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Self-tracking
People keep track. In the eighteenth century, Benjamin Franklin kept charts of time spent and virtues lived up to. Today, people use technology to self-track: hours slept, steps taken, calories consumed, medications administered. Ninety million wearable sensors were shipped in 2014 to help us gather data about our lives. This book examines how people record, analyze, and reflect on this data, l…
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- 9780262334693
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- 1 online resource (xi, 233 pages) :illustrations.
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Alterung und Pflege als kommunale Aufgabe
Die Beiträge in diesem Open-Access-Sammelband beschreiben und analysieren aus multidisziplinärer Sicht die Herausforderungen und Bewältigungsstrategien von Alterung und Pflege in japanischen und deutschen Gemeinden. Thematisiert werden rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen, zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement, Pflegekräftemangel, Technologiekonzepte für die Pflege und schließlich auch der Einfluss …
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- 978-3-658-36844-9
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- 3 b/w illustrations, 37 illustrations in colour
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- XV, 364
First-in-Family Students, University Experience and Family Life
This open access book, now in its second edition, offers a comprehensive overview of the experiences of First in Family (FiF) or first-generation students in higher education. It draws upon narratives of students and their family members and spans the entire university student life cycle (pre-entry, commencement, progression and graduation) with a focus on specific cohorts including mature-aged…
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- 978-3-031-34450-3
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- XXIII, 294
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Toward a Biopsychosocial Welfare State?
This open access book analyses the idea that medicine and psychology have a substantial (and underestimated) impact on Western welfare states. Based on mixed-methods analyses conducted in Germany, it analyses this influence on debates and policies related to unemployment, poverty, and childhood. The book demonstrates how the turn to neoliberalism and social investment thinking has created this …
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- 978-3-031-32792-6
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- XIX, 222
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Politische und ökonomische Rahmenbedingungen des Sozial- und Gesundheitswese…
Das Buch bietet eine kompakte Einführung in die zentralen politischen und ökonomischen Begriffe, Konzepte und Diskurse des schweizerischen Sozial- und Gesundheitswesens. Es spannt den Bogen von den demokratischen Grundsätzen und Eigenheiten des politischen Systems, über die Sozialhilfe, Sozialversicherungen sowie ökonomischen Strukturmerkmale des Gesundheits- und Sozialwesens, bis hin zu F…
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- 978-3-658-35769-6
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- XI, 159
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Vulnerable Households in the Energy Transition
This open access book explores the energy transition / energy poverty nexus in the European Union, including the implications of the transition and related policies for the household sector. Written by experts on energy economics, energy studies and related fields, it examines the impacts and costs of the energy transition (including those caused by carbon pricing) for the economy and for famil…
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- 978-3-031-35683-4
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Ships and Science; The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revoluti…
"Dalam Ships and Science, Ferreiro berpendapat bahwa kelahiran arsitektur angkatan laut merupakan bagian integral dari revolusi ilmiah. Dengan menggunakan karya Bouguer [Trait{acute}e du navire - Risalah kapal] sebagai landasan, Ferreiro menelusuri perkembangan yang menarik dan sering kali tak terduga dari disiplin ilmu baru ini dan menjelaskan penerapan praktisnya pada desain kapal pada abad k…
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- 9780262272582
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 441 pages)
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- Naval architecture
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- 623.8 FER s
State-space models with regime switching; Classical and Gibbs-Sampling Approa…
"Baik model ruang-keadaan maupun model peralihan Markov telah menjadi jalur yang sangat produktif untuk penelitian empiris dalam ekonomi makro dan keuangan. Buku ini menyajikan kemajuan terkini dalam metode ekonometrik yang memungkinkan estimasi model yang memiliki kedua fitur tersebut. Satu pendekatan, dalam kerangka kerja klasik, memperkirakan fungsi kemungkinan; yang lain, dalam kerangka ker…
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- 9780262277112
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- 1 online resource (xii, 297 pages)
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- Markov Processes
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- 519.23 KIM s
Chaos and Organization in Health Care
Two leading physicians' prescription for solving our health care problems: organizing the fragmented system that delivers care.One of the most daunting challenges facing the new U.S. administration is health care reform. The size of the system, the number of stakeholders, and ever-rising costs make the problem seem almost intractable. But in Chaos and Organization in Health Care, two leading ph…
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- 9780262259033
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- 1 online resource (xv, 278 pages) :illustrations
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Situated Intervention: Sociological Experiments in Health Care
This work considers the question of how the direct involvement of social scientists in the practices they study can lead to the production of interesting sociological knowledge. It draws together two activities that are often seen as belonging to different realms: intervening in practices and furthering sociological understanding of them.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262329439
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- 1 online resource (xi, 232 pages).
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