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Hidden Hunger :Gender and the Politics of Smarter Foods
For decades, NGOs targeting world hunger focused on ensuring that adequate quantities of food were being sent to those in need. In the 1990s, the international food policy community turned its focus to the “hidden hunger” of micronutrient deficiencies, a problem that resulted in two scientific solutions: fortification, the addition of nutrients to processed foods, and biofortification, the …
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- 9780801467691
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- xiii, 219 p . : ill
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- 362.19639009598 AYA h
Advances in the field of electrical machines and drives
Electrical machines and drives dominate our everyday lives. This is due to their numerous applications in industry, power production, home appliances, and transportation systems such as electric and hybrid electric vehicles, ships, and aircrafts. Their development follows rapid advances in science, engineering, and technology. Researchers around the world are extensively investigating electrica…
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- 9783036542867
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- ix, 240p.; ill.
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- 621.31042 KAR
In death’s waiting room
In Death's Waiting Room is a penetrating story about people suffering from dementia in a multi-cultural society, relevant to us all. Anne-Mei The carried out two years of ethnographic research in a nursing home in the Netherlands revealing what usually remains hidden from the public: the decision to stop treatment, the cultural and social gap between the Dutch occupants and the black Caribbean …
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- 9789053560778
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- 203p : ill.
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- 362.19683 ANN i
Intelligent and efficient transport systems :design, modelling, control and s…
The aim of this book is to present a number of digital and technology solutions to real-world problems across transportation sectors and infrastructures. Nine chapters have been well prepared and organized with the core topics as follows: -A guideline to evaluate the energy efficiency of a vehicle -A guideline to design and evaluate an electric propulsion system -Potential opportunities for int…
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- 9781838805111
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- xiv; 214 pg; ill.
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- 711.7 INT i
Experimental Techniques in Nuclear and Particle Physics
I have been teaching courses on experimental techniques in nuclear and particle physics to master students in physics and in engineering for many years. This book grew out of the lecture notes I made for these students. The physics and engineering students have rather different expectations of what such a course should be like. I hope that I have nevertheless managed to write a book that can sa…
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- 9783642008290
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- 306 p. :ill
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- 539.7 STE e
Digital work in the planetary market
Understanding the embedded and disembedded, material and immaterial, territorialized and deterritorialized natures of digital work. Many jobs today can be done from anywhere. Digital technology and widespread internet connectivity allow almost anyone, anywhere, to connect to anyone else to communicate and exchange files, data, video, and audio. In other words, work can be deterritorialized at a…
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- 9780262543767
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- viii, 356p. : ill
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- 306.36 DIG d
Creating through mind and emotions
The texts presented in Proportion Harmonies and Identities (PHI) Creating Through Mind and Emotions were compiled to establish a multidisciplinary platform for presenting, interacting, and disseminating research. This platform also aims to foster the awareness and discussion on Creating Through Mind and Emotions, focusing on different visions relevant to Architecture, Arts and Humanities, Desig…
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- 9780429299070
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- xvii, 513p. : ill.
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Citizen participation in the information society
This open access book examines how digital technologies are used to promote citizen participation in democratic urban development. It assesses the emergence, use, applicability and functions of digital modes of citizen participation in multiple cities around the world, where political regimes invite ordinary citizens to partake in policy processes through information technologies. The book also…
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- 9783030999407
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- xiii; 196 PG; ill.
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- 307.1216 CIT c
Big data and artificial intelligence in digital finance :increasing personali…
This open access book presents how cutting-edge digital technologies like Big Data, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Blockchain are set to disrupt the financial sector. The book illustrates how recent advances in these technologies facilitate banks, FinTech, and financial institutions to collect, process, analyze, and fully leverage the very large amounts of data that are now…
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- 9783030945909
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- xxiii, 363p.
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- 332.640285 BIG b
Foundations of a sociology of canon law
This "Open Access" book investigates the legal reality of the church through a sociological lens and from the perspective of canon law studies, the discipline which researches the law and the legal structure of the Catholic Church. It introduces readers from various backgrounds to the sociology of canon law, which is both a legal and a theological field of study, and is the first step towards i…
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- 9783031017919
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- xiv; 235 pg.
