BOOKS with Alphabet R (Ra, Rb,Rc, Rd, Re…... )

Overview: Offers a global scope of counterinsurgency (COIN) with a fresh theoretical perspective.Decentres Iraq and Afghanistan as the major theatres of contemporary COIN by comparing with Africa, Asia and Lati..Thisedited volume critically assesses emerging trends in contemporary warfare andinternational interventionism as exemplified by the ‘local turn’ incounterinsurgent warfare. It asks how contemporary counterinsurgencyapproaches work and are legitimized; what concrete effects they have withinlocal settings, and what the implications are for how we can understand themeans and ends of war

Overview: Focuses on children separated from their biological parents due to a wide variety of reasons.Contributors include scholars in social work, psychology, health, sociology, social policy, and political s.This edited volume explores a range of causes for separation of children and young people from family, the impact of these causes, and methods that both professionals and families may employ to build or rebuild these relations. In particular, contributions focus on six high priority crises through which children and young people become either permanently or temporarily separated from th

Overview: Study in the field of the social sciences.Includes supplementary material: .In her research studies, Elifcan Karacan shows the relation between trauma, violence and memory with a specific focus on the events considering the 1980 Military Coup d‘État in Turkey. Based on collective memory theories and cultural trauma theories, the author focuses on the reconstruction of the past in present times and memory practices, such as commemorations, anniversaries, construction of memory-places (museums). This book seeks for an understanding of collective memory within individual narrations and

Overview: Blind Signal Separation (BSS) deals with recovering (filteredversions of) source signals from an observed mixture thereof. The term`blind‘ relates to the fact that there are no reference signals forthe source signals and also that the mixing system is unknown. Thisbook presents a new method for blind signal separation, which isdeveloped to work on microphone signals. .Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) is a well-known technique to suppressthe echo that a microphone picks up from a loudspeaker in the sameroom. Such acoustic feedback occurs for example in hands-freetelephony and can lead

Overview: Includes recent research on soft computing and data mining.Presents the outcomes of the International Conference on Soft Computing and Data Mining (SCDM-2020), held in Langkawi, Malaysia, on January 2.This book provides an introduction to data science and offers a practical overview of the concepts and techniques that readers need to get the most out of their large-scale data mining projects and research studies. It discusses data-analytical thinking, which is essential to extract useful knowledge and obtain commercial value from the data. Also known as data-driven science, soft comp

Overview: An archaeological analysis of the centrality of race and racismin American culture. Using a broad range of material, historical, andethnographic resources from Annapolis, Maryland, during the period1850 to 1930, the author probes distinctive African-Americanconsumption patterns and examines how those patterns resisted theracist assumptions of the dominant culture while also attempting todemonstrate African-Americans‘ suitability to full citizenshipprivileges.978-1-4757-7180-0978-0-306-47163-6Series ISSN 1574-0439

Overview: Kommentierte Version eines wegweisenden Werks in der Psychologie.Bettet die Entwicklung der Psychologie in historische und kulturelle Hintergründe ein.Für interessierte Laien und Experten gleichermaße.Originaltext mit philosophischen sowie historischen Kommentaren von Nikolay Milkov..Als habilitierter Mediziner und Philosoph hat Rudolph Hermann Lotze durch seinen interdisziplinären Ansatz die Entwicklung der Psychologie im 19. Jahrhundert wie kein anderer geprägt. Im Unterschied zu anderen Wissenschaftlern der Zeit hat Lotze die neue Disziplin konsequent in enger Verbindung mit der P

Overview: Explores research misconduct within the context of Europe.Argues why Criminology should be studying research misconduct.Draws on empirical data: interviews and European social control and public polic.This book explores the subject of research misconduct: its definition, what behaviours should fall under its label, and the types of preventive and repressive procedures that should be put to practice to combat it. Adopting a criminological perspective, Faria views research misconduct as a locus of analysis for corporate and white-collar crime. Based upon an empirical study involving in

Overview: Provides an exceptional range of perspectives on the reception and cultural exchange of ancient and early modern literary works from around the globe.Offers multiple approaches to world literature thr.Featuring leading scholars in their fields, this book examines receptions of ancient and early modern literary works from around the world (China, Japan, Ancient Maya, Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient India, Ancient Mesopotamia) that have circulated globally across time and space (from East to West, North to South, South to West). Beginning with the premise of an enduring and revered cult

Overview: Explores how building-integrated (BIPV) and building-applied photovoltaics (BAPV) can mitigate environmental impact.Includes international case studies.Offers invaluable insights into the successful i.This book looks at the success and continuing potential of photovoltaic (PV) technology in combating climate change by harnessing solar energy through building-integrated (BIPV) and building-applied photovoltaics (BAPV). With PV global capacity soaring from 940 GW in 2021 to 1100 GW in 2022 and projected to reach 1456 GW by the end of 2023, the world is witnessing an unprecedented shift

