This book focuses on designing error correction techniques for compressed video over wireless channels. It presents adaptive solutions that exploit different importance classes in video data to ensure better quality. A reference for researchers and developers.
Kozak’s text encompasses all scholarly journals published in Turkey in all fields of science and other disciplines. The reference questions within are grouped under three main categories: the contact and publication information, article evaluation, and publishing information.
This book reduces the stress of research and scientific writing for undergraduate students. Written in simple language, it simplifies key concepts and procedures with examples, assuming no prior knowledge. A friendly companion for students aiming for academic excellence.
Golda Meir’s Foreign Decision-Making Process
Kremer Asaf focuses on Meir’s foreign decision making processes during her tenure as Israeli Prime Minister. She exposes the political-diplomatic aspects of foreign policy, using interviews and analysis of hundreds of formerly secret documents from various national archives.
As Africa embraces the global knowledge economy, how are its libraries and archives adapting? This volume explores the digital-age challenges and opportunities, offering an essential reference for information practitioners, researchers, and students.
With contributions from Bulgaria, Croatia, Indonesia, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia, Switzerland, Turkey, and the USA, this text provides significant theoretical and empirical studies of various aspects of hospitality and tourism from the perspectives of both tradition and innovation
This title demonstrates how intuition and psychological insights can be used to design relevant models and decision strategies, and describes how goals can be adequately formed and operationalised. It then integrates these processes in an analytical framework for decision-making.
This book questions how different sociological and theoretical approaches contribute to explain crises phenomena, and considers how crises processes and their effects on human social existence demand a re-thinking of the role of the social sciences in society.
Aberšek embarks on an ambitious journey of providing potential explanations of how to optimally meet the needs and requirements of our future society, shedding light on issues related to teaching and learning based on contemporary trends from the field of information technologies
Hospitality and Tourism in Transition in Central and Eastern Europe
This book analyses hospitality and tourism development in Central and Eastern Europe during the transition period (1990-2015). Authored by native specialists from eleven countries, it offers an insider’s view for lecturers, researchers, students, and all interested in the region.
An Indonesian Study of Mixed Methods
This book shows how to combine quantitative with qualitative methods in a real research project. It evaluates the suitability of land for development in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, considering disaster risk and social implications for settlement.
Globally, libraries are the backbones of the institutions in which they exist. This collection of articles promotes the use of libraries in students’ learning and quality of education, and will be of interest to teachers, students, parents, librarians and policy makers.
This collection of articles draws attention to the needs of 21st-century learners who require more than textbook information. It represents an important contribution to research on learners and reading, reading acquisition, and information literacy.
This guide offers a complete methodology for the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) thesis, blending indispensable theory and practice. It provides clear, applicable standards and testimonies from scholars to help students and supervisors find valuable solutions.
A Practical Guide to Promoting Social Participation in Seniors
An instruction manual for community workers and researchers on community-based participatory action research. This guide provides principles for working with older communities worldwide, with key contributions for work in lower-to-middle income countries.
Blockchain is a decentralized technology with a major impact on cybersecurity, supply chain management, and finance. This book provides a broad picture of the concepts, techniques, applications, and research directions in this emerging technology.
Ordinary Chondrites from North-East India
A spectroscopic study of meteorites from North-eastern India. This book uses Raman and infrared techniques to analyze silicate minerals in ordinary chondrites. For readers interested in planetary materials, it includes a list of Indian meteorites and a glossary of terms.
This book analyses 100 years of Hindi cinema to explore its portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi and his principles. It juxtaposes the celluloid Gandhi with the man himself, covering the major events of his non-violent struggle and their depiction on the silver screen.
Pedagogies of Difference and Desire in Professional Learning
This book explores what we can learn from images shared among professional communities on social media. It traces how professional learning unfolds online and considers how we can use these images as pedagogical resources, opening up windows into professional life for students.
Information Resource Science
This book introduces the new field of ‘Information Resource Science.’ While applied knowledge is developing, no theoretical study exists. This book fills that gap, solving basic issues of information resource theory to improve the creation and use of information.