The Home Workplace
The recent mass migration to remote work has made it clear our foundations are not solid. But what if this decentralization could benefit the individual, the organization, and the planet? This book provides tools to design a home workplace that serves your company and our world.
This guide explains quantitative research in health sciences. It covers the entire process: formulating a research question, defining variables, choosing a study design, data collection, and statistical analysis. Acquire the skills to develop a complete health research project.
Research Methodology – Contemporary Practices
New researchers confront challenges in research methodology. This book helps scholars gain command of contemporary practices, describing the simple steps for carrying out research, discussing the tools and techniques needed, and offering valuable tips to avoid common mistakes.
This book argues that all rationality is social and explains the far-ranging consequences. It highlights the need for methodological reforms and for changing social scientific theories in economics, sociology, and psychology.
This book discusses the most important issues facing librarianship today. Librarians ensure the authenticity of information and are committed to information literacy. The book is richly illustrated with clear diagrams for simple understanding of the subject matter.
An indispensable guide to modern business analytics. Convert raw data into actionable insights using descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive techniques. With real-world case studies, this book equips you with the knowledge to optimize processes and make strategic decisions.
This textbook presents methods of data analysis and uncertainty estimation, combining classical statistics with modern methods like Monte Carlo modelling. With numerous illustrations and examples using real-world data, it will appeal to students, scientists, and engineers.
This book portrays all rational actions as social. It elucidates the significance of this perspective for psychology, political philosophy, and better living, challenging the damaging consequences of psychology’s assumption that rationality is strictly individualist.
This book explores how research practices have profound implications for education. Authors think critically about research design, covering topics from co-design with teachers to system change, in a robust discussion that will inform and shape education systems for the future.
This book helps researchers select the right predictive model. It explains and compares traditional and data-driven models from a statistical viewpoint, with illustrations in R. Learn to handle model assumptions, outliers, and overfitting.
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.
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.
Learning Progressions for Maps, Geospatial Technology, and Spatial Thinking
This book is a resource for researching learning progressions for maps, geospatial technology and spatial thinking. Featuring contributions from experts, it offers advice and guidance on research methods, data interpretation, and avoiding common pitfalls.
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 concise contemporary guide explores optimization, control theory, and calculus of variations. A valuable source for learning mathematical modeling and scientific prediction, it features a variety of solved exercises, making it useful for university courses.
Complexity and Uncertainty in Contemporary Cities
Contemporary cities face growing complexity and uncertainty. This book reviews the history of systems thinking and provides a conceptual model applying systemic principles and foresight techniques to urban planning, facilitating collaborative and integrated approaches to cities.
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.
This book develops a nonstandard approach to control systems analysis and design using non-recursive behavioural models. It presents techniques for state controllability analysis, feedback control, and optimal control design. All results are illustrated by lab experiments.
This collection of social work research uses studies as a tool for social justice. It offers a scientific model for researchers, organisations, and laypersons to study topics from education and health to criminal justice, bringing us a step closer to development for all.
This volume promotes innovation in research methodologies for science, mathematics, health, and environmental education. Chapters present new methods to address global challenges like climate change, exploring queer theory, AI, arts-based studies, and socioscientific approaches.