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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book describesand explains the world of particle accelerators and the physics they study. The presentation is non-technical (E=mc2is the only equation!) and the prose accessible. By following the co-evolution of particle accelerators and particle physics, readers will learn why the accelerators are built, how they work, and what 'results' they produce. The book highlights the great ideas (e.g. synchrotron) and technological advances (superconducting magnets) that boosted the potential of accelerators and led to new discoveries, eventually resulting in the standard model of particle physics. Many concepts are illustrated with figures derived from three-dimensional models; these include theaccelerators, detectors, and particles.Background information about the main protagonists,along with pointers to further reading, e.g. from 'Scientific American,' are provided in endnotes.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Die Kryptographie, wie sie in diesem Jahrhundert betrieben wird, ist stark mathematisch geprägt. Aber sie hat auch ihre Wurzeln in dem, was rechnerisch machbar ist.In diesem einzigartigen Lehrbuch werden die Theoreme der Mathematik gegen die Machbarkeit von Berechnungen abgewogen. Kryptografie ist etwas, das man tatsächlich 'macht', kein mathematisches Spiel, über das man Theoreme beweist. Es gibt tiefgründige Mathematik; es gibt einige Theoreme, die bewiesen werden müssen; und es besteht die Notwendigkeit, die brillante Arbeit derjenigen anzuerkennen, die sich auf die Theorie konzentrieren. Auf der Ebene eines Grundstudiums sollte der Schwerpunkt jedoch zunächst darauf liegen, die Algorithmen zu kennen und zu verstehen und zu wissen, wie sie zu implementieren sind, und sich auch bewusst zu machen, dass die Algorithmen sorgfältig implementiert werden müssen, um die 'einfachen' Wege zum Brechen der Kryptografie zu vermeiden. Dieser Text deckt die algorithmischen Grundlagen ab und wird durch Kernmathematik und Arithmetik ergänzt.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book goes beyond the current hype of expectations generated by the news on artificial intelligence and machine learning by analyzing realistic expectations for society, its limitations, and possible future scenarios for the use of this technology in our current society. Artificial Intelligence is one of the top topics today and is inflating expectations beyond what the technology can do in the foreseeable future. The future cannot be predicted, but the future of some elements of our society, such as technology, can be estimated. This book merges the modeling of human reasoning with the power of AI technology allowing readers to make more informed decisions about their personal or financial decisions or just being more educated on current technologies. This book presents a model that sketches potential future scenarios based on a discussion ofthe expectations today, the analysis of the current gap in the literature, and a view of possible futures in terms of technology and use cases. Specifically, this book merges literature on the technology aspects, the sociological impacts, and philosophical aspects.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book enables readers to understand, model, and predict complex dynamical systems using new methods with stochastic tools. The author presents a unique combination of qualitative and quantitative modeling skills, novel efficient computational methods, rigorous mathematical theory, as well as physical intuitions and thinking. An emphasis is placed on the balance between computational efficiency and modeling accuracy, providing readers with ideas to build useful models in practice. Successful modeling of complex systems requires a comprehensive use of qualitative and quantitative modeling approaches, novel efficient computational methods, physical intuitions and thinking, as well as rigorous mathematical theories. As such, mathematical tools for understanding, modeling, and predicting complex dynamical systems using various suitable stochastic tools are presented. Both theoretical and numerical approaches are included, allowing readers to choose suitable methods in different practical situations. The author provides practical examples and motivations when introducing various mathematical and stochastic tools and merges mathematics, statistics, information theory, computational science, and data science. In addition, the author discusses how to choose and apply suitable mathematical tools to several disciplines including pure and applied mathematics, physics, engineering, neural science, material science, climate and atmosphere, ocean science, and many others. Readers will not only learn detailed techniques for stochastic modeling and prediction, but will develop their intuition as well. Important topics in modeling and prediction including extreme events, high-dimensional systems, and multiscale features are discussed.