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This new collection covers a wide variety of research on the ecological aspects of crops growing under stress conditions due to atmospheric changes and pollution and the impact on both plant and human health. The book provides research that will help to find ways to overcome adverse abiotic environmental factors and unfavorable anthropogenic pressures on crop plants, which also eventually impact human health. Divided into six parts, leading authors from many institutes provide and share new knowledge gained from studies on ecological and genetic controls of plant resistance to various adverse environmental factors.

The tenth and final volume in the series Research Advances in Sustainable Micro Irrigation, this valuable book focuses on new and recent innovations in technology, methods, and applications for micro irrigation. The book covers a wide variety of topics, including successes in micro irrigation in India, how new methods have helped the local econo

In this book, leading authors from around the world share their most cutting-edge findings and thoughts on the Chinese outbound travel market. The book reflects on the paths of the Chinese outbound travel development, reports new trends and issues, and provides new insights and recommendations. For practitioners around the world, this book provides hands-on guidance on understanding tourists from Mainland China. For tourism scholars, educators, and students, this book provides basic yet essential knowledge on the Chinese outbound travel market and tourist behavior and points out important future directions.

Exploring the complex and controversial topic of civilian oversight of police, this book analyzes the issues and debates entailed by civilian oversight by using worldwide perspectives, in-depth case studies, and a wealth of survey data. Integrating and summarizing decades of research from many locations around the globe, Civilian Oversight of Police: Advancing Accountability in Law Enforcement uses a very clear and consistent pattern of findings to address the overall management of police conduct. The book examines the history and performance of oversight agencies in multiple jurisdictions around the world. The evidence used includes: Citizen, complainant, and police views on oversight Stakeholder experiences with different types of responses to complaints Data about police conduct Emphasizing the concept of shared responsibility for effective police integrity management, the book discusses what does and does not work in maximizing police management and performance. It presents a best practices model for managing police conduct and describes the impact of oversight agencies on police policy, including innovative means by which agencies can work with police departments to improve police conduct. Civilian Oversight of Police provides a critical resource on police conduct for professionals as well as academics. It makes practical recommendations for achieving a "win-win" balance in addressing the needs and interests of all parties involved with the police complaints and accountability process. It also marks a starting point to stimulate further research as well as increased collaboration between researchers and practitioners to enhance the stock of knowledge for effective police integrity management and democratic accountability.

Explaining how ubiquitous computing is rapidly changing our private and professional lives, Ethical IT Innovation stands at the intersection of computer science, philosophy, and management and integrates theories and frameworks from all three domains. It explores the latest thinking on computer ethics, including the normative ethical theories currently shaping the debate over the consequences of technology. It makes the case as to why IT professionals, managers, and engineers must consider the ethical issues when designing IT systems, and then uses a recognized system development process model as the structural baseline for subsequent chapters.

This book contains the most current information on major topics in sports science and clinical medicine and discusses key concepts related to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of sports injuries. This edition adds new sections on pro-inflammatory treatments, field-side acupuncture, and brief musculoskeletal ultrasound as well as a new chapter on wellness. It also includes a link to videos that demonstrate important musculoskeletal maneuvers used in sports medicine. As exercise and sports move beyond the realm of leisurely activity to a necessary component of good health, this book has become an important resource for all those involved in sports medicine.

This book addresses the new interaction modalities that are becoming possible with new devices by looking at user interfaces from an input perspective. It deals with modern input devices and user interaction and design covering in-depth theory, advanced topics for noise reduction using Kalman Filters, a case study, and multiple chapters showing hands-on approaches to relevant technology, including modern devices such as the Leap-Motion, Xbox One Kinect, inertial measurement units, and multi-touch technology. It also discusses theories behind interaction and navigation, past and current techniques, and practical topics about input devices.

Data Warehousing for Biomedical Informatics is a step-by-step how-to guide for designing and building an enterprise-wide data warehouse across a biomedical or healthcare institution, using a four-iteration lifecycle and standardized design pattern. It enables you to quickly implement a fully-scalable generic data architecture that supports your organization¿s clinical, operational, administrative, financial, and research data. By following the guidelines in this book, you will be able to successfully progress through the Alpha, Beta, and Gamma versions, plus fully implement your first production release in about a year.

Focusing on the use of e-systems in sectors of contemporary life, with contributions from researchers and practitioners from around the world, this two-volume book discusses and reports on new and important developments in the field of e-systems, covering a wide range of current issues in the design, engineering and adoption of e-systems.

This book presents new knowledge and skills that empowers providers to become competent facilitators of behavior and life-style change, information transfer, and medical decision making along with their patients. These approaches are supported by a wide variety of research and clinical evidence. They are derived from modern psychotherapy, brain biology, and the latest advances in health coaching and nursing practice. Putting them to work to improve health care seems to make good sense scientifically and ethically. It also includes videos of brief medical interviews along with a thorough analysis of the clinician and patient interaction¿a pathway for clinicians to acquire valuable strategies and skills in both clinician self-care and patient care.

Dispelling many of the myths surrounding social media, Satellite Marketing outlines a proven process for creating an actionable strategic plan based on measurable goals. It provides readers with a comprehensive strategy for leveraging new media and integrating it with conventional marketing tactics. The book explains why successful marketing has evolved from product-centric to customer-centric and also presents valuable lessons learned from established communications channels that apply to social media. The book is written by Kevin Popovic, named a Top 20 Digital Marketing Strategist for 2015 by the Online Marketing Institute.

