Browsing by Type "Controlled Vocabulary for Resource Type Genres::texto::libro"
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    An Integration of Phycoremediation Processes in Wastewater Treatment
    ( 2021-01-01)
    Shah M.P.
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    Shah M.P.
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    Rodríguez-Couto S.
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    Rodríguez-Couto S.
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    De La Cruz C.B.V.
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    Biswas J.K.
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    Biswas J.K.
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    Biswas J.K.
    An Integration of Phycoremediation Processes in Wastewater Treatment reviews the potential of microalgae to treat wastewater containing highly recalcitrant compounds whose degradation is not achieved by the conventional existing treatments. In addition, the book describes how the microalgae collected after wastewater treatment can be used for obtaining added-value products, hence closing the loop and contributing to a circular economy. Finally, the technoeconomical aspects of this green technology are addressed, along with the design and development of photobioreactors, genetic aspects, metagenomics and metabolomics.
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    Design of Functional Polymer Nanocomposites
    ( 2025-01-01)
    Sadiku E.R.
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    Agboola O.
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    Agboola O.
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    Varaprasad K.
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    Mavhungu M.L.
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    Mavhungu M.L.
    Design of Functional Polymer Nanocomposites: Interface and Interphase Reactions, Compatibilization and Bond Behavior, and Functionalization Procedures reviews the latest developments in this fast-moving research field. The book discusses interface and interphase interactions in polymer nanocomposites, as well as compatibilization behavior and different functionalization procedures. It illustrates how each of these essential tools can be used in the design of new polymer nanocomposites for a broad range of different industrial-scale applications. In the research and development of polymer nanocomposites, the interface and interphase reactions of different constituents is extremely important. They play a vital role in introducing additional features and in the final resultant properties of the nanocomposite. In addition, final properties are also dependent upon the bond behavior and the reaction and interface created between the two constituents.
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    Free-trade agreements and energies
    ( 2025-01-01)
    Mougenot B.
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    Doussoulin J.P.
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    Doussoulin J.P.
    The relations between international trade and energy are becoming more complex. During the last decades, the number of fully operational free trade agreements increased from 22 to 305 between 1990 and 2020, reducing the impact of the World Trade Organization and global trade multilateralism. Free trade agreements have begun to include climate action based on instruments like carbon-based measures or technical standards. This entry identifies some of the most important tools contributing to reinforcing the trade–climate–energy nexus.
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    Governing extractive industries: Politics, histories, ideas
    ( 2018-07-19)
    Bebbington A.
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    Abdulai A.G.
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    Bebbington D.H.
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    Hinfelaar M.
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    Sanborn C.A.
    Proposals for more effective natural resource governance emphasize the importance of institutions and governance, but say less about the political conditions under which institutional change occurs. This book synthesizes findings regarding the political drivers of institutional change in extractive industry governance. The authors analyse resource governance from the late nineteenth century to the present in Bolivia, Ghana, Peru, and Zambia. They focus on the ways in which resource governance and national political settlements interact. Special attention is paid to the nature of elite politics, the emergence of new political actors, forms of political contention, changing ideas regarding natural resources and development, the geography of natural resource deposits, and the influence of the transnational political economy of global commodity production. National elites and subnational actors are in continuous contention over extractive industry governance. Resource rents are used by elites to manage this contention and incorporate actors into governing coalitions and overall political settlements. Periodically, new resource frontiers are opened, and new political actors emerge with the power to redefine how extractive industries are governed and used as instruments for development. Colonial and post-colonial histories of resource extraction continue to give political valence to ideas of resource nationalism that mobilize actors who challenge existing institutional arrangements. The book is innovative in its focus on the political longue durée, and the use of in-depth, comparative, country-level analysis in Africa and Latin America, to build a theoretical argument that accounts for both similarity and divergence between these regions.
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    Modern Indices for International Economic Diplomacy
    ( 2022-01-01)
    Charles V.
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    Charles V.
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    Emrouznejad A.
    Composite indices are used by national and international organisations, as well as governments and corporations, to track various performance aspects of a country’s economy and its people, evaluate progress, and engage constructively in policy dialogue; and they have long proven useful as communication tools and inputs into decision-making and policymaking. Modern Indices for International Economic Diplomacy compiles a spectrum of relevant indices for development and well-being used in benchmarking across nations, namely the OECD Better Life Index, the Gini Index, the Gender Equality/Inequality Index, the International Energy Security Risk Index, the Big Mac Index, the Country Risk Index, the Corruption Perceptions Index, and the Global Terrorism Index.The book will be relevant to practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and students interested in the topic of international economic relationships.
