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Justice Statistics: An Extended Look at Crime in the United States is a special edition of Crime in the United States. It brings together key reports that fall under this category. Topics covered include capital punishment, rape and sexual assault among...

This book extends the ideas developed in Bonner’s previous volumes on the social determinants of health. It provides a critical review of the direct and indirect impact of war in Europe, a quintessential wicked issue. From a human development...

Maschinelles Lernen (ML) bietet einen Rahmen für die Analyse hochdimensionaler Datensätze durch Modellierung komplexer, oft non-linearer Beziehungen. Der Einfluss von ML-Methoden auf die Forschung und praktische Anwendungen in den Sozial- und...

This book surveys the treaty practice of Asian States. It undertakes a study of nine prominent Asian States, namely Bangladesh, India, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, People’s Republic of China, Republic of Korea, Sri Lanka and The Philippines. One chapter each...

Humans have always told stories, and myths have been used for millennia as a means of storytelling. A good tale can deliver an important message, an understanding of deeper emotional conflicts, or perhaps act as a light piece of entertainment. Myths have...

This book’s essays aim subversively and resolutely to replace the hegemonic discursive frame governing comparative law. Beyond harnessing negative critique to resist the orthodoxy’s self-assured cognitive assumptions, at once unexamined and indefensible,...

This work is dedicated to Dr. Victor W. Fazio, formerly the Chairman of the Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic, who served as a mentor to a generation of physicians and surgeons from around the world. The intended audience is...

Die Sozial- und Gesundheitswirtschaft als regulierter Bereich wird stark vom Sozialrecht geprägt. Dieses Rechtsgebiet spielt in der Praxis eine herausgehobene Rolle. Daher sollte in der Ausbildung an Hochschulen ein starkes Augenmerk auf dieses Thema...

This cutting-edge book draws on the latest ideas from economics and evolutionary theory to provide a toolkit for understanding how issues are framed in the media, built around the key elements of texture, temperature, position and size.

This book is a compendium of chapters focusing on the application of CRISPR-Cas 9 in translational research. The initial chapter provides the brief history and basic mechanism of the CRISPR/Cas 9 system and factors influencing its efficacy for treating...

The second edition of Archaeological Investigation thoroughly updates the theory, aims and methods of field archaeology in the academic and commercial sectors. Now co-authored by Madeleine Hummler, the book’s scope has been enlarged and updated, reaching...

This book discusses the potential of magnetic nanoparticles in cancer therapy. It reviews the synthesis of magnetic nanoparticles – which, due to their small size and processability, have become widely used in various biomedical applications – and their...

This book presents the result of an innovative challenge, to create a systematic literature overview driven by machine-generated content. Questions and related keywords were prepared for the machine to query, discover, collate and structure by Artificial...

In a bid to wean himself off Facebook and Twitter, media scholar and cultural theorist Dominic Pettman decided to revive an ancient custom. He decided to tell the local bees of his thoughts, theories, musings, and meditations. The result was an apian...

Future Perfect/Present Tense examines the relations between migrants and the Emirati individuals and institutions that sponsor them. Divided by culture, language, and status, the two groups harbour opposing visions of a perfect future. The migrants dream...

This book explores the military strategy and military modernization of Russia and China post-2001. In a complex international system where US power wanes and new powers emerge, Russia and China are the most notable and potent challengers to the post-Cold...

Follow the clues, track down the bad actors trying to access your systems, and uncover the chain of evidence left by even the most careful adversary. For security, network, and systems professionals familiar with security tools and Python. Cyber Threat...

This book provides evidence-based guidance for pediatric imaging to radiologists, pediatricians, and all subspecialists caring for children, as well as policy advocates. While the majority of pediatric radiology books concentrate on diagnosis, this book...

The second edition builds upon the previous content, exploring new and emerging evidence to enhance the structure and content of rehabilitation provided. It considers the additional impact of COVID-19 throughout each chapter. In addition, sadly not every...

Dieses Buch lässt Sie beim Betrachten der vielen einmaligen Kurzzeitfotos und Bildfolgen zum ersten Mal Einzelheiten aus dem ultraschnellen Leben der Libellen, dieser großen, wunderschönen Fluginsekten erfahren. Libellen sind Flugweltmeister, bionische...

