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Academic Work and Careers in Europe: Trends, Challenges, Perspectives
This book explores the perceptions of academic staff and representatives of institutional leadership about the changes in academic careers and academic work experienced in recent years. It emphasizes standardisation and differentiation of academic career paths, impacts of new forms of quality management on academic work, changes in recruitment, employment and working conditions, and academicsâ€â€¦
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-10720-2
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- VI, 214
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- The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective
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- 378 ACA a
Abdominal Solid Organ Transplantation: Immunology, Indications, Techniques, a…
This book is a comprehensive and innovative guide to abdominal solid organ transplantation (SOT). It explains the main immunological problems involved in abdominal SOT, reviews indications for liver, kidney, and small bowel transplantation, and provides detailed descriptions of techniques for procurement and transplantation. In addition, technical, infectious, and immunological complications an…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-16997-2
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- IX, 453
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- -
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- 617 ABD a
Environmental Policy and Renewable Energy Equipment Exports An Empirical Ana…
This thesis investigates the connection between environmental regulation, technological innovation, and export competitiveness in renewable energy equipment based on a large sample of 225 developed and developing countries from 1990 to 2012. The empirical analysis yields strong supporting evidence for the narrowly strong Porter Hypothesis as well as for the lead market theory. The results sugge…
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- 978-3-658-13558-4
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- 17 b/w illustrations
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A New Growth Model for the Greek Economy: Requirements for Long-Term Sustaina…
On June 3, 2015, the Greek Parliamentary Budget Office, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Democritus University of Thrace, and the University of Peloponnese sponsored an international conference to address medium- and long-term growth in Greece. This collection presents the strongest papers on the conditions required to revive and maintain economic growth. Leading experts …
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- 978-1-137-58944-6
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- 338.9 NEW n
General Principles of Law - The Role of the Judiciary
This book examines the role played by domestic and international judges in the “flexibilization” of legal systems through general principles. It features revised papers that were presented at the Annual Conference of the European-American Consortium for Legal Education, held at the University of Parma, Italy, May 2014. This volume is organized in four sections, where the topic is mainly ex…
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- 978-3-319-19179-9
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- 323.42
A Compendium of Italian Economists at Oxbridge: Contributions to the Evolutio…
This study examines five decades of Italian economists who studied or researched at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge between the years 1950 and 2000. Providing a detailed list of Italian economists associated with Hicks, Harrod, Bacharach, Flemming, Mirrlees, Sen and other distinguished dons, the authors examine eleven research lines, including the Sraffa and the neo-Ricardian school, t…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-32219-3
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- 337.1 BAR c
Thrombolytic Therapy for Acute Stroke
Thrombolytic therapy is finally starting to reach patients in a variety of settings all over the world. Formerly in the domain of sub-specialists, thrombolytic therapy now rests in the realm of Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care, Vascular, and Neuro hospital Medicine physicians. Increasingly, non-neurologists use thrombolytic therapy. This is a significant advancement since the 2nd edition to T…
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- 978-3-319-07575-4
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- 60 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
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Three-dimensional Echocardiography
Three-dimensional echocardiography is the most recent fundamental advancement in echocardiography with a strong impact on almost all clinical and research applications of echocardiography. After a very successful 1st edition, this book presents the fully revised 2nd edition. Accounting for the marked progress of real-time 3D echocardiography since the 1st edition it covers all clinically imp…
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- 978-3-642-36799-1
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- XI, 307
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National Innovation Efficiency During the Global Crisis
What effect did the Great Recession have on innovation efficiency and the effectiveness of scarce resource management? Did countries with high GDPs and GDPs per capita sustain efficient innovation? How did the recession affect the time lag between innovation development and implementation? This book presents the most comprehensive data set in current economic literature to measure and compare t…
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- 1
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- 978-1-137-58254-6
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- XVII, 184
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National College Entrance Exam in China
This book focuses on the National College Entrance Exam (NCEE), an important measurement of education quality in China, from both education economics and education policy perspectives. It provides a better understanding and stimulates more sophisticated evaluations of NCEE-related policies in China from the perspectives of education equity, the effectiveness of education input, and education qu…
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- 1
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- 978-981-10-0508-4
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- XXI, 90
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Education
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