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Health practitioners have successfully developed evidence-based health innovations to solve public health problems. However, challenges remain in translating and scaling up these innovations to save and improve lives in Africa. Scaling Up Health...

Health practitioners have successfully developed evidence-based health innovations to solve public health problems. However, challenges remain in translating and scaling up these innovations to save and improve lives in Africa. Scaling Up Health...

This richly illustrated book provides a regionally focused overview about the landscapes and landforms of France. It is divided into two parts: the first chapters deal with the broad geology and geomorphology in the context of the present geomorphology...

The book presents the entire spectrum of the microplastics problem in our waters, from the collection of water samples to their analysis and interpretation. As part of the "R(h)eines Wasser" project, the author swam the Rhine and, based on this...

In doing so, the book analyzes the compatibility of rights of nature with Western liberal and international law and deals comprehensively with the criticism and potential benefits of rights of nature in order to ultimately provide concrete proposals for...

In 1827 the first modern national crime statistics were published: the Compte général de l'administration de la justice criminelle en France. Before the onset of data criminology, the perception of crime relied on sources from classical antiquity,...

Dieses Lehrbuch präsentiert in neuer Auflage und 17 Beiträgen einen komprimierten Überblick über den Themenkreis "Governance". Dazu ist der Band in drei Teile gegliedert: Der erste Teil widmet sich Akteuren und Steuerungsmodi sowie den einzelnen...

Dieses Open Access Buch adressiert den Regulierungsbedarf im rasant wachsenden Bereich der digitalen Geschäftsmodelle. Der Trend zur Digitalisierung bringt rasche Veränderungen in Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft mit sich. Digitale Geschäftsmodelle bergen...

Anhand von verschiedenen Fallanalysen erhalten Sie einen Überblick über aktuelle Veränderungen in verschiedenen Arbeitstätigkeiten. Mit Hilfe von Arbeitsanalysen in Bezug auf Stress, Emotionsarbeit, kognitive Anforderungen und motivierende...

This research monograph provides a comprehensive study of a conjecture initially proposed by the second author at the 1998 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM). This conjecture asserts the equivalence, for a Fano variety, between the...

This book examines statistical models for frequency data. The primary focus is on log-linear models for contingency tables but also includes extensive discussion of logistic regression. Topics such as logistic discrimination, generalized linear models,...

This richly illustrated chronology of physics contains more than 250 short, entertaining, and thought-provoking entries. In addition to exploring such engaging topics as dark energy, parallel universes, the Doppler effect, the God particle, and Maxwell's...

Digital News and HIV Criminalization examines the daily practices of journalists to uncover the stigmatizing and sensational way that news media report on the issue of HIV criminalization.

The second edition of this incisive book, based on the Purnell Model for Cultural Competence, addresses the potentially challenging topic of culture in a forthright style. It is a valuable resource in today's team-based healthcare environment, preparing...

Research on healthcare and social service including professional social work is inherently an international subject. Each nation has a story of coping with the recent pandemic in the context of its political economy and cultural-historical settings. A...

This comprehensive volume examines developments in diplomatic technique and changes in the diplomatic and political structures which both shape, and are shaped, by international relations and the international order.It provides a comprehensive foundation...

This book presents an update on the state of the art in nanobiology and various nanoparticle synthesis and characterization methods. Further, the application of nanomaterials in agriculture (nanobiofertilizers and nanobiopesticides), environmental...

During the 1940s, Greece experienced some of the most significant moments in the contemporary history of the country, defining the socio-political environment to this day. Greece in the 1940s presents a deep dive into this time in history, as seen...

In today's dynamic workplace environment, ensuring the safety and well-being of employees has never been more critical. This book explores cutting-edge technologies intersecting with workplace safety to deliver effective and practical results.Artificial...

This new edition provides a step-by-step guide to applying the Rasch model in R, a probabilistic model used by researchers across the social sciences to measure unobservable (“latent”) variables. Although the focus is on simple R code, the book provides...

