Böcker utgivna av IGI Global

Provides emerging research on the importance of recruiting, retaining, and promoting faculty within Historically Black Colleges and Universities. While highlighting specific issues and aspects of mentorship in college, readers will learn about challenges and benefits of mentorship including professional development, peer mentoring, and psychosocial support.

Provides upcoming research on the strategies to improve processes in business while using Lean Six Sigma principals and applications. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics, such as direct model technology, performance rework, and quality management methods, this book is aimed at professionals, academics, students, and researchers interested in detailed research on the management of risk.

Provides emerging research on the process of architectural form-finding as an effort to balance perceptive efficiency with functionality. While highlighting topics such as architectural geometry, reverse modelling, and digital fabrication, this book details the geometric process that forms the shape of a building.

Examines the prevalence, assessment, causes, and impacts of sexual violence from cultural, legal, psychosocial, theoretical, and medical viewpoints. Discussing difficult issues including forensic assessment, legal ramifications, mental health, risk assessment, and effects on family life, this book is aimed at researchers, mental health professionals, clinicians, and special educators.

Provides research on current issues in the rise of new platforms for digital activities, a collaborative economy, crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, and other activities that are shaping developing countries. Highlighting a range of topics, such as infrastructure finance, tertiary educational institutions, and urban sustainability, this book is for academics, practitioners, researchers, and students.

Provides emerging research on the theoretical and practical aspects of healthcare management for optimal patient care and communication. While highlighting topics, such as clinical communication, ethical dilemmas, and preventive medicine, this book will teach readers about the tools and applications of ethical treatment and hospital behavior in both private and public medical organisations.

Explores the importance of cooperation between parents, teachers, and administrators to create valuable support systems that will promote student success through strategies using social justice. Featuring coverage on a wide range of topics, such as parent collaboration, bilingualism, and community-based partnerships, this book is aimed atacademics, researchers, and teachers.

Explores leadership within corporations and how proper education can lead to positive outcomes within corporations. Featuring coverage on a wide range of topics, including managerial mindsets, learning-performance relationship, and strategic risk management, this book is aimed at academics, researchers, students, and policy makers seeking research on the importance of quality leadership education.

Examines efficient use of electric resources and renewable energy sources which have a positive impact on sustainable development. Featuring coverage on cogeneration thermal modules, photovoltaic (pv) solar, and renewable energy systems (RES) application practices, this publication is aimed at academics, practitioners, professionals, and upper-level students.

Examines constructivist teaching methods and active learning strategies in allied health education to enhance student knowledge and prepare them for the digital age. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics, such as e-learning, microscopic morphology, and virtual reality, this book is aimed at researchers, academics, medical professionals, and upper level students.

Provides emerging research on multimedia journalism across various platforms and formats using digital technologies. While highlighting topics, such as immersive journalism, non-fictional narratives, and design practice, this book explores the theoretical and critical approaches to journalism through the lens of various technologies and media platforms.

Presents the latest research findings on centrality metrics and their broader applications for different categories of networks including wireless sensor networks, curriculum networks, and social networks. This publication is an ideal resource for students, faculty, industry practitioners, and business professionals interested in theoretical concepts and current developments in network domains.

Examines the fractal structure and long-term memory of the financial markets in order to predict prices of financial assets and financial crises. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics, such as computational process models, chaos theory, and game theory, this book is aimed at academics, researchers, and students seeking current research on pricing and predicting financial crises.

Presents the latest research findings on the use of information and communication technologies for active citizen engagement. Featuring coverage on areas such as digital competence framework, multimedia, and social media, this publication is a resource for professionals, consultants, university teachers, practitioners, community organizers, government administrators, citizens, and activists.

Explores the development of cultural competency, knowledge, skills, and dispositions critical for teaching abroad. Featuring anecdotal vignettes that illustrate competency on topics, such as adaptability, educational diplomacy, and cultural fluency in educational ventures, this book is aimed at school administrators, university professors, curriculum developers, and researchers.

Provides emerging research on the strategies required to promote growth in Africa as well as the implications and issues of the expansion of prosperity. While highlighting sustainable education, pastoral development pathways, and the public-sector role, readers will learn about the history of sustainable development and governmental approaches to improving Africa's economy.

Presents the newest research on the risk assessment matrix, ladder logic, and computerized maintenance management systems. This book features widespread coverage across a variety of related viewpoints and topics, such as the Ishikawa diagram, machinery failure analysis and troubleshooting, model reference adaptive control systems, and proportional-integral-derivative controllers.

Examines the importance of information and communications technology and its ability to aid in developing countries and the methods to make such technologies more accessible and cost less. Thos volume features coverage on a wide range of topics, including community networks, infrastructure sharing, and the digital divide.

Examines the toxic hazardous substances and their impact on the environment. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as pollution of microorganisms, phytoremediation, and bioremediation, this book is aimed at academics, professionals, graduate students, and practitioners interested in emerging techniques for environmental decontamination.

Provides a systematic analysis of formalized factors affecting socio-technical systems operators and how these factors influence decision-making process of professional and non-professional activities in air navigation systems. This publication features coverage on a broad range of topics, such as dimensional modelling, applications of decision support systems, and semantic analysis.

Provides research on recent advances in oncology aiming to improve early detection and personalized treatment of cancer. While highlighting applied methods of therapy, such as body radiotherapy, chemoradiotherapy, and immunotherapy, readers learn about the transforming approach to oncology in modern medicine and new technologies used to diagnose and treat cancer.

Examines the development of coursework for gifted and talented students. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics, such as constructivism, diversity responsive method, and teacher training, this book is geared towards academics, researchers, gifted education teachers, supervisors, directors, and administrators.

Examines the steps taken to diversify a number of courses from various disciplines and addresses the challenges with curriculum internationalization. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics, such as active learning, student engagement, and grounded globalism, this book is aimed at academics, upper-level students, educators, professionals, and practitioners seeking current research.

Examines the illness and pain-and-suffering narrative of health communication. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics, such as social networks, patient empowerment, and e-health, this book is aimed at professionals and researchers in health informatics as well as students, practitioners, clinicians, and academics.

Provides emerging research on the development of multi-user virtual learning environments and their potential role in education. Highlighting a range of pertinent topics, such as project-based learning, social learning theory, and interactive media, this book is an important resource for educational researchers, school teachers, college professors, and instructional designers.

Provides emerging research on the core areas of e-commerce web applications. While highlighting the use of data mining, search engine optimization, and online marketing to advance online business, readers will learn how the role of online commerce is becoming more prevalent in modern business.