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    • Navigating Decentralized Finance

      From Blockchain to Crypto Assets and Tokenization
      • 1st Edition
      • Pascal Egloff + 2 more
      • English
      Navigating Decentralized Finance: From Blockchain to Crypto Assets and Tokenization provides an in-depth overview of how blockchain and digital assets drive financial economics with a truly global approach. This comprehensive textbook covers blockchain technologies, infrastructure, applications, and regulatory and legal aspects, offering both a quick introduction for beginners and numerous, practical case studies to engage advanced students and working professionals. Here, after discussing blockchain fundamentals, experts consider blockchain contracts, scalability, CBDCs, tokenization, stablecoins, NFTs, decentralized finance (DeFi), and the metaverse, among other topics, with applications explored across the financial world.Each chapter adopts a consistent structure and pedagogy accompanied by over 120 illustrations across the book, as well as a blockchain glossary. An instructor website includes a complete set of lecture slides supporting undergraduate, graduate, certificate, and faculty across the globe.

    • Commercial Banking

      Distinct Value, Roles, and Methods
      • 1st Edition
      • Allen N. Berger + 2 more
      • English
      Commercial Banking: Distinct Value, Roles, and Methods is a thorough, applied, and accessible introduction to the modern theory and practice of financial intermediation as enabled by commercial banks.This book begins by answering the simple questions: What do banks do? What are the core roles and methods of banks, and what unique value do they provide? From here, the book considers key issues in banking, regulation, coping with bank risk, competition amongst banks, global banking, careers in banking, and future directions. Throughout, emphasis is placed on differentiating between bank and non-bank financial firms, the impact of technology on banking, evolving regulatory environments, the economic importance of banking, and innovation in banking services.Perfect for undergraduate, graduate level, and professional courses in banking, bank management, and commercial banking, Commercial Banking: Distinct Value, Roles, and Methods is reinforced with full-color figures, charts, tables, learning objectives, and key term definitions.

    • Integrated Holistic Mental Healthcare

      Bridging Minds and Technology
      • 1st Edition
      • K. Jayasankara Reddy
      • English
      Integrated Holistic Mental Healthcare: Bridging Minds and Technology is a groundbreaking resource that unites traditional holistic practices with cutting-edge digital innovations to enhance mental health treatment. This comprehensive guide is tailored for mental health professionals seeking practical strategies to improve care efficacy and accessibility. The book begins with foundational concepts of holistic mental health and emphasizes the essential role of mindfulness and meditation as core components of effective care. It explores how technology can complement holistic practices, facilitating behavioral change and habit formation. Readers will discover how digital tools can expand access to mental healthcare through telehealth and virtual care models, while also addressing ethical considerations and stigma associated with mental health treatment. With insights into monitoring outcomes and case studies highlighting integrative approaches for specialized populations, this book equips readers to navigate the evolving mental health landscape. As it looks toward future trends, "Integrated Holistic Mental Healthcare" empowers individuals to enhance their well-being in a rapidly digitizing world, fostering a patient-centered care paradigm that honors both mind and technology.

    • Introduction to Intricate Artificial Psychology with Python

      • 1st Edition
      • Peter Watson + 2 more
      • English
      Introduction to Intricate Artificial Psychology with Python unlocks the mysteries of Intricate Artificial Psychology (iAp). This comprehensive guide takes readers through advanced cognitive frameworks and the complex landscape of artificial psychology using Python. Starting with an introduction to iAp, the book explores degrees of prediction and applies Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (IAP). Special focus is given to detecting implicit bias through a combination of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and SHAP values, offering a unique perspective on artificial intelligence and psychological phenomena. The book covers forecasting in iAp, complex network analysis, and psychological graph analysis (Pga).It delves into the intersection of deep learning and neuroimaging, as well as machine learning techniques in neuroimaging. It includes practical case studies, allowing readers to apply cutting-edge techniques to real-world psychological scenarios.