A fundamental principle of the American legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty there is very little room to prove doubt.Framed shares ten true stories of men who were innocent but found guilty and forced to...

This book offers a comprehensive guide to reinforcement learning (RL) and bandits for speech and language technology. The book first provides an overview of RL and bandit methods and their applications to various speech and language tasks. The author...

Learn how to manage your emotions and improve your people skills with this book, which is bursting with advice on emotional intelligence and how to harness itEmotional intelligence (or EQ) is the ability to perceive, use, understand, manage and handle...

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic presented Polish legislators with a host of legal dilemmas, the aftermath of which resulted in numerous legislative changes. A significant part of these relate to entrepreneurial law in a broad sense. However, the...

The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland has functioned without interruption for over a century, yet its intermediate position can obscure the importance of its judgments. This book demonstrates the Court of Appeal’s pivotal role in securing justice, both...

This book advocates an exploratory approach to survey data analysis, rather than confirmatory approaches, which many other textbooks explicitly or implicitly recommend. Most survey data, especially attitudinal data, might not be suitable for causal...

This book presents the result of an innovative challenge, to create a systematic literature overview driven by machine-generated content. Questions and related keywords were prepared for the machine to query, discover, collate and structure by Artificial...

How are collective rights addressed in Europe? This book examines this question, looking at collective or class action procedures, in the European Union and selected Member States, including Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal,...

Dieser Sammelband gibt Denkanstöße für Antworten auf die Frage, welche Akteurskonstellationen im politischen System für die Transformation benötigt werden und wie die sozial-ökologische Wende in zentralen industriellen Sektoren gelingen kann. Wie können...

The monograph present ideas and methods, developed by the author, to solve the problem of existence of Bohr/Levitan almost periodic (respectively, almost recurrent in the sense of Bebutov, almost authomorphic, Poisson stable) solutions and global...

Initially published in 2013, Ian Haney-López's Dog Whistle Politics offered a sweeping account of how politicians and plutocrats deploy veiled racial appeals to persuade white voters to support policies that favor the extremely rich yet threaten their...

This innovative interdisciplinary collection confronts the worldwide challenge of women's under-representation in science through an interrogation of the field of physics and its gender imbalance. Leading physicists and sociologists from across Europe...

From one of the world’s great science writers, a book that explores the deepest principles of evolutionary history. In this groundbreaking new approach to the evolution of all life, Richard Dawkins shows how the body, behaviour, and genes of every living...

This second volume of the textbook Hydraulic and Thermal Machines focuses on thermal machines. It covers the fundamentals of heat transfer and thermodynamics for reacting and non-reacting mixtures, and compressible fluids, followed by the principles of...

The chakras are vibrant energy wheels or centres of spiritual power, located within the subtle body, through which our life energy flows.Traditionally, there are seven principal chakras - the Base Chakra, the Sacral Chakra, the Solar Plexus Chakra, the...

Zu 50 gefäßchirugischen Notfallsituationen gibt das Buch bewährte und präzise Empfehlungen für das diagnostische und therapeutische Vorgehen; zahlreiche Tipps und Tricks erleichtern die Umsetzung. Jede Notfallsituation wird zusätzlich durch ein...

Radical Solidarity tells the riveting story of Ruth Reynolds (1916–1989), a white pacifist from South Dakota who became a stalwart ally of nationalist revolutionaries during Puerto Rico's long struggle for independence. Reynolds dedicated her life to...

After centuries of colonial rule, the end of Angola's three-decade civil war in 2002 provided an irresistible opportunity for the government to reimagine the Luanda cityscape. Awash with petrodollars cultivated through strategic foreign relationships,...

In the mid-1960s as a young high school student John Brumley visited Lookout Cave for the first time and knew immediately that the site was exceptional. The cave, located in north central Montana, was initially discovered in 1920 but it wasn’t until 1969...

In A Baroque Vision Nicholas Hagger chose key passages from his verse that convey the thread of his Baroque vision. In its companion volume The Essentials of Universalism he chooses key passages from his prose works that convey the thread of his...