The book examines the status of public service in developing countries, in the sectors of health, infrastructure, labour and marginalized populations, rural economy, and public administration. The last decade has witnessed significant government focus on service delivery in developing nations like South Africa, Philippines, India and Malaysia. At the forefront of this movement has been the publ…
Kita hidup di masa di mana sifat kompleks dan implikasi masalah sosial, politik, dan budaya bagi individu dan kelompok semakin jelas. Meskipun hal ini dapat mengarahkan beberapa orang untuk fokus pada unit analisis yang lebih kecil dan lebih kecil dengan harapan bahwa dengan memahami bagian-bagiannya, kita dapat mulai memahami keseluruhannya, seri buku ini didasarkan pada pandangan yang dipegan…
This book provides a comprehensive understanding on disaster resilient housing within the Vietnam context particularly and the developing world generally. The book has identified the root causes of housing vulnerability, restrictions to safe housing development, concepts of disaster resilient housing, key issues/factors implementers and building designers need to consider, and ways of achieving…
kebutuhan penting untuk memahami mekanisme sosial, misalnya fakta sederhana untuk mendukung kehidupan kelompok, memungkinkan upaya terkoordinasi untuk membangun dan mengelola relung tersebut: Saya akan mengilustrasikan bagaimana pengetahuan ini juga diperlukan untuk memahami krisis yang berdampak pada relung kognitif ketika struktur teknologi baru secara signifikan mengubah dinamika sosial dasa…
This book aims to address the major aspects of future drug product development and therapy for older adults, giving practical guidance for the rational product and clinical development and prescribing of drug products to this ever growing segment of the population. With authors coming from key "aging" markets such as Europe, the USA, China and Japan, the book will provide valuable information f…
I wish to thank all institutions and people who contributed to the work for the project and the making of this book. In the first place, I wish to acknowledge the role of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), whose funding made possible a project of this scale. I am grateful also to Springer Verlag for their professional and pleasant cooperation throughout the publication of this volume. I am parti…
rekayasa perangkat lunak (SE) dan interaksi manusia-komputer (HCI)/faktor manusia yang bekerja secara harmonis. Karena keselarasan antara HCI dan SE ini sulit diprediksi sebelum sistem yang berfungsi penuh benar-benar diterapkan, pengalaman desain dan kolaborasi yang ekstensif sangat penting. Pola desain interaksi juga disebut pola desain pengalaman pengguna, pola desain HCI atau antarmuka peng…
This book focuses on two of the most rapidly developing areas in wireless technology (WT) applications, namely, wireless sensors networks (WSNs) and wireless body area networks (WBANs). These networks can be considered smart applications of the recent WT revolutions. The book presents various security tools and scenarios for the proposed enhanced-security of WSNs, which are supplemented with nu…
Two-armed response-adaptive clinical trials are modelled as Markov decision problems to pursue two overriding objectives: Firstly, to identify the superior treatment at the end of the trial and, secondly, to keep the number of patients receiving the inferior treatment small. Such clinical trial designs are very important, especially for rare diseases. Thomas Ondra presents the main solution tec…
This volume presents a selection of case studies that address a substantial range of optimized object packings (OOP) and their applications. The contributing authors are well-recognized researchers and practitioners. The mathematical modelling and numerical solution aspects of each application case study are presented in sufficient detail. A broad range of OOP problems are discussed: these incl…