Innovation Performance in the 21st Century:
Designing Business Related to Cultural, Digital and Environmental Challenges
English | 2021 | ISBN: 3658347600 | 232 Pages | PDF EPUB | 26 MB
Human Information Processing in Speech Quality Assessment by Stefan Uhrig
English | PDF | 2021 | 180 Pages | ISBN : 3030713881 | 17.1 MB
This book provides a new multi-method, process-oriented approach towards speech quality assessment, which allows readers to examine the influence of speech transmission quality on a variety of perceptual and cognitive processes in human listeners.
Handbook of Africa's International Relations By Tim Murithi (Editor)
2015 | 468 Pages | ISBN: 1857436334 | PDF | 6 MB
Africa's international relations have often been defined and oriented by the dominant international and geopolitical agendas of the day. In the aftermath of colonialism the Cold War became a dominant paradigm that defined the nature of the continent's relationship with the rest of the world. The contemporary forces of globalization are now exerting an undue influence and impact upon Africa's international relations. Increasingly, the African continent is emerging as a vocal, and in some respects an influential, actor in international relations. There is a paucity of analysis and research on this emerging trend. This timely book proposes to fill this analytical gap by engaging with a wide range of issues, with chapters written by experts on a variety of themes.The emerging political prominence of the African continent on the world stage is predicated on an evolving internal process of continental integration. In particular, there are normative and policy efforts to revive the spirit of Pan-Africanism: the 21st century is witnessing the evolution of Pan-Africanism, notably through the constitution and establishment of the African Union (AU). Given the fact that there is a dearth of analysis on this phenomemon, this volume will also interrogate the notion of Pan-Africanism through various lenses - notably peace and security, development, the environment and trade.The volume will also engage with the emerging role of the AU as an international actor, e.g. with regard to its role in the reform of the United Nations Security Council, climate change, the International Criminal Court (ICC), the treaty establishing Africa as a nuclear-free zone, Internally Displaced Persons, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), international trade, the environment, public health issues, security, and development issues. This book will assess how the AU's role as an international actor is complicated by the difficulty of promoting consensus among African states and then maintaining that consensus in the face of often divergent national interests. This book will in part assess the role of the AU in articulating collective and joint policies and in making interventions in international decision and policy-making circles.The Handbook will also assess the role of African social movements and their relationship with global actors. The role of African citizens in ameliorating their own conditions is often underplayed in the international relations discourse, and this volume will seek to redress this oversight. Throughout the book the various chapters will also assess the role that these citizen linkages have contributed towards continental integration and in confronting the challenges of globalization.
Groundwater Resources Development and Planning in the Semi-Arid Region by Chaitanya B. Pande
English | EPUB | 2021 | 572 Pages | ISBN : 3030681238 | 150.2 MB
This book addresses the various challenges in achieving sustainable groundwater development, management, and planning in semi-arid regions, with a focus on India, and discusses advanced remote sensing and GIS techniques for the estimation and management of groundwater resources.
Frailty and Sarcopenia in Cirrhosis: The Basics, the Challenges, and the Future by Puneeta Tandon
English | PDF | 2019 | 277 Pages | ISBN : 3030262251 | 5.7 MB
This book provides a concise yet comprehensive overview of frailty and sarcopenia in the cirrhotic patient. The text presents a personalized approach to identifying cirrhotic patients at risk of higher morbidity and mortality due to frailty and sarcopenia. It reviews current and novel diagnostic methods, while spotlighting treatment and management strategies for frailty and sarcopenia.
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1032057866 | 281 pages | True PDF | 5.24 MB
This second volume of Christian Fuchs' Media, Communication and Society book series outlines key concepts and contemporary debates in critical theory.
The book explores the foundations of a Marxist-humanist critical theory of society, clarifying and updating key concepts in critical theory - such as the dialectic, critique, alienation, class, capitalism, ideology, and racial capitalism. In doing so, the book engages with and further develops elements from the works of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Rosa Luxemburg, Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, David Harvey, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, C.L.R. James, Adolph L. Reed Jr., and Cornel West.
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0367896176 | 252 pages | True PDF | 7.47 MB
It is commonly accepted that "exercise is good for children" but, considering the number of children worldwide exercising, we know comparatively little, compared to adults, about how specific mechanisms influence health and sports performance. There are considerable obstacles that challenge the progress of paediatric research, not least in relation to ethical and methodological considerations. Therefore, advances in the science and clinical application of paediatric exercise physiology, psychology and biomechanics have not reached their potential.
Paediatric clinical exercise physiology has application to the role of exercise in the assessment and treatment of paediatric chronic diseases, the utilization of physical activity in preventing illness and enhancing wellbeing and can enhance our understanding of how sports can be made safer and more enjoyable for our young athletes.
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0367445328 | 179 pages | True PDF | 9.85 MB
How do you sell an innovative product to a market that does not yet exist? Entrepreneurial businesses often create products and services based on radically new technology that have the power to change the marketplace. Existing market research data will be largely irrelevant in these cases, making sales and marketing of innovative new products especially challenging to entrepreneurs.Entrepreneurial Marketingfocuses on this challenge.
Classic core marketing concepts, such as segmentation, positioning, and the marketing mix undergo an 'extreme makeover' in the context of innovative products hitting the market. Edwin J. Nijssen stresses principles of affordable loss, experimentation, and adjustment for emerging opportunities, as well as cooperation with first customers. Containing many marketing examples of successful and cutting-edge innovations (including links to websites and videos), useful lists of key issues, and instructions on how to make a one-page marketing plan,Entrepreneurial Marketingprovides a vital guide to successfully developing customer demand and a market for innovative new products. This third edition has been thoroughly expanded, including:
Dr. Sandra Bonura, Uwe Spiekermann, "Empire Builder: John D. Spreckels and the Making of San Diego"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1496222911 | 440 pages | EPUB | 5.5 MB
2021 San Diego Book Award
East Asian Low-Carbon Community: Realizing a Sustainable Decarbonized Society from Technology and Social Systems by Weisheng Zhou
English | EPUB | 2021 | 411 Pages | ISBN : 9813343389 | 62.1 MB
This book presents new vision of regional de-carbonization with concrete scheme design and substantial quantitative demonstration from original interdisciplinary studies. It provides new horizon for not only climate change, environmental conservation but also for international cooperation and peace in East Asia. The chapters introduce diverse low carbon society principles from local to global level with best practices integrating technology evolution and social innovation.