Publications
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Global Cooperation and the Human Factor in International Relations
(2016)
This book aims to pave the way for a new interdisciplinary approach to global cooperation research. It does so by bringing in disciplines whose insights about human behaviour might provide a crucial yet hitherto neglected ...
Chapter 1 What is "authenticity" in AA?
(2018)
This book examines the principles and practice of authentic assessment. It seeks to answer the following questions. What is authentic assessment? How is authentic assessment different from 'performance assessment' or ...
Security in Distributed, Grid, Mobile, and Pervasive Computing
(2007)
Despite recent dramatic advances in computer security regarding the proliferation of services and applications, security threats are still major impediments in the deployment of these services. Paying serious attention to ...
Governing Delinquency Through Freedom
(2020)
"This book analyses the non-custodial government of young offenders in two major cities in Brazil. In doing so, it delves into the paradox of an institution exerting control over youths while at the same time promoting ...
Chapter 18 USA
(2018)
Few issues have engaged sports scholars more than those of race and ethnicity. Today, globalization and migration mean all major sports leagues include players from around the globe, bringing into play a complex mix of ...
Window Functions and Their Applications in Signal Processing
(2013)
Window functions—otherwise known as weighting functions, tapering functions, or apodization functions—are mathematical functions that are zero-valued outside the chosen interval. They are well established as a vital part ...
Science
(2005)
In recognizing that new teachers often feel disempowered by the subject expertise they bring into teaching, this book not only covers the training standards for NQTs and the Induction Standards, but takes the reader beyond ...
Population Change in Europe, the Middle-East and North Africa
(2015)
Current demographic trends raise new questions, challenges and controversies. Comparing demographic trends in Europe and the NAME-region (North Africa and the Middle East), this book demonstrates how population change ...
Chapter 9 Race as a Cultural Construction
(2019)
Race and Human Diversity is an introduction to the study of human diversity in both its biological and cultural dimensions. Robert L. Anemone examines the biological basis of human difference and how humans have biologically ...
Oceanography and Marine Biology
(2020)
Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review remains one of the most cited sources in marine science and oceanography. The ever-increasing interest in work in oceanography and marine biology and its relevance to global ...
Network-on-Chip
(2014)
Addresses the Challenges Associated with System-on-Chip Integration Network-on-Chip: The Next Generation of System-on-Chip Integration examines the current issues restricting chip-on-chip communication efficiency, and ...
Chapter Introduction
(2020)
"Boundary disputes in the South China Sea have been a long- standing threat to peace and security in East and Southeast Asia. Without agreed defi nition of boundaries, provisional arrangements to develop resources in the ...
Crime and Fear in Public Places
(2020)
No city environment reflects the meaning of urban life better than a public place does. A public place, whatever its nature – a park, a mall, a train platform or a street corner – is where people pass by, meet each other ...
The Changing Landscape of the Academic Profession
(2006)
The rapid success of for-profit colleges and universities (FPCUs) only recently has caught the attention of scholars in academe. The continuing expansion of the proprietary higher education sector has lead to fundamental ...
Reciprocal Relationships and Well-being
(2017)
This book provides a robust empirical and theoretical analysis of reciprocity and its implications for social work and social policy practices by discussing how ideas of reciprocity can be understood and applied to welfare ...
Toxic Chemicals
(2011)
Catastrophic events such as the Bhopal, India tragedy and rising incidences of cancer in areas neighboring industrial facilities have heightened concern over the use of toxic chemicals in manufacturing and industry, ...
Assessment of Responsible Innovation
(2021)
Responsible Innovation encourages innovators to work together with stakeholders during the research and innovation process, to better align the outcomes of innovation with the values, needs and expectations of society. ...
Chapter 7 Cellular Control of Time, Size, and Shape in Development and Evolution
(2018)
The rules by which anatomical size and shape are generated have intrigued scientists
for centuries. In 1638, Galileo suggested a mathematical relationship between proportional
changes in the shape of bones as animals ...
Chapter 3 Promoting Yokosuka through videogame tourism
(2021)
Regional and local governments have long recognised the potential for films, television shows, novels and other media texts that are set in their city or country to attract tourists. Although there is a wealth of scholarship ...
Everyday Automation
(2022)
This Open Access book brings the experiences of automation as part of quotidian life into focus. It asks how, where and when automated technologies and systems are emerging in everyday life across different global regions? ...