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Socioeconomic rights include rights with regard to social security, labour and employment, as well as cultural rights which may be regarded as a shield for the protection of human dignity, especially of specific groups, such as women, children and refugees.

This book addresses the fatigue behavior of riveted connections from ancient Portuguese metallic bridges as well as the fatigue crack propagation behavior of related materials. case studies in chapter 4 and fatigue and fracture test results in chapter 5.

This book studies how the relationship between philosophy, morality, politics, and science was conceived in the Vienna Circle and how this group of philosophers tried to position science as an antidote to totalitarianism and irrationalism.

This book is devoted to the study of a class of optimal control problems arising in mathematical economics, related to the Robinson-Solow-Srinivasan (RSS) model.

This book is a novel contribution to academic discourses on the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis and how it has impacted societies globally. It proffers an overview on the social development and political measures, from both the Global North and Global South, to prevent COVID-19's spread. It illuminates major social, political and economic challenges that already existed in different contexts and which are also currently being amplified by COVID-19. Curiously, this global pandemic has opened spaces for different actors, across the globe, to begin to fundamentally question and challenge the hegemony of the Global North, which sometimes is evident in social work. Linked to the foregoing and while reflecting beyond the pandemic and into the future, the book proposes that social work must become more political at all levels, and strive to transform societies, global social development efforts, and economic and health systems. This contributed volume of 38 chapters discusses andanalyses ethical, social, sociological, social work and social development issues that complement and enrich available literature in the socio-political, economics, public health, medical ethics and political science. It provides various case studies which should enable readers to gain insights into how countries have responded to the pandemic and learn how COVID-19 negatively impacted countries in different parts of the world. This book also provides a platform for the articulation of neglected and marginalized voices, such as those of indigenous populations, the poor, or oppressed. The chapters are grouped according to three main themes as they relate to research on the COVID-19 pandemic and social work in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America:Analysis: Social Issues and the COVID-19 Pandemic Strategies and Responses in Social Work: Globally and LocallyOutlook: Looking Ahead Beyond the PandemicIntended toengage a global, diverse and interdisciplinary audience, The Coronavirus Crisis and Challenges to Social Development is a timely and relevant resource for academics, students and researchers in inter alia Social Work, Philosophy, Sociology, Economics, and Development Studies.

This book includes the proceedings of the Sustaining Tomorrow 2020 symposium and summit which bring together research from experts in academia, industry, and policy arenas to uncover the challenges and to forge solutions to sustain tomorrow.

This book presents an overview of archiving strategies developed over the last years by the authors that deal with suitable approximations of the sets of optimal and nearly optimal solutions of multi-objective optimization problems by means of stochastic search algorithms.

This book focuses on climate change and sustainable development, showcasing examples of research, projects and other initiatives aimed at educating various target groups.

This book uses literature as a wrench to pry open social networks and to ask different questions than have been asked about social networks previously. The book emphasizes the story-telling aspect of social networks, as well as the connection between narrative and social networks by incorporating narrative, dynamic networks, and time.

This book discusses several exciting research topics and applications in the intelligent Heterogenous Networks (Het-Net) and Internet of Things (IoT) era. The book presents the latest advances and research into heterogeneous networks in critical IoT applications.

This book is a proficient guide to understanding artificial intelligence (IoT) and the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) in healthcare.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Observations of Family Dynamics During the Transition to Parenthood: The Emergence of the Family Triad.- Chapter 2. Harbingers of Prenatal Coparenting and Family Dynamics During Pregnancy.- Chapter 3. Maternal and Paternal Representations and Interactions During Pregnancy.- Chapter 4. Prenatal Marital Interaction: Relations with Later Parent-Child Interactions, Marital and Coparenting quality, Whole Family Dynamics, and Child Outcomes.- Chapter 5. Interpersonal Dynamics of Young Parenthood and Development of Secure Coparenting Relationships.- Chapter 6. Prenatal Coparenting Interactions: Two Contrasting Cases of Family Communication.- Chapter 7. Marital and Coparenting Harmony During Pregnancy: Forecasting Postpartum Family Dynamics Observed in First-Time Parents.- Chapter 8. Importance of Behavioral Coparenting Under High Arousal from Pregnancy to Early Childhood: Implications for Children''s Cognitive Development and Attachment Security.- Chapter 9. From Pregnancy to Toddlerhood: Does Gender Matter for the Development of Family Relationships?.- Chapter 10. Attachment Matching and Coparental Intuitive Interactions in Same-Sex and Opposite-Sex Couples Planning Parenthood.- Chapter 11. From Infertility to Parenthood: The Influence of Partners'' Stress and Romantic Relationship on the Development of Family Dynamics.- Chapter 12. Coparenting the First Child While Expecting the Second.- Chapter 13. A Prenatal Intervention to Support Coparenting in Unmarried African American Family Systems.- Chapter 14. Continuity and Discontinuity from Early Caregiving Experiences to Adult Intimate and Parent-Child Relationships:  Implications for Family-Centered Prevention and Early Intervention.- Chapter 15. Understanding Teen Parents in a Modern Context: Prenatal Hopes and Postnatal Realities.- Chapter 16. Future Directions in Research and Practice. 

