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Contemporary Canadian Picture Books
This enriched reference guide offers a unique overview of more than 200 picture books published by Canadian publishing houses between 2017–2019. The authors cover key themes in contemporary Canadian titles that match broad curriculum trends in education. Response activities are included in the text, for example frameworks for critical literacy discussions, along with annotated bibliographies …
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- 978-90-04-46509-1
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- Critical New Literacies: The Praxis of English Language Teaching and Learning, Volume: 12
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Oslo Manual on Select Topics of the Law of Armed Conflict = Rules and Commentary
This new open access book provides a valuable restatement of the current law of armed conflict regarding hostilities in a diverse range of contexts: outer space, cyber operations, remote and autonomous weapons, undersea systems and devices, submarine cables, civilians participating in unmanned operations, military objectives by nature, civilian airliners, destruction of property, surrender, sea…
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- 9783030391690
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- X, 151 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Age-Inclusive ICT Innovation for Service Delivery in South Africa
This chapter positions itself between the demographic and epidemiological transitioning of the youngest world region in terms of population with its leapfrogging of ICT, specifically cell phone technology. Against the background of poverty and the continuing HIV and AIDS epidemic in (South) Africa, this contribution examines the deep penetration and agentic uptake of cell phones by older p…
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- 9783030946067
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- XXII, 257
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Multivariate Statistical Machine Learning Methods for Genomic Prediction
Thanks to advances in digital technologies like electronic devices and networks, it is possible to automatize and digitalize many jobs, processes, and services, which are generating huge quantities of data. These “big data” are transmitted, collected, aggregated, and analyzed to deliver deep insights into processes and human behavior. For this reason, data are called the new oil, since …
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- 9783030890100
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- XXIV, 691
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Limits to the European Union’s Normative Power in a Post-conflict Society :…
By shedding light on EULEX - the EU mission to Kosovo – this open access book investigates the EU’s peacebuilding activities in that country, in the light of the normative power theory in the post-conflict setting and peacebuilding theory. Ten years after the massive engagement of the EU in the country torn by war, the authors critically assess the effects of the EU projecting its normative…
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- 978-3-319-77824-2
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- XIV, 124
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- SpringerBriefs in Population Studies (BRIEFSPOPULAT)
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- 350 ZUP l
Do Exclusionary Rules Ensure a Fair Trial? : A Comparative Perspective on Ev…
This open access publication discusses exclusionary rules in different criminal justice systems. It is based on the findings of a research project in comparative law with a focus on the question of whether or not a fair trial can be secured through evidence exclusion. Part I explains the legal framework in which exclusionary rules function in six legal systems: Germany, Switzerland, People’s …
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- 978-3-030-12520-2
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- XV, 380
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- Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice (IUSGENT, volume 74)
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- 320 DOE
Fundamentals of Clinical Data Science
This open access book comprehensively covers the fundamentals of clinical data science, focusing on data collection, modelling and clinical applications. Topics covered in the first section on data collection include: data sources, data at scale (big data), data stewardship (FAIR data) and related privacy concerns. Aspects of predictive modelling using techniques such as classification, reg…
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- 9783319997131
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- VIII, 219 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Empire Under the Microscope
This open access book considers science and empire, and the stories we tell ourselves about them. Using British Nobel laureate Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and his colleagues as access points to a wider professional culture, Empire Under the Microscope explores the cultural history of parasitology and its relationships with the literary and historical imagination between 1885 and 1935. Emilie Taylor…
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- 978-3-030-84717-3
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- Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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- XIII, 294
Reading Breath in Literature
This open access book presents five different approaches to reading breath in literature, in response to texts from a range of historical, geographical and cultural environments. Breath, for all its ubiquity in literary texts, has received little attention as a transhistorical literary device. Drawing together scholars of Medieval Romance, Early Modern Drama, Fin de Siècle Aesthetics, American…
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- 978-3-319-99948-7
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- Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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- X, 134
United Nations Peace Operations in a Changing Global Order
This open access book explores how UN peace operations are adapting to four transformational trends in the changing global order: (1) the rebalancing of relations between states of the global North and the global South; (2) the rise of regional organisations as providers of peace; (3) the rise of violent extremism and fundamentalist non-state actors; and (4) increasing demands from non-state ac…
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- 9783319991061
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- XXV, 334hlm; ill., lamp.,
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