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View book details for Asia-Pacific Disaster Management

Comparative and Socio-legal Perspectives
Simon Butt, Hitoshi Nasu, Luke Nottage
The book outlines the regulatory environment for disaster prevention and management in broad social, economic and political context. The first half of the book focuses mainly on Japan, especially the 3-11 events: the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the Tohoku …

View book details for Higher Education in the High North

Academic Exchanges between Norway and Russia
Marit Sundet, Per-Anders Forstorp, Anders Örtenblad
This book focuses on how the Northern futures are transformed through regional cooperation in the Barents eduscape: a study of the social, cultural and political aspects of higher education and the exchanges of learning and people in the Euro-Arctic Barents …
Alberto d'Onofrio, Alberto Gandolfi
With chapters on free boundaries, constitutive equations, stochastic dynamics, nonlinear diffusionconsumption, structured populations, and applications of optimal control theory, this volume presents the most significant recent results in the field of mathematical oncology. It highlights the work of world-class research …
Yu Huang, Zili Dai, Weijie Zhang
Through application of the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method, this monograph mainly focuses on large deformations and flow failure simulations of geomaterials and movement behavior, which are always involved in geo-disasters. The work covers the theoretical background, numerical techniques, code …

View book details for Arteriovenous Access Surgery

Ensuring Adequate Vascular Access for Hemodialysis
Hans Scholz
This book offers a comprehensive overview of up-to-date knowledge on vascular access surgery. Written by a senior author with more than 30 years of experience and by expert contributors, it covers both surgical and theoretical aspects. The author shares his …
Tai Wei Lim
This book documents through first-hand experience and academic research the historical, cultural and economic interactions affecting land use in Singapore. Offering a unique study of nostalgia in Singaporean heritage, it discusses the subjective nostalgic meanings and interpretations that users of …
Donatella Della Porta, Massimiliano Andretta, Tiago Fernandes, Francis O'Connor, Eduardo Romanos, Markos Vogiatzoglou
This book analyses protests against the Great Recession in the European periphery. While social movements have long been considered as children of affluent times - or at least of times of opening opportunities - these protests defy such expectations, developing …

View book details for Integrated Reporting

Concepts and Cases that Redefine Corporate Accountability
Cristiano Busco, Mark L. Frigo, Angelo Riccaboni, Paolo Quattrone
This book focuses on Integrated Reporting as a contemporary social and managerial innovation where a number of initiatives, organizations and individuals began to converge in response to the need for a consistent, collaborative and internationally accepted approach to redesign corporate …

View book details for Analysing China's Population

Social Change in a New Demographic Era
Isabelle Attané, Baochang Gu
Based on Chinas recently released 2010 population census data, this edited volume analyses the most recent demographic trends in China, in the context of significant social and economic upheavals. The editor and the expert contributors describe the main features of …
Jacob Lubliner, Panayiotis Papadopoulos
Introduction to Solid Mechanics: An Integrated Approach presents for the first time in one text the concepts and processes covered in statics and mechanics of materials curricula following a granular, topically integrated approach. Since the turn of the millennium, it …
Connie M. Weaver, Robin M. Daly, Heike A. Bischoff-Ferrari
The 9th International Symposium is the only regular meeting in the bone field to be exclusively devoted to nutrition, bone and muscle, and it allows the authors of this book to review the new scientific data, discuss new concepts, and …
Alison Graham-Bertolini, Casey Kayser
The contributors to this volume use diverse critical techniques to identify how Carson McCullers writing engages with and critiques modern social structures and how her work resonates with a twenty-first century audience. The collection includes chapters about McCullers fiction, autobiographical …

View book details for Mathematical Models for Remote Sensing Image Processing

Models and Methods for the Analysis of 2D Satellite and Aerial Images
Gabriele Moser, Josiane Zerubia
This book maximizes reader insights into the field of mathematical models and methods for the processing of two-dimensional remote sensing images. It presents a broad analysis of the field, encompassing passive and active sensors, hyperspectral images, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), …
Käthe Schneider
In this book, internationally respected scholars from the disciplines of educational science, business administration and psychology thoroughly discuss practice-related questions on learning transfer in organizations. Readers will learn solid concepts for securing and evaluating learning transfer. This volume offers new …
Amy Laura Parker
This doctoral thesis applies measurements of ground deformation from satellite radar using their potential to play a key role in understanding volcanic and magmatic processes throughout the eruption cycle. However, making these measurements is often problematic, and the processes driving …

View book details for Pedagogies for Internationalising Research Education

Intellectual equality, theoretic-linguistic diversity and knowledge chuangxin
Michael Singh, Jinghe Han
This book explores pedagogical concepts, metaphors and images of non-white, non-western researchers and research students on the inter/nationalization of education. Specifically, this book draws on the intellectual resources of China and India to explore the pedagogical dynamics and dimensions of …
Ilia V. Safonov, Ilya V. Kurilin, Michael N. Rychagov, Ekaterina V. Tolstaya
This book presents essential algorithms for the image processing pipeline of photo-printers and accompanying software tools, offering an exposition of multiple image enhancement algorithms, smart aspect-ratio changing techniques for borderless printing and approaches for non-standard printing modes. All the techniques …

View book details for The English Paradigm in India

Essays in Language, Literature and Culture
Shweta Rao Garg, Deepti Gupta
This collection pulls together a wide range of perspectives to explore the possibilities and the boundaries of the paradigm of English studies in India. It examines national identity and the legacy of colonialism through a study of comparative and multi …
Juan Bartolomé, Fernando Luis, Julio F. Fernández
This book provides an overview of the physical phenomena discovered in magnetic molecular materials over the last 20 years. It is written by leading scientists having made the most important contributions to this active area of research. The main topics …
Peter Kien-hong YU
This book illustrates how the one-dot theory, which is a dialectical study, is well suited to describing, explaining and inferring contemporary Chinas past, present and future. It argues that since October 1949, the field of contemporary China studies has been …
Marisa Faggini, Anna Parziale
In this book, leading experts discuss innovative components of complexity theory and chaos theory in economics.The underlying perspective is that investigations of economic phenomena should view these phenomena not as deterministic, predictable and mechanistic but rather as process dependent, organic …
Emanuela Colombo, Stefano Bologna, Diego Masera
The book analyzes energy technologies, business models and policies to promote sustainable development. It proposes a set of recommendations for further activities and networking on access to energy and renewable energies and promotes an integrated approach to sustainable resource management. …

View book details for Potential Game Theory

Applications in Radio Resource Allocation
Quang Duy Lã, Yong Huat Chew, Boon-Hee Soong
This book offers a thorough examination of potential game theory and its applications in radio resource management for wireless communications systems and networking. The book addresses two major research goals: how to identify a given game as a potential game, …

View book details for Semaphorins

A Diversity of Emerging Physiological and Pathological Activities
Atsushi Kumanogoh
This book presents the current concepts of semaphorin biology. In the early 1990s, semaphorins were originally identified as axon guidance cues that function during neuronal development. However, cumulative findings have clarified that they have diverse functions in many physiological processes, …
Yuhong Jiang
This book offers a comprehensive, up-to-date review of the recent professional developments of teachers of English in the western region of China in the context of English language teaching reform and teacher education reform. It discusses a wealth of theories, …
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