BOOKS with Alphabet S (Sa, Sb,Sc, Sd, Se…... )

Overview: Provides the unique stories of 12 students over a three year period.Contributes first-hand knowledge to existing literature on educational transitions.Offers recommendations for tailored undergraduate.This book presents the life stories and lived experiences of 12 individuals who transitioned from the sixth form of a further education college in a traditionally working-class area of the UK, to higher education. The author employs narrative inquiry in order to explore the participants’ unique perspectives. Theoretically, Bourdieu’s concepts of field and habitus are used to explain how

Overview: 978-3-8244-0276-2978-3-663-14548-6

Overview: Soziale Rechte in Deutschland - eine aktuelle AnalyseDieses Buch dokumentiert und analysiert die qualitativen Veränderungen im deutschen Wohlfahrtsstaat zwischen 1998 und 2005. Der gewählte Blickwinkel rückt soziale Rechte in den Mittelpunkt, die Ansprüche Einzelner auf Transfers, Güter und Dienstleistungen in bestimmten Situationen. Unter Zuhilfenahme eines aus der vergleichenden Wohlfahrtsstaatsforschung gewonnenen Analyserahmens wird ein umfassendes Bild der sozialpolitischen Reformen der rot-grünen Bundesregierung in den Bereichen Alterssicherung, Gesundheit, Beschäftigung und Pf

Overview: Views sport tourism from an international, inclusive and interdisciplinary perspective.Presents a comparative study of 25 islands across 10 seas and oceans.Provides practical suggestions for the reali.This edited volume discusses the role of sport tourism in local sustainable development in small island territories. Using an international, comparative study, this volume explores the contributions of sport tourism to sustainable development in island settings. Written by 25 research teams across ten seas, oceans, and island archipelagos, chapters present comparative findings with the

Overview: Nominated as an outstanding PhD theses by the University of Genoa.Thesis jointly supervised by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and University of Genoa.Proposes a method for performing real-ti.The book reports on the author’s original work to address the use of today’s state-of-the-art smartphones for human physical activity recognition. By exploiting the sensing, computing and communication capabilities currently available in these devices, the author developed a novel smartphone-based activity-recognition system, which takes into consideration all aspects of online human ac

Overview: Focuses on articulatory features and various groups present within the general AFs.Proposes robust signal processing methods for extracting the excitation source features from LP residual signal.DiscuThis book discusses the contribution of articulatory and excitation source information in discriminating sound units. The authors focus on excitation source component of speech -- and the dynamics of various articulators during speech production -- for enhancement of speech recognition (SR) performance. Speech recognition is analyzed for read, extempore, and conversation modes of speech.

Overview: Provides first-hand information on the history of the first Mathematical “Circles-Project” in North America.Contains many mathematical problems, puzzles and games as well as their solutions.Includes mThis book describes projects in a Mathematical “Circle,” i.e., an organization that discovers and nurtures young mathematical talents through meaningful extra-curricular activities. This is the second volume in a trilogy describing in particular the S.M.A.R.T. Circle project, which was founded in Edmonton, Canada in 1981. The acronym S.M.A.R.T. stands for Saturday Mathematical Activities

Overview: 978-3-531-03109-5978-3-322-87572-3

Overview: Providing fresh insights into the complex relationship betweenstress and mental health, internationally recognized contributorsidentifieemerging conceptual issues, highlight promising avenues forfurtherstudy, and detail novel methodological techniques foraddressingcontemporary empirical problems. Specific coverageincludes stressfullife events, chronic strains, psychosocialresources and mediators,vulnerability to stress, and mental healthoutcomes-thusproviding researchers with a tool to take stockof the past andfuture of this field.978-1-4899-1108-7978-1-4899-1106-3

Overview: 978-3-540-10160-4978-3-642-46423-2Series ISSN 0371-0165

Overview: .This volume covers experimental and theoretical advances on the relationship between composition, structure and macroscopic mechanical properties of novel hydrogels containing dynamic bonds. The chapters of this volume focus on the control of the mechanical properties of several recently discovered gels with the design of monomer composition, chain architecture, type of crosslinking or internal structure. The gels discussed in the different chapters have in common the capability to dissipate energy upon deformation, a desired property for mechanical toughness, while retaining the ab

Overview: This candid book dispenses essential advice for academic job hunters and gives them the skills and knowledge to land a job in the humanities. Fully revised and updated, this book offers a comprehensive look at the do‘s and don‘ts of the application and interview process and provides indispensable tips and a variety of practical tools.978-0-230-10946-9978-1-137-06829-3

Overview: This volume originated in a belief, shared by the two editors, that the time was ripe for a world-wide survey - or at least sampling - of seasonality in freshwater phytoplankton. An opportunity was provided by the International Limnological Congress (S. I. L. ), held at Lyon in August 1983, to plan a one-day symposium on the topic. From this enjoyable and successful occasion, augmented by additional written contributions, the present volume has emerged. As convenors and editors, we are grateful to the contributors for their cooperation in this international venture. The seasonality o

Overview: 978-3-531-08336-0978-3-322-86274-7

Overview: Uses case studies from the African continent to help readers understand how smart economies can change urban spatial systems.Presents studies to demonstrate how smart cities are sustainable, inclusiveThis book highlights the use of information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructures in order to develop smart cities and produce smart economies in Africa. It discusses a robust set of concepts, including smart planning, smart infrastructure development, smart economic development, smart environmental sustainability, smart social development, resilience, and smart peace and se

Overview: Presents evidence-based strategies to build and sustain communities that are active agents in their own health and wellbeing.Applies a trans-disciplinary approach to examine the interdependence of env.Applying a trans-disciplinary approach, this book provides a comprehensive, research-based guide to understanding, implementing, and strengthening sustainable community health in diverse international settings. By examining the interdependence of environmental, economic, public health, community wellbeing and development factors, the authors address the systemic factors impacting health

Overview: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Software Technologies, ICSOFT 2020, which was held virtually due to the Covid-19 pandemic. .The 12 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 95 submissions. The papers deal with the following topics: business process modelling; IT service management; interoperability and service-oriented architecture; project management software; scheduling and estimating; software metrics; requirements elicitation and specification; software and systems integration among others..978-

Overview: First book dealing with aperiodic materials.Gives a survey of both the theory and the related experimental studies.Includes supplementary material: The past few decades have witnessed remarkable growth and progress in our knowledge  concerning the structure and properties of aperiodic systems at a microscopic level. The present volume provides a timely overview of the current state of the art on the structure, electronic and magnetic properties of aperiodic materials, including structural inhomogeniety. It also describes the theoretical calculation methodology. The subject is approac

Overview: Answers a call for new approaches to civics education.Gives examples of social media in civics education classroom.Elucidates current issues in civic education while investigating how these might be c.This open access book provides the theoretical and pedagogical foundations for a promising new approach to civic education: using social media to teach civics. While many measures indicate that youth civic engagement has long been in decline, many of these measures fail to take into account all of the ways that youth can interact with civic life. One of these understudied ways is throug

Overview: Focuses on opportunities for agency.Demonstrates successful challenges to the neoliberal economy.Provides eight stories with "happy," evolving endings.Includes supplementary material: This Palgrave Pivot presents a series of political economy short stories of collective agency, weaving together the history of a progressive change with a discussion of the role of institutions to effect change. These stories highlight sustained activism around valuing caring, ending discrimination, protecting the environment, improving worker well-being, and reimagining ways to encourage local economic