Penyakit COVID-19 telah menimbulkan kepanikan pada masyarakat dunia dan ditetapkan oleh WHO sebagai kejadian pandemik. Sangat diperlukan penjelasan tentang penyakit coronavirus yang mudah diterima oleh pasien, keluarga, dan masyarakat berdasarkan kepustakaan ilmiah yang ada, untuk mengurangi kepanikan dan memberi pengetahuan cara mencegah penyakit ini. Buku ini merupakan rangkuman referensi …
Librarians and information workers the world over are faced with the constant challenge of remaining abreast of developments in their field. Rapid changes in technology and workplace roles threaten to make their skills obsolete unless they undertake constant professional development. This international collection presents a comprehensive overview of current continuing professional development t…
This monograph analyzes an innovative approach to teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in tertiary education. This "constructivist blended learning approach" is based on students "constructing" for themselves their own knowledge and professional communication skills in English by making extensive use of Internet sites in English, combining traditional in-class learning with in- and out-…
Seiring dengan Dies Natalis UT ke 33, Fakultas Ekonomi Universitas Terbuka (FE UT) mempersembahkan buku yang diberi judul Kewirausahaan Dalam Multi Perspektif. Pemilihan judul ini dilatarbelakangi oleh kondisi dimana hingga abad 21 ini masalah pengangguran dan kemiskinan masih bercokol di belahan dunia manapun. Kita tahu persis banyak program pembangunan yang sudah digulirkan dimana jutaan dola…
Play for the sake of play, without any secondary goals, if of utmost importance for children’s wellbeing and development. In this book you’ll find guidelines to support children with disabilities’ play. Providing ready-to-use information in a lay-person language, this book is for parents, teachers, rehabilitation professionals, toy manufacturers, policy makers and all persons interested i…
With increasing urgency, decisions about the digitalized future of healthcare and implementations of new assistive technologies are becoming focal points of societal and scientific debates and addresses large audiences. Decisions require a careful weighing of risks and benefits and contextualizing in-depth ethical analysis with robust empirical data. However, up to now, research on social assis…
This edited collection includes eleven major case studies and one general review of rhetorical contest in Australian politics. The volume showcases the variety of methods available for studying political speech, including historical, theoretical, institutional, and linguistic analyses, and demonstrates the centrality of language use to democratic politics. The chapters reveal errors in rhetoric…
Food insecurity is a complex ‘wicked’ problem that results from a range of unstable and uncertain physical, social, cultural and economic factors that limits access to nutritious food. Globally, 800 million people are under-nourished, and around 2 billion are overweight/obese or have micronutrient deficiency. These populations are largely positioned in developing countries where disease bur…
Kita menyadari bahwa negara kita merupakan negara bahari yang terdiriatas lebih dari 17.000 pulau dengan garis pantai yang membentang sepanjang lebih dari 99.000 km. Secara geologi Indonesia memiliki banyakpatahan gempa karena dikelilingi oleh tiga lempeng tektonik, yaitu lempengIndo-Australia, lempeng Eurasia, dan lempeng Pasifik yang pertemuannya berada di laut. Di samping itu, wilayah Indone…
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on VR Technologies in Cultural Heritage, VRTCH 2018, held in Brasov, Romania in May 2018. The 13 revised full papers along with the 5 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. The papers of this volume are organized in topical sections on data acquisition and m…
Pandemi global COVID-19 telah melahirkan kegamangan tata kelola penanganan dihampir semua negara, terlepas dari apapun tingkat kemajuan ekonomi dan teknologi serta karakter politiknya. Sistem manajemen krisis standar kehilangan relevansi, memaksa pemerintah mengambil kebijakan yang cenderung trial and error. Indonesia menghadapi tantangan serupa. Situasi ini diperparah dengan adanya politisasi …
Statistically, women appear to suffer more frequently from depressive and anxiety disorders, featuring more regularly in primary care figures for consultations, diagnoses and prescriptions for psychotropic medication. This has been consistently so throughout the post-war period with current figures suggesting that women are approximately twice more likely to suffer from affective disorders than…
In recent accounts of rhetoric’s storied productivity, commentators have implied, along systematically Kantian lines, albeit with the occasional protestation, that agency must be coextensive with subjectivity. But is that all there is (to 2,500 years’ worth of hypothesizing about the ways in which communication might promote social change)? Les Belikian’s answer, drawing not only on tradi…
n this Special Issue of Brain Sciences, we will be discussing “Mental Illness in Children” from a range of perspectives, exploring the prevalence and recognition of mental disorders in children, the types of disorders and approaches to meeting their needs, and the complexity and severity of mental health problems in children. We look to what models of care best respond to children’s needs…
This book sheds light on the influence of the environment on people’s mental health. To what extent are exposures to green space, air pollution, natural disasters, etc. related to depression or suicide? Such questions are relevant for both scientists and policy-makers. A rich collection of chapters subsumes current research frontiers originating from disciplines such as geography, public heal…
This publication seeks to endeavour the relationship between material artefacts and reading practices in ancient and medieval cultures. While the acts of reception of written artefacts in former times are irretrievably lost, some of the involved artefacts are preserved and might comprise hints to the ancient reading practices. In form of case studies, the contributions to this volume examine …
Booklet “Tips Keamanan Pangan Edisi Ramadhan + Tips khusus mencegah Covid-19” merupakan persembahan Badan POM untuk masyarakat Indonesia, dengan harapan booklet ini dapat digunakan sebagai bahan edukasi keamanan pangan dan memberikan kontribusi dalam meningkatkan pengetahuan dan kesadaran masyarakat terhadap keamanan pangan.
This first book provides a comprehensive overview of the different levels of players who have been involved in both intended and unintended language planning and policy, and shows how they have impacted multilingual language use. Specifically, it looks at the roles of different ‘glo-national’ (global national) players in directing the choices of language use in various parts of the world. D…
COVID-19 merupakan penyakit menular yang disebabkan oleh jenis virus Corona baru (novel coronavirus/nCov). Virus Corona baru mirip dengan keluarga virus yang menyebabkan SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) dan sejumlah influensa biasa.
Pemilihan judul ini dilatarbelakangi oleh perubahan teknologi, terutama teknologi digital yang akselerasinya begitu cepat. Betapa tidak, teknologi digital telah melahirkan cohort Net Generation. Generasi ini mempunyai karakteristik yang berbeda dengan generasi sebelumnya. Generasi ini digambarkan sebagai kelompok generasi yang berinteraksi intens satu sama lain, berkomunikasi membentuk komunita…