Monica Eriksson is Associate Professor in social policy (health promotion) at Åbo Akademi university Vasa, Finland. Current position as Senior Professor in public health and health promotion at University West, Department of Health Sciences, University West, Trollhättan, Sweden. Former Head of the Center on Salutogenesis, University West. Member of the Global Working Group on Salutogenesis 20…
This open access book covers all aspects of minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) and provides detailed information on each MIGS device, including its mechanism of action; patient selection; implantation techniques; post-operative management; and a review of the existing literature. Step-by-step descriptions are provided for the surgical technique used in implanting each MIGS device, accom…
This book discusses the historical context, country experience, and best practices that led to eliminating infectious diseases from the WHO’s South-East Asia Region, such as malaria, lymphatic filariasis, yaws, trachoma, and mother-to-child HIV in the mid-twentieth and twenty-first century. The UN Sustainable Development Goals (3.3) targets to end AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and neglected t…
his open access book offers an essential overview of brain, head and neck, and spine imaging. Over the last few years, there have been considerable advances in this area, driven by both clinical and technological developments. Written by leading international experts and teachers, the chapters are disease-oriented and cover all relevant imaging modalities, with a focus on magnetic resonance ima…
Home Book Diseases of the Abdomen and Pelvis 2023-2026 Download book PDF Download book EPUB Editors: Juerg Hodler, Rahel A. Kubik-Huch, Justus E. Roos, Gustav K. von Schulthess This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access Used as course syllabus for the well-recognized IDKD course in Davos Written by internationally renowned teachers and researchers …
This open access book, through an in-depth process study of the interactions of two creative groups (film production crew) in temporary organizations during two media projects, explores how a team developmental process unfolds and proposes a model illustrating how the groups repeatedly change formation so that individuals can manage job interdependencies and new issues arising while developing,…
Prof. Al-Shamsi is the director of VPS oncology services in the United Arab Emirates which is the largest cancer care provider network in the UAE. He is also the President of the Emirates Oncology Society & an adjunct professor at the college of medicine - University of Sharjah. Prof. Al-Shamsi holds triple specialty board certifications in medical oncology from the UK, USA and Canada. He compl…
“Infogest” (Improving Health Properties of Food by Sharing our Knowledge on the Digestive Process) is an EU COST action/network in the domain of Food and Agriculture that will last for 4 years from April 4, 2011. Infogest aims at building an open international network of institutes undertaking multidisciplinary basic research on food digestion gathering scientists from different origins (fo…
This open access book presents established methods of structural health monitoring (SHM) and discusses their technological merit in the current aerospace environment. While the aerospace industry aims for weight reduction to improve fuel efficiency, reduce environmental impact, and to decrease maintenance time and operating costs, aircraft structures are often designed and built heavier than re…
Buku ini adalah edisi revisi dari seri ketiga Mencari Indonesia yang sebelumnya telah diterbitkan pada 2019. Edisi revisi ini diterbitkan melalui program akuisisi Penerbit BRIN agar menjangkau khalayak pembaca yang lebih luas. Sebagaimana tecermin dalam judulnya, seri ketiga ini berisi esai-esai yang ditulis pada masa pandemi Covid-19, yang tidak hanya merupakan isu kesehatan belaka, tetapi jug…
Technological change is at the core of all major disruptions in human history, and revolutions, wars, and general development are regularly connected to some sort of technological change. However, not all development is beneficial. While technology has fueled great innovations and rapid development, the notion of sustainable development has gained prominence as we now experience serious social,…
Have you ever experienced a decision situation that was hard to come to grips with? Did you ever feel a need to improve your decision-making skills? Is this something where you feel that you have not learned enough practical and useful methods? In that case, you are not alone! Even though decision-making is both considered and actually is a very important skill in modern work-life as well as in…
