SHIMAZAKI & STUART 
Earthquake Prediction [PDF ebook] 

Accounting literature has viewed sustainability in terms of social, economic and environmental performances. There have been concerns that the relationship between sustainability, accounting and orga …

This book looks at the transition of modern Chinese society in terms of its culture and literature. Since the economic reforms and open door policy in 1978, the Chinese society has undergone a drasti …

This book examines current debates about the politics of technology and the future of democratic practices in the digital era. The volume centres on the debates on digital encryption in Germany and t …

In times of a worldwide pandemic, the election of a new US president, ‘Me Too, ‘ and ‘Fridays for Future, ‘ to name but a few examples, one thing becomes palpable: the emotional impact of media on in …

UN peace operations are increasingly asked to pursue stabilization mandates with lofty expectations of being able to stabilize conflict zones, achieve national reconciliation, and rebuild state legit …

This practical introduction to second-order and growth mixture models using Mplus introduces simple and complex techniques through incremental steps. The authors extend latent growth curves to second …

How do accidents and disasters occur? How has knowledge of accident processes evolved? A significant improvement in safety has occurred during the past century, with the number of accidents falling s …

Methods and techniques adopted in teaching, training, learning, research, professional development, or capacity building are generally standardized across most traditional disciplines, particularly w …

This book presents in a systematic and comprehensive manner the modeling of uncertainty, vagueness, or imprecision, alias ‘fuzziness, ‘ in just about any field of science and engineering. It delivers …