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    • Xu, Yilin (2023)
      Photonic integrated circuits (PIC) become increasingly important for numerous applications. Mass production of PIC has become widely available, but large-volume low-cost photonic packaging still represents a challenge. ...
    • Martin, Jörg; Braun, Jan-Peter; Zacher, Josef (2023)
      To date, more than 500 member hospitals from Germany and Switzerland are committed to more quality in medical and nursing care in the Quality Medicine Initiative (IQM). The IQM quality methodology uses quality measurement ...
    • Reimann, Nils (2023)
      Foreign interference in elections may have attracted increased public attention since 2016, but it is a practice virtually as old as modern electoral democracy itself. This book offers the most comprehensive account of its ...
    • Fellmann, Jeremias (2023)
      Bans on organizations are not part of the traditional range of instruments used in dealing with extremist phenomena in the Swiss legal system. In recent years, however, there has been a paradigm shift in this regard, ...
    • Duffy, Ali (2023)
      Based on the data collected from participants and through analyzing scholarship and perspectives from popular culture, Chapter VII offers recommendations for institutional and organizational change that would be supportive ...
    • Duffy, Ali (2023)
      Dancing Motherhood explores how unique factors about the dance profession impact mothers working in it. Ali Duffy introduces the book by laying a foundation of social and cultural histories and trends leading to the issues ...
    • Fields, Gary S.; Gindling, T. H.; Sen, Kunal; Danquah, Michael; Schotte, Simone (2023)
      Using a range of countries from the Global South, this book examines heterogeneity within informal work by applying a common conceptual framework and empirical methodology. The country studies use panel data to study the ...
    • Anderson, Michael Alan (2022)
      This study uncovers the musical foundations and performance suggestions of books of hours, guides to prayer that were the most popular and widespread books of the late Middle Ages. Exploring a variety of musical genres and ...
    • Kshetri, Nir (2023)
      Products and services based on advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and blockchain are normally considered to be for rich consumers in advanced countries. Fourth Revolution and the Bottom Four Billion ...
    • Leksana, Grace T. (2023)
      This book examines how community remembers one of the most gruesome acts of violence in the 20th century: the anti-communist violence in 1965 in Indonesia. Through a case study in a rural district in East Java, this research ...
    • Powell, Darren (2022)
      The point of this chapter is to disrupt the ‘truth’ that food marketing contributes to childhood obesity by critically examining how certainty about this relationship is (re)produced through expert knowledge and the ...
    • Flegal, Katherine (2022)
      Taller people tend to weigh more than shorter people. This chapter will interrogate how weight varies with height. The body mass index (BMI, calculated as weight (W) divided by height (H) squared) is one way to express ...
    • Gard, Michael; Powell, Darren; Tenorio, José (2022)
      The Routledge Handbook of Critical Obesity Studies is an authoritative and challenging guide to the breadth and depth of critical thinking and theory on obesity. Rather than focusing on obesity as a public health crisis ...
    • Kelly, Michael; Fazioli, K. Patrick (2023)
      Social and Intellectual Networking in the Early Middle Ages seeks to expand our understanding of early medieval connectivity by interrogating social and intellectual collaborations, competitions, and communications among ...
    • Brodie, Neil; Kersel, Morag; Rasmussen, Josephine Munch (2023)
      Since the eighteenth century, many if not most ancient and medieval manuscripts or other text-bearing or associated objects have been procured through imperial expropriation or through the antiquities market with little ...
    • Kuhlman, Martha; Alaniz, José (2023)
      Bringing together the work of an array of North American and European scholars, this collection highlights a previously unexamined area within global comics studies. It analyses comics from countries formerly behind the ...
    • Herce, Borja (2023)
      This book constitutes the first typologically oriented monograph on morphomes, which is the term given to systematic morphological identities, usually within inflectional paradigms, that do not map onto syntactic or semantic ...
    • Ndulu, Benno; Stuart, Elizabeth; Dercon, Stefan; Knaack, Peter (2023)
      This book traces the experience of digital economic transformation in seven developing countries, providing insights for policymakers and practitioners in similar situations as well as lessons for outsiders trying to support ...
    • Cooper, Robin (2023)
      The aim of this book is to characterize a notion of type which will cover both linguistic and non-linguistic action and to lay the foundations for a theory of action based on a theory of types called TTR (a Theory of Types ...
    • Pedone, Valentina; Castorina, Miriam (2023)
      This collection gathers the contributions of ten scholars on the topic of transnational cultural and physical mobility originating in China. These contributions aim to open conversations among Chinese Studies scholars by ...