Pertanian. sebagai salah satu pilar penting dalam ketahanan pangan di Indonesia. membutuhkan adanya produsen pertanian. yaitu petani yang mengolah dan menghasilkan bahan pangan. Namun. apa jadinya jika generasi muda Indonesia tidak lagi tertarik untuk menjadi seorang petani? Kurangnya minat generasi muda untuk terjun dan bekerja di bidang pertanian menjadi hal yang harus disikapi. Pemerintah In…
Siapa yang tak kenal dengan ubi kayu? Makanan dengan sumber karbohidrat paling tinggi di antara jenis makanan lain, seperti beras, jagung, dan gandum itu sangat populer di Indonesia. Tak heran, pemanfaatan dan budi daya ubi kayu sangat gencar dilakukan oleh masyarakat kita. Namun, siapa sangka dibalik popularitasnya, ubi kayu masih memiliki persoalan dalam hal produktivitas dan pemanfaatan pasc…
Pernahkah terpikir, bagaimana kita dapat berbelok dengan aman tanpa adanya cermin samping pada mobil kita? Kemudian, apa yang akan terjadi jika tidak ada lampu rem pada mobil kita? Tentu, kecelakaan lalu lintas akan sering terjadi dan kita tidak akan merasa aman dan nyaman ketika berkendara. Buku ini menyuguhkan bahasan tentang berbagai jenis instrumen optik pada mobil, baik yang berfungsi se…
Bertempat di Sulawesi Selatan dan Barat, penulis meneliti potensi limbah jerami padi dan tanaman murbei sebagai pakan lengkap untuk kambing. Buku ini tidak hanya mengemukakan langkah-langkah praktis pembuatan silase pakan lengkap, namun juga membahas dasar-dasar pengetahuan mengenai potensi, nutrisi, parameter keberhasilan, hingga uji coba pakan yang dihasilkan secara in vivo pada kambing. Ter…
Buku ini termasuk bagian dari upaya mendiseminasikan perihal pengertian radiasi, bagaimana radiasi berinteraksi dengan materi dan hasil-hasil riset lain dalam bidang khusus yang disebut biologi radiasi. Menilik dari cakupan buku ini, maka bagi pembaca yang ingin mengetahui tentang elemen dasar radiasi, buku ini memberikan informasi yang sangat baik tentang apa itu radiasi, dosis radiasi, bagaim…
Senjangnya hasil produk tanaman jagung antara produksi aktual dan potensi hasil khususnya di area dengan lahan jagung potensial—Sumatra Utara—membuat seluruh upaya dan program yang telah digalakkan, termasuk oleh pemerintah, perlu dikaji ulang. Kondisi ini menyiratkan fakta bahwa program-program dari pemerintah belum sepenuhnya diadopsi dengan baik oleh petani. Proses kaji ulang tersebut…
Buku Alternatif Penanggulangan Tuberkulosis (TBC): Wilayah Indonesia di Luar Sumatra dan Jawa–Bali ini hadir sebagai bentuk tanggung jawab untuk menyebarluaskan upaya penanggulangan tuberkulosis di Indonesia, khususnya di luar Sumatra dan Jawa–Bali. Buku ini juga menunjukkan bahwa masih perlunya perbaikan dan tindak lanjut, baik dalam hal penemuan kasus, penegakan diagnosis, maupun karena r…
Kemajuan suatu bangsa sangat dipengaruhi oleh kemampuannya menguasai ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi. Generasi peneliti baru yang berkompeten harus terus diciptakan untuk mempercepat penguasaan iptek. Tujuan utamanya agar manfaat iptek dapat langsung dirasakan oleh masyarakat. Oleh karena itu, buku panduan ini merupakan sebuah usaha untuk memberikan petunjuk kepada para peneliti pemula tentang b…
With a wealth of exciting data emerging in this rapidly evolving field this book will review the state-of-the-art knowledge with emphasis on multidisciplinary decision and management of head and neck cancer. The book provides significant detail on a wide range of topics including: the role of new targets for treatment, immunotherapy, resistance mechanisms, standardizing molecular profiling prog…
Over 98% of sprayed insecticidies and 95% of herbicides reach a destination other their target species, including non-target species, air, water, and soil. The extensive reliance on insecticide use reduce biodiversity, contributes of pollinator decline. destroy habitat, and threatens endangered species. This new textbook attempts to address various fundamental components of AW-IPM, e.g. the imp…
Consumers trust is a key factor in dealing with rising concerns about food safety and food quality, but only few studies have dealt with consumer attitudes and none of them has tried to model the process of consumer response. This book reports the main findings of an european project aimed at analysing trust along the food chain and its relationship with food risk communication. The papers coll…
This open access book reflects on matters of social and ethical concern raised in the daily practices of those working in and around precision oncology. Each chapter addresses the experiences, concerns and issues at stake for people who work in settings where precision oncology is practiced, enacted, imagined or discussed. It subsequently discusses and analyses bioethical dilemmas, scientific c…
