This book explores martial arts and combat sports in Latin societies. Covering well-known and rarely-studied forms of fighting systems, it considers how the schools of... Læs mere
This volume uses interview data from self-identified Black women reflecting on their childhood in the Canadian public-school system to explore voice, agency, girlhood, and identity in Canada’s elementary schools.
Insights from Visitor Studies: A purpose-oriented model for museums provides a systematic overview of the value of visitor studies and, for the first time in English, a comprehensive overview of the development of visitor studies in mainland China.
It will cover action recognition, action understanding, gait analysis, gesture recognition, behavior analysis, emotion and affective computing, healthcare, dementia, nursing, Parkinson’s disease, and related areas.
This book offers a reappraisal of the central themes and problems animating the work of Vilfredo Pareto, reconsidering their place within contemporary social and political... Læs mere
Ethical Artificial Intelligence in Power Electronics focuses on AI techniques that are used in the power electronics field, with particular emphasis on the optimization of lost vehicle power and the vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) environment.
This book investigates whether Viking hoards leave behind traces of the people who deposited them and the reasons for doing so. The focus is on the Viking age hoards of the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea, a unique find group in both quantity and quality.
This book explores how the Covid-19 pandemic triggered profound changes in the practice and consumption of digital journalism. Featuring original research from around the globe, the volume examines key challenges of covering the pandemic from Zimbabwe to China and the UK.
This book gathers a collection of scholarly and creative voices that explore how audiovisual media can serve as a catalyst for... Læs mere
A lot of managerial finessing is needed to handle the present era of the operations of the oil and gas industry,... Læs mere
This volume focuses on the broad scope of systems engineering and recent energy technology developments as they relate to the oil and gas industry, which remains a lifeline to communities around the world.
Anisotropy of Metamaterials: Beyond Conventional Paradigms provides a comprehensive introduction to the mathematical modelling of metamaterials based on the macroscopic complex-valued permittivity tensor of dispersed random composites.