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Overview: This book examines the contribution of mass media to modern democracies, in comparative perspective. Part I deals with the conceptualization and implementation of a systematic framework to assess democratic media performance, both in terms of media systems and content. Part II studies media effects on the quality of democracy.978-1-349-48293-1978-1-137-39138-4Series ISSN 2946-3416 Series E-ISSN 2946-3424

Overview: Goes beyond the working age population.Integrates multidisciplinary viewpoints for broader understanding.Maintains a public policy focus throughout.Includes new and existing research.Includes suppleme.There has been an increasing recognition that financial knowledge (i.e., literacy) is lacking across the population. Moreover, there is recognition that this lack of knowledge poses real problems as credit, mortgages, health insurance, retirement benefits, and savings and investment decisions become increasingly complex. .Financial Decisions Across the Lifespan. brings together the work

Overview: Provides a theoretically-informed, practice-oriented approach to improving child sexual abuse responses internationally.Centres Black and minority ethnic women whose experiences of victimisation are l.Child sexual abuse (CSA) is believed to affect one in eight children worldwide (UNICEF, 2020). This authoritative book challenges widely-held problematic beliefs about CSA and discusses societal responses and attitudes to survivors. It brings together multidisciplinary expertise from key researchers and practitioners around the world to better understand CSA in Black and racially minori

Overview: Fast-track conference proceedingsThe 2010 edition of the European Conference on Computer Vision was held in Heraklion, Crete. The call for papers attracted an absolute record of 1,174 submissions. We describe here the selection of the accepted papers: ? Thirty-eight area chairs were selected coming from Europe (18), USA and Canada (16), and Asia (4). Their selection was based on the following criteria: (1) Researchers who had served at least two times as Area Chairs within the past two years at major vision conferences were excluded; (2) Researchers who served as Area Chairs at the 2

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Overview: An in-depth and comprehensive account of the use of CT in patients with acute abdomen Particular focus on recent significant developments in CT relevant to imaging of the acute abdomen, such as multis.CT of the Acute Abdomen. provides a comprehensive account of the use of CT in patients with acute abdomen. Recent important developments in CT, including multislice CT and multiplanar reconstructions, receive particular attention. CT features are clearly illustrated, and pitfalls and differential diagnoses are discussed. The first section of the book presents epidemiological and clinica

Overview: Compact handbook for the cardiac management of patients on the PICU.Thorough practical coverage of the key points of interest to the pediatric intensivist.Includes supplementary material: .Critical Care of Children with Heart Disease will summarize the comprehensive medical and surgical management of the acutely-ill patient with congenital and acquired cardiac disease. The aim of the book is to teach bedside physicians, nurses and other caregivers, basic and practical concepts of anatomy, pathophysiology, surgical techniques and peri-operative management of critically ill children an

Overview: This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Conference on Context-Aware Systems and Applications, held in October 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.. The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 52 submissions. The papers cover a wide spectrum of modern approaches and techniques for smart computing systems and their applications..978-3-030-93178-0978-3-030-93179-7Series ISSN 1867-8211 Series E-ISSN 1867-822X

Overview: Covers the full spectrum of clinical applications of SPECT/CT in the diagnosis of benign and malignant diseases.Completely revised and updated second edition.Includes a wealth of helpful illustrations.This book, now in a revised and updated second edition, covers the full spectrum of clinical applications of SPECT/CT in the diagnosis and therapy planning of benign and malignant diseases. All chapters have been thoroughly updated and some chapters have been completely rewritten by a new group of experts...The opening chapters discuss the technology and physics of SPECT/CT and its use

Overview: Advance-level introduction to the "hot" field of nanotube research.Recent theoretical, experimental, and technological developments.Highlighted future trends for nanotube research and technological apIt is about 15 years that the carbon nanotubes have been discovered by Sumio Iijima in a transmission electron microscope. Since that time, these long hollow cylindrical carbon molecules have revealed being remarkable nanostructures for several aspects. They are composed of just one element, Carbon, and are easily produced by several techniques. A nanotube can bend easily but still is ve

Overview: Up-to-date results.Includes supplementary material: .This two-volume  set (LNAI 9329 and LNAI 9330) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Collective Intelligence, ICCCI 2014, held in Madrid, Spain, in September 2015..The 110 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 186 submissions. They are organized in topical sections such as multi-agent systems; social networks and NLP; sentiment analysis; computational intelligence and games; ontologies and information extraction; formal methods and simulation; neural networks, SMT and

Overview: Die Veränderung des Weltklimas infolge des anthropogen verstärkten Treibhauseffekts und die prognostizierten Finanzierungsnöte der Pensionsversicherungen geben Anlaß zu großer Sorge. Anhand eines angewandten Gleichgewichtsmodells werden Strategien zur Reduktion von CO2-Emissionen simuliert und ihre Effekte auf makroökonomische und strukturelle Entwicklungen detailliert analysiert. Die dynamische Spezifizierung des Modells ermöglicht zudem die Untersuchung von Ankündigungseffekten sowie der Wirkungen auf Kapitalakkumulation und Wirtschaftswachstum. Von besonderem Interesse erweisen si

Overview: Comprehensive text for the mathematical modeling of complex fluids.Practical numerical algorithms and software solutions for computing the solutions.Many computational examples of practical interest.I.This book presents a comprehensive overview of the modeling of complex fluids, including many common substances, such as toothpaste, hair gel, mayonnaise, liquid foam, cement and blood, which cannot be described by Navier-Stokes equations. It also offers an up-to-date mathematical and numerical analysis of the corresponding equations, as well as several practical numerical algorithms an

Overview: Recounts the history and activities of a multi-institutional 15-year faculty development group that has both learned and led.chapters demonstrate learning through interaction, collaboration, leading a.This book focuses on the impact of sustained and evolving collaborations, showcasing research and scholarship in a faculty group—consisting of 28 professors from five regional universities—meeting and supporting each other since 2002. Originally an innovation introduced by Cheryl J. Craig and funded by a reform movement, the Faculty Academy continues to flourish in the fourth largest ci

Overview: 978-3-540-35153-5978-3-540-35154-2Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: Gives a modern description of continuous-time deterministic signals.Signal formation techniques.Time vs. frequency and frequency vs. time analysis.Correlation and energy analysis.Narrowband signals an.Continuous-Time Signals. is an extended description of continuous-time signals related to the course of Signals and Systems. As a time-varying process of any physical state of any object, which serves for representation, detection, and transmission of messages, a modern electrical signal possesses, in applications, many specific properties. To make possible for readers to deal with sign

Overview: As I read this unique volume on diabetes and pregnancy edited by Lois Jovanovic, I was struck by two themes that run throughout these collected chapters. First, this volume provides an excellent assessment of past problems, present management, and future challenges presented by dia­ betes in pregnancy. Orury‘s unique, longitudinal experience with diabetes iIi pregnancy provides the reader with an important overview, as does Coetzee‘s discussion of gestational diabetes. Current problems-deter­ mining the etiology and prevention of congenital malformations in infants of diabetic mother

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Overview: Examines the relationship between politics, economics and the mafia.Develops the original idea that the Cosa Nostra follows the patterns of capitalist transformation.Presents an interdisciplinary persThis book develops the idea that the Cosa Nostra Sicilian mafia likes and, more than any other criminal organization, follows the patterns of capitalist transformation. The author presents analysis of the mafia under post-fordism capitalism, showing how they rely on increasingly more flexible networks for reasons of both cost and dodging police control, as well as changing their core bus