Social Work at the Level of International Comparison

The book presents a theoretical and practical approach to international social work. It uses examples from Germany with a long tradition of social work and focuses on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, which is in a pioneering phase in teaching social work while at the same time experiencing a highly explosive situation in global politics. Socio-political challenges such as violence, traumatization,…

Knowledge, Innovation, and Impact

This book provides researchers with a straightforward and accessible guide for carrying out research that will help them to combine good science with real-world impact. The format of this book is simple: concise chapters on key topics, examples and case studies, written in plain language that will guide researchers through the process of research-driven innovation. The book draws on the editors…

Electricity Access and Community Welfare in Indonesia

This book represents a synthesis of research findings on energy in remote rural areas in East Nusa Tenggara in Indonesia, demarcating a localised understanding of electricity issues that are relevant to similar community profiles in other developing countries, which are facing similar challenges. The authors discuss several key issues relating to electricity access in the Indonesian context, su…

Openness in Practice

This book looks at open data practices historically and from the perspective of those currently involved in advocating for making government data freely available. Based on interviews with practitioners, users and evangelists across three Australian-based case studies illustrating contemporary open data practices, this book discusses how open data has evolved, why certain barriers to openness e…

Voluntary Organisations and Rural Development in South Asia

This book examines the role of voluntary organizations (VOs) in rural development in the south Asian context. While addressing the existing knowledge gap for developmental task sharing with non-government social forces in developing nations; It provides evidence-based knowledge about the structure, functioning, effectiveness, community base, public image, GO-VO equation, strength, challenges, …

Working with Excluded Populations in HIV

This book, written decades into the HIV epidemic, reflects critically on the idea that the socially excluded populations often focused on in HIV research are in fact difficult to access and reach. The author broadly applies the concept ‘hard to reach’ to characterize populations that researchers find difficult to engage with. Social factors that produce marginalization and ultimately result…

The Importance and Value of Older Employees

This open access book makes a contribution to our understanding of one of the social challenges facing many western nations i.e. the challenge of an ageing population. It specifically addresses the issue of competence among older employees. Others have studied ageing populations in terms of the economic burden or the pressure on healthcare services and generally view the rising numbers of senio…

The Intersection of Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Community, and the…

This book examines and encourages the increasing involvement of those in the social sciences, including social work, as well as everyday citizens, with environmental injustices that affect the natural ecology, community health, and physical and mental health of marginalized communities. The authors draw on their diverse experiences in research, practice, and education to suggest interdisciplina…

Promoting Healthy Human Relationships in Post-Apartheid South Africa

This is the first book that examines healthy human relationships in post-apartheid South Africa. In contemporary South Africa, human relationships are under considerable threat. Despite the 1994 commitment to an inclusive and human-rights-based democracy, human relationships remain strained. Bearing in mind South Africa's tortuous and divisive past, this book brings to light many issues, prospe…

Accounting for the Varieties of Volunteering

For a long time, volunteering lacked standardized data sets allowing methodologically robust comparative analyses and global policy making. Starting from 2011, the International Labour Office (ILO) and the United Nations (UN) have provided global statistical standards for organization-based and direct volunteering which offer path-breaking opportunities. The global statistical standards on v…

COVID-19 and Social Protection

This book provides a comparative analysis of how communities have developed people-based resilience in response to the global impact of COVID-19. The crisis of the capitalist economy due to border closure, downturn in business, loss of jobs and large-scale destruction of people’s well-being has worsened poverty, and inequality worsened the situation of the already marginalized. At the same ti…

Life Expectations of the People

This book compares the Chinese and Russian dreams, focusing on eight aspects: prosperity, affluence, family harmony, fairness and justice, diversity, green beauty, honesty and uprightness, and happiness. Based on large-scale survey data combined with the corresponding sociological theory for analysis, it presents detailed information, compelling arguments, and well-founded conclusions, offerin…

Early Identification and Intervention of Suicide Risk in Chinese Young Adults

This book presents a concise introduction to the contemporary research and practice of suicide prevention, and it addresses the cognitive and neurological aspects of suicide. With the inclusion of extensive thought-provoking material, this book is of great value to clinicians, researchers, educators, students, and anyone who are broadly interested in suicide assessments and interventions. The a…

Social Policy, Service Users and Carers

This textbook provides a greater understanding of the lived effect that social policies have on service users and carers. While service user and carer involvement has become more and more prominent in social policy over recent years, it is rarely the case that the perspectives of service users and carers goes beyond consultation to truly meaningful involvement and co-production. This book is un…

