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by Mohamad Ghazi Janaby
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
This book investigates the modern privatisation of war. It specifically focuses on the legal regime regulating private military and security company (PMSC) personnel in armed conflicts. The law regulating PMSC personnel is analysed from two perspectives. Firstly, can one of the three following legal...
On-Surface Atomic Wires and Logic Gates
Updated in 2016 Proceedings of the International Workshop on Atomic Wires, Krakow, September 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Written by leading international experts, this book summarizes the advances in sample preparation, design and construction of dangling bond atomic scale wires and logic gate circuits at the surface of a passivated semi-conductor. Individual chapters cover different aspects of the sample fabrication...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
This book comprises the full selected Regular Lectures from the Proceedings of the 12th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-12), which was held at COEX in Seoul, Korea, from July 8th to 15th, 2012. ICME-12 brought together 4700 experts from 100 countries, working to understand all...
by Betty A. Reardon, Dale T. Snauwaert
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Betty A. Reardon is a world-renowned leader in the fields of peace education and human rights; her pioneering work has laid the foundation for a new cross-disciplinary integration of peace education and international human rights from a gender-conscious, global perspective. This collection of reflective...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
This book outlines the current status of water resources management in Central Asia countries, and provides a review of the history, policies and transboundary cooperation regarding water resources in the region. Particular attention is given to the water-energy-food-environmental nexus, and to the...
The Right to Silence in Transnational Criminal Proceedings
Comparative Law Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This book considers the effectiveness and fairness of using international cooperation to obtain confession evidence or evidence of a suspect or accused person’s silence across borders. This is a question of balance in limiting and protecting the right to silence. The functioning of the applicable...
Judicial Sales of Ships
A Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
This work focuses on a specific aspect of the enforcement of maritime claims, namely judicial sales of ships, a procedure creditors typically resort to in the event of an irreversible default situation. A substantial part of the book approaches the topic from a comparative perspective, the goal being...
Language Development across the Life Span
The Impact of English on Education and Work in Iceland
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This book offers insights from a seven-year study into the impact of English as an International Language at a national level, from the effect of rich English input on a previously monolingual people’s linguistic repertoire to its effect on the situated language use demanded of speakers who find...
Historical Pollution
Comparative Legal Responses to Environmental Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
This volume examines legal matters regarding the prevention and fighting of historical pollution caused by industrial emissions. "Historical pollution" refers to the long-term or delayed onset effects of environmental crimes such as groundwater or soil pollution.
Historical Pollution...
Refugees and Migrants in Law and Policy
Challenges and Opportunities for Global Civic Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Refugees and migration are not a new story in the history of humankind, but in the last few years, against a backdrop of huge numbers of migrants, especially from war-torn countries, they have again been a topic of intensive and contentious discussion in politics, the media and scientific publications....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2019
This book presents the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computer Aided Engineering, collecting the best papers from the event, which was held in Wrocław, Poland in June 2018. It includes contributions from researchers in computer engineering addressing the applied science and development...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
This book presents the proceedings of the 1st EAI International Conference on Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Education (TIE 2017), which took place at Canterbury Christ Church University on September 11-12, 2017. The central theme of the conference is creativity and innovation, especially...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
This book collects selected articles addressing several currently debated issues in the field of international macroeconomics. They focus on the role of the central banks in the debate on how to come to terms with the long-term decline in productivity growth, insufficient aggregate demand, high economic...
Russia's Posture in Space
Prospects for Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
The book sheds new lights on the evolution of Russian space activities with a focus on their strategy of international cooperation. This analysis is carried out in relation to the evolution of the domestic and international dynamics that have been impacting the country’s direction in space, with...