Filter by
Mental Health and Enhancement
This book takes the reader from basic questions like “What is health?” and “What is a psychiatric disorder?”, into the midst of people’s present mental health and enhancement choices. More and more people receive psychiatric diagnoses and the use of psychopharmacological drugs keeps increasing. Concurrently, media report the popularity of “brain doping” or “study drugs” on cam…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783031326189
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Improving Health Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
This open access book is a collection of 12 case studies capturing decades of experience improving health care and outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. Each case study is written by healthcare managers and providers who have implemented health improvement projects using quality improvement methodology, with analysis from global health experts on the practical application of improvement…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030431129
- Collation
- XVI, 245 hlm; ill., lamp.,
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Automated Machine Learning
A machine learning engineer, or a data scientist, when building the machine learning pipeline for a specific task has to carefully design each of these steps. These steps are usually co-dependent. To give an example, consider a problem where the use of SVMs are desirable in building the model. Then, since SVMs cannot work natively with categorical features, these have to be transformed in some …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030053185
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Civic Continuities in an Age of Revolutionary Change, c.1750–1850
This open access book explores the role of continuity in political processes and practices during the Age of Revolutions. It argues that the changes that took place in the years around 1800 were enabled by different types of continuities across Europe and in the Americas. With historians of modernity tending to emphasise the rise of the new, scholarship has leaned towards an assumption that exi…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783031095047
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Building Bridges for Effective Environmental Participation: The Path of Law C…
This open-access book aims to explore and promote indigenous participation in legal design and visual law, with a specific focus on co-creating a visual representation of the Escazu Agreement in collaboration with the Chiquitano people. This project stands out as a unique and transformative endeavor, offering distinctive features and a range of benefits to its readers and stakeholders.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783031527913
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Ceremonial Entries, Municipal Liberties and the Negotiation of Power in Valoi…
In a fresh examination of the French ceremonial entry, Neil Murphy considers the role these events played in the negotiation between urban elites and the Valois monarchy for rights and liberties. Moving away from the customary focus on the pageantry, this book focuses on how urban governments used these ceremonies to offer the ruler (or his representatives) petitions regarding their rights, lib…
- Edition
- Volume: 7
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-90-04-31371-2
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Chains of Gold; Portuguese Migration to Argentina in Transatlantic Perspective
Why did migrants from southern Portugal choose Argentina instead of following the traditional path to Brazil? Starting with this question, this book explores how, at the turn of the twentieth century, rural Europeans developed distinctive circuits of transatlantic labor migration linked to diverse immigrant communities in the Americas. It looks at transoceanic moves in the larger context of mig…
- Edition
- Volume: 2
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-90-47-42992-0
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Changing Assessment; How to Design Curriculum for Human Flourishing
Since the Delors report, education reformers have been working to create curricula that allow human beings to flourish. Schools should not only be places where we learn to be and learn to live together, but also places where the way we assess students valorises the diverse range of human gifts within them. Yet, most schools remain locked in a 19th-century assessment structure that prevents y…
- Edition
- Volume: 6
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-90-04-71420-5
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature: Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative
Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature is the fourth volume in the series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative. The book deals with the narratological concepts of character and characterization and explores the textual devices used for purposes of characterization by ancient Greek authors spanning a large historical period (from Homer to Heliodorus) and a variety of literary genres (epic, e…
- Edition
- vol. 4
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-90-04-35631-3
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
On the path to AI = Law’s prophecies and the conceptual foundations of the …
This open access book explores machine learning and its impact on how we make sense of the world. It does so by bringing together two ‘revolutions’ in a surprising analogy: the revolution of machine learning, which has placed computing on the path to artificial intelligence, and the revolution in thinking about the law that was spurred by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr in the last two decades of …
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030435820
- Collation
- XXII, 147 hlm; ill., lamp.,
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography