Honey bee colony health

This book summarizes the current progress of bee researchers investigating the status of honey bees and possible reasons for their decline, providing a basis for establishing management methods that maintain colony health. Integrating discussion of Colony Collapse Disorder, the chapters provide information on the new microsporidian Nosema ceranae pathogens, the current status of the parasitic b…

Water-filtered Infrared a (wira) Irradiation

The aim of this open access book is to provide a unique, timely, critical and comprehensive compilation of more than 30 years of robust international experimental and clinical research related to the basic science and therapeutic application of water-filtered infrared-A (wIRA) and hyperthermia in oncology, psychiatry (depression), musculoskeletal disorders, dermatology, infectiology, and surger…

How creativity is changing China

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. The question Professor Li Wuwei investigates is not 'whether' creativity is changing China - but 'how' creativity is changing China. The outcome will have a profound impact on how China develops and its economic role in the world. Creative industries maintain and…

Tumbuhan pengusir bau:dongeng tumbuhan super

Pada buku ini diperkenalkan tumbuhan yang bisa menjadi bahan minyak wangi. Dimulai dari tumbuhan yang dekat dan dikenal oleh anak-anak yakni bunga melati dan jeruk. Lalu diperkenalkan tumbuhan langka yakni cendana. Selain diperkenalkan tentang tumbuhan tersebut, anak-anak juga diajak praktek cara mengolahnya. Semoga buku ini selain menjadi pengetahuan anak-anak, juga menjadi bekal life skill me…

Recollecting Resonances :Indonesian-Dutch Musical Encounters

Over time Dutch and Indonesian musicians have inspired each other and they continue to do so. Recollecting Resonances offers a way of studying these musical encounters and a mutual heritage one today still can listen to.

This open access book presents a wide portfolio of examples of positron emission tomography coupled with computer tomography (PET/CT) studies in various cardiac conditions in order to provide a rationale for the implementation of this technology in an array of clinical conditions. Cardiovascular diseases are a major contributor to premature morbidity and mortality worldwide. Low- and middle…

Rempah berkisah

Apakah kamu tahu kalau cengkih tertua di dunia ada di lereng gunung Gamalama, Ternate? Atau kamu pernah mendengar mengenai senyawa Euganol yang ada di dalam cengkih bisa menghilangkan rasa sakit? Atau pernahkah kamu mendengar kisah tentang perahu Sawerigading yang dipakai pelaut untuk mengarungi samudra dalam perjalanan mencari rempah? Jika kamu belum pernah mendengar tentang hal-hal itu, janga…

Lives in peace research

This open access book explains how PRIO, the world’s oldest peace research institute, was founded and how it survived through crises. In this book, twenty-four of its researchers and associates, including Johan Galtung, Ingrid Eide, and Mari Holmboe Ruge, who founded the institute back in 1959, tell the stories of their roles in inventing and developing peace research. They reflect on their p…

Permata:perlindungan mata air di bali

Air sebagai salah satu penyokong kehidupan manusia lambat laun semakin menurun kualitasnya. Penurunan kualitas disebabkan oleh tercemarnya mata air yang sebagian besar terjadi karena ulah dari manusia. Salah satu upaya untuk mencegah terjadinya pencemaran mata air adalah dengan kegiatan Perlindungan Mata Air (PERMATA). Komik ini bercerita tentang dua orang mahasiswa yang melakukan studi lapanga…

Forts and Fortification in Wallacea :Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Investi…

This volume presents ground-breaking research on fortified sites in three parts of Wallacea by a highly regarded group of scholars from Australia, Europe, Southeast Asia and the United States. In addition to surveying and dating defensive sites in often remote and difficult terrain, the chapters provide an important and scholarly set of archaeological and ethnohistoric studies that investigate …

"This handbook presents cutting-edge research on Asian transnationalism written by experts in the areas of migration, diaspora, ethnicity, gender, language, education, politics, media, art, popular culture, and literature from a diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives. The Asian region not only constitutes one of the largest diasporic populations in the world but also the most diver…

Vote Buying in Indonesia :The Mechanics of Electoral Bribery

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book investigates the impact of vote buying on the accountability of democratic institutions and policy representation in newly democratic countries, with a focus on Indonesia. In doing so, the book presents a wide-ranging study of the dynamics of vote buying in Indonesia’s young democracy, exploring the nature, extent, determinants, ta…

The development of the agricultural sector of Colombia into the 1960s

For various reasons it was not revised and edited for publication at that time. In view of the important events currently transpiring in and around the agricultural sector of Colombia and the possible usefulness of additional historical material, it is now being published essentially as it was left in the late 1960s. I have not reviewed the available material in detail recently, so their may be…

Automated reasoning

This volume, LNAI 13385, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2022, held in Haifa, Israel, in August 2022. The 32 full research papers and 9 short papers presented together with two invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. The papers focus on the following topics: Satisfiability, SMT Solving…

The afterlife of the Shoah in Central and Eastern European cultures :concepts…

The Afterlife of the Shoah in Central and Eastern European Cultures is a collection of essays by literary scholars from Germany, the US, and Central Eastern Europe offering insight into the specific ways of representing the Shoah and its aftereffects as well as its entanglement with other catastrophic events in the region. Introducing the conceptual frame of postcatastrophe, the collected es…

A samaritan state revisited :historical perspectives on canadian foreign aid

Canada’s foreign aid programs are an area of ongoing interest, yet there is little knowledge of Canada’s 70-year aid history, the historic forces that have shaped Canadian aid policy, and the many complex factors that affect Canada’s future foreign aid policy. A Samaritan State Revisited brings together a refreshing group of emerging and leading scholars to reflect on the history of Canad…

Ancient divination and experience

The introduction to this volume describes the contribution that it makes to scholarship on ancient divinatory practices. It analyses previous and current research, arguing that while this predominantly functionalist work reveals important socio-political dimensions of divination, it also runs the risk of obscuring from view the very people, ideologies, and experiences that scholars seek to unde…

Women and the Colonial State :Essays on Gender and Modernity in the Netherlan…

Woman and the Colonial State deals with the ambiguous relationship between women of both the European and the Indonesian population and the colonial state in the former Netherlands Indies in the first half of the twentieth century. Based on new data from a variety of sources: colonial archives, journals, household manuals, children's literature, and press surveys, it analyses the women-state re…

Cybersecurity in Poland

This open access book explores the legal aspects of cybersecurity in Poland. The authors are not limited to the framework created by the NCSA (National Cybersecurity System Act – this act was the first attempt to create a legal regulation of cybersecurity and, in addition, has implemented the provisions of the NIS Directive) but may discuss a number of other issues. The book presents internat…

Self-directed learning :an imperative for education in a complex society

This book on self-directed learning (SDL) is devoted to original academic scholarship within the field of education, and is the 6th volume in the North-West University (NWU) SDL book series. In this book the authors explore how self-directed learning can be considered an imperative for education in a complex modern society. Although each chapter represents independent research in the field of s…