This book covers comprehensive but fundamental principles and concepts of disaster and accident prevention and mitigation, ...
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This book addresses a very important challenge of the present – complex decommissioning of the nuclear-powered vessels ...
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Formed around a set of lectures presented at a NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI), this book has grown in scope and in aspiration ...
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Awareness that many key aspects of public health are strongly influenced by climate is growing dramatically, driven by new ...
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Education is a universal priority. Currently, it is at a crossroad. In every society it is valued as a major road to produce ...
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This book follows the idea that security policy must be based on strategic analysis. Defence policy and the role of the armed ...
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the health inequities and human rights issues faced by sex workers globally ...
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This book makes a case for a socially inclusive energy transition and illustrates how engineering and public policy professionals ...
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This book provides an overview of the ever-growing phenomenon of children in shared physical custody thereby providing legal, ...
Continue readingShock and Damage Models in Reliability Theory is the first book to describe the reliability properties and maintenance policies ...
Continue readingMarkov decision process (MDP) models are widely used for modeling sequential decision-making problems that arise in engineering, ...
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This book offers a selection of research papers and case studies presented at the 3rd international conference “Smart and ...
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This book asks whether cash-transfer programs for very low-income households promote social and economic citizenship and, ...
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This book is the first compilation that reviews a wide range of social determinants of health (SDHs) for non-communicable ...
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This book honors the work of Michael Cernea, who was the World Bank’s first professional sociologist, by taking on and ...
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The scope of the book includes: foundations of computer science; software theory and practice; education; computer applications ...
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Drawing on interdisciplinary, cross-national perspectives, this open access book contributes to the development of a coherent ...
Continue readingThe book includes a selected set of peer-reviewed chapters presenting different perspectives against which relevant actors ...
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