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Provides an overview of relevant strategy and policy-level theoretical frameworks and examples, as well as up-to-date implementations from around the world. This offers valuable insights into best practices, as well as some of the issues and challenges surrounding the governance of information and communication technologies in a globalized, knowledge-based world.

Discusses current applications of, and the latest research in digital forensics in health sciences. It covers basic concepts, best practices, common techniques, investigative challenges and examines the major limitations of current tools and discusses approaches that may help investigators deal with the ever-increasing size and complexity of forensic targets.

Presents a global perspective on blended learning, augmenting that perspective with examples and applications from leading scholars around the world. It highlights examples from the school system, from undergraduate and graduate classes, and discusses androgogical principles as they apply to blended learning situations.

Covers aspects of system design and efficient modelling, and also introduces various fault models and fault mechanisms associated with digital circuits integrated into System on Chip (SoC), Multi-Processor System-on Chip (MPSoC) or Network on Chip (NoC). This book provides insight into refined ""classical"" design and test topics and solutions for IC test technology and fault-tolerant systems.

Explores the complex relationship between technology and youth culture, while outlining the details of various online social activities. This book focuses on generational aspects of online social practices, as well as other facets, such as gender and social class.

Contains cross-disciplinary research on strategic initiatives for healthcare reform that impact not only patients, but also organisations, healthcare providers, and policymakers. Contributions focus on the operational as well as theoretical aspects of healthcare management, healthcare delivery processes, and patient-centered initiatives.

Researchers and industry practitioners from different disciplines share their domain-specific knowledge and thereby contribute to a holistic introduction into the area of human-centered design for e-health applications. The insights provided will help students, as well as systems designers, to understand the fundamental social and technical requirements future e-health systems have to meet.

Presents academics, practitioners, and professionals with quality applied research results in the field of electronic and digital government, its applications, and impacts on governmental organisations around the world.

Presents readers with a rich collection of ideas from researchers who are bridging the gap between the latest in information technology and supply chain management. This book includes theoretical, analytical, and empirical research, comprehensive reviews of relevant research, and case studies of effective applications in the field of SCM.

Provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings on a new platform of business models and then explores the relationship between the new Business 2.0 alliance and Web 2.0.

Pools together experts' experiences on ICT integration in rural community development within the context of developing countries. The technology they used is described, analyzed, and synthesized in order to offer solutions for successful application.

Includes chapters from diverse fields of enquiry including decision science, political science, argumentation, knowledge management, cognitive psychology and business intelligence. Each chapter illustrates a perspective on group reasoning that ultimately aims to lead to a greater understanding of reasoning communities and inform technological developments.

Introduces recent research activities in the field of data mining. It covers association mining, classification, mobile marketing, opinion mining, microarray data mining, internet mining and applications of data mining on biological data, telecommunication and distributed databases, among others, while promoting understanding and implementation of data mining techniques in emerging domains.

Addresses the effects of ICT on human beings and the interaction between ICT, individuals, organizations, and society. It presents research on social informatics, human computer interaction, organizational behaviour, and macro-ergonomics. This unique publication is perfect for students, teachers, researchers, engineers, practitioners, managers, policy-makers, and media alike.

Highlighting the importance of intangible resources in business management, the need for a strategic analysis that enables them to be identified, and solutions to these challenges, this book demonstrates new models and methods that allow progress to be made in intangibles management.

Discusses the potential for transformative models to liberate online education. With a focus on the societal, social, political, economic, and philosophical perspectives of transformative models, this examines how digital learning communities foster critical reflections and prospective change, particularly within virtual groups.