This open access book provides insight on how the tactical urbanism has the capacity to influence change in mobility practices such as cycling. COVID-19 crisis prompted the public authorities to rethink the use of public space in order to develop means of transport that are both efficient and adapted to the health context and their effects on cycling practices in Europe, North, and South Americ…
In recent years, the European Commission has attached increasing importance to the use of financial engineering instruments rather than traditional grant-based financing for the microcredit sector, considering these to be the most efficient option available. This book presents a study of capacity building and structural funds in public managing authorities for the microcredit sector. It present…
This open access book outlines the challenges of supporting the health and wellbeing of older adults around the world and offers examples of solutions designed by stakeholders, healthcare providers, and public, private and nonprofit organizations in the United States. The solutions presented address challenges including: providing person-centered long-term care, making palliative care accessibl…
This open access book examines the interactions between India’s economic development, agricultural production, and nutrition through the lens of a “Food Systems Approach (FSA).” The Indian growth story is a paradoxical one. Despite economic progress over the past two decades, regional inequality, food insecurity and malnutrition problems persist. Simultaneously, recent trends in obesity …
This open access neuroaesthetics textbook, the first in the world, is designed for teaching a semester module (14 meetings) to undergraduate/masters students from both the sciences and the humanities. Written in a style that appeals to humanities students without prior science training, and to science students without prior humanities training, the textbook contains 6 Units, material for an int…
India has learned what to do and what not to do when it comes to implementing policy to address human suffering. The COVID-19 pandemic unified the international response in similar ways, and the world has a lot to learn about key initiatives in India that have been implemented since India's independence. This open-access book includes key learnings about the conceptualization, design, and impac…
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Graph Structures for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, GKR 2015, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in July 2015, associated with IJCAI 2015, the 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The 9 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected…
Buku ini merupakan hasil dari prosiding Konferensi Internasional ke-9 tentang Interaksi Manusia dan Komputer yang Cerdas, IHCI 2017, yang diadakan di Evry, Prancis, pada bulan Desember 2017. Ke-15 makalah yang dipresentasikan bersama dengan tiga makalah undangan ditinjau dan dipilih secara saksama dari 25 makalah yang diajukan. Konferensi ini merupakan forum untuk presentasi kemajuan teknologi …
Internet adalah infrastruktur ilmu pengetahuan, teknis, ekonomi, dan kemasyarakatan yang paling penting yang ada dan berfungsi saat ini 2,5 miliar pengguna. Melanjutkan pengembangannya akan menjamin banyak inovasi dan kemakmuran yang akan datang dan akan mendukung pertumbuhan berkelanjutan dalam nilai dan volume ekonomi yang dibutuhkan di masa depan. Oleh karena itu, penelitian infrastruktur In…
Terlepas dari apakah kita menggunakan metrik ekonomi atau sosial, Internet adalah salah satu infrastruktur teknis terpenting yang ada saat ini. Internet akan menjadi katalis bagi banyak inovasi dan kemakmuran kita di masa depan. Eropa yang kompetitif akan membutuhkan konektivitas dan layanan Internet di luar kemampuan yang ditawarkan oleh teknologi saat ini. Oleh karena itu, penelitian Internet…