This book brings together research at the intersection of music, cultural industries, management, antiracist politics and gender studies to analyse music as labour, in particular highlighting social inequalities and activism. Providing insights into labour processes and practices, the authors investigate the changing role of manifold actors, institutions and technologies and the corresponding s…
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This book provides a broad overview of pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms, focusing on the most important developments in the technologies used to diagnose, classify and treat them. After a historical and epidemiological overview, the opening chapters examine the various diagnostic approaches (radiology, nuclear medicine, endocrinology, cytology and immunohistochemistry) and discuss the WHO cl…
This book argues that educators and the general public have become complacent about girls’ education as a consequence of the more recent fuss about problems for boys. After an analysis of persistent disquiet about girls’ lifestyles, it uses theories of gender and education to demonstrate that girls are being produced in contradictory ways in current schooling. Many girls develop a sense o…
Ischemic heart disease (IHD) and heart failure (HF) are the major causes of morbidity and mortality in Europe and worldwide. IHD and HF patients could benefi t from therapies that would accelerate natural processes of postnatal collateral vessel formation and/or muscle regeneration. Although treatment for acute myocardial infarction has improved over the past decades, there are currently no …
This book argues that modelling should be a component of all school curricula that aspire to provide ‘authentic science education for all’. The literature on modelling is reviewed and a ‘model of modelling’ is proposed. The conditions for the successful implementation of the ‘model of modelling’ in classrooms are explored and illustrated from practical experience. The roles of argum…
This book on oral candidosis is for dentists and related professionals who require a straightforward update on the important new advances relating to physiopathology, virulence and treatment. Essential concepts and advanced discoveries are presented in user-friendly language with the aim of providing a trustworthy reference guide that can be rapidly consulted whenever necessary. The rich and co…
Il volume raccoglie i contributi presentati alla seconda Conferenza Internazionale “Advances in Statistical Modelling of Ordinal Data” - ASMOD 2018 – che si è svolta presso il Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, nei giorni 24-26 ottobre 2018. La Conferenza ha visto la presentazione di studi sia teorici che applicati al fine di condividere i più recenti …
Complexity; Simulation and Modeling; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk; Communications Engineering, Networks
At a time when an emphasis on productivity in higher education threatens to undermine well-crafted research, these highly reflexive essays capture the sometimes profound intellectual effects that may accompany disrupted scholarship. They reveal that over long periods of time relationships with people studied invariably change, sometimes in dramatic ways. They illustrate how world events such as…