This open access book analyzes the evidence linking Toxoplasma gondii to the increasing incidence of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in the United States. Initially establishing that infectious agents are regularly transmitted from animals to humans, lead to human disease, and that infectious agents can cause psychosis, it then examines the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii in detail. Inf…
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 explores a range of new and older systems mapping methods focused on representing causal relationships in systems. In a practical manner, it describes the methods and considers the differences between them; describes how to use them yourself; describes how to choose between and combine them; considers the role of data, evidence, and stakeholder opinion; and describes how t…
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,…
The rise of authoritarian, nationalist forms of populism and the implications for rural actors and settings is one of the most crucial foci for critical agrarian studies today, with many consequences for political action.Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World reflects on the rural origins and consequences of the emergence of authoritarian and populist leaders across the worl…
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…
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to develop a better and sustainable future for the world, and the goals are part of an action plan to address poverty, hunger, health, gender equity and various pressing world issues. One of these goals looks at health and wellness. Ageing populations have become a crucial issue worldwide, and this short monograph explores ageing and how the con…
This open access book revises Kant’s ethical thought in one of its most notorious respects: its exclusion of animals from moral consideration. The book gives readers in animal ethics an accessible introduction to Kant’s views on our duties to others, and his view that we have only ‘indirect’ duties regarding animals. It then investigates how one would have to depart from Kant in order t…
The Enlightenment remains widely associated with the rise of scientific progress and the loss of religious faith, a dual tendency that is thought to have contributed to the disenchantment of the world. In her wide-ranging and richly illustrated book, Tili Boon Cuillé questions the accuracy of this narrative by investigating the fate of the marvelous in the age of reason. Exploring the affiniti…
This comprehensive work presents a thorough exploration of celebrity “bromances,” interrogating how bromances are portrayed in media and consumed by audiences to examine themes of celebrity persona, performativity and authenticity. The authors examine how the performance of intimate male friendships functions within broadly “Western” celebrity culture from thr…
This book introduces the idea and experience of wandering, as re-fected in cultural texts from popular songs to philosophical anal-ysis, providing both a fascinating informal history and a necessary vantage point for understanding—in our era—the emergence of new wanderers. Wanderers offers a fast-paced, wide-ranging, and compelling in-troduction to this s…
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 28th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2019, which took place in Prague, Czech Republic, in April 2019, held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2019.
This open access book critically explores what child protection policy and professional practice would mean if practice was grounded in human rights standards. This book inspires a new direction in child protection research – one that critically assesses child protection policy and professional practice with regard to human rights in general, and the rights of the child in particular. Each ch…
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This volume shares new data relating to Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA), with emphasis on experiences in Eastern and Southern Africa. The book is a collection of research by authors from over 30 institutions, spanning the public and private sectors, with specific knowledge on agricultural development in the region discussed. The material is…
This book presents a consistent development of the Kohn-Nirenberg type global quantization theory in the setting of graded nilpotent Lie groups in terms of their representations. It contains a detailed exposition of related background topics on homogeneous Lie groups, nilpotent Lie groups, and the analysis of Rockland operators on graded Lie groups together with their associated Sobolev spaces.…
This book presents computer programming as a key method for solving mathematical problems. There are two versions of the book, one for MATLAB and one for Python. The book was inspired by the Springer book TCSE 6: A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python (by Langtangen), but the style is more accessible and concise, in keeping with the needs of engineering students. The book outlines the s…