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Das Buch bietet Perspektiven von Entscheidungsträgern. Es soll die Leserinnen und Leser dazu inspirieren, sich für den sozialen Wandel zu engagieren. Ziel ist es, die Ursachen und Folgen sowie den Mehrwert eines integrativen sozialen Wandels greifbar zu machen. Anhand von Geschichten aus dem wirklichen Leben, die sich auf die Kraft des Menschen stützen, um durch Beispiele zu inspirieren, zeigt BeingChange, dass 'Zweck für Macht' keine Plattitüde ist, sondern ein Prinzip, das sowohl das subjektive Wohlbefinden als auch den sozialen Fortschritt begünstigt. Die ausgewählten formellen und informellen Akteure des Wandels verdeutlichen, warum Sinn der Unterton echter Befähigung und die wichtigste Zutat für nachhaltige Entwicklung ist. Das Ziel, das mit diesen Geschichten verfolgt wird, ist ein zweifaches: 1) zu zeigen, dass es unabhängig davon, WER und WO man ist und was man hat, möglich ist, seine lebenslangen Bestrebungen und sein tägliches Handeln in Einklang zu bringen, und 2) die Leserzu inspirieren, ihre Suche nach Sinn zu beginnen (oder zu beschleunigen), indem sie herausfinden und verfolgen, was ihnen am wichtigsten ist. Auf der ganzen Welt wächst ein Netzwerk von gleichgesinnten Denkern und Machern, die durch die gemeinsame Überzeugung verbunden sind, dass die Welt nicht als gegeben hingenommen werden darf. Jeder ist willkommen, seine Perspektive von passiv zu aktiv zu ändern und sich anzuschließen.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book presents a novel design framework for the development of Digital Twin (DT) models for process- and motion-control applications. It is based on system-data acquisition using cutting-edge computing technologies, modelling of physical-system behavior through detailed simultaneous simulation of different aspects of the system, and optimal dynamic behavior-matching of the process. The design framework is enhanced with real-time data analytics to improve the performance of the DT's behavior-matching with the real system or physical twin.The methods of creating a DT detailed inDigital-Twin-Enabled Smart Control Engineeringmake possible the study of a system for real-time controller tuning and fault detection. They also facilitate life-cycle analysis for multiple critical and dangerous conditions that cannot be explored in the corresponding real system or physical twin. The authors show how a DT can be exploited to enable self-optimizing capabilitiesin feedback control systems.The DT framework and the control-performance assessment, fault diagnosis and prognosis, remaining-useful-life analysis, and self-optimizing control abilities it allows are validated with both process- and motion-control systems and their DTs. Supporting MATLAB-based material for a case study and an expanded introduction to the basic elements of DTs can be accessed on an associated website. This book helps university researchers from many areas of engineering to develop new tools for control design and reliability and life-cycle assessment and helps practicing engineers working with robotic, manufacturing and processing, and mechatronic systems to maintain and develop the mechanical tools they use.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book provides an accessible resource for conducting culturally safe and trauma-informed practice with First Nations' peoples in Australia. Designed by and for Australian Indigenous peoples, it explores psychological trauma and healing, and the clinical and cultural implications of the impacts of colonization, through an Indigenous lens. It is a companion for anyone who works or will work with our families and communities. The authors recognise trauma at the heart of all Indigenous disadvantage, and explore types of trauma in the context of Indigenous, collective cultures. The chapters take an Indigenous 'Yarning' approach to sharing knowledge, and encourage readers to challenge their unconscious, long-held beliefs and worldviews. Nicole Tujague and Kelleigh Ryan identify the differences between mainstream systems and more holistic Indigenous understandings of social and emotional health and wellbeing and outline a meaningful practice framework for practitioners. They analyse types of complex trauma, including intergenerational, institutional, collective and historical trauma; and discuss the impacts of racism and the concept of 'cultural load'. They also address vicarious, or 'compassion' trauma experienced by front line workers and carers; and offer insights into their experience of working with collective healing programs.This book is essential reading for Indigenous practitioners and service providers to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It is also a valuable resource for students likely to work with First Nations' peoples within a broad range of health and social science disciplines.