This is to advocate for a shift in emphasis, away from current juridical approaches to ethics (ethical codes or regulation), toward ethics as an aesthetic practice—away from ethics as a minimal requirement, toward ethics as an aspiration.
This book presents a review of Deleuze’s key methods and concepts in the course of exploring how these methods may be applied in contemporary studies of health and illness.
This book discusses ethnography from the three points of view of Emerging Methodologies, Practice and Advocacy, and Social Justice and Transformation, with an over arching emphasis on researchers' and participants' worldviews.
This book presents some results on selected taxa in the Himalayan region (mainly Nepal), pinpoints the threats to their survival and suggests ways how to avoid their extinction.
This book presents new research findings in a variety of areas in modern continuum mechanics. It is dedicated to Donald E. Carlson, who enjoyed a distinguished career and influenced the mechanics community through his teachings, publications and interactions.
In addition to providing a model explaining the spurious signals of the bolometric detectors in the Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) experiment, this volume also shows how to improve its detector operation and data analysis.
This book reflects the outcome of the 1st International Workshop on Turbulent Spray Combustion held in 2009 in Corsica (France).
This book develops Initial Boundary Value equations for solving physical problems. Covers Tensors, Continuum Kinematics, Stress, Fundamental Equations, Constitutive Equations, Linear Elasticity, Hyperelasticity, Plasticity, Thermoelasticity and more.
Rasch Analysis in the Human Sciences helps individuals, both students and researchers, master the key concepts and resources needed to use Rasch techniques for analyzing data from assessments to measure variables such as abilities, attitudes, and personality traits.
Research and practice that contribute to positive refugee mental health from Canada and the U.S. show that refugee mental health promotion must take into account social and policy contexts of immigration and health care in addition to medical issues.
High loads with high dynamics in severe conditions can only be driven by fluid power mechanisms. In the case of rotating drives, the choice for an electrical... Læs mere