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    Predictive Analytics in Smart Agriculture
    ( 2023-01-01)
    Krishnan S.
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    Anand A.J.
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    Prasanth N.
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    Goundar S.
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    Ananth C.
    Predictive Analysis in Smart Agricultureexplores computational engineering techniques and applications in agriculture development. Recent technologies such as cloud computing, IoT, big data, and machine learning are focused on for smart agricultural engineering. The book also provides a case-oriented approach for IoT-based agricultural systems. This book deals with all aspects of smart agriculture with state-of-the-art predictive analysis in the complete 360-degree view spectrum. The book includes the concepts of urban and vertical farming using Agro IoT systems and renewable energy sources for modern agriculture trends. It discusses the real-world challenges, complexities in Agro IoT, and advantages of incorporating smart technology. It also presents the rapid advancement of the technologies in the existing Agri model by applying the various techniques. Novel architectural solutions in smart agricultural engineering are the core aspects of this book. Several predictive analysis tools and smart agriculture are also incorporated. This book can be used as a textbook for students in predictive analysis, agriculture engineering, precision farming, and smart agriculture. It can also be a reference book for practicing professionals in cloud computing, IoT, big data, machine learning, and deep learning working on smart agriculture applications.
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    Psychology and Covid-19 in the Americas: Volume 1
    ( 2023-01-01)
    Portillo N.
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    Morgan M.L.
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    Gallegos M.
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    Gallegos M.
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    Gallegos M.
    This book is the first of two volumes that bring together the works presented at the congress "Contributions of Psychology to COVID-19", organized by the Interamerican Society of Psychology in 2020. This was one of the first virtual international meetings on psychology and COVID-19 in the world and brought together researchers and professionals from South, Central and North America in a single online event. The content of both volumes includes many of the first issues addressed by researchers, scholars, and practitioners across the Americas at the start of the pandemic-before vaccines, before knowledge of treatment and impact, before our worlds and daily lives were forever changed. Chapters in the first volume focus on the impacts of the pandemic in mental health, social and family dynamics, educational processes and the work of health professionals. Chapters in the second volume are dedicated to studies addressing the impacts of the pandemic in vulnerable populations; proposals of psychological interventions to deal with the distress caused by COVID-19; strategies of coping, resilience and adaptation; and the development of psychological instruments of measurement and assessments during the pandemic. The content of these two volumes marks a baseline for the collective work initiated by psychologists who came together to answer the call to combat the pandemic across the Americas. In that sense, both volumes are truly a “snapshot in time” that could help us assess in the future how much progress we have made to apply psychology to the pressing demands of our time.
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    Psychology, pedagogy, and assessment in serious games
    ( 2013-11-30)
    Connolly T.
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    Connolly T.
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    Hainey T.
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    Boyle E.
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    Baxter G.
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    Moreno-Ger P.
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    Moreno-Ger P.
    As the widespread use of digital entertainment has changed not only the ways in which we spend our leisure time but also how we learn and communicate, Serious Games have emerged as an effective tool for the purpose of learning, skill acquisition, and training. Psychology, Pedagogy, and Assessment in Serious Games addresses this issue by offering empirical evidence for the effectiveness of Serious Games in the key areas of psychology, pedagogy, and assessment. Emphasizing both the theory and practice in the learning and training of Serious Games, this book is useful to educationalists, researchers, sociologists, and psychologists interested in the potential of games to support learning and change behavior.
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    Social management responsiveness in business
    ( 2023-01-30)
    Saenz C.
    A lot of controversy exists around the contribution of the mining industry and the territorial development of the regions where it operates. Despite the boom in mineral prices, there are still many communities that do not show development. At the macroeconomic level, countries with a mining industry receive income from mining taxes and royalties, however, at the micro level this greater income is not reflected in the closing of socio-economic gaps and the well-being of the population. Cesar Saenz presents the Social Management Model Canvas (SMMC), describing the rationale of how an extractive company can create and deliver social value for communities around and beyond the sphere of influence. The SMMC can best be described through nine basic building blocks - the social value proposition; defining the community; social channels; relationship with the community; key social resources; key social activities; key social partners; social investment structure and social benefits. Companies can map the existing social management model to visualize, understand and communicate the level of responsiveness of the model, whilst using the canvas to explore new social management improvements to get a social license to operate. Communities require companies and governments to address their needs such as education, employment, health service, among others. Combining all these elements in a social management model helps companies consider all the variables when designing and implementing strategies that meet both business and community needs.
