Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Using life course analysis from the Young Lives study of 12,000 children growing up in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam over the past 15 years, this book draws on evidence on two cohorts of children, aged from 1 to 15 and from 8 to 22. It examines how poverty affects children’s development in low and middle income countries, and how policy has be…
Sebelum terjun ke bisnis online, pelaku bisnis sebaiknya mengenali dan memetakan ranah bisnis yang makin ramai ini. Selain strategi memilih model bisnis, trik marketing, dan memilih platform yang tepat, masih ada isu ancaman keamanan siber yang penting diwaspadai, baik oleh pelapak maupun pembeli. Tidak kalah penting, pelaku e-commerce perlu memahami payung hukum terkait transaksi elektronik (U…
Kompleksnya isu cybersecurity hingga keberagaman multistakeholder yang terlibat dalam cybersecurity memberikan tantangan tersendiri dalam upaya menghadapi cybersecurity. Mulai dari belum adanya definisi yang ajeg, hingga ancaman terkait cybersecurity yang mempengaruhi pembuatan kebijakan, serta upaya yang diambil untuk menghadapi ancaman-ancaman tersebut. Dilengkapi dengan studi kasus, buku ini…
Melakukan advokasi kebijakan publik ataupun mendorong inisiasi gerakan sosial, sebagaimana kerap menjadi kegiatan prioritas sejumlah organisasi masyarakat sipil (CSO) dan komunitas di Indonesia, kini tak bisa lagi lepas dari kebermanfaatan platform media sosial yang ada di Internet. Namun di sisi lain, CSO dan komunitas dituntut untuk memiliki kapasitas dan kapabiltas yang memadai dalam menyusu…
Kini dunia nyata dan dunia maya nyaris tak ada bedanya lagi. Bagaimana tidak, semua yang dilakukan di dunia nyata dapat dilakukan di dunia maya. Belajar, bermain, berbisnis, bekerja, bersosialisasi, bahkan berekreasi dapat kita lakukan di dunia maya. Jumlah pengguna internet di seantero dunia sudah mencapai 3,8 miliar atau 51 persen dari total populasi dunia, demikian menurut WeAreSocial.Com h…
Secara umum yang dimaksud dengan literasi digital adalah kemampuan menggunakan teknologi informasi dan komunikasi (TIK), untuk menemukan, mengevaluasi, memanfaatkan, membuat dan mengkomunikasikan konten/informasi, dengan kecakpan kognitif maupun teknikal. Ada banyak model kerangka (framework) untuk literasi digital yang dapat ditemukan di Internet, dengan ragam nama dan bentuk. Setiap model mem…
This book trains the next generation of scientists representing different disciplines to leverage the data generated during routine patient care. It formulates a more complete lexicon of evidence-based recommendations and support shared, ethical decision making by doctors with their patients. Diagnostic and therapeutic technologies continue to evolve rapidly, and both individual practitione…
This book is the first monograph-length study of the force-feeding of hunger strikers in English, Irish and Northern Irish prisons. It examines ethical debates that arose throughout the twentieth century when governments authorised the force-feeding of imprisoned suffragettes, Irish republicans and convict prisoners. It also explores the fraught role of prison doctors called upon to perform the…
Across the country, our children are beginning life from very different starting points. Some have aspirations and believe they can be achieved. For too many others, aspirations are tempered, if not dashed, by the sobering realities of everyday life. These different starting points place children on distinctly different trajectories of growth and development, ultimately leading to vastly differ…
This is one of the first books on a newly emerging field of discrete differential geometry and an excellent way to access this exciting area. It surveys the fascinating connections between discrete models in differential geometry and complex analysis, integrable systems and applications in computer graphics. The authors take a closer look at discrete models in differential geometry and dynamica…
This book presents good practices in Asia and ASEAN countries for effectively promoting advances in response to climate change, which can help to achieve sustainable development in Asia and around the world. As a proposal, the aim is to influence the discussions at COP 21 by providing a positive agenda with concrete actions from an Asian perspective. The book is divided into three parts. Part 1…
Risk measures play a vital role in many subfields of economics and finance. It has been proposed that risk measures could be analysed in relation to the performance of variables extracted from empirical real-world data. For example, risk measures may help inform effective monetary and fiscal policies and, therefore, the further development of pricing models for financial assets such as equities…
edited by Gregor Feindt, Anke Hilbrenner, and Dittmar Dahlmann.
This book is open access under a CC BY licence. Recent reductions in public funding for audiovisual products have led to dramatic changes in the industry. The lack of interaction between the industry and capital markets has made sourcing funds for audiovisual products especially difficult.This book explains why the distance between the audiovisual and financial markets exists, and considers the…
These Proceedings offer a selection of peer-reviewed research and survey papers by some of the foremost international researchers in the fields of finance, energy, stochastics and risk, who present their latest findings on topical problems. The papers cover the areas of stochastic modeling in energy and financial markets; risk management with environmental factors from a stochastic control pers…
Structural transformation in Africa has become a hot topic. One of the earliest stylized facts of development economics is that low-income countries have large differences in output per worker across sectors, and movement of workers from low- to high-productivity sectors—structural transformation is a key driver of economic growth. Between 1950 and 2006, about half of the catch-up by developi…
Rules of the House examines the transformation of the Korean family during and after Japanese colonial rule. Through in-depth reading of civil litigation records, the book shows how the Japanese colonial legal system transformed Korean families from the traditional patrilineal family system into small, patriarchal households. The new domestic pattern proved remarkably durable, forming the basis…
There has been increasing interest and debate in recent years on the instituted nature of economic processes in general and the related ideas of the market, in particular the competitive process. This debate lies at the interface between two largely independent disciplines, economics and sociology, and reflects an attempt to bring the two fields of discourse more closely together. This book exp…
edited by Flavia Meyer, Zbigniew Szygula, Boguslaw Wilk.
This book provides fresh insights into concepts, methods and new research findings on the causes of excessive food price volatility. It also discusses the implications for food security and policy responses to mitigate excessive volatility. The approaches applied by the contributors range from on-the-ground surveys, to panel econometrics and innovative high-frequency time series analysis as wel…