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  Advanced Applications for Artificial Neural Networks

  Adel El-Shahat, Georgia Southern University

  2-28-2018
  

  Georgia Southern University faculty member Adel El-Shahat edited Advanced Applications for Artificial Neural Networks.

  Book Summary: In this book, highly qualified multidisciplinary scientists grasp their recent researches motivated by the importance of artificial neural networks. It addresses advanced applications and innovative case studies for the next-generation optical networks based on modulation recognition using artificial neural networks, hardware ANN for gait generation of multi-legged robots, production of high-resolution soil property ANN maps, ANN and dynamic factor models to combine forecasts, ANN parameter recognition of engineering constants in Civil Engineering, ANN electricity consumption and generation forecasting, ANN for advanced process control, ANN ... Read more

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  Self-Efficacy in Instructional Technology Contexts

  Charles B. Hodges, Georgia Southern University

  2018
  

  Georgia Southern University faculty member Charles B. Hodges edited Self-Efficacy in Instructional Technology Contexts and co-authored a chapter titled, "Guided Reflective Journaling with Case-Based Instruction in a Dysphagia Course: Learner Self-Efficacy and Reaction."

  Book Summary: This edited volume contains reports of current research, and literature reviews of research, involving self-efficacy in various instructional technology contexts. Chapter represent international perspectives across the broad areas of K-12 education, higher education, teacher self-efficacy, and learner self-efficacy to capture a diverse cross section of research on these topics. The book includes reviews of existing literature and reports of new research, thus creating a comprehensive ... Read more

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  Cybercrime and Digital Forensics: An Introduction

  Thomas J. Holt, Michigan State University; Adam Bossler, Georgia Southern University; and Kathryn Seigfried-Spellar, The University of Alabama

  2018
  

  Georgia Southern University faculty member Adam M. Bossler and non faculty members Thomas J. Holt and Kathryn C. Seigfried-Spellar co-authored Cybercrime and Digital Forensics: An Introduction.

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  Chivalry in Westeros: The Knightly Code of A Song of Ice and Fire

  Carol Parrish Jamison, Georgia Southern University

  2018
  

  George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire has sparked a renewed interest in things medieval. The pseudo-historical world of Westeros delights casual fans while offering a rich new perspective for medievalists and scholars. This study explores how Martin crafts a chivalric code that intersects with and illuminates well known medieval texts, including both romance and heroic epics. Through characters such as Brienne of Tarth, Sandor Clegane and Jaime Lannister, Martin variously challenges, upholds and deconstructs chivalry as depicted in the literature of the Middle Ages.

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  Leadership for Health Professionals: Theory, Skills, and Applications

  Gerald R. Ledlow, Georgia Southern University and James H. Stephens, Georgia Southern University

  2018
  

  Georgia Southern University faculty members Gerald R. Ledlow and James H. Stephens co-authored Leadership for Health Professionals: Theory, Skills, and Applications, Third Edition.

  Book Summary: Leadership for Health Professionals: Theory, Skills, and Applications, Third Edition is the first textbook of its kind to apply classical knowledge of leadership theory and time-honored best practices of industry leaders to a health organization context. This comprehensive and well-organized text is grounded in real-world applications of theoretical concepts, and focuses on practical examples of leadership in actual healthcare scenarios.

  Themes of leadership principles, applications and constructs such as organizational culture, cultural competency, ethical frameworks ... Read more

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  U.S. Attorneys, Political Control, and Career Ambition

  Banks Miller, University of Texas at Dallas and Brett W. Curry, Georgia Southern University

  12-2018
  

  United States Attorneys (USAs), the chief federal prosecutors in each judicial district, are key in determining how the federal government uses coercive force against its citizens. How much control do national political actors exert over the prosecutorial decisions of USAs? In this book, the authors investigate this question using a unique data set of federal criminal prosecutions between 1986 and 2015 that captures both decisions by USAs to file cases as well as the sentences that result. Utilizing intuitions from principal-agent theory, work on the career ambition of bureaucrats and politicians, and selected case studies, they develop and advance a ... Read more

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  Medical and Veterinary Entomology

  Gary R. Mullen, Gettysburg College and Lance A, Durden, Georgia Southern University

  10-16-2018
  

  The first and second editions of Medical and Veterinary Entomology, edited by Gary R. Mullen and Lance A. Durden, published in 2002 and 2009, respectively, have been highly praised and become widely used as a textbook for classroom instruction. This fully revised third edition continues the focus on the diversity of arthropods affecting human and animal health, with separate chapters devoted to each of the taxonomic groups of insects and arachnids of medical or veterinary concern, including spiders, scorpions, mites, and ticks. Each chapter includes sections on taxonomy, morphology, life history, and behavior and ecology, with separate sections on those ... Read more

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  Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Series, Volume 1: Design Considerations in Clinical Trials

  Karl E. Peace, Georgia Southern University; Ding-Geng Chen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and Sandeep Menon, Boston University

  2018
  

  Georgia Southern University faculty member Karl E. Peace co-authored Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Series, Volume 1: Design Considerations in Clinical Trials alongside non-faculty members Ding-Geng Chen and Sandeep Menon.

