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As students move through the chapters, they will develop a critical understanding of the different ways architects, urban and social planners, urban designers, heritage professionals, engineers and other built environment professionals design our cities.

Authors in this book volume investigate several issues ranging from conundrums relating to migration between Africa and Europe to migration within Africa, but also in relation to borders and boundaries, its bearing on regional and continental integration and the significance of this in terms of relations between Africa and Europe.

This edited collection examines various dimensions of wellbeing among older people, including its measurement; With an increasingly ageing population across countries and an increasing population of older adults, there is growing interest in improving older people's ability to live healthily and happily.

This book considers the positive and negative impacts of the minimum wage policy in China. The results from China's experience show that rapidly increasing minimum wages have helped increase average wages and reduce the gender wage gap, income inequality, and poverty.

This book provides groundbreaking evidence demonstrating how student-authored explanatory animations can embody and document learning as an exciting new development within digital pedagogy.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings, presented during the ACPR 2019 Workshops, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in November 2019. The 17 full papers and 6 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected out of numerous submissions.

C-type Lectin Receptors in Antifungal Immunity.- Immune recognition of pathogen-derived glycolipids through Mincle.- CLEC5A: A promiscuous pattern recognition receptor to microbes and beyond.- Collectins: Innate immune pattern recognition molecules.- Insect C-type lectins in microbial infections.- Galectins in Host Defense against Microbial Infections.- Galectins in Host-Pathogen Interactions: Structural, Functional and Evolutionary Aspects.- Siglecs at the Host-Pathogen Interface.- Siglecs that associate with DAP12.

The book elaborates on revenue management, expenditure management, public budget, public financial management information systems, asset and liability management, intergovernmental fiscal relations, accounting, financial reporting, and auditing.

This volume describes nanoparticles and their biomedical applications, and covers metal nanoparticles, metal oxide nanoparticles, rare earth based nanoparticles and graphene oxide nanoparticles. It elaborates on a number of biomedical applications, including therapeutic applications.

The book focuses on the challenges faced by urban areas in the context of handling waste in an environmentally and socially acceptable manner. Presenting selected, high-quality papers from IconSWM 2018, the book explores a number of waste management methods with the help of case studies.

To promote the sustainable production of agronomic crops, scientists are currently exploring a range of approaches, which include varietal development, soil management, nutrient and water management, pest management etc.

This volume presents selected papers from IACMAG Symposium,The major themes covered in this conference are Earthquake Engineering, Ground Improvement and Constitutive Modelling. This volume will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in geotechnical and geomechanical engineering.

This book gathers papers presented at the 13th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing (ICGEC 2019), which was held in Qingdao, China, from 1st to 3rd, November 2019.

Disasters in Australia and New Zealand brings together a collection of essays on the history of disasters in both countries. Rich in oral history and archival research, Disasters in Australia and New Zealand offers practical and illuminating insights that will appeal to historians and disaster scholars across multiple disciplines.

By critically analysing the often romanticised discourses of 'heritage', 'community engagement', and 'sustainable development' the volume suggests ways of harnessing aspects of heritage to tackle some of the socio-economic and political pressures facing heritage practices on the continent, including the legacies of colonialism.

This book celebrates and captures examples of the excellent scholarship that Palgrave's Health, Technology, and Society Series has published since 2006, and reflects on how the field has developed over this time.

This book shows how specifically each goal of Sustainable Development Goals could be incorporated in country wise developmental programmes set to transform the world.

This book examines the history of the Palestinian Left by focusing on the trajectory of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) during its declining phase.

The book is incomparable in its holistic and transdisciplinary social science based approach to disaster management which links conservation of marine flora and fauna, ecosystems and land management with decision making processes and coastal regulations.

This book promotes a meaningful and appropriate dialogue and cross-disciplinary partnerships on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in governance and disaster management. The frequency and the cost of losses and damages due to disasters are rising every year. From wildfires to tsunamis, drought to hurricanes, floods to landslides combined with chemical, nuclear and biological disasters of epidemic proportions has increased human vulnerability and ecosystem sustainability. Life is not as it used to be and governance to manage disasters cannot be a business as usual. The quantum and proportion of responsibilities with the emergency services has increased many times to strain them beyond their human capacities. Its time that the struggling disaster management services get supported and facilitated by new technology of combining Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) with Data Analytics Technologies (DAT)to serve people and government in disaster management. AI and ML have advanced to a state where they could be utilized for many operations in disaster risk reduction. Even though many disasters cannot be prevented and a number of them are blind natural disasters yet through an appropriate application of AI and ML quick predictions, vulnerability identification and classification of relief and rescue operations could be achieved.

This book explores Russia's efforts towards both adapting to and shaping a world in transformation. Russia has been largely marginalized in the post-Cold War era and has struggled to find its place in the world, which means that the chaotic changes in the world present Russia with both threats and opportunities.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: HIV and AIDS in Guyana.- Chapter 3: Factors affecting antiretroviral therapy adherence among HIV-positive pregnant and postpartum women: an adapted systematic review.- Chapter 4: Characteristics of pregnant women in Guyana with and without HIV.- Chapter 5: Antiretroviral perspectives of pregnant and postpartum women in Guyana: barriers and facilitators.- Chapter 6: Adherence patterns to prenatal vitamins and pregnancy health behaviors.- Chapter 7: Predictors of ART adherence.- Chapter 8: Predicting adherence to antiretroviral therapy among pregnant women in Guyana: utility of the health belief model.- Chapter 9: Discussion and Key Implications.

Introduction.- Prehistory (<2,700 BC).- The Classical Period (753 BC - 476 AD).- The Dark Ages (476-1453).- The Renaissance (1300-1700).- The Age of Exploration (1490-1700).- The Age of Enlightenment (1685-1815).- The Romantic Period (1800-1900).- The Modern Age (1880-1950).- The Space Age (1950-1981).- The Digital Age (1981-2018).- Conclusions.

The book deals with President Hassan Rouhani's conceptual approach to foreign policy.

Chapter 1: India, Europe, Trump and the World Order.Chapter 2: India, Europe and the Postwar Liberal Order.Chapter 3: Indian Economic Diplomacy towards the European Union.Chapter 4: India-EU Free Trade Agreement: Process, Issues, Prospects.Chapter 5: Brexit, Europe and India.Chapter 6: India, Europe and Counter-terrorismChapter 7: India, Europe and Kashmir: Clash of Worldviews.Chapter 8: India, Europe and Human Rights.Chapter 9: India, Europe/EU and Non-Proliferation.Chapter 10: India, the European Union and Climate Change: The Paris Agreement and After.Chapter 11: India and European Narratives on Migration: Convergence and Divergence.

The book discusses important developments emerging around the land questions in India in the context of India's neoliberal economic development and its changing political economy.

The book encompasses the broad field of e-Finance and its transformation. After reviewing the developments in the economic and the technology fields, it examines how the insurance, banking, and securities trading firms are bringing about the digital revolution and adapting in the same breath to the changed socio-economic environment.

The book presents academic research on urbanization, urban poverty and slum development initiatives in South Asia, in general, and Bangladesh, in particular, in the light of global slum upgrading initiatives.

This book provides new evidence of the theoretical and empirical causes and consequences of child labor. Section 2 provides empirical evidence from both quantitative and qualitative case studies on child labor from across Asia, Africa and Latin America.