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Mobile professional voluntarism and international development : killing me so…
This book explores the impact that professional volunteers have on the low resource countries they choose to spend time in. Whilst individual volunteering may be of immediate benefit to individual patients, this intervention may have detrimental effects on local health systems; distorting labour markets, accentuating dependencies and creating opportunities for corruption. Improved volunteer dep…
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- 9781137558336
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- xv, 173p. : ill.
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- 320 ACK m
Remembering and disremembering the dead : posthumous punishment, harm and red…
This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and when is death, affects how we understand the possibility of posthumous harm and redemption. Whilst it is impossible to hurt the dead, it is possible to harm the wishes, beliefs and memories of persons that once lived. In this way, this book highlights the vulnerability of th…
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- 9781137538284
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- vii, 103p. : ill.
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- 306.9 TOM r
Information infrastructures within European health care : working with the in…
This book consolidates experiences from across Europe on the design, development, implementation and evolution of inter-organisational information infrastructures for healthcare. It provides insights with practical relevance for those involved or interested in the planning and implementation of such infrastructures and includes 11 empirical cases on the introduction of core infrastructural arra…
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- 9783319510200
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- vi, 263p. : ill.
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- 610.285 INF i
Sentiment analysis for social media
Sentiment analysis is a branch of natural language processing concerned with the study of the intensity of the emotions expressed in a piece of text. The automated analysis of the multitude of messages delivered through social media is one of the hottest research fields, both in academy and in industry, due to its extremely high potential applicability in many different domains. This Special Is…
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- 9783039285723
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- 152 p.; 22 cm.
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- 302.33 SEN s
Data journeys in the sciences
This groundbreaking, open access volume analyses and compares data practices across several fields through the analysis of specific cases of data journeys. It brings together leading scholars in the philosophy, history and social studies of science to achieve two goals: tracking the travel of data across different spaces, times and domains of research practice; and documenting how such journeys…
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- 9783030371777
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- xvii, 412p.: ill.
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- 004 DAT d
VR Technologies in Cultural Heritage : First International Conference, VRTCH …
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on VR Technologies in Cultural Heritage, VRTCH 2018, held in Brasov, Romania in May 2018. The 13 revised full papers along with the 5 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. The papers of this volume are organized in topical sections on data acquisition and m…
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- 9783030058197
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- X, 244 p.
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- 006.8 VRT v
Political landscapes of capital cities
Political Landscapes of Capital Cities] is a welcome contribution to the study of the spatialization of society and suggests paths that anthropologists can take to analyze political space in urban and non-urban settings alike." —Anthropology Review Database "[O]utstanding contributions of an interdisciplinary group of authors trained in different methodologies. . . . offer[s] both scholarly a…
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- 9781607324690
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- 320 POL p
Elicitive curricular development: a manual for scholar-practitioners developm…
The Elicitive Curricular Development Manual (ECDM) is a systematic collection of experiences and lessons identified in academic contexts around the world in Austria, Cambodia, Colombia, Brazil, Ethiopia and Iraq. The ECDM reflects core elicitive principles such as the importance of a focus on relationships, looking beyond the episode of conflict, collaboration, communication and local knowledge…
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- 9783903187795
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- 60p.: ill.
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- 378 ALV e
Digital classics outside the echo-chamber : teaching, knowledge exchange and …
This volume, edited by the organizers of the “Digital Classicist” seminars series, presents research in classical studies, digital classics and digital humanities, bringing together scholarship that addresses the impact of the study of classical antiquity through computational methods on audiences such as scientists, heritage professionals, students and the general public. Within this conte…
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- 9781909188471
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- XII, 221 p.
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- 070.5 DIG d
Foundations of multi-paradigm modelling for cyber-physical systems
This open access book coherently gathers well-founded information on the fundamentals of and formalisms for modelling cyber-physical systems (CPS). Highlighting the cross-disciplinary nature of CPS modelling, it also serves as a bridge for anyone entering CPS from related areas of computer science or engineering. Truly complex, engineered systems—known as cyber-physical systems—that integra…
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- 9783030439460
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- 004 FOU f
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