University Students’ Wellbeing
This case study explores wellbeing issues like stress and anxiety among university students. It offers a roadmap to resilience through coping strategies like meditation and mindfulness. For students, educators, and policymakers seeking to enhance wellbeing, this book is for you.
Disfellowshipping and Discrimination of a Religious Minority
This book assesses the Norwegian Government’s policy of denying Jehovah’s Witnesses state grants and registration through the lens of the European Convention on Human Rights, focusing on the overarching principles of religious autonomy and state neutrality.
Ophelia Through Time
Once a marginal character, Shakespeare’s tragic Ophelia has become a cultural icon. This captivating book offers a cross-media analysis of her rebirth in art, film, and television, tracing her evolving representation and her enduring impact on visual storytelling.
Migration has been a defining element of Jewish life for centuries, becoming the subject of a rich mythology. This volume’s essays interrogate these mythologized narratives, exploring the diverse yet similar “realities” they represent and reveal about the needs of the present.
This account of African Ubuntu philosophy questions the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It challenges the logic of linear growth that centres the individual, and instead proposes “Life is mutual aid”—a logic of sharing, affirming that one’s humanity is tied to others.
Driver distraction results in 340,000 roadway deaths annually. While most research covers personal vehicles, this book focuses specifically on transit bus driver distractions. It is an essential guide for transit agencies and professionals involved in transportation safety.
Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks
This guide to age-oriented transmission schemes integrates space, air, ground, and sea networks into a single architecture. A comprehensive resource for professionals and newcomers, it provides a current understanding of efficient, flexible network design.
Studying Shanghai and Nanjing, this book examines the behavior and impact of pollutants in developing metropolises. It offers innovative solutions, including a method to distinguish human-added trace metals in soil from natural levels. A guide for researchers and policymakers.
A Journey into Ambiguous Set Theory
An introduction to the concepts of ambiguous set theory. Through concrete examples, the book demonstrates practical applications in decision-making, control systems, and medical imaging. It is designed to be approachable for students, researchers, and enthusiasts alike.
This book addresses the critical gap between traditional teaching and Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL). It bridges the divide by exploring theories, principles, and pedagogies for 21st-century learning, covering course design, online assessment, and quality assurance.
Challenging traditional theories, this book views institutions not as static constructs but as dynamic, adaptive systems. It introduces path emergence theory to show how small, decentralized actions can ripple through societies, fostering global and regional change.
This textbook explores the principles and best practices of quality in pharmaceutical products. It bridges the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical application, preparing students and professionals to meet the dynamic demands of the pharmaceutical industry.
Very-Large-Scale Integration Physical Design
This book presents an innovative, automated approach to fix Timing-Design Rule Check (TDRC) violations in VLSI chip design. Using TCL scripting to streamline the Engineering Change Order (ECO) process, it achieves an 87% violation fix rate with minimal global timing shifts.
Master English communication with dental patients. This practical guide for non-native speakers uses scenario-based learning and simulated dialogues to build the confidence and skills needed for real-world clinical settings.
In Argentina, Chile, and Spain, playwrights addressed the national traumas of dictatorship by creating “posttraumatic theater.” This book argues these plays represent national crises by taking on stylistic features that mimic the symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder.
Persistently ignored or demonised by 19th-century British travellers, Romanians were viewed as a decadent “Oriental Other.” This volume explores these representations in ten travelogues, analysing them through the lens of British expansionism and Victorian racial discourse.
Political Economy of Financial Systems
Why did identical financial systems lead to contrasting outcomes in South Korea and India? This book argues that the efficiency of finance depends not just on its structure, but on the wider political-economic context and its relations with the market.
Indian Diaspora
Borders give rise to division, the suffering of homelessness, and the loss of culture. This book ties together the stories of uprooted migrants, refugees, and exiles—including writers like Jhumpa Lahiri and Kiran Desai—who use their writing to highlight migration concerns.
This book chronicles America’s “Golden Age” from a Baby Boomer’s perspective to provide a balanced view of that time. It then explores the “Age of AI,” where Generative AI poses an existential threat to our prosperity and democracy, but also the potential for a new Golden Age.
The Role of Point Defects in the Luminescence Processes in Inorganic Solids and Phosphor Development
Developing sensitive phosphors for applications like 3D x-ray imaging requires knowledge of point defects in solids, information often lacking. This book bridges the gap, focusing on the crucial role of electron-hole traps for stimulated luminescence phenomena.
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