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Quantifying Quality of Life
This open access book presents the rise of technology-enabled methods and tools for objective, quantitative assessment of Quality of Life (QoL), while following the WHOQOL model. It is an in-depth resource describing and examining state-of-the-art, minimally obtrusive, ubiquitous technologies. Highlighting the required factors for adoption and scaling of technology-enabled methods and tools for…
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- 6
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- 9783030942120
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- 610.285 QUA K
The Case for Case Studies : Methods and Applications in International Develop…
This book seeks to narrow two gaps: first, between the widespread use of case studies and their frequently 'loose' methodological moorings; and second, between the scholarly community advancing methodological frontiers in case study research and the users of case studies in development policy and practice. It draws on the contributors' collective experience at this nexus, but the underlying iss…
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- -
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- 9781108688253
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- xiii, 330 p
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- 300.72 CAS J
The Pathway to Publishing: A Guide to Quantitative Writing in the Health Scie…
Writing manuscripts is central to the advance of scientific knowledge. For an early career aspiring scientist, writing first author manuscripts is an opportunity to develop critical skills and to credential their expertise. Writing manuscripts, however, is difficult, doubly so for scientists who use English as a second language. Many science students intentionally avoid a writing-intensive curr…
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- 3
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- 978-3-030-98175-4
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- XIII; 186p;
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- Call Number
- 808.06661 PAT S
COVID-19, THE GLOBAL SOUTH AND THE PANDEMICS DEVELOPMENT IMPACT
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book examines the unique implications of the pandemic in the Global South. With international contributors from a variety of disciplines, it investigates the pandemic’s effects on development, medicine, gender (in)equality and human rights among other issues. The book’s assessment offers a discourse on the ways in which the…
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- -
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- 9781529225655
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- xv, 224p.
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- 362.1962414091724 COV m
Preparing for Life in a Digital Age : The IEA International Computer and Info…
Assessment, Testing and Evaluation; Computers and Education; International and Comparative Education
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- 9783319142227
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- ix, 308 p.
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- 371.334 PRE J
Motivational profiles in TIMSS mathematics : exploring student clusters acros…
This open access book presents a person-centered exploration of student profiles, using variables related to motivation to do school mathematics derived from the IEA’s Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) data. Statistical cluster analysis is used to identify groups of students with similar motivational profiles, across grades and over time, for multiple participating…
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- -
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- 9783030261832
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- xi, 144 p.
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- 510.71 MOT M
Return; Nationalizing Transnational Mobility In Asia
Since the late 1990s, Asian nations have increasingly encouraged, facilitated, or demanded the return of emigrants. In this interdisciplinary collection, distinguished scholars from countries around the world explore the changing relations between nation-states and transnational mobility. Taking into account illegally trafficked migrants, deportees, temporary laborers on short-term contracts, a…
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- 9780822377474
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- Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
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Laws of the sea : interdisciplinary currents
Assembling scholars across multiple orientations - from legal studies, geography, anthropology, cultural and political theory, the environmental humanities, and ocean studies - this book connects law to the broader humanities in order to critically engage contemporary concerns with the fate of the ocean. Although the United Nations' monumental 'Convention on the Law of the Sea' imagines an all-…
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- -
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- 9781003205173
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- xv, 302p. ; ill.
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- 341.45 LAW l
Knowledge shared: participatory evaluation in development cooperation
This is a most welcome addition to the growing world literature on partici-patory research and evaluation. It is welcome because there is a large and con-tinuing interest in participatory evaluation on the world scene. Non-governmental organizations, government social agencies, intergovernmentalbodies, and social movement structures of many types have expressed a pref-erence for p…
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- -
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- 9781565490857
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- xi, 252 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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- 300.72 KNO k
Control problems for conservation laws with traffic applications
Conservation and balance laws on networks have been the subject of much research interest given their wide range of applications to real-world processes, particularly traffic flow. This open access monograph is the first to investigate different types of control problems for conservation laws that arise in the modeling of vehicular traffic. Four types of control problems are discussed - bound…
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- 1st
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- 9783030930158
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- xvii, 227p, ; ill
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- -
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- 512.94 CON c
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