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Family Dynamics over the Life Course: Foundations, Turning Points and Outcomes
This open access book examines how families and other social institutions interact to shape outcomes over the life course. It considers how to use research evidence to reduce social disadvantage through translation of evidence to support public policies and programs. The chapters focus on key life course stages such as early child development, adolescence, emerging adulthood, parenting, marriag…
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- 978-3-031-12224-8
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- Life Course Research and Social Policies
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- VIII, 326
Public Policy and Research in Africa
This open access book responds to the need for a specifically African focus on public policy. It outlines the fundamental principles of public policy research, and engages with major issues in the study of public policy from an African perspective, covering essential topics such as the location and centrality of social sciences in relation to public policy, leadership, methodology, institutions…
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- 978-3-030-99724-3
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- XIII, 278
Biotechnologie praxisorientiert unterrichten: Aktuelle Kontexte für Schule u…
In diesem Open Access Buch finden Sie Anregungen für die praktische und schülergerechte Umsetzung molekularbiologischer Methoden an ausgewählten Themenbeispielen für den Biologieunterricht. Biotechnologische Methoden wie die DNA – Analyse werden an Schulen hauptsächlich theoretisch unterrichtet und nicht experimentell erarbeitet. In einem Exkurs zu der Umsetzung eines Schüler*innen Semi…
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- 978-3-662-65210-7
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- XVI, 269
Rethinking Infrastructure Design for Multi-Use Water Services
As we approach a historic tipping point in the global trend toward urbanisation – within two decades urban dwellers will increase from 49% to 60% of the planet’s population – this book identifies and addresses a critical problem: water. The editors show how cities can shift from being water consumers to resource managers, applying urban water management principles to ensure access to wate…
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- 978-3-319-06275-4
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Digital Healthcare and Expertise: Mental Health and New Knowledge Practices
This open access book explores how expertise about bipolar disorder is performed on American and French digital platforms by combining insights from STS, medical sociology and media studies. It addresses topical questions, including: How do different stakeholders engage with online technologies to perform expertise about bipolar disorder? How does the use of the internet for processes of knowle…
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- 978-981-16-9178-2
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- Health, Technology and Society
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- XXIII, 248
Rethinking Economic Growth Theory From a Biophysical Perspective
Neoclassical growth theory is the dominant perspective for explaining economic growth. At its core are four implicit assumptions: 1) economic output can become decoupled from energy consumption; 2) economic distribution is unrelated to growth; 3) large institutions are not important for growth; and 4) labor force structure is not important for growth. Drawing on a wide range of data from the ec…
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- 978-3-319-12826-9
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Market Engineering: Insights from Two Decades of Research on Markets and Info…
This open access book provides a broad range of insights on market engineering and information management. It covers topics like auctions, stock markets, electricity markets, the sharing economy, information and emotions in markets, smart decision-making in cities and other systems, and methodological approaches to conceptual modeling and taxonomy development. Overall, this book is a source of …
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- 978-3-030-66661-3
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Social Development in the World Bank: Essays in Honor of Michael M. Cernea
This open access book honors the work of Michael Cernea, who was the World Bank’s first professional sociologist, by taking on and extending his arguments for "putting people first.” Cernea led a community of social scientists in formulating and promoting a comprehensive set of innovative and original social policies on development issues, which the World Bank adopted and implemented. This …
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- 978-3-030-57426-0
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Social Cash Transfer in Turkey: Toward Market Citizenship
This open access book asks whether cash-transfer programs for very low-income households promote social and economic citizenship and, if so, under what conditions. To this end, it brings together elements that are too often considered separately: the transformation of social and economic citizenship rights in a market-centered context, and the increasing popularity of cash transfer as an instru…
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- 978-3-030-70381-3
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Implementing Industry 4.0 in SMEs: Concepts, Examples and Applications
This open access book addresses the practical challenges that Industry 4.0 presents for SMEs. While large companies are already responding to the changes resulting from the fourth industrial revolution , small businesses are in danger of falling behind due to the lack of examples, best practices and established methods and tools. Following on from the publication of the previous book ‘Indus…
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- 978-3-030-70516-9
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