Buku akses terbuka ini disiapkan sebagai Publikasi Akhir dari COST Action IC1303 "Algoritma, Arsitektur, dan Platform untuk Lingkungan Hidup yang Ditingkatkan (AAPELE)". Konsep Enhanced Living Environments (ELE) mengacu pada area Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) yang lebih terkait dengan Teknologi Informasi dan Komunikasi (TIK). Solusi ELE yang efektif memerlukan algoritme, arsitektur, platform, d…
Buku ini merupakan dokumentasi kolaboratif dan terpilih dari hasil ilmiah European COST Action IS0605 Econ@Tel "A Telecommunications Economics COST Network" yang berlangsung dari Oktober 2007 hingga Oktober 2011. Dengan melibatkan para ahli dari sekitar 20 negara Eropa, tujuan Econ@Tel adalah untuk mengembangkan jaringan penelitian dan pelatihan strategis di antara orang-orang dan organisasi ut…
This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries and is stretching to about 30% of the total global land area. About three billion people reside in these degraded lands. However, the impact of land degradation is especially severe on livelihoods of the poor who heavily depend on natural resourc…
Civil Democracy Protection is an overview of attempts by organisations to oppose groups that are perceived to threaten democracy. The book traces the history of civil democracy protection actors from the establishment of democratic constitutional states up to the present day and develops a set of systematic and comparative approaches. The central question it explores is: What significance do…
ABSTRACT Good leadership and governance at all levels of the healthcare system is necessary for better performance of the system and health outcomes. Lack of good leadership and governance practices can lead to misuse of health system inputs such as human resources, health commodities and financial resources hence lowering the quality of services delivered. Thus, this guide was developed throu…
This book provides an in-depth examination of current, high-profile debates about the use of sexual history evidence in rape trials and its impact on jurors. In doing so, it presents findings of the first mock jury dataset in England and Wales to explore how jurors interpret, discuss, and rely upon such evidence within their deliberations. Drawing on both qualitative and quantitative insight…
This unique volume utilizes the UNESCO Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) framework to illustrate successful integration of sustainability education in post-secondary foreign language (FL) learning.Showcasing a variety of approaches to using content-based instruction (CBI) in college-level courses, this text valuably demonstrates how topics relating to environmental, social, and cultur…
Launched in 1950, Penguin’s Russian Classics quickly progressed to include translations of many great works of Russian literature and the series came to be regarded by readers, both academic and general, as the de facto provider of classic Russian literature in English translation, the legacy of which reputation resonates right up to the present day. Through an analysis of the individuals inv…
This book explores and interrogates the food–water–energy nexus, arguably the most crucial factor in sustaining India’s economic development. The book sheds light on different experiences faced in states across India, including the consequences of electricity tariff reforms and related policies on irrigated agriculture. Part 1 focuses on the historical development of agriculture and socia…
Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia uses case studies to explore how knowledge circulated in the different public arenas that shaped politics, economics and cultural life in and across postwar Scandinavia, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s. This book focuses on a period when the term "knowledge society" was coined and rapidly found traction. In Scandinavia, society’s relationsh…