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The Roskilde Model: Problem-Oriented Learning and Project Work
This book describes the pedagogical foundations of the Roskilde Model of education and educational design. It presents knowledge about how principles of problem-oriented, interdisciplinary and participant-directed project work may serve as a basis for planning and applying educational activities at institutions of higher learning. It discusses the dilemmas, problems, and diverging views that ha…
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The Role of Sport in Health-Related Promotion of Physical Activity The Persp…
Enrico Michelini illustrates that sport plays a very marginal role in the contemporary health promotion. This is the main result of the present analysis of national strategies for the promotion of physical activity issued by the health ministries of France, Germany, and Italy. All these health-strategies are rather ambiguous on this subject: They mention sport systematically as an abstract term…
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- 978-3-658-08188-1
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The Role of Religion in Eastern Europe Today
While religion was expelled from the public space during Communist times and became a secret form of “inner emigration”, it entered the empty public space again in Post-Communist times. Public interest in religious issues and the public prestige of religion have dramatically increased. The book “Under Construction. The Role of Religion in Eastern Europe Today” deals with the (re-)eme…
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Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition, 1780…
This book analyzes textual representations of Jamaican slave women in three contexts--motherhood, intimate relationships, and work--in both pro- and antislavery writings. Altink examines how British abolitionists and pro-slavery activists represented the slave women to their audiences and explains not only the purposes that these representations served, but also their effects on slave women’s…
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Application of Systems Thinking to Health Policy & Public Health Ethics: Publ…
This book looks at health policy through the lens of public versus private: population health versus the somatic, social, or emotional experiences of a patient. Rather than presenting policy/ethics as overly technical, this book takes a novel approach of framing public and private health in terms of political philosophy, ethics, and popular examples. Each chapter ties back to the general ethics…
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- 978-3-319-12203-8
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- XI, 100
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- SpringerBriefs in Public Health
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- 614 BAT a
Application of Surrogate-based Global Optimization to Aerodynamic Design
Aerodynamic design, like many other engineering applications, is increasingly relying on computational power. The growing need for multi-disciplinarity and high fidelity in design optimization for industrial applications requires a huge number of repeated simulations in order to find an optimal design candidate. The main drawback is that each simulation can be computationally expensive – this…
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- 978-3-319-21506-8
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- XIV, 72
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- Springer Tracts in Mechanical Engineering
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- 629.47 APP a
Advancing Equality : How Constitutional Rights Can Make a Difference Worldwide
In a world where basic human rights are under attack and discrimination is widespread, Advancing Equality reminds us of the critical role of constitutions in creating and protecting equal rights. Combining a comparative analysis of equal rights in the constitutions of all 193 United Nations member countries with inspiring stories of activism and powerful court cases from around the globe, the b…
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Apple Watch for Developers: Advice & Techniques from Five Top Professionals
Apple Watch for Developers: Advice & Techniques from 5 Top Professionals gives you the base-knowledge and valuable secrets you'll need for your own projects from a core team of successful, experienced Apple Watch app-development experts. You'll explore elements such as branding within Watch apps, translating audio data into visual information, taming complex data, mastering environment-driven f…
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- 978-1-4842-1338-4
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- XVII, 248
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- 005 RIC a
On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2015 Workshops
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the following 8 International Workshops: OTM Academy; OTM Industry Case Studies Program; Enterprise Integration, Interoperability, and Networking, EI2N; International Workshop on Fact Based Modeling 2015, FBM; Industrial and Business Applications of Semantic Web Technologies, INBAST; Information Systems, om Distributed Environment, ISDE; Metho…
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- 0302-9743
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- XXIX, 578
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2015 Conferences
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Confederated International Conferences: Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS 2015, Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of Semantics, ODBASE 2015, and Cloud and Trusted Computing, C&TC, held as part of OTM 2015 in October 2015 in Rhodes, Greece. The 30 full papers presented together with 15 short papers were carefully reviewed and s…
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- XXV, 678
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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