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book develops the basic concepts in understanding Analog Communications. Beginning with coverage of amplitude modulation, including the time and frequency domain representations of double sideband, single sideband, and vestigial sideband modulation, and introduces the student to the fundamental ideas of quadrature amplitude modulation, frequency division multiplexing, and digital communications using on-off keying.The author continues with additional discussion and coverage of the time and frequency domain representations of frequency and phase modulation, including bandwidth calculations, and the use of frequency shift keying, phase shift keying, and differential phase shift keying for the transmission of digital information.Contents include applications and further analyses of the effects of channel noise on amplitude, phase, and frequency modulation performance based on input versus output signal to noise ratios and some systemcomparisons are discussed.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Dieses Buch untersucht ein breites Spektrum von Faktoren, die Einfluss darauf haben können, wie die Polizei das Fremdverschulden in möglichen Mordfällen und bei anderen möglichen Verbrechen feststellt. Es wird eine neue Theorie der Unsicherheit auf der Mikro-, Meso- und Makroebene entwickelt, um zu erklären, wie Juristen zu dieser Entscheidung gelangen. Insbesondere wird untersucht, inwieweit die Unsicherheit in diesen Situationen durch die Medienberichterstattung, den Druck der Familie und der Gemeinschaft, sozioökonomische Faktoren, demografische Elemente der Opfer sowie das Wissen und die Ressourcen der Polizei beeinflusst werden kann. Dieses Buch beschreibt, wie forensische Fachleute die Strafverfolgungsbehörden in Fragen wie der Inszenierung von Tatorten zur Verschleierung des Vorsatzes, der Einleitung von Gemeinschaftsstrategien zur Suche nach vermissten Personen und der Zuverlässigkeit von Verhaltensprofilen beraten können. Die neuesten Forschungsergebnisse aus dem Foul Play Project und dem Missing Persons Project werden herangezogen, um die Empfehlungen in diesem Buch zu untermauern und den Weg für weitere Forschungen in diesem Bereich zu weisen.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This textbook aims to point out the most important principles of data analysis from the mathematical point of view. Specifically, it selected these questions for exploring: Which are the principles necessary to understand the implications of an application, and which are necessary to understand the conditions for the success of methods used Theory is presented only to the degree necessary to apply it properly, striving for the balance between excessive complexity and oversimplification. Its primary focus is on principles crucial for application success.Topics and features:Focuses on approaches supported by mathematical arguments, rather than sole computing experiencesInvestigates conditions under which numerical algorithms used in data science operate, and what performance can be expected from themConsiders key data science problems: problem formulation including optimality measure; learning and generalization in relationships to training set size and number of free parameters; and convergence of numerical algorithmsExamines original mathematical disciplines (statistics, numerical mathematics, system theory) as they are specifically relevant to a given problemAddresses the trade-off between model size and volume of data available for its identification and its consequences for model parametrizationInvestigates the mathematical principles involves with natural language processing and computer visionKeeps subject coverage intentionally compact, focusing on key issues of each topic to encourage full comprehension of the entire bookAlthough this core textbook aims directly at students of computer science and/or data science, it will be of real appeal, too, to researchers in the field who want to gain a proper understanding of the mathematical foundations 'beyond' the sole computing experience.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book provides a state-of-the-art guide to Machine Learning (ML)-based techniques that have been shown to be highly efficient for diagnosis of failures in electronic circuits and systems. The methods discussed can be used for volume diagnosis after manufacturing or for diagnosis of customer returns. Readers will be enabled to deal with huge amount of insightful test data that cannot be exploited otherwise in an efficient, timely manner. After some background on fault diagnosis and machine learning, the authors explain and apply optimized techniques from the ML domain to solve the fault diagnosis problem in the realm of electronic system design and manufacturing. These techniques can be used for failure isolation in logic or analog circuits, board-level fault diagnosis, or even wafer-level failure cluster identification. Evaluation metrics as well as industrial case studies are used to emphasize the usefulness and benefits of using ML-based diagnosis techniques.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book, part of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) textbook series, deals withdysregulated host response a relatively new term introduced by the Sepsis-3 definitions in 2016. In contrast to systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) that has been used for nearly 30 years, this is a fundamentally new concept, which requires some sort of a paradigm shift in the way of thinking of critical care physicians. This change obviously requires time and after 5 years, time is ripe to summarize the knowledge in the form of a comprehensive book.The book is split in 4 sections. In the first one, the host immune response is explained in 11 chapters, followed by the next part, summarizing the possible tools for assessment at the bedside. The third and the fourth parts focus on the effects of dysregulated immune response on vital organ function and on the possible ways of immunomodulation. Written by internationally acclaimed experts of the field, the bookis of value for all those intensivists and allied professionals working in ICUs.