Very real practical problems face the islands, starting with the corruption, despotism and illegal activities of Presidents Pinto da Costa, Miguel Trovoada and Fradique de Menezes, and including the failure to properly exploit the islands' natural resources; issues of insularity in every sense); economic instability and political illiteracy, which combine to make this natural paradise a complete human misfortune.The authors resort to the symbolic image of evil souls to underscore...

This book brings together cutting edge research on sustainability, cleaner production, and circular economy transitions, offering readers a broad and integrated view of how societies and industries can move toward more resilient, equitable, and resource efficient futures. Drawing on selected contributions from the 13th International Workshop on Advances in Cleaner Production, it examines real world challenges and solutions across multiple sectors, including energy systems, agriculture, tex...

This book provides a comprehensive examination of teacher design thinking and practice, structured across ten chapters that can be read either as a complete narrative or as standalone works. The content is organized into three parts:Part 1: Foundations and frameworks (Chapters 1-3): Establishes the theoretical groundwork for understanding teachers as designers, integrating research across teacher thinking, practice, and learning design. These chapters explore the c...

Feminist digital humanities offers opportunities for exploring, exposing, and revaluing marginalized forms of knowledge and enacting new processes for creating meaning. Lisa Marie Rhody and Susan Schreibman present essays that explore digital humanities practice as rich terrain for feminist creativity and critique.The editors divide the works into three categories. In the first section, contributors offer readings that demonstrate how feminist thought can be put into operation thro...

This eBook is for you. It's written specially for all TikTok Everyday Users, Influencers and Content Creators around the world. We'll show you how you can make the most of TikTok - safely and securely! You'll find the knowledge and guidance you need to protect your TikTok account effectively. Think of it as your personal TikTok safety guide.You'll get to know the criminals, hackers, and trolls out there. What do they want with you and how do they attack TikTokers?We'll expl...

This book from the LNNS Series is composed of the best selected papers accepted for presentation and discussion at the 2025 International Conference in Information Technology & Education. The ICITED is a multidisciplinary conference with a special focus on new Technologies and Systems in the Education sector and was held between July 10 and 12, 2025. The ICITED’25 was supported by the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, in Natal, Brazil and by IADITI—International Association for Di...

This book from the LNNS Series is composed of the best selected papers accepted for presentation and discussion at the 2024 International Conference in Information Technology & Education (ICITED’24). The ICITED is a multidisciplinary conference with a special focus on new Technologies and Systems in the Education sector and was held between July 11 and 13, 2024. The ICITED’24 was supported by the Pernambuco University, Recife, Brazil, and by IADITI—International Association for Digital Tra...

Scholars from a range of disciplines interrogate terms relevant to critical studies of big data, from abuse and aggregate to visualization and vulnerability.This pathbreaking work offers an interdisciplinary perspective on big data, interrogating key terms. Scholars from a range of disciplines interrogate concepts relevant to critical studies of big data--arranged glossary style, from from abuse and aggregate to visualization and vulnerability--both challenging con...

Cognitive load theory uses our knowledge of how people learn, think and solve problems to design instruction. In turn, instructional design is the central activity of classroom teachers, of curriculum designers, and of publishers of textbooks and educational materials, including digital information. Characteristically, the theory is used to generate hypotheses that are tested using randomized controlled trials. Cognitive load theory rests on a base of hundreds of randomized controlled tria...

Citizens of networked societies are almost incessantly accompanied by ecologies of images. These ecologies of still and moving images present a paradox of uncertainties emerging along with certainties. Images appear more certain as the technical capacities that render them visible increase. At the same time, images are touched by more uncertainty as their numbers, manipulabilities, and contingencies multiply.With the emergence of big data, the image is becoming a dominant vehicle f...

This book provides up-to-date information on immunogenetics of fungal diseases in the context of primary and acquired immunodeficiencies. Different aspects of this emerging field are covered, including epidemiology of fungal diseases, innate and adaptive antifungal immunity, and the role of immunogenetics in defining susceptibility to fungal diseases in primary (CMC, CGD, etc.) immunodeficiencies and hematologic patients. The available information will also be discussed in the scope of new...

Learning Design refers to research and development work that equips teachers with tools and strategies to aid their design thinking. Its origin stems from two lines of inquiry: (i) how to represent teaching practice from a technical perspective in the development and delivery of online learning environments; and (ii) how to represent teaching practice in an appropriate form to enable teachers to share ideas about innovative online pedagogy and think about the process of design. The underly...