    • Disrupting Ageism

      From Theory to Practice
      • 1st Edition
      • Tracey Gendron
      • English
      Disrupting Ageism: From Theory to Practice delves deep into the issue of ageism in society, guiding readers through an eye-opening journey. Part One explores the influence of ageism on physical and brain health, identity, and trauma, while highlighting its intersection with other forms of discrimination, such as ableism. Through poignant anecdotes and thought-provoking research, the book underscores the distressing reality of ageism's role in instances of abuse. Part Two focuses on solutions to break the shackles of ageism, uncovering its subtleties in healthcare, industry, and media. It also dissects the portrayal of older adults, policy, politics, and law.Part Three emphasizes intergenerational programming, adult education, and the power of individual narratives in reshaping perceptions, fostering meaningful social connections, and addressing broader societal factors that contribute to loneliness.

    • Exploring Asian-Pacific Co-operatives in Theory and Practice

      Resilience and Thriving between the State and the Market
      • 1st Edition
      • Morris Altman + 1 more
      • English
      Exploring Asian-Pacific Cooperatives in Theory and Practice: Resilience and Thriving between the State and the Market investigates Asian-Pacific coop models mainly through the analytical lenses of Asian-Pacific researchers. It consists of theoretical and empirical analyses on transversal themes from interdisciplinary studies and national case studies covering multiple sectors and countries. It focuses on a variety of challenging issues using different analytical approaches to cooperative challenges in the Asian-Pacific and examines the traditional dichotomy between the State and the Market.

    • International Review Research in Developmental Disabilities

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 69
      • English
      International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities series volume 69, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topics such as Randomized Clinical Trials, Exploring Early Childhood and more.Additional chapters cover The Meaning of Family Advocacy in Diverse Cultural Landscapes and Practicing Partnership: Preparing Pre-Service Special Educators for Meaningful IEP Facilitation Through Simulation.

    • Handbook of the Economics of Matching

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 2
      • English
      Handbook of the Economics of Matching, Volume Two summarizes both classic results and the many recent advances on matching without transfers. Its seven chapters, written by leading researchers, cover both theoretical and empirical work and include sections on Matching under Non-transferable Utility: Theory, Empirical Approaches to Climate Change Impact Quantification, The large markets case, Matching under Non-transferable Utility: Applications, Allocating students to schools: theory and empirical methods, Matching with contracts, Matching with frictions, and Dynamic Matching.

    • Psychophysics and Experimental Phenomenology of Pattern Cognition

      • 2nd Edition
      • Jiro Hamada
      • English
      Psychophysics and Experimental Phenomenology of Pattern Cognition, Second Edition delves into the cognitive processes involved in pattern recognition and the specialized systems that handle these processes. Topics covered include symmetry cognition, contour perception, geometric illusions, weight sensation, as well as repetitive and dot patterns. By integrating aspects of psychophysics and experimental phenomenology, the book offers a thorough exploration of pattern cognition from both physical and mental sensory viewpoints, offering a holistic understanding of this cognitive system. New to the second edition are updated models, including one which can draw theoretical curves of rod function, new experimental data on unifiedness as examined in a three-stage serial model. This edition also includes brand new chapters on

    • Plastics in Coastal and Marine Environments

      • 1st Edition
      • Nelson Guillermo Rangel Buitrago
      • English
      Plastics in Coastal and Marine Environments: A Global Crisis is the first foundational reference book focused on plastics and their impacts on coasts and oceans. Plastic litter is one of the most pervasive and fastest-growing anthropogenic alterations of the world's coasts and oceans and its magnitude, distribution, and collateral effects have been suggested as a geological indicator of the Anthropocene stage and specifically of the Plasticene age.The chapters of the book are arranged to follow a narrative that will allow readers to understand the plastic problem in coastal and marine environments. The book begins with the invention of plastics and finishes with their indelible mark on Earth through new types of rocks generated by plastic production and use (the Plasticene era). It concludes with possible strategies to tackle the inexorable rising of plastic litter in coastal and marine environments.Combini... core theory and diverse strategies and case studies, Plastics in Coastal and Marine Environments: A Global Crisis is an essential reference for researchers in oceanographers, geology, and biologists

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