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book provides readers with the necessary capabilities to meet the challenge of building and testing resilient IT services. Upon introducing the fundamentals of cyber resilience with important international standards and best practices, and the risk management process, the book covers in detail the cyber resilience management process. Here, it gives insights into the principles and design criteria to build cyber resilience in organizations, and to integrate it into operations to contribute to incident preparedness. Further, it describes measures for incident handling, including detection, containment, and post-incident handling, and analyses the most critical aspects of cyber resilience testing, such as auditing, exercising, and testing. Written for advanced undergraduate students attending information security and business continuity management courses, this book also addresses researchers and professionals in the broad field of IT Security and cyber resilience.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dieses Buch bietet eine aktuelle Quelle zu einem der Hauptakteure bei Netzhauterkrankungen - dem Retinalen Pigmentepithel (RPE). Im gesamten Buch werden die physiologische und die pathologische Funktion des RPE gleichberechtigt behandelt, um dem Leser zu helfen, das RPE als Ganzes zu verstehen. Darüber hinaus werden die Entwicklung des RPE in Diagnostik und Therapie sowie einige praktische Erkenntnisse über experimentelle RPE-Modelle behandelt. Retinal Pigment Epithelium in Health and Disease hebt neue Erkenntnisse der RPE-Forschung hervor und enthält den aktuellen Wissensstand zu jedem vorgestellten RPE-Thema. Dieses wichtige Merkmal hebt dieses Buch von anderen Publikationen ab, da die Kapitel nach einem Schema aufgebaut sind, das vom Allgemeinen zum Speziellen führt, um eine präzise Sammlung der bekannten Fakten zu bieten. Die Kapitel sind von namhaften Experten verfasst, die derzeit als Berater, Grundlagenwissenschaftler und Gruppenleiter auf dem Gebiet tätig sind undso eine fachkundige Anleitung zu den aktuellen Aspekten und Zukunftsaussichten dieses Themas bieten.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book is for students enrolled in undergraduate mechanical engineering, or similar, programs. The material presented is based on nearly thirty years of class-tested lecture notes for courses on the applications of geometric tolerancing for designers. The book's emphasis is on fit requirements for machine components, as fit assurance makes up the majority of challenging applications in tolerancing. For design engineers, knowing how to apply geometric tolerances has been a challenge even for engineers who have practiced geometric tolerancing for a long time. The syntax and meaning of geometric tolerancing statements can be learned easily and quickly, but knowing how to use them correctly is much more difficult. In the Design-for-Fitapproach, the presentation starts with the geometric requirements for various kinds of fit and then presents the geometric tolerance statements necessary to achieve those fits.To access study problems and other supplementary files, please visit:https://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~far/Springer%20Book%20Student%20Files/Index.htm.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book helps clinicians and postgraduate students to better understand the evidence in orthodontics and to use an evidence-based approach in their clinical practice. The book is written in a question-and-answer style, and each question is answered according to the hierarchy of evidence. At the end of each answer, an interpretation of the included systematic reviews, randomized clinical trials, or other studies is summarized and critically reviewed to give a better understanding of the evidence.This book covers a wide range of clinical topics, such as the treatment of Class II and Class III malocclusion, molar distalization, impacted canines, maxillary expansion, and temporary anchorage devices. Valuable material is provided on root resorption, white spot lesions, and orthodontic retention. As the book is written in Q&A style, it would be helpful to find the most relevant question without going through the whole chapter. The book includes the most asked questions aboutclinical orthodontics in discussions and will be a great help for orthodontist to defend their seen and unseen cases in exam.