BOOKS with Alphabet G (Ga, Gb,Gc, Gd, Ge…... )

Overview: Draws on public health, sociology, law, development, politics and social policy to discuss HIV and gender as a social justice problem in South Africa.Conveys women’s narratives through direct quotes tThis book addresses the ongoing problem of HIV in black South African women as a health inequity. Importantly, it argues that this urgent problem of justice is changeable. Sprague uses the capabilities approach to bring a theory of health justice, together with multiple sources of evidence, to investigate the complex problem of HIV and accompanying poor health outcomes in black South Afr

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Overview: Presents the first book about Geminoid, which embodies a new concept of robots.Discusses transferring or reproducing the feeling of human presence by teleoperated humanoid robots.Evaluates robot appeaThis book describes the teleoperated android Geminoid, which has a very humanlike appearance, movements, and perceptions, requiring unique developmental techniques. The book facilitates understanding of the framework of android science and how to use it in real human societies. .Creating body parts of soft material by molding an existing person using a shape-memory form provides not only

Overview: This two volume set (CCIS 398 and 399) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Geo-Informatics in Resource Management and Sustainable Ecosystem, GRMSE 2013, held in Wuhan, China, in November 2013. The 136 papers presented, in addition to 4 keynote speeches and 5 invited sessions, were carefully reviewed and selected from 522 submissions. The papers are divided into 5 sessions: smart city in resource management and sustainable ecosystem, spatial data acquisition through RS and GIS in resource management and sustainable ecosystem, ecological and environm

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Overview: Summarizes women’s contributions to agriculture and food security and the obstacles to their broader participation.Draws on data at the micro, census and national levels.Challenges conventional story The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) produced a 2011 report on women in agriculture with a clear and urgent message: agriculture underperforms because half of all farmers—women—lack equal access to the resources and opportunities they need to be more productive. This book builds on the report’s conclusions by providing, for a non-specialist audience, a compen

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Overview: Im vorliegenden Werk werden die von dem Chronisten Konrad Justinger um 1420 in seiner Stadtchronik geäußerten euphorischen Angaben über den Aufstieg Berns zum größten mittelalterlichen Stadtstaat nördlich der Alpen nach dem Zusammenbruch der habsburgischen Landesherrschaft im schweizerischen Aargau 1415 kritisch hinterfragt. Im Zentrum der Untersuchung stehen die gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse der Berner Einwohnerschaft am Ende des Mittelalters. Diese werden anhand der sechs ausgewählten Indikatoren Demographie, Rechtsverhältnisse, Sozialtopografie, Vermögensstruktur und Ratsherrsch

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Overview: Fast-track conference proceedings.State-of-the-art research.Up-to-date resultsThe annual International Conference on Global Security, Safety and Sustainability (ICGS3) is an established platform in which security, safety and sustainability issues can be examined from several global perspectives through dialogue between acad- ics, students, government representatives, chief executives, security professionals, and research scientists from the United Kingdom and from around the globe. The three-day conference focused on the challenges of complexity, rapid pace of change and risk/opportu

Overview: Takes a multi-disciplinary approach, combining geotechnical engineering concepts with pipeline engineering practice.Includes case studies to illustrate the design and analysis procedure.Reports and anThis book presents state-of-the-art methodologies for the design and analysis of buried steel pipelines subjected to severe ground-induced action, including tectonic (quasi-static) effects, slope movements (landslides), liquefaction-induced actions or excavation-induced settlements. The text is an amended version of the final deliverables of the GIPIPE project, sponsored by the European

Overview: Since 1990, major banking and current crises have occurred inmany countries throughout the world - including Mexico andLatin America in 1994-95, East Asia in 1997-98, andRussia and Brazil in 1998 - with large costs both to theindividual countries experiencing the crises and to other nations. Asa result, considerable effort has been expended by economists andpolicymakers to identify the causes of these crises and to designprograms with the aim both of preventing similar crises from occurringin the future, and of minimizing the costs when these do occur. Thesestudies have cut across na

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