It covers proving the four most fundamental theorems relating curvature and topology: the Gauss-Bonnet Theorem, the Cartan-Hadamard Theorem, Bonnet's Theorem, and a special case of the Cartan-Ambrose-Hicks Theorem.

This textbook is the first authoritative, in-depth publication about global midwifery and the contribution of skilled professional midwives to the provision of high quality maternity care, reductions in maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity.

This book examines what mechanisms enable science-intensive organizations to broaden beneficiaries of science in urban settings.

Subjects such as operator Young inequalities, operator inequalities for positive linear maps, operator inequalities involving operator monotone functions, norm inequalities, inequalities for sector matrices are investigated thoroughly throughout this book which provides an account of a broad collection of classic and recent developments.

This two-volume set of LNICST 411 and 412 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Advancement of Science and Technology, ICAST 2021, which took place in August 2021. The papers present economic and technologic developments in modern societies in 7 tracks: Chemical, Food and Bioprocess Engineering;

This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications, and Worksharing, CollaborateCom 2021, held in October 2021. Network and Security & IoT and Social Networks; IoT and Social Networks & Images handling and human recognition;

The book includes some insights on the implications of using climate-smart practices in irrigated and rain-fed agriculture, and suggests approaches to eradicate the negative effects of water scarcity, climate variability and climate change.

This books reviews and brings readers up to date with the latest research knowledge on road traffic safety. It describes and discusses mathematical descriptions of the process of a motor vehicle crash and indicates the various factors that impact on collision models.

Scientific visualization has always been an integral part of discovery, starting first with simplified drawings of the pre-Enlightenment and progressing to present day.

This book includes a number of distinct religious and secular views on the anthropological, ethical and social challenges of reproductive technologies in the light of human rights and in the context of global bioethics.

This innovative volume is focused on the impact of religion on the realization of democratic citizenship.

This book presents the main theoretical foundations behind smart services as well as specific guidelines and practically proven methods on how to design them. Furthermore, it gives an overview of the possible implementation architectures and shows how the designed smart services can be realized with specific technologies. Finally, it provides four specific use cases that show how smart services have been realized in practice and what impact they have within the businesses.The first part of the book defines the basic concepts and aims to establish a shared understanding of terms, such as smart services, service systems, smart service systems or cyber-physical systems. On this basis, it provides an analysis of existing work and includes insights on how an organization incorporating smart services could enhance and adjust their management and business processes. The second part on the design of smart services elaborates on what constitutes a successful smart service and describes experiences in the area of interdisciplinary teams, strategic partnerships, the overall service systems and the common data basis. In the third part, technical reference architectures are presented in detail, encompassing topics on the design of digital twins in cyber physical systems, the communication between entities and sensors in the age of Industry 4.0 as well as data management and integration. The fourth part then highlights a number of analytical possibilities that can be realized and that can constitute or be part of smart services, including machine learning and artificial intelligence methods. Finally, the applicability of the introduced design and development method is demonstrated by considering specific real-world use cases. These include services in the industrial and mobility sector, which were developed in direct cooperation with industry partners.The main target audience of this book is industry-focused readers, especially practitioners from industry, who are involved in supporting and managing digital business. These include professionals working in business development, product management, strategy, and development, ranging from middle management to Chief Digital Officers. It conveys all the basics needed for developing smart services and successfully placing them on the market by explaining technical aspects as well as showcasing practical use cases.

This book reviews alternative and renewable energy resources in order to pave the way for a more sustainable production in the future. As such, there is a pressing need for clean energy based on alternative or renewable resources, not only to ensure energy supplies at an affordable price but also to protect the environment.

This edited book gathers research studies presented at the 5th International Symposium on Formal Methods in Architecture (5FMA), Lisbon 2020.

This book presents the latest knowledge on the still under-researched field of academic tourism, which over the past decade has gained in importance at local and national economic levels as a result of increasing international mobility of students and academic staff in higher education.