Practicing Social Work in Deprived Communities

This contributed volume offers a holistic understanding of social work practice in deprived communities through its thematization of understanding deprived communities globally, the development of competencies for social work practice in and with deprived communities, social work education as a community development tool, and the empowerment of social workers in deprived communities. Inequality…

Ambivalences of Inclusion in Society and Social Work

This book represents the work of the European Research Network: Inclusive Society and the Role of Social Work, which comprises researchers from Barcelona, Spain; Koblenz, Germany; Maastricht, The Netherlands; and Zagreb, Croatia. The authors present research results and reflections from these four different European countries to provide a comprehensive introduction and discussion of the ambival…

Better Work

This Open Access book provides a thorough analysis of the quality of work in the Netherlands, and suggests policy proposals to promote and facilitate good work for more people. New technology, flexibilization and the intensification of work will have significant consequences for all those who will still have jobs in the future, and – much less studied so far – for the quality of their work.…

PERSPECTIVES ON ENGLISH HOMEWORK AND ITS CHALLENGES FACED BY STUDENTS AT SMP …

The aims of this research were to find out students’ perspectives on English homework and the challenges they faced in completing English Homework. The participants of this research were six students of Junior High School 8 Palembang. The research method used in this study was qualitative and data collection was conducted by having semi-structured interview. The research results showed that t…

 SIMULASI METODE PROOF OF WORK (POW) PADA SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT DI BIDANG …

Use of Supply Chain Management (SCM) technology integrated with Smart Contract to increase transparency and data security in the supply chain industry. Several traditional problems in SCM, such as lack of information sharing and delays in data retrieval, therefore, in this research a data security system was developed using the proof-of-work method in order to overcome traditional supply chain …

KLASIFIKASI PENYAKIT STROKE DENGAN CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK (CNN) DAN MET…

Stroke is a disease in which the sufferer experiences bleeding or blockage of the brain arteries. The focus of this research is the use of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) method in stroke disease classification and Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) method as an approach to understand more deeply the decision-making process used by the CNN model. There are 3 models used by OzNet, ResN…

SEGMENTASI PEMBULUH DARAH PADA CITRA RETINA MENGGUNAKAN METODE CONVOLUTIONAL …

The U-Net architecture has a fairly deep network. The addition of layers in the U-Net architecture network can increase the complexity of the U-Net network which can affect the training time to be longer and parameter enlargement. This study modifies U-Net by reducing the complexity of U-Net by removing the bridge part of U-Net. The removal of the bridge in U-Net is known as V-Net architecture.…

ELEMENTS OF ECOLOGY, Second Edition

Edition

2nd

ISBN/ISSN

0-06-046327-9

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677 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

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574.5 Smi e

HANDBOOK OF DATA COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER NETWORKS, SECOND EDITION

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THE LOCAL NETWORK HANDBOOK, EDITION II

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Handbook of Project Finance for Water and Wastewater Systems

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-

ISBN/ISSN

0-87371-486-5

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xiv, 239 p. : 24 cm

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628.068 1 Cur h

CRC HANDBOOK of NATURAL PESTICIDES, Volume IV Pheromones Part A

Includes bibliographies and index. Contents: v. 1. Theory, practice and detection - v. 2. Isolation and identification - - v. 4. Pheromones [2 vols]

THE Archaeology HANDBOOK: A Field Manual and Resource Guide

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-

ISBN/ISSN

0-471-53051-4

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x, 255 p. ; 24 cm

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930.1 McM a

McGRAW-HILL MACHINING AND METALWORKING HANDBOOK

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-

ISBN/ISSN

0-07-067958-4

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xvii, 1518 p. : ill. ; 21 cm

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671.35 Wal m 1994

The Writter's Workbook, Second Edition

Edition

2nd

ISBN/ISSN

0-07-016154-2

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400 p.; 24 cm.

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001.543 Day w

ANALISIS PENGARUH PANJANG LINK DAN TIPE BRACE TERHADAP KINERJA PORTAL BAJA DE…

Steel is still the choice as a structural material for earthquake-prone areas, because in addition to having high strength, the elastic properties of steel contribute to better ductility and energy dissipation than concrete. In relation to seismic problems, there are several earthquake-resistant steel structural systems that can be applied to buildings, namely; Moment Resisting Frame (MRF), Ecc…