This open access book asks why and how some of the developing countries have “emerged” under a set of similar global conditions, what led individual countries to choose the particular paths that led to their “emergence,” and what challenges confront them. If we are to understand the nature of major risks and uncertainties in the world, we must look squarely at the political and economic…
Maritime or marine spatial planning has gained increasing prominence as an integrated, common-sense approach to promoting sustainable maritime development. A growing number of countries are engaged in preparing and implementing maritime spatial plans: however, questions are emerging from the growing body of MSP experience. How can maritime spatial planning deal with a complex and dynamic enviro…
There is currently much discourse about generations in the public sphere. A sequence of letters conflates generations and age cohorts born in the last few decades (generation “X”, “Y” or “Z”) as well as multiple categories are used to describe today’s young people as a generation that is distinct from its predecessors. Despite the popularity of generational labels in media, politi…
This book aims at describing pathways and achievements of the LLP Comenius Project “FAMT&L – Formative Assessment in mathematics for teaching and learning”. The main purpose of this research project was to encourage the use of formative assessment in the teaching-learning process carried out by mathematics teachers in lower secondary school. Through the voices of the several actors involv…
This book aims at describing pathways and achievements of the LLP Comenius Project “FAMT&L – Formative Assessment in mathematics for teaching and learning”. The main purpose of this research project was to encourage the use of formative assessment in the teaching-learning process carried out by mathematics teachers in lower secondary school. Through the voices of the several actors involv…
This open access book coherently gathers well-founded information on the fundamentals of and formalisms for modelling cyber-physical systems (CPS). Highlighting the cross-disciplinary nature of CPS modelling, it also serves as a bridge for anyone entering CPS from related areas of computer science or engineering. Truly complex, engineered systems—known as cyber-physical systems—that integra…
The existence of formulaic patterns has been attested to all languages of the world. However, systematic research in this field has been focused on only a few European standard languages with a rich literary tradition and a high degree of written norm. It was on the basis of these data that the theoretical framework and methodological approaches were developed.The volume shifts this focus by ce…
This book provides a unique overview of the impacts of railways on biodiversity, integrating the existing knowledge on the ecological effects of railways on wildlife, identifying major knowledge gaps and research directions and presenting the emerging field of railway ecology. The book is divided into two major parts: Part one offers a general review of the major conceptual and theoretical p…
Artificial intelligence as applied to the legal domain has gained momentum thanks to the large, annotated corporate legal and case-law collections, human chats, and social media information now available in open data. Often represented in XML or other Semantic Web technologies, these now make it possible to use the AI theory developed by the JURIX community in over thirty years of research. Inn…
This open access book is part of the LAMBDA Project (Learning, Applying, Multiplying Big Data Analytics), funded by the European Union, GA No. 809965. Data Analytics involves applying algorithmic processes to derive insights. Nowadays it is used in many industries to allow organizations and companies to make better decisions as well as to verify or disprove existing theories or models. The term…
In recent years, the Internet and other network technologies have emerged as a central issue for development in Latin America and the Caribbean. They have shown their potential to increase productivity and economic competitiveness, to create new ways to deliver education and health services, and to be driving forces for the modernization of the provision of public services. With an introduct…
This comprehensive collection discusses topical issues essential to both scholarship and policy making in the realm of lifelong learning (LLL) policies and how far they succeed in supporting young people across their life courses, rather than one-sidedly fostering human capital for the economy. Examining specific yet diverse regional and local contexts across Europe, this book uses original res…
Tujuan utama program preservasi adalah untuk melestarikan bahan perpustakaan baik pelestarian bentuk fisik yaitu dengan mempertahankan bentuk aslinya dan pelestarian dengan alih media dengan melestarian kandungan informasinya. Pembasmian serangga merupakan salah satu upaya untuk memelihara bahan perpustakaan agar terhindar dari kerusakan yang disebabkan oleh hewan dan mikroorganisme. Kondisi li…
Indonesia memiliki jutaan dokumen hasil karya intelektual bangsa sebagai sumber informasi pengetahuan yang mengandung nilai-nilai luhur, serta berpotensi dalam peningkatan kecerdasan intelektual, spiritual, dan emosional bangsa Indonesia, sehingga perlu diselamatkan dan dijaga kelestariannya. Tujuan utama dari fungsi pelestarian bahan perpustakaan di semua perpustakaan di Indonesia adalah untuk…
Pedoman ini merupakan revisi dari pedoman perluasan dan penyesuaian notasi DDC untuk wilayah Indonesia yang diterbitkan Perpustakaan Nasional RI pada tahun 2004. Revisi tersebut berkaitan dengan penambahan notasi wilayah propinsi di Indonesia pada DDC 23, sehingga ada perbedaan dengan nomor untuk wilayah Indonesia pada terbitan sebelumnya. Disamping itu adanya penyesuaian dari DDC 23 dengan keb…
Berdasarkan data survei indeks literasi digital nasional 2020 di 34 provinsi di Indonesia, akses terhadap internet ditemukan kian cepat, terjangkau, dan tersebar hingga ke pelosok (Kementerian Komunikasi dan Informatika, 2020). Dalam survei tersebut juga terungkap bahwa literasi digital masyarakat Indonesia masih berada pada level sedang (Katadata Insight Center & Kementerian Komunikasi dan Inf…
Dibalik kelezatannya, nyatanya cokelat (kakao) memerlukan daya olah yang tidak sederhana. Barangkali sebagian besar dari kita juga tidak tahu bahwa biji cokelat Indonesia sering dihargai rendah di skala pasar internasional. Suatu paradoks sebetulnya mengingat Indonesia termasuk enam besar negara pemasok kakao di dunia. Runutan uraian—dari mengapa biji kakao Indonesia rendah, variatif perso…
Buku antologi berjudul Milenial Literasi Damai : Tentang Literasi, Milenial, dan Indonesia merupakan bentuk kepedulian generasi muda terhadap peningkatan budaya literasi bangsa. Dengan tema-tema yang disuguhkan rasanya kita diajak berselancar dengan pemikiran dan gagasan milineal tentang literasi agama, literasi gender, literasi politik, literasi lingkungan, dan literasi digital.
Dalam kesastraan Jawa Baru terutama oleh pujangga R.Ng. Ranggawarsita, cerita dalam Mahābhārata Jawa Kuna yang digubah pada masa pemerintahan Ҫrī Dharmawangҫa Těguh Anantawīkramattunggadewa tersebut disadur kembali dengan berbagai adaptasi dan inovasi seperti yang tampak dalam Kitáb Pustakaraja Purwa. Kitáb Pustakaraja Purwa, seringkali dikatakan sebagai suatu penulisan baru mengenai …
Maraknya ketidakadilan yang dialami kaum perempuan berdasarkan kacamata keilmuan gender dan feminisme, khususnya mereka yang berkecimpung dalam bidang iptek, bukanlah sesuatu yang baru. Menjadi menarik manakala di hadapan kita tersaji wacana empiris mengenai pola dan struktur sosial masyarakat yang berkontribusi mengonstruksi suatu pandangan sehingga mengondisikan terciptanya tatanan masyarakat…