Böcker utgivna av IGI Global

Explores cybersecurity issues that have occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose is to disseminate cutting-edge research results, highlight research challenges and open issues, and promote further research interest and activities in security and privacy in the COVID-19 era.

Focuses on technologies and emerging topics regarding innovative solutions applied to the healthcare industry, including Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for enhancing human quality of life, as well as related challenges. The book also presents research on theoretical, methodological, and technological developments, and new applications.

Covers the latest developments in understanding the physiology and biochemistry of extremophiles. The book gives a complete idea about the microorganisms in these groups along with their biotechnological applications and also discusses the molecular genomics and molecular aspects of the extremophiles.

Helps readers to anticipate separate, yet interrelated functional spheres of global socioeconomic reality, understand their structure, and recognise potential vulnerabilities and opportunities in light of the current pandemic and the induced transformations.

Explores the use of digital technology and visual texts in education. This information is relevant to the context of pandemic learning, and also speaks to the need to focus on textual work with students as technology and ways of reading proliferate. This book focuses on both work with young children, adolescents, and students at the college level.

Applies AI in edge analytics for healthcare applications, analyses the impact of tools and techniques in edge analytics for healthcare, and provides security solutions for edge analytics in healthcare IoT. The book provides details on how to apply different analytical methods and tools for analytics of healthcare applications devised using IoT.

Covers a linear history of philosophy, concentrating on 'reciprocity-in-kind', especially the factors and policies behind the 'study agendas' secret philosophies before and after the European powers or the colonial period.

Many of our social problems are a result of our societal refusal to talk about difficult topics. This book includes both quantitative and qualitative research to provide empirical evidence of these negative social and health outcomes and to provide communication and coping strategies for dealing with difficult topics.

Focuses on the psychology of education and how pedagogy links with it. Specifically, the book focuses on Ausubel's theory of meaningful learning and instructional design and assessment. This consideration of Ausubel's theory could be the solution for designing adequate and meaningful teaching-learning and assessment materials

Explores the digital ecosystem through a historical, sociological, political, and economic approach. The book discusses new organizational practices, such as remote work, digital culture, and the implementation of transformation strategy using appropriate technological tools, and deciphers the new paradigm proposed by the digital era.

Focuses on teaching and learning in distance learning virtual universities. The book explores, describes, and questions the role of these institutions in the higher education landscape

Provides coverage of some of the main trends, challenges, and recent innovations in the field of urban e-planning through the perspectives of authors from different disciplinary backgrounds and geographies. Themes addressed include decision support systems, collaborative urban e-planning, smart engaged urban e-planning, and planning smart cities.

Evaluates the economic and social impacts of new challenging issues in public economics, such as global warming and the global pandemic. The book is aimed at social science scholars, government officials, policy makers and businessmen focused on environmental policies, and more.

Outlines recent developments in the field of computational biomechanics. The book presents a series of computational techniques that are the backbone of the field that includes finite element analysis, multi-scale modelling, fluid-solid interaction, mesh-less techniques and topological optimization.

Provides guidance to overcome the existing accessibility gap in higher education. The book advocates for transparent education by presenting chapters consisting of in-depth, comprehensive information for academics, faculty developers, administrators, and instructional designers.

Addresses critical issues and challenges in the European Union and the emerging trends for the EU's future. Authors from varied disciplines and regions examine and offer insight into what knowledge already exists in European issues and the challenges associated with the enlargement and construction of the European project.

From the culturally and linguistically sustaining multi-tiered systems of support necessary in the general education and bilingual classroom, to the referral and identification processes, to service delivery models, this book addresses the considerations that will assist educators in providing educational services to vulnerable students.

Sheds light on the leaders and managers from maritime and logistics industries by sharing experiences, new paradigms, practices and strategies. The book provides practical ideas and ways to cope with the consequences of the new normal in the wake of the pandemic crisis worldwide.

Highlights not only big data, but also big information, big knowledge, and big wisdom for intelligent business and decision making. The book also dives into intelligent business analytics to understand consumers in the digital age, and business analytics as an emerging paradigm under the increasing complexity of businesses and business processes.

Delivers technological solutions to improve smart technologies in architecture, healthcare, and environment sustainability. The book covers the areas of computational solutions, computation frameworks, smart prediction, healthcare solutions using computational informatics, and more.

Analyses the drivers of digital transformation of businesses, assesses digital transformation success factors, and presents case studies of digital adoption by companies in different business sectors. The book provides valuable insights on best practices and success factors of digital transformation for relevant stakeholders.

Evaluates and describes successful initiatives in remote and hybrid learning for early childhood through college and job training levels. During the pandemic disruption, remote and hybrid tools were adopted rapidly and often without the benefit of careful utilization. This book provides an opportunity to conduct that careful consideration.

Extends the conversation about how to engage diverse and complex social identity groups in a system historically designed to be exclusive of their lived experiences. The book documents the lived experiences of non-dominant group members' teaching experiences, perspectives, and approaches and encapsulates a broad representation of experiences.

Highlights critical trends focusing on the relationship between the public sphere, private sector, medicine, environmental health and wellbeing, and society. The book covers critical topics such as environmental sustainability, ethics and medicine, healthcare and administration, corporate social responsibility, pollution, and related topics.

The processes of Globalization based on major forms of entertainment consumption has promoted the interest of enlarged social actors towards cultural experience. Disseminated by social media, new forms of information and knowledge about exotic and new tourism destinations have endorsed an increasing interest towards in Cultural Tourism.

Explores language varieties in education. Not only global varieties of language, but also dialects and regionalisms present in English, regardless of whether the version is global English or varieties of English that can be found in English-speaking countries. The effects of these varieties and dialects on education is the focus of the book.

Provides a substantial critique on post-modernism theories in the area for valid interpretations and analyses of the phenomena of disease response and pathological behavior. The book studies the shifts in modern social values and illness behaviour in contemporary society, especially under COVID-19.

The profound impact of deploying digital identity would affect multiple domains and this book highlights the most pertinent such as access, consent, self-sovereignty, portability, longevity, and more. Additionally, it focuses on how digital identity can be a conduit for changing the paradigm from sick- to well care.

Focuses on rules for teleworking generated by the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) that exist without a national strategy. The research goes further to address implications for everyday situations, many that already existed before the pandemic.

Discusses the results of research conducted on the causes of hunger and poverty and how the COVID-19 pandemic has aggravated this problem. The book explores local development initiatives that have been implemented to mitigate the problem, and identifies the different causes for the chronic problem of hunger and underdevelopment.