This book is a roadmap of the exact health disparities that burden the health of South Texas residents, especially Hispanics, compared to the rest of Texas and nation. This type of knowledge has the potential to fuel and motivate researchers and public health leaders to create and shape interventions to reverse those health disparities. Most notably, focus on obesity and diabetes prevention eff…
Japan is quintessentially by geography a maritime country. Maritime surveillance capabilities – underwater, shore-based and airborne – are critical to its national defence posture. This book describes and assesses these capabilities, with particular respect to the underwater segment, about which there is little strategic analysis in publicly available literature. Since the end of the Col…
This open access book comprehensively consolidates studies in the rapidly emerging field of battery management. The primary focus is to overview the new and emerging data science technologies for full-lifespan management of Li-ion batteries, which are categorized into three groups, namely (i) battery manufacturing management, (ii) battery operation management, and (iii) battery reutilization ma…
Asap rokok pasif adalah sebuah permasalahan kesehatan global yang menyebabkan lebih dari 41.000 kematian di seluruh dunia per tahunnya. Hal ini disebabkan oleh sejumlah penyakit mematikan yang dapat disebabkan oleh asap rokok pasif, antara lain penyakit jantung, kanker paru, serta stroke. Berbagai penelitian mengemukakan bahwa sedikit apapun paparan asap rokok, tetap dapat meningkatkan risiko p…
This open access book is designed as a continuation of the editor’s 2019 book Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement Goals. This volume provides an in-depth analysis of industry sectors globally, and its purpose is to present emission reduction targets in 5-year steps (2025 to 2050) for the main twelve finance sectors per the Global Industry Classification System. This scientific analysis aims…
The history of early modern medicine often makes for depressing reading. It implies that people fell ill, took ineffective remedies, and died. This book seeks to rebalance and brighten our overall picture of early modern health by focusing on the neglected subject of recovery from illness in England, c.1580–1720. Drawing on an array of archival and printed materials, Misery to Mirth shows tha…
For centuries, people have talked of a powerful bodily disorder called migraine, which currently affects about a billion people around the world. Yet until now, the rich history of this condition has barely been told. In Migraine, award-winning historian Katherine Foxhall reveals the ideas and methods that ordinary people and medical professionals have used to describe, explain, and treat migra…
"Manipulating practices is the first ever collection of critical physiotherapy studies and comes at a time of unprecedented change in the profession. Written as a collaboration between 20 authors, many members of the Critical Physiotherapy Network (CPN), the book uncovers the growing body of critical thinking now emerging in physiotherapy. From topics as diverse as 21st century education, ethic…
This Special Issue addresses a topic of great relevance. In developed countries, there is a higher prevalence of people choosing to spend time indoors. Data show that the time a person spends at home ranges from 60% to 90% of the day, and 30% of that time is spent sleeping, though this varies depending on the individual. Taking into account these data, indoor residential environments have a dir…
Only fifty years ago, Tibetan medicine, now seen in China as a vibrant aspect of Tibetan culture, was considered a feudal vestige to be eliminated through government-led social transformation. Medicine and Memory in Tibet examines medical revivalism on the geographic and sociopolitical margins both of China and of Tibet’s medical establishment in Lhasa, exploring the work of medical practitio…
What are the current trends in housing? Is my planned project commercially viable? What should be my marketing and advertisement strategies? These are just some of the questions real estate agents, landlords and developers ask researchers to answer. But to find the answers, researchers are faced with a wide variety of methods that measure housing preferences and choices. To select and value a v…
This transdisciplinary volume investigates the ways in which people and organisations deal with the overflow of information, goods or choices. It explores two main themes: the emergence of overflows and the management of overflows, in the sense of either controlling or coping with them. Individual chapters show the management of overflows taking place in various social settings, periods and pol…
