms consider contingency plans as the coronavirus outbreak hits CROs

The industry's reliance on China-based firms for chemistry services is in the spotlight




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Ex–Henderson State University professors plead not guilty to making methamphetamine

Court documents allege the chemists made the drug and its precursors in a university laboratory




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Corteva to stop making the insecticide chlorpyrifos




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Arkema to go on trial for Crosby fires

The chemical maker intends to argue that the fires should be considered an act of God




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Gilbert Walker named editor in chief of Langmuir




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BASF will use blockchain for plastics recycling




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New Sabic material won't crack




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Phylogenetic screen finds antibiotics that work in a new way

Newly discovered compounds trap bacteria so they can't grow or divide




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Straightforward path to linear alkylbenzenes identified

Nickel catalyst provides a route to the cleaning product chemicals with high yields and selectivity




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University of Oklahoma natural product chemist finds novel molecules in unexpected places

Robert Cichewicz looks off the beaten path for unusual plant and fungi compounds




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Why chemical makers love the cleaning product industry

Innovation, fast-paced change, and products that go down the drain give the sector its enduring appeal




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Uncertainty clouds China's dream of making ethylene from ethane

Cheap feedstock from the US tempts chemical makers, but several hurdles stand in the way




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Structure of novel coronavirus spike protein solved in just weeks

Cryo-EM structure of key coronavirus protein could help develop vaccines against the virus




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Your skin microbiome can be used to predict your age

As we age, our skin changes, and so too do the bugs that live there




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Could targeting STING make a universal flu vaccine?

In animal tests, vaccine gives broad protection




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Chemists are finding their place on TikTok

Educators, researchers, and students are coming together to share chemistry demos and talk shop on the wildly popular video app




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23 minerals at risk of US supply shortages, study shows




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DSM to enter human milk oligosaccharide market by acquiring Glycom

$830 million deal builds on earlier moves into nutritional ingredients




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Paul Turgeon taking the helm at MFG Chemical




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Eisai withdraws weight loss pills because of cancer risk




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Wacker and Clariant to cut jobs




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Livestock producers look to antibiotic alternatives

Probiotics, sensors, and MOFs are among technologies that could keep herds healthy as industry turns away from antibiotics




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Trichloroethylene poses risks to workers and consumers, EPA says

Draft assessment confirms previous concerns about health effects of chlorinated solvent




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Sanofi to create new firm from its drug-making facilities

Venture will combine six active pharmaceutical ingredient production sites in Europe




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Molded microfluidic device makes gel “apartments” for single cells

Hydrogel device allows localized treatment and analysis of 10,000 individual cells at a time




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AI finds molecules that kill bacteria, but would they make good antibiotics?

Experts praise the approach while remaining skeptical that the highlighted molecules could reach the clinic




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Pauling's rules about crystal structures flunk test

Only 13 % of oxide crystal structures obey 4 of the 5 rules simultaneously




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Turning down the heat turns up better perovskites

Lower-temperature process improves the efficiency of single-crystal solar cells




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How to make aziridines from olefins without expensive metals

Double bonds form nitrogen-containing 3-membered rings thanks to a reactive, yet fleeting, oxaziridine intermediate




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Genetic signature links bacterial toxin to colon cancer

Colibactin causes key cancer mutations




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Video: Designer surface captures pesky bubbles

Textured metal surface could help control foams in industrial processes, like in bioreactors




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Trichloroethylene poses risks to workers and consumers, EPA says

Draft assessment confirms concerns about health effects of chlorinated solvent




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Turning down the heat turns up better perovskites

Lower-temperature process improves the efficiency of single-crystal solar cells




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Chemistry in Pictures: Silver whiskers




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US regulators take steps to boost hemp, CBD markets

USDA delays some requirements for growers, FDA seeks more data on cannabidiol products




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Genentech strikes cancer drug deal with Bicycle




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AI finds molecules that kill bacteria, but would they make good antibiotics?

Experts praise the approach while remaining skeptical that the highlighted molecules could reach the clinic




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Genetic signature links bacterial toxin to colon cancer

Colibactin causes key cancer mutations




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Sanofi creating new firm from its drug-making facilities

Venture will combine 6 active pharmaceutical ingredient production sites in Europe