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Lives in Peril
Profit or Safety in the Global Maritime Industry?
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Lives in Peril demonstrates how and why seafarers are a vulnerable group of workers. It argues they are made so by the organisation and structure of their employment; the prioritisation of profit over safety by the actors that engage and control their labour; the limits of enforcement of the regulatory...
Grammatical Relations
The Evidence Against Their Necessity and Universality
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
This book argues that the assumption that grammatical relations are both necessary and universal is an unwarranted generalization. The grammatical relations of subject and object are required in the case of the Indian language of Kannada. Furthermore, the notion of transitivity or transference which...
Global Sustainability
Bending the Curve
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Unprecedented levels of wealth, technology and institutional capacity can forge a just, peaceful and ecologically resilient future. However, the authors argue, social polarization, geo-political conflict and environmental degradation are threatening the long-term well-being of humanity and the planet....
Multiple Instance Learning
Foundations and Algorithms
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
This book provides a general overview of multiple instance learning (MIL), defining the framework and covering the central paradigms. The authors discuss the most important algorithms for MIL such as classification, regression and clustering. With a focus on classification, a taxonomy is set and the...
Strategies for Successful Classroom Management
Helping Students Succeed Without Losing Your Dignity or Sanity
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2007
Help difficult students change negative behaviors with these strategies for teaching conflict resolution and anger management, handling power struggles successfully, helping students prevent bullying, and more.
by Saïd Abbas, Mouffak Benchohra, Gaston M. N'Guérékata
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
Topics in Fractional Differential Equations is devoted to the existence and uniqueness of solutions for various classes of Darboux problems for hyperbolic differential equations or inclusions involving the Caputo fractional derivative. Fractional calculus generalizes the integrals...
Cosmic Electrodynamics
Electrodynamics and Magnetic Hydrodynamics of Cosmic Plasmas
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
This book presents the fundamental concepts of the theory, illustrated by numerous examples of astrophysical applications. Classical concepts are combined with new developments and the authors demarcate what is well established and what is still under debate. To book illustrates how apparently complicated...
Social Reading
Platforms, Applications, Clouds and Tags
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Contemporary developments in the book publishing industry are changing the system as we know it. Changes in established understandings of authorship and readership are leading to new business models in line with the postulates of Web 2.0. Socially networked authorship, book production and reading...
Relationship Power in Health Care
Science of Behavior Change, Decision Making, and Clinician Self-Care
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
The personal interface between clinician and patient is a misunderstood subject which can impact all areas of health care. Without adequate training in relationship science clinicians inadvertently contribute to empathic failure, poor medical decision process, difficulty changing health-related behavior,...
by Peter R. N. Childs, BSc.(Hons), D.Phil
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Mechanical Design Engineering Handbook is a straight-talking and forward-thinking reference covering the design, specification, selection, use and integration of machine elements fundamental to a wide range of engineering applications.
Develop or refresh your mechanical design skills in the...
by K G Karmakar, G D Banerjee, N P Mohapatra
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Towards Financial Inclusion in India is a treatise on ‘inclusion of the Last, the Lost and the Least’. It provides an in-depth analysis of the various pillars of financial inclusion such as micro-remittance, micro-savings, micro-credit and micro-insurance.
The book stresses on financial...
Biopolymer Electrolytes
Fundamentals and Applications in Energy Storage
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
Biopolymer Electrolytes: Fundamentals and Applications in Energy Storage provides the core fundamentals and applications for polyelectrolytes and their properties with a focus on biopolymer electrolytes. Increasing global energy and environmental challenges demand clean and sustainable energy sources...
Fuzzy Social Choice Models
Explaining the Government Formation Process
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
This book explores the extent to which fuzzy set logic can overcome some of the shortcomings of public choice theory, particularly its inability to provide adequate predictive power in empirical studies. Especially in the case of social preferences, public choice theory has failed to produce the set...
Trees for Saltland
A Guide to Selecting Native Species for Australia
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
This book aims to assist in the management of soil salinity by describing a range of species tolerant of saline soils. 60 species are listed with descriptions containing botanical features, growth characteristics, preferred soils, climates and more. The introductory sections of this book provide general...