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Presents the current research on m-learning and strategies to leverage mobile devices in educational contexts. It also addresses the importance of communication, community, and mobility in modern classrooms, while offering a comprehensive overview of the theory and pedagogy associated with this new technology.

Outlines the best practices and global strategies to improve patient engagement. This book features a convergence of healthcare professionals and scholars explaining the theoretical insights borne from successful patient education, and the technological tools available to sustain their engagement.

Examines safe grounding designs of electrical networks. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as cathodic protection of grounding grids, grounding connections, and soil resistivity evaluation, this book is geared towards academics, practitioners, and researchers seeking current research on electrical networks.

Presents the latest scholarly research on the widespread integration of technological innovations around the globe and examines how human-computer interaction affects various aspects of people's lives. Featuring emergent research from theoretical perspectives and case studies, this book is ideally designed for professionals, students, practitioners, and academics.

Presents the latest scholarly research on the stimulation and implementation of creative thinking in academic and professional environments. Highlighting the foundations of creativity from theoretical and neuroscientific perspectives, this book is ideally designed for academics, professionals, educators, and practitioners.

Investigates how belief systems, political behaviour, and public action impact the general populace. Featuring theoretical concepts and empirical research across pertinent topic areas, this book is a pivotal reference source for students, scholars, and public figures interested in social behavior, religious studies, and politics.

Evaluates the means by which online education can be improved and systematically integrated more fluidly into traditional learning settings, with special focus on the ethical, pedagogical, and design aspects of building online courses. This publication explains the rewards and follies of online education for educators, administrators, programmers, designers, and students of education.

As more Americans are attending college, historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are now in a position where they must directly compete with other institutions. This volume explores the innovations that HBCUs can enact to better serve and prepare the next generation of African American leaders, and to be more competitive in the higher education landscape.

Presents innovative research on the methods and applications of the task of human characteristics in the design and development of new technology. The book highlights topics such as digitalization, risk management, and task analysis.

Provides research on the application of privacy and security in cloud computing. While highlighting topics such as chaos theory, soft computing, and cloud forensics, this publication explores present techniques and methodologies, as well as current trends in cloud protection.

Presents research on how culture and personal values shape and influence leadership styles, decision-making processes, innovativeness, and other management practices. The book highlights topics including employee motivation, leadership style, and organisational culture.

Presents the latest research on the impact of digital computing. The book investigates new economic and entrepreneurial approaches to enhancing community development, an features research on topics such as business ethics, mobile technology, and cyber security.

Discusses the role of the internet and social networks in facilitating public engagement in politics, rights, and policy, as well as their linkage to international revolutions. The book features research on topics such as whistleblowing, parliamentary informatics, and online vigilantism.

Explores the importance of civic engagement in various school settings, but especially in higher education settings. The book features a wide range of topics, including service learning, charter schools, and democracy.

Provides theoretical and empirical research on logistics management and transportation and scheduling routing and their applications in home healthcare and logistics. Topics covered include hybrid energy, scheduling optimization, and forecasting techniques.

Presents strategies for fostering efficiency of research conduct among students and faculty so as to enhance high quality output for the envisaged personal, societal, national, and international socioeconomic transformation. The book covers a range of topics, including intellectual property, mental health, and quality assurance.

Focuses on robust and easy solutions for the delivery of medical information from patients to doctors, and explores low-cost, high-performance, highly efficient, deployable IoT system options in healthcare systems. The book includes research on topics such as hospital management systems, electronic health records, and bio-signals.

Examines how some markets are successful and what other markets can do to increase their market share in terms of private label products. This book supports the development of marketing strategies that can help make a private label products more successful, highlighting topics including e-commerce, national branding, and consumer behaviour.

Presents new knowledge about how ICTs can be utilized to promote multiple intelligences (MI) in various formal and informal learning settings. The book featuring a range of topics, including augmented reality, learning analytics, and mobile learning.

Provides innovative insights into IT infrastructure and emerging trends in the realm of digital business technologies. This publication analyses and extracts information from Bitcoin networks and provides the necessary steps to designing open blockchain. Topics covered include financial markets, risk management, and smart technologies.

Presents emerging research exploring how universities foster and support entrepreneurship and the development of a more entrepreneurial organisation, and highlights the importance of this process for local communities and companies.

Featuring research on topics such as materials manufacturing, microwave photons, and wireless power transfer, this book is amied at graduate students, researchers, engineers, manufacturing managers, and academicians seeking coverage on the works and experiences achieved in electrical and mechanical engineering.

Presemts research that sets basic rules and patterns for state regulation of urbanization and international migration and for increasing the economic efficiency of developed and developing countries. The book also evaluates the economic impact of urbanization and international migration at the global, national, and regional levels.

Presents innovative research that focuses on the importance of mobile services in business development and discusses the provision of decentralized services, mobile commerce and marketing, and new models for the delivery of mobile services such as business-to-consumer and peer-to-peer.

Delves into patient access to information and the effect that access has on their relationship with healthcare providers and their health outcomes. The book features a range of topics, including gamification, mobile computing, and risk analysis.

Explores digital advances in library collaborative technologies and the steps needed to implement them in order to achieve institutional goals. Featuring topics such as e-records, policymaking, and open educational resources, this book is aimed at librarians, archival and museum staff, knowledge managers, policymakers, educators, and researchers.

Examines both the theory and application of newly-available financial services, and discusses the impact of FinTech on the Islamic financial service industry. The book features research on topics such as cryptocurrency, peer-to-peer transferring, and digital wallets.

Examines the multidisciplinary approach of international e-trade as it applies to information technology, digital marketing, digital communication, online reputation management, and different legislation and risks. Coverage includes digital advertising, consumer behaviour, and e-commerce.

Combines theory and practice on the current trends and issues in this important ecological subject and discusses future challenges towards conservation strategies of these tropical dry forests. Coverage includes forest management, natural regeneration, and silviculture.

Examines the recent advancement of simulation technology and explores innovative ways to utilize advanced simulation programs for the enhancement of teaching and learning outcomes. The book highlights a range of topics, including pedagogy, immersive learning, and social sciences.