This volume studies the teaching of Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics (the standard textbook for moral philosophy) in the universities of Renaissance Italy. Special attention is given to how university commentaries on the Ethics reflect developments in educational theory and practice and in humanist Aristotelianism. After surveying the fortune of the Ethics in the Latin West to 1650 and the wo…
Despite Aristotle's family background and his undeniable impact on ancient Greek medicine, the influence of medicine on Aristotle's philosophy is controversial and far from universally acknowledged. The aim of this volume is to re-examine the influence of medical knowledge and literature on Aristotle's work, in particular to explore the connections with the Hippocratic writings. The volume enco…
Buku akses terbuka ini membahas implikasi crowdsourcing internal (IC) dalam perusahaan. Menyajikan model referensi lintas sektoral yang berorientasi pada karyawan untuk praktik IC yang baik, buku ini membahas dasar-dasar teori inti, dan menawarkan panduan untuk manajemen proses dan cetak biru untuk implementasi IC. Selain itu, buku ini juga membahas solusi untuk pelatihan karyawan dan pengemban…
olicies are crucial in determining and improving the state of our environment. Policies set goals (including targets, indicators and time frames) while policy instruments are the specific means or measures to translate the policy intent into action (Jacob et al. 2019). In discussions on the sustainability of hydropower production, knowledge of the currently existing regulations at different…
Buku ini menggunakan lensa ekonomi untuk mengidentifikasi fitur utama dari pertanian cerdas iklim (CSA), dampak yang mungkin terjadi, dan tantangan yang terkait dengan implementasinya. Mengandalkan teori dan konsep dari pengembangan pertanian, ekonomi institusi, dan ekonomi sumber daya, buku ini memperluas dan memformalkan dasar-dasar konseptual CSA. Dengan fokus pada dimensi adaptasi/kesiapsia…
From Capture to Sale illuminates the experience of African slaves transported to Spanish America by the Portuguese in the early seventeenth century. It draws on exceptionally rich accounts of one of the most prominent slave traders, Manuel Bautista Pérez. These papers cover the whole journey of the slaves from Africa, through Colombia and Panama to their final sale in Peru. The prime focus of …
In this concise yet comprehensive Open Access textbook, future inventors are introduced to the key concepts of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Using modeling as a way to develop deeper understanding of the computational and physical components of these systems, one can express new designs in a way that facilitates their simulation, visualization, and analysis. Concepts are introduced in a cross-d…
This book is arranged and developed around the theme of “2050 China,” it analyzes the factors and advantages of the Chinese road to socialist modernization, explores and summarizes the development goal and the basic logic of the socialist modernization of China, and further shows the general basis of the primary stage of socialism. According to the report delivered at the 19th Party Congres…
This open access book covers the most cutting-edge and hot research topics and fields of post-quantum cryptography. The main purpose of this book is to focus on the computational complexity theory of lattice ciphers, especially the reduction principle of Ajtai, in order to fill the gap that post-quantum ciphers focus on the implementation of encryption and decryption algorithms, but the theoret…
This open access book deals with a rich variety of taxis-type cross-diffusive equations. Particularly, it intends to show the key role played by quasi-energy inequality in the derivation of some necessary a priori estimates. This book addresses applied mathematics and all researchers interested in mathematical development of reaction-diffusion theory and its application and can be a basis for …