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This professional book offers a unique, comprehensive and timely guide on 3D audio recording. Intended for sound engineers and professionals, and summarizing more than twenty-year research on this topic, it includes extensive information and details on various microphone techniques and loudspeaker layouts, such as Auro-3D®, Dolby® AtmosTM, DTS:X®, MMAD, SONY 360 Reality Audio and Ambisonics. It presents a rich set of results obtained from both objective measurements and subjective listening tests, and a number of case studies for 3D recording, ranging from solo-instrument techniques to full symphony orchestra, and microphone systems for virtual reality applications. Further, it includes a chapter on spatial hearing discussing issues of 3D audio sound reproduction. All in all, this book offers extensive, practical information for sound engineers and professionals.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book presents the theory of matrix algebra for statistical applications, explores various types of matrices encountered in statistics, and covers numerical linear algebra. Matrix algebra is one of the most important areas of mathematics in data science and in statistical theory, and previous editions had essential updates and comprehensive coverage on critical topics in mathematics.This 3rd edition offers a self-contained description of relevant aspects of matrix algebra for applications in statistics. It begins with fundamental concepts of vectors and vector spaces; covers basic algebraic properties of matrices and analytic properties of vectors and matrices in multivariate calculus; and concludes with a discussion on operations on matrices, in solutions of linear systems and in eigenanalysis. It also includes discussions of the R software package, with numerous examples and exercises.Matrix Algebra considers various types of matrices encountered in statistics, such as projection matrices and positive definite matrices, and describes special properties of those matrices; as well as describing various applications of matrix theory in statistics, including linear models, multivariate analysis, and stochastic processes. It begins with a discussion of the basics of numerical computations and goes on to describe accurate and efficient algorithms for factoring matrices, how to solve linear systems of equations, and the extraction of eigenvalues and eigenvectors. It covers numerical linear algebra-one of the most important subjects in the field of statistical computing. The content includes greater emphases on R, and extensive coverage of statistical linear models. Matrix Algebra is ideal for graduate and advanced undergraduate students, or as a supplementary text for courses in linear models or multivariate statistics. It's also ideal for use in a course in statistical computing, or as a supplementary text forvarious courses that emphasize computations.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book focuses on modes of cultural belonging in Québec. It looks at recent literary memoir, autobiographical fiction, and documentary testimony.Through four in-depth case studies of cultural creators, one Indigenous and three non-Indigenous, Dervila Cooke discusses multicultural and ethnically diverse society in Québec, examining current tensions, challenges, and opportunities. Works studied range from Abla Farhoud's first novel in 1998 to Anita Aloisio's 2022 documentary film Calliari, QC. Topics include the desire for freedom to self-ascribe and enact cultural identity, self-reinvention through fiction, expressions of Indigeneity in Naomi Fontaine, the term 'Québécois', especially after Bill 21, and the thorny question of integration of immigrants, discussed in relation to Akos Verboczy's Rhapsodie québécoise. As with the companion volume on France, societal factors are discussed, here relating to the cultural renaissance of Indigenous writing, Farhoud's Libano-Québécois context, and language laws in Québec, including the foundational Bill 101 and the more recent Bill 96.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book examines the memories of the Partition of India in 1947 with a focus on the generation of postmemory (those who came after it) and how partition experiences have been shared (or not) and understood. It explores the formal and narrative properties of different memory practices that have been built around the partition, and the methods of oral historians involved in collecting testimonies as part of the 1947 Berkeley partition archive.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This concise practical guide is designed to facilitate the clinical decision-making process in the management of atopic dermatitis by reviewing a number of cases and defining the various diagnostic and management decisions open to clinicians. It is well illustrated and diverse in scope, enabling the reader to obtain relevant information regarding both standard and unusual cases in a rapid, easy to digest format. Each case includes a narrative description and patient management tips along with a relevant board review question. This book covers exciting updates in the diagnosis and management of AD such atopic dermatitis spectrum disorder and the effects of internal vessel inflammation in AD patients. It also highlights the newest oral, biologic and topical therapies (along with pipeline therapies) in the treatment of atopic dermatitis.Clinical Cases in Atopic Dermatitis is a must-have resource for dermatologists, dermatology residents, fellows, medical students, nurse practitioners and physician assistants, as well as allergists and immunologists.