This open access book offers a self-contained introduction to the homotopy theory of simplicial and dendroidal sets and spaces. These are essential for the study of categories, operads, and algebraic structure up to coherent homotopy. The dendroidal theory combines the combinatorics of trees with the theory of Quillen model categories. Dendroidal sets are a natural generalization of simplic…
“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…
This open access book introduces the modern tontine and its applications in retirement and decumulation. Personal financial management in the later stages of life presents unique challenges, and renowned retirement planning expert Dr. Milevsky proposes the modern tontine as a solution. With the goal of guiding professionals and retirees in more efficient decumulation, the book demonstrates how …
The Center for China Studies is among China's most influential think-tanks, and its China Studies Reports are read at the highest levels of government. Now for the first time, the most important of these and reports is collated in book form in English, providing a fascinating insight into the challenges and opportunities for Chinese development and the government's thinking on economic and and …
This open access book presents outstanding doctoral dissertations in Information Technology from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Information Technology has always been highly interdisciplinary, as many aspects have to be considered in IT systems. The doctoral studies program in IT at Politecnico di Milano emphasizes this interdiscipli…
This book is a critical introduction of theorisations and research on contemporary political populism emphasising the cultural per-spective. It introduces the basic theories and analyses the cultural construction of populism regarding radical democratic theory and empirical studies.Applying Ernesto Laclau’s and Chantal Mouffe’s theories, the author builds …
This Open Access volume aims to methodologically improve our understanding of biodiversity by linking disciplines that incorporate remote sensing, and uniting data and perspectives in the fields of biology, landscape ecology, and geography. The book provides a framework for how biodiversity can be detected and evaluated—focusing particularly on plants—using proximal and remotely sensed hype…
This open access book traces the journey of nuclear law: its origins, how it has developed, where it is now, and where it is headed. As a discipline, this highly specialized body of law makes it possible for us to benefit from the life-saving applications of nuclear science and technology, including diagnosing cancer as well as avoiding and mitigating the effects of climate change. This book se…
It offers comprehensive, self-contained knowledge on Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), which is a very promising technology for achieving intelligence in the next-generation wireless communications and computing networks. The book starts with the basic concepts, key techniques and network architectures of MEC. Then, we present the wide applications of MEC, including edge caching, 6G networks, Inter…
This revised textbook motivates and illustrates the techniques of applied probability by applications in electrical engineering and computer science (EECS). The author presents information processing and communication systems that use algorithms based on probabilistic models and techniques, including web searches, digital links, speech recognition, GPS, route planning, recommendation systems, c…
Sistem inovasi merupakan jembatan antara penyedia teknologi dan pengguna teknologi agar teknologi yang dihasilkan dapat dimanfaatkan oleh masyarakat. Sistem inovasi di daerah cukup penting untuk dikembangkan karena bukan saja menyangkut kemajuan inovasi (iptek) di daerah, melainkan juga menyangkut pendayagunaannya untuk kepentingan pembangunan ekonomi, sosial, dan budaya daerah. Berbagai upaya …
Pasar Minggu di masa lalu dikenal sebagai penghasil buah utama untuk penduduk Jakarta. Bahkan telah menjadi memori kolektif masyarakat Jakarta terutama terlihat dalam lirik-lirik lagu yang menggambarkan berbagai aspek dinamika kehidupan pertanian buah di Pasar Minggu kala itu. Buku ini menceritakan kembali dunia yang hilang (the lost world) tentang Pasar Minggu sebagai area penghasil buah-buaha…
Sebagai negara kepulauan, tak ayal jika laut dan pesisir menjadi kekuatan utama Indonesia, yang mengandung sumber daya berlimpah. Namun, orang sering melupakan potensi perairan darat kita, yang sejatinya tak kalah penting dibandingkan lautan. Di Pulau Jawa, danau adalah salah satu sumber primer mata pencaharian masyarakat, selain juga sebagai penyedia sumber daya alam dan penghasil energi. Keru…