  Book Summary: TThis BASS book Series publishes selected high-quality papers reflecting recent advances in the design and biostatistical analysis of biopharmaceutical experiments – particularly biopharmaceutical clinical trials. The papers were selected from invited presentations at the Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Symposium (BASS), which was founded by the first Editor in 1994 and has since become the premier international conference in biopharmaceutical statistics. The primary aims of the BASS are: 1) to raise funding ... Read more

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  Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Series, Volume 2: Statistical Analysis Considerations of Clinical Trials

  Karl E. Peace, Georgia Southern University; Ding-Geng Chen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and Sandeep Menon, Boston University

  2018
  

  Georgia Southern University faculty member Karl E. Peace co-authored Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Series, Volume 2: Statistical Analysis Considerations of Clinical Trials alongside non-faculty members Ding-Geng Chen and Sandeep Menon.

  Book Summary: This BASS book Series publishes selected high-quality papers reflecting recent advances in the design and biostatistical analysis of biopharmaceutical experiments – particularly biopharmaceutical clinical trials. The papers were selected from invited presentations at the Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Symposium (BASS), which was founded by the first Editor in 1994 and has since become the premier international conference in biopharmaceutical statistics. The primary aims of the BASS are: 1) to raise ... Read more

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  Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Series, Volume 3: Novel Application in Clinical Trials

  Karl E. Peace, Georgia Southern University; Ding-Geng Chen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and Sandeep Menon, Boston University

  2018
  

  Georgia Southern University faculty member Karl E. Peace co-authored Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Series, Volume 3: Novel Application in Clinical Trials alongside non-faculty members Ding-Geng Chen and Sandeep Menon.

  Book Summary: This BASS book Series publishes selected high-quality papers reflecting recent advances in the design and biostatistical analysis of biopharmaceutical experiments – particularly biopharmaceutical clinical trials. The papers were selected from invited presentations at the Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Symposium (BASS), which was founded by the first Editor in 1994 and has since become the premier international conference in biopharmaceutical statistics. The primary aims of the BASS are: 1) to raise funding ... Read more

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  Community Planning and Development: Critical Concepts in Built Environment, Vol. 2

  Rhonda Phillips, Purdue University and Patricia B. Kraeger, Georgia Southern University

  2018
  

  Work was co-authored by Georgia Southern faculty member Prof. Patsy Kraeger.

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  Community Planning and Development: Critical Concepts in Built Environment, Vol. 3

  Rhonda Phillips, Purdue University and Patricia B. Kraeger, Georgia Southern University

  2018
  

  Work was co-authored by Georgia Southern faculty member Prof. Patsy Kraeger.

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  Community Planning and Development: Critical Concepts in Built Environment, Vol 4

  Rhonda Phillips, Purdue University and Patricia B. Kraeger, Georgia Southern University

  2018
  

  Work was co-authored by Georgia Southern faculty member Prof. Patsy Kraeger.

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  Community Planning and Development: Critical Concepts in Built Environment Vol. 1

  Rhonda Phillips, Purdue University and Patsy B. Kraeger, Georgia Southern University

  2018
  

  Work was co-authored by Georgia Southern Faculty member Prof. Patsy Kraeger.

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  The Development of Criminological Thought

  Chad Posick, Georgia Southern University

  5-4-2018
  

  This book focuses on the history and development of criminological thought from the pre-Enlightenment period to the present and offers a detailed and chronological overview of competing theoretical perspectives in criminology in their social and political context.

  This book covers:

  • A discussion of how major theorists came to espouse their ideas and how the social context of the time influenced the development criminological thought;

  • An exploration of the scientific method and the way in which theories are tested;

  • Details of the origins of each theory as well as their recent ... Read more

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  Great Debates in Criminology

  Chad Posick, Georgia Southern University and Michael Rocque, Bates College

  6-23-2018
  

  This book explores the role of theory and research in criminology. Adopting a unique and refreshing approach to criminological theory, it focuses on the great debates in criminology from its inception as a field to the present day. It explores the debates that have motivated criminological thought, that have represented turning points in theoretical and empirical trajectories, that have offered mini-paradigm shifts, and that have moved the field forward. Coverage includes:

  • Classical debates, including the work of Lombroso, Durkheim, and Sutherland;
  • Sociological vs. psychological debates in criminology;
  • Control theory and cultural deviance theory;
  • Criminal career and trait-based theory;
  • Theory ... Read more

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  The Echo of Odin: Norse Mythology and Human Consciousness

  Edward W. L. Smith, Georgia Southern University

  2018
  

  Georgia Southern University emeritus professor Edward W. L. Smith authored The Echo of Odin: Norse Mythology and Human Consciousness.