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Drawing on empirical research with older South Asian migrant women, this book puts forth new understandings on how older, settled, migrant women construct and understand age through recollections of key life course events that are structured around gendered positions. Divesting from a Western-centric view and applying a decolonial and Black feminist lens to ageing, the author presents intersectionality and transnational positionality as useful tools to connect old age, migration and memory in critical studies on aging. Chapters flesh out life course memories at different key stages and examines how the intersections of multiple markers of identity (race, gender, language, immigration status, age, etc.) shape how older South Asian migrant women understand and experience their lives.This book will be of interest to scholars with a focus on Gender Studies, Migration Studies, Ageing Studies, and Mobility Studies.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - It is wrong when someone cannot exercise their rights in a court of law because they have no money to pay for a good lawyer, because they are too scared of the possible consequences, or because they simply don't know that the law protects them. But does that mean governments have an obligation to intervene And if so, how This book provides the first systematic philosophical theory of equal access to justice. It begins by identifying the content of claims to equal access to justice. Then, it reviews traditional political and legal arguments on the right of access to justice, which it argues are both illuminating and insufficient.The best comparative way to approach equal access to justice, the book argues, is to think through the requirements of a moral, pre-political, duty to - at times and provisionally - pause, cool down and listen: in other words, we ought to demand that governments step in and protect access rights, because we have a moral and pre-political interest in cultivating our ability to comply with this duty. It is the recognition of this duty which best explains both law's potential for promoting, as well as its potential for endangering, equal justice.In closing, the book tests this novel theory of equal access to justice against contemporary trends and reforms in procedural law.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book explores visions of home in cinema and the ways in which women inhabit the onscreen realm. Looking closely at a range of films made between 1936 and 2013, it examines how filmmakers reconfigure studio sets and real locations through the filmmaking process into mutable onscreen domains imbued with depth, metaphor, and expressivity.The book studies the films through the lens of four filmmaking processes in particular: découpage, mise-en-scène, sound and editing. Close analysis reveals how filmmakers use these cinematic 'building blocks' to shape onscreen worlds charged with emotion and animated by the warp and weft of psychic life.Images of home abound in the cinema, and women frequently find themselves at the core of both structures. Drawing on recent spatial and feminist enquiry, the book reviews the idea of home as a fixed and stable location and illustrates how the art of cinema is well equipped to explore home as an imaginary as well as a material realm.With its emphasis on film practice as a route into critical reflection, this book will be of interest to filmmakers, film theorists and those who simply want to understand more about how films work.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book examines several epistemological regimes in studies of numerical data over the last four centuries. It distinguishes these regimes and mobilises questions present in the philosophy of science, sociology and historical works throughout the 20th century. Attention is given to the skills of scholars and their methods, their assumptions, and the socio-historical conditions that made calculations and their interpretations possible. In doing so, questions posed as early as Émile Durkheim's and Ernst Cassirer's ones are revisited and the concept of symbolic form is put to the test in this particular survey, conducted over long period of time. Although distinct from a methodological and epistemological point of view, today these regimes may be found together in the toolbox of statisticians and those who comment on their conclusions. As such, the book is addressed to social scientists and historians and all those who are interested in numerical productions.