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Contestations of Citizenship, Education, and Democracy in an Era of Global Change
Contestations of Citizenship, Education, and Democracy in an Era of Global Change: Children and Youth in Diverse International Contexts considers the shifting social, political, economic, and educational structures shaping contemporary experiences, understandings, and practices of citizenship among children and youth in diverse international contexts. As such, this edited book examines the meaning of citizenship in an era defined by monumental global change. Chapters from across both the Global South and North consider emerging formations of citizenship and citizen identities among children and youth in formal and non-formal education contexts, as well as the social and civic imaginaries and...
Psychosocial Perspectives on Community Responses to Covid-19
This highly topical edited book documents the community response to Covid-19 across national contexts, exploring the widespread development and mobilisation of community initiatives and groups. It provides rich analysis of case studies from the Global North and South, including South Africa, the USA, India, China, Mexico, Brazil, Italy, Australia, the UK, Turkey, and Argentina. The Covid-19 pandemic motivated a significant community response globally, with the widespread development and mobilisation of "bottom up" community initiatives and groups. These community responses were an essential yet often unseen and unrecognised means by which people survived the pandemic. This book asks question...
Multicore Computing
Every area of science and engineering today has to process voluminous data sets. Using exact, or even approximate, algorithms to solve intractable problems in critical areas, such as computational biology, takes time that is exponential in some of the underlying parameters. Parallel computing addresses this issue and has become affordable with the
Good Citizenship for the Next Generation
This Open Access book presents an international group of scholars seeking to understand how youth from different cultures relate to modern multidimensional concepts of citizenship, and the roles that education and society have in shaping the views of the world’s future citizens. The book also explores how different aspects of citizenship, such as attitudes towards diverse population groups and concerns for social issues, relate to classical definitions of norm-based citizenship from the political sciences. Authors from Asia, Europe, and Latin America provide a series of in-depth investigations into how concepts of “good citizenship” are shaped in different regions of the globe, using t...
State Sovereignty
Seven essays grapple with some of the paradoxes of national sovereignty in today's world, examining such dimensions as pan-Islamism, new approaches to international human rights, ethnic conflict, lessons from Yugoslavia, and Japan and the tropical forests of southeast Asia. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Naval Health Research Center
Report is a 30 year review of originally the U.S. Navy Medical Neuropsychiatric Research Unit whose name was changed to Naval Health Research Center. This review provides a brief overview of the Center's origin, progress, achievements and current mission and functions. It provides a summary of each department's current research program and lists present and former military and civilian staff members, and student assistants. Also, the personal observation and recollections of three distinguished colleages associated with the founding and growth of the laboratory are included. The NHRC Report for 1979 also provides indepth information on the Vicennial activities held on 1 Oct 1979.
Specific Sports-Related Injuries
This book offers a comprehensive and detailed overview of specific sports-related injuries and a valuable guide for decision-making to establish the best strategies to prevent and manage such injuries. As a thorough understanding of each sports modality plays a key role, both in injury prevention and management, a dedicated chapter is devoted to each sports discipline. An international panel of authors examines all most popular individual and team sports – including athletics, swimming, combat sports, cycling, tennis, American football, baseball, basketball, soccer and volleyball, just to mention a few. Three additional chapters present special aspects related to sports injuries: mental he...
HRA, HSA, CDC, OASH, & ADAMHA Public Advisory Committees
Directory of information for public advisory committees and 4 agencies of the Public Health Service directly concerned with health care, health services, and related research activities. Committees are arranged under the offices or agencies, e.g., the National Institute of Mental Health has 30 committees listed thereunder. Each entry gives authority of the committee, structure, function, meetings, and members. Indexes of committees and individuals.