  Book Description: The pagan mythology of the Vikings offers a rich metaphor for consciousness. This book presents the cosmography of Norse mythology as a landscape of human inner life. Each of the nine worlds of this cosmography is viewed as a symbol of a distinct type of consciousness that is emblematic of a particular perspective or way of relating to others. Individual gods and goddesses are considered nuanced personifications of their worlds. The philosophy of pagan mythology is explored by comparing ... Read more

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  The Dead Still Here

  Laura E. Valeri, Georgia Southern University

  6-5-2018
  

  Georgia Southern faculty member Laura E. Valeri authored The Dead Still Here.

  Book Summary: Mapping stories set in Europe and America, The Dead Still Here skillfully paces through eleven short stories about friends-with-benefits typed relationships, vicious divorces and thievery, the loss of a child, the loss of a mother, and the Coast Guard and the Navy rescuing refugees from a bad storm at sea. Laura Valeri writes one single breathtaking sentence about sex, Dear John emails, and Christmas presents in “Liabilities of a Love Misguided” and displays a sharp sense of paranoia based on everyone looking at the narrator, laughing, ... Read more

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  Urban Forestry - Taming Precipita

  John T. Van Stan II, Georgia Southern University; Jan Friesen, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung; Tyasetta, Graphic Artist; and Siloy, Graphic Artist

  7-2018
  

  Since the beginning of human settlement, people have observed water in its many forms, recording the ways that water supports and subverts life... like a cunning and capricious witch. This is the story of Precipita, the waterwitch of Leipzig Germany, and the critical roles that urban forests play in protecting the city from her hydrological whims! This science comic was based on a book chapter "Urban Forestry: An Underutilized Tool in Water Management" in "Advanced Tools for Integrated Water Resources Management" by Van Stan, Underwood, and Friesen (Elsevier). Supported by NSF 11518726.

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  Science, Democracy and Curriculum Studies: Why (Not) Science Matters

  John A. Weaver, Goergia Southern University

  8-30-2018
  

  Georgia Southern University faculty member John A. Weaver authored Educating the Posthuman: Biosciences, Fiction, and Curriculum Studies.

  In this book John A. Weaver suggests curriculum studies scholars need to engage more in science matters. It offers a review of science studies writing from Ludwick Fleck and Thomas Kuhn to Philip Mirowski. The volume includes chapters on the rhetoric of science with a focus on the history of rhetoric and economics then on the rhetoric of models, statistics, and data, a critique of neoliberalism and its impact on science policy and the foundations of democracy, Harry Collin’s and Robert Evans’ theory ... Read more

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  Geographies of Plague Pandemics: The Spatial-Temporal Behavior of Plague to the Modern Day

  Mark R. Welford, Georgia Southern University

  3-13-2018
  

  Georgia Southern University faculty member Mark R. Welford authored Geographies of Plague Pandemics: The Spatial-Temporal Behavior of Plague to the Modern Day.

  Book Summary: Geographies of Plague Pandemics synthesizes our current understanding of the spatial and temporal dynamics of plague, Yersinia pestis. The environmental, political, economic, and social impacts of the plague from Ancient Greece to the modern day are examined. Chapters explore the identity of plague DNA, its human mortality, and the source of ancient and modern plagues. This book also discusses the role plague has played in shifting power from Mediterranean Europe to north-western Europe during the 500 ... Read more

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  Mathematica By Example

  Martha L. Abell, Georgia Southern University and James P. Braselton, Georgia Southern University

  6-15-2017
  

  Georgia Southern faculty members Martha L. Abell and James P. Braselton co-authored Mathematica by Example, Fifth Edition.

  Mathematica by Example, Fifth Edition is an essential desk reference for the beginning Mathematica user, providing step-by-step instructions on achieving results from this powerful software tool. The book fully accounts for the dramatic changes to functionality and visualization capabilities in the most recent version of Mathematica (10.4). It accommodates the full array of new extensions in the types of data and problems that Mathematica can immediately handle, including cloud services and systems, geographic and geometric computation, dynamic visualization, interactive applications and other improvements. ... Read more

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  Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering

  Hamid R. Arabnia, University of Georgia; Ray Hashemi, Georgia Southern University; and Fernando G. Tinetti, National University of La Plata, Argentina

  1-1-2017
  

  Georgia Southern University faculty member Ray Hashemi co-edited Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering alongside Hamid R. Arabnia, Leonidas Deligiannidis, and Fernando G. Tinetti.

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  Constructing International Studies

  Christopher M. Brown, Georgia Southern University

  2017
  

  Georgia Southern University faculty member Christopher M. Brown edited Constructing International Studies.

  Constructing International Studies is a collection of writings that explores the most progressive edge of the discipline. Through diverse perspectives and issues, the book gives students a thorough understanding of how the field is developing presently. By incorporating the conceptual thinking that will frame the next generation of international studies, it provides students an understanding of the contemporary discussions and prepares them for meaningful future engagement in the field.
  
  The book opens with a foreword by Nicholas Greenwood Onuf. The first thematic section is devoted to addressing the ... Read more

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  Introduction to International Studies

  Christopher M. Brown, Georgia Southern University

  1-2017