This re-titled new edition of Public Health Practice and the School-age Population has been updated and expanded to include children of all ages. Following radical changes in public health provision, Public Health for Children, Second Edition examines the implications for children and young adults as well as for those who provide care, prevention, and health promotion services. It also explores the challenges created by these significant structural and functional changes.Written by experts in the field, each chapter takes a practical approach to support learning and teaching. The book examines the health and well-being of children by revisiting the full range of public health practice from analysis to action, including the work of epidemiology and community interventions that seek to improve health. The book does this by examining the three locations that children inhabit as they grow and develop into adulthood: home, school, and the community.This edition includes new chapters on various topics including policy changes, childhood poverty, pre-school children, health and social care services for school-age children, challenges in adolescent health and well-being, neurosciences, complex health needs, and long-term conditions.Demystifying the planning and delivery of public health services for children, the book provides authoritative insights into the needs of the children and how professionals can best attend to those needs. It includes case studies, key issues, and discussion points in each chapter to reinforce understanding.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. Because cities are such complex systems, creating sustainable urban environments is a challenging goal. No single strategy¿or even several strategies¿will be enough to achieve tomorrow¿s healthy and sustainable cities. The challenges resist compartmentalization, because the factors intersect and overlap. The articles in this compendium were chosen to expand the understanding of these complicated issues in a non-linear way. The editor has selected research in the following topics: improving urban air quality; municipal solid waste alternatives; municipal water management; reducing urban energy consumption.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. Climate change threatens our planet¿s future. Since it¿s too late to prevent climate change, we must find ways to prepare for it, while doing all we can to slow down the processes that are causing it. The editor of this compendium, an experienced and respected scientist in the field, has collected research vital to the challenges we are facing. The book offers a multi-perspective look at ways to reduce greenhouse gases and find fossil fuel alternatives from a truly international roster of researchers and scientists.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. This new compendium volume looks the sustainable food and beverage industry from a variety of perspectives. The chapters included are broken into seven sections, which describe the following topics: an overview of food production and supply chains; the dairy industry; the meat industry; the coffee and tea industries; food and beverage waste products; food processing and packaging; concluding implications. The contributors present case studies and research from around the world, offering a truly global and international perspective on this topic.

This book provides a global perspective of present-age frontiers in food process engineering research, innovation, and emerging trends. It provides an abundance of new information on a variety of issues and problems in food processing technology.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. Meteorological data are essential for both day-to-day energy management and for planning for the world¿s future energy security. The editor of this compendium, a mechanical engineer with international experience, has collected articles that will encourage more productive dialogue between the energy and meteorology communities. Included are chapters on how to generate a typical meteorological year, followed by articles that discuss the impact of meteorology on wind energy production, solar energy production, and hydropower operations. The book concludes with chapters on seasonal energy management.

This new book focuses on nanomaterial development as well as investigations of combustion and explosion processes. It presents valuable information on the modeling of processes and on quantum chemical calculations and leading-edge research from around the world in this dynamic field, focusing on concepts above formal experimental techniques and theoretical methods of chemical physics for micro- and nanotechnologies. Also presented are non-linear kinetic appearances and their possible applications.

By providing an applied and modern approach, this volume will help readers understand the value and relevance of studying case studies and reviews on chemical and biochemical sciences. Presenting a wide-ranging view of current developments in applied methodologies in chemical and biochemical physics research, the papers in this collection, all written by highly regarded experts in the field, examine various aspects of chemical and biochemical physics and experimentation.

Technical and technological development demands the creation of new materials that are stronger, more reliable, and more durable¿materials with new properties. This new book covers a broad range of polymeric materials and technology and provides researchers in polymer science and technology with new research on the functional materials production chain. Chapters in this new volume highlight recent developments in advanced polymeric materials from macro- to nano-length scales. Composites are becoming more important because they can help to improve quality of life. This volume presents the latest developments and trends in advanced polymer materials and structures.

Based on years of the author's invaluable experience, this book presents a reliable and systematic method for conceptualizing, structuring, and arguing a strategic policy course at the regional, national, international, and multilateral levels.

This book highlights the practical aspects of using Oracle Essbase and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) as a comprehensive BI solution. It explains the key steps involved in Oracle Essbase and OBIEE implementations. Using case studies, the book covers Oracle Essbase for analytical BI and data integration, using OBIEE for operational BI including presentation services and BI Publisher for real-time reporting services, Self-service BI¿ in terms of VLDB, scalability, high performance, stability, long-lasting and ease of use that saves time, effort, and costs, while maximizing ROI.

This book explores theories of citizenship, its relevance to the lives of a populace, and how it might be used to address critical issues of state, identity, and the human condition. In stark contrast to previous scholarship about citizenship as a construct, this book covers the full spectrum of literature from classical Greco-Roman foundations to the postmodern turn and contemporary critical social theory as a way of illuminating, on the one hand, its intellectual richness and on the other, ongoing challenges in both conceptualization and practice.

This book is designed to teach managers and other key stakeholders how to use IT processes to modernize their HR systems through the use of AI, IT, and other empirical methods. The book focuses on systemic issues related to hiring, employee management and compensation and provides readers with detailed information regarding HR protocols, IT related issues and workplace culture. Readers will be able to compare their current HR system to the authors' proposed 21st century model and they will discover which HR processes they will need to retool in order to modernize their system. Readers will also learn about the benefits of upgrading their HR.