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Creating the University of the Future : A Global View on Future Skills and Fu…
This open access publication presents a global panorama of institutional strategies, academic programs, scholarly insights as well as teaching and learning practices taking stock of the Future Skills Turn taking place in higher education. Future Skills have evolved to be one of the most important priorities for the development of higher education institutions globally. Students and graduates le…
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- 1
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- 9783658429485
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- XXXVIII, 611 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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A Life Course Perspective on Health Trajectories and Transitions
This open access book examines health trajectories and health transitions at different stages of the life course, including childhood, adulthood and later life. It provides findings that assess the role of biological and social transitions on health status over time. The essays examine a wide range of health issues, including the consequences of military service on body mass index, childhood…
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- 978-3-319-20484-0
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- VI, 213
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- Life Course Research and Social Policies (LCRS, volume 4)
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Mnemonic Solidarity : Global Interventions
This open access book provides a concise introduction to a critical development in memory studies. A global memory formation has emerged since the 1990s, in which memories of traumatic histories in different parts of the world, often articulated in the terms established by Holocaust memory, have become entangled, reconciled, contested, conflicted and negotiated across borders. As historical act…
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- 1
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- 9783030576691
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- XI, 135 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Introduction to Permanent Plug and Abandonment of Wells
This open access book offers a timely guide to challenges and current practices to permanently plug and abandon hydrocarbon wells. With a focus on offshore North Sea, it analyzes the process of plug and abandonment of hydrocarbon wells through the establishment of permanent well barriers. It provides the reader with extensive knowledge on the type of barriers, their functioning and verification…
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- 978-3-030-39970-2
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- XVIII, 273
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- Ocean Engineering & Oceanography (OEO, volume 12)
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A Byzantine Book on Dream Interpretation: The Oneirocriticon of Achmet and It…
This volume discusses the so-called Oneirocriticon of Achmet, the most important Byzantine work on dream interpretation which was written in Greek in the 10th century and has greatly influenced subsequent dreambooks in Byzantine Greek, Medieval Latin, and modern European languages. By comparing the Oneirocriticon with the 2nd-century A.D. dreambook of Artemidoros (translated into Arabic in the…
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- Volume: 36
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- 9789004473461
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Manual of Digital Earth
This open access book offers a summary of the development of Digital Earth over the past twenty years. By reviewing the initial vision of Digital Earth, the evolution of that vision, the relevant key technologies, and the role of Digital Earth in helping people respond to global challenges, this publication reveals how and why Digital Earth is becoming vital for acquiring, processing, analysing…
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- 1
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- 9789813299153
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- XIX, 852 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Handbook of Ocean Wave Energy
This book offers a concise, practice-oriented reference-guide to the field of ocean wave energy. The ten chapters highlight the key rules of thumb, address all the main technical engineering aspects and describe in detail all the key aspects to be considered in the techno-economic assessment of wave energy converters. Written in an easy-to-understand style, the book answers questions relevant t…
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- 978-3-319-39889-1
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- XXI, 287
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- Ocean Engineering & Oceanography (OEO, volume 7)
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Real-time Linked Dataspaces : Enabling Data Ecosystems for Intelligent Systems
This open access book explores the dataspace paradigm as a best-effort approach to data management within data ecosystems. It establishes the theoretical foundations and principles of real-time linked dataspaces as a data platform for intelligent systems. The book introduces a set of specialized best-effort techniques and models to enable loose administrative proximity and semantic integration …
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- 1
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- 9783030296650
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- XXIII, 325 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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A Bibliography of South African Languages, 2008-2017: With an Introduction by…
This concise bibliography on South-African Languages and Linguistics was compiled on the occasion of the 20th International Congress of Linguists in Cape Town, South Africa, July 2018. The selection of titles is drawn from the Linguistic Bibliography and gives an overview of scholarship on South African language studies over the past 10 years. The introduction written by Menán du Plessis (Stel…
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- 978-90-04-37662-5
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Disorder-Specific Psychodrama Therapy in Theory and Practice
The open access book explains the practical approach in psychodrama with the help of multidisciplinary theories of self-development, mentalization, play, and psychosomatic resonance. These theories help to structure the therapeutic experiences of Moreno and other psychodramatists and to compare them with experiences and theories of other psychotherapy methods. Against this background, the autho…
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- 1
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- 9789819975082
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- XXII, 569 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- 4
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