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Implementing responsible research and innovation : organisational and nationa…
The book is an analysis of data collected in the RRI-Practice study. It comprises an organizational analysis and an analysis of national discourses, thus analysing conditions for the uptake of RRI in research funding and research performing organisations in the science system.
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- 9783030578503
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- xix, 120p. : ill.
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- 174.95 IMP i
Human challenge studies in endemic settings : ethical and regulatory issues
This open access book provides an extensive review of ethical and regulatory issues related to human infection challenge studies, with a particular focus on the expansion of this type of research into endemic settings and/or low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Human challenge studies (HCS) involve the intentional infection of research participants, and this type of research is rapidly inc…
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- 9783030414801
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- xvii, 134p. : ill.
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- 614.4 JAM h
Surveying human vulnerabilities across the life course
This open access book details tools and procedures for data collections of hard-to-reach, hard-to-survey populations. Inside, readers will discover first-hand insights from experts who share their successes as well as their failures in their attempts to identify and measure human vulnerabilities across the life course. Coverage first provides an introduction on studying vulnerabilities based on…
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- 9783319241579
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- vi, 244p. : ill.
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- 300.723 SUR s
Designing knit designers
"Traditionally associated with craftmanship and manual work, knitwear seems a quite unusual subject of investigation for scientific research. This book places it as an integrative part of the industrial design culture where the dialogue between a productive system of excellence and the design discipline taught in universities becomes a topic of central concern. From an industrial standpoint, kn…
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- 9788891797797
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- 233p.: ill.
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- 391 MOT d
North Sea region climate change assessment
This book offers an up-to-date review of our current understanding of climate change in the North Sea and adjacent areas, as well as its impact on ecosystems and socio-economic sectors. It provides a detailed assessment of climate change based on published scientific work compiled by independent international experts from climate-related disciplines such as oceanography, atmospheric sciences, m…
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- 9783319397450
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- xlv, 528p. : ill.
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- 363.73874 NOR n
Research assessment in the humanities : towards criteria and procedures
This book analyses and discusses the recent developments for assessing research quality in the humanities and related fields in the social sciences. Research assessments in the humanities are highly controversial and the evaluation of humanities research is delicate. While citation-based research performance indicators are widely used in the natural and life sciences, quantitative measures for …
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- 9783319290164
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- xviii, 247p. : ill.
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- 371.26 RES r
How nations learn: technological learning, industrial policy, and catch-up
Authored by eminent scholars, the volume aims to generate interest and debate among policymakers, practitioners, and researchers on the complexity of learning and catch-up, particularly for twenty-first century late-late developers. The volume explores technological learning at the firm level, policy learning by the state, and the cumulative and multifaceted nature of the learning process, whic…
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- First edition.
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- 9780198841760
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- xxiv, 343p. : ill. ; 24 cm
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- 338.927 HOW h
Safer healthcare : strategies for the real world
The authors of this book set out a system of safety strategies and interventions for managing patient safety on a day-to-day basis and improving safety over the long term. These strategies are applicable at all levels of the healthcare system from the frontline to the regulation and governance of the system. There have been many advances in patient safety, but we now need a new and broader v…
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- 9783319255590
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- xvii, 157p. : ill.
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- 362.110289 VIN s
Non-equilibrium social science and policy : introduction and essays on new an…
The overall aim of this book, an outcome of the European FP7 FET Open NESS project, is to contribute to the ongoing effort to put the quantitative social sciences on a proper footing for the 21st century. A key focus is economics, and its implications on policy making, where the still dominant traditional approach increasingly struggles to capture the economic realities we observe in the world …
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- 9783319424248
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- viii. 232p. : ill.
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- 330.01 NON n
Artistic research and literature
What is practice-based literary research? While literature as a discipline is currently not represented in the artistic research discourse, individual writers and scholars have ties to a variety of institutional constellations in which overlaps between literature, art, and research become manifest. 16 of them expand on their methodological approaches as well as their practice, and they analyse …
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- 9783846763339
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- xiv, 206p. : ill.
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- 809 ART a
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