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The Illegal Business of Human Trafficking
This book offers a brand-new perspective on human trafficking as an illegal business. It also proposes a new form of networked action: combining the perspectives of academic researchers with those of highly skilled professionals involved in policymaking in this area, this book is a unique contribution and a first step toward a networking paradigm, promoting collaboration in preventing and comba…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-09441-0
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- XXII, 154, 1 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
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- The Illegal Business of Human Trafficking
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The Humanitarian Challenge
This book includes contributions from academics, practitioners and policy-makers connected with the Network on Humanitarian Action (NOHA), an international association of universities that is committed to interdisciplinary education and research on humanitarian action. Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of NOHA, this book highlights some of the most pressing issues and challenges facing hum…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-13470-3
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- XII, 286,2 illustrations in colour
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- The Humanitarian Challenge
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The Human Face of Ambient Intelligence: Cognitive, Emotional, Affective, Beha…
As a socially disruptive technology, Ambient Intelligence is ultimately directed towards humans and targeted at the mundane life made of an infinite richness of circumstances that cannot fully be considered and easily be anticipated. Most books, however, focus their analysis on, or deal largely with, the advancement of the technology and its potential only. This book offers a fresh, up–to–d…
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- 978-9462391291
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- 555 pages
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- The Human Face of Ambient Intelligence: Cognitive, Emotional, Affective, Behavioral and Conversational Aspects
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ICTs for Improving Patients Rehabilitation Research Techniques
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the second International Workshop on ICTs for Improving Patients Rehabilitation Research Techniques, REHAB 2014, held in Oldenburg, Germany, in May 2014. The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 69 submissions. The papers focus on virtual and enhanced environments, covering topics such as motor…
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- 978-3-662-48644-3
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- XI, 320
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- 004
The Genetics of Type 2 Diabetes and Related Traits
This book presents the state of the art of type 2 diabetes genetics, from the process of genetic discovery to its interpretation and clinical application, and illustrates a model for other complex human phenotypes. The first section explores genome-wide association studies, the extension of this method to less accessible phenotypes and the arrival of next-generation sequencing. A further secti…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-01574-3
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- XI, 576, 40 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
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- The Genetics of Type 2 Diabetes and Related Traits
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Creating a Diverse and Inclusive Organizational Culture
Students in this course will learn organizational best practices to implement diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in the workplace. Students will evaluate laws and policies that apply to diversity and inclusion. Students will also build cultural competencies to foster employee recruitment, motivation, satisfaction, and retention. Additionally, students will analyze the leadership skills…
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- 302 BEA c
Next Generation Intelligent Environments
This book covers key topics in the field of intelligent ambient adaptive systems. It focuses on the results worked out within the framework of the ATRACO (Adaptive and TRusted Ambient eCOlogies) project. The theoretical background, the developed prototypes, and the evaluated results form a fertile ground useful for the broad intelligent environments scientific community as well as for industria…
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- 2
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- 978-3-319-23451-9
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- XXI, 346
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- -
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Sports Management and Sports Humanities
This book focuses on (1) sports management, (2) sports economics and policy, and (3) sports humanities. The fact that sports humanities is a part of the sports management education program means that a person with extensive knowledge—not only business-related comprehension but also acquaintance with art-related fields, such as the humanities and law—will play a central role in sports manage…
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- 978-4-431-55324-3
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Sports Injuries and Prevention
This book presents the incidence of sports-related injuries, the types of injuries specific to particular sports, and the importance of factors such as age and gender. Possible injury mechanisms and risk factors are presented based on an analysis involving recent scientific findings. A variety of sports are included to allow the reader to better generalize the results as well as to apply approp…
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- 978-4-431-55318-2
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Integrating Immigrants in Europe Research-Policy Dialogues
This open access book explores how research and policymaking in the field of migrant integration have developed historically and how this interrelationship plays out in the strongly politicised climate of opinions on migration in Europe. It features interdisciplinary theoretical contributions as well as original empirical studies on research-policy dialogues at both the EU and country level. …
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- 978-3-319-16256-0
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