With international human rights under challenge, this book represents a comprehensive critique that adds a social policy perspective to recent political and legalistic analysis.Expert contributors draw on local and global examples to review constructs of universal rights and their impact on social policy and human welfare. With thorough analysis of their strengths, weaknesses and enforcement, it sets out their role in domestic and geopolitical affairs.Including a forward by...

On the day when our lives are reviewed, God will not request a recommendation from your reverend. He will look you in the eye and ask you, “What did you do?”It is the duty of Christians to paint a picture of Jesus by our actions. This cannot be done effectively from the current church model. Not everyone that loves God is interested in attending church.I Am Church: Converting Passion into Praise discusses worship and growth and is focused on your passions and talents, not j...

This open access book compiles the outcome of the 3rd Stuttgart Conference on Automotive Production (SCAP2024). The peer-reviewed contributions in this book are arranged thematically in four parts and cover a wide variety of topics: (A) Digital Methods and Models, (B) Digitalization of the Industrial and Automotive Value Chain, (C) Data-Driven Technologies, and (D) Sustainability and Circular Economy. SCAP2024 was organized by ARENA2036 in close collaboration with the Institute for Control...

This volume of the series ARENA2036 compiles the outcome of the 2nd Stuttgart Conference on Automotive Production (SCAP2022).The peer-reviewed contributions in this book are arranged thematically in three parts and cover a wide variety of topics: (A) Software-defined Manufacturing, (B) Data-driven Technologies, and (C) Advanced Manufacturing and Sustainability.SCAP2022 was organized by ARENA2036 in close collaboration with the Institute for Control Engineering of Machine To...

Become the Kingdom Woman God Is Calling You to BeWomen, lean in: You grace this world with insight, sensitivity, wisdom, and spiritual beauty that has made you a force behind great accomplishments. Much of what comes in the life of a kingdom woman may not make headlines, but when you become passionate about what God is passionate about, positive change can occur in lives, families, communities, and even our nation. Your solution to the burdens of this life is found...

The book is written as primer hand book for addressing the fundamentals of smart grid. It provides the working definition the functions, the design criteria and the tools and techniques and technology needed for building smart grid. The book is needed to provide a working guideline in the design, analysis and development of Smart Grid. It incorporates all the essential factors of Smart Grid appropriate for enabling the performance and capability of the power system. There are no comparable...

This is a book—no—a guide to faith. Real, raw, and authentic faith. Not the kind of polished, feel-good faith that's only good on the good days and vanishes the moment life turns up the heat. We're talking about faith for when and where it really matters— in the face of adversity, disappointment, anxiety about the future, and the seemingly impossible odds we're up against that the world and our culture remind us of 24/7. Faith that doesn't sidestep the issues, but with chutzpah, grit, and ...

Intelligent Digital Oil and Gas Fields: Concepts, Collaboration, and Right-time Decisions delivers to the reader a roadmap through the fast-paced changes in the digital oil field landscape of technology in the form of new sensors, well mechanics such as downhole valves, data analytics and models for dealing with a barrage of data, and changes in the way professionals collaborate on decisions. The book introduces the new age of digital oil and gas technology and process components and provi...

“Challenging, inspiring and practical.”Bear Grylls“I can’t think of anyone more qualified to write about the significance of knowing your purpose than my friend Ken Costa… His new book, Know Your Why, is absolutely foundational to living a purpose driven life.”Rick Warren“Among the crush and the rush of life, there's no better guide in the pursuit of getting it right than my friend Ken Costa… I highly recommend ...

This Open Access proceedings presents a good overview of the current research landscape of assembly, handling and industrial robotics.The objective of MHI Colloquium is the successful networking at both academic and management level. Thereby, the colloquium focuses an academic exchange at a high level in order to distribute the obtained research results, to determine synergy effects and trends, to connect the actors in person and in conclusion, to strengthen the research field as w...

Automation is undergoing a major transformation in scope and dimension and plays an increasingly important role in the global economy and in our daily lives. Engineers combine automated devices with mathematical and organizational tools to create complex systems for a rapidly expanding range of applications and human activities. This handbook incorporates these new developments and presents a widespread and well-structured conglomeration of new emerging application areas of automation. Bes...

Unraveling the Lies That Twist Our LivesIn six insight-packed sessions, Andy Stanley exposes four destructive and all-too-prevalent lies about authority, pain, sex, and sin. They’re deceptions powerful enough to ruin our relationships, our lives, even our eternities—but only if we let them. Including both a small group DVD and participant’s guide that work together, Twisting the Truth untwists the lies that can drag us down. With his gift for straight, to-the-heart communication, Andy Stan...