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Learning Engineering for Online Education is a comprehensive overview of the emerging field of learning engineering, a form of educational optimization driven by analytics, design-based research, and fast-paced, large-scale experimentation.

Visible Light: The Artist's Complete Manual¿ is a comprehensive guide to the visual manifestations of light, essential for every artist regardless of the medium and yet so scarcely exposed in the existing textbooks. Put shortly, "in its two dedicated parts the book thoroughly answers the big questions of ¿Why things look the way they look?¿ and ¿How to make them look better?¿.

Early Childhood Care and Education at the Margins provides contextual accounts of early childhood care and education (ECCE) in Africa in order to build multiple perspectives on ECCE and to promote responsive thought and actions.

Through global studies the book addresses the social effects of resource extraction and energy projects, and their significance for contested energy and social futures.

This book identifies and locates sexual and gender diverse young people's struggles for recognition and inclusion in particular contexts, exploring their experiences in diverse but linked settings: the family, at school and in college, in employment, in social media and through engagement with health services.

The scholars involved in Digital Discussions represent forward thinkers who aim to inform the study of political communication by analyzing the behavior of and messages left by citizens, elites, and journalists in digital spaces. It is critical reading for those studying and working in communication studies with a focus on big data.

This book details the wide range of materials, techniques, and approaches utilised in composite and hybrid structures in recent years. It will be of interest not only for experienced researchers but also for postgraduate students and young researchers entering the fields of nanoscience, material sciences, and bioengineering.

This book will provide the latest research advances in the field of reliability assurance engineering sciences. The book aims to provide a reference for applications of reliability in engineering, offering a theoretical sound background with adequate case studies. Domestic and international perspectives will be included.

This book explores the causal relationship between the deregulation of international economic interests and the forms of violence that prevail in the Global South, looking speficially at the extractive industries and multinational expansionism

This book provides the first comprehensive account of the self-controlled case series (SCCS) method, a statistical method for investigating associations between outcome events and time-varying exposures.

This book comprehensively addresses advanced nanofiber manufacturing based on electrospinning technology. The principles, relationships between process parameters and structure, morphology and performance of electrospun nanofibers and nanomaterials, and the methods for enhanced field intensity and uniform distribution are discussed. The electric field intensity and distribution during electrospinning is also analyzed based on finite element analysis on both the needle and the needleless electrospinning. Furthermore, the modification techniques for improved nanomaterials strength are covered, aiming to provide effective avenues towards the manufacture of stronger nanofiber or nanomaterial products.

The book covers the use of life-cycle assessment, risk assessment, and a combined framework of the two in the evaluation of environmental damages and sustainability constraints. The new edition will take into account new developments in the last 10 years and will extend the scope of the book to cover also products.

Society must consider the impacts of climate change and the subsequent move toward public and corporate environmental sustainability. This book will merge corporate and public sector perspectives on sustainable development with regard to business and engineering approaches. Sustainability metrics and indices will be addressed using practical examples. It will also introduce and expand on economic issues, environmental concerns, social concerns, and ethics. It will address decision analysis and sustainability analytics in the context of the business value of corporate social responsibility, public policy, life-cycle assessment, climate change and energy, and a circular economy.

Sustainable Engineering: Principles and Implementation provides a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of sustainability as it applies to engineering and methods for implementation of sustainable practices. Due to increasing constraints on resources and on the environment and effects of climate change, engineers are being faced with new challenges. While it is generally believed that the concepts of sustainable design must be adhered to so that future generations may be protected, the execution and practice of these concepts are very difficult. It is therefore the focus of this book to give both a conceptual understanding as well as practical skills to apply sustainable engineering principles to engineering design. This book introduces relevant theory, principles, and ethical expectations for engineers, presents concepts related to industrial ecology, green engineering, and eco-design, and details frameworks that indicate the challenges and constraints of applying sustainable development principles. It describes the tools, protocols, and guidelines that are currently available through case studies and examples from around the world. The book is designed to be used by undergraduate and graduate students in any engineering program (with particular emphasis on civil, environmental and chemical engineering) and other programs in which sustainability is taught, in addition to practicing scientists and engineers and all others concerned with the sustainability of products, projects and processes. Specific Features: Discusses sources of contaminants and their impact on the environment Addresses sustainable assessment techniques, policies, protocols and guidelines Describes new tools and technologies for achieving sustainable engineering Includes social and economic sustainability dimensions Offers case studies demonstrating implementation of sustainable engineering practices

This book discusses contemporary ideas about planning and design for coastal resilience. It provides an alternative presentation of the issues and solutions and examines strategies that work with natural processes to incorporate water into the urban environment, designing places and structures that can accommodate flooding and water storage.

