How have theatre & performance research methods & methodologies engaged the expanding diversity of performing arts practices? How can students best combine performance/theatre research approaches in their projects? This book's 29 contributors provide hands-on answers to such questions. ...

Developmental care is an association of environmental & behavioural strategies designed to decrease the stress of preterm neonates. This book reviews the theoretical framework underlying developmental care & the research-based data in different fields: neuroscience, developmental psychology, medicine & nursing. ...

A permanent issue in compulsory education is how to promote students' active working in the classroom. This book presents compiled knowledge, based on research concerning co-operation in groups among students, or more specific, how to create & maintain well functioning group work in an educational context. ...

The global nitrogen cycle is the one most impacted by mankind. The past decade has changed our view on many aspects of the microbial biogeochemical cycles including the global nitrogen cycle, which is mainly due to tremendous advances in methods, techniques & approaches. Many novel processes & the molecular inventory & organisms that facilitate them have been discovered only within the last 5 to 10 years, & the process is in progress. This volume provides state-of-the-art updates on methods & protocols dealing with the detection, isolation & characterization of macromolecules & their hosting organisms that ...

Presents information on methods & protocols dealing with the detection, isolation & characterization of macromolecules & their hosting organisms that facilitate nitrification & related processes in the nitrogen cycle as well as the challenges of doing so in very diverse environments. ...