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Patience: The Benefits of Waiting (Fruit of the Spirit Bible Studies)
by Stephen Eyre“Lord, I want patience, and I want it right now!” It is easier to joke about patience than to become patient. You can tell that God is growing patience in you when you run into frustrating experiences; when others fail to meet your expectations; when people you depend on let you down. Most of all, you know you are learning patience when you call out to the Lord for help and he seems to be on vacation. In the face of such trials, the Bible tells us that patience is worth the wait. This Fruit of the Spirit Bible study helps you discover the benefits of waiting.The eight-volume Fruit of the Spirit Bible Studies series not only helps you discover what the Bible says about the vital traits that the Holy Spirit produces in believers, but also moves you beyond reflection and discussion to application. Designed for use in small groups or personal devotions, the interactive format will help you grow in your ability to reflect the character of Jesus.Revised to include:Expanded leader’s notesBetween-studies applicationsSuggestions for prayer
Patient Billing Supervisor: Passbooks Study Guide (Career Examination Series #C-3607)
by National Learning CorporationThe Patient Billing Supervisor Passbook® prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam, including but not limited to; Understanding and interpreting written material; Office record keeping; Arithmetic computation; Supervision; and more.
Patient Education: You Can Do It!
by Ginger Kanzer-LewisInformation for motivating people to learn, assessing learning needs, evaluating teaching techniques & classes, making learning fun for both teacher & students, developing an education class or entire education program & teaching colleagues how to teach.
Patient Treatment Adherence: Concepts, Interventions, and Measurement
by Hayden B. Bosworth Eugene Z. Oddone Morris WeinbergerThis new book summarizes the adherence literature for a number of specific health behaviors and populations. It provides a comprehensive source on the conceptualization, interventions, and measurement of treatment adherence and a synthesis of the research across demographic and chronic diseases. The text presents problems associated with treatment adherence; theoretical models that have commonly been used to understand, predict, and/or improve adherence; adherence with specific behaviors including exercise, diet, rehabilitation, medication, and psychological therapies; and strategies in enhancing adherence.Because chronic diseases involve similar behaviors, the handbook is organized by specific behaviors and special populations, and not by disease. Every chapter is sub-organized by specific diseases to ensure easy access for the readers and features a discussion of adherence across demographic and chronic conditions, a review of previous interventions directed at the particular behavior or population, questions and scoring algorithms for widely used measures of treatment adherence, a discussion of the clinical research, and where appropriate, policy implications. Patient Treatment Adherence addresses: practical recommendations to improve adherence; the impact of non-adherence including costs and health-related quality of life; methodological issues such as assessing cost-effectiveness; and the use of technological advances to improve adherence.Intended for health service professionals, health, clinical, social, and cognitive psychologists, primary care physicians, pharmacists, and policy-makers, this text is also an excellent resource for graduate courses on health psychology and public health.
Patriarchs and Prophets
by Ellen G. WhiteVolume 1 of the 'Conflict of the Ages' book series, 'Patriarchs and Prophets' covers the Biblical history of the world from the rebellion of Satan in heaven to King David. This key Seventh Day Adventist text explains in detail the SDA understanding of the conflict between God and Satan and their understanding of the Bible and much of world history. White wrote the series based on her research of other authors and special information which she claimed to receive through visions from God. The books thus include unique insights and concepts not found in other works of the time. This Sublime Books edition includes linked notes that are key to understanding the work.
Patrick van Rensburg: Rebel, visionary and radical educationist, a biography
by Dr. Kevin ShillingtonPatrick van Rensburg (1931–2017) was an anti-apartheid activist and self-made ‘alternative educationist’ whose work received international recognition with the Right Livelihood Award in 1981.Born in KwaZulu-Natal into what he described as a ‘very ordinary South African family that believed in the virtue of racism’, Van Rensburg became a self-styled rebel who tirelessly pursued his own vision of a brighter future for emerging societies in post-colonial southern Africa.His emotional and intellectual struggle against his upbringing and cultural roots led him to reject his life of white privilege in South Africa. Determined to prevent the emergence of a privileged black elite in post-colonial society, he devoted his life to implementing an alternative, egalitarian approach to education, focusing on quality and functional schooling for the majority. Rewarded with the internationally prestigious Right Livelihood Award for his unique contribution to education, he saw this work as a ‘necessary tool of development’.Exiled from South Africa in 1960 because of his involvement in the London boycott campaign that gave birth to the Anti-Apartheid Movement, Van Rensburg moved to Botswana (then Bechuanaland). There he founded cooperatives, provided vocational training and was among the earliest educationists to espouse the discipline of development studies.Perhaps his best-known legacy is the Swaneng Hill School, which he founded to provide an educational home for primary school ‘dropouts’ through a curriculum that combined theory and practice, and academic and manual labour. He involved his pupils in building their school, running it, providing their own food, and making their own equipment and furniture.Van Rensburg was an innovative and charismatic visionary who captured the zeitgeist of the late twentieth century, and whose work and vision still have resonance for debates in educational policy today.
