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Beginning Chemistry
LibreTexts · LibreTexts
This textmap is an introductory chemistry text aimed for a single semester or quarter beginning experience to the field. The textmaps survey some of the basic topics of chemistry. This survey should give student enough knowledge to appreciate the impact of chemistry in everyday life and, if necessary, prepare student for additional instruction in chemistry.
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Biophysical Chemistry
Serge L. Smirnov and James McCarty · Western Washington University
We wrote this text to serve as the primary source for a series of Biophysical Chemistry courses that we regularly teach as faculty members of the Chemistry Department at Western Washington University, which serve the needs of undergraduate Biochemistry program. The present text is based on the assumption of what WWU Biochemistry majors know and do not know at the time they enter their final year of study toward Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry.
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HKIN 110: Human Anatomy I for Kinesiology
Colin Wallace · Okanagan College
In the contents: 2.07: Cartilage · 2.7A: Structure Type and Location of Cartilage · 2.7B: Cartilage Growth
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Introductory Physics: Building Models to Describe Our World
Ryan D. Martin, Emma Neary, Joshua Rinaldo, and Olivia Woodman · Queen's University
In the contents: 11.02: Rotational dynamics for a single particle · 22.01: The Biot-Savart Law
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Introduction to Nutrition (2e)
Department of Nutrition · Metropolitan State University of Denver
In the contents: 5.05: Understanding Blood Cholesterol and Heart Disease
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Writing Spaces - Web Writing Style Guide
Matt Barton, James Kalmbach, & Charles Lowe et al. · LibreTexts
The Writing Spaces Web Writing Style Guide was created as a crowdsourcing project of Collaborvention 2011: A Computers and Writing Unconference. College writing teachers from around the web joined together to create this guide. The advice within it is based on contemporary theories and best practices. While the text was originally written for students in undergraduate writing classes, it can also be a suitable resource for other writers interested in learning more about writing for the web.
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Clinical Procedures for Safer Patient Care
Doyle and McCutcheon · British Columbia Institute of Technology
The checklist approach, used in this textbook, aims to provide standardized processes for clinical skills and to help nursing schools and clinical practice partners keep procedural practice current. Each skill/procedure is covered in a chapter that has learning objectives, a brief overview of the relevant theory, checklists of steps for procedures with the rationale behind each step of the process, and a summary of key takeaways.
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Teaching AI Ethics
Leon Furze · LibreTexts
And yet, as much as I enjoy working with the technology, it has many flaws. I think it’s our responsibility to discuss the ethical considerations of AI with our students. AI ethics goes beyond the well-documented “algorithmic bias” that results in language models like ChatGPT producing racist and sexist output. In this article, I will explore nine ethical considerations ranging from “beginner” to “intermediate” and “advanced” levels.
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Principles of Strategic Management
Precha Thavikulwat · Towson University
In the contents: 4.2: Presentation-Participation Assignment
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Calculus II: Integral Calculus
Doli Bambhania, Neelam R. Shukla & Danny Tran · De Anza College
In the contents: 3.01: Integration by Parts · 3.04: Partial Fractions
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Tutorials of Visual Graphic Communication Programs for Interior Design
Yongyeon Cho · Iowa State University
In the contents: 01: Part One. AutoCAD · 02: Part Two. Revit · 03: Part Three. Enscape
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Numerically Solving Ordinary Differential Equations
Stuart Brorson · Northeastern University
The booklet covers basic Euler solvers, Runge-Kutta, and linear multistep methods and discusses explicit vs. implicit methods. It discusses stability and the stability domains of some of the methods and talks about adaptive methods and the concept of stiffness and concluding with a chapter on symplectic methods and why they are important. Beyond the solver algorithms, the book includes many example ODEs and shows their solutions using the methods discussed. Matlab programs accompany the text.
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Health and Safety in Canadian Workplaces
Jason Foster and Bob Barnetson · Athabasca University
Workplace injuries happen every day and can profoundly affect workers, their families, and the communities they live in. This textbook provides workers with an introduction to effective injury prevention. The book pays particular attention to how issues of precarious employment, gender, and ill health can be better handled in Canadian occupational health and safety (OHS).
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Making Games with Python and Pygame
Al Sweigart · LibreTexts
In the contents: 2.06: Starting Python · 4.17: The “Start Game” Animation · 4.38: The "Start Game" Animation
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Open Educational Resources for Teaching and Learning
AJ Barse and Justina Brown · Western Washington University
The goal of this OER is to help participants get started creating OERs using the LibreTexts ebook platform. This OER will also act as a resource, and a primer, to the teaching and learning attributes behind OERs and Creative Commons content...
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Mindfulness for Lawyers
Justine Dunlap · University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Lawyer and law student distress have been a not-so-well-kept secret for decades. Fortunately, law schools have begun to address this problem, rather than viewing it as a necessary or even honorable rite of passage. For instance, law schools have incorporated wellness opportunities. They have also de-emphasized the use and misuse of alcohol as a lubricant to help students ignore the stress and distress.
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Working in the Food Service Industry
BC Cook Articulation Committee · BC Campus
In the contents: 4.04: Working as a Part of a Team
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BIS 2B: Introduction to Biology - Ecology & Evolution
Laci M. Gerhart-Barley · University of California, Davis
In the contents: 2.05: Earth's Geologic History and Biodiversity · 3.01: Earth's Energy Budget
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A Cognitive Perspective on Emotion
Mark Pettinelli · Northeastern University
Some things in life cause people to feel, these are called emotional reactions. Some things in life cause people to think, these are sometimes called logical or intellectual reactions. Thus life is divided between things that make you feel and things that make you think. The question is, if someone is feeling, does that mean that they are thinking less? It probably does. If part of your brain is being occupied by feeling, then it makes sense that you have less capacity for thought.
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Food Safety Sanitation and Personal Hygiene
BC Cook Articulation Committee · BC Campus
Food Safety, Sanitation, and Personal Hygiene is one of a series of Culinary Arts open textbooks developed to support the training of students and apprentices in British Columbia’s foodservice and hospitality industry. Although created with the Professional Cook, Baker and Meatcutter programs in mind, these have been designed as a modular series, and therefore can be used to support a wide variety of programs that offer training in foodservice skills.