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Family Formation in 21st Century Australia
This book provides a detailed, up-to-date snapshot of Australian family formation, answering such questions as ‘what do our families look like?’ and ‘how have they come to be this way?’ The book applies sociological insights to a broad range of demographic trends, painting a comprehensive picture of the changing ways in which Australians are creating families. The first contemporary …
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- 978-94-017-9279-0
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- VIII, 247
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Families in an Era of Increasing Inequality Diverging Destinies
The widening gap between the rich and the poor is turning the American dream into an impossibility for many, particularly children and families. And as the children of low-income families grow to adulthood, they have less access to opportunities and resources than their higher-income peers--and increasing odds of repeating the experiences of their parents. Families in an Era of Increasing In…
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- 978-3-319-08308-7
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- XIV, 242
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Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World
This open access book draws on award-winning cross-generational research comparing the complex and life-changing processes of settlement among Albanian migrants and their adolescent children in three European cities: London (UK), Thessaloniki (Greece), and Florence (Italy). Building on key concepts from the social sciences and migration studies, such as identity, integration and transnationalis…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-13023-1
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- XI, 216
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- IMISCOE Research Series
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Victims of Obtrusive Violence Children and Adolescents in Kenya
This volume describes how children’s experience with violence may affect and endanger their education, as well as their physical safety and their general well-being. It includes all forms of physical , psychological and sexual abuse, and neglect against children at home, at school, and in public spaces in two different areas of Kenya (rural and urban), while taking into account its environmen…
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- 978-3-319-22807-5
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- XI, 128
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Agents and Artificial Intelligence: 7th International Conference, ICAART 2015…
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2015, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in January 2015. The 18 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 187 submissions. The papers are organized in two topical sections on agents and on artificial intel…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-27947-3
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- XVI, 347
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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- 006.3 AGE a
Diseases of the Abdomen and Pelvis 2018-2021 : Diagnostic Imaging - IDKD Book
This open access book deals with imaging of the abdomen and pelvis, an area that has seen considerable advances over the past several years, driven by clinical as well as technological developments. The respective chapters, written by internationally respected experts in their fields, focus on imaging diagnosis and interventional therapies in abdominal and pelvic disease; they cover all relevan…
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- 978-3-319-75019-4
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- 616 DIS
Handbook of Biomedical Imaging Methodologies and Clinical Research
This book explains the process of computer assisted biomedical image analysis diagnosis through mathematical modeling and inference of image-based bio-markers. It covers five crucial thematic areas: methodologies, statistical and physiological models, biomedical perception, clinical biomarkers, and emerging modalities and domains. The dominant state-of-the-art methodologies for content extra…
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- 978-0-387-09748-0
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- VII, 511
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- 004 HAN
Dual-energy CT in cardiovascular imaging
This book focuses on the rapidly developing and promising novel applications of Dual Energy CT (DECT) in cardiovascular medicine. Although developed many years ago, DECT represents the newest significant advancement in the field of computed tomography, the clinical utility of which has recently expanded as many new applications have been developed. In the field of cardiovascular medicine, DECT …
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- 9783319212272
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- 616.120754
The Future of Health, Wellbeing and Physical Education
This book uses the example of a partnership journey between universities, schools, the local health industry as well as a number of government organisations which worked to ensure the growth of physical education in primary education. The initiative employed the United Nations (UN) ideals as a model and contextualised them within local schools and communities. What began as a pathway seed quick…
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- 978-3-319-31667-3
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- XI, 174
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- Palgrave Macmillan Cham
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Human Factors of Stereoscopic 3D Displays
Human Factors of Stereoscopic Displays provides an overview of all vision-relevant topics and issues that inform stereo display design from a user-centric or human factor, perspective. Although both the basic vision science literature and the applied literature will be reviewed, the strength and originality of this book comes from the emphasis on the basic science literature on human stereo vis…
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- 978-1-4471-6650-4
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- X, 104
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- 004
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