Patriotic Education in Contemporary Russia: Sociological Studies in the Making of the Post-Soviet Citizen (Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society #168)
by Anna SaninaThis book outlines the complexities, contestation, and contradictions in the formal organization and contents of patriotic education in post-Soviet Russia. While the topics of patriotism and patriotic education are highly political and politicized, this study approaches them from a more sociological perspective. It is based on a variety of sources and empirical data, including the indicators and budgets of federal and regional patriotic-education programs and on field research. The book explores in depth all major agents of patriotic education in Russia, such as the government, schools, youth associations, churches, and the film/cartoon industry. It traces the development of governmental patriotic programs in recent decades, discusses how the Soviet past and political traditions influence today's system of patriotic education, and presents numerous case studies illustrating real-life processes in current patriotic education.
Patriotic Education in a Global Age (History and Philosophy of Education Series)
by Randall Curren Charles DornShould schools attempt to cultivate patriotism? If so, why? And what conception of patriotism should drive those efforts? Is patriotism essential to preserving national unity, sustaining vigorous commitment to just institutions, or motivating national service? Are the hazards of patriotism so great as to overshadow its potential benefits? Is there a genuinely virtuous form of patriotism that societies and schools should strive to cultivate? In Patriotic Education in a Global Age, philosopher Randall Curren and historian Charles Dorn address these questions as they seek to understand what role patriotism might legitimately play in schools as an aspect of civic education. They trace the aims and rationales that have guided the inculcation of patriotism in American schools over the years, the methods by which schools have sought to cultivate patriotism, and the conceptions of patriotism at work in those aims, rationales, and methods. They then examine what those conceptions mean for justice, education, and human flourishing. Though the history of attempts to cultivate patriotism in schools offers both positive and cautionary lessons, Curren and Dorn ultimately argue that a civic education organized around three components of civic virtue—intelligence, friendship, and competence—and an inclusive and enabling school community can contribute to the development of a virtuous form of patriotism that is compatible with equal citizenship, reasoned dissent, global justice, and devotion to the health of democratic institutions and the natural environment. Patriotic Education in a Global Age mounts a spirited defense of democratic institutions as it situates an understanding of patriotism in the context of nationalist, populist, and authoritarian movements in the United States and Europe, and will be of interest to anyone concerned about polarization in public life and the future of democracy.
Patriots or Traitors: A History of American Educated Chinese Students
by Stacey BielerThis title sxplores the love-hate relationship between the USA and China through the experience of Chinese students caught between the two countries. The book sheds light on China's ambivelance towards the Western influence, and the use of educational and cultural exhanges as a political device.
Patrol Leader Handbook
by Boy Scouts of AmericaThis handbook will help you learn what it takes to be a great patrol leader and know the skills of teaching and leading so that you can help others--and yourself--achieve goals. Do, as you set into action the whole toolbox of leadership skills: how to communicate well, solve problems, resolve conflict, and all the rest.
Patrolman Examinations – All States: Passbooks Study Guide (Career Examination Series)
by National Learning CorporationThe Patrolman Examinations – All States Passbook® prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam.
Patrolman, Police Department: Passbooks Study Guide (Career Examination Series)
by National Learning CorporationThe Patrolman, Police Department Passbook® prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam, including but not limited to: police situations; reading comprehension; arithmetic reasoning; vocabulary; and other related areas.
