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Energy in Africa : Challenges and Opportunities
This open access book presents a picture of the current energy challenges on the African continent (and the Sub-Saharan region in particular) and proposes pathways to an accelerated energy transition. Starting with an analysis of the status quo and the outlook for Africa’s energy demand and energy access, it provides an account of the available resources, including hydrocarbons and renewable …
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- 978-3-319-92219-5
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- XX, 112
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- SpringerBriefs in Energy (BRIEFSENERGY)
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- 333 HAF e
Understanding the Bigger Energy Picture : DESERTEC and Beyond
This book focuses on the global cycles of energy, water and carbon, which are not only the essentials of our main energy carriers, the fossil fuels, but are also the building blocks of life. The book offers an overview of the basic scientific facts and relationships that are needed to understand today’s energy generation and use, how they relate to global climate, the water cycle and other re…
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- 978-3-319-57966-5
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- XV, 110
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- SpringerBriefs in Energy (BRIEFSENERGY)
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- 333 DUR u
Stochastic Discounted Cash Flow : A Theory of the Valuation of Firms
This open access book discusses firm valuation, which is of interest to economists, particularly those working in finance. Firm valuation comes down to the calculation of the discounted cash flow, often only referred to by its abbreviation, DCF. There are, however, different coexistent versions, which seem to compete against each other, such as entity approaches and equity approaches. Acronyms …
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- 978-3-030-37081-7
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- XXIII, 241
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- Springer Texts in Business and Economics (STBE)
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- 332 KRU s
The Brownian Motion : A Rigorous but Gentle Introduction for Economists
This open access textbook is the first to provide Business and Economics Ph.D. students with a precise and intuitive introduction to the formal backgrounds of modern financial theory. It explains Brownian motion, random processes, measures, and Lebesgue integrals intuitively, but without sacrificing the necessary mathematical formalism, making them accessible for readers with little or no previ…
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- 978-3-030-20103-6
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- X, 125
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- Springer Texts in Business and Economics (STBE)
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- 332 LOF
Indigenous Early Career Researchers in Australian Universities : Our Stories
This open access book explores the key barriers and facilitators to advancing meaningful and fulfilling academic careers in the higher education sector for Australian Indigenous doctoral graduates. It focuses on the career trajectories of Indigenous early career researchers who have participated in the Developing Indigenous Australian Early Career Researchers study, funded by the Australian Res…
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- 978-981-97-2823-7
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- XXVI, 127
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 370 IND
Research Thinking for Responsive Teaching : Research Skill Development with I…
This open access book examines the facilitation of pre-service and in-service educators’ research thinking that equips them to be responsive to the unfolding uncertainties of the 21st century, and to likewise prepare their own students. It addresses several key areas, including: articulating the contemporary need for research thinking across teacher education; showcasing diverse yet conceptua…
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- 978-981-99-6679-0
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- XV, 140
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 370 RES
Handbook of Technical and Vocational Teacher Professional Development in the …
This is an open access book. Covering both theories and practices in Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) teacher development, this book provides up-to-date discussions and recommendations on issues relating to TVET teacher development in the digital age. It caters for the needs of in-service teachers and trainers, as well as TVET leaders who want to upscale their professional lea…
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- 978-981-99-5937-2
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- XII, 125
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 370 HAN
Paul Ricoeur : Empowering Education, Politics and Society
This open access book employs Paul Ricoeur's methodologies to identify, challenge, and replace with responsible language the many continuing abuses of power, including in the university curriculum and in the international discourse of right-wing populism. Using Ricoeur’s philosophy, the book provides a meta-frame for current debates about the university and a pragmatic micro-frame for support…
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- 978-981-99-3475-1
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- XI, 122
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 370 SCO p
English Medium Instruction as a Local Practice : Language, culture and pedagogy
From the perspective of translanguaging and instruction theories, this Open Access book examines Chinese English Medium Instruction (EMI) lecturers’ linguistic and pedagogical characteristics. This book demonstrate that ‘English’ in EMI is not a monolingual issue and EMI lecturers have applied their bilingual advantages to systematically and strategically advance their pedagogy practices …
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- 978-3-031-19904-2
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- XV, 126
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 370 HAN e
Higher Degree by Research : Factors for Indigenous Student Success
This open access book provides insights from Indigenous higher degree research (HDR) students on supervision practices in an Australian context. It examines findings from qualitative studies conducted with Indigenous HDR students from different academic disciplines, enrolled higher education institutions across Australia, and supervisors of Indigenous HDR students. Six types of data and their t…
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- 978-981-19-5178-7
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- XV, 112
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 370 AND h
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