Peter Toon is the leading writer on primary care virtue ethics and this thought-provoking book builds on the thinking of philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre. A Flourishing Practice? looks at the moral problems that currently seem prevalent in health care. Common moral dilemmas highlighted by the media include threats to continuity of care, inappropriate care at the end of life, problems associated w…
The booming increase of the senior population has become a social phenomenon and a challenge to our societies, and technological advances have undoubtedly contributed to improve the lives of elderly citizens in numerous aspects. In current debates on technology, however, the »human factor« is often largely ignored. The ageing individual is rather seen as a malfunctioning machine whose deficie…
Industri kecil pengolahan pangan, khususnya pengolahan tahu, memanfaatkan air cukup banyak, namun juga menghasilkan limbah cair dan limbah padat sehingga mencemari lingkungan sekitar industri. Kajian terhadap peluang pemanfaatan teknologi tepat guna ini dikaitkan dengan penerapan konsep produksi bersih di industri kecil pengolahan tahu, khususnya industri kecil pengolahan tahu di Subang dan Sum…
Nanoteknologi itu ilmu pengetahuan tentang benda yang sangat kecil, bahkan lebih kecil dari semut. Nanoteknologi sudah digunakan dalam berbagai teknologi kuno dan masih dipelajari sampai saat ini. Nanoteknologi juga sudah banyak kita gunakan, lho. Mulai dari plester, pembersih lantai, pupuk tanaman, vitamin, hingga bahan bangunan dan handphone. Dimasa depan, nanoteknologi akan semakin berkemban…
Tahukah kalian? Ada buah yang sudah turun-temurun digunakan untuk merawat batik-batik juga pusaka keraton. Buah itu bernama lerak. Wah, mengapa lerak ya? Bagaimana caranya? Mari kita berkenalan dengan Rarak! Rarak si buah lerak tahu jawabannya. Dalam cergam ini, Rarak juga akan bercerita tentang pohon lerak, lho! Adakah manfaat lainnya? Yuk, kita baca!
Klara hendak melihat pohon di Taman Margasatwa Ragunan bersama Bunda. Namun, rencana Klara gagal. Bunda mendadak harus berangkat dinas ke Singapura. Padahal Klara ingin sekali melihat pohon. Akhirnya Klara ikut Ayah ke Ternate. Awalnya Klara enggan berangkat. Di Ternate, Klara bertemu Vendo, seorang anak pemandu wisata lokal. Bersama Vendo, ternyata Klara malah mengalami petualangan seru di kak…
Batubara merupakan salah satu sumber energi potensial yang dapat menggantikan minyak dan gas bumi di masa depan. Dengan makin menipisnya kondisi cadangan minyak dan gas bumi Indonesia, diversifikasi dalam pemanfaatan energi perlu mendapat perhatian yang serius. Terkait hal tersebut, buku ini memperkenalkan metode baru penyediaan energi dari batubara tanpa melakukan penambangan terbuka, tetapi m…
This open-access-book synthesizes a supportive developer checklist considering sustainable Team and agile Project Management in the challenge of Artificial Intelligence and limits of image recognition. The study bases on technical, ethical, and legal requirements with examples concerning autonomous vehicles. As the first of its kind, it analyzes all reported car accidents state wide (1.28 milli…
Buku Perancangan Geometrik Jalan merupakan buku penunjang perkuliahan dan praktik mahasiswa program diploma (D-III), sarjana terapan (D-IV), maupun sarjana (S-1) bidang ilmu teknik sipil guna melengkapi khazanah sumber pembelajaran pada bidang ilmu teknik sipil di kalangan perguruan tinggi di Indonesia. Materi perancangan geometrik jalan merupakan muatan wajib bagi mahasiswa jenjang diploma mau…
Buku Kelistrikan Bodi Otomotif ini mengacu pada konsep pendekatan kurikulum berbasis kompetensi di Politeknik Indonusa Surakarta. Sesuai perkembangan paradigma yang selalu terjadi. Diharapkan peserta didik dapat belajar secara mandiri dan dinamis sesuai dengan kecepatan belajar masing-masing peserta didik untuk mencapai kompetensi yang diharapkan. Buku ini terdiri dari enam bab, masing-masin…
The third edition of Automobile Mechanical and Electrical Systems concentrates on core technologies to provide the essential information required to understand how different vehicle systems work. It gives a complete overview of the components and workings of a vehicle from the engine through to the chassis and electronics. It also explains the necessary tools and equipment needed in effective c…
Buku ini terdiri dari beberapa bab. Bab pertama membahas tentang dasar kelistrikan, bab dua tentang komponen elektronika, bab tiga tentang konsep dasar rangkaian elektronika, dan bab empat tentang menggambar teknik elektronika menggunakan komputer. Adapaun bab lima tentang alat ukur listrik, bab enam tentang pengujian komponen elektronika dengan multimeter, dan yang terakhir adalah bab tujuh…