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Age-Period-Cohort Analysis : New Models, Methods, and Empirical Applications
This book explores the ways in which statistical models, methods, and research designs can be used to open new possibilities for APC analysis. Within a single, consistent HAPC-GLMM statistical modeling framework, the authors synthesize APC models and methods for three research designs: age-by-time period tables of population rates or proportions, repeated cross-section sample surveys, and accel…
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- 9780429096204
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- 352 p
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- 300 YAN a
Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome
ABSTRACT Major advances have recently been made in our understanding of Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome (OHSS). These include improving classification, recognizing primary and secondary risk factors, manipulating and monitoring ovarian stimulation, handling risky situations, and elucidating the underlying pathophysiologic mechanisms of the syndrome. As su
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- 9780429095405
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- 320 p
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- 610 OVA
Unauthorized Access : The Crisis in Online Privacy and Security.
Going beyond current books on privacy and security, this book proposes specific solutions to public policy issues pertaining to online privacy and security. Requiring no technical or legal expertise, it provides a practical framework to address ethical and legal issues. The authors explore the well-established connection between social norms, privacy, security, and technological structure. They…
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- 9780429093791
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- 398 p
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- 005 SLO u
The Self-Directed Learner in Medical Education : the Three Pillar Model of Se…
Self-directed learning is perhaps the Holy Grail of adult learning and for good reason. Within this seemingly simple phrase lies the battleground for the frustrations of both educator and learner as they work through the difficulties of an unequal and sometimes intense partnership
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- 9780429091926
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- 248 p
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- 610 GAV s
Human Minds and Animal Stories : How Narratives Make Us Care About Other Species
The power of stories to raise our concern for animals has been postulated throughout history by countless scholars, activists, and writers, including such greats as Thomas Hardy and Leo Tolstoy. This is the first book to investigate that power and explain the psychological and cultural mechanisms behind it. It does so by presenting the results of an experimental project that involved thousands …
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- 9780429061424
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- 200 p
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- 800 MAL h
The Circular Economy in Europe : Critical Perspectives on Policies and Imagin…
The Circular Economy in Europe presents an overview and a critical discussion on how circularity is conceived, imagined, and enacted in current EU policy-making. In 2013, the idea of a circular economy entered the stage of European policy-making in the efforts to reconcile environmental and economic policy objectives. In 2019 the European Commission declared in a press release that the Circular…
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- 9780429061028
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- 208 p
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- 330 KOV c
Industry 4.0 and regional transformation
ABSTRACT This edited volume brings together a group of expert contributors to explorebthe opportunities and the challenges that Industry 4.0 (smart manufacturing) is likely to pose for regions, fi rms and jobs in Europe. Drawing on theory and empirical cases, it considers emerging issues like servitization, new innovation models for local production systems and the increase in reshoring. In…
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- 9780429057984
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- 276 p
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- 338 IND
History, Space and Place
Spaces, too, have a history. And history always takes place in spaces. But what do historians mean when they use the word "spaces"? And how can spaces be historically investigated? Susanne Rau provides a survey of the history of Western concepts of space, opens up interdisciplinary approaches to the phenomenon of space in fields ranging from physics and geography to philosophy and sociology,…
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- 9780429056383
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- 232 p
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- 900 RAU h
Urban Blue Spaces : Planning and Design for Water, Health and Well-Being
This book presents an evidence-based approach to landscape planning and design for urban blue spaces that maximises the benefits to human health and well-being while minimising the risks. Based on applied research and evidence from primary and secondary data sources stemming from the EU-funded BlueHealth project, the book presents nature-based solutions to promote sustainable and resilient citi…
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- 9780429056161
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- 506 p
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- 333 URB
Social Enterprise in Western Europe : Theory, Models and Practice
In the last two decades, the quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise has been a central issue in a great number of publications.The main objective of the ICSEM Project on which this book is based was to show that the social enterprise field would benefit much more from linking conceptualisation efforts to the huge diversity of social enterprises than from an additional and a…
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- 650 SOC
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