BOOKS with Alphabet P (Pa, Pb,Pc, Pd, Pe…... )

Overview: Compares how each of the major regions of the world is likely to be affected by changes in the environment and migration.Provides regional policy perspectives.Each chapter is written by leading expert.Policymakers around the world are increasingly concerned about the likely impact of climate change and environmental degradation on the movement of people. This book takes a hard look at the existing evidence available to policymakers in different regions of the world. How much do we really know about the impact of environmental change on migration? How will different regions of the wor

Overview: Appeals to academics in the fields of Development Studies, Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology, Geography, Economics, and South Asia Studies.Fills a gap in literature on the dynamics of governaThis book explores the practices of governance in Bhutan and how they shape the implementation of the country’s Gross National Happiness (GNH) development strategy. The author examines whether Bhutan’s innovative GNH governance framework successfully navigates competing power dynamics and generates the intended human development outcomes of Gross National Happiness. The analysis is struc

Overview: Person re-identification is the problem of associating observations of targets in different non-overlapping cameras. Most of the existing learning-based methods have resulted in improved performance on standard re-identification benchmarks, but at the cost of time-consuming and tediously labeled data. Motivated by this, learning person re-identification models with limited to no supervision has drawn a great deal of attention in recent years..In this book, we provide an overview of some of the literature in person re-identification, and then move on to focus on some specific problems

Overview: Angesichts der Häufigkeit und Tragweite der Schuldfähigkeitsbegutachtung bei sogenannter schwerer anderer seelischer Abartigkeit (SASA) ist eine wissenschaftlich fundierte Methodenentwicklung Grundvoraussetzung psychowissenschaftlicher Sachverständigentätigkeit. Das Fehlen empirisch fundierter Schuldfähigkeitsmerkmale für das vierte Eingangsmerkmal führt in der Praxis häufig dazu, dass auf in beliebiger Form kombinierte, idiosynkratisch geprägte Lehrmeinungen und Erfahrungswerte zurückgegriffen wird. Dies beeinträchtigt die Rechtssicherheit in einem Feld, in dem Menschen weitreichend

Overview: Offers simulations and results discussions on varied topics of computing and communications.Provides input on future research directions for computing and communication technologies.Contains real time.This two-volume book contains research work presented at the First International Conference on Data Engineering and Communication Technology (ICDECT) held during March 10–11, 2016 at Lavasa, Pune, Maharashtra, India. The book discusses recent research technologies and applications in the field of Computer Science, Electrical and Electronics Engineering. The aim of the Proceedings is to

Overview: Presents the cosmological voyage of discovery within universal human themes.Written in a concise, light and friendly style that will be appreciated by all.Kenneth R. Lang is known for his widely used .Parting the Cosmic Veil describes our gradual awareness of a vast, previously concealed Universe. It is a story of expanding horizons and the discovery of invisible worlds, made possible with new technology and novel telescopes that have broadened our range of perception and sharpened our vision...Spacecraft have carried men to the Moon, and traveled throughout the Solar System, obtaini

Overview: Physical principles of X-ray production, signal detection, system parameter setting, image optimization and radiation protection techniques are discussed.Contains explanatory diagrams and relevant per.Nuclear Medicine is a diagnostic modality which aims to image and in some cases quantify physiological processes in the body to highlight disease or injury. Within nuclear medicine, over the past few decades, major technological changes have occurred and concomitantly changes in the knowledge and skills required have had to evolve. One of the most significant technological changes has b

Overview: Wichtige Hinweise zur Themenfindung für die gelungene Abschlussarbeit.Verständliche Methoden zur sinnvollen Strukturierung einer wissenschaftlichen Arbeit.Mit Fallbeispielen speziell aus den Pflege-un.Mit Erfolg zum Abschluss! .Dieses Buch bietet Studierenden von pflege-, therapie- und gesundheitsbezogenen Studiengängen konstruktive Anregungen zu möglichen Themen und konkrete Anleitung bei der Erstellung von Projekt-, Bachelor- oder Masterarbeiten. Viele erprobte praktische Beispiele veranschaulichen, welche Ansätze und Aufgabenstellungen denkbar sind – auch in berufsbegleitenden Stu

Overview: Erklärt die Fachausdrücke der Paläontologie verständlich.Zahlreiche Verweise auf Zusammenhänge oder verwandte Begriffe erleichtern die Übersicht.Einziges Wörterbuch der Paläontologie auf Deutsch.Inclu.Dieser unveränderte Nachdruck der 4. Auflage von 1996 macht das nachgefragte Wörterbuch wieder verfügbar..Fachausdrücke sind notwendig, oft unentbehrlich zur Verständigung. Aber sie dürfen den Zugang zum Eigentlichen einer Wissenschaft nicht blockieren. Solches zu verhindern, ist von der 1. Auflage an der Zweck dieses Buches. Es ist für alle an Paläontologie im weitesten Sinne Interessi

