With a focus on nine different national contexts, this book explores contemporary family diversity. With attention to the different welfare states and cultures of care in each setting, it problematizes the pre-eminence of research and policy centered on heteronormative families, showing the extent to which family diversity exists cross-nationally in relation to different gendered and ""family-f…
This book describes the state of the art concerning some of the most hotly debated topics in anesthesia and intensive care and is at the same time intended to serve as a useful practical guide that will assist in improving outcomes. The topics covered are wide ranging and include, for example, use of the prone position in ARDS, the role of therapeutic hypothermia in the critically ill, the valu…
Democracy cannot be implemented overnight. Democratization is an often unpredictable process. This book concentrates on that political transformation in one of Indonesia’s most ‘traditional’ islands, Sumba. Why does democratization create such great opportunities for local politicians with their private agenda’s? Why does regional autonomy, as part of the national democratization progra…
Most importantly, the book shows how literature constitutes an alternative public sphere for Black people. In a society largely controlled by white supremacist actors and institutions, Black authors have conjured fiction into a space where hard questions can be asked and answered and where the work of combatting collective, racist suppression can occur without replicating oppressive hierarchies…
This open access book assesses the potential of data-driven methods in industrial process monitoring engineering. The process modeling, fault detection, classification, isolation, and reasoning are studied in detail. These methods can be used to improve the safety and reliability of industrial processes. Fault diagnosis, including fault detection and reasoning, has attracted engineers and scien…
A People's History of the Second World War unearths the fascinating history of the war as fought 'from below'. Until now, the vast majority of historical accounts have focussed on the conflict between the Allied and Axis powers for imperialist mastery. Donny Gluckstein shows that in fact between 1939 and 1945 two distinct wars were fought – one ‘from above’ and one ‘from below’. Using…
Judul "Kebijakan, Profesionalisasi, Privatisasi, dan Penilaian Kinerja" menunjukkan eksplorasi yang komprehensif terhadap interaksi dan hubungan di antara keempat elemen kunci ini: 1. Kebijakan: Hal ini mungkin mengacu pada pengembangan, implementasi, dan dampak kebijakan dalam konteks tertentu, yang dapat berupa negara, industri, atau organisasi. Analisis dan evaluasi kebijakan dapat menjadi…
Membahas sejarah produksi dan penerimaan puisi abad pertengahan yang agung, Piers Ploughman, Lawrence Warner mengungkapkan banyak cara di mana para sarjana, editor, dan kritikus selama berabad-abad menciptakan narasi spekulatif mereka sendiri tentang puisi tersebut, yang lambat laun dianggap sebagai benar secara faktual. Warner memulai dengan mempertimbangkan kemungkinan Langland menulis roman …
Dalam potret komprehensif berbahasa Inggris pertama tentang Jacob dan Wilhelm Grimm sebagai pemikir dan aktor politik, Jakob Norberg mengungkapkan bagaimana dua folklorist paling terkenal dalam sejarah membayangkan peran cendekiawan sastra dan linguistik dalam mendefinisikan identitas nasional. Yakin akan relevansi politik dari koleksi cerita rakyat dan studi tata bahasa mereka, brothers Grimm …
This book compiles and presents new developments in statistical causal inference. The accompanying data and computer programs are publicly available so readers may replicate the model development and data analysis presented in each chapter. In this way, methodology is taught so that readers may implement it directly. The book brings together experts engaged in causal inference research to prese…