Books published by Springer Verlag, Singapore

Chapter 1. Teacher Education Policy and Research: An Overview.- Chapter 2. Teacher Education/Ors in Australia: Still Shaping the Profession Despite Policy Intervention.- Chapter 3. A Critical Examination of the Conception of Teacher Professionalism Enacted in Current Teacher Education Policy in Flanders (Belgium).- Chapter 4. Teaching and Teacher Education for a Post-Pandemic Canada: Context, Crisis, Critique and Complication.- Chapter 5. The Complex Policy Landscape of Teacher Education in England: What''s the Problem Represented to be?.- Chapter 6. Analyzing Research, Practice and Accountability Turns in Finnish Academic Teacher Education.- Chapter 7. Preparing High Quality Teacher Education Graduates in an Era of Unprecedented Uncertainties: The Case of Hong Kong.- Chapter 8. Quality Under Pressure in Dutch Teacher Education.- Chapter 9. Teacher Education Policy in Aotearoa New Zealand: Global Trends Meet Local Imperatives.- Chapter 10. Teacher Education in Northern Ireland: Policy, Practice and Pragmatism.- Chapter 11. Educating Teachers in the Post-Bologna Context in Portugal: Lessons Learned and Remaining Challenges.- Chapter 12. Measuring Quality in Initial Teacher in the Scottish Context: A Context-Specific Endeavour.- Chapter 13. Teacher Education in The United States Of America: An Overview of the Policies, Pathways, Issues and Relevant Research.- Chapter 14. A Research Informed Approach to Initial Teacher Education in Wales: Intentions, Examples and Reflections.- Chapter 15. Teacher Education Policy: Future Research, Teaching in Contexts of Super-Diversity and Early Career Teaching.

This book provides an introduction to what it means to be numerate, and how numeracy can best be developed and nurtured in children and in adults. This book identifies skills and concepts involved in achieving functional numeracy, and provides practical advice on effective teaching, learning and assessment.

The book presents results related to studying the common trends of innovation and entrepreneurship education at the times of economic globalization and the experience of major countries, exploring the cultivation model of key innovation and entrepreneurship talents and mechanism of the innovation and entrepreneurship education ecosystem.

This book includes the original, peer-reviewed research articles from the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Computing (ICCIC 2020), held in September 2020 on a virtual platform jointly organized by SR Group of Institutions, Jhansi, India, IETE, Kolkata Centre, India, and Eureka Scientech Research Foundation, Kolkata India. It covers the latest research in image processing, computer vision and pattern recognition, machine learning, data mining, big data and analytics, information security and privacy, wireless and sensor networks and IoT applications, artificial intelligence, expert systems, natural language processing, image processing, computer vision, artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary optimization, rough sets, web intelligence, intelligent agent technology, virtual reality, and visualization.

This book highlights the practical aspects of computer modelling and simulation of complex dynamical systems for students. Mechanical systems are considered in the book as representative examples of dynamical systems. Wolfram SystemModeler, in combination with Learning Management System Sakai, is used as an instrument for studying features of various physical and technical phenomena and processes. Each of the presented virtual labs may be considered a stand-alone mini project to enable students to go through all the steps of mathematical modelling and computer simulation¿from the problem statement to mathematical and physical analysis of the obtained result. The book is useful for teachers to organize the educational process, allowing gradual monitoring of the learning process and assessment of students¿ competencies. It also allows tutors to design individual educational trajectories for students to achieve educational properties. The subject of the book is an extension of activitystarted by the international team of authors within the InMotion project of the European programme ERASMUS+.

This edited book is a collection of keynote speeches in the 3rd Global Teacher Education Summit in Beijing Normal University from October 14 to 16, 2017. The speeches intend to raise international response in the field of teacher education to the enduringly changing education policy environment.

In the age of sustainability, we increasingly see how designers and consumers begin to think beyond a product's look&feel and operation, and are especially concerned about what has happened during its manufacturing process and what will happen once its useful life comes to an end.

This volume covers the following topics: 1) basic introduction of non-coding RNA and bone development, how 2) microRNAs and 3) long noncoding RNAs (LncRNAs) regulate bone formation, 4) how ncRNAs and the corresponding pathways participate in bone metabolism diseases, 5) RNA synthesis technology and the possible RNA therapies in bone disease.

Indian mycologists have extensively studied various groups of fungi such as soil fungi, aquatic fungi, marine fungi, endophytic fungi, fungi associated with man and animals.

This book contains the latest computational intelligence methodologies and applications. It covers selected papers in the area of artificial intelligence and intelligent systems, intelligent business systems, machine intelligence, computer vision, Web intelligence, big data analytics, swarm intelligence, and related topics.

