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There is a vast body of research on vertebrate embryology. It is not the goal of this book to provide a comprehensive picture. Rather, to draw an extremely simplified sketch, a ""tasting menu"", of current research topics.
Examines the role of paleoecology in constructing evolutionary explanations for taxic-phylogenetic, morphological, and biogeographic patterns. This book advocates for greater awareness of the vast amount of accessible ecological data and incorporation of ecological thinking into paleobotanical scenario-building.
Global media policy struggles to keep up with ever-evolving technological advances. This book features articles discussing some of the challenges in implementing policies to govern global media and communications, and features articles that attempt to provide some solutions to those issues.
Focuses on a host of legal and regulatory issues that have come with the expansion of the digital age. Privacy often seems to be a thing of the past, and how has the law coped with this? Intellectual property - to whom does it belong? All of the topics we cover in this book boil down in one way or another to privacy.
Provides an introduction to vertebrate zoology. Vertebrates belong to the phylum Chordata of kingdom Animalia and constitute subphylum vertebrata. Subphylum vertebrata includes organisms that have a spinal column and brain enclosed in cranium (as indicated by their Clade Craniata).
Mass media provides a dual function when it comes to political issues. Some articles featured in this book will deal with the traditional relationships between politics and mass media, including propaganda, expose, and hegemony. The book also includes case studies demonstrating how social media has affected how politicians disseminate information, and how citizens discuss politics.
Ethical principles in modern day media and journalism are complicated and incorporate any number of situations going beyond simple corruption, or the historical concept of ethics. This book seeks to address the most pertinent ethical issues facing journalism and media and communications in general.
Alternative journalism has become integral to the global news landscape. This book examines alternative journalism in its many forms and how it, like traditional journalism, can shape audiences' attitudes and behavior in an increasingly complex public sphere.
The transition in news production and consumption to digital from print and television has had wide-ranging implications for journalism. This book examines some of the changes taking place in the journalistic sphere as a result of advances in technology.
The relationship between the economy and journalism is very much a question of chicken and egg: does the news affect the market, or does the market affect the news? With the rise of the internet, businesses have been forced to communicate to the public in new and innovative ways. This book offers an introduction to contemporary economic and business joiurnalism.
Some of the issues central to the transition in global mass media education are advances in technology, integrating journalism and media education into interdisciplinary studies, choosing to study media and communications, paradigmatic shifts in news production and consumption, and language considerations in a global news economy. An overview of these topics is offered in this volume.
The ability to express oneself could be, and indeed is by many, considered a fundamental human right. However, this right is curtailed in certain places. It is up to those outside of these restrictive societies to report to the wider public violations of human rights. This book looks at mass communication and human rights.
In a democracy, journalists and the media have a responsibility to provide citizens with unadulterated information about their government, its actors and actions; and the government has no right to control the dissemination of information. This book examines the intersection between media, state, and citizen in multiple contexts.
Learn Sustainable Supply Chain Management is more about sustainability, but also being accountable for a number of different areas of the business, including the financial and operational departments and monitoring performance.
Addresses a variety of salient issues pertaining to journalism and mass communication, beginning with a macro discussion of the subject and its effects on society in an increasingly globalized world. Interspersed throughout the book are case studies relevant to the topic. Some problems in mass communication and journalism, including stereotyping and access are also discussed.
The fundamentals for quality safety management and auditing can be very different and dependant on the industry an organisation is operating in. Not only can quality safety management be different with relation to the industry, but also within departments in an organisation. This book offers broad coverage of the range of quality safety management issues.
To have understanding of quality management within the education system, an understanding is need of what is quality management and what control systems are needed to be implemented to maintain quality management. This book covers these issues.
To have an understanding of sustainability in supply chain management there needs to be an understanding of what the supply chain is. In addition, an understanding is needed of what supply chain quality management is. This book offers an introduction to sustainability within supply chain management.
Ethics has been a concern in all areas of business and has an effect on human resources departments and human resource management. This book offers an intrioduction to ethics and contemporary human resource management.
HRM provides managers with skills and tools to enhance their own performance and the performance of their colleagues. By using these tools and working closely with HR professionals, managers can help build their employees' capabilities and strengthen employee commitment to the organisation. This book examines HRM can lea to organisational success.
SAS, a software package recognized as an industry leader in analytics, provides the most comprehensive, integrated and easy-to-use reporting and analysis features on big data, either on a desktop computer or on the go. This book describes practical business analytics practices using SAS. It covers basic SAS features, advanced data manipulation functions, and practical business analytics.
Total quality management (TQM) and human resource management (HRM) have become an important theme in management and business research due to the potential to affect a range of organizationally and individually desired outcomes. This book introduces the role of total quality management in human resource management.
The way consumers have done banking has dramatically changed in the last 20 years since with the introduction of e-banking. This book examines a wide range of published research looking at different areas of e-banking, ranging from how it effects consumers to different processes that this form of banking influences both in developing and developed countries.
At present the main earthquake hypothesis is the ""explosive"" relaxation of the high elastic stresses accumulated in the lithosphere. This book presents contributions from researchers from different countries that point out the study of seismoinduced phenomena associated with recent and historical earthquakes.
Offers a thorough review of business analytics for banking. It covers topics such as a bank's customer analytics, fraud detection and analytics, risk analytics, and various banking business analytics case studies drawn from the experience in different countries.
Covers freshwater ecosystem management, the assessment of water ecosystem services, the assessment of hydrological impacts on ecosystems, studies on peatland, studies of the relationship between ecohydrology science and climate change, and the management and assessment of pollutants.
Environmental pollution with organic pollutants has increased as a consequence of the expansion of urban, human, agricultural and industrial activities. This book provides an introduction to how organic pollutants have been monitored, the toxic level and outcome on organisms, and the existing research about the degradation of organic pollutants.
Discusses the ways in which remote sensing is used as a tool in land classification, the derivation of vegetation and other spectral indices, the mapping and monitoring of numerous processes (such as habitat use and erosion) and time series of various processes and temporal dynamics of landscapes (such as vegetation phenology).
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