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Decolonisation of e-government research and practice: exploring contextual is…
With the rapid increase in the implementation of e-Government in Africa and across the world, the need to investigate the key bottlenecks (issues) caused by the failure of a large number of e-Government projects cannot be ignored. The main purpose of this book is to contribute to the current scholarly and intellectual discourse on different aspects of e-Government such as understanding the crit…
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- 9781928396772
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- 360 p.
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- 351.02854678 BWA d
Japan nutrition
This Open Access auto-translation book demonstrates a time series of nutrition improvement in Japan since the introduction of nutrition sciences to Japan about 150 years ago. The chapters present the historical event where nutritional deficiency due to food shortage was improved in almost a century, by the introduction of nutrition policy and practices such as the "Nutrition Improvement Law". T…
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- 9789811663161
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- xi, 200 p. : ill.
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- 572 NAK j
Academia in transformation : scholars facing the Arab uprisings
Popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have had a deep impact, not only on the societies and political structures in the respective countries there, but also on different academic disciplines. The events that started in 2010 in Tunisia have altered academic terminology, contributed to a shift in study focus and sometimes challenged dominant theoretical approaches. The book…
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- 9783845274348
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- 223 p.
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- 378.56 KOH a
Open world learning : research, innovation and the challenges of high-quality…
This book provides state-of-the-art contemporary research insights into key applications and processes in open world learning. Open world learning seeks to understand access to education, structures, and the presence of dialogue and support systems. It explores how the application of open world and educational technologies can be used to create opportunities for open and high-quality education.…
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- 9781003177098
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- XVIII, 280 p.
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- Routledge Research in Digital Education and Educational Technology
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- 374.4 OPE o
The whipple museum of the history of science : objects and investigations, to…
In this book the diverse objects of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science's internationally renowned collection are brought into sharp relief by a number of highly regarded historians of science in fourteen essays. Each chapter focuses on a specific instrument or group of objects, ranging from an English medieval astrolabe to a modern agricultural 'seed source indicator' to a curious col…
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- 9781108633628
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- xvii, 356 p. ; ill
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- 502.84 NAL t
The DARPA model for transformative technologies: perspectives on the U.S. def…
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has played a remarkable role in the creation new transformative technologies, revolutionizing defense with drones and precision-guided munitions, and transforming civilian life with portable GPS receivers, voice-recognition software, self-driving cars, unmanned aerial vehicles, and, most famously, the ARPANET and its successor, the Inte…
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- 9781783747931
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- xix, 485 p. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 338.064 DAR d
Big data and global trade law
This collection explores the relevance of global trade law for data, big data and cross-border data flows. Contributing authors from different disciplines including law, economics and political science analyze developments at the World Trade Organization and in preferential trade venues by asking what future-oriented models for data governance are available and viable in the area of trade law a…
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- 9781108919234
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- xxx, 376 p. : ill.
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- 343.0815 BUR b
Histories of technology, the Environment and Modern Britain
Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain brings together historians with a wide range of interests to take a uniquely wide-lens view of how technology and the environment have been intimately and irreversibly entangled in Britain over the last 300 years. It combines, for the first time, two perspectives with much to say about Britain since the industrial revolution: the histo…
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- 9781911576570
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- xii, 354 p. : B&W, ill.
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- 609.41 AGA h
Technology change
Technological change is today central to the theory of economic growth. It is recognised as an important driver of productivity growth and the emergence of new products from which consumers derive welfare. It depends not only on the work of scientists and engineers, but also on a wider range of economic and societal factors, including institutions such as intellectual property rights and corpor…
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- 9789535156246
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- 254 p. : ill.
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- 403.6 TEI t
From data modeling to knowledge engineering in space system design
The technologies currently employed for modeling complex systems, such as aircraft, spacecraft, or infrastructures, are sufficient for system description, but do not allow deriving knowledge about the modeled systems. This work provides the means to describe space systems in a way that allows automating activities such as deriving knowledge about critical parts of the system’s design, evaluat…
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- 9783731507208
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- xiii, 281p.: ill.
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- 650 HEN f
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