The book addresses in a comprehensive way the full greenhouse gases budget of the Italian landscape, focusing on land use and terrestrial ecosystems. In recent years there has been a growing interest in the role of terrestrial ecosystems with regard to the carbon cycle and only recently a regional approach has been considered for its specificity in terms of new methodologies for observations an…
This book discusses the economic, political, and environmental issues surrounding the international exploration and exploitation of conventional and unconventional natural gas. Shale gas development in recent years has changed the energy discussion in the US as existing reserves of natural gas coupled with horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing make exploitation of these reserves economic…
This book analyzes extensive data on the world’s rapidly changing and growing access to, use and geographies of information and communications technologies. It studies not only the spatial differences in technology usage worldwide, but also examines digital differences in the major world nations of China, India, the United States and Japan at the state and provincial levels. At the global lev…
Regulator lebih permisif untuk perangkat medis dibandingkan dengan obat dan rekan biologisnya. Meskipun produk inovatif dapat menjangkau konsumen dengan lebih cepat, pendekatan ini menimbulkan masalah kesehatan dan keselamatan masyarakat yang serius. Selain itu, sifat perangkat medis berubah dengan cepat, karena perangkat lunak menjadi sama pentingnya dengan perangkat keras. Regulasi harus meng…
Due to the increased number of elderly people worldwide, nowadays one of the major medical and socio-economic challenges is to search strategies to combat the consequences of aging process, reducing the incidence of neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia. Dementia is a clinical syndrome of chronic and progressive symptoms characterized by multiple cognitive deficits associated with agin…
Affordable Learning Georgia Grants Collections are intended to provide faculty with the frameworks to quickly implement or revise the same materials as a Textbook Transformation Grants team, along with the aims and lessons learned from project teams during the implementation process.
Environmental Biology enables students to develop a nuanced understanding of today’s most pressing environmental issues. This text helps students grasp the scientific foundation of these issues so that they can better understand the world around them and their impact upon it. This open textbook covers the most salient environmental issues, from a biological perspective. The text is designed f…
Sensation is a concept with a conflicted philosophical history. It has found as many allies as enemies in nearly every camp from empiricism to poststructuralism. Polyvalent, with an uncertain referent, and often overshadowed by intuition, perception, or cognition, sensation invites as much metaphysical speculation as it does dismissive criticism. The promise of sensation has certainly not been …
Buku ini memberikan studi empiris mendalam pertama tentang kekuasaan pengawasan Parlemen Eropa terhadap eksekutif di Uni Eropa (UE), dengan fokus pada bidang politik yang menonjol dari Uni Ekonomi dan Moneter. Perluasan pengambilan keputusan eksekutif selama krisis euro disertai dengan pemberdayaan Parlemen Eropa melalui pengawasan legislatif. Buku ini mengkaji bagaimana Parlemen Eropa menjalan…
Rumah sakit saat ini menghadapi sejumlah besar tantangan, termasuk pola penyakit baru, teknologi medis yang berkembang pesat, populasi yang menua, dan kendala anggaran yang berkelanjutan. Buku ini ditulis oleh dokter untuk dokter dan manajer rumah sakit, serta mereka yang merancang dan mengoperasikan rumah sakit. Ini menjelaskan mengapa rumah sakit perlu berubah saat pasien yang mereka rawat d…