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Stroke and spinal cord injury often result in paralysis with serious negative consequences to the independence and quality of life of those who sustain them.

This book describes an overlooked solution to a long-standing problem in health care.

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most prevalent childhood psychiatric condition, with estimates of more than 5% of children affected worldwide, and has a profound public health, personal, and family impact.

This book explores the ways in which AgeTech can contribute to healthy cognitive aging and support the independence of people with dementia.

This book provides an in-depth review of the historical and state-of-the-art use of technology by and for individuals with autism.

This book introduces zero-effort technologies (ZETs), an emerging class of technologies that require little or no effort from the people who use them.

Have you ever experienced the burden of an adverse event or a near-miss in healthcare and wished there was a way to mitigate it?

Assistive Technology Design for Intelligence Augmentation presents a series of frameworks, perspectives, and design guidelines drawn from disciplines spanning urban design, artificial intelligence, sociology, and new forms of collaborative work, as well as the author's experience in designing systems for people with cognitive disabilities.

Within the context of healthcare, there has been a long-standing interest in understanding the posture and movement of the human body.

Approximately 10% of North Americans have some communication disorder.

Designed Technologies for Healthy Aging identifies and presents a variety of contemporary technologies to support older adults' abilities to perform everyday activities.

Conducting fieldwork for investigating technology use in healthcare is a challenging undertaking, and yet there is little in the way of community support and guidance for conducting these studies.

Performing fieldwork in healthcare settings is significantly different from fieldwork in other domains and it presents unique challenges to researchers.

Computer software has been productive in helping individuals with cognitive disabilities.

Demographic trends and increasing support costs means that good design for older and disabled people is an economic necessity, as well as a moral imperative.

This book investigates the role of climate-induced innovation and climate change mitigation technologies in reducing the negative impact of climate change.

The past decade has brought to the fore the critical need to constantly envision and consider various scenarios where ongoing trends and sudden changes could together alter the provision of healthcare and the direction of medical research.

The COVID-19 pandemic has reminded us of how important the life science industry is, and compels us to find efficient management methods specific to the industry.

This book sheds new light on the evolution and transformation of polytheistic religions.

In this book, well-renowned international scholars discuss topics related to various aspects of the history of the Battle of Salamis, inspired by the democratic origins of the Greek naval victory at Salamis.

The cooperative banks' business model is unique in the financial market.

Health threats pose significant dangers to humankind and form a major source of human suffering and sorrow.

This book explores the organizational and operational activities of real Positron Emission Tomography (PET) radiopharmaceutical manufacturing.

Inspired by the democratic origins of the Greek naval victory at Salamis, the book discusses the current pressing issues of democracy worldwide.

This book defends and articulates an "e;Engaged Buddhist"e; approach to economics as a response to the destructive effects of global capitalism.

This book defines the dilemmas related to the interface between legal regulations and planning practice in the spatial management system.

This book addresses the fundamental conflict of interest that physicians face in their daily work lives between the ethics of proper medical care versus the demands of standard business practices.

This book is Volume II of a two-volume set on antitrust policy, analyzing the economic efficiency and moral desirability of various kinds of antitrust-policy-coverable conduct and various possible government responses to such conduct, including US and EU antitrust law.

This volume spans economics, history, sociology, law, graphic design, religion, environmental science, politics and more to offer a transdisciplinary examination of debt.

This volume defines and analyzes the Blue Economy, a system that encompasses all the economic activities which are happening in and around the ocean within a sustainable development framework, with focus on countries in Asia.

This is the first known book on economic evaluations specifically geared to oral health professionals.

The main aim of this book is to provide a state of the art of the Levelized Cost of Energy calculation for energy communities from both a theoretical, defining a systematic analysis approach, and a practical point of view, providing results for three representative real case studies.

This book presents a unique real-world-centred approach to economic life from a phenomenological approach.

This book explores the emerging economic reality of health data pools from the perspective of European Union policy and law.

Employing a practice theoretical approach, this study centers on how German multinational enterprises transfer three selected production-related training practices to their subsidiaries in emerging economies: onboarding of new employees, shop floor inducting of machine operators, and German-style dual apprenticeship training for specialized technicians.

These days, the idea of "e;value"e; is at the center of many activities and decisions in health care in the United States.

Medicine itself is sick.

This book offers an overview of Russian and international experience in developing the concept of future cities and its practical implementation.

In the panorama of studies related to the ability of lands to support both natural processes and agricultural production activities, this research introduces a still unexplored or under-studied theme which is that of the relationship between urban sprawl in its various forms and land quality.

This book considers climate change from an economic and international policy perspective.

This volume uses historical epistemology in order to address several topics in the history of economic thought, with special emphasis on ecological economics, environmental metaphors of scarcity, and mathematical ecology.

Digital healthcare is heterogeneous along the entire treatment pathway, ranging from monitoring applications and artificial-intelligence-based diagnostics, to support for virtual reality surgery.

This book explores the effects of covid-19 crisis on cities and urban areas and proposes approaches and solutions to invert the pandemic's negative impact.

This book explores the growing spatial inequality in contemporary cities, and the opportunity of reframing the role of public open space as a tool of inclusion in a context of an increasing economic gap between the urban poor and rich.

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This book describes the latest microeconomic concepts and operations research (OR) techniques needed to comprehend the design and operation of power markets, as well as the actions of their agents: producers, consumers, operators, and regulators.

This book includes the proceedings of the Mitigating Climate Change 2021 Symposium and Industry Summit (MCC2021), which brings together research from experts in academia, industry, and policy arenas to uncover the challenges, sharpen existing solutions, and formulate cutting-edge means to mitigate climate change.

This book describes a comprehensive approach to applying systems science formally to the deep analysis of a wide variety of complex systems.

This book presents new research on innovative financial instruments and approaches available to implement nature-based solutions (NBS) at various scales and in different contexts.

Patient safety and quality improvement in health care remain a global priority.