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The behavioral ecology of the Tibetan macaque
This open access book summarizes the multi-disciplinary results of one of China’s main primatological research projects on the endemic Tibetan macaque (Macaca thibetana), which had continued for over 30 years, but which had never been reported on systematically. Dedicated to this exceptional Old World monkey, this book makes the work of Chinese primatologists on the social behavior, cooperati…
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- 9783030279202
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- xvi, 299p. : ill.
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- 599.82 BEH b
Ethics and drug resistance: collective responsibility for global public health
This Open Access volume provides in-depth analysis of the wide range of ethical issues associated with drug-resistant infectious diseases. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is widely recognized to be one of the greatest threats to global public health in coming decades; and it has thus become a major topic of discussion among leading bioethicists and scholars from related disciplines including eco…
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- 9783030278748
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- xvii, 448p. : ill.
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- 171.7 ETH e
Charting spiritual care : the emerging role of chaplaincy records in global h…
This open access volume is the first academic book on the controversial issue of including spiritual care in integrated electronic medical records (EMR). Based on an international study group comprising researchers from Europe (The Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland), the United States, Canada, and Australia, this edited collection provides an overview of different charting practices and expe…
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- 9783030470708
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- xv, 232p. : ill.
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- 259.4 CHA c
Research ethics for students in the social sciences
This open access textbook offers a practical guide into research ethics for undergraduate students in the social sciences. A step-by-step approach of the most viable issues, in-depth discussions of case histories and a variety of didactical tools will aid the student to grasp the issues at hand and help him or her develop strategies to deal with them. This book addresses problems and questio…
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- 9783030484156
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- xvi, 287p. : ill.
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- 174.93 BOS r
Implementing deeper learning and 21st education reforms : building an educati…
This open access book is a comparative analysis of recent large scale education reforms that broadened curriculum goals to better prepare students for the 21st century. The book examines what governments actually do when they broaden curriculum goals, with attention to the details of implementation. To this end, the book examines system level reforms in six countries at various levels of develo…
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- 9783030570392
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- viii, 198p. : ill.
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- 370.1523 IMP i
Teaching ethics in organ transplantation and tissue donation - cases and movies
Organ transplantation is a thrilling new option for modern surgery giving hope for chronically ill patients, and, at the same time, stirring controversial ethical questions on human identity and the meaning of the human body. Being a global and transnational endeavor, organ transplantation raises universal ethical concerns and, yet, has to be adapted to culturally mediated believes. In this boo…
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- 9783941875401
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- 88p.
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- 174. 297954 TEA t
Contemporary bioethics : Islamic perspective
This book discusses the common principles of morality and ethics derived from divinely endowed intuitive reason through the creation of al-fitr' a (nature) and human intellect (al-‘aql). Biomedical topics are presented and ethical issues related to topics such as genetic testing, assisted reproduction and organ transplantation are discussed. Whereas these natural sources are God’s specia…
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- 9783319184289
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- xv, 267p. : ill.
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- 297.542 AL c
Cyber-physical systems : a model-based approach
In this concise yet comprehensive Open Access textbook, future inventors are introduced to the key concepts of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Using modeling as a way to develop deeper understanding of the computational and physical components of these systems, one can express new designs in a way that facilitates their simulation, visualization, and analysis. Concepts are introduced in a cross-d…
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- 9783030360719
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- xxiii, 187p. : ill.
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- 006.22 TAH c
Service design capabilities
This open access book discusses service design capabilities in innovation processes, and provides a framework that guides design students, practitioners and researchers towards a better understanding of operational aspects of service design processes. More specifically, it revisits service designers’ capabilities in light of the new roles that have opened up in innovation processes on differe…
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- 9783030562823
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- xv, 89p. : ill.
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- 658 MOR s
Implementing responsible research and innovation : organisational and nationa…
The book is an analysis of data collected in the RRI-Practice study. It comprises an organizational analysis and an analysis of national discourses, thus analysing conditions for the uptake of RRI in research funding and research performing organisations in the science system.
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- 9783030578503
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- xix, 120p. : ill.
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- 174.95 IMP i
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