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Kemiskinan masih menjadi salah satu permasalahan utama yang dialami Indonesia. Tak hanya di daerah perdesaan, permasalahan kemiskinan justru kerap ditemukan di area perkotaan yang identik dengan kemajuan teknologi, industri, dan ekonomi. Ruang sosial menjadi pembeda antara kemiskinan di pedesaan dan perkotaan. Namun, keduanya memiliki kesamaan. Sama-sama memiliki kesulitan dalam mengakses sumbe…
Buku Bedugul dari Angkasa menyajikan tampilan citra satelit kawasan dataran tinggi Bedugul dari Pulau Bali yang dilengkapi dengan foto on-ground serta narasi semi-ilmiahnya. Selain itu, buku ini juga dilengkapi dengan uraian singkat mengenai pengindraan jauh dan sistem informasi geografi serta informasi menarik dari aspek etnografi seputar sejarah kampung Candikuning sebagai cikal bakal kawasa…
Hipertensi sebagai salah satu penyakit tidak menular dewasa ini menjadi permasalahan kesehatan masyarakat yang terus berkembang. Penyebab hipertensi juga cukup kompleks dan dinamis sehingga akan terus menjadi tantangan, baik dalam pencegahan maupun penanggulangannya. Untuk itu, buku ini hadir dengan membahas secara komprehensif berbagai persoalan terkait hipertensi, khususnya pada wanita menop…
Badan kesehatan dunia (WHO) menyatakan bahwa dari 20 penyakit tropis yang terabaikan, khususnya dalam kategori penyakit infeksi oleh virus, salah satunya demam berdarah dengue (DBD). Sejak pertama kali kemunculannya, kejadian demam berdarah dengue telah mencuri perhatian dunia. Bahkan, kasus DBD di Indonesia setiap tahunnya berfluktuasi dan semakin meluas, baik dari jumlah maupun wilayahnya. Bu…
Introducing original methods for integrating sociocultural and discourse studies into science and engineering education, this book provides a much-needed framework for how to conduct qualitative research in this field. The three dimensions of learning identified in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) create a need for research methods that examine the sociocultural components of scienc…
With machines mediating most of our cultural practices, and innovations, obsolescence and revivals constantly transforming our relation with images and sounds, media feel more unstable than ever. But was there ever a ‘stable’ moment in media history? *Inventing Cinema* proposes to approach this question through an archaeology and epistemology of media machines. The archaeology analyses them…
Libraries are places of learning and knowledge creation. Over the last two decades, digital technology—and the changes that came with it—have accelerated this transformation to a point where evolution starts to become a revolution.The wider Open Science movement, and Open Access in particular, is one of these changes and is already having a profound impact. Under the subscription model, the…
In many scholarly disciplines, books - not articles - are the norm. As print runs become smaller, the question arises whether publishing monographs in open access helps to make their contents globally accessible. To answer this question, the results of multiple studies on the usage of open access books are presented. The research focuses on three areas: economic viability; optimization of open …
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of death worldwide, contributing to over 73% of all deaths annually. Each day NCDs cause more than 100,000 deaths, 80% of which occur in low- and middle-income countries. NCDs, however, are largely preventable, and a great deal of technical knowledge exists about how to prevent and manage them. Why, then, have we, as a global community, not…
This open access book examines the interrelationship of national policy, teacher effectiveness, and student outcomes with a specific emphasis on educational equity. Using data from the IEA’s Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) conducted between 1995 and 2015, it investigates grade four and grade eight data to assess trends in key teacher characteristics (experience, …