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How Can we Use Simulation to Improve Competencies in Nursing?
This open access book offers an overview of theories related to simulation and describes different simulation areas within nursing. It illustrates how simulation may be used in different levels in professional education. The book deals with the role of the Simulation Facilitator, peer learning and the use of Virtual Reality in simulation. It provides new insights and paths to the development of…
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- 978-3-031-10399-5
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- XII, 129
Public Policy and Research in Africa
This open access book responds to the need for a specifically African focus on public policy. It outlines the fundamental principles of public policy research, and engages with major issues in the study of public policy from an African perspective, covering essential topics such as the location and centrality of social sciences in relation to public policy, leadership, methodology, institutions…
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- 978-3-030-99724-3
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- XIII, 278
Rethinking Infrastructure Design for Multi-Use Water Services
As we approach a historic tipping point in the global trend toward urbanisation – within two decades urban dwellers will increase from 49% to 60% of the planet’s population – this book identifies and addresses a critical problem: water. The editors show how cities can shift from being water consumers to resource managers, applying urban water management principles to ensure access to wate…
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- 978-3-319-06275-4
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Implementing Industry 4.0 in SMEs: Concepts, Examples and Applications
This open access book addresses the practical challenges that Industry 4.0 presents for SMEs. While large companies are already responding to the changes resulting from the fourth industrial revolution , small businesses are in danger of falling behind due to the lack of examples, best practices and established methods and tools. Following on from the publication of the previous book ‘Indus…
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- 978-3-030-70516-9
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The Evolution of China’s Anti-Poverty Strategies: Cases of 20 Chinese Chang…
This open access book presents the findings of the author’s 3 decades of studying China’s evolving anti-poverty strategies. It argues that much of the billions that nations spend yearly on economic aid is used inefficiently or to treat the symptoms but not the root causes of poverty. China, however, has evolved an effective sustainable alternative by providing the means for self-reliance to…
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- 978-981-19-7281-2
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- X, 127
Länderbericht zum Deutschen Freiwilligensurvey 2019
Dieses Open-Access-Buch bringt die Daten des Deutschen Freiwilligensurveys 2019 für einen Vergleich der Bundesländer Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Berlin, Brandenburg, Hamburg, Hessen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein und Thüringen zusammen. Der Freiwilligensurvey wurde 2019 zum fünften Mal im Au…
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- 978-3-658-38659-7
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- Bürgergesellschaft und Demokratie
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- XXXIX, 358
The Fundamental Elements of Strategy: Concepts, Theories and Cases
This open access book clarifies confusions of strategy that have existed for nearly 40 years through the core thoughts of three fundamental elements. Unlike the traditional definition of strategy as "a plan to achieve a long-term goal from overall considerations”in a linear view, this book defines strategy from non-linear viewpoint as it is in the real world. The art of a strategy lies not on…
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GeomInt–Mechanical Integrity of Host Rocks
This open access book summarizes the results of the collaborative project “GeomInt: Geomechanical integrity of host and barrier rocks - experiment, modeling and analysis of discontinuities” within the Program: Geo Research for Sustainability (GEO: N) of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The use of geosystems as a source of resources, a storage space, for installing unde…
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- 978-3-030-61909-1
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Effectuation entwickeln: Ein auf Reinforcement Learning aufbauender agentenba…
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird ein Rahmenwerk entwickelt, das simulationsbezogene Untersuchungen von Effetcuation ermöglicht und gleichzeitig die Grundlage für die Entwicklung von gründungsunterstützenden Entscheidungssystemen schafft. Es wird diskutiert, inwieweit effektuatives Lernen modelliert und algorithmisch interpretiert werden kann. Auf Basis der Vorstellung und kritischen Evaluier…
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- XXIX, 159
Corporate Liability for Transboundary Environmental Harm: An International an…
This open access book aims to elaborate on the legal prerequisites to establish the liability of corporations for transboundary environmental harm, not only by identifying existing liability rules, principles and standards but also by analysing their potential for further legal development. The authors consider international and transboundary liability law to currently be an underutilised tool …
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- XXVII, 640
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- XXVII, 640
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