Kereta api dianggap sebagai alat transportasi massal yang potensial dan efektif karena mempunyai daya angkut yang besar, waktu tempuh yang terjadwal, dan bebas macet sehingga menjadi salah satu alat transportasi publik yang disukai. Akan tetapi, sering terjadinya kecelakaan kereta api masih menjadi permasalahan yang harus dibenahi. Sarana pemeriksaan kondisi rel kereta api yang belum memadai me…
Are we being manipulated online? If so, is being manipulated by online technologies and algorithmic systems notably different from human forms of manipulation? And what is under threat exactly when people are manipulated online? This volume provides philosophical and conceptual depth to debates in digital ethics about online manipulation. The contributions explore the ramifications of our in…
Hutan merupakan salah satu unsur penting penopang keberlangsungan Bumi dan kehidupan manusia. Selain sebagai penyedia oksigen dan pengatur cadangan air, hutan juga berperan penting dalam menyediakan habitat bagi berbagai macam jenis flora dan fauna, terutama yang sudah langka dan terancam punah. Hutan di Nusakambangan merupakan satu-satunya hutan pamah yang tersisa di daerah Jawa Tengah dan men…
Robots and artificial intelligence (AI) are powerful forces that will likely have large impacts on the size, direction, and composition of international trade flows. This book discusses how industrial robots, automation, and AI affect international growth, trade, productivity, employment, wages, and welfare. The book explains new approaches on how robots and artificial intelligence affect the w…
This Open Access book brings the experiences of automation as part of quotidian life into focus. It asks how, where and when automated technologies and systems are emerging in everyday life across different global regions? What are their likely impacts in the present and future? How do engineers, policy makers, industry stakeholders and designers envisage artificial intelligence (AI) and automa…
This book offers a truly interdisciplinary exploration of our patterns of engagement with politics, news, and information in current high-choice information environments. Putting forth the notion that high-choice information environments may contribute to increasing misperceptions and knowledge resistance rather than greater public knowledge, the book offers insights into the processes that inf…
Buku ini akan membantu instansi pemerintah dalam melaksanakan survei tingkat kepusasan masyarakat melalui suatu metode pengukuran yang detail, jelas, dan mudah dipahami serta diterapkan. Metode pengukuran lndeks Kepuasan Masyarakat (IKM) Plus juga memiliki nilai 'plus' yang tidak dapat ditemukan pada metode sejenis. Pembaca akan dipandu langkah demi langkah melaksanakan metode pengukuran IKM Pl…
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…
Bambu dapat tumbuh di banyak tempat dan dikenal sebagai tumbuhan serba guna yang dapat dimanfaatkan dalam aktivitas sehari-hari. Meskipun demikian, tidak mudah bagi pengguna, khususnya para perajin dan industriawan, untuk membedakan jenis-jenis bambu karena di Indonesia terdapat lebih dari 160 jenis bambu. Di sisi lain, buku panduan tentang pengenalan jenis bambu Indonesia juga dirasa kurang. O…
Kawasan perbatasan laut Indonesia mencakup 111 pulau kecil terluar yang tersebar di 22 provinsi. Dari 111 pulau kecil terluar tersebut, sebagian di antaranya dihuni oleh masyarakat. Sayangnya, ketahanan sosial masyarakat pulau-pulau kecil di kawasan perbatasan Indonesia masih menghadapi berbagai hambatan, salah satunya kurangnya fasilitas pendidikan dan kesehatan. Bunga rampai ini mengulas dua …
Peranan Lembaga Keuangan Mikro (LKM) Non-Bank dalam Pembiayaan Usaha Mikro bertujuan memberikan informasi kepada para praktisi, akademisi, dan pengambil kebijakan. Buku ini memaparkan karakteristik lembaga keuangan mikro, yaitu koperasi dan BMT. Selain itu, buku ini juga mengulas LKM non-bank dari sisi kemandirian keuangan serta menganalisis perannya sebagai lembaga pembiayaan dalam mendorong k…
Persedian bahan bakar fosil dunia semakin hari semakin menipis, sementara permintaan dan kebutuhan masyarakat akan bahan bakar terus meningkat. Hal ini mengakibatkan harga bahan bakar fosil semakin tidak terjangkau, yang pada akhirnya dapat berujung pada krisis energi global. Di Indonesia, subsidi BBM sudah menjadi momok bagi APBN setiap tahunnya. Oleh sebab itu, dibutuhkan energi alternatif un…
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…
Videogames and Agency explores the trend in videogames and their marketing to offer a player higher volumes, or even more distinct kinds, of player freedom. The book offers a new conceptual framework that helps us understand how this freedom to act is discussed by designers, and how that in turn reflects in their design principles. What can we learn from existing theories around agency? How …
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…