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- 301 HAH h
Data science, data visualization, and digital twins
Real-time, web-based, and interactive visualisations are proven to be outstanding methodologies and tools in numerous fields when knowledge in sophisticated data science and visualisation techniques is available. The rationale for this is because modern data science analytical approaches like machine/deep learning or artificial intelligence, as well as digital twinning, promise to give data ins…
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- 9781839629457
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- xiv, 116p. : ill
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- 001.4226 DAT d
Target suitability and the crime drop
This is a chapter from The Criminal Act: The Role and Influence of Routine Activity Theory edited by Martin A. Andresen and Graham Farrell. This chapter is available open access under a CC BY license. Target suitability is a cornerstone of Marcus Felson's routine activities approach, and critical in determining crime rates. Recent research identifies reduced target suitability, via improved sec…
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- 9781137525024
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- ii; 22 PG; ill.
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- 500 TAR t
Sensing absence:how to see what isn't there in the study of science and security
This is a chapter from Absence in Science, Security and Policy edited by Brian Rappert and Brian Balmer. This chapter is available open access under a CC BY license. Part reflection on the forthcoming chapters, part analysis of academic literature, and part programmatic agenda setting, this introduction chapter forwards the importance of questioning taken for granted assumptions in sensing what…
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- 9781137592613
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- 34 PG.
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Changing south pacific
The texts collected in this volume take an anthropological approach to the variety of contemporary societal problems which confront the peoples of the contemporary South Pacific: religious revival, the sociology of relations between local groups, regions and nation-States, the problem of culture areas, the place of democracy in the transition of States founded on sacred chiefdoms, the role of c…
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- 9781921536151
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- 305.800995 CHA c
Visual and camera sensors
This book includes 13 papers published in Special Issue ("Visual and Camera Sensors") of the journal Sensors. The goal of this Special Issue was to invite high-quality, state-of-the-art research papers dealing with challenging issues in visual and camera sensors.
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- 9783036515830
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- ix, 281p.; ill.
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Cultural models of nature
Drawing on the ethnographic experience of the contributors, this volume explores the Cultural Models of Nature found in a range of food-producing communities located in climate-change affected areas. These Cultural Models represent specific organizations of the etic categories underlying the concept of Nature (i.e. plants, animals, the physical environment, the weather, humans, and the supernat…
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- 9781351127905
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- 394p. : ill.
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- 338.19 CUL c
Industry 4.0 for SMEs - smart manufacturing and logistics for SMEs
In recent years, the industrial environment has been changing radically due to the introduction of concepts and technologies based on the fourth industrial revolution, also known as Industry 4.0. After the introduction of Industry 4.0 in large enterprises, SMEs have moved into the focus, as they are the backbone of many economies. Small organizations are increasingly proactive in improving thei…
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- 9783039365685
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- ix, 336p.; ill.
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Open data and models for energy and environment
This Special Issue aims at providing recent advancements on open data and models. Energy and environment are the fields of application.For all the aforementioned reasons, we encourage researchers and professionals to share their original works. Topics of primary interest include, but are not limited to:Open data and models for energy sustainability;Open data science and environment applications…
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- 9783036517551
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- vii, 237p.; ill.
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- 004.0973 OPE o
Technologies and applications for big data value
This open access book explores cutting-edge solutions and best practices for big data and data-driven AI applications for the data-driven economy. It provides the reader with a basis for understanding how technical issues can be overcome to offer real-world solutions to major industrial areas. The book starts with an introductory chapter that provides an overview of the book by positioning the …
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- 9783030783075
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- xxiv, 544p.; ill.
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- 005.7 TEC t
Public innovation and digital transformation
Public innovation and digitalization are reshaping organizations and society in various ways and within multiple fields, as innovations are essential in transforming our world and addressing global sustainability and development challenges. This book addresses the fascinating relationship of these two contemporary topics and explores the role of digital transformation in promoting public innova…
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- 9781000686371
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- xvii, 210p.
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- 352.3802854678 PUB p
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