A companion to 'Urban Pest Management', this book builds on the issues of insect pests in urban settings to discuss control strategies that look beyond products. From an environmental and health perspective, it is not always practical to spray chemicals indoors or in urban settings, so this work discusses sustainable control and best practice methods for managing insects that are vectors of disease, nuisance pests and the cause of structural damage.

It often only a tweak or a very small amendment which will make the greatest of changes to your business. This change can then make all the difference between your business just ticking along or have a large increase in your online sales activity.So this is a collection of 50 top marketing and business tips and hacks from top marketing experts from around the world which are tried and tested with a view to improving your business sales. I have tried to make both easy to implement a...

A Global Overview of International Tax Disputes on DTCThis book provides a unique and comprehensive global overview of international tax disputes on double tax conventions, thereby filling a gap in the area of tax treaty case law. It covers the 37 most important tax treaty cases which were decided in 2015 around the world. The systematic structure of each case allows easy and efficient comparison of the varying application and interpretation of tax treaties in diff...

This book offers an introduction and hands-on examples that demonstrate how Learning Analytics (LA) can be used to enhance digital learning, teaching and training at various levels. While the majority of existing literature on the subject focuses on its application at large corporations, this book develops and showcases approaches that bring LA closer to smaller organizations, and to educational institutions that lack sufficient resources to implement a full-fledged LA infrastructure. In c...

Integrated information systems are increasingly used in schools, and the advent of the technology-rich classroom requires a new degree of ongoing classroom assessment. Able to track web searches, resources used, task completion time, and a variety of other classroom behaviors, technology-rich classrooms offer a wealth of potential information about teaching and learning. This information can be used to track student progress in languages, STEM, and in 21st Century skills, for instance. How...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Games and Learning Alliance, GALA 2022, held in Tampere, Finland, in November/December 2022.The 27 full papers and 9 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. The papers cover a broad spectrum of topics: Serious Games and Game Design; Serious Games for Instruction; Serious Game for Digital Literacy and Numeracy; Novel Approaches and Application Domains; Taxonomies and ...

This book addresses multiple aspects of biological clocks in prokaryotes.The first part of the book deals with the circadian clock system in cyanobacteria, i.e. the pioneer of bacterial clocks. Starting with the history and background of cyanobacteria and circadian rhythms in microorganisms, the topics range from the molecular basis, structure and evolution of the circadian clock to modelling approaches, Kai systems in cyanobacteria and biotechnological applications.In the se...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications, CARDIS 2016, held in Cannes, France, in November 2016.The 15 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. The focus of the conference was on all aspects of the design, development, deployment, validation, and application of smart cards or smart personal devices.

As a species, the German cockroach is one of the most widespread indoor urban pests worldwide. While numerous products have been developed to control their spread, German cockroaches continue to contaminate food, transmit disease and cause significant, long-term economic expense to homes, restaurants, hospitals and more.Biology and Management of the German Cockroach summarises the many advances in management technology, products, delivery systems, and basic and applied res...

The aim of this book is to collect and to cluster research areas in the field of serious games and entertainment computing. It provides an introduction and gives guidance for the next generation of researchers in this field.The 18 papers presented in this volume, together with an introduction, are the outcome of a GI-Dagstuhl seminar which was held at Schloß Dagstuhl in July 2015.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference of the Immersive Learning Network, iLRN 2016, held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in June/July 2016.The proceedings contain 9 full papers carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions and the best 5 special track papers. The papers focus on various applications of immersive technologies to learning.

Taking a text, cases and materials approach, de Luca's successful textbook remains the only offering for students of European company law, and has been thoroughly updated in this new edition. Chapters have been expanded to cover the latest legislation and directives on cross-border mergers, the use of digital tools, and cross-border insolvency, while figures and graphs have been introduced to help illustrate complex processes and relationships. Clearly differentiated explanatory textboxes ...