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Highlights the trials and tribulations that children have often had to overcome to be considered true citizens of their communities. Featuring comprehensive coverage on a wide range of topics such as child abuse, socio-economic rights, social injustice, and welfare issues, this is a critical reference source for educators, academics, students, and researchers.

Offers an overview of current difficulties, challenges, and solutions that technology must adapt to in crisis situations. Highlighting pertinent topics such as network recovery, evacuation design, sensing technologies, and video technology, this publication is ideal for engineers, professionals, academics, and researchers interested in emerging technologies in crisis management.

Presents coverage on the benefits and challenges of applying quality improvement frameworks in university settings. Highlighting pertinent topics such as resources management, training practices, and strategic planning, this is an ideal publication for academics, researchers, school administrators, policy makers, and professionals.

Highlights both the history and recent innovations of concept maps in learning environments. Featuring extensive coverage of relevant topics including object maps, verbal maps, and spatial maps, this publication is ideal for educators, academics, students, professionals, and researchers interested in discovering new perspectives on the impact of concept mapping in educational settings.

Examines the necessary leadership traits to create positive partnerships and work ethic in business environments. Highlighting pertinent topics such as engaged interaction, team communication, and work motivation, this book is designed for managers, professionals, researchers, students, and practitioners interested in the role of emotional intelligence in business leadership.

A reference source for the latest scholarly research on emerging human resource practices in relation to labour management, featuring innovative methods to remain competitive in the global business arena. This volume is designed for professionals, upper-level students, managers, and researchers actively involved in human resources settings.

Presents the latest academic material on the identification, treatment, and management methodologies of eye diseases and disorders. Highlighting a range of topics, such as retinal prosthesis, ocular diseases, and ophthalmoscopy, this publication is designed for researchers, graduate-level students, and professionals in the medical field.

Examines issues in the production management, delivery, and consumption of e-services. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics, such as marketing, management, social media, and entrepreneurship, this book is an important resource for professionals, researchers, academics, and industry consultants with an interest in the emergence of e-services.

Examines major breakthroughs within technological areas on a global level. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics, such as biometrics, nanotechnology, and wireless technologies, this book is aimed at academics, practitioners, and researchers seeking current research manuscripts of the evolution of information science and technology.

Provides emerging information on this new field which uses psychoanalysis and the unconscious mind to make advances in computational research. While highlighting the challenges of applying analytical logic trends to primary formal structures, readers will learn the valuable outputs to society when these trends are successfully implemented.

Examines trends, challenges, and collaborative processes in emerging fields within complex network analysis. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as high-performance computing, big data, network science, and accelerated network traversal, this book is aimed at data analysts, researchers, students in information communication technology, program developers, and academics.

Explores methods and strategies related to multimedia information retrieval systems. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics including content-based image retrieval, text-based image retrieval, fuzzy object shape features, encoding, and indexing, this book is aimed at library science and information technology specialists, and researchers seeking current information.

Presents a compilation of innovative and interesting theories, case studies and best practices, information and communication technologies, methodologies, methods and measures that relate to the topics of knowledge management and new organisation forms such as virtual organisations.

Over the last four decades, computer systems have required increasingly complex software development and maintenance support. Practicing Software Engineering in the 21st Century addresses the tools and techniques utilized when developing and implementing software engineering practices into computer systems.

Today's new technologies, from the well-connected computer to the digital communication infrastructure, are dramatically changing the way we work, play and live. The central theme of Our Virtual World: The Transformation of Work, Play and Life via Technology is the interplay of the ubiquity of the virtual environment and our evolving interactions in this changed context

Presents a compendium of materials by noted researchers and practitioners that addresses international issues and implications of Web-based instruction and learning, offering suggestions and guidelines for analysing and evaluating Web sites from cognitive and instructional design perspectives.

Defines the scope of global information technology management, including a reassessment of how multinational businesses use information systems to compete globally. It discusses the role of information technology in developing countries, the global market and global strategies.

People, just like computers, are the main components of any information systems. IT Solutions Series: Humanizing Information Technology: Advice from Experts brings out a variety of views expressed by practitioners from corporate and public settings offer their experiences in dealing with the human by-product of IT.

Community informatics is an approach for linking economic and social development at the community level to opportunities that technologies present. This introduction to the discipline examines issues such as trends, controversies and challenges facing the community in the 21st century.

How can ERP be used to improve the overall organisational operating efficiency and effectiveness? How is ERP going to evolve in the future and what are the implications for Electronic commerce? The overall objective of this volume is to provide students, academics and practitioners with a complete framework for the evaluation, selection, implementation and post-implementation of ERP systems.

While not specifically defined, Electronic Government has become a common term to describe all of the processes, administrative and democratic, that combine to constitute public sector operations. Electronic Government: Design, Applications and Management examines the changes faced by the public sector, as the use of IT significantly increases.

A sound plan for auditing information systems and the technology that supports them is a necessity for organisations to improve IS benefits and manage the risks associated with technology. This volume offers a global vision of auditing and control, providing guidelines for auditing the crucial areas of IT - databases, security, maintenance, quality, and communications.

In light of the emerging global information infrastructure, information technology standards are becoming increasingly important. This volume paints as full a picture as possible of the varied aspects surrounding standards and standardization. This book will serve as a foundation for research, discussion and practice as it addresses trends, problems and solutions for and by numerous disciplines.

Presents contributions by researches and practitioners addressing issues, trends and challenges facing the management of information security in this new millennium. Information Security Management: Global Challenges in the New Millennium focuses on aspects of information security planning, evaluation, design and implementation.

Establishes a framework of analysis for public policy discussion and debate. Discussing topics such as social practices and political economic discourse, this book offers an interdisciplinary approach to standardization and privatization for technical, economic, and political researchers and practitioners, as well as academicians.

Explores how game sound affects a player psychologically, emotionally, and physiologically, and how this relationship impacts the design of computer game sound and the development of technology. The application of this knowledge goes beyond the realm of video games to other types of immersive sound, such as soundscape design, gambling machines, emotive and fantastical sound to name a few.

Provides a comprehensive look at the development of actor-network theory itself, as well as case studies of its use to assist in the explanation of various socio-technical phenomena. This book includes topics relating to technological innovation; both those using actor-network theory as an explanatory framework and those using other approaches.

Second generation Internet-based services, or Web 2.0 technologies, have emerged as buzzwords in information communication technologies. This book investigates how those involved in education - teachers, students, and administrators - can respond to the opportunities offered by Web 2.0 technology, within existing institutional frameworks.

Examines the potential of games and simulations in online learning, and how the future could look as developers learn to use the emerging capabilities of the Semantic Web. This book presents a general understanding of how the Semantic Web will impact education and how games and simulations can evolve to become robust teaching resources.