Pathology of Sharp Force Trauma covers all aspects of the pathology of sharp force trauma and its clinico-pathological interrelationship from the forensic (medico-legal perspective). It is intended to be a highly-illustrated reference manual and practical guide for forensic pathologists and medical examiners.

This book will cover the toxicology, analytical, remediation, and regulatory perspectives, and how it affects everyone personally. The book will serve as a reference for practicing environmental engineers, regulators, toxicologist, researchers, and concerned members of the public.

Karst terrains have been modified and adapted through a range of human activities as the need for flood control, irrigation, food production, hydropower production and other resources has increased. Successful reclamation projects require construction of dams and reservoirs. Karst terrains present the most complex working conditions for dam foundation and realization of safe reservoir space. Practical engineering solutions are extremely complex and the need for successful solution requires serious investigations and the cooperation of a wide spectrum of scientists and engineers. A wealth of data on dam projects in karst has been collected and presented in this book. Since reservoirs in karst may fail to fill despite extensive investigations and remediation treatment the book includes a description of failures as well.

This book covers the important role a project management office (PMO) plays in promoting lessons learned. Project managers learn how to improve processes by applying lessons learned. The book emphasizes "actionability," or producing a process improvement that can be acted upon by anyone in the PMO or project team.

This book offers a new perspective on improving healthcare that draws inspiration from sources as diverse as American healthcare history, Lean Six Sigma, patient experience, employee engagement, clinical microsystems, physician burnout, and industrial design thinking. This work focuses on the three value streams that form the foundation of all healthcare service processes: healthcare-worker value stream, patient value stream, and organizational process. The interaction of patients and healthcare workers in the context of these three value streams creates the meaningful experience that is essential to healing and to the success of healthcare organizations. Meaningful healthcare experience design guides the work of designing these value streams and improving them to promote experiences that are meaningful and healing for both patients and healthcare workers.

This textbook comprehensively covers air pollution, now with: a heavily reworked introduction; new and overhauled chapters on source mitigation, noise and light pollution, and air quality experiments; extra materials for students-case studies, lab experiments for class practicals or project work, self-study exercises, plus further questions.

High power ultrasonic transducers are now used in a wide variety of applications, ranging from medical devices, ultrasonic cleaning, ultrasonic welding and machining to sono-chemistry reactors. Use of ultrasonic transducers for various applications of atomizers, cleaning, sonochemistry and sonoluminescence, surgery, peening of welding joints, forming processes, ultrasonic motor, ultrasonic lubrication and nondestructive evaluations show the wide range of this growing technology in science and engineering. This work presents essential information, and shows the wide range of engineering & scientific applications for them.

How do we ensure that all students are engaged each day in meaningful, challenging, and joyful work and have equal opportunity to learn? That is the central question Regie Routman addresses in this book. Her response is that such an outcome is only possible within a culture of empowerment in which all students and teachers feel encouraged and supported.

Proposes a new paradigm of public scholarship for our time, one that shifts from the notion of the public intellectual to the model of the engaged scholar. The editors' premise is that the work of public scholarship should be driven by a commitment to supporting a diverse democracy and promoting equity and social justice.

Proposes a new paradigm of public scholarship for our time, one that shifts from the notion of the public intellectual to the model of the engaged scholar. The editors' premise is that the work of public scholarship should be driven by a commitment to supporting a diverse democracy and promoting equity and social justice.

Presents the emerging model of place-based community engagement as a powerful process for attaining more positive and enduring results in local communities as well as stimulating wider engagement by campus constituencies. Drawing on case studies, the authors provide guidance on the opportunities, challenges, and considerations involved in putting a place-based approach into effect.

Presents the emerging model of place-based community engagement as a powerful process for attaining more positive and enduring results in local communities as well as stimulating wider engagement by campus constituencies. Drawing on case studies, the authors provide guidance on the opportunities, challenges, and considerations involved in putting a place-based approach into effect.