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    Starches for food application: Chemical, technological and health properties
    ( 2018-01-01)
    Pedrosa Silva Clerici M.T.
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    Schmiele M.
    Starches for Food Application: Chemical, Technological and Health Properties examines the scientific, technological and nutritional knowledge of different types of starches, including their production and application in food, health and the environment. The book covers the links between biosynthesis, structure and the environmental impact on processing and nutrition. In addition, it covers starch identification and evaluation methods, along with production methodologies for food application, new sources of starch, modified starches for food application, and the relationship between starch, nutrition and health.
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    Supporting Students' Motivation: Strategies for Success
    ( 2022-01-01)
    Reeve J.
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    Ryan R.M.
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    Ryan R.M.
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    Cheon S.H.
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    Matos L.
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    Kaplan H.
    This is a book about teachers' classroom motivating styles. Motivating style is the interpersonal tone and face-to-face behavior the teacher relies on when trying to motivate students to engage in classroom activities and procedures. The over-arching goal of the book is to help teachers work through the professional developmental process to learn how to provide instruction in ways that students will find to be motivationally-enriching, satisfying, and engagement-generating. To realize this goal, the book features six parts: Part 1: Introduction, introduces what teachers are to support-namely, student motivation; Part 2: Motivating Style, explains what a supportive motivating style is; Part 3: "How to," overviews the recommended motivationally-supportive instructional strategies one-by-one and step-by-step; Part 4: Workshop, walks the reader through the skill-building workshop experience; Part 5: Benefits, details all the student, teacher, and classroom benefits that come from an improved motivating style; and Part 6: Getting Started, discusses ways to begin using these skills in the classroom. Based on a successful workshop program run by the authors, teachers successfully improve their classroom motivating style. In doing so, they experience gains in their teaching skill and efficacy, job satisfaction, a renewed passion for teaching, and a more satisfying relationship with their students. This multiauthored book provides teachers with the practical, concrete, step-by-step, skill-based "how to" they need to develop a highly supportive motivating style.
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    Sustainable development goals: Their impacts on forests and people
    ( 2019-12-02)
    Katila P.
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    Colfer C.J.P.
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    Colfer C.J.P.
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    de Jong W.
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    Galloway G.
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    Pacheco P.
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    Winkel G.
    Forests provide vital ecosystem services crucial to human well-being and sustainable development, and have an important role to play in achieving the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. Little attention, however, has yet focused on how efforts to achieve the SDGs will impact forests and forest-related livelihoods, and how these impacts may, in turn, enhance or undermine the contributions of forests to climate and development. This book discusses the conditions that influence how SDGs are implemented and prioritised, and provides a systematic, multidisciplinary global assessment of interlinkages among the SDGs and their targets, increasing understanding of potential synergies and unavoidable trade-offs between goals. Ideal for academic researchers, students and decision-makers interested in sustainable development in the context of forests, this book will provide invaluable knowledge for efforts undertaken to reach the SDGs. This title is available as Open Access via Cambridge Core.
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    The Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain Technologies: Challenges and Opportunities
    ( 2022-01-01)
    Goundar S.
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    Suseendran G.
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    Anandan R.
    This book covers the growing convergence between Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence for Big Data, Multi-Agent systems, the Internet of Things and 5G technologies. Using real case studies and project outcomes, it illustrates the intricate details of blockchain in these real-life scenarios. The contributions from this volume bring a state-of-the-art assessment of these rapidly evolving trends in a creative way and provide a key resource for all those involved in the study and practice of AI and Blockchain.
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    The grammar of body-part expressions: A view from the Americas
    ( 2022-08-18)
    Zariquiey R.
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    Zariquiey R.
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    Valenzuela P.M.
