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Germany’s future electors
Nora E. Sánchez Gassen analyses how demographic trends and electoral law have influenced the German electorate in the past and projects their future impact. A set of population projections illustrates how the size and age structure of the electorate will change until 2030 due to ongoing demographic changes. Additional analyses reveal how reforms of electoral law and citizenship law could be us…
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- 978-3-658-06941-4
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- XXIV, 404
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- 320 GAS g
Conservation Research, Policy and Practice
Conservation research is essential for advancing knowledge, but to make an impact, scientific evidence must influence conservation policies, decision-making and practice. This raises a multitude of challenges. How should evidence be collated and presented to policy-makers to maximise its impact? How can effective collaboration between conservation scientists and decision-makers be established? …
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- 9781108638210
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- 333.72 SUT c
Ethical Engineering for International Development and Environmental Sustainab…
Ensuring that their work has a positive influence on society is a responsibility and a privilege for engineers, but also a considerable challenge. This book addresses the ways in which engineers meet this challenge, working from the assumption that for a project to be truly ethical both the undertaking itself and its implementation must be ethically sound. The contributors discuss varied to…
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- 978-1-4471-6618-4
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- 28 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
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Iterative Learning Control for Electrical Stimulation and Stroke Rehabilitation
Iterative learning control (ILC) has its origins in the control of processes that perform a task repetitively with a view to improving accuracy from trial to trial by using information from previous executions of the task. This brief shows how a classic application of this technique – trajectory following in robots – can be extended to neurological rehabilitation after stroke. Regaining up…
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- 978-1-4471-6726-6
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Challenges to Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance: Economic and Policy Responses
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) kills, increases the costs of our health care, damages trade and economies, and threatens health security. The most recent studies show that in the European Union (EU) over 33 000 people die every year due to antibiotic-resistant bacteria; of which, 75% of these deaths are caused by health care-associated infections. This is a burden that is comparable to that of…
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- 9781108864121
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- 614.4 AND c
Sustainable Value Chain Management
This book introduces the integrated management concept of "Sustainable Value Creation", which delivers sustainability ‘inside-out’ from the core business. It is based on the premise that sustainability can provide a platform for growth, if it is implemented in a company’s products, services and supply chains (combined also known as the 'Value Chain'). Managing the Value Chain from the out…
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- 978-3-319-12142-0
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- XII, 426
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- CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance
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Advance Directives Across Asia: A Comparative Socio-legal Analysis
Population ageing, which has been described as one of the four global demographic “megatrends”,1 is quickly becoming a concern for many countries around the world. The growth in the size and proportion of the elderly has many implications, including the fact that there has been, and will continue to be, a significant growth in the number of individuals who are living longer, and because of …
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- 9781009152631
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- 344.03
Achieving Person-Centred Health Systems: Evidence, Strategies and Challenges
The idea of person-centred health systems is widely advocated in political and policy declarations to better address health system challenges. A person-centred approach is advocated on political, ethical and instrumental grounds and believed to benefit service users, health professionals and the health system more broadly.
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- 9781108855464
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- 614.4 NOL a
German-Sino Business Networks
In this book, Alexander Häntzschel presents the benefits of organized networks and provides a first-ever overview of German-Sino business networks. Based on more than 20 expert interviews and research of 30 different cases, the analysis covers the different forms of organization, their target groups and members, services and activities, and accessibility and membership fees. Complementary to t…
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- 978-3-319-17857-8
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- XIX, 105
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- 330 HAN g
Atlas of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
This comprehensive atlas, containing a wealth of high-quality images, illustrates the complete spectrum of presentations of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). It focuses especially on the most recent developments in the use of endoscopy in IBD, providing detailed guidance on endoscopic indices of disease activity, diagnosis, and differential diagnosis. In addition to ileocolonoscopy, small bowe…
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- 978-3-642-39423-2
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- X, 228
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- 611.3
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