Wissenschaftliche Literatur Assessment

Robert Celec (Ed.)

Integrating Health, Technology and Sustainability

Contemporary Strategies and Assessments

EUB. Erziehung – Unterricht – Bildung

This monograph offers an insightful exploration of the integration of health, technology and sustainability.

One focus of the monograph is sustainable tourism in the wake of the pandemic. It examines the role that ecotourism can play in promoting environmental health and sustainable infrastructures. The analysis also extends to rural entrepreneurship, particularly in the dairy industry, where it assesses the economic viability and environmental sustainability…

Lily Rose Tope / Wolfgang Zach (eds.)

Collisions of Cultures

Frictions and Re-Shapings

Studien zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik

This is a collection of thirty-nine articles that explore transcultural collisions that have occurred in the course of history and movement of human communities.

It uses the disciplines of literature, history and cultural studies to examine new thematic parameters and methodological approaches that address violent and subtle cultural confrontations between communities, re-shape identities, reconceive gender, define home, track cultural mobilities, explore…

Anna Barnau / Božena Džuganová

English for Health Care Professionals

Didaktik in Forschung und Praxis

The book English for Health Care Professionals is intended primarily for students of Biology and Medicine, teachers of English for Specific Purposes, and health care professionals. Suggestions of exercises and tasks to improve listening as well as reading comprehension are given for classes, small groups and self-studying individuals. The volume combines theoretical approaches and didactic-methodologically based exercises and tasks developed by the authors. English for…

Belinda Martschinke

The Benefit for Patients From a Value-based Perspective

A Critical Reflection With Particular Attention to Early Benefit Assessment and Patient Coaching

Schriftenreihe Gesundheitswissenschaften

Wie kann im Gesundheitswesen ein Mehrwert generiert werden, insbesondere mit einem Fokus auf Coaching-Programmen für Patienten mit Diabetes Typ 2? Ein systematischer Überblick enthüllt die Effektivität verschiedener Diabetes Coaching-Programme weltweit und untersucht Best Practice Herangehensweisen. Danach wird in einer empirischen Untersuchung der Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) eingesetzt, um Patientenpräferenzen bei Coachingzielen zu messen. Das Setzen von Zielen ist…

Donna Roberts

Learning Styles

A Critical Analysis of the Varied Approaches to Learning Preferences

Schriften zur Pädagogischen Theorie

The term learning style began to appear throughout the educational literature in the 1970s and, like with many comprehensive constructs, its precise definition, and the measurement thereof, remain a matter of somewhat convoluted disagreement. Various researchers have struggled to pinpoint both a comprehensive and functional definition of the construct of learning styles based on a cohesive theoretical framework. However, not only has the semantics of a definition…

Mario Alberto Rios Fraustro

Biomass residues in Mexico

Available potentials for electricity provision

Schriftenreihe technische Forschungsergebnisse

Among the various renewable energy sources currently available, the use of biomass residues for energy generation has proven to be an excellent sustainable alternative, since it can solve two problems at once

1) Treating non-recyclable and non-reusable waste streams,

2) Providing non-intermittent energy in a sustainable way. Biomass residues can be defined as any left organic matter derived from plants or animals on a renewable basis. [...]

Dmytro Palekhov

Potential for Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) as a Regional Planning Instrument in Ukraine

Umweltrecht in Forschung und Praxis

Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a tool for integrating environmental concerns into policies, plans and programmes at the earlier stages of decision-making. It stimulates socio-economic development that causes minimal harm to the environment. Consequently, SEA is internationally recognised as one of the most important and direct methods for implementing the concept of sustainability.

This study explores the potential of SEA as a regional planning…

Tarek Kasah

Life Cycle Assessment langlebiger Systeme des Maschinen- und Anlagenbaus

Fallstudien und theoretische Weiterentwicklungen

Öko-Management – Studien zur ökologischen Betriebsführung

Im Kontext der ökologischen Nachhaltigkeit hat sich zur Messung und Bewertung der Umweltwirkungen von Produktsystemen über deren gesamten Lebenszyklus die Methodik des Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) etabliert. Der Fokus der praxisorientierten Anwendungen und der wissenschaftlichen Weiterentwicklung der Methodik liegt bisher weitgehend auf kurzlebigen Systemen aus dem Bereich der Konsumgüter. Langlebige Systeme des Maschinen- und Anlagenbaus bzw. allgemein Investitionsgüter…

RADIZ Radon-Dokumentations- und Informationszentrum Schlema e. V. (Ed.)

Radon as a Medicine

Therapeutic Effectiveness, Biological Mechanism and Comparative Risk Assessment

HIPPOKRATES – Schriftenreihe Medizinische Forschungsergebnisse

Proofs of the therapeutic efficiency of balneological radon applications administered to patients suffering from rheumatic diseases, investigations into the biological action mechanism associated with the alpha particles emitted by radon and its radioactive daughter products, and the comparative risk assessment of radon treatment and medicinal pain therapy have been the research projects whose results are summarized in this book. Controlled clinical studies, if possible…

Chika Ubaldus Ogbonna

Adaptation to Climate Change in Developing Countries

Institutional Challenges and Opportunities for Nigeria‘s Niger Delta Region

Studien zur Umweltpolitik

Climate variability and change has become a major environmental challenge facing developing countries in the 21st century. The natural resource-rich Niger Delta of Nigeria is highly vulnerable to climate change and variability. The research elicited data from multiple stakeholders within relevant agencies and organizations, with a focus on the stakeholders’ views on legal and institutional challenges to adaptation in Bayelsa, Delta, Imo and Rivers States. Assessment of…