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Overview: Is an open access book, which means that you have free and unlimited access.Proposes disciplines for reliable achievement of the SDGs so that no one is left behind in developing societies.Seeks holist.This Open Access book provides eight problem solving lectures for sustainable development for people, peace, and partnerships. Those are three of the five keywords for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): people, the planet, prosperity, peace, and partnerships or “the 5Ps”...Each of these lectures is classified into one of the keywords for SDGs and based on the history of social th

Overview: Analyzes impact of globalization on Foreign Direct Investment and renewal of public policies and regulations.Theoretical and empirical approach on the strategies of multinationals and local public pol.This contributed volume seeks to provide a unique window on the globalization process by analyzing the dynamics of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Europe and Asia, as well as its influence on the renewal of public policies and regulations, both transnational and local. It discusses the link between the trans-nationalization of productive and business systems and the renewal of local

Overview: There has been a great revival of interest in recent years in the concerns of Islamic political economy after several hundred years of hiatus in its long history. The independence of Muslim countries and the revival of Islamic movements around the world have been among the factors encouraging new interest among the Muslims and others in how economies and economic theory can be brought into line with the Islamic vision of a just society. Masudul Alam Choudhury shows that the contribution which Islamic political economy can make requires a study first of epistemological principles, abo

Overview: Substantive text on the potential role of seasonal forecasting in public health.Extensive review of climate and infectious disease.Links climate science to policy and practice.Ranges from impact on he.Awareness that many key aspects of public health are strongly influenced by climate is growing dramatically, driven by new research and experience and fears of climate change and the research needed to underpin policy developments in area is growing rapidly. This awareness has yet to translate into a practical use of climate knowledge by health policy-makers. Evidence based policy and p

Overview: Drawing from a broad range of contemporary British poets, including Thomas Kinsella, Kathleen Jamie, and Alice Oswald, this study examines the inherently spatial and affective nature of our engagement with poetry. Adding to the expanding field of geocritical studies, Yeung specifically discusses ideas of space and constructions of voice in poetry.978-1-349-50404-6978-1-137-47827-6Series ISSN 2578-9694 Series E-ISSN 2634-5188

Overview: Pädagogische SteuerungsforschungDie Einführung der sogenannten Neuen Steuerung im Schulsystem hat in jüngerer Zeit die Frage aufgeworfen, inwieweit die politisch und ökonomisch motivierten Reformen der Steuerung evidenzbasiert sind und welche Bedeutung die gewonnenen Informationen für die praxis und die Politik besitzen. Insgesamt stellt sich die Frage, ob die Erwartungen und Optimierungshoffnungen der auf evidenzbasierten Steuerungsansätzen beruhenden Reformen auf schul- und unterrichtspraktischer Ebene überhaupt erfüllt werden können: Welche beabsichtigten und nicht beabsichtigten

Overview: Since Efron‘s profound paper on the bootstrap, an enormous amount of effort has been spent on the development of bootstrap, jacknife, and other resampling methods. The primary goal of these computer-intensive methods has been to provide statistical tools that work in complex situations without imposing unrealistic or unverifiable assumptions about the data generating mechanism. The primary goal of this book is to lay some of the foundation for subsampling methodology and related methods.978-1-4612-7190-1978-1-4612-1554-7Series ISSN 0172-7397 Series E-ISSN 2197-568X

Overview: Covers the impact of gynecological conditions on female sexual function.Recommends assessments and treatments suitable for women that can be provided by many health care professionals.Offers a multidiThis book provides to nurses an understanding of female sexual function and dysfunction specifically in relation to common gynecological conditions. It offers evidence based overview of assessment of sexual function, including available questionnaires and provides a multidisciplinary approach to managing sexual dysfunction, from incontinence to pelvic organ prolapse and recurrent urinary

