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Education in Bhutan : Culture, Schooling, and Gross National Happiness
Bhutan is a country in the Himalayas with a relatively new education system and a unique governmental philosophy known as Gross National Happiness. This book explores the history, culture, challenges, and opportunities of schooling in Bhutan. It discusses topics including historical perspectives on Buddhist monastic education, the regional and international influence on educational development,…
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- 9789811016493
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- xx, 252 pages: illustrations
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- 370
Automata, Languages, and Programming
The two-volume set LNCS 9134 and LNCS 9135 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 42nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, ICALP 2015, held in Kyoto, Japan, in July 2015. The 143 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 507 submissions. The papers are organized in the following three tracks: algorithms, complexity, and games; logi…
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- 978-3-662-47666-6
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- XXXIX, 717
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- 005.1
The Cloud-to-Thing Continuum : Opportunities and Challenges in Cloud, Fog and…
The Internet of Things offers massive societal and economic opportunities while at the same time significant challenges, not least the delivery and management of the technical infrastructure underpinning it, the deluge of data generated from it, ensuring privacy and security, and capturing value from it. This Open Access Pivot explores these challenges, presenting the state of the art and futur…
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- 978-3-030-41110-7
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- Palgrave Studies in Digital Business & Enabling Technologies
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- 005 CLO
Synthetic Biology Analysed
Synthetic biology is a dynamic, young, ambitious, attractive, and heterogeneous scientific discipline. It is constantly developing and changing, which makes societal evaluation of this emerging new science a challenging task, prone to misunderstandings. Synthetic biology is difficult to capture, and confusion arises not only regarding which part of synthetic biology the discussion is about, but…
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- 978-3-319-25145-5
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- XVII, 211
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- Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment
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Synthetic Biology
This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of the opportunities and challenges of the complex field of synthetic biology, which combines various scientific disciplines. The emerging field of synthetic biology employs biotechnological approaches to recreate and enhance basic biological structures, intracellular processes and whole organisms. The book addresses a broad range of to…
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- 978-3-319-22708-5
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- VII, 368
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Education, citizenship, and Cuban identity
This book explores how Cuba's famously successful and inclusive education system has formed young Cubans' political, social, and moral identities in a country transfigured by new inequalities and moral compromises made in the name of survival.
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- 9781137583055
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- xi, 278 pages ; 22 cm
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- 379.1
Jaghmīnī’s Mulakhkhaṣ: An Islamic Introduction to Ptolemaic Astronomy
This book provides the only critical edition and English translation of Maḥmūd al-Jaghmīnī’s al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾa al-basīṭa, the most widely circulated Arabic treatise on Ptolemaic astronomy ever written. Composed in the early 13th century, this introductory textbook played a crucial role in the teaching, dissemination, and institutional instruction of Islamic astronomy well …
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- 978-3-319-31993-3
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Synthetic Biology
Synthetic Biology is already an object of intensive debate. However, to a great extent the discussion to date has been concerned with fundamental ethical, religious and philosophical questions. By contrast, based on an investigation of the field’s scientific and technological character, this book focuses on new functionalities provided by synthetic biology and explores the associated opportun…
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- 978-3-319-02783-8
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- XV, 273
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- Risk Engineering
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Co-creating Digital Public Services for an Ageing Society : Evidence for User…
This open access book attends to the co-creation of digital public services for ageing societies. Increasingly public services are provided in digital form; their uptake however remains well below expectations. In particular, amongst older adults the need for public services is high, while at the same time the uptake of digital services is lower than the population average. One of the reasons i…
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- 978-3-030-52873-7
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- XVIII, 228 halaman
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- Public Administration and Information Technology
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- 005 JAR c
Autoimmune Pancreatitis
This is an excellent, very detailed, and comprehensive analysis of autoimmune pancreatitis. … The book is written for clinicians who work with patients with autoimmune pancreatitis. It will be an excellent reference for many years to come. … This is a great reference for gastroenterologists and specialists on the pancreas. This is probably one of the best books for clinicians with an extend…
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- 978-3-642-55086-7
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- 2014
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- 616
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