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Matt Tavares's striking homage to one of baseball's legends offers a rare view into Babe Ruth's formative years in "the House that built Ruth.”Before he is known as the Babe, George Herman Ruth is just a boy who lives in Baltimore and gets into a lot of trouble. But when he turns seven, his father brings him to the gates of Saint Mary's Industrial School for Boys, and his life is changed forever. At Saint Mary's, he's expected to study hard an...

Operation FORTITUDE, the D-Day deception plan, was a near perfect plan used by the Allies during World War II to deceive the Germans as to the time and place of the Normandy invasion. This short research paper studies the methods and techniques used by the Allies, specifically the British Security Services, in the near flawless execution of the deception plan. This paper also proposes that the plan was so well executed because it was a "closed...

Countries adopt policies that attract foreign multinationals, stimulate industrial clustering and foster innovation. This book links these topical issues, examining activities of multinational enterprises alongside the efficiency, appropriateness and sufficiency of such policies. With new empirical evidence, it makes practical proposals throughout.

Yvonne "Cooky" Tavares serves as a leader for Aglow International Ministry which is a Global Movement raising Champions and Warriors for God's Kingdom. As a Resource and Development Vice-President for the Aglow International Hawaii Area Team, she is an encourager, builder, intercessor and prayer warrior. With a powerful testimony of a life God changes from ashes to beauty, she shares her story of overcoming while encouraging others to ARISE fr...

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Body temperature of bees considerably accompanies variations in ambient temperature, and the performance of most of its activity is largely affected by air temperature. When are exposed to temperatures above or below the optimum range for the species during its pupal stage, these, when they survive, have morphological deficiencies, physiological or behavioral as adults. Stingless bees demonstrate certain thermoregulatory ability to nest in whi...

A utilização de animais não humanos como ferramenta da pesquisa biomédica e de testes da indústria para consumo humano foi incorporada às práticas científicas e assimilada como parte fundamental do desenvolvimento nestas áreas. A revisão sistemática dos resultados de protocolos de fases pré-clínicas não é uma prática corrente, mas estudos de meta-análise recentes questionam a capacidade de projeção destes dados para a espécie humana, incluindo...

A glorious tribute to a baseball legend and a complicated human being." -School Library JournalTed Williams was an ordinary kid who wanted one thing: to hit a baseball better than anyone else. So he practiced his swing every chance he got. And then practiced it some more. From his days playing ball in North Park as a kid to his unmatched .406 season in 1941 to his stints as a fighter pilot in World War II and Korea, the story of Teddy Ballgame...

A glorious tribute to a baseball legend and a complicated human being." -School Library JournalTed Williams was an ordinary kid who wanted one thing: to hit a baseball better than anyone else. So he practiced his swing every chance he got. And then practiced it some more. From his days playing ball in North Park as a kid to his unmatched .406 season in 1941 to his stints as a fighter pilot in World War II and Korea, the story of Teddy Ballgame...

This rousing tribute should resonate with a wide audience." -School Library Journal (starred review)Before he was Hammerin' Hank, Henry Aaron was a young boy growing up in Mobile, Alabama, with what seemed like a foolhardy dream: to be a big-league baseball player. He didn't have a bat. He didn't have a ball. And there wasn't a single black ballplayer in the major leagues. But none of this could stop him. In a captivating biography of Henry Aa...

This rousing tribute should resonate with a wide audience." -School Library Journal (starred review)Before he was Hammerin' Hank, Henry Aaron was a young boy growing up in Mobile, Alabama, with what seemed like a foolhardy dream: to be a big-league baseball player. He didn't have a bat. He didn't have a ball. And there wasn't a single black ballplayer in the major leagues. But none of this could stop him. In a captivating biography of Henry Aa...

The love between brothers is key to Matt Tavares's tale of Dominican pitcher Pedro Martínez, from his days of throwing rocks at mangoes to his years as a major-league star.Before Pedro Martínez pitched the Red Sox to a World Series championship, before he was named to the All-Star team eight times, before he won the Cy Young three times, he was a kid from a place called Manoguayabo in the Dominican Republic. Pedro loved baseball more than anyt...

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computational Modeling of Objects Presented in Images, CompIMAGE 2014, held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, in September 2014. The 29 revised full papers presented together with 10 short papers and 6 keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: medical treatment, imaging and analysis, image registratio...

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This book contains the full papers presented at the MICCAI 2013 workshop Bio-Imaging and Visualization for Patient-Customized Simulations (MWBIVPCS 2013). MWBIVPCS 2013 brought together researchers representing several fields, such as Biomechanics, Engineering, Medicine, Mathematics, Physics and Statistic. The contributions included in this book present and discuss new trends in those fields, using several methods and techniques, including the...

A Presidenta da República, Dilma Rousseffe, assinou um decreto (8.244/2014) que institui o Plano Nacional de Participação Social, cujo objetivo é fortalecer e articular as instâncias democráticas de diálogo e atuação conjunta entre Administração Pública e Sociedade Civil. Na sequência, iniciou-se uma intensa campanha nos meios de comunicação e no Congresso Nacional contra o referido decreto. Tanto a assinatura do decreto quanto a reação por el...

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Este livro se propôs a investigar a relação existente entre melhores estruturas de governança corporativa e o valor das instituições financeiras brasileiras. Partiu-se do pressuposto de que o alinhamento de interesses entre gestores e proprietários, resultante de boas práticas de governança, afeta o valor das empresas. Como parâmetro para caracterizar as estruturas de governança das empresas analisadas empregou-se os níveis de governança insti...