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book contains highly effective ways to teach coding and computational thinking skills throughout primary and secondary schooling. It outlines a research informed path for students from birth to 18 years, identifying key skills and learning activities. Based on global perspectives and research at each stage, it outlines how these findings can be applied in the classroom.Teaching coding to students in K-12 has been a skillset that has been debated across educational jurisdictions globally for some time. The book provides examples of schools that are teaching coding to students in engaging and relevant ways, delivering well thought out compulsory curriculums. Additionally, it provides examples of schools where coding is not mandated in the curriculum and is taught in an ad-hoc manner. Through the full discussion of all of these varied examples, the book presents both sides of the serious and ongoing debate in the field as to whether coding should be taught in an explicitway at all. The increasing school of thought that teaching coding is a skill that is already obsolete, and the focus should be on computational thinking is completely examined and presented. In this book, both sides of the argument, as well as the specific, meticulous research underlying each side, are given equal weight. The debate is a serious one and requires a clearly defined thematic response with evidence on all sides of the argument presented rationally. This book does just that. Created by carefully selected authors from around the world, it will be a highly studied research reference.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book represents the most comprehensive overview of issues affecting our planet and the forefront solutions, including climate change, air, water, soil pollution, demography, and access to food and water. This edited book, led by Prof. Núñez-Delgado, counts with the participation of leading researchers across a wide range of disciplines to be an inspiring and motivating document to promote sustainability and biodiversity. Those of you asking for trustworthy analyses about sustainability and climate change and the vanguard solutions will find this book fascinating.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Despite the strong economic growth of the last decades, our modern global society is facing the existential threat of climate change. It is now realized that the linear economic model is not sustainable in the long run and cannot sustain the life standards. The new circular economy approach that is already under discussion suggests the adjustment of our priorities and the re-orientation of the future infrastructure investments. In this context, we are looking for new, innovative and sustainable solutions to increase the resiliency of our societies, to protect and restore the ecosystems, and to maintain the necessary economic growth without further undermining the planet's boundaries. The well-being of coming generations will depend on our ability to adapt our economies to this challenge. In particular, transforming today's cities into sustainable cities is one of the main adaptations that will be necessary. A holistic approach looking at cities from a system's perspective is neededto achieve this goal.Nature-based solutions (NbS) serve exactly this ambitious and multi-factorial purpose due to their inherent ability not only to tackle climate change but also to provide a series of ecosystem services and social benefits. In the urban context, NbS can deal with main challenges such as urban heat islands, flooding, treatment of wastewater and runoff and food provision. At the same time, NbS can provide a series of ecosystem services beneficial for the environment and the society including clean water production, nutrient recovery, heavy metals retention and a broad range of plant-based materials. In the new circular economy paradigm, NbS can contribute to strategies for climate change adaptation and create a holistic resource management system for the urban biosphere.Thus, this book aims at providing a single reference that discusses the role and effectiveness of NbS in the urban environment and how these systems can contribute to the circular management of water, nutrients and resources towards resilient, sustainable and healthy cities. The scope of the book extends to various fields and disciplines such as the built environment, urban water and wastewater, resource recovery, urban farming, smart sensing, research and development, technology and innovation, society and governance. Research studies, pilot projects, and case studies are part of the book.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book examinesthe timely issue of police stops as a public and political issue, focussing on theEuropean states. Contrary to much other work it focuses on wider Europe and the social and political context in which the police practice of stopping citizens emerges, develops and can be curtailed. More specifically, the volume analyses public controversies about police stops, i.e. events in which conflicts emerge about how the performance of police stops is explained and justified.This book stems from an EU COST Action research network on Police Stops whichengages academics and practitioners from 29 countries.It appeals to those inlaw, criminology and policing studies with some potential for wider interest in cultural studies/history and public policy/politics, as well as topractitioners in police scrutiny, oversight and other professional bodies and in training organisations.