Overview: Offers up-to-date perspectives on central issues in the emerging dialogue between philosophers and engineers.Contributes to the formation of the new field of philosophy of engineering.Provides an inte.Building on the breakthrough text .Philosophy and Engineering: An Emerging Agenda,. this book offers 30 chapters covering conceptual and substantive developments in the philosophy of engineering, along with a series of critical reflections by engineering practitioners. The volume demonstrates how reflective engineering can contribute to a better understanding of engineering identity and

Overview: Acts as a compelling and thought-provoking challenge to the conventional wisdom of the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations.Covers the transition from what is usually thought of as the “post-Cold In foreign policy, the Trump administration has appeared to depart from long-standing norms of international behavior that have underwritten American primacy for decades in a more interdependent and prosperous world. In this book, a diplomat and a historian revisit that perception by examining and reproducing several of their own essays during the past twenty years. The essays reveal tha

Overview: Bridges translation and philosophy.Addresses a new interpretation of the affinity between poetry and painting through a cognitive-stylistic approach.Includes first-hand investigations on a basis of thThis book interprets the close intimacy between poetry and painting from the perspective of intersemiotic translation, by providing a systematic examination of the bilingual and visual representation of landscape in the poetry of Wang Wei, a high Tang poet who won worldwide reputation. The author’s subtle analysis ranges from epistemological issues of language philosophy and poetry trans

Overview: Focuses on the evolution of public policy-making.Offers case studies on countries of the Global South.Illustrates the development of public policy researchThis volume focuses on the evolution of public policy and the role of agenda setting with regard to policymaking in countries of the Global South. The authors illustrate the emergence of public policy research as an academic discipline, and highlight various aspects of history, governance, politics, and economics as components of public policy theory development. By offering a cross-national perspective, the papers contribute to a 

Overview: Provides a single, comprehensive book describing personalized, evolutionary, and ecological dermatology for the dermatology professional.Details the impact genomics is having and will have on dermatolThis book discusses the exciting potential for dermatology to embrace developments to enhance the profession’s valuable pattern recognition, diagnostic, and treatment skills. .Personalized medicine (PM) and genomics are easily accessible and enable the customization of healthcare using molecular analysis to influence medical decisions, practices, and therapies for the individual patient.

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Overview: Many books have been written about the pathology of the major organs of the body such as the lungs, heart, gastrointestinal tract etc. Included in these are descriptions - often with a minor emphasis - of pathological conditions which affect their serosal surfaces. In this book I have endeavoured to reverse the process and treat the mesothelium as an organ in its own right, rather than being the "no man‘s land" between various major structures. A number of pathological conditions are common to the coverings of the three major body cavities - the pleura, pericardium and peritoneum - w

Overview: 978-3-531-12036-2978-3-322-94167-1

Overview: Unterstützt bei der fundierten Auswahl des zukünftiges Berufswegs.Einheitliche Darstellung der Therapieverfahren für eine gute Vergleichbarkeit.Theoretisches Wissen und praktische Ausbildungsinformati.Dieses Buch bietet eine Orientierungshilfe für den Ausbildungsweg zur Psychotherapeut:in, der in Österreich mehrstufig angelegt ist. In Zukunft folgt nach einem methodenübergreifenden ersten und zweiten Abschnitt mit akademischem Abschluss die postgraduale Fachausbildung, für die rund 20 anerkannte Psychotherapiemethoden und über 40 Ausbildungseinrichtungen zur Auswahl stehen...Die Meth

Overview: This monograph presents a concise mathematical approach for modeling and analyzing the performance of communication networks with the aim of understanding the phenomenon of statistical multiplexing. The novelty of the monograph is the fresh approach and insights provided by a sample-path methodology for queueing models that highlights the important ideas of Palm distributions associated with traffic models and their role in performance measures. Also presented are recent ideas of large buffer, and many sources asymptotics that play an important role in understanding statistical multi

Overview: Explores the fundamental philosophical questions on the self-world rational relationship without conforming to academic stereotypes.Presents a significant diagnosis of various forms of intellectualismThis book presents an anti-intellectualist view of how the cognitive-mental dimension of human intellect is rooted in and interwoven with our embodied-internal components including emotion, perception, desire, etc., by investigating practical forms of thinking such as deliberation, planning, decision-making, etc. With many thought-provoking statements, the book revises some classical not