Overview: The first introduction to the subject in a self-contained monograph.Emphasizes motivations, and links with classical analysis on symmetric spaces.Includes a list of open problemsGathering and updating results scattered in journal articles over thirty years, this self-contained monograph gives a comprehensive introduction to the subject. Its goal is to: - motivate and explain the method for general Lie groups, reducing the proof of deep results in invariant analysis to the verification of two formal Lie bracket identities related to the Campbell-Hausdorff formula (the "Kashiwara-Vergn

Overview: Short guide to design, construction, operation, and maintenance of offshore oil and gas pipelines.For offshore engineers and architects.Focuses on the Class aspect of classification including design, .This book is a comprehensive guide to the classification, design, construction, and maintenance of subsea pipeline systems. It provides an in-depth exploration of offshore pipeline architecture, serviceability, and the rigorous standards required for certification and verification...The chapters cover critical topics such as risk evaluations for novel features, survey and inspection reg

Overview: 978-1-349-03469-7978-1-349-03467-3

Overview: 978-94-010-7494-0978-94-009-2217-4Series ISSN 0169-6378

Overview: Inspirierender Beitrag zur Erneuerung der Theorie und Methodik der Körperlichen Grundbildung.Status und Funktion einer steigerungsfähigen Körperlichen Grundbildung in den Schulen.BildungswissenschaftlDie neueren bildungswissenschaftlichen Diskurse zum Verhältnis von Grundbildung, Allgemeinbildung und Spezialbildung begründen eine Revision zum Status und zur Funktion einer steigerungsfähigen Körperlichen Grundbildung in den Schulen. Körperliche Grundbildung (Physical Literacy) wird dabei als staatlich zu garantierende, grundlegende Körper- und Bewegungsbildung in einem sportbezogenen

Overview: Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.978-3-662-02039-5

Overview: Examines the role of strategy for public and nonprofit organization as well as firms that create or destroy public value.Discusses the role of strategy in the design, implementation, and assessment of.This book examines why strategy matters in public and nonprofit organizations, as well as in private firms with the potential to create (or destroy) public value. Combining a solid conceptual basis in strategy, it focuses on understanding the drivers of superior performance and public value creation and appropriation by a myriad of stakeholders. Readers will gain insights into the core

Overview: Decisions about self-disclosure-whether to reveal one‘s thoughts, feel­ ings, or past experiences to another person, or the level of intimacy of such disclosure-are part of the everyday life of most persons. The nature of the decisions that a person makes will have an impact on his or her life. They will determine the kinds of relationships the person has with others; how others perceive him or her; and the degree of self­ knowledge and awareness that the person possesses. The study of self-disclosure has interested specialists from many disciplines, including personality and social

Overview: 978-94-009-8551-3978-94-009-8549-0Series ISSN 1389-2185

Overview: Self-awareness - the ability to recognize one‘sexistence - is one of the most important variables inpsychology. Without self-awareness, people would be unable toself-reflect, recognize differences between the self and others, orcompare themselves with internalized standards. Social, clinical, andpersonality psychologists have recognized the significance ofself-awareness in human functioning, and have conducted much researchon how it participates in everyday life and in psychologicaldysfunctions. ..Self-Awareness & Causal Attribution: A Dual-Systems Theory.presents a new theory of how

Overview: Includes supplementary material: .Can psychoanalysis offer a new computer model? Can computer designers help psychoanalysts to understand their theory better?In contemporary publications human psyche is often related to neural networks. Why? The wiring in computers can also be related to application software. But does this really make sense?..Artificial Intelligence has tried to implement functions of human psyche. The reached achievements are remarkable; however, the goal to get a functional model of the mental apparatus was not reached. Was the selected direction incorrect?The edit

Overview: The book provides an insight into:.The transmission and distribution networks under the challenging conditions of large-scale shares of volatile renewable energy sources.The growing role of informatioNowadays, Smart Grid has become an established synonym for modern electric power systems. Electric networks are fed less and less by large, centrally planned fossil and nuclear power plants but more and more by millions of smaller, renewable and mostly weather-dependent generation units. A secure energy supply in such a sustainable and ecological system requires a completely different ap