Overview: .This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Relational and Algebraic Methods in Computer Science, RAMiCS 2014 held in Marienstatt, Germany, in April/May 2014..The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 37 submissions. The papers are structured in specific fields on concurrent Kleene algebras and related formalisms, reasoning about computations and programs, heterogeneous and categorical approaches, applications of relational and algebraic methods and developments related to modal logics and lattices..978-3-319-06250-1978-3-319

Overview: New asymptotic and numerical methods of scattering theory in waveguides.Results can be used to create and investigate new nano- and microelectronics elements.Models of new electronics devices are sugg.This book studies electron resonant tunneling in two- and three-dimensional quantum waveguides of variable cross-sections in the time-independent approach. Mathematical models are suggested for the resonant tunneling and develop asymptotic and numerical approaches for investigating the models. Also, schemes are presented for several electronics devices based on the phenomenon of resonan

Overview: Highlights a range of applications of intelligent assistive technologies.Presents methods and techniques involving artificial and computational intelligence, together with new paradigms and models of .This book illustrates the rapid pace of development in intelligent assistive technology in recent years, and highlights some salient examples of using modern IT&C technologies to provide devices, systems and application software for persons with certain motor or cognitive disabilities. The book proposes both theoretical and practical approaches to intelligent assistive and emergent tech

Overview: Provides the most comprehensive and succinct review of renal denervation.Discusses rationale, long-term benefits and possible risks of this new therapy, current devices, trials and critical appraisal .Hypertension remains the leading cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in spite of current medical therapies. It has been estimated that 50% of Western civilization has hypertension and approximately 20% of patients have resistant hypertension. Renal denervation (RDN) is a minimally invasive, endovascular catheter based procedure using radiofrequency ablation aimed at treating

Overview: Based on interviews with UK practitioners with experience of managing volunteer activists.Offers both experienced and novice practitioners in the field of volunteer management an insight into good praThis book explores how experienced party organisers in the UK work to recruit and to retain party activists for local campaigning. Local door-to-door campaigning is widely regarded as being a key element in a successful election campaign. However, for door-to-door campaigning to work, a large number of volunteer activists are required. The question then is: How can parties identify, recr

Overview: Provides a comprehensive overview of REE resources of India.Describes diverse geological environments of REE deposits/occurrences in India.Gives an outlook for potential future REE depositsThis volume presents a brief introduction to the Rare Earth Elements (REE) and their discovery, mineralogy, deposit types and applications. The book focusses on the aspects of both natural and industrial REE resources of India. It covers geological, structural, geochemical, petrological, mineralogical and genetic aspects of the natural deposits, and provides an account of the available industrial s

Overview: Photonic Crystals are the newest types of optical material being developed for commercial applications in industry. They are likely to provide an exciting new tool for the manipulations of photons and have received the attention of both academia and industry. .Roadmap on Photonic Crystals. gives a detailed explanation of the background of photonic crystals, the theories behind them, numerical simulations, crystal structures, fabrication processes, evaluation methods and proposed applications. This also includes a roadmap addressing future development and applications. .Industrial sci

Overview: Presents a systematic study of religious morality in the works of John Henry Newman.Explores the hermeneutics of the imagination in moral decision-making, relating belief and action.Integrates Newman’This book is a systematic study of religious morality in the works of John Henry Newman (1801-1890). The work considers Newman’s widely discussed views on conscience and assent, analyzing his understanding of moral law and its relation to the development of moral doctrine in Church tradition.  By integrating Newman’s religious epistemology and theological method, the author explores the

Overview: At the VIIth International Congress on Rheology, which was held in Goteborg in 1976, Proceedings were for the first time printed in advance and distributed to all participants at the time of the Congress. Although of course we Italians would be foolish to even try to emulate our Swedish friends as far as efficiency of organization is concerned, we decided at the very beginning that, as far as the Proceedings were concerned, the VIIIth International Congress on Rheology in Naples would follow the standards of time­ liness set by the Swedish Society of Rheology. This book is the result

Overview: Zahlreiche Fallbeispiele.Ausführliche Forensik.Mehr als 100 Tabellen.Wie bestimmt man den Todeszeitpunkt? Wie werden die verschiedenen Gewalteinwirkungen diagnostiziert? Wie lässt sich ermitteln, welche Rolle Alkohol bei der Todesursache spielt? Und wie sehen die Rechtsbeziehungen zwischen Arzt und Patient aus?.Über die Arbeit des Rechtsmediziners bestehen sehr unterschiedliche Vorstellungen. Mit dem Lehrbuch Rechtsmedizin werden diese Vorstellungen konkret. Kompakt und sehr praxisnah werden alle Themen der Rechtsmedizin behandelt. Und das ganz übersichtlich:.Zahlreiche .Fallbeispiel