This book discusses the phenomena of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDP) across several African countries. There are 40 million IDP worldwide; of these, an estimated 12.6 million are in 37 of Africa’s 55 countries.

This book is an anthology of the varied strategies of spatial transgressions and how they have been implemented through the arts as a means to resist, rejuvenate, reclaim, critique or cohabitate. The book is divided into two sections – Displacements and Disruptions. The first section discusses the ramifications of the spatial displacements of bodies, organizations, groups of people and ethnicities, and explores how artists, theorists and arts organizations have an attentive history of revealing and reacting to the displacement of peoples and how their presence or absence radically reconfigures the value, identity, and uses of place.

This book presents a panorama of recent developments in the theory of tilings and related dynamical systems. It contains an expanded version of courses given in 2017 at the research school associated with the Jean-Morlet chair program.

This book reviews the theory and applications of the normal-mode functions in numerical weather prediction and weather and climate dynamics. The normal-mode functions, the eigensolutions of the linearized primitive equations describing the evolution of atmospheric winds and mass variables, have been used for a long time.

Game developers will use this book to gain a basic knowledge of programming artificial intelligence using Unity and C#. You will not be bored learning the theory underpinning AI. Instead, you will learn by experience and practice, and complete an engaging project in each chapter.

Das erprobte Prüfungstraining „Bankwirtschaft“ ist gezielt auf die prüfungsrelevanten Themen fokussiert, damit Sie sicher wissen, worauf es in der Prüfung ankommt. Es bietet die Möglichkeit, das in der Ausbildung erlernte Wissen selbstständig anzuwenden und dient der systematischen Vorbereitung auf die Abschlussprüfung.

Andrea Kloß geht vor dem Hintergrund der zunehmenden gesellschaftlichen Polarisierung der Frage nach, welchen Beitrag fiktionale Unterhaltungsmedien leisten können, um bei ihrem Publikum Empathie und deliberative Offenheit im Diskurs mit Andersdenkenden zu fördern.In zwei experimentellen Studien mit Teilnehmern unterschiedlicher Bildungsniveaus kann die Autorin zeigen, dass Transformationsgeschichten, die eine versöhnliche Annäherung zwischen zwei Filmcharakteren mit gegensätzlichen Überzeugungen darstellen, bei den Rezipienten das gleichzeitige Erleben von Empathie für beide Charaktere begünstigen und dadurch ihre Offenheit für andere Ansichten stärken.

This book explores the recent clinical and research findings in the field of prenatal screening and diagnosis. It presents new devices and tests such as real-time 3D ultrasound, ultrafast fetal MRI, and next-generation sequencing and discusses genetic counseling and fetal therapy.

This book covers the basic principle and challenges of structural health monitoring system for natural fibre and the hybrid composites structural materials in industrial applications, such as building, automotive, aerospace and wind turbine. Structural health monitoring (SHM) has become crucial in evaluating the performance of structural application in recent trends, especially since it is in line with the high-tech strategy of Industry 4.0.

This book highlights the results from over a year of ethnobotanical research in a rural and an urban community in Jamaica, where we interviewed more than 100 people who use medicinal plants for healthcare. The goal of this research was to better understand patterns of medicinal plant knowledge, and to find out which plants are used in consensus by local people for a variety of illnesses.

This book presents new theoretical approaches for statistical network analysis in random variable networks. Robustness and optimality of statistical procedures for various network structures are detailed and analyzed. Applications to social networks, power transmission grids, telecommunication networks, stock market networks, and brain networks are presented through a theoretical analysis which identifies network structures. Graduate students and researchers in computer science, mathematics, and optimization will find the applications and techniques presented useful.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Web and Internet Economics, WINE 2020, held in Beijing, China, in December 2020.

This book focuses on the application of ionic liquids in flow assurance in the oil and gas industry. It discusses their physiochemical properties, and considers the role of ionic liquids as gas hydrate inhibitors in offshore pipelines.

This groundbreaking book aims to show that technology currently exists to build and operate large autonomous sailing ships equipped with hydrokinetic turbines and electrolysers that could operate in high-wind ocean areas.

In recent years, improving efficiency in healthcare facilities in general, and in hospitals specifically, has become increasingly important. This book provides essential information on the powerful performance results that can be achieved when patient-centered efficiency reforms are implemented within health management systems.