This open access volume focuses on the development of a P5 eHealth, or better, a methodological resource for developing the health technologies of the future, based on patients’ personal characteristics and needs as the fundamental guidelines for design. It provides practical guidelines and evidence based examples on how to design, implement, use and elevate new technologies for healthcare to…
This open access book is about understanding the processes involved in the transformation of smallholder rice farming in the Lower Mekong Basin from a low-yielding subsistence activity to one producing the surpluses needed for national self-sufficiency and a high-value export industry. For centuries, farmers in the Basin have regarded rice as “white gold”, reflecting its centrality to their…
This open access book offers an exploration of delusions—unusual beliefs that can significantly disrupt people’s lives. Experts from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including lived experience, clinical psychiatry, philosophy, clinical psychology, and cognitive neuroscience, discuss how delusions emerge, why it is so difficult to give them up, what their effects are, how they are manage…
This innovative book addresses the question of why increasing numbers of people are being diagnosed with autism since the 1990s. Providing an engaging account of competing and widely debated explanations, it investigates how these have led to differing interpretations of the same data. Crucially, the author argues that the increased use of autism diagnosis is due to medicalisation across the li…
Textiles, textile production and clothing were essentials of living in prehistory, locked into the system of society at every level – social, economic and even religious. Textile crafts not only produced essential goods for everyday use, most notably clothing, but also utilitarian objects as well as representative and luxury items. Prehistoric clothing and their role in identity creation for …
From the mid-1980s, meat consumption in Italy and the western world have stabilised and, in the face of a well-established food security, we have witnessed a changed sensitivity for ethical issues, such as animal welfare and environmental impacts of farms. Analysing the sustainability of meat and cured meats means studying in the most objective way possible different topics concerning both the …
This open access book describes modern applications of computational human modeling in an effort to advance neurology, cancer treatment, and radio-frequency studies including regulatory, safety, and wireless communication fields. Readers working on any application that may expose human subjects to electromagnetic radiation will benefit from this book’s coverage of the latest models and techn…
Provinsi Sumatra Utara sebagai daerah penghasil padi nasional keenam memiliki peran penting dalam mendukung swasembada pangan nasional. Program Desa Mandiri Benih yang telah dilaksanakan oleh Provinsi Sumatra Utara sejak tahun 2015 bagaimanapun juga masih memerlukan pemantauan dan evaluasi berkelanjutan secara berkala. Penulisan buku ini merupakan salah satu cara atas upaya tersebut. Selain seb…
Kebijakan dan penerapan ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi (iptek) dalam bidang pertanian telah lama dilakukan, khususnya teknologi yang dapat meningkatkan produktivitas pertanian dan ketahanan pangan di Indonesia. Dalam praktiknya, pengembangan iptek bidang pertanian yang hanya terfokus pada upaya peningkatan produktivitas menyebabkan banyak hal menjadi terabaikan. Sehubungan dengan itu, buku in…
Tumbuhan tidak hanya sebatas penghasil bahan pangan, papan, sandang, dan penghias taman, tetapi juga dimanfaatkan sebagai obat untuk menyembuhkan berbagai macam penyakit. Kearifan nenek moyang kita dalam menggunakan tumbuhan sebagai penawar sakit harus terus dilestarikan, di tengah semakin maraknya penggunaan obat-obatan berbahan kimiawi. Penggunaan obat-obatan tradisional warisan nenek moyang …