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Democratizing Risk Governance
This open access book features contributions from a multidisciplinary team of leading and emerging scholars focused on democratization of risk assessment, management, and communication. The volume identifies and sheds light on key risk governance dilemmas related to public trust, risk perception and public participation. The first part of the book articulates the relationship among science, exp…
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- 978-3-031-24271-7
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- XVIII, 421
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The Search for Ultralight Bosonic Dark Matter
To set the stage for our study of ultralight bosonic dark matter (UBDM), we review the evidence for the existence of dark matter: galactic and stellar dynamics, gravitational lensing studies, measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB), surveys of the large-scale structure of the universe, and the observed abundance of light elements. This diverse array of observational …
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- 9783030958527
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- XX, 363
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Framing Global Mathematics
Recalling the century which preceded the founding of all the big international scientific unions which are still going strong today is more than a chore that one has to get out of the way before moving on to the real story; it is the only way to understand what these international unions could be in the first place, at the time of their creation, and how they could develop thereafter. The n…
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- 9783030956837
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- CCCLXXXIV, 20
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Comparative Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality: Fathers on…
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. This book portrays men’s experiences of home alone leave and how it affects their lives and family gender roles in different policy contexts and explores how this unique parental leave design is implemented in these contrasting policy regimes. The book brings together three major theoretical strands: social policy, in particular the liter…
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- 9783319429700
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- X, 266 p
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- Life Course Research and Social Policies
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- 305 COM
Efficient Screening Techniques to Identify Mutants with TR4 Resistance in Banana
Mutagenesis of in vitro propagated bananas is an efficient method to introduce novel alleles and broaden genetic diversity. Mutations can be induced by treatment of plant cells with chemical mutagens or ionizing radiation. The FAO/IAEA Plant Breeding and Genetics Laboratory established efficient methods for mutation induction of in vitro shoot tips in banana using physical and chemical mut…
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- 9783662649152
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- XVI, 187
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Präventionsarbeit der Polizei als pädagogische Herausforderung
Polizei in einer freiheitlichen Demokratie kann nur in Beziehung und im Dialog mit der Gesellschaft gedacht werden. Nur als Teil dieser Gemeinschaft kann die Staatsgewalt die gesellschaftliche Ordnung akzeptiert und glaubwürdig gewährleisten. Diese Verankerung im sozialen Leben wird nicht nur durch Kontrolle und Einhegung von Macht erreicht, sondern vielmehr durch Humanität und Dialog. …
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- 9783658367152
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- XV, 328
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A Primer on Memory Consistency and Cache Coherence, Second Edition
Many modern computer systems, including homogeneous and heterogeneous architectures, support shared memory in hardware. In a shared memory system, each of the processor cores may read and write to a single shared address space. For a shared memory machine, the memory consistency model defines the architecturally visible behavior of its memory system. Consistency definitions provide rules ab…
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- 9783031017643
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- XX, 276
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Health Crises and Media Discourses in Sub-Saharan Africa
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented economic challenges globally across various sectors, including the media. The economic effects of the pandemic, particularly, have hit the advertising sector, which is the lifeblood of media houses. Despite the raging economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on the media, few studies have yet been conducted in the East African region, pa…
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- 9783030951009
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- XVIII, 283
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Learning, Philosophy, and African Citizenship
We acknowledge with gratitude the funding received from the Academy of Finland DEVELOP-programme (2018–2022) for the research project Theory and practice of learning to be a citizen: Experiences from Tanzania and Uganda (decision numbers 316098 and 316100) and from the Eudaimonia Institute of the University of Oulu for the research project Citizenship in Change: Constructing a Novel Theo…
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- 9783030948825
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- XIII, 221
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Droplet Dynamics Under Extreme Ambient Conditions
Buku akses terbuka ini menyajikan hasil utama dari Collaborative Research Center SFB-TRR 75, yang mencakup periode dari tahun 2010 hingga 2022. Para ilmuwan dari berbagai disiplin ilmu, mulai dari termodinamika, mekanika fluida, dan teknik listrik hingga kimia, matematika, ilmu komputer, dan visualisasi, bekerja sama untuk mencapai tujuan utama SFB-TRR 75, yaitu memperoleh pemahaman fisik yang …
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- 1
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- 978-3-031-09008-0
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- 1 online resource ( VIII, 372 Pages)
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- Mekanika Fluida dan Aplikasinya
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- 532.6 SCH d
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