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  • Qualidade da Governação Local em Portugal

    by António Tavares (Coord.), Luis de Sousa (Coord.) ...
    Series Book 5 - Resumos da Fundação
    Avaliação dos municípios portugueses de acordo com 22 indicadores de desempenho. ... Read more

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  • Institutional Challenges in Post-Constitutional Europe

    Governing Change

    Edited by Catherine Moury, Luís de Sousa ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in European Politics
    This book discusses the future of the European Union following the failure of the Constitutional and reform treaties, examining the transformations, dynamics and major issues facing present-day Europe.Discussing key questions relating to the future of the European project, this book brings together leading academics and practitioners, including: Adrienne Héritier, Jan Zielonka, Yves Mény, Maurizio ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Governments, NGOs and Anti-Corruption

    The New Integrity Warriors

    Edited by Luís de Sousa, Barry Hindess, Peter Larmour ...
    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    The purpose of this book is to understand the rise, future and implications of two important new kinds of "integrity warriors" - official anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) and anti-corruption NGOs – and to locate them in a wider context and history of anti-corruption activity.Key issues of corruption and anti-corruption are discussed in an integrated and innovative way; through a number of country ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Efficient adaptive query processing on large database systems available in the cloud environment

    by Clayton Maciel Costa, António Luís Pinto Ferreira de Sousa ...
    Nowadays, many companies are migrating their applications and data to cloud service providers, mainly because of their ability to answer quickly to business requirements. Thereby, the performance is an important requirement for most customers when they wish to migrate their applications to the cloud. Therefore, in cloud environments, resources should be acquired and released automatically and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Economic Globalization and Governance

    Essays in Honor of Jorge Braga de Macedo

    Edited by Luís Brites Pereira, Maria Eugénia Mata, Miguel Rocha de Sousa ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Reflecting the diverse and profound changes triggered by the latest wave of economic globalization, this book highlights various governance responses at national, regional and global levels. The topics covered are wide-ranging and include economic history and development, European integration, exchange rate arrangements, industrial and labor economics, international cooperation and multilateralism ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Computer Supported Qualitative Research

    Edited by António Pedro Costa, Luís Paulo Reis, António Moreira, David Lamas, Francislê Neri de Sousa ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book contains an edited selection of the papers accepted for presentation and discussion at the first International Symposium on Qualitative Research (ISQR2016), held in Porto, Portugal, July 12th-14th, 2016. The book and the symposium features the four main application fields Education, Health, Social Sciences and Engineering and Technology and seven main subjects: Rationale and Paradigms of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Decolonizing the Westernized University

    Interventions in Philosophy of Education from Within and Without

    by Ernesto Rosen Velásquez, Anders Burman, Robert Aman, Camilo Pérez-Bustillo, Andrea J. Pitts, Nassim Noroozi, Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Tendayi Sithole0, Kwame Nimako1, Ramón Grosfoguel2, Nelson Maldonado-Torres4, Amy Reed-Sandoval5 ...
    An underlying assumption undergirding institutions of higher education is that they serve as a means to upward socioeconomic mobility and, in turn, a way to address poverty that is tied to certain racialized/sexualized bodies. Although the education crisis is not an American or European problem in the geographic sense, but instead a global problem that plays itself out differentially across space ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Soft Rock Mechanics and Engineering

    Edited by Milton Kanji, Manchao He, Luís Ribeiro e Sousa ...
    This book offers a practical reference guide to soft rock mechanics for engineers and scientists. Written by recognized experts, it will benefit professionals, contractors, academics, researchers and students working on rock engineering projects in the fields of civil engineering, mining and construction engineering.Soft Rock Mechanics and Engineering covers a specific subject of great relevance ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • CO2 Storage in Carboniferous Formations and Abandoned Coal Mines

    Edited by Manchao He, Luis Ribeiro e Sousa, Derek Elsworth, Euripedes Vargas Jr. ...
    Underground geological storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) has considerable potential for mitigating climate change. CO2 can be safely injected and stored at well characterized and properly managed sites. Injecting carbon dioxide in deep geological formations can store it underground for long periods of time. Depleted oil and gas reservoirs, saline aqu ... Read more

    $244.99 USD

  • Innovative Numerical Modelling in Geomechanics

    Edited by Luis Ribeiro e Sousa, Eurípedes Vargas Jr., M.M. Fernandes, Roberto Azevedo ...
    Since the 1990s five books onApplications of Computational Mechanics in Geotechnical Engineering have been published. Innovative Numerical Modelling in Geomechanics is the 6th and final book in this series, and contains papers written by leading experts on computational mechanics. The book treats highly relevant topics in the field of geotechnic ... Read more

    $325.00 USD

  • Advanced Methods in Structural Biology

    Edited by Ângela Sousa, Luis Passarinha ...
    Series series Springer Protocols
    This volume explores the latest integrated bioprocesses and technologies used to study the production of the target recombinant protein of therapeutic or diagnostic interest; its isolation, purification, and stabilization; and the bio-interaction and structural analyses. The chapters in this book are organized into four parts. Part One covers production methods of soluble and membrane proteins in ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Fiscal and Welfare Impacts of Electricity Subsidies in Central America

    Edited by Marco Antonio Hernández Oré, Luis Álvaro Sánchez, Liliana D. Sousa, Leopoldo Tornarolli ...
    Series series Directions in Development - Public Sector Governance
    Central American countries spend approximately one percent of their aggregate gross domestic product subsidizing residential electricity consumption. This amount is comparable with what these countries spend on education and social assistance. The pressure that electricity subsidies exert on government budgets is particularly high when international energy prices rise. Electricity subsidies also ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus