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Overview: Showcases how countries in the Americas and Caribbean Region handle and implement the UN SDGs.Comprehensively describes research, projects and practical action.Provides government agencies, education ​This volume provides an overview of the ways sustainable development issues as a whole, and the SDGs in particular, are perceived and practiced in a variety of countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region. It also discusses the extent to which its many socio-economic problems hinder progresses towards the pursuit of a sustainable future, and documents successful experiences from

Overview: Covers the breadth of current discussions and practices about student support services at a global level.Delves into ample conceptual depth as it positions student support services in contemporary uni.This volume .Student Support Services: Exploring impact on student engagement, experience and learning., covers a wide and diverse range of higher education contexts to explore the current state and the future of student support services. The central focus for all the chapters is about what, why and how to achieve student success within an intricate and complex web of learning ecologies

Overview: The aim of the present proceedings volume is to discuss recent advances in the mathematical representation of engineering, socio-technical and socio-economical systems as well as in the optimization of their performance. The papers presented are extended versions of about 100 lectures (plenary lectures as well as lectures of the parallel sessions) of the conference. All papers include original researching results of the authors. Some have the character of a survey.978-3-540-52659-9978-3-540-47095-3Series ISSN 0170-8643 Series E-ISSN 1610-7411

Overview: Up-to-date results.Fast-track conference proceedings.State-of-the-art researchThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Spatio-temporal Image Analysis for Longitudinal and Time-Series Image Data, STIA 2012, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2012 in Nice, France, in October 2012. The 13 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: longitudinal registration and transport; spatio-temporal analysis for shapes; spatio-temporal analysis under appearance chan

Overview: 978-3-540-55374-8978-3-662-10193-3Series ISSN 1431-5394

Overview: First book treatment of spatial decay and structural stability.Straight forward accessible approach.Includes supplementary material: This book presents an account of theories of ?ow in porous media which have proved tractable to analysis and computation. In particular, the t- ories of Darcy, Brinkman, and Forchheimer are presented and analysed in detail. In addition, we study the theory of voids in an elastic material due to J. Nunziato and S. Cowin. The range of validity of each theory is outlined and the mathematical properties are considered. The questions of structural stability,

Overview: Covers the “how-to” of sustainability analytics.Reviews and consolidates key sustainability analytical tools for practitioners.Proposes not just the “hardware” but also the “software” to be effective .This book solicits meaningful contributions from key experts and practitioners that have been dealing with the emerging area of sustainability analytics. In doing so, readers would understand the cost, impact and performance of their sustainability initiatives. . .The book covers current analytical tools (eg: frameworks, standards, ESG indexes) to measure sustainability, and how these t

Overview: 978-3-642-94898-5978-3-642-94897-8

Overview: This book charts the history of the worldwide introduction of an operative treatment method for broken bones, osteosynthesis, by a Swiss-based association, called AO. The success of the close cooperation between the AO‘s surgeons, scientists and manufacturers in establishing a complicated and risky technique as a standard treatment sheds light on the mechanisms of medical innovation at the crossroads of surgery, science and industry and the nature of modern medicine in general.978-1-349-43181-6978-0-230-51328-0Series ISSN 2946-9643 Series E-ISSN 2946-9651

Overview: Provides first book to offer a combined perspective on system architecture and platform development strategy.Offers a systematic, state-of-the-art description of all aspects of platform development.Pr.This book provides readers with a hands-on guide to system architecture design and platform development strategies for electronic systems. While system architecture design is a sub topic of systems engineering, the author discusses platform development as a matter of strategy, engineering efficiency and quality. This book helps readers by combining system architecture and platform devel