This book presents a collection of mathematical models that deals with the real scenario in the industries. The primary objective of this book is to explore various effective methods for inventory control and management using soft computing techniques. Inventory control and management is a very tedious task faced by all the organizations in any sector of the economy. It makes decisions for policies, activities, and procedures in order to make sure that the right amount of each item is held in stock at any time. Many industries suffer from indiscipline while ordering and production mismatch. It is essential to provide best ordering policy to control such kind of mismatch in the industries. All the mathematical model solutions are provided with the help of various soft computing optimization techniques to determine optimal ordering policy. This book is beneficial for practitioners, educators, and researchers. It is also helpful for retailers/managers for improving business functions and making more accurate and realistic decisions.

This book examines Chinese tertiary students' experiences of learning English in Sino-Australian programs in China. The book explores the ways that participant students used the Chinese words, tropes and their meanings to describe their English learning experiences with both local Chinese and foreign English teachers.

This book promotes student-centered approaches to the learning process, allowing students to develop skills and competences that traditional, passive learning methods cannot foster.

This book introduces the reader to drug delivery with specific emphasis on the use of nanoparticles. It covers properties, characterization, and preparation of different types of nanoparticles and discusses recent advances in their structural design and biomedical application, as well as the issues and challenges associated with their design and use. Some of the topics covered include the potential application of nanoparticles in biomedical fields, hazards associated with use of nanoparticles for drug delivery, size-dependent factors in drug delivery applications, different organic, inorganic and their hybrid systems used in drug delivery, etc. It also highlights use of nanoparticles in controlled and targeted drug delivery, and their application in stimuli-responsive, especially pH-responsive, drug release. Additionally, it also focuses on biomimetic nanoparticles, challenges faced in the designing of nanoparticles for drug delivery in cancer, viral and bacterial diseases. The contents of this volume will be useful to researchers and professionals working on advances in targeted drug delivery systems.

The book presents contributions on statistical models and methods applied, for both data science and SDGs, in one place. In this situation, the techniques used in data science, specially, in the big data analytics, play an important role rather than the traditional data gathering and manipulation techniques.

It tells China's story with regard to twelve aspects: the reform path, opening up, macro-economy, regional development, the "three rural" policy, poverty alleviation, industrial development, scientific and technological leadership, ecological civilization, human resources, social security, and income distribution.

Chapter 1. Obesity induced chronic low-level inflammation and cancers.- Chapter 2. Adipose tissue produced estrogen as risk factor for cancers.- Chapter 3. Insulin and Insulin-like growth factor-1 associated cancers.-Chapter 4. Adipokines play important role in cell proliferation and antiproliferation.- Chapter 5. mTOR and AMP-activated protein kinase in obesity and cancer.- Chapter 6. Immune response and oxidative stress in obesity induced cancer.- Chapter 7. Role of gene polymorphism in obesity and cancer.- Chapter 8. Therapeutic role of green tea in obesity and cancer.- Chapter 9. Effect of dietary phytochemicals in obesity and cancer.- Chapter 10. Resveratrol as anti-obesity and anticancer agent.- Chapter 11. EGCG as anti-obesity and anticancer agent.- Chapter 12. miRNAs as therapeutic target in obesity and cancer.- Chapter 13. In silico updates on lead identification for obesity and cancer.- Chapter 14. In vivo models for obesity and obesity related carcinogenesis.- Chapter 15. Estrogen signaling based current and potential therapies against obesity and related diseases.- Chapter 16. Autophagy at the crossroad of obesity mediated cancer progression.

This book introduces the fundamentals and principles of laser shock peening (LSP) for aeronautical materials. The main contents of the book include: the characteristics of laser shock wave, the formation mechanism of gradient structures and the strengthening-toughing mechanism by gradient structures.

This book discusses the basic theoretical model and implementation method of intelligent machining technology and promotes the application of intelligent machining technology in the manufacturing of complex aviation components, such as aero-engine blisk, casing parts and blades. It not only presents the fundamental theory of intelligent machining, but also provides detailed examples of applications in the aviation industry.The topics covered include intelligent programming, intelligent processing models, process monitoring, machining process control, intelligent fixtures and applications in aviation components machining.This book is intended for researchers, engineers and postgraduate students in fields of manufacturing, mechatronics, mechanical engineering and related areas.

This book presents a very useful and readable collection of chapters in nanotechnologies for energy conversion, storage, and utilization, offering new results which are sure to be of interest to researchers, students, and engineers in the field of nanotechnologies and energy.