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Mergers and Alliances in Higher Education : International Practice and Emergi…
This volume casts light on mergers and alliances in higher education by examining developments of this type in different countries. It combines the direct experiences of those at the heart of such transformations, university leaders and senior officials responsible for higher education policy, with expert analysts of the systems concerned. Higher education in Europe faces a series of major c…
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- 9783319131344
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- XXI, 307 halaman
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- 370 MER
Mindfulness and Meditation at University : 10 Years of the Munich Model
Why should mindfulness and meditation be taught at universities? What impact could the establishment of such programs have on students and on the education system itself? Andreas de Bruin showcases the remarkable results of the first ten years of the Munich Model »Mindfulness and Meditation in a University Context« - a program started in the year 2010 in which 2000 students have already parti…
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- 9783839456965
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- 216 halaman
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- 370 halaman
Managing Chronicity in Unequal States Ethnographic perspectives on caring
By portraying the circumstances of people living with chronic conditions in radically different contexts, from Alzheimer’s patients in the UK to homeless people with psychiatric disorders in India, Managing Chronicity in Unequal States offers glimpses of what dealing with medically complex conditions in stratified societies means. While in some places the state regulates and intrudes on the m…
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- 9781800080287
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Mobile Edge Computing
This is an open access book. It offers comprehensive, self-contained knowledge on Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), which is a very promising technology for achieving intelligence in the next-generation wireless communications and computing networks. The book starts with the basic concepts, key techniques and network architectures of MEC. Then, we present the wide applications of MEC, including edge…
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- 9783030839444
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A Framework for Community Ecology
This book addresses an important problem in ecology: how are communities assembled from species pools? This pressing question underlies a broad array of practical problems in ecology and environmental science, including restoration of damaged landscapes, management of protected areas, and protection of threatened species. This book presents a simple logical structure for ecological assembly and…
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- 9781009067881
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A Framework for Addressing Violence and Serious Crime
This Element examines an increasingly important community crime prevention strategy - focused deterrence. This strategy seeks to change offender behavior by understanding underlying crime-producing dynamics and conditions that sustain recurring crime problems, and implementing a blended set of law enforcement, community mobilization, and social service actions. The approach builds on recent the…
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- 9781108938143
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- Elements in Criminology
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Constitutional Issues of EU External Relations Law
The present book invites the reader to rethink some questions raised in EU external relations law in the light of recent developments in the case law of the Court of Justice, from the perspective of the constitutional foundations of the Union. The various chapters invite the reader to take a look at the balance between the specific legal regime for EU external action and the constitutional fund…
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- 9783848733996
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- 452 halaman
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Digitization and the Law
"Digitization of information" means, to state it in the simplest way possi‐ ble, the representation of information as a sequence of zeros and ones. Digitized information can be edited, stored and easily transferred between computers. In view of the high power of today's computers and their glob‐ al networking via the Internet, this means that vast amounts of information can be processe…
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- 9783848747009
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- 140 halaman
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International Humanitarian Law in Areas of Limited Statehood : Adaptable and …
Areas of limited statehood, in which the territorial State lacks effective control, either completely or in part, challenge International Humanitarian Law in various ways. This volume explores if and how the law adapts to these challenges on the basis of mainly two legal issues: detention and investment protection in (non-)international armed conflict. Does a sufficient legal basis exist for th…
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- 9783848748075
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- 251 halaman
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Coordination Models and Languages
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages, COORDINATION 2015, held as part of the 10th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, DisCoTec 2015, in Grenoble, France, in June 2015. The 14 full papers and one short paper presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. Th…
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- 9783319192826
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- xiv, 247 pages
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