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Performance in Multimodal Speaking Tests: Focusing on Strategic Competence and Task Complexity
English | 2026 | ISBN: 9819574447 | 226 Pages | PDF (True) | 8 MB
This book explores the complex interplay between test-takers' strategic competence, task complexity, and performance, focusing on Chinese learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). It introduces and empirically validates the Strategic Competence Model of L2 Speaking (SCMLS), the first framework in second language research to clearly conceptualise strategic competence in speaking, designed primarily for Chinese EFL learners. It also provides a feasible solution to the long-standing challenge of designing and assessing task complexity and multimodality in L2 testing by using Robinson's (2015) Triadic Componential Framework. Methodologically, the employment of quantitative hierarchical linear modelling and qualitative, ChatGPT‑assisted coding to investigate these relationships offers rigorous and efficient approaches to data analysis for future studies. The book provides pedagogical implications for metacognitive scaffolding and task development for EFL speaking instruction. This book serves as a useful reference for language assessment researchers, applied linguists, teacher educators, test developers, and graduate students interested in second language speaking performance and strategy use in assessment contexts.

People, Society, and Ethical Challenges of Information Systems
English | 2026 | ISBN: 3032084857 | 467 Pages | PDF (True) | 13 MB
In the context of the global trend toward digitalization, it presents the results of innovative, high-quality research in the field of information systems and digital transformation. The book covers a broad range of topics, including digital responsibility, human-computer interaction, digital democracy and ethics in AI, each of which has and will continue to have significant impacts on companies, individuals and societies alike.

Paying for Health: Learning from International Experience in Health Financing
English | 2026 | ISBN: 1009746286 | 744 Pages | PDF (True) | 9 MB
Health care financing is key in defining interactions between providers and the general population. It determines who is required to pay for care, how much they pay, and what types of services patients can receive. It also helps shape markets for health service providers and innovations in service delivery, pharmaceuticals and medical devices. Paying for Health brings together insights from over 50 global experts to provide a vital analysis of health care financing around the world, explaining issues related to funding both health and social care. It explores key aspects of health financing, delving into critical policy questions and examining strategies that shape sustainable, effective health systems. Offering real-world examples and evidence-based insights, this essential volume equips policymakers, researchers, and health leaders with the tools to design financing systems that drive progress now and in the future towards universal health coverage. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning for Self-Study I: Supervised Learning
English | 2026 | ISBN: 9819514770 | 461 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 37 MB
This book explains the basic principles of pattern recognition (PR) and machine learning (ML) in an easy-to-understand manner for beginners who are trying to learn these principles on their own. Readers with a basic knowledge of linear algebra and probability theory will find it easy to follow.

Patina Volkswagens
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1787113159 | 321 Pages | EPUB (True) | 26 MB
Since the early 2000s, the apparent explosion of interest in Volkswagens with original paint, rust and patina has inspired a generation of car fanatics, who might not be able to afford to restore a car to show condition, but still want a good looking, cool car that will stand out from the crowd. Once looked upon as being in need of restoration, cars with original paint, rust and patina, especially within the global Volkswagen community, have gradually become far more popular than restored cars. When walking down a line of cars at a car show, it's easy to see why; these cars are rare, unspoiled survivors - cars that tell a story of an interesting and varied past. The look of the Volkswagens being built in this style is so honest, unspoiled and characterful, that it has begun to inspire the media; even Hollywood movie stars and celebrities. Whilst this has undoubtedly resulted in increased car values, and turned a brand of cars that had always been a cheap, honest mode of transportation into something cool with a high price tag, the generation it initially inspired has grown with the hobby, and produced a micro-industry that still manages to embrace the 'Built not bought' ethos. This book, superbly illustrated with stunning colour photographs, takes an inside look at some of the key car builders, dealers, celebrities and hobbyists, as well as the different styles of build, meaning every single car has a style all its own. Foreword by Drew Pritchard of TV's 'Salvage Hunters' fame.

Pathologisches Horten: Eine Einführung
Deutsch | 2026 | ISBN: 3662733765 | 49 Pages | PDF (True) | 2 MB
Dieses essential bietet einen Überblick zur Diagnose „pathologisches Horten". Das Störungsbild ist mehr als bloß Unordnung. Es kann Wohnräume unbewohnbar machen, Beziehungen belasten und mit Scham sowie Isolation einhergehen. Das Buch skizziert das klinische Bild, ordnet es in ICD und DSM ein und zeigt, warum Aufräumversuche oft scheitern. Es wird auf diagnostische Orientierung, ätiologische Modelle und evidenzbasierte Behandlungsansätze eingegangen. Zudem werden Grenzen der Datenlage und die Bedeutung der Nachsorge dargestellt.

Pathologisch-anatomische Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien im Narrenturm
Deutsch | 2026 | ISBN: 3662712172 | 258 Pages | PDF (True) | 30 MB
Der Narrenturm ist ein bedeutendes Denkmal in der Geschichte der Medizin im ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert. Gegründet wurde er 1784 für die Unterbringung von psychisch kranken Menschen. Im Jahr 1971 wurde hier das Pathologisch-anatomische Bundesmuseum untergebracht, das 2012 als pathologisch-anatomische Sammlung im Narrenturm in das Naturhistorische Museum Wien eingegliedert wurde.

Particle Astrophysics with Gamma-Ray Telescopes
English | 2026 | ISBN: 1032835818 | 165 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 51 MB
Gamma-ray astrophysics combines the exciting fields of Particle Physics and Astronomy. We get to study particle interactions in space! Using the Universe as our laboratory, we are able to study fundamental physics in extreme environments unavailable in labs on Earth.

Parks for Profit: Selling Nature in the City
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0231194048 | 254 Pages | EPUB (True) | 3 MB
A new kind of city park has emerged in the early twenty-first century. Postindustrial parks transform the derelict remnants of an urban past into distinctive public spaces that meld repurposed infrastructure, wild-looking green space, and landscape architecture. For their proponents, they present an opportunity to turn disused areas into neighborhood anchors, with a host of environmental and community benefits. Yet there are clear economic motives as well―successful parks have helped generate billions of dollars of city tax revenues and real estate development.

Paediatric Neurorehabilitation
English | 2026 | ISBN: 3032261910 | 351 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 13 MB
This open access book presents the state-of-the-art knowledge in multiple important fields of paediatric neurorehabilitation ranging from neurological development over elementary rules in various domains (motor cognitive, language, dysphagia, etc) to applications for typical disorders such as cerebral palsy and to aspects of implementation in specialised settings such as community-based rehabilitation.