Overview: Aktuelles Wissen verständlich dargestellt.Mit Hintergrundinformation und Praxisbezug.Ein aktueller Titel in einer ausgezeichneten Buchreihe.Welchen Beitrag kann die Solarthermie zur Energiewende leisten? Was kostet Solarwärme und und wo sind ihre Grenzen?.Nach einem kurzen Überblick über die Möglichkeiten regenerativer Wärmeversorgung .führen die Autoren in die physikalischen Grundlagen der Solarstrahlung und der Strahlungswandlung ein. Dann erläutern sie die Funktionsweise der Solarkollektoren und der wichtigsten anlagentechnischen Komponenten anhand zahlreicher Abbildungen..Weitere

Overview: Presents topics that embody the spirit of the continuing success of research in mental health.Provides a historical overview from the foundations of modern sociology to the study of mental health.CoveThis volume provides an overview of mental health research conducted by sociologists. It discusses dominant themes such as stress, the community and mental life, family structure, social relations and recovery. The unique contribution of sociology to the study of mental health has a long history stretching from the very foundations of modern sociology. Yet it was only twenty years ago th

Overview: Presents a new way of thinking about organizational leadership as a.collective effort from members at all levels.Offers specific examples of how employees navigate the changing.landscape of strategic In today’s organizations, it is no longer the CEO who acts as the sole strategic leader. From single individuals to larger teams and networks, leaders at all levels are infiltrating the formal organizational structure and making strategic leadership an increasingly complex endeavor. In .Strategic Leadership for Turbulent Times., Kriger and Zhovtobryukh shrewdly describe the true experien

Overview: Soviet youth behaviour and contemporary problems are discussed, including culture and pop music, gangs and drug addicts, delinquents and deviants, providing an insight into their life and attitudes, and an opportunity to understand youth problems in another society and the ways they are dealt with.978-0-333-49426-4978-1-349-19932-7

Overview: Completely revised edition.Numerous drawings and color photographs.With a complete guide to building stone deterioration processes and preservation techniques.Includes supplementary material: .The weathering of historical buildings and, indeed, of monuments and sculptures of natural stone is a problem that has been encountered for hundreds of years. However, a dramatic increase in deterioration in the structure of our built heritage has been observed during the past century. To understand the complex interaction that the stone in a building suffers with its near environment (the buil

Overview: Provides numerous step-by-step tutorials that help readers learn quickly.Brings together scientists and scholars from different research fields to provide a better understanding of single and multipleThis book presents recent advances in studies of light propagation, scattering, emission and absorption in random media. Many natural and biological media vary randomly in time and space. Examples are terrestrial atmosphere and ocean, biological liquids and tissues to name but a few.978-3-319-88992-4978-3-319-70796-9Series ISSN 2509-2790 Series E-ISSN 2509-2804

Overview: Through a case study in a Chicago public school, Means demonstrates that, despite the fragmentation of human security in low-income and racially segregated public schools, there exist positive social relations, knowledge, and desire for change that can be built upon to promote more secure and equitable democratic futures for young people.978-1-137-03204-1978-1-137-03205-8Series ISSN 2945-6819 Series E-ISSN 2945-6827

Overview: 978-3-540-13390-2978-3-540-38942-2Series ISSN 0075-8450 Series E-ISSN 1616-6361

Overview: Explores trade-offs among existing approaches.Reveals strengths and weaknesses of proposed approaches, as well as which aspects of the problem are not yet covered.Introduces software engineering appro.Service-Oriented Computing is one of the most promising software engineering trends for future distributed systems. Currently there are many different approaches to semantic web service descriptions and many frameworks built around them. Yet a common understanding, evaluation scheme, and test bed to compare and classify these frameworks in terms of their abilities and shortcomings, is s

Overview: This is the first book on stochastic porous media equations.Concentrates on essential points, including existence, uniqueness, ergodicity and finite time extinction results.Presents the state of the aFocusing on stochastic porous media equations, this book places an emphasis on existence theorems, asymptotic behavior and ergodic properties of the associated transition semigroup. Stochastic perturbations of the porous media equation have reviously been considered by physicists, but rigorous mathematical existence results have only recently been found..The porous media equation models