This book explores how actors practise sovereignty as a force in a multiscalar context.Among the various power structures that perform sovereignty, such as the head of state, a legislative body, or the military, one aspect is clear: the practice of...

This book is a concise practical guide to some of the most relevant ways of thinking and doing international legal research today. It is designed to help students and early career researchers to get acquainted with the theory and practice of a selection...

Dieses Buch erörtert die Rolle chronischer Erkrankungen als entscheidende Herausforderung für die Zukunft der Medizin in einer Zeit alternder Bevölkerungen und der stetigen Zunahme nicht übertragbarer Begleiterkrankungen. Es beschreibt, wie...

Based on original interviews with World War II veterans, The First Black Marines chronicles the powerful stories of the first African American men who trained and served in the US Marine Corps during the Jim Crow era. As a highly accessible introduction...

A compassionate, interactive guide filled with practical skills and essential information for adults who love someone with a mental illness or history of trauma.Family members and friends of adults with a mental illness often navigate difficult journeys,...

In this important and timely book, scientists from a broad range of disciplines detail their personal responses to the climate change and ecological crisis which led them to form Scientists for XR and work tirelessly within it. Whether inspiration comes...

Mulki Al-Sharmani examines the goals, approaches and methodologies which key scholars have adopted in their efforts at crafting an Islamic feminist discourse. The position of women in Islam remains deeply contentious. While conservative elements both...

This edited volume is the first systematic philosophical investigation of the complex and multifarious relationships between dreaming and memory. Featuring fifteen chapters by leading researchers, it explores a range of issues that arise when dreaming...

This book delves into the fascinating realm of eukaryotic gene regulation. The specific expression of genes shapes the phenotype of cells and tissues. The regulation of gene expression, including up- and downregulation, is a fundamental aspect of nearly...

What makes indignation ‘political’ and why should we care about it? Drawing on fieldwork among four movements in Belgium (2017-2021) – The Youth for Climate movement, the Citizen platform for refugee support, the Yellow Vests movement and the...

When is bankruptcy moral? Is there such a thing as illegitimate debate? And what are tyrants owed? Drawing on new archival sources, this book shows how Latin American nations have wrestled with the morality of indebtedness and insolvency since their...

An urgent book on generative artificial interlligence from one of the top US journalists in the tech field, exploring the risk and benefits looming.

This reference book collates traditional and modern applications of remote sensing in aquatic ecosystem monitoring. It covers conventional assessment methods like sampling, surveying, macroinvertebrates, and chlorophyll estimation for aquatic ecosystem...

This innovative textbook on the theories, approaches and methodologies that inform political geography is brought together by past and present editors of the journal of the same name. The book fills the current gap in the literature through a reflection...

The book covers the state of the art in hybrid manufacturing in terms of processing and resulting properties. The book progresses from traditional hybrid manufacturing processes such as compression molding (CM), injection molding (IM), sheet molding...

This book is a comprehensive guide to Linear Algebra and covers all the fundamental topics such as vector spaces, linear independence, basis, linear transformations, matrices, determinants, inner products, eigenvectors, bilinear forms, and canonical...

War was coming. Everyone knew that confrontation with Nazi Germany was inevitable and that London was likely to be a prime target of Hitler’s bombers. So, in January 1939, Aylmer Firebrace, the Chief Officer of London Fire Brigade, was seconded to the...

This book argues that cybersecurity’s informational ontology offers empirical challenges, and introduces a new interdisciplinary theoretical and conceptual framework of ‘entropic security’.

Immigration remains a cornerstone of national policy, although it has undergone significant transformations across economic, family, and refugee admission streams in the past two decades. Reshaping the Mosaic offers an insightful exploration of Canada's...

Set in Gitxsan territory in Northern British Columbia, At the Crossroads provides a first-hand account of a cultural resource management (CRM) project. Beginning with the initial client call, the book lays out the challenges of a tight timeline, limited...