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

Overview: Reflects a new interest in rural models of practice that is increasingly being discussed by practitioners and academics.Provides a focus on rural social work issues from the UK, which has been overloo.This book draws together writers from various backgrounds to discuss issues that affect those working in rural social work settings, on themes ranging from current issues that are common to rural localities (including those arising from the Covid-19 pandemic) to future challenges. Common themes that run through all the chapters and hold them together include community and place, stigma

Overview: Brings together different disciplines, and offers assessment from a variety of angles and at various scales, supported by a set of country case studies to provide empirical examples, and identify know.Why aren’t we investing more in disaster resilience, despite the rising costs of disaster events? This book argues that decision-makers in governments, businesses, households, and development agencies tend to focus on avoiding losses from disasters, and perceive the return on investment as uncertain – only realised if a somewhat unlikely disaster event actually happens.  . .This book de

Overview: Verfügbare Kapazitäten in Dienstleistungsunternehmen effizient und gewinnoptimierend nutzen.Erste umfassende deutschsprachige Publikation für ein erfolgreiches Revenue Management.Bestehende Erkenntnis​Revenue Management bezeichnet ein – vor allem in der Dienstleistungs- und Sachgüterindustrie – eingesetztes Konzept zur effektiven Nutzung unflexibler Kapazitäten. Ziel ist es, diese Kapazitäten in einem begrenzten Zeitraum möglichst effizient und gewinnoptimierend zu nutzen. Im operativen Bereich führt dies jedoch dazu, dass Unternehmen verschiedenen Kunden dieselbe Leistung zu untersc

Overview: Der Band vereint sowohl aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse wie Praxiserfahrungen zu organisationaler Resilienz.Coachs und UnternehmerInnen erhalten einen umfassenden Überblick über die unterschiedlichen HeVUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity) bestimmt unsere Umwelt, im privaten wie im Unternehmenskontext. Krisen stehen auf der Tagesordnung, so dass Krisenantizipation,Anpassung, Regeneration von und Lernen aus der Krise immer wichtiger für eine erfolgreiche Lebens- und Arbeitsgestaltung werden. Diese Krisenkompetenz heißt Resilienz.  Coachs, Führungskräfte und UnternehmerIn

Overview: Covers the current and latest research methods for development and implementation of operation.Includes topics such as optimum process/operation parameters, facilities planning & management, supply ch.The book presents the select proceedings of International Conference on Production and Industrial Engineering (CPIE) 2023. It covers the current and latest research methods for development and implementation of operation. Various topics covered include selection of designing parameters, decisions related to conditions of optimum process/operation parameters, facilities planning and mana

Overview: Equips the entry-level reader with the background necessary to start work or research on the modeling, simulation, monitoring and control of drinking-water networks.Includes case studies that readers This book presents a set of approaches for the real-time monitoring and control of drinking-water networks based on advanced information and communication technologies. It shows the reader how to achieve significant improvements in efficiency in terms of water use, energy consumption, water loss minimization, and water quality guarantees..The methods and approaches presented are illustra

Overview: Provides the reader with planning templates to be implemented in achieving more equitable city development and renewal.Enables the reader to gain an overall understanding of current city planning and .The book offers a model for city development and renewal based on land value capture (called ‘value capture’). Firstly, a review is presented of cities around the world that are currently using value capture. From these city examples the author shows how any state, city or regional government can adopt value capture policies. Looking at recent events the author reviews the implications

Overview: Critically reviews trends, policies, and practices of development education on the African continent.Sheds light on Afrocentric perspectives of education for sustainable development in Africa.Contains.This edited volume uses an African-centred approach to examine a renewed vision of development education in Africa. The purpose of the volume is to supplant prevailing Western ideologies, traditions, and rhetoric in the development education discourse in Africa and to advocate for alternative paradigms, knowledges, beliefs, and practices through the effort of dialogue between competing

Overview: Provides training modules for rights-based integrated child protection service delivery systems, outcome-based project cycles, and case management for care, support, protection and justice for childre.The Sourcebook-IV provides training modules for rights-based integrated child protection service delivery systems at the secondary and tertiary prevention levels. Part 1 of the Sourcebook  focuses on the preventative, comprehensive, integrated and systemic, and universal community-based and family-based service delivery systems for children; and the methods of case management and outcom

Overview: State-of-the-art review of the technical and practical aspects of the vascular interventional radiological procedures employed in obstetrics and gynaecology.Compares and contrasts fibroid embolisation.This book provides a state-of-the-art review of the technical and clinical aspects of the vascular interventional radiological (IR) procedures currently employed in obstetrics and gynaecology. A particular focus is on uterine artery embolisation for fibroid disease, which is contrasted with the main alternative uterus-conserving surgical approach of myomectomy, and with ablation therapy

Overview: Enriches understanding of best practices in public health, planning, and public policy approaches to eliminate rural health disparities.Reviews exhaustively the key recent research on the global and nThis innovative resource offers a unique, multidisciplinary approach for the utilization of planning theory to eliminate health disparities in rural communities. The book provides tools in the public health, policy, and planning disciplines to help resolve significant differences in life expectancy and quality of life in these communities, concluding with a progressive vision for allevia

Overview: .Restructuring Schools. presents conceptual and empiricalmodels of school organization for promoting students‘ achievement.Papers bynationally recognized educational sociologists examine fourdimensions of the educational process-school organization andgovernance, organization of students for instruction, classroomprocesses, and school-to-work transitions-and suggest methodsto increase the effectiveness of each. The volume also explores theinnovative concept of .output-driven education. which redirectsattention to student achievement as an outcome variable.978-1-4899-1096-7978-1-4899-

Overview: Introduces ROSE in diagnostic interventional pulmonology and pathological interpretation of respiratory diseases.Pathology based and practical clinical book covering various respiratory diseases.Provi.This book provides a comprehensive overview of the "real-time accompany technique" for diagnostic interventional pulmonology, known as rapid on-site evaluation (ROSE). It also offers readers a detailed understanding of how to interpret ROSE cytological slides, which is key to the interventional procedure itself and valuable in the analysis of the infectious disease status...The first pa

Overview: The use of gamma-emitting radionuclides for diagnostic imaging in nuclear medicine has been established for many years. Sophisticated gamma ray detecting camera systems and computer links enable the clinical investigator to image different regions of the body and to quantify organ function. Parallel developments have also occurred in the field of radiopharmaceuticals, and today a wide range of products is available that will exhibit specific uptake within target tissues following parenteral administration. For example, radioiodide is taken up by the thyroid and iodinated fatty acids

Overview: Presents modern topics in high-dimensional, nonparametric and robust statistics, time series analysis and factor models.Brings together contributions by statistics and econometrics experts in active a.This volume presents a unique collection of original research contributions by leading experts in several modern fields of econometrics and statistics, including high-dimensional, nonparametric and robust statistics, time series analysis and factor models. Published in honour of Marc Hallin on the occasion of his 75th birthday, it puts emphasis on the fundamental and applied topics he h

Overview: That residues of pesticide and other contaminants in the total environ­ ment are of concern to everyone everywhere is attested by the reception accorded previous volumes of "Residue Reviews" and by the gratifying enthusiasm, sincerity, and efforts shown by all the individuals from whom manuscripts have been solicited. Despite much propaganda to the con­ trary, there can never be any serious question that pest-control chemicals and food-additive chemicals are essential to adequate food production, manufacture, marketing, and storage, yet without continuing surveillance and intelligent

Overview: This book seeks to clarify the concept of irony and its relation to moral commitment. Frazier provides a discussion of the contrasting accounts of Richard Rorty and Søren Kierkegaard. He argues that, while Rorty‘s position is much more defensible and thoughtful than his detractors acknowledge, it is surprisingly more parochial than Kierkegaard‘s.978-1-349-53660-3978-0-230-60192-5

Overview: In this fascinating book, Reid examines Robert Louis Stevenson‘s writings in the context of late-Victorian evolutionist thought, arguing that an interest in ‘primitive‘ life is at the heart of his work. She investigates a wide range of Stevenson‘s writing, including Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Treasure Island as well as previously unpublished material from the Stevenson archive at Yale. Reid‘s interpretation offers a new way of understanding the relationship between his Scottish and South Seas work. Her analysis of Stevenson‘s engagement with anthropological and psychological debate al

Overview: From the President of the Research Society on Alcoholism On behalf of the Research Society on Alcoholism, I am pleased to introduce this 14th volume of Recent Developments in Alcoholism about the consequences of alcoholism. Current concepts are presented in well-organized sections that focus on the medical, neuropsychiatric, economic, and biobehavioral con- quences of alcoholism. This volume contains up-to-date discussions of these issues. The editors and associate editors should be congratulated for bringing together such important information. This volume will be a valuable resourc

Overview: Provides additional evidence about the activities and policies that may reverse marginalization process.Illustrates the importance of social innovation in coping with marginality.Includes diverse case.This book examines regional responses to marginality by highlighting social innovation, local capacity and new path formations in what are often seen as economically weak regions where policy and institutional considerations play a key role. Divided into three parts, it covers a wide range of topics related to geographical marginality from various angles, on both regional and local scal