Patronizing the Arts
by Marjorie GarberWhat is the role of the arts in American culture? Is art an essential element? If so, how should we support it? Today, as in the past, artists need the funding, approval, and friendship of patrons whether they are individuals, corporations, governments, or nonprofit foundations. But as Patronizing the Arts shows, these relationships can be problematic, leaving artists "patronized"--both supported with funds and personal interest, while being condescended to for vocations misperceived as play rather than serious work. In this provocative book, Marjorie Garber looks at the history of patronage, explains how patronage has elevated and damaged the arts in modern culture, and argues for the university as a serious patron of the arts. With clarity and wit, Garber supports rethinking prejudices that oppose art's role in higher education, rejects assumptions of inequality between the sciences and humanities, and points to similarities between the making of fine art and the making of good science. She examines issues of artistic and monetary value, and transactions between high and popular culture. She even asks how college sports could provide a new way of thinking about arts funding. Using vivid anecdotes and telling details, Garber calls passionately for an increased attention to the arts, not just through government and private support, but as a core aspect of higher education. Compulsively readable, Patronizing the Arts challenges all who value the survival of artistic creation both in the present and future.
Pattakhor: पत्ताखोर
by Madhu Kankariyaस्वातंत्र्योत्तर भारतीय समाज में हमने जहाँ विकास और प्रगति की कई मंजिले तय की हैं वहीं अनेक व्याधियाँ भी अर्जित की हैं। अनेक समाजार्थिक कारणों से हम ऐसी कुछ बीमारियों से घिरे हैं। जिनका कोई सिरा पकड़ में नहीं आता।
Pattern Design
by Lewis F. DayTake any form you choose and repeat it at regular intervals, and, just as repetitive sounds produce rhythm or cadence, you have pattern. However, the use of pattern in design is no haphazard matter, but a disciplined activity in which the artists must impose a pleasing order and structure on the whole to achieve an aesthetically satisfying end product.This classic guide, revised and expanded by Amor Fenn three decades after its publication, teaches artists to do just that. Surveying a multitude of applications, from architectural detail to decorative textile printing and typographic patterns, Day provides insight into the geometric foundations of all repeating patterns, and treats in a practical way the anatomy, planning, and evolution of repeated ornament. He demonstrates the extent to which pattern is the essence of the ornamental arts, and offers a wealth of technical information for the student and designer.Generously illustrated with more than 270 designs ranging from old Japanese, Persian, and Arabian patterns to early 20th-century motifs, Pattern Design will stimulate the imaginations and advance the skills of novices and experts alike.
Pattern Design: An Introduction to the Study of Formal Ornament
by Archibald H. ChristieApproaching the study of design from a structural point of view, this classic handbook tells the designer how to construct hundreds of patterns from all periods and styles. Dr. Christie analyzes the elemental composition of patterns, and shows how coherent organization is achieved in each of the patterns he describes and illustrates. He then establishes basic principles, derived from the unity of all great ornament, which, if followed, will assure the success of any design.In the opening chapters the author describes various basic methods of organizing ornament, and explains the formal classification of ornament into distinct categories. He covers the six major categories of design separately, showing how numerous variations are made: traditional plant and animal devices; realistic plants and animals; straight striped patterns; waved and chevron striped patterns; cross-band patterns; and interlaced and counterchanged cross-band patterns. In another chapter he shows how some isolated devices of formal design -- granular texturings, disk and ring devices, arabesques, and more -- are constructed. He shows how design is created by rhythmic expansion -- how an element like a spiral or a swastika, for example, can be expanded in horizontal, vertical, and diagonal progressions to create the rhythmic scheme that constitutes a formal design.The book contains more than 400 illustrations, including the author's drawing of designs as well as photographs of actual patterns in textiles, ceramics, jewelry, and more -- a wealth of valuable pictorial material that is not readily available. As a unified discussion of the nature of patterns, this book will be of great interest to anyone concerned with handicrafts or the fine arts.
Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence: 5th Mediterranean Conference, MedPRAI 2021, Istanbul, Turkey, December 17–18, 2021, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1543)
by Chawki Djeddi Akhtar Jamil Imran Siddiqi Alaa Ali Hameed İsmail KucukThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Mediterranean Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, MedPRAI 2021, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in December 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, MedPRAI 2021 was held fully online.The 28 revised full papers and 4 short papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The papers are covering the topics of recent advancements in different areas of pattern recognition and artificial intelligence, such as statistical, structural and syntactic pattern recognition, machine learning, data mining, neural networks, computer vision, multimedia systems, information retrieval, etc.
Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence: International Conference, ICPRAI 2020, Zhongshan, China, October 19–23, 2020, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12068)
by Farida Cheriet Ching Y. Suen Yue Lu Nicole Vincent Pong Chi Yuen Wei-Shi ZhengThis book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, ICPRAI 2020, which took place in Zhongshan, China, in October 2020. The 49 full and 14 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers were organized in topical sections as follows: handwriting and text processing; features and classifiers; deep learning; computer vision and image processing; medical imaging and applications; and forensic studies and medical diagnosis.
Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence: Third Mediterranean Conference, MedPRAI 2019, Istanbul, Turkey, December 22–23, 2019, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1144)
by Chawki Djeddi Akhtar Jamil Imran SiddiqiThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Mediterranean Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, MedPRAI 2019, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in December 2019.The 18 revised full papers and one short paper presented were carefully selected from 54 submissions. The papers are covering the topics of recent advancements in different areas of pattern recognition and artificial intelligence, such as statistical, structural and syntactic pattern recognition, machine learning, data mining, neural networks, computer vision, multimedia systems, information retrieval, etc.
Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision: 5th Chinese Conference, PRCV 2022, Shenzhen, China, November 4–7, 2022, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13535)
by Tieniu Tan Zhaoxiang Zhang Shiqi Yu Jianguo Zhang Yike Guo Jianhuang Lai Pong C. Yuen Junwei HanThe 4-volume set LNCS 13534, 13535, 13536 and 13537 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2022, held in Shenzhen, China, in November 2022.The 233 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 564 submissions. The papers have been organized in the following topical sections: Theories and Feature Extraction; Machine learning, Multimedia and Multimodal; Optimization and Neural Network and Deep Learning; Biomedical Image Processing and Analysis; Pattern Classification and Clustering; 3D Computer Vision and Reconstruction, Robots and Autonomous Driving; Recognition, Remote Sensing; Vision Analysis and Understanding; Image Processing and Low-level Vision; Object Detection, Segmentation and Tracking.
Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision: Third Chinese Conference, PRCV 2020, Nanjing, China, October 16–18, 2020, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12305)
by Jian Yang Qingshan Liu Zhenan Sun Xilin Chen Huchuan Lu Yuxin Peng Hongbin Zha Chenglin LiuThe three-volume set LNCS 12305, 12306, and 12307 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2020, held virtually in Nanjing, China, in October 2020. The 158 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 402 submissions. The papers have been organized in the following topical sections: Part I: Computer Vision and Application, Part II: Pattern Recognition and Application, Part III: Machine Learning.
Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision: Third Chinese Conference, PRCV 2020, Nanjing, China, October 16–18, 2020, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12306)
by Jian Yang Qingshan Liu Zhenan Sun Xilin Chen Huchuan Lu Yuxin Peng Hongbin Zha Chenglin LiuThe three-volume set LNCS 12305, 12306, and 12307 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2020, held virtually in Nanjing, China, in October 2020. The 158 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 402 submissions. The papers have been organized in the following topical sections: Part I: Computer Vision and Application, Part II: Pattern Recognition and Application, Part III: Machine Learning.
Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis: 10th Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2022, Aveiro, Portugal, May 4–6, 2022, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13256)
by Armando J. Pinho Petia Georgieva Luís F. Teixeira Joan Andreu SánchezThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, IbPRIA 2022, held in Aveiro, Portugal, in May 2022. The 54 papers accepted for these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. They deal with document analysis; medical image processing; biometrics; pattern recognition and machine learning; computer vision; and other applications.
Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis: 11th Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2023, Alicante, Spain, June 27–30, 2023, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14062)
by Joan Andreu Sánchez Antonio Pertusa Antonio Javier Gallego Inês DominguesThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, IbPRIA 2023, held in Alicante, Spain, in June 27–30, 2023. The 56 papers accepted for these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 86 submissions. They deal with Machine Learning, Document Analysis, Computer Vision, 3D Computer Vision, Computer Vision Applications, Medical Imaging & Applications, Machine Learning Applications.
Pattern Recognition. ICPR International Workshops and Challenges: Virtual Event, January 10–15, 2021, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12662)
by Marco Bertini Giovanni Maria Farinella Hugo Jair Escalante Alberto Del Bimbo Stan Sclaroff Rita Cucchiara Tao Mei Roberto VezzaniThis 8-volumes set constitutes the refereed of the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Workshops, ICPR 2020, held virtually in Milan, Italy and rescheduled to January 10 - 11, 2021 due to Covid-19 pandemic. The 416 full papers presented in these 8 volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from about 700 submissions. The 46 workshops cover a wide range of areas including machine learning, pattern analysis, healthcare, human behavior, environment, surveillance, forensics and biometrics, robotics and egovision, cultural heritage and document analysis, retrieval, and women at ICPR2020.