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Contemporary Environmental Issues and Challenges in Era of Climate Change
Contemporary Environmental Issues and Challenges in Era of Climate Change

Over the last few decades, unprecedented global population growth has led to increased demand for food and shelter. At the same time, extraction of natural resources beyond the Earth’s resilience capacity has had a devastating effect on ecosystems and environmental health. Furthermore, climate change is having a significant...

Uveitis (Current Practices in Ophthalmology)
Uveitis (Current Practices in Ophthalmology)
This book discusses the main clinical aspects of common uveitic infectious and non-infectious entities, the diagnostic work-up, and the treatment/management options based on the literature, where available, and clinical experience. Providing a quick reference guide to uveitis and retina fellows as well as general ophthalmologists, this...
Enabling Sustainable Energy Transitions: Practices of legitimation and accountable governance
Enabling Sustainable Energy Transitions: Practices of legitimation and accountable governance
This open access book reframes sustainable energy transitions as being a matter of resolving accountability crises. It demonstrates how the empirical study of several practices of legitimation can analytically deconstruct energy transitions, and presents a typology of these practices to help determine whether energy...
Rating Professors Online: How Culture, Technology, and Consumer Expectations Shape Modern Student Evaluations (Marketing and Communication in Higher Education)
Rating Professors Online: How Culture, Technology, and Consumer Expectations Shape Modern Student Evaluations (Marketing and Communication in Higher Education)

This book explores the emerging trends and patterns in online student evaluations of teaching and how online reviews have transformed the teacher-student relationship as developments in technology have altered consumer behaviors. While consumers at large rely more and more on web-based platforms to purchase commercial products and...

Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Sound and Music Technology (CSMT): Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering)
Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Sound and Music Technology (CSMT): Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering)
The book presents selected papers that have been accepted at the seventh Conference on Sound and Music Technology (CSMT) in December 2019, held in Harbin, Hei Long Jiang, China. CSMT is a domestic conference focusing on audio processing and understanding with bias on music and acoustic signals. The primary aim of the conference is to promote the...
Geochemistry of Chromium in the Earth’s Mantle (Springer Geology)
Geochemistry of Chromium in the Earth’s Mantle (Springer Geology)
This book provides an analysis of an actual problem of the evolution of deep matter under the conditions of the upper mantle, transition zone, and uppermost lower mantle. This issue has a fundamental importance in geochemistry, petrology, mineralogy, and crystalochemistry of the mantle, at different depths. The authors discuss new...
Experts and the Will of the People: Society, Populism and Science
Experts and the Will of the People: Society, Populism and Science
The rise of populism in the West has led to attacks on the legitimacy of scientific expertise in political decision making. This book explores the differences between populism and pluralist democracy and their relationship with science. Pluralist democracy is characterised by respect for minority choices and a system of checks and balances that...
Advances in Data Sciences, Security and Applications: Proceedings of ICDSSA 2019 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering)
Advances in Data Sciences, Security and Applications: Proceedings of ICDSSA 2019 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering)
This book gathers the best papers presented at the International Conference on Data Sciences, Security and Applications (ICDSSA 2019), organized by Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering, New Delhi, India, on 7–8 March 2019. The respective contributions present original research work, essential information, techniques and...
Obsessed by a Dream: The Physicist Rolf Widerøe – a Giant in the History of Accelerators (Springer Biographies)
Obsessed by a Dream: The Physicist Rolf Widerøe – a Giant in the History of Accelerators (Springer Biographies)

This Open Access biography chronicles the life and achievements of the Norwegian engineer and physicist Rolf Widerøe. Readers who meet him in the pages of this book will wonder why he isn't better known. 

The first of Widerøe's many pioneering contributions in the field of accelerator physics was the
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Blackness as a Defining Identity: Mediated Representations and the Lived Experiences of African Immigrants in Australia
Blackness as a Defining Identity: Mediated Representations and the Lived Experiences of African Immigrants in Australia

This book explores the lived experiences of African immigrants in Australia, and the way they are represented in the media. By delving into the group’s everyday lives, the book exposes the roles that media and social perceptions play in the production and regulation of diasporic identities. Rather than being presented as...

The Vanishing World of The Islandman: Narrative and Nostalgia (Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology)
The Vanishing World of The Islandman: Narrative and Nostalgia (Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology)

Exploring An t-Oileánach (anglicised as The Islandman), an indigenous Irish-language memoir written by Tomás Ó Criomhthain (Tomás O'Crohan), Máiréad Nic Craith charts the development of Ó Criomhthain as an author; the writing, illustration, and publication of the...

Transformation Processes of Metals in Urban Road Dust: Implications for Stormwater Reuse (SpringerBriefs in Water Science and Technology)
Transformation Processes of Metals in Urban Road Dust: Implications for Stormwater Reuse (SpringerBriefs in Water Science and Technology)
This book discusses the physicochemical changes (transformations) that metals deposited on urban road surfaces undergo during dry weather periods, in order to provide insights into their potential impacts on stormwater quality. Based on extensive field experiments, and laboratory and data analyses, it examines transformation characteristics of...
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