    This volume explores the grammatical properties of body-part expressions across a range of languages and language families in the Americas, including Arawakan, Eastern Tukano, Mataguayan, Panoan, and Takanan. Expressions denoting parts of the body often exhibit specific grammatical properties that are intrinsically related to their semantics, and frequently appear in dedicated constructions, many of which are found exclusively in association with these expressions. Following a detailed introduction and discussion of the foundations of body-part grammar, the chapters in the first part of the book investigate categorialization, lexicalization, and the semantic processes associated with body-part expressions. In the second part of the book, contributors investigate specific grammatical properties of body-part expressions, such as inalienability, incorporation, possessive constructions, prefixation, topicality, and word-formation strategies. The volume draws on data from lesser-known languages that are often under-represented in comparative work, and makes a significant contribution not only to the linguistics of the Americas and the typology of body-part expressions, but also to typological studies more broadly, and to historical, comparative, and anthropological linguistics.
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    University education current trends in teacher training
    ( 2024-01-01)
    Duche-Perez A.B.
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    Vera-Revilla C.Y.
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    Gutiérrez-Aguilar O.A.
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    Grundy López R.E.
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    Reátegui J.G.
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    Chamoli Falcón A.W.
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    Reyna-Gonzalez J.E.
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    Tucto M.T.
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    Contreras Rivera R.J.
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    Acosta Ponce W.J.
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    Figueroa Garrido P.L.
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    Agüero Ynca M.L.
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    Panduro-Ramirez J.
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    Panduro-Ramirez J.
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    Ochoa-Tataje F.
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    Ochoa-Tataje F.
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    Castillo-Olsson S.
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    Castillo-Olsson S.
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    Cardenas-Palomino F.
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    Cardenas-Palomino F.
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    Panduro-Ramirez J.
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    Panduro-Ramirez J.
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    Ochoa-Tataje F.
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    Ochoa-Tataje F.
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    Castillo-Olsson S.
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    Castillo-Olsson S.
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    Cardenas-Palomino F.
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    Cardenas-Palomino F.
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    Chicaña-Huanca S.
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    Aguilar A.G.
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    Gómez-Zanabria P.E.
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    Higueras-Matos M.M.
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    Lazarte-Vera E.A.
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    Moscoso-Barrios J.P.
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    Betancourt Zambrano S.V.
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    Verdezoto Michuy C.L.
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    Cárdenas Loor A.I.
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    Sánchez Palma L.D.
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    Macías-Sánchez K.G.
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    Juan Amilcar V.C.
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    Alex Edwin V.C.
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    Carla Angelica R.R.
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    Pacheco Gonzales I.B.
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    Walter Antonio C.C.
    University education is undergoing a profound transformation, and teacher education is no exception. In a global context marked by accelerating technological advances, the need for renewed pedagogical skills, and an emphasis on inclusive and sustainable education, teacher education programs face unprecedented challenges and opportunities. This foreword explores some of the most influential current trends in teacher education at the university level, highlighting how they are shaping the profile of the modern educator. The first key trend in teacher education is digitization. The incorporation of emerging technologies in the teaching-learning process has ceased to be an option and has become a necessity. Online education platforms, virtual and augmented reality tools, and the use of artificial intelligence to personalize learning are some of the technological resources that are revolutionizing the way future teachers learn and teach. These technologies not only facilitate access to knowledge, but also enable the development of digital competencies in teachers, necessary to face a student body that is increasingly immersed in digital environments.
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    Utility privatization and regulation: A fair deal for consumers?
    ( 2003-01-01)
    Ugaz C.
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    Price C.W.
    'Whether a casual student of the subject or a specialist on utility privatization and regulation, this book captures the attention of the reader with a structure for each of the 10 chapters that takes one through a succinct yet informative background, thereby setting the tone for understanding the authors' hypothesis and conclusions, regardless of whether one agrees with them. In summary, this is a timely, well-written book that makes a relatively novel contribution to the aftermath assessment of utility privatization and regulation in some Latin American and European countries.' - Sergio Galina-Hidalgo, The Journal of Energy and Development. Latin American countries have now privatized a large number of their utility industries and make more use of market approaches to delivery through networks. Privatization has major consequences for efficiency, long-term growth, consumer welfare and income distribution but insufficient attention has been paid to the direct effect on consumers of regulation and the introduction of competition. This book assesses how reform processes can be improved, particularly in the light of experience in some Latin American and European countries. © UNU World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU/WIDER) 2003. All rights reserved.