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The happiest days?: how pupils cope with school
This book examines pupils' experience of school from their own perspectives, showing a range of responses involving both pain and pleasure. It brings together a wide range of material to evoke pupil realities, to describe pupil cultures, and to consider the meanings of activities.
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- 9780203973271
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Expertise, Policy-making and Democracy
ABSTRACT This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to debates about expertise, policy-making and democracy. It uniquely combines an overview of recent research on the policy role of experts with discussions in political philosophy and the philosophy of expertise. Starting with the fact that well-functioning democracies require experts and expert knowledge, the book examines two ty…
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- 9781003106555
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Towards the “Perfect” Weather Warning
This book is about making weather warnings more effective in saving lives, property, infrastructure and livelihoods, but the underlying theme of the book is partnership. The book represents the warning process as a pathway linking observations to weather forecasts to hazard forecasts to socio-economic impact forecasts to warning messages to the protective decision, via a set of five bridges tha…
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- 978-3-030-98989-7
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- X, 270
Responsible Procurement
This open access book emphasizes that procuring goods at the expense of the environment and those who live there is no longer acceptable. Fortunately, there is now an unstoppable force, created by a collective of diverse stakeholders, driving the sustainability agenda. A company’s sustainability standards can only truly be as good as those along its entire supply chain. The purpose of this bo…
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- 978-3-030-98640-7
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- Management for Professionals
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- XXX, 193
Kinanthropometry IX: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the I…
ABSTRACT This is an edited collection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the Ninth International Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry. Defined as the relationship between human body structure and function, kinanthropometry is an area of growing interest, and these proceedings will be of use to students, academics and professionals in the areas of ergonomics, spor…
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- 9780203970157
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Improving Oncology Worldwide
This open access book describes strategies and experiences of highly skilled professionals in improving oncology care worldwide. The book is structured into three main sections with several chapters each, reflecting the authors' individual, real-life experiences. It explores ways to improve oncology education and scientific training, how to set up and run a clinical research facility ethical…
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- 978-3-030-96053-7
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- Sustainable Development Goals Series
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- XVII, 144
Smittestopp − A Case Study on Digital Contact Tracing
This open access book describes Smittestopp, the first Norwegian system for digital contact tracing of Covid-19 infections, which was developed in March and early April 2020. The system was deployed after five weeks of development and was active for a little more than two months, when a drop in infection levels in Norway and privacy concerns led to shutting it down. The intention of this book …
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- 978-3-031-05466-2
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- Simula SpringerBriefs on Computing
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- XI, 141
Microbes in agriculture and environmental development
Kumpulan esai dalam Mikroba dalam Pertanian dan Pembangunan Lingkungan mengeksplorasi penerapan mikroba untuk peningkatan kualitas lingkungan dan produktivitas pertanian melalui inokulan dan enzim. Mikroba berguna untuk konservasi dan pemulihan ekosistem alam dan pertanian yang terdegradasi, perluasan hasil panen, peningkatan kesehatan tanah, dan aspek-aspek lain dari pertanian dan lingkungan. …
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- 9781003057819
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- Microbial biotechnology
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- 660.62 SIN m c.1
The transformation of urban space in post-Soviet Russia
In the years since 1989, the societies of Russia and Eastern Europe have undergone a remarkable transformation from socialism to democracy and free market capitalism. Making an important contribution to the theoretical literature of urbanism and post-communist transition, this significant book considers the change in the spatial structure of post-Soviet urban spaces since the period of transiti…
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- 9780203969694
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Deep Neural Networks and Data for Automated Driving
This open access book brings together the latest developments from industry and research on automated driving and artificial intelligence. Environment perception for highly automated driving heavily employs deep neural networks, facing many challenges. How much data do we need for training and testing? How to use synthetic data to save labeling costs for training? How do we increase robustne…
